As was foretold, as was forgotten...
The seeker and the deity arrive together in the far reaches of the galaxy...
The seeker and the deity arrive together in the far reaches of the galaxy...
What it looks like...
The ancient chambers were silent, but long forgotten machinery responded to the induction of power as a collection of small vortexes popped in and out of existence.
The ancient chambers were silent, but long forgotten machinery responded to the induction of power as a collection of small vortexes popped in and out of existence.
To Vivian ~~~
The vortex pulls you in and you have the brief sensation of your eyeballs being pulled out of your ears.
Then you land, almost gently, on a metal floor.
The room is spacious, at least thirty feet square with some sort of blue columns in the center (pictured above). Your companion releases your arm as soon as you land and begins muttering in a language you don’t understand while quickly looking around the room.
The vortex pulls you in and you have the brief sensation of your eyeballs being pulled out of your ears.
Then you land, almost gently, on a metal floor.
The room is spacious, at least thirty feet square with some sort of blue columns in the center (pictured above). Your companion releases your arm as soon as you land and begins muttering in a language you don’t understand while quickly looking around the room.
To Gemma~~~
The trip into the vortex is unpleasant to say the least, when it finally stops crushing your kidneys you are hurled bodily into a solid object.
As your senses return you are aware that you cannot see, wether it is dark or you are blind is unclear. Beside you there is soft breathing of another creature, but you cannot see to determine what that might be.
The trip into the vortex is unpleasant to say the least, when it finally stops crushing your kidneys you are hurled bodily into a solid object.
As your senses return you are aware that you cannot see, wether it is dark or you are blind is unclear. Beside you there is soft breathing of another creature, but you cannot see to determine what that might be.
Vivian stood up as the kid left her, shoulders hunching over as she stuffed her hands deep into her pockets and only looked up around the room when the other did.
I guess they probably can't arrest me for truancy if I'm...here...
Eyes dropping to the cigarette in her mouth, she let out another muttered curse and pulled her lighter from her pocket, intending to set the end ablaze again.
"Anyone ever told yah you're trouble, kid?"
I guess they probably can't arrest me for truancy if I'm...here...
Eyes dropping to the cigarette in her mouth, she let out another muttered curse and pulled her lighter from her pocket, intending to set the end ablaze again.
"Anyone ever told yah you're trouble, kid?"
Gemma sits up, wincing as nearly every joint in her spine cracks. It's pitch-black wherever she is; she can't even see her fingers in front of her face, even if she brings them close enough to poke herself in the cheek. She feels around for her bag, and finds it nearby, with the contents - she hopes, prays - unharmed as far as she can tell without being able to look at it.
Nearby, she can hear someone, or something breathing. Between this and the all-encompassing darkness, fear starts to set in again. Once again she can feel her body, already aching and in shock, start to tighten in on itself. This time, however, she lets it happen, hoping that whoever (or whatever, she thinks grimly) is nearby is just as blind as she is in the darkness.
Soon, in her place sits a small grey cat, with white cat-eye-glass marks encircling its eyes and a series of white whorls across its chest.
[Attempting to see if a creature with better night vision has any luck seeing in her current setting, or if she is temporarily blinded.]
Nearby, she can hear someone, or something breathing. Between this and the all-encompassing darkness, fear starts to set in again. Once again she can feel her body, already aching and in shock, start to tighten in on itself. This time, however, she lets it happen, hoping that whoever (or whatever, she thinks grimly) is nearby is just as blind as she is in the darkness.
Soon, in her place sits a small grey cat, with white cat-eye-glass marks encircling its eyes and a series of white whorls across its chest.
[Attempting to see if a creature with better night vision has any luck seeing in her current setting, or if she is temporarily blinded.]
“Indeed, Lotus tells us we were all in trouble before she came to save us, we serve gladly now, in her grace.”
0814 stepped up to one of the blue columns and pulled out their hacking device. To an uninitiated it would look something like a cell phone.
“You are stronger than you appear, Friend Vivian, we likely could have remained on your home planet if you had desired. However, I am glad of your company. We never finished exchanging designations, I am eight-one-four.”
0814 stepped up to one of the blue columns and pulled out their hacking device. To an uninitiated it would look something like a cell phone.
“You are stronger than you appear, Friend Vivian, we likely could have remained on your home planet if you had desired. However, I am glad of your company. We never finished exchanging designations, I am eight-one-four.”
