SQUALL: TURBULENCE

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SQUALL: TURBULENCE

Jan 21st, 2022 – Jan 28th, 2022
Have you ever seen someone caught in a lie? Some people capitulate immediately, dishing out apologies with the truth. Some people get embarrassed, flush red, stumble over their words to correct themselves. Some people get defensive. Some people try to bargain.

Some people get angry.

Now might be one of those times.

On January 20th, the Navarch will announce that the Peregrine is navigating a minefield of asteroids. Nothing to worry about: The ship has shields for this exact purpose. Lights may flicker and powered doors may briefly refuse to open as the ship diverts power to the forward shield. Passengers may feel slight rumblings, a gentle vibration of the floors under their feet, or see a trembling in their water glass. They might even hear the sound of the asteroids meeting the shield, like a persistent drip in a metal sink. All very routine for space travel.

But one asteroid is going to get through. Just a small one, barely the size of a basketball. Just big enough to punch a little hole in the side of the ship. The ship's bots will hop to repairing it, also very routine, but it might take a bit to pinpoint the particular problem.

Starting on January 21st, passengers on the ship may feel anger when caught lying or when lied to. A lie may not be obvious — maybe it's subtle, maybe they don't know the other well enough to know it's a lie, maybe it's a lie of omission. Up to you! But they'll feel some form of anger, however that might manifest. Snippiness? Lectures? A fistfight? Outright violence?

Effects are rolling; if you'd like a character to be affected at one time but not another, that's fine! Adapt as you see fit. An event log will go up on Friday.

You can use this post for any OOC plotting! If you have any questions about the event, please ask here.

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silco;

[kaijuice]

Hello I have one liar I'd like to completely lose his shit.

Other plot thoughts pending (I'm up for anything!!) but:

He is not above biting people

Also, I've been trying to find a thread to drop this in the background of so that it's on the official rp record, but he has part of a smashed cleaning bot hull that may or may not be an ""improvised knife"" so this could be a good chance for that to come up.

Thanks pals. Hit me up if there's anything specific you'd like to do, or anything I can help facilitate for your own threads. kiss kiss

[omniavincit]

he has part of a smashed cleaning bot hull

unfortunately this means he is now in a gang war with william and the cleaning bots

(but also william and rhys are gonna be staying in the inmate dorