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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?]
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[personal profile] hellosailor 2013-11-24 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sully chuckled. Suited him.]

Alright so I'm in this gin joint and I don't speak a lick of the language but there's this girl there, named Batari- I called her Button, she was as cute as one, you see? Anyway, she has this brilliant idea we break into this local spot, very ritzy, very romantic, you get it?

Anyway we get there and I don't have anything on me, not my picks, for sure, and not my wallet, but what I do have is a deck of cards. Anyway I manage to get the lock open [He mimes sliding a card through the edge of a door] and me and Buttons have the time of our life. Until the manager shows up, we had to jump out the second story, me without my pants and her without anything, and the guy's about to catch us but I remember the cards and [another mime- he flings his hand in Hotpocket's direction] just like that! Buys us enough time to get back to her place and finish our little meeting. The things she could do, I tell ya.

[It's not the whole of the story, but he didn't know the guy well enough for that one.]

Alright your turn.
theflyingone: this pleases me (smile face)

[personal profile] theflyingone 2013-12-07 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ His turn? He didn't know he had to reciprocate with a story, but... ]

You sound like someone I know.

I happened on a friend one day in the streets of Akkā. He begged me to help him leave the city, lest he be killed by the guards. He had spent the previous night in a brothel, having his fill of wine and women. He had too much wine, and insulted one of the women there. He did not know it, but she was the wife of one of his enemies.

What someone's wife was doing in a brothel with several men, I cannot say. [ His mouth twisted wryly. ]

The next morning, her husband did not accuse her of adultery, but instead began hunting my friend with help from his allies, the city guard. Several men outright attacked us in the middle of crowded streets, but I and my blade ensured his safe passage to the city gate.
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[personal profile] hellosailor 2013-12-07 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Somewhere in the middle of the story Victor's hand strayed over his mouth, and when the other man finished he slapped it back against his thigh, a muffled sound in an empty room.]

Ha, see! That! Now, that is the mark of a true friend. Your buddy is lucky to have you, sounds like the situation could been pretty messy.

[A lot of it was- well, beyond him. City guard. Blades. But the gist of it, a friend out having a good time who has himself a bad time, that's universal. Hell, even the infidelity. A good story all around, no one gets hurt, everyone has fun, a daring escape.]