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redshiftlogs2019-12-08 07:10 pm
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december 2019. welcome to the void.
Who: Everyone in Anchor.
What: Sixth Introductory Mingle
When: The Month of December 2019
Where: Around and outside the city.
Warnings: Please add any warnings in the subject lines.
What: Sixth Introductory Mingle
When: The Month of December 2019
Where: Around and outside the city.
Warnings: Please add any warnings in the subject lines.
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Click here to read what characters will experience when arriving in Anchor.
a. the generic holiday cheer prompt.
It's a dark, quiet, uneventful night. Only those up and about in the wee hours will notice something odd starting in the park.
It's snowing.
The phenomenon seems to be coming from a small bank of unmoving clouds hanging suspended above the trees and lake. A cloud that, upon closer inspection by any scientists in the room, appears to be made of harmless nanites whose sole purpose is to unleash a cheery, blustery kind of weather that remains mostly contained to the park.
Some bots are out serving hot chocolate, cider, flavored snow cones, and other small baked treats. Others are building a solid-looking bit of scaffolding that the snow is rapidly turning into a sledding ramp. In fact, there are sleds ready and waiting at the foot of the slide. The smaller ponds have frozen over in a sharp cold snap that came with the nanites' release, and there are other bots handing out ice skates - careful, though, because one of them is a chef bot and he's made the blades of the skates ridiculously sharp. At least they'll glide well?
Around the middle of the day, the intercoms squeal loudly, crackle, and start pouring generic seasonal music out into the air. Is it for Hanukkah? Christmas? Kwanzaa? Some strange holiday no one has heard of? Who knows, since half of it is in alien languages, but man, it sure is peppy! And kind of annoying after a while! Maybe someone should hack the system and change the music up?
It's snowing.
The phenomenon seems to be coming from a small bank of unmoving clouds hanging suspended above the trees and lake. A cloud that, upon closer inspection by any scientists in the room, appears to be made of harmless nanites whose sole purpose is to unleash a cheery, blustery kind of weather that remains mostly contained to the park.
Some bots are out serving hot chocolate, cider, flavored snow cones, and other small baked treats. Others are building a solid-looking bit of scaffolding that the snow is rapidly turning into a sledding ramp. In fact, there are sleds ready and waiting at the foot of the slide. The smaller ponds have frozen over in a sharp cold snap that came with the nanites' release, and there are other bots handing out ice skates - careful, though, because one of them is a chef bot and he's made the blades of the skates ridiculously sharp. At least they'll glide well?
Around the middle of the day, the intercoms squeal loudly, crackle, and start pouring generic seasonal music out into the air. Is it for Hanukkah? Christmas? Kwanzaa? Some strange holiday no one has heard of? Who knows, since half of it is in alien languages, but man, it sure is peppy! And kind of annoying after a while! Maybe someone should hack the system and change the music up?
b. the body heat trope prompt.
As the day wears on toward evening, the nanite winter storm starts to gather a little more force, sending cold seeping through the halls of Anchor. There are pockets of warmth here and there - notably, for once, the agricultural areas are largely unaffected thanks to their temperature regulators--but most of Anchor has a wintery chill, and snow is starting to bluster across the levels from bottom to top. Temperatures continue to drop when the suns go down.
The bots are out being helpful, though they can't stop the storm. They're rolling around handing out blankets and thermoses of warm drinks. Unfortunately, it's one blanket and one thermos per two people. Better get cosy - it's going to be a long, cold night!
The bots are out being helpful, though they can't stop the storm. They're rolling around handing out blankets and thermoses of warm drinks. Unfortunately, it's one blanket and one thermos per two people. Better get cosy - it's going to be a long, cold night!
c. the terrifying monster attack prompt.
The cold has woken up some creatures that have been slumbering away in one of the sealed-off areas of the labs. They couldn't get through the door that kept them caged, but they sure could freeze the windows and escape that way when they got cold enough to break. The little critters make a beeline for the park, prepared to wreak havoc-
If eating snow and ice and rolling snow into tiny balls for meal stockpiles is havoc.
