thisavrou_ooc | ( tdm 12 )

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leavin’ on a jet plane
"Don’t know when I’ll be back again."

ABOARD THE MOIRA

The Ingress has pulled you in. Your body experiences 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 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 from dizziness while others are perfectly fine. Once equilibrium has been reestablished, you will notice you are standing on a long platform and that the room is filled with a soft cerulean light. It's slightly humid and dark despite the glow around you, and nothing is familiar. Shortly after, you are led out and toward the medbay.

Inside this room, you are given a physical scan and offered a contract to sign that states you are now part of the crew of the Moira with a specific job. Any questions you might have would be answered in a straightforward manner as well as an explanation about how the Ingress, the thing that has pulled you onto the Moira, is broken and bringing people here unintentionally. This process also consists of a complete work-up of medical history and current health, and afterwards, you are given your MID, a device that is integrated into your hand or wrist with only the slightest pinch. From there, you are guided out of the medbay and to your living quarters.

Whether adjusting to space travel has been difficult or not, there is always something to be done. From working to leisure, the Moira offers a multitude of opportunities to get to know your crewmates a bit better. Exploration of the ship is highly encouraged. You may notice a slight change in the artificial gravity every once in awhile; however, more noticeable changes can be found in overall morale of those of the crew.

☄ on your own

There are plenty of other communal areas on the ship to explore! Pick a place, and see where it takes you. ( These scenarios can be used as in-game canon. )

The day begins normally. Or almost.

The Moira has accidentally fallen along the trajectory of an asteroid barreling its way through space. While most things like this are not uncommon, and the ship is far from any potential danger of collision or risk of debris damaging the exterior, there is something particularly odd about this specific occurrence. The rock itself appears to give off a strange light that is both eerie and alive. Often, if looked at in just the right manner, it will shift colors; so, while one person sees one side of the spectrum, someone else could see something entirely different. At first, things continue on as they usually do aside from the glowing asteroid alongside the Moira, but as the hours go on, that does not seem to be the case.

☄ the hours are breathing
resignedly beneath the sky the melancholy waters lie
With a rather open view of stars and space, thanks to the skylight above, the pool in the rec area suddenly comes alive beneath the light of the asteroid filtering in. Perhaps it’s some natural response to the chemical composition of the water, or perhaps it’s magic. Yet, regardless of the explanation, those who happen to take a dip suddenly find themselves plagued by despair. The depression and melancholy are not subtle changes either; it slams into you with great force, like a punch to the gut. The longer you remain in the pool, the deeper it grows, like an all-consuming paranoia that settles into the back of your mind and causes your heart to grow heavy. These strong feelings will eventually fade if you choose to leave the pool and dry off, but as long as you remain damp from the pool, those emotions will continue to linger. Even after you’re completely dry, there will be no mistaking just how intensely you felt or why. There is no explanation and might not be. Would you dare a second swim to test whether or not it was a fluke? ( These scenarios can be used as in-game canon. )

☄ those who have crossed
the eyes are not here, there are no eyes here
The walls are shrinking in. Every room you step into feels much too small, like there isn’t enough room to even breathe. A crowded place becomes startlingly empty, and no matter how much you run, how much you explore, there is no one there to comfort you or answer your calls for help. Hallucinations run strong between the lulls of obscene loneliness or claustrophobia, and exposure to the glow of the asteroid is really the only thing to thank for that. You’re desperate to claw your way out of the ship—open the emergency hatch in the Cargo Bay, bust the glass of the Observation Deck. What’s worse is that it’s not just you. It’s catching, and the fear of being next is very real. It feels like you’re being watched, that everyone around you is looking and seeing everything you are. Or are not. The only way to make it stop is to admit that you’re afraid of being seen, but who, in the deep madness of the self, has the courage to ever admit the truth? ( These scenarios can be used as in-game canon. )

☄ the sun in flight
rage, rage against the dying of the light
Something has drifted its way onto the Moira from the outside. Unlike the faint luminosity they give off, they suck up all the light around them, making them the only source to see by. From far away, they are just flitting balls of light, but if you get close enough to inspect them, they are mean. And have sharp, sharp teeth. Go poking, and they will bite you before trying to fly away while taking that only light source with them. The option to avoid them is quite easy if you’re not the curious sort, but without them around, it will be impossibly dark. As the asteroid moves on in the opposite direction of the Moira, these light creatures begin to dissolve and fade away with it. However, a word of caution: their bites glow. If you don’t manage to find the one that bit you and capture it between your hands, the bite will become a permanent glowing fixture of your body. ( These scenarios can be used as in-game canon. )

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[The dark is annoying more than anything else for her - with the dim light of the creatures drifting the decks and without wearing her opaque mask, she can see pretty well. And she would approach the things...but she's been around too many fanged, spined, poisonous, giant, generally dangerous and weird-looking animals on the planets she's been to the past year-and-a-half, so she's going to stay far away.

Besides, she's not a biologist - and everything on this ship tends to bite back sooner or later, one way or another.

When she hears someone exclaiming in pain somewhere nearby, though, she hurries past a clump of them and round the corner to see a human there who--]

Did one of them get you?

[--looks really, really familiar. It's catching on the back of her mind, making her stare at him quizzically, eyes shining in the dark.]

Yeah, annoying little buggers. [He looked at his hand at where he had been bitten, then back up at the person who had greeted him, and took a sharp intake of breath. He recognised her - he'd been talking to her not so long ago, before the whole show down with Udina. At least, he recognised her suit, but not the face that was staring back at him. He'd imagined it, who hadn't on the Normandy, but to see her standing here like that?]

T-Tali? [It couldn't be, could it?]

[It hasn't taken his hand off, at least, although his skin's glowing like a mini-beacon right now. But that's totally wiped out of her mind in the next few seconds because...]

Kaidan?

[Three years. It's been three years now since they left Kaidan on Virmire with the bomb that killed him. Two years of mourning him and Shepard, only for Shepard to come back and then Tali herself to leave. And Shepard kept coming back, never truly dead or gone. But Kaidan... She'd forgotten quite what he looked like, sounded like. Worse, she hadn't realised she had until now.]

I-- [She beams suddenly, a huge grin all bright eyes and sharp eye teeth, and before he can notice there's tears in her eyes, she's hugging him tightly - and possibly painfully; she's not used to her right arm yet, part made of solid, crystalline glass as it is now.] It's so, so good to see you.

[His hand was throbbing a little, and the glowing was a fascinating concept, but all of that was forgotten as he stared as the woman in front of him.

For some reason she wasn't what he ever expected Geth to look like, but that didn't matter so much as the fact she was here, and she was happy to see him.

He found himself with an armful of Tali, and he hugged her tightly.] I know, it's been a while. [And given how he'd likely royally pissed off a lot of the crew pulling his gun on Shepard at the Citadel, it was nice to have that response from someone he considered a friend.]

[She hugs him tight, remembering belatedly to loosen her grip with her right arm, all sharp edges and solid lines right now as it is. When she pulls back to look at him, she pauses for a moment - it's the first time she's seen him without her mask on, and as with everyone she's met since taking it off, she studies them, takes in details and colours of eyes and skin and hair she couldn't see quite clearly with a visor in the way.]

A long while. [She doesn’t want to tell him the exact details - how do you explain to someone that the last time you saw them they were about to die? - but she can tell him some things. Enough to understand her standing in front of him suitless.]

I haven't seen you in years. I haven't seen our galaxy in...over a year and a half now, I think. A lot's changed. [Understatement of the century, as she gestures at herself.]

( tdm 12 )

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I wrote this DAYS ago and forgot to post it???