To Gemma ~~~
Now as a cat you can indeed see more clearly. Not by a lot, but you can tell the room you are in is about 10 foot square and the creature beside you is the woman from Coffee Slingers who asked you about the children. She appears to be unconscious, but not visibly injured.
Now as a cat you can indeed see more clearly. Not by a lot, but you can tell the room you are in is about 10 foot square and the creature beside you is the woman from Coffee Slingers who asked you about the children. She appears to be unconscious, but not visibly injured.
Relieved to find it's a person next to her, Gem pads over to the woman from the cafe and sits down next to her head. Absentmindedly, she licks at one paw as she debates what to do next.
On the one hand, being like this, she can actually see. And it probably wouldn't be all that terrible to explain her... situation... to just one person. And, considering recent vortexes, she's feeling pretty casual about the whole shapeshifting thing at the moment. On the other hand, cat brain says "sit on this person's chest and scream at them until they wake up," and that's fundamentally incompatible with the way Gem thinks of herself as a person.
She yawns, stretches, and decides it's too much effort to change back into a person just yet. She successfully represses her initial urge to sit on her companion's chest, but fails to resist the feline urge to poke her sleeping form in the cheek.
On the one hand, being like this, she can actually see. And it probably wouldn't be all that terrible to explain her... situation... to just one person. And, considering recent vortexes, she's feeling pretty casual about the whole shapeshifting thing at the moment. On the other hand, cat brain says "sit on this person's chest and scream at them until they wake up," and that's fundamentally incompatible with the way Gem thinks of herself as a person.
She yawns, stretches, and decides it's too much effort to change back into a person just yet. She successfully represses her initial urge to sit on her companion's chest, but fails to resist the feline urge to poke her sleeping form in the cheek.
Slipping the lighter back into her pocket, as well as the right hand that was holding it, Vivian lets loose a puff of smoke over her left shoulder.
“Indeed, Lotus tells us we were all in trouble before she came to save us, we serve gladly now, in her grace.”
That's #$%&in' weird.
Vivian watched the other for a few seconds, taking in the rest of the room without directly realizing she did so, as if almost subconsciously on the lookout for danger.
Friend? She raised an eyebrow and then shrugged. ...yeah, okay, sure, why not.
Stronger than she looked, though? Vivian hunched her shoulders a little. Yeah, I get that. But you're not exactly a weakling yourself, kid. The grip that had found her arm earlier had definitely not been that of a child.
The comment about 'home planet' didn't bother her probably as much as it should have. She gave the other a funny look, "Well- I- you...seemed like you wanted to go." She self-consciously tapped the ash from the end of the cigarette and watched it fall to the floor. "I guess I wasn't gonna let you go by yourself." She admitted, reaching up to cross her free hand over her torso and tuck it against her bicep.
Of course you have a number. "No, you're trouble." Vivian decided, pointing the pair of fingers holding the cigarette in the would-be-child's direction. Letting out a sigh and finally giving into her curiosity, Vivian shuffled across the room to peer over Trouble's shoulder at the weird device in their hands, keeping the cigarette well behind her.
"What're you doing?"
“Indeed, Lotus tells us we were all in trouble before she came to save us, we serve gladly now, in her grace.”
That's #$%&in' weird.
Vivian watched the other for a few seconds, taking in the rest of the room without directly realizing she did so, as if almost subconsciously on the lookout for danger.
Friend? She raised an eyebrow and then shrugged. ...yeah, okay, sure, why not.
Stronger than she looked, though? Vivian hunched her shoulders a little. Yeah, I get that. But you're not exactly a weakling yourself, kid. The grip that had found her arm earlier had definitely not been that of a child.
The comment about 'home planet' didn't bother her probably as much as it should have. She gave the other a funny look, "Well- I- you...seemed like you wanted to go." She self-consciously tapped the ash from the end of the cigarette and watched it fall to the floor. "I guess I wasn't gonna let you go by yourself." She admitted, reaching up to cross her free hand over her torso and tuck it against her bicep.
Of course you have a number. "No, you're trouble." Vivian decided, pointing the pair of fingers holding the cigarette in the would-be-child's direction. Letting out a sigh and finally giving into her curiosity, Vivian shuffled across the room to peer over Trouble's shoulder at the weird device in their hands, keeping the cigarette well behind her.
"What're you doing?"
“I am attempting to access the computers to determine where we are and how we arrived here... I am also going to attempt to determine how to return, hopefully with my energy spirit.”
0814 continued to speak aloud while working on their device.
