airlockedmods: [Champion Excellence Control Environment] (C.E.C.E.)
airlockedmods ([personal profile] airlockedmods) wrote in [community profile] theairlock2017-01-09 12:13 pm
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the mock mingle

[An hour ago you woke up in a bed that wasn't yours, awakened by a chirpy, feminine voice coming from the device on your non-dominant arm. The voice cheerfully requests that you exit your sleeping quarters and to please make your way to the the main deck of the ship for a debriefing on your circumstances.

It was around this time you might have noticed the clothes you last remember wearing are gone and replaced with this little number. If you take a moment to check out the Personal Identification Program on your arm, you'll find a touch screen with a few icons that lead to a series of 21 profiles and a series of apps that lead to note-taking functions and a number of customization appearance screens. The profiles all contain a photo of each Champion, their name and title, their age, species and world of origin.

As you stumbled out of your chrome-y quarters (into an equally chrome-y hallway), with every step the floor lights up under your feet, illuminating the dark ship a little at a time. On one side of the hallway are a series of mechanical doors with screen pads embedded on the walls next to them. A quick flash of your PIP will open them for you without hassle. On the opposite side of the hallway are a long string of windows showing nothing but vast amounts of stars and the deep, dark blackness of deep space. Once you reach the end of the hallway you'll find a large central living space with 20 other people, the same people from the profiles, either there already or filing in along with you. Floating well above everyone's heads in the middle of the room is a large computer screen. Once everyone piled in, the screen blinked to life and the same voice from your PIPs greeted you in the same peppy tone from before.

The voice introduced herself as the Champion Excellence Control Environment or C.E.C.E. before welcoming you to the Deep Space Champion Excellence Program, explaining that you were selected for this program based on being the best in your particular field in your particular world, hence the title of "Champion". In this program you will be expected to live communally together here on the ship for as long as possible. The ship is fully-functional and fully-stocked for an extended stay.

Oh? You don't want to stay and participate in the program? That's alright, there's an easy fix to that! All you have to do is kill one of your fellow Champions and not get caught. That is easy enough, right? Right.

When the debriefing is complete, the screen dims but doesn't turn off completely. If need be C.E.C.E. is available to answer any more questions you have throughout the week. For now, you're free to explore the ship as you like. There's the communal dining hall, a zero gravity room, a kitchen, a holo deck, the central living area and the personal quarters everyone woke up in.

Go make some friends, dears, you may be here a while.]
semperperatus: (WHY THE HELL AM I IN SPACE???!!)

B

[personal profile] semperperatus 2017-01-10 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Do you need help up there horsey]

Hang on, I got this...!

[By which we mean he leaves. He's coming back, though, with his bedsheets flying up towards her. He's got a grip on the other side from the doorway.]
waitforit: (12)

[personal profile] waitforit 2017-01-10 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's a hologram.

[ He runs a hand through his drink, fingers sliding through the otherwise lifelike image. ]

Same as my suit and this whole bar. All fake.

[ But that doesn't mean he can't take a fake drink of beer while he's at it. ]

Feels better than sitting around in a space station, at least.
semperperatus: (WHY THE HELL AM I IN SPACE???!!)

Kitchen

[personal profile] semperperatus 2017-01-10 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...Something wrong with the milk?

[Snff. Snf....? It doesn't smell sour.]
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[personal profile] almightyconflagration 2017-01-10 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
If that was enough I would have been satisfied with archiasms back home.
waitforit: (11)

[personal profile] waitforit 2017-01-10 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ College Lily would love you, edgy Sonic. You're still Sonic in his head but he's not gonna call you that to his face. He's kind of trying to wrap his head around the idea that he's looking at a fictional hedgehog, in real life. What.

Okay, maybe we'll think about that later, the hedgehog is talking. And asking him about Sonic, holy crap.
]

Nah, I always liked Eggman better. Sonic's kind of a tool, always wrecking his stuff.

[ Barney Stinson, ladies and gentlemen. ]
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[personal profile] waitforit 2017-01-10 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Holy shit well, good to know who can kill him if he wanted to, Barney did not ask for people with freaky powers, dang. ]

Woah, hey, no need to get all flaming, dude. [ Barney backs up, his hands drawn up in surrender. ] Unless you like, are, in which case, more power to ya, dude.

Still, that fire thing is pretty awesome.
waitforit: (04)

kitchen

[personal profile] waitforit 2017-01-10 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ LUKE. FUCKING. SKYWALKER. Holy freaking shit. Barney thought the hedgehog dude was weird but this is like... well, like a normal person meeting Darth Vader. Except it's LUKE and holy shit. He's freaking out a little.

Play it cool, Barney. Play it cool and—oh my god the thing with the milk, Ted is going to flip if he knew Barney met actual Luke Skywalker.

Okay, he can do this. Barney walks up and chuckles, trying his best not to Ted out about this. It's just saying hi to a dude. Don't be weird, Barney.
]

Not the milk you're looking for, huh?

