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

[alittlesweptup]

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?]

Comments

[mathematician]

And you're including us in this, why?

[totallytrustworthy]

Because like it or not, darling, we are all in this together. If we don't get everyone involved-- personally-- we're all screwed. Because even if we press hard enough to get off this rock, the United Earth isn't going to stop.

And we can't repeat the same mistakes that brought us here.

[mathematician]

And that's all easy enough to say, but do you have a real plan here? Something that we can work with? Because I'm all ears for that.

[totallytrustworthy]

Yeah, actually, I do. If I tell you you're shit at your job and it'll get us all killed, the first thing you'd like to do-- after you tell me off for being an ass-- is prove me wrong.

Take that and put it on a much larger scale....[Maybe. It's a contingency plan; the details are all still too rough to know if that's what they're going to shoot for. Or if the other transports will side with them rather than against.]

[mathematician]

Yes, I get that. But I mean a plan that'll do something. A plan on how to reverse this whole moon escapade, and the damage the UE is done. That's the hard part. I have no doubt that your attempts to inspire enthusiasm has worked, but it'll only last so long without a plan to put into action. Because without that, then people will just get angry again. Possibly at you.

So if you want to do something that actually helps, help me with this.

[The irony is that if she had brought this problem to him before this whole riot, he would have said exactly this to her.]

[totallytrustworthy]

Not really my forte. [Which might sound like a rejection if not for where she's glancing: squarely at her partner in crime at the opposite end of the room.] Charlie, though. Charlie's the sort for it. He knows this base, and he knows the supplies. I remember the mistakes so we don't fall into them; he tallies the current score and charts our course.

I can't tell you how well this'll end just yet, but I promise you we're not going to let it be for nothing.

[mathematician]

[Lowell shakes his head, but glances off in Charlie's direction anyway.]

I'll talk to him, but... I don't think you really understand the gravity of what you've done. Things will never be the same, after this. For you, or other Transport.

[totallytrustworthy]

Good. [Chloe taps the table with her knuckle as she kicks off to let him be. ] I don't want it to be.