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SYSTEMWIDE | INFO ([personal profile] unplug) wrote in [community profile] subsystem2015-07-18 06:21 pm

CONNECTING... [ OPEN COMMS LINE | circling olympus ]

[The Real again.

You all have the same orders, or close enough. Forty-eight hour rotations for teams, twelve-hour shifts for every woman and man, five ships available if you include the two Olympians that survived. Formal crew assignments are less rigid these days, though some captains insist. Commissioned or not, your task is to find the ejected control unit of the Harbinger, which measures twenty by twenty feet, wherever it scuttled off to in the tunnels. Sounds big. Sounds easy— if you've never been into the tunnels.

The comms line is clear now. As your hovercraft floats its sensors and lights through cold darkness into the next gruelling hour, the chatter offers some measure of comfort. Young or old, chafed by habitual smoking or clear as a singer's, these voices accompany you through what was so recently enemy territory.]





OOC: This post represents casual network spam and navel-gazing while characters are on this mission! Your characters can participate while on-duty or between shifts. No plot action/modding will occur in this post unless otherwise requested.

The search lasts 1 week, and personnel determine early on that the control unit must have hidden rather than escaped all the way back to the Machine home base.

Additionally, an addendum about the fates of the Phoenix and Nidhoggr are here. Players are welcome to take rotations with the Shangrila instead, and play it loose with schedules.
mightyfallen: (◄ you can trust me)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-07-29 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Best ways to stay sharp in a world without coffee, go.


P.S. We're out of coffee.
alsohawkeye: (pic#7271047)

voice

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-07-29 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kate bothers to record the pause before she replies, and her tone when she speaks makes it clear that was an unimpressed ellipsis. ] ...tea.
mightyfallen: (✶ I know thy pride)

voice

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-07-30 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Have an underwhelmed sigh in return. ]

Best ways to stay sharp for people under ninety-five.
alsohawkeye: (pic#8341750)

voice

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-07-30 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh right, you're with the Council. Awww, is this your first coffee shortage experience?

[ Funny, her sympathy doesn't sound very genuinely sympathetic. ]

Those of us who work for a living have had to get used to tea, even if it is a third-rate watery substitute.
mightyfallen: (☼ never an honest word)

voice

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-07-30 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Really, because you know I'd never set foot on a hovercraft before today.

Next you'll be telling me I have to shine my own shoes.
alsohawkeye: (pic#7988335)

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-07-30 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Shiny shoes? You're adorable. I know it'll be tough having two less chances to gaze at your own reflection all day, but I'm sure someone can find you something else to fill your time while you're here.
mightyfallen: (☼ and that was when I ruled the world)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-07-30 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Like staring at empty tunnels until my eyes bleed? I promise, I've got that covered, even in the tragic absence of caffeine.
alsohawkeye: (Default)

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-07-30 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm curious, what exactly did you think you were signing up for? Did someone just steer you onto a ship while you were drunk or something and tell you it was a partycraft?
mightyfallen: (✶ for I tasted of this honey)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-07-30 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean it isn't? I was definitely promised engine room moonshine.
alsohawkeye: (pic#7566088)

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-07-30 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
On a ZDG ship? The Council would frown on that, I'm sure nobody would ever.
mightyfallen: (✶ seeing that i am a poor man)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-07-31 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, did I say moonshine? I meant entirely legally and permissibly brewed kombucha. Vinegary aftertaste: always a hit at parties.
alsohawkeye: (pic#7988356)

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-07-31 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Who doesn't want to taste like a pickle jar, after all?

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jomi: (pic#9179366)

[personal profile] jomi 2015-07-29 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
jumpingjacks!
mightyfallen: (◄ and I will shut down)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-07-30 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
That just sounds more tiring.
jomi: (Default)

[personal profile] jomi 2015-08-01 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
not many just 5 or 10 for blood flow
mightyfallen: (☼ never an honest word)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-08-02 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
:(
jomi: (pic#9179364)

[personal profile] jomi 2015-07-29 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
wehre did the coffee go
mightyfallen: (☼ never an honest word)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-07-30 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Down someone's throat, I assume.

[ "Someone's" ]
jomi: (thinking/stargazing)

[personal profile] jomi 2015-08-01 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
thats alot of coffee for one throat
better say multipl throats
were all too blame
mightyfallen: (✶ thou art more righteous than I)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-08-02 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Technically accurate and exactly what I want to hear, I like the way you think.
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[personal profile] jomi 2015-08-02 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
im all about community spirit
and i dont like coffee so who cares
mightyfallen: (☼ and that was when I ruled the world)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-08-02 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
No one likes coffee, let's be honest. Some of us have just built up a tolerance to lesser forms of caffeine.

So are you a tea drinker? Careful how you answer, I may have to retract my previous statement.
alsohawkeye: (Default)

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-08-02 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, speak for yourselves, I love coffee.