[ I mean he wasn't gonna quote Vader right off the bat. ]
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[personal profile] waitforit 2017-01-10 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
We're in space, dude. Or a really elaborate fake space station with zero gravity rooms. My money's still on either of those.

[ He shrugs. It is a lot harder to fake nonchalance when you actively talk about your problems... ]

If it's option A, we're pretty much screwed. If it's B, then sure, yeah, getting out is a good idea. But if it was that easy I doubt they would've stuck us all in Big Brother: Space Murder Edition.
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[personal profile] waitforit 2017-01-10 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Man, this guy is like Robin is with guns, only with knives apparently. Barney waves a hand, stepping back to give him more room. ]

Whatever, go crazy, man. The food's all dehydrated anyway, knives are kinda useless.
damnfourthemerald: (facing every moment day by day)

[personal profile] damnfourthemerald 2017-01-10 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's never heard anyone give this kind of opinion except for the 'good' doctor. So color him shocked. He won't disagree with the modern vernacular of 'tool', because Sonic is DEFINITELY a tool, though he doesn't...know that slang.]

He wants to subjugate the human race to his ridiculous rule. His...Eggman Empire. [AND YOU WANTED TO BLOW THE PLANET UP, SHADOW] I'm not even sure he has a plan on how to rule. Sonic...seems to be dedicated to stopping him. I don't know much about their relationship, but they must have been doing this back and forth for a long time to have that kind of animosity.
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[personal profile] damnfourthemerald 2017-01-10 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It would have to be to even stay up in the air. [Get to space and then stay floating in space, semantics.] There must be a control room, an engine room, a docking port for supplies and crew, air recycling, water treatment, waste disposal, and so on. They don't want us touching anything important.

I'm not even sure I would trust these people to actually store our belongings anywhere. [He rubs one of his wrists, bare, reminded that somehow they've altered his physiology so that he isn't burning himself up from the inside out with unchecked power.] Might be studying them instead.
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[personal profile] damnfourthemerald 2017-01-10 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean this level of technology? [He prods the PIP on his one arm, bringing up the Griffin's profile just as a reminder.] I'm familiar with space stations, although so far this looks newer and cleaner, possibly more advanced than what I knew.
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[personal profile] waitforit 2017-01-10 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, come on, you said it yourself. He doesn't even have a plan, he's just a guy with ambition who keeps getting stopped by some "cool cat" rodent. I feel for the guy. He's the underdog.

[ Like Darth Vader. And the bad guy in the Karate Kid. And Voldemort. All people Barney roots for. ]

You're not like, Sonic's friend or anything, are you?
damnfourthemerald: (is it me?)

[personal profile] damnfourthemerald 2017-01-10 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Holy shit the lights are flickering the power's going--oh it's just some woman playing with the lights. Shadow stares, because...what are you, five?]

Electricity.
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[personal profile] voltrounds 2017-01-10 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even if she's joking, it's true.

Ricky adds water to the unappealing brick. It produces suds. It becomes an unappealing sludge.]


There has to be a better way to do this.
voltrounds: (B01F. The first hope-filled step)

[personal profile] voltrounds 2017-01-10 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow, he's a lot nicer than the last nonhuman she met who had commentary on human behavior. Although the person she's thinking of now has less to do with that and more to do with "noble, and kind, and unselfish."]

It's a pretty small town, but I don't think that's the main reason. C.E.C.E. said something about our own particular worlds.
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[personal profile] damnfourthemerald 2017-01-10 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have friends. [Yet. Wait until some memory regains, then he still probably won't admit to friends but at least he'll remember he has them.]

If Doctor Eggman is the underdog, he is a formidable one. That seemingly by himself he constructs bases, machines, and machinations for takeover and destruction shows he's inherited the family genes of genius. [And facial hair. And baldness.] His ego is as much his downfall as Sonic's interference, I would wager.
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[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
No. Nobody else was on this station to begin with, either. Even if retrieval should be impossible.
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[personal profile] voltrounds 2017-01-10 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's better than not having food, right?

[That is totally a reassuring thing to say. Definitely makes up for the disappointment of being in space being a lot like being locked in a metal building where people want you to murder each other.

"Being" doesn't look like a word anymore.]
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[personal profile] voltrounds 2017-01-10 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Everyone thinks she's looking for something! Which she is, in a way. You could say she's looking for everything.]

Oh! I'm making a map, so we'll know where everything is.
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[personal profile] voltrounds 2017-01-10 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing we didn't already know about.

[Although she hasn't made it to the holodeck yet, so as far as she's concerned that's just a vague word that she doesn't know what it means.]
have_a_heart: Kanade plays the piano (Default)

[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
So yours should be part of you, instead of from an external source?
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[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[A small nod. She pauses.]

So you think learning to move around in this room will help should we need to defend ourselves.
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[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not sure. Time does not matter in purgatory.
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[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder if that is why they rebel.

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