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.]
stitch_in_time: (you've got to be kidding)

Re: MONDAY

[personal profile] stitch_in_time 2017-01-10 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
A - C.E.C.E.
[Yeah, okay, no.]

[If the people responsible for this aren't going to show up in person, the Doctor will settle for heckling their AI.]


Good trick gettin' us all here. And I mean that, fantastic, really, I'm not an easy man to get ahold of. Your little welcome speech left out some details, though.

Selected by WHO, exactly.

B - Open
[The Doctor can be found the rest of the day... all over, really. He can be found pouring over the various flavors of freeze-dried powders in the kitchen, making faces at a few of them, or pecking away at the control panels of the holodeck, or in his personal quarters turning the whole place upside down. He can also be found in the living area, scrolling through the P.I.P. profiles.]

[Notably, he also spends a lot of time at the windows, squinting intently at the stars.]
lycoctonum: (Alpine Grizzly)

[personal profile] lycoctonum 2017-01-10 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Ginko is... severely confused by all of this. Why space? Why her? Why Champion of Kumaria of all things? That... that had been many years ago. Still. She could be found after the debriefing wandering around.]

Zero gravity room

[Ginko had found this room by accident. When she had crossed a good distance of the room with a tenantive jump she began to smile just a little bit. This probably wasn't going to help her to get off the ship but it's fun. Bracing herself against the wall she pushes herself out into the middle of the room. Within a few moments she's turning cartwheels.]

Central living area

[After getting some nervous energy out, Ginko is on the prowl again. She makes herself stay to the outer wall as she circles the area.]

Growl. [She keeps an eye on the other 'champions' as she circles. She needs to get back at any cost, after all! Most of these people seem to be humans and humans usually make things troublesome.] There's so many...

[Don't mind the creepy girl blankly staring at you when she's just walking around. Really, don't.]
misplacedxsheath: (What a waste.)

[personal profile] misplacedxsheath 2017-01-10 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Central Living Area]

[Well isn't this just wonderful. With the delivery of the instructions...no, more like an ultimatum, Margulis casts an appraising glance around at the others in the room. Each of them matches one of the images on the profiles, even the strange, animal-like creature...and yet, his age on the profile was off by a year, despite his title referencing Ormus correctly. Strange.]

So, in other words, we're here for some twisted individual's sick entertainment. What a foolish proposition.

[Kitchen]

[Unimpressed as he is, Margulis can't deny the possibility that someone might play along. Not to mention, he hates being unarmed at the best of times. So, of course, the obvious solution is to ransack the kitchen, right? ...Maybe someone ought to ask him what he's doing, searching through all the cabinets and drawers.]
strikemonster: (marshall home and gary dickens)

kitchen

[personal profile] strikemonster 2017-01-10 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Are you looking for something specific? [Mai's gotten the impression this kitchen is stocked with food the other contestants don't know. It seems pretty normal to her, though.] I don't recommend anything with sauce. Sauce doesn't dehydrate well.
misplacedxsheath: (Hmmm...I'll consider it.)

Living Area

[personal profile] misplacedxsheath 2017-01-10 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[The Doctor isn't the only one who's taken an interest in the profiles. Margulis - according to the P.I.P, 45, human (Immigrant Fleet), from Miltia - walks over when he sees the...Time Lord? browsing the device.]

Thorough, aren't they? They have access to information that isn't even known to the planetary governments.
misplacedxsheath: (Hmmm...I'll consider it.)

[personal profile] misplacedxsheath 2017-01-10 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Food isn't my concern right now, though I'll take your advice into consideration. What I'm looking for is something to make disabling an attacker simpler, given my ordinary technique for non-lethal incapacitation has been sealed.
have_a_heart: Kanade linefacing cluelessly. (i don't know why you even bother)

central living area

[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Kanade stops in the hall and turns over to look back at Ginko, tilting her head slightly.]

Hello.
waitforit: (04)

[personal profile] waitforit 2017-01-10 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Debriefing - CECE is totally a lady's name, right?

[ Barney is upset. Visibly, desperately upset. A quick glance at the others tells him all he needs to know: this is either a really elaborate prank, or he's in some serious trouble. Neither one of these seem like particularly good conclusions honestly, but more importantly... ]

Okay, what the hell are we wearing and where do I trade up for an actual suit?