“What I can already deduce is this ship is Corpus design, that is good, it appears to have been abandoned for some time and inferior Grenieer technology would have failed and we would not have breathable oxygen within the airlock.”
There was a pause and they moved to the second column.
“However, if I cannot reach my ship I will be unable to summon my weapons... this is unfortunate because I can guarantee that when the computers learn of our arrival they will activate the robotic defenses... if the airlock still functions, so will the robots... they will need to be dismantled.”
The two columns they had been working on turned from blue to green.
“I have partial access... we are not alone. Two other life forms have managed to arrive within this ship and not the vacuum of space. One human, female... one small feline, domestic, also female.”
0814 continued to speak aloud while working on their device.
“What I can already deduce is this ship is Corpus design, that is good, it appears to have been abandoned for some time and inferior Grenieer technology would have failed and we would not have breathable oxygen within the airlock.”
There was a pause and they moved to the second column.
“However, if I cannot reach my ship I will be unable to summon my weapons... this is unfortunate because I can guarantee that when the computers learn of our arrival they will activate the robotic defenses... if the airlock still functions, so will the robots... they will need to be dismantled.”
The two columns they had been working on turned from blue to green.
“I have partial access... we are not alone. Two other life forms have managed to arrive within this ship and not the vacuum of space. One human, female... one small feline, domestic, also female.”
To Gemma~~~
The woman moans softly and rolls part way over in response to your prodding but does not awaken.
Looking around the room you notice three things. The first is a small pile of items that appear to have fallen out of some sort of metal box. The second is a faint light coming through a crack in one of the walls... the third is an odd looking book sitting ominously alone on the middle of the floor.
The woman moans softly and rolls part way over in response to your prodding but does not awaken.
Looking around the room you notice three things. The first is a small pile of items that appear to have fallen out of some sort of metal box. The second is a faint light coming through a crack in one of the walls... the third is an odd looking book sitting ominously alone on the middle of the floor.
When the woman rolls away, Gem sits back on her haunches. So much for waking up this person, she thinks. However, the sliver of light visible through a crack in the wall shows promise; maybe they aren't the only two people in this... Box. Room. Wherever they are. She stalks over to the crack, keeping her eyes on it at all times in order to curb her cat brain's mighty need to see just what has fallen out of the metal box.
...huh...
Vivian only understood about half of those words, staring at the weird blue light thingys dumbly for a moment.
I really am in space.
“However, if I cannot reach my ship I will be unable to summon my weapons... this is unfortunate because I can guarantee that when the computers learn of our arrival they will activate the robotic defenses... if the airlock still functions, so will the robots... they will need to be dismantled.”
Vivian cast her gaze off to the side somewhat uncomfortably, but couldn't bring herself to reassure the other a fight was probably the least of their problems.
“I have partial access... we are not alone. Two other life forms have managed to arrive within this ship and not the vacuum of space. One human, female... one small feline, domestic, also female.”
She blinked. Two other "life forms." From that shop, probably.
She took another draw from the cigarette, smoke flowing out of her mouth when she asked, "Think you can fly it?"
Vivian only understood about half of those words, staring at the weird blue light thingys dumbly for a moment.
I really am in space.
“However, if I cannot reach my ship I will be unable to summon my weapons... this is unfortunate because I can guarantee that when the computers learn of our arrival they will activate the robotic defenses... if the airlock still functions, so will the robots... they will need to be dismantled.”
Vivian cast her gaze off to the side somewhat uncomfortably, but couldn't bring herself to reassure the other a fight was probably the least of their problems.
“I have partial access... we are not alone. Two other life forms have managed to arrive within this ship and not the vacuum of space. One human, female... one small feline, domestic, also female.”
She blinked. Two other "life forms." From that shop, probably.
She took another draw from the cigarette, smoke flowing out of her mouth when she asked, "Think you can fly it?"
~~ To Gemma
The gap appears to be a minuscule crack in some sort of door. On the other side you can see, but not hear two children intently staring at four columns of some sort of light (two blue, two green) You immediately recognize the children from outside the coffee shop.
The gap appears to be a minuscule crack in some sort of door. On the other side you can see, but not hear two children intently staring at four columns of some sort of light (two blue, two green) You immediately recognize the children from outside the coffee shop.
0814 looks somewhat blankly at Vivian. “Fly...?” Then realization dawns. “You mean navigate this vessel? Negative, that would require a crew of at least four hundred... and a working thrust mechanism.”