These little creatures look conspicuously like the western dragons of Earth, though most are no bigger than a person's forearm. Their wings - some strange shade of white that sparkles when they move - seem largely decorative. They use them to communicate, to posture, and to keep themselves balanced when they rear up on their hind legs, but none of them appear able to fly. They're a mix of colors, blue and silver and white, some of them with a variety of shades swirling down their bodies, others with one color on their bellies and contrasting colors on their back and head. Some have splotches, or speckles, or tiger stripes of blue. They breathe steam and can freeze things with their clawed forepaws.
Also, if you feed them a flavored snow cone, they will follow you forever. No, really. You'll have yourself an undyingly loyal new pet.
If eating snow and ice and rolling snow into tiny balls for meal stockpiles is havoc.
These little creatures look conspicuously like the western dragons of Earth, though most are no bigger than a person's forearm. Their wings - some strange shade of white that sparkles when they move - seem largely decorative. They use them to communicate, to posture, and to keep themselves balanced when they rear up on their hind legs, but none of them appear able to fly. They're a mix of colors, blue and silver and white, some of them with a variety of shades swirling down their bodies, others with one color on their bellies and contrasting colors on their back and head. Some have splotches, or speckles, or tiger stripes of blue. They breathe steam and can freeze things with their clawed forepaws.
Also, if you feed them a flavored snow cone, they will follow you forever. No, really. You'll have yourself an undyingly loyal new pet.
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"Enough stuff! What a wonderful joke!" She pats Rey's arm, leaning into her shoulder again. "We will make this room our own, and then you will see what 'enough stuff' is. I will show you."
She gestures to the boxes on the wall. "That one is Tripod's bed, for when he is not asleep with me. And there" — she moves her finger to the box next to it — "is where our books will go. We will have many in here. We can start with mine. And on that box will go flowers. I have learned to fold them from paper, and they are quite lovely. We will hang a chain of them over the door, and a rrug in front of it? Oh, and in the drawers beneath the beds will go our clothing."
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Still, it's weird. This whole thing is weird. Rey was just tentatively prepared to settle on finding a room to settle in for a while, but having someone else to share it with seems to alter the situation in a way she hadn't anticipated.
She casts a sidelong look upward as Elleru goes on to reveal her plans on renovating this space in her image.
All things considered, it could be worse.
"Sounds like you've got a pretty good idea on what you want. So, you should probably handle... all of it, then. Since, ah. Am no good with any of that." A nervous sound escapes her throat before she can stop herself. Keep your shit together, Rey!
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Her smiles fades just a little as she bites at her lip and casts her eyes away. "Although... if I am pushing you too far, you will tell me, will you not? I do not want to chase you away."
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"Mn, no, it's not you. Am not an easy person to get on with -- or live with. Can keep this place warm if it stays cold for long, and can fight. Never been good for much else."
They're not things she likes to admit, but Rey feels like she owes it to Elleru for spending so much time on her that might as well be a waste.
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"Oh Rrey," she starts, her ears tipping upward as she feels Rey's warmth through her skin; it ebbs into her like a warm, comforting bath. "There are others who are just as hard to 'get on with,' as you say, but they are worth getting to know, as are you. You just do not see it like we do."
She nods toward the purring ball that is Tripod. He knows.
"But that does not mean your worth is not there, or that it does not exist."
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Already a damned cat has made it painfully clear that that isn't happening. What next?
Over time, she's calmed. Reasoned with herself that this is only fleeting, so what does it matter. What does anything matter, let alone her worth. Something which only a select few have deemed worth their effort at all.
Rey can't help but shrink into herself. Not to close off, but to rub her forehead as she listens to Elleru's words, mulling over the logistics of it. Her brother would have chastised her for bringing logic into the situation, but it's the one thing keeping her from going into self-destruct mode all over again -- and Rey remembers full well how Elleru responds to that, even if the other woman doesn't.
"If you say so," Rey mutters. The words themselves sound harsh but her tone betrays that. "Well. Can't deny that you're the first to say stuff like that, at least."
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Though just how the cat is going to help, she doesn't clarify -- or know, really. She's just confident in her ability to help others, even if it's with something as complicated as making them realize their own potential. She knows there's a softer side to Rey in there, one she doesn't let show normally; Elleru herself saw it in the baths, and she refuses to believe it was a one-time-only, momentary lapse in judgment. Rey is hiding her true self, and if there's anything Elleru knows about, it's hiding who you are.