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IC: Arsuran Orbital Prime.

Posted by The GuardianFor group 0
The Guardian
GM, 149 posts
Mon 20 Jan 2014
at 04:17
  • msg #1

IC: Arsuran Orbital Prime

The TARDIS door opens.  Smoke Alarm peers out cautiously.

(Everyone has had a chance to rest up after digging through the Fists' texts and the brief trip to Draconia.  The others have noticed that Smoke Alarm has been bouncing a little less enthusiastically than before, but she has offered no explanation.)

This is the right place -- the TARDIS has landed in an alley not far from where Smoke's old sleepy-box was --  but everything already seems very different from the last time she was here.  Here and there she can see where a few buildings have taken damage, but the alleys and streets show signs of having been swept and washed down.  There are big bare patches on the sides of buildings that used to have colorful signs with pictures of fizzade cans or people's faces or shiny sky-flys.

It's also quieter.  From where the TARDIS sits, no one can see any people out and moving about.  Smoke can remember that things were always bustling at this time of day, with little motorscoots buzzing around and the occasional sounds of tuney-boxes.

Looking down a familiar street, Smoke even sees a spot where someone has scoured away one of her own wallscrawls!

Stanley notices that the weird vertigo-like sensation that he had when he first stepped out onto Farhaven is much less pronounced here.  Although he can see where this ring curves up and away just like on the other habitat, the buildings immediately surrounding them break up the effect, leaving it much more familiar to him.

While everyone gets their bearings, they hear a voice coming over a public-address system somewhere.

"The time is 1245 hours.  Citizens classified Green Alpha are due at orientation sessions in fifteen minutes.  Citizens classified Blue Gamma must gather at Detranzed Square at 1300 hours for their weekly civic restoration assignment.  Persevere and ascend."
Amanda
NPC, 16 posts
Mon 20 Jan 2014
at 04:18
  • msg #2

Re: IC: Arsuran Orbital Prime

"Where to?" Amanda says.  "It might be best not to stick together in one big group -- we do make kind of a conspicuous mix."
Smoke Alarm
player, 171 posts
Hail the unalive
Blue Kang the Last
Mon 20 Jan 2014
at 06:14
  • msg #3

Re: IC: Arsuran Orbital Prime

Smoke Alarm had looked at a map of Arsuran Orbital Prime, lining up the lines and curves against the streets and towers she remembered, and chose what she thought would be a quiet, unoutlooked alley for the talkiphone box to appear in, somewhere near her old stomping grounds.

As they landed, she was the first to the door, but poked her blue-haired head out carefully, keeping outlook for any dangers. As it seemed sound and safe, she ventured further out, outlooking around. Everything was different but the same, all unfun and yawny, blank walls and cleaners. It was a Caretaker city now. The Blue Kang looked sadly around, staring in shock at where her wallscrawl of a pussycat had been removed. 'Cleaners! Who could live here now, without colour and song and talk and play?

Then Smoke Alarm dashed off down the alley, scampering up and down frantically outlooking for something that wasn't there any more. No! Where had it gone? She went for the mostly likely comeout. Heaving up the lid of a big-big rubbish bin, she climbed her way in and walked precariously over the junk. Eyespying what she was outlooking for, she dived down into the scrap, dug and rummaged through, and finally hauled out a square of plastiboard, once part of a packing crate. 'My sleepy-box. Home-sweet-home.' she said glumly, showing the others what was painted on the side. It was a mural, of happy stick-figure Blue Kangs and Red Kangs playing in a green garden beneath a sun. There was a pussycat, and an unalive dog shot full of arrows. Her painting was child-like, but the themes, detail, expression, and composition showed an unexpected artistic talent.


OOC: Choosing a hiding spot for the TARDIS: Ingenuity + Subterfuge + Sense of Direction 11.
13:45, Today: Smoke Alarm rolled 11 using 2d6+8 with rolls of 2,1. ingenuity + subterfuge + SoD.

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