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?]
khajidont: (Beetle - worried)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-11-21 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, there's still a lot you can do. Keep an eye out for people who might be trapped somewhere, and there's making sure everyone's got batteries and flashlights around if they're not naturally glowy like I am. [It's meant to be reassuring. It's always best to keep busy in situations like these. When things have escalated this badly, just sitting around is enough to make someone go crazy, in Jaime's opinion, and keeping busy is the only way he's keeping himself from becoming angrier than he already feels.

He does shake his head at Dick's question, however, though there's no denying that he's becoming progressively more worn down since they arrived on the base, let alone the beginning of the mutiny. He's long since given up on holding himself as straight as he tries to as Beetle, and his voice underneath the filter is hoarse, tired.]
Yeah, I'm doing okay. We'll all be doing better once we know for sure that everyone's safe. It shouldn't be too much longer now.
pixieboots: (Default)

[personal profile] pixieboots 2013-11-23 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
But they’re not- [ He catches himself in time, alarm schooled away into something placid and even. ]

You don't think they're really going to hurt anybody, do you? They're just regular transports.
khajidont: (Beetle - contacting the beetlecave)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-11-23 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Regular transports? [He ducks his head, a quiet scoff leaving his lips. He doesn't mean for it to sound so bitter, but there's no helping it. If nothing else, this has shown that Transports are willing to hurt each other, even way up here on the moon. His gaze travels towards the wall, looking at nothing in particular.] Transports can hurt people too. And there's more than one way to hurt someone. If we missed just one zombie and someone's trapped in a room with it in the dark, or if they can't get to the Clinic afterwards...

[That will be on the mutineers' conscience. Perhaps they can't be blamed for striking the killing blow, but if anyone is hurt directly or indirectly by all this, that's on them. Dick's surprise didn't escape him, however, and he shakes his head, returning his attention back to him.]

Have they been telling you differently?
pixieboots: (Default)

[personal profile] pixieboots 2013-12-01 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
No, they- [ His voice catches and that's- it's bad that already Jaime's getting to him. That it's settling in that he's lying to him right now, lying to someone who's never done anything to him but help.

Except he's doing this for him too. For Jaime, who's still a good person in a way he can't be anymore. ]


-they haven't said anything.
khajidont: (Beetle - Sideeyes)

[personal profile] khajidont 2013-12-11 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
No?

[Jaime looks down at Dick, frowning, unsure what to make of all of this. If nothing else, Dick is proactive, not the sort to simply sit by on the sidelines. He hums under his breath, the sound coming out from low in his chest. He's suspicious, but not of the fact that Dick may be working against the system, against Jaime. Not yet. Maybe something did happen. Maybe something's rattled him.]

You really haven't been doing anything, all this time?