alittlesweptup: took my baby awaaaaaay (fiyah of an unknown origin)
Charlie Cutter ([personal profile] alittlesweptup) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-16 06:11 pm

(OPEN | Mutiny Log) Well it's been so long

Date & Time: Nov. 16 ~0300 through Nov.19th ~0230hrs, 3133
Location: Housing, Cafeteria, VR rooms, hallways etc (read: everywhere)
Characters: YOU!
Summary: Mutiny on the moon base! Vital systems are offline, mutineers are making PA announcements, and there’s conflict and turmoil brewing in the halls. Dun dun duuun!
Warnings: None yet (possible violence?)
Notes: Specify a date and location in your top comment. You may specify multiple dates/locations. A timeline for the plot and the IC PA announcements made during are available HERE.

[In the dead of night - or as close to ‘the dead of night’ as is possible to have in moon base - a small group of transports finally make the move they’ve been planning for weeks. Pre-determined teams, maintaining radio contact throughout, simultaneously take control of the Transporter Room and take multiple systems offline.

One moment things are normal; they next, they’re not. With a last message flagged as ‘maintenance’ left on the network, the network cuts out. A moment later, Transports across the base find themselves losing contact with the ground or shifting in their sleep and gently floating out of their beds from the force as the gravity drops. Lighting flicks over to emergency only: bathing corridors and rooms in a desolate, lonely red. Doors work - and then they don’t. Transports will find themselves confined to housing (and washrooms), the VR rooms, and the cafeteria; it’s plenty of space to be comfortable and largely covers most Transport’s basic needs (unless you’re fond of cheery light or having your feet on the ground in which case you may be out of luck).

Hours later-- Click-HHHSSSHK-click!

A woman’s voice speaks over the moon base’s PA system, echoing through the dark corridors and off the odds and ends gently floating through them thanks to the lack of gravity regulation. The voice is rich and accented, with a certain practiced ease to it - one that sharpens to a point the longer she talks:]


Testing. Testing-- are we good? Christ, I'm not echoing, am I? No?

All right good. Listen up, fellow transports. As you might have noticed, some of the base's general systems have gone offline: this, I assure you, is absolutely intentional. There's no need to panic.

So moving on from the understandably frustrating to the even more frustrating, I'm sure you all have also noticed the fact that we're currently all stuck-- starving and defenseless-- on the bloody moon. In a base that was, up until a few days ago, overrun with zombies. And before that, thousands of lives were bombed right out of existence, and before that, an entire world-- and before that we were all still being thrown at the United Earth for the sake of dying off repeatedly in a war we never stood a chance or had a say in. Transports have been treated like pawns since day one, and I'm sorry, but we don't deserve it.

If we're giving up our lives and our freedom, I'd say it's about time we earned ourselves a little equality.

We deserve a say in what goes on in this fight, and with that in mind, a few of us have decided to hold onto the transporter for a while. Just until the Initiative agrees to treat us like people instead of ammunition. Trust me, we’re not here to hurt anyone; none of this has to end badly. But it does need to end. Things have got to change. And if this is what it takes? This is what it’s going to be.

We need your help; please don’t make it any harder for us.

[The PA clicks off, pitching the base once more into complete radio silence.

Near the end of the first day, gravity regulation is re-established. The network is brought back online the following day, allowing everyone to communicate more freely. Lighting doesn’t come back online until the 18th and the door regulation isn’t normalized or operable until the 19th. Throughout the four days, the mutineers make multiple PA announcements.

In the mean time? Keep your friends close, come to the aid of your neighbors; help with reconnaissance and choose sides - are you neutral in this mess? Are you trying to help bring systems back online and root out the mutineers? Are you sympathetic to the mutiny and trying to sabotage those Transports standing for the Initiative?]
misterlawson: (me smile real nice for pretty pony)

[personal profile] misterlawson 2013-11-20 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
( Ha. He appreciates that, one of the few reasons he accepts her hand and gives a firm shake as he gives her something she very well could use, if she or anyone else here on the Transport side remembered his name from the times it'd come up on network. )

Richard. Richard Lawson.
totallytrustworthy: (Oh)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-20 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Chloe might have a sharp memory, but she's not a portable hard drive the way that Charlie is; the name catches, she just can't place it. Not yet.]

I'd say it's a pleasure but we all know that's not true right about now.
misterlawson: (i have a chin)

[personal profile] misterlawson 2013-11-20 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's not generally true in my case anyway. Your politeness is commendable.

( Somewhere, at least. He doesn't seem so concerned with much else other than placing his "package" firmly in his lap, letting his hands fold over the top of it all. If she hasn't magically wandered off, he'll offer something... not at all on topic. )

Cards?
totallytrustworthy: (UGH UGH NO Y)

NO DW ATE THIS NOTIF WHY lies down and cries

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-21 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
What? [She almost looks offended by that.] Look if you want to sit around all day burning a hole into the wall with your eyes, that's fine by me. I'll gladly take them right back.
misterlawson: (oh baby ur so sweet when u talk dum)

richard's life lbr

[personal profile] misterlawson 2013-11-22 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'd prefer drinking, but alas, I didn't come prepared enough to last through several... whatevers of unexpected company. Merely amused. No chance you have any 65 card decks on you, eh?
totallytrustworthy: (always in my eyeline now)

haha I'm just leaving this open in a tab and refreshing it myself

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-22 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, fresh out darling.

[Honestly she can't think of a time she's seen one in person, so...] Spare 36 I've got though it doesn't sound like that'd be of any help.

What've you got in mind?
misterlawson: (look you try going through rehab from he)

then i disappeared HI

[personal profile] misterlawson 2013-11-23 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing much. A round of Speed. Ever played?

( It involves slapping hands.

It's something he knew from his friend's kids, okay, it's... it's a very silly thing. )
totallytrustworthy: (u wot m8)

HI IT WORKED THIS TIME

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-23 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
....nnnno. [But she looks interested. Go on.]
misterlawson: (look you try going through rehab from he)

APPEARS IN SMOKE

[personal profile] misterlawson 2013-11-28 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
( He indicates to a free chair. )

When you're done, pull up a seat. I'm cow shit at explanations, much better at demonstrations. That sort of thing.

( Not true, but very true in the case of stupid card games. )
totallytrustworthy: (when what you fight for starts to fall)

[personal profile] totallytrustworthy 2013-11-28 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
All right give me a minute here to finish setting up shop and telling everyone out there we're not out to kill them and I'll join you.

[Is that a sincere smile she's wearing at the thought of having a serious game of cards right now? Yes. Yes it is. ]