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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: (☼ never an honest word)

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[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?
mightyfallen: (✶ comest thou peaceably)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-08-02 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
Funny, I hadn't said a word about what you'd taste like. Is there someone in particular you're hoping to offend, Captain?
alsohawkeye: (pic#7988335)

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-08-02 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I polled my crew and we don't get the joke.
mightyfallen: (◄ you can trust me)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-08-03 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually.

In the meantime, if the Atalanta happens to have any coffee to spare, the Shang's next shift could use a pick-me-up.
alsohawkeye: (pic#7270849)

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-08-03 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
We don't, unfortunately. Coffee's pretty pricey and my crew are just about all noodles still. I share, but....
mightyfallen: (✶ cast but a glance)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-08-03 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh well. They'll just have to survive on tea after all.
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[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-08-03 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a hard life but it's the one we've chosen. Not that anyone warned me about the coffee situation.
mightyfallen: (◄ it was a wicked and wild wind)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-08-03 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
They really should make that part of the pill speech. Freedom from machine tyranny, but no more Starbucks.
alsohawkeye: (pic#7271047)

[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-08-03 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Starbucks? Please, I have taste. Or did. The red pill takes care of that pretty effectively.
mightyfallen: (✶ for I tasted of this honey)

[personal profile] mightyfallen 2015-08-03 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we've established I'm mostly here for the caffeine infusion, so.

[ Verbal shrug emoji. When your security has to practically shut down the coffee shop for you to go to it, the charm is a bit lost, too, but. Details. ]

Did you know almost every matrix that has commercial coffee shops has a Starbucks? I guess the machines don't have any taste either.
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[personal profile] alsohawkeye 2015-08-30 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe Starbucks was owned by the machines all along.