POST-HURRICANE LOG | OPEN MINGLE

[oneandmikleonly]

[Past the 9th of the month, the hurricane's finally blown itself out, leaving a great deal of mess behind (but at least, a lot less mess than there would have been without the crew's various antics, right?)

After the calm there's the storm, but after the storm, there's...uh, actually, it's not all that calm again yet. Look at all these notable goings on that you can play with:

SICK PEOPLE are still a thing. Are you still suffering from the ravages of alien cave flu? Finally finding the energy to crawl out of bed? Starting to come down with it yourself? Getting dosed with cure attempts? Doing the dosing? Or maybe you're not sick at all but went hurricane surfing and are now prone in the medbay. It's been a rough couple of weeks.

The HURRICANE'S AFTEREFFECTS still linger. Fish in the base aquariums and biomes are just starting to resume their regular activities. Maybe some of your special fish friends are still spooked and need some coaxing out? Maybe you want to swim out to a more distant biome to check on creatures like the Reefbacks or the Birdogs? Or maybe you want to stick closer to home and do things like finish repairing the busted corridors, and cleaning out the kitchens and showers so the food and bathing situation doesn't descend back into complete travesty.

For those who've started wandering out, there's also FAMILIAR ITEMS washing up -- things from your home, or at least...someone's home. Is an embarrassing photo of you now plastered against an observatory window for the world to see? Your fancy car from home buried in the sand of the Safe Shallows?

Lastly, on the night of the 13th (and subsequent nights...), a distant DISCO LIGHTSHOW becomes totally visible on the horizon, in the Monolith's direction. What the heck? Maybe that's worth checking out.

And of course, there's always PLANNING, MISSIONS AND SHENANIGANS to do. Go nuts!]

Comments

[soulfriend]

1. Good Morning Iniidae

[The med bay's been pretty busy lately, huh? But for a rare moment late in the morning, there's no one in there . . . or at least, there's not supposed to be anyone in there right now. No one went in. And yet one of the beds has someone in it, suddenly kicking at the sheets covering their body (in an unfortunately morgue-like fashion until they start moving under there, yikes) as they come awake.

Your number's increased by one!

The pink-haired, pink-eyed, jumpsuited guy in the bed finally untangles himself enough to throw the sheets off and sit upright, staring around the room with bleary confusion. You might have happened into the med bay while he was wiggling around, or right at this moment. Or maybe you're summoned by his baffled yelp once he's had a quick looksie around:]

Aaaaahhhh?!


2. Steel Ball . . . You Should Probably Run

[The whole song and dance of "go and explore the bizarre new areas of your new home" is unfortunately pretty well-known to Kazuichi by now. Granted, this is a little different; this base is only new to him, and there's a whole lot of it at once to wander around and explore as he acclimates to the situation. Which is, at least for now, fine by him. He's already been to the observatories. He's seen some of the weird creatures in the waters outside. He'll stay in here forever, thanks.

(For now.)

Also, he's not being asked to kill anyone, and as far as he knows no one's being asked to kill him either, so in that sense it's a step up.

Right now he's checking out the farm. Useful place, right? Lots of food? More specifically, though, he's checking out Rapplejack, by which I mean he's doing his very best to approach the robot horse guard in a non-threatening manner. He's not here to steal food, it's cool! He's just—]

Can I? Please? Ahhhh, I promise I'll be gentle! I promise I can put you back together afterwards! I just wanna take you apart! Pleeeeease let me take you apart! G-good pony? Good boy!

[His eyes are all lit up like a friggin' Christmas tree over here. This is probably not going to end well.]


3. Wildcard

[Lay it on me!]

2.

[splinten]

[Look at your horse. Now look right beside him wow how did Dirk get there did you see a blur? Maybe. It's called flashstepping and apparently Rapplejack is recognizing Dirk as friend because guess which asshole built a rapping horse robot. This means Dirk gets to pet her.]

Rapplejack'd be a pretty bad guard horse if she let herself get taken apart on a whim.