[ Priorities, guys. Of course, Barney's not actually sure where this lady's voice is coming from, so maybe he's just being obnoxious while standing next to you, who knows. ]

Serious question here, CECE. If I'm gonna be stuck in space, I cannot [ he emphasizes the "not", ] get anywhere looking like this! A man has to have standards.

[ And those standards are clearly... suits. ]

Holo Deck - Not A Strip Club (This Time)

[ Okay, so apparently they're in space. Or in a space-themed escape room. It's kind of cool, actually, if you ignore the weird talk about murder. Whatever happens is gonna happen whether Barney freaks out or not, so he's going to just freak out about things later, in the privacy of his own room, and focus his brain on other things. Like, say, getting to know people in a slightly more comfortable environment.

One where he's not wearing a ridiculous space unitard. Can the holo deck actually do that? Hopefully. Anyway, Barney's managed to make the holo room look like a bar and while the beer he's "drinking" is definitely not real, he feels better already. If you should happen to enter he will definitely wave you over to join him.
]

Hey! Hey, come 'ere! [ He sing-songs the next bit like he says it all the time. ] Haaave you met me?

[ Because how better to get to know people, right? If you should make your way over, he'll offer a hand to shake. If not... he'll just yell from afar anyway. Dude's got energy, what can I say? ]

Barney Stinson. Champion of One Night Stands. [ Yes, he says that proudly. ] Nice to meetcha.
have_a_heart: Kanade in Yuri's scope. (targeted)

central living area

[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
This is not my school. [The very short teenager next to him barely changes her expression.] How she got us here is hard to say. What do you think?
damnfourthemerald: (yet not alone and I'm alive)

windows

[personal profile] damnfourthemerald 2017-01-10 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a lot of bullshit going on here, and once it seems like there's no more pertinent information to wring out of CECE, it's...wandering. Socializing? Not Shadow's strong suit. He tries each room until he finds he can't go any further, and takes a run down the hall only to find his speed severely lacking, and wonders if anyone would actually consider murder to get out of here first at the word of an unknown computer.

So eventually he stops and takes in the sight. Of space. Without Earth lingering beneath, it's an emptier view than he's used to. He's quiet, at first, standing a few feet away but seeming preoccupied with the stars, before he tilts his head just enough to signal he's going to talk to--to...The Doctor, Champion of Time. (Huh. Interesting.)]


Does this area of space look familiar?

[Because to be staring that intently, either someone's never seen stars, or they're trying to determine a location based on star position and constellations. He's putting his bets on the latter.]
lycoctonum: (Alpine Grizzly)

[personal profile] lycoctonum 2017-01-10 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Hello.

[She stops.]
have_a_heart: Kanade linefacing cluelessly. (i don't know why you even bother)

kitchen

[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[The "Champion Angel(?)" -- yes, for some reason there's a question mark in her title -- looks over the powdered food.]

No cafeteria.
have_a_heart: Waking up. (mnnnn)

[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Kanade flips through the profiles on her device and linefaces.]

Champion of Kumaria. A person?
have_a_heart: Kanade plays the piano (Default)

debriefing

[personal profile] have_a_heart 2017-01-10 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
[There is a very short teenager with very little facial expression, tilting her head.]

The uniforms are acceptable.
strikemonster: (i'm almighty mai-lakai)

[personal profile] strikemonster 2017-01-10 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
It wouldn't be that easy. Someone went to a lot of trouble to bring us all here, I don't think they would leave easy weapons lying around. That would make for a very short game.
lycoctonum: (No more salmon....)

[personal profile] lycoctonum 2017-01-10 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[That does get her to change her expression, only slightly.]

Goddess.
strikemonster: (i'm almighty mai-lakai)

holo deck

[personal profile] strikemonster 2017-01-10 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Mai eyes him warily from the entrance. She looks considerably unimpressed by Barney's everything, but does eventually come over and shake his hand.]

Mai Nakamura. Champion Bowler. [A slightly too long pause.] It's a pleasure to meet you too.

[SURE DOESN'T SOUND LIKE SHE MEANS THAT.]
misplacedxsheath: (Hmmm...I'll consider it.)

[personal profile] misplacedxsheath 2017-01-10 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
I don't expect something ideal. All I need is something solid enough to deflect blows and potentially trip someone should they prove to be too strong to take risks against.

Besides, I suspect the entertainment value for them is in fostering distrust between us and watching the conflict should someone rise to the bait.

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