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theairlock2017-01-09 12:13 pm
airlockedmods) wrote in 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.]
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.]
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[ ...Wait what? It takes a couple seconds to register. Sure, she was probably one of - if not the most - innocent minded people back where she came from but she knew just enough to know what the word sex meant. Well... okay maybe not as much as she should about it but it was only because her dad had told her it was something she'd learn when she got older.
When she was an adult and a proper young lady and all that. ]
I'm sure you are. You seem really comfortable talking about all this to strangers, though. Is this normal for you?
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You know it! I'm good at it, enough to be an official champion of it! What's there to be uncomfortable about?
[ Here, he'll make a joke if you want an out, Ruby. ]
Where most people have a shame gland, I have a second awesome gland. True story.
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Really?
[ Well she's taking it up at least. People who were awesome were also okay in her books. ]
How does someone actually have a second one...?
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Science has yet to provide us with an explanation, yet here I am.
[ He gestures a hand from his head down, clearly meant to show off what a fine specimen of awesome he is. Because he is. ]
It's not easy being this awesome, you know.
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Betcha nobody else agrees with you on how awesome you are.
[ Ruby nods firmly as if she gets it, even if she may or may not in reality. Either way she's going with it. ]
I mean... being awesome comes at a price, doesn't it?
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I have plenty of friends who would agree with me. [ Exactly 4 friends. ] And fans—lots of people read my blog.
[ He's very proud of this, thank you very much. He answers the next part of her question with a flourish, putting on what can only be described as a dramatic narrator voice. Maybe he's quoting the Bro Code. ]
It is true that with great awesomeness comes great responsibility, but that responsibility to be awesome means simply that awesomeness must be shared. With the world, if possible; with the ladies, if applicable; and with friends, if available. [ Okay, back to regular voice. ] I do all of those, so I never have to pay the price. True story.
[ Definitely. ]
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Barney definitely was like her Uncle Qrow but a little more eccentric. Guess you kind of have a fan now? ]
Ohhhh! I'm surprised they didn't call you the Champion of Awesomeness, then! It would really suit you! Not many people would be so cool as to try and share their awesomeness with other people, you know?
[ Ruby shouldn't be hanging around people like him but it was too late now. ]
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I'm sure it was a close second.
[ He winks. Oh, geez. What a loser. ]
But, you know. The people in charge probably want to keep us all on our toes. If they'd given me the Champion of Awesomeness title, then other, less-awesome people might try to dispute it and we'd have some fighting on our hands, so...
[ He trails off with a shrug. This is totally a reasonable explanation, Barney's great at fake stories. ]