[soulfriend]

[That sounds like a lot of pertinent information (a name! a gender! a vocation!) for a horse that Kazuichi will probably remember Dirk just said in a couple minutes. First, he needs to stress out over how a dude just appeared next to the awesome robot horse out of thin air. He stumbles back a couple of wide steps, throwing his arms up like he's fending off no fewer than ten colonies of bees.]

GYAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH?! How'd you do that?!

[splinten]

I learned basic programming.

[He knows that wasn't the question.

And let's be honest it isn't even the answer to the hypothetical question he's pretending to answer.]

[soulfriend]

[He at least lowers his hands, grudgingly. The rest of him is still all hackles up.]

S-stop screwing around! Are you the ghost of a programmer . . . no, an AI?!

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[oneandmikleonly]

[look he's grumpy. he's still coughing and he slept badly through the night and he does not, does not need to be woken by someone being loud this morning. it's the medbay, dammit! you should be quiet in the medbay!

...which is to say, Mikleo does not act with any of his usual tact, and just hurls a pillow at Souda's face. this -- looks like the pillow just up and attacked him of its own accord, because he's a bit ghosty.]

[soulfriend]

[It hits its mark, and he lifts an arm defensively a moment too late, so it's really just flailing around instead.]

Hey! Knock it off, man—

[Only then does he actually try to identify the source of the pillow.

. . . Huh. Wait a second here. Someone under the sheets? No . . .

Well, he's at least convinced for now that it's just some jerk hiding. He keeps looking around, trying to suss them out.]

[oneandmikleonly]

[groggy telepathic growling may help. or make the situation weirder? who even knows. it doesn't come from any particular direction.]

It's still kind of early. Let people sleep, will you?

[soulfriend]

[Yeah that helps! That sure helps something! He jerks his head around looking for the source of the voice, but there's nowhere to look, so he shrinks up in his bed. Dangerously approaching the fetal position here.]

W-who's there?! This ain't funny!

1.....

[hopefragment]

[Hajime's on his way to the medbay, because guess who's finally gotten himself sick, like an idiot, by trying to take care of everyone? If you guessed an ahoge loser, you'd win the prize. His whole face feels blocked up like one good sneeze might blow his brains out, and from the temperature of the base... this is probably a fever too, right? Better get to the medbay and try to find at least something to relieve the sinus pressure, even if they don't have a cure yet.

It's largely thanks to the fever that at the first sound of Kazuichi's voice, Hajime doesn't really react. He's hallucinating his friends now, that's great.

...Wait a second.

He almost stumbles as he breaks into a run, shoving open the door to the medbay. His chest hurts with a kind of painful hope, a hope that he doesn't yet feel guilty for.]

S-Souda?!

[soulfriend]

[He's just gotten his feet onto the floor and is about to haul himself upright and look for someone to explain all this crap when the door flings open.

Hinata?!

Oh thank God. So it's just that he was the last one to wake up after they'd been rescued! Waking up all alone had . . . kind of messed with his head a little already, but now everything makes sense. They'd made it! They'd—all made it, right?! How long's he even been out for Hinata to be this surprised he's awake?!

Screw all that! He launches himself to his feet and across the floor to grab Hinata in his arms and just fuckin' hug him, because in a moment like this, who cares how it looks? He's so relieved. Of everyone to wake up to first . . . well, Sonia-san would have been even better, obviously, but . . .

He hugs crushingly tight, blissfully unaware of any lingering illnesses going on in this room right now.]

Hinata! My man! Can't believe you left me all alone in here, dude . . . I was freaking out when I woke up! Am I the last one? Ah, that's so lame . . .

[hopefragment]

Woa-- gak!

[Too tight! Too tight!! He really should have seen this coming!! The sharp inhale of surprise at the sudden hug triggers a series of hacking coughs, Hajime just kind of patting the other boy's back in a reflexive there-there, and also as part of a please let me go!]

Souda!