Vivian is trying not to smile and shoves the end of the cigarette in her mouth before she loses the battle, speaking around it instead:
"You've got, what, eight-hundred-and-thirteen other siblings, right?" She reached down to swipe a hand back and forth at part of her jeans that had gotten a little scuffed against the ground earlier in front of the coffee shop, "That's, like, double what we would need." She straightened back up and crossed her arms over her chest, giving a little huff, "I guess working parts might matter a little, though."
After a breath, Vivian plopped down onto the hard floor beneath her with a small grunt, elbows on her raised knees and hands hanging between her ankles as she let out a puff of smoke from the side of her lips. "I'm not good for very much," she scratched absently at her cheek with a finger, "And you're the one who's from off-planet. Whad'do we do?"
"You've got, what, eight-hundred-and-thirteen other siblings, right?" She reached down to swipe a hand back and forth at part of her jeans that had gotten a little scuffed against the ground earlier in front of the coffee shop, "That's, like, double what we would need." She straightened back up and crossed her arms over her chest, giving a little huff, "I guess working parts might matter a little, though."
After a breath, Vivian plopped down onto the hard floor beneath her with a small grunt, elbows on her raised knees and hands hanging between her ankles as she let out a puff of smoke from the side of her lips. "I'm not good for very much," she scratched absently at her cheek with a finger, "And you're the one who's from off-planet. Whad'do we do?"
Gem watches the kids on the other side of the crack for a little while. It's a bit too small for her to fit through like this, and though the kids aren't particularly chatty, they're definitely speaking to one another. She suspects that the fact that she can't hear whatever they're saying means that something might prevent her from getting through even if she were to try. And even if she can get through, what about the unconscious woman on her side?
Gem considers her options for a moment: attempt to go through the crack, where at the very least there are people who are awake, and then, you know, have to explain the whole cat thing; stay in the dark, give in to the temptation that is the box full of knocked over goodies; or, stay in the dark and go check out a book that quite frankly gives her the heebie jeebies.
Cat brain really wants to try and fit into this small space, though. Rationally, Gem doesn't think it's doable. But given her other options involve complete darkness if not a questionable book, she feels she has to give it a shot. Ever so gingerly, she pokes one paw through the gap.
Gem considers her options for a moment: attempt to go through the crack, where at the very least there are people who are awake, and then, you know, have to explain the whole cat thing; stay in the dark, give in to the temptation that is the box full of knocked over goodies; or, stay in the dark and go check out a book that quite frankly gives her the heebie jeebies.
Cat brain really wants to try and fit into this small space, though. Rationally, Gem doesn't think it's doable. But given her other options involve complete darkness if not a questionable book, she feels she has to give it a shot. Ever so gingerly, she pokes one paw through the gap.
“Many of my sibling were lost in the great harvest, there are only a few of us now.” 0814 said without emotion.
Turning to Vivian as she sat on the floor and declared her uselessness 0814 almost gasped, a large show of emotion for them.
“You are actually quite useful. Without my weapons or access to my ship I will need you to collect the items for us to return to your planet.”
Turning back to the columns, three of which were green now, they continued talking.
“I do not know much of the force you would call ‘magic’ but I know it is responsible for our portal here. As such, we need the item or items that caused it so we can recreate it. I can track their location within the ship but someone has to physically go pick them up... this will likely be dangerous, but you are strong, are you up for the task?”
0814 then gave a soft chuckle. “Also, the feline is attempting to enter the room we are now in, you may open the door if you like.” They indicates the door to Vivian’s right and specifically the toggle switch beside it.
Turning to Vivian as she sat on the floor and declared her uselessness 0814 almost gasped, a large show of emotion for them.
“You are actually quite useful. Without my weapons or access to my ship I will need you to collect the items for us to return to your planet.”
Turning back to the columns, three of which were green now, they continued talking.
“I do not know much of the force you would call ‘magic’ but I know it is responsible for our portal here. As such, we need the item or items that caused it so we can recreate it. I can track their location within the ship but someone has to physically go pick them up... this will likely be dangerous, but you are strong, are you up for the task?”
0814 then gave a soft chuckle. “Also, the feline is attempting to enter the room we are now in, you may open the door if you like.” They indicates the door to Vivian’s right and specifically the toggle switch beside it.
"I don't understand, like, half of the things you say." Vivian freely admitted after a moment of silence passed in the room, getting back up to her feet and moving towards the door Trouble seemed to be referring to, hesitating a moment before gingerly using the switch.