October Test Drive

[savmods]

Multiversal travel can be disorienting, but there’s no need to worry! All side effects are temporary and lessen with each trip. Your body may experience several sensations at once: being pushed forward as if a hand is resting on your back, momentary and startling blindness, a gentle ringing in your head. You may have difficulty discerning whether it is hot or cold, but where you have been prodded is noticeably warmer than the rest of you. Some may suffer dizziness while others are perfectly fine. You notice that the area you are in is filled with a soft cerulean light and feels slightly humid and dark despite the glow around you. Regardless of your current state, however, the stress of transit forces your body into unconsciousness. Waking up is another story. Or maybe it isn’t. You find yourself in a nondescript room; sometimes with others who have found themselves in the same situation, sometimes alone. Welcome to Avagi Station, your new home.

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Avagi

A fixer upper opportunity: Welcome to your new home! It’s a bit rough around the edges but it could be so much worse. Or that’s what you thought until you walked to your housing level and found the bathroom floating under three inches of water as a pipe gushes water. That’s definitely not what those pipes should be doing, you should probably try and get that fixed before your entire level is flooded. Who knows what sort of chaos all that water will play with Avagi’s support systems. Do you call for help or is someone going to find you trying to play amateur plumber with a roll of tape? Are you afraid of the dark?: There are different types of darkness that one has to deal with when they're living in space. There's the dim lighting of rarely used corridors, the shadows that lurk wherever they can find a place to hide. And you must never forget the swirling blackness of the storm that surrounds Avagi. Today you're dealing with a darkness you've been warned to expect. Some of your fellow residents are overhauling the electrical systems on board and told everyone that there was a chance there could be randomized blackouts. The lights blink out without a sound, plunging you into darkness. Your eyes take a while to adjust and when they do everything seems a bit more… sinister. Sound travels differently in the dark, the quietest scratches and bumps echo louder in your ears and-- What was that ? Did that sound come from nearby? Did something just touch your leg? Maybe you should find someone before you get more paranoid. If it is paranoia, anyways. Jeepers Creepers...: The blackouts continue, spreading beyond isolated sections until they’re taking over entire blocks of the station and plunging everything into a more pervasive darkness. Wherever it spreads, a faint odor accompanies it along with a sudden burst of paranoia as everything seems more intense and slightly blurry at the same time. When the lights snap on the feeling of disorientation worsens and you struggle to focus when an intercom crackles to life blaring a warning you can barely understand. All you know is that something is wrong. And even worse, you know without a doubt that something, someone is coming to hurt you. As you see figures approaching, faces a blur of inhumanity marred by a mask to hide their identites you do the only thing you can in your panic. You run. Hopefully someone will be able to catch you and get you to clear air before you find a weapon and decide to stand your ground against them.

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helen magnus ( sanctuary )

[longaevus]

are you afraid of the dark?

( darkness isn't something that helen fears, and some might day that helen magnus wasn't afraid of anything. that wasn't true, but the things that go bump in the night are something that she has learned to embrace... if keep a healthy fear of.

the noise has her turning, senses alert as she attempts to pinpoint the direct, and whether it was something to be concerned about.

and then she hears it again.

her hand reaches for her pistol, keeping it low as she turns again, risking a call out into the dark-- )

Is someone there?

[alterplex]

[ It's the click-hum of a bionic that greets Helen when she points her pistol in the dark; the barrel of her gun lines up with the vague outline of a 6-foot something soldier, his expression impossible to read in the dim of the blackout.

Note to self: try not to be silent when visibility is low, to avoid getting a bullet to the face. ]

—Relax. I'm not an enemy.

[longaevus]

( she couldn't begin to count the times that helen had heard such assurances, though the number of times that it was true was far fewer. the gun remains raised for a few seconds, helen listening to the dark hall again, before she lowers it. for now, it would seem that the noise had been in )

So it would seem.

( though lowered the gun stays in her hand waiting for something else in the shadows, or a wrong move )

I wasn't certain whether the noise was from someone or something else.