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.
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.
Oh. God, I have no idea. [ She shudders, her skin feeling all creepy-crawly. ] I'm not sure how to tell alien-squishy from regular-squishy. For all I know the doctor's giant cat lizard thing just shit on the floor.
[ She laughs. Not quite hysterical but definitely nervous. ]
Oh! Right! I have, um... [ She fumbles in her pockets until she finds her phone. Useless, of course, other than the music. ] I should have charged it but better than nothing. Right?
[ As she talks, she turns on the flashlight function. The tiny light shines a piercing brightness over a fairly small area. She shines it around to get a look at who she's talking to. ]
I beg your pardon? [Rogue's staying where she is until she gets some idea about what exactly is going on. She's so new to this place.] The doctor has a giant cat lizard thing?
[If Kelly Ann can see her, she's looking in the direction of the light/voice with an incredulous look. Okay, so she's dealt with weirder... Sort of. But it's still weird.]
Hey, [Rogue says, when the light falls on her. She raises a gloved hand in indication she comes in peace.] Thanks. I'm Rogue.
Heh. Yeah, it's kinda weird but Adrien says it won't eat any of us, I guess? It's nicer than Adrien, anyway. And he won't eat you, either. [ She adds quickly. ] He's just like, a person. As far as I can tell.
[ She grins and nods at the introduction. ] Right on. Cool nickname. I"m, um. Pistachio. [ She shines the light at her own face for a moment and waves. It still feels weird to say the nickname aloud. But she earned it. It's hers. Phil gave it to her himself with his dying words.
What he meant by it is immaterial at this point, right? ]
Anyway the squishy thing was over there. [ She turns the light in the direction of where she kicked it. ] So I don't know if you want to go over there and see what it was or go... anywhere else. I'm sort of leaning toward the um. Second option.
And is Adrien the ship's doctor? [Rogue assumes, but she just wants to be positive rather than make a fool of herself later.]
Nice to meet you, Pistachio. [She's not going to ask about the names- her- she assumed now-ex boyfriend called himself Iceman, and her now-former best friend was Shadowcat. No judgement at all.]
Yeah, I'm in favor of not getting eaten by a squishy thing- how long do you think the blackout's going to last? I don't know my way around this place yet.
Yes. I mean, it's not like he got assigned or anything. He just sort of took it over. I don't think anybody's actually in charge here? We all just sort of help out where we can.
[ Which makes her feel stupid to say, as she doesn't have a lot of skills that are all that helpful.
She sighs. ] I don't know. Some of them have been real quick, others have lasted hours. Seems like, anyway. Can get hard to tell ti--
[ She freezes as something cold brushes by her fingertips. ]
Anyway let's go this way it's where the gym is and Diana's usually there and she's like, good at killing things I'm pretty sure.
[ Kelly Ann links arms with Rogue and starts to pull her in the direction of the gym. ]
Huh. [It's an interesting concept- it makes her think of her parents' lives before she was adopted by them, back in their hippie colony.]
What was that? [There's a cool breeze that Rogue feels about her legs, just as Pistachio feels the brush against her fingers.]
Good idea, let's- [Rogue pauses as Kelly Ann links their arms- she's wearing long-sleeves, she always is, but still.] Careful. [She knows better than to straight up explain she's a mutant. That could be a death sentence, no matter how friendly Pistachio may seem.]
[ Unfortunately, Pistachio completely misunderstands the cause of Rogue's concern and thinks she's just worried about running into things. ]Don't worry, I know my way around. I won't slam you into anything.
[ She pauses, and stretches to touch the wall with her free hand. ]
The bar is somewhere around here, and there's almost always somebody there.
[ The wall is searingly hot. She hisses and jerks her hand back. ]
Never mind.
[ She sucks on her fingers as she tugs Rogue to keep going. ]
Yeah! I'm fine! [ She says in an overly-chipper tone as she keeps walking. ] Just something weird with that door but I'm sure it's no big deal. Hey, why don't we go to the workshop and see if somebody might be able to take care of it.
[ She changes directions, still guiding Rogue through the dark. ]
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Something squishy? Like... An alien or something? [They were in space, ergo: Aliens.]
It ain't like we got outside light or anything to see by. Do you have a lighter or a phone or something we could use t'see by?
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[ She laughs. Not quite hysterical but definitely nervous. ]
Oh! Right! I have, um... [ She fumbles in her pockets until she finds her phone. Useless, of course, other than the music. ] I should have charged it but better than nothing. Right?
[ As she talks, she turns on the flashlight function. The tiny light shines a piercing brightness over a fairly small area. She shines it around to get a look at who she's talking to. ]
Whoa. Cool hair.
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[If Kelly Ann can see her, she's looking in the direction of the light/voice with an incredulous look. Okay, so she's dealt with weirder... Sort of. But it's still weird.]
Hey, [Rogue says, when the light falls on her. She raises a gloved hand in indication she comes in peace.] Thanks. I'm Rogue.
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[ She grins and nods at the introduction. ] Right on. Cool nickname. I"m, um. Pistachio. [ She shines the light at her own face for a moment and waves. It still feels weird to say the nickname aloud. But she earned it. It's hers. Phil gave it to her himself with his dying words.
What he meant by it is immaterial at this point, right? ]
Anyway the squishy thing was over there. [ She turns the light in the direction of where she kicked it. ] So I don't know if you want to go over there and see what it was or go... anywhere else. I'm sort of leaning toward the um. Second option.
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Nice to meet you, Pistachio. [She's not going to ask about the names- her- she assumed now-ex boyfriend called himself Iceman, and her now-former best friend was Shadowcat. No judgement at all.]
Yeah, I'm in favor of not getting eaten by a squishy thing- how long do you think the blackout's going to last? I don't know my way around this place yet.
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[ Which makes her feel stupid to say, as she doesn't have a lot of skills that are all that helpful.
She sighs. ] I don't know. Some of them have been real quick, others have lasted hours. Seems like, anyway. Can get hard to tell ti--
[ She freezes as something cold brushes by her fingertips. ]
Anyway let's go this way it's where the gym is and Diana's usually there and she's like, good at killing things I'm pretty sure.
[ Kelly Ann links arms with Rogue and starts to pull her in the direction of the gym. ]
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What was that? [There's a cool breeze that Rogue feels about her legs, just as Pistachio feels the brush against her fingers.]
Good idea, let's- [Rogue pauses as Kelly Ann links their arms- she's wearing long-sleeves, she always is, but still.] Careful. [She knows better than to straight up explain she's a mutant. That could be a death sentence, no matter how friendly Pistachio may seem.]
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[ She pauses, and stretches to touch the wall with her free hand. ]
The bar is somewhere around here, and there's almost always somebody there.
[ The wall is searingly hot. She hisses and jerks her hand back. ]
Never mind.
[ She sucks on her fingers as she tugs Rogue to keep going. ]
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That's good new- Are you okay? [She turns towards Pistachio in the dark. She'd heard the hiss of skin on hot something hot, that sizzle.]
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[ She changes directions, still guiding Rogue through the dark. ]
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...Alright... How long have you been here? Knowing the place as well as you seem to, it's gotta be a while.
[She tries to leave as much space between her and Pistachio as possible without seeming rude.]