[His voice is more a wheeze than anything else. Maybe if it hadn't been so shocking, the hug would have been more touching. As it is, Hajime does eventually relax because, well... he's missed his friends. The kind of weirdos he can understand. So it's a few seconds before he actually tries to struggle free.]

C-c'mon, let go... what are you talking about, "the last one?"

[soulfriend]

[He lets go, like a good friend, or at least like a friend who doesn't want to be hacked all over. And it's a little awkward to have a whole conversation like that, anyway. He steps away with a grin, a lot of the stiffness and nerves gone out of him now that Hinata's here with him.

Even if he's asking weird questions.]

The last one to wake up! . . . Hey. Wait a second . . . then you were awake with Sonia-san all this time? Unsupervised?! What did you two do while I was out?!

1~!

[lightbulbvampire]

[The door to the room is thrown open as Kanaya rushes in, chainsaw whirring.]

Is everything alright in here?!

[She most definitely heard that yelp, and assumed that something bad was happening.]

[soulfriend]

[Well now it is! Or that's his assumption, anyway. And considering the chainsaw, he could probably be forgiven for it. He flings the covers back up right to his chin, shrieking.]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH! M-MURDEREEEEER?!

[lightbulbvampire]

[Kanaya whips around wielding her chainsaw to try and pinpoint the location of the murderer.]

Murderer?! Where?!

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[splasher]

[makoto, who stands here with a box and was trying to salvage any of the produce that may have gotten messed up by the hurricane and the strong winds, stares in mild disbelief.]

...what are you doing?

[soulfriend]

[This time he only startles a little. You got off easy, Makoto. Finally someone's not flashstepping in on Souda, or worse, approaching him wielding a chainsaw.

He jumps, barely, and turns.]

Ahhhh . . . nothin' yet. Right now I'm asking permission! I'm not sure he can answer, though. Does that mean I get to assume he agreed?

[splasher]

I think not getting any kind of answer doesn't count as agreement.

[????? is this guy okay]

What do you want his agreement for, anyway?

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[imsorey]

[the medbay was supposed to be a place for a peaceful night's sleep, which is why Sorey holed himself up there in the first place. the yelling wakes him up, but he's not particularly lucid, so he just manages to pull the blankets over his head and burrow down further into his bed.]

Unless there's a dragon outside we need to know about, can you keep it down?

[soulfriend]

Gyaaahh!

[That's not keeping it down, sorry. Kazuichi hadn't noticed anyone else in the room when he'd scanned it, so Sorey might as well be a ghost for all that he "suddenly appeared" here.

At least the source of the grumbling isn't hard to identify this time. Once Kazuichi identifies it, he at least manages to lower his voice somewhat.]

I-I didn't think anyone else was in here! I don't even know where "here" is . . . gimme a break!

[And then:]

—You're kidding about the dragon, right?

[imsorey]

No? I thought everybody knew—

[waking up a little bit more and slowly pulling the blankets off of his head to sit up and get a better look at kazuichi.]

Oh, sorry, are you new?

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[goafk]

[ Why is it everytime she's minding her own business some shit like this has to happen

oh right because this is Iniidae.

Anyway, the yelp totally startles her while she's on the way to the kitchen to grab something to snack on. She'll be backing up to peek her head in the medbay to see what's going on and that nobody's dying. ]

Hey, everything alright in there?

[soulfriend]

[No one's dying. There's just the one freaked out guy sitting up in one of the beds, looking absolutely confused as hell as to what's going on. He jumps again when he's addressed, but at least the person standing in the doorway isn't being threatening in any way . . . ]

Ah! Y—wait, no! Where the hell am I?!

[goafk]

[ Alright, he sounds really lost and confused. Must be another newbie, she figures; she's getting used to this by now.

D.Va enters the medbay to offer some assistance, he looks so lost--but when she actually gets a closer look at him, her face contorts into something of confusion mixed in with mild annoyance. ]

...Rin...did you go and bump your head on something? Oh my god, please don't tell me you got amnesia or something because I can't help you with that at all.

[ THAT'S...NOT RIN???? but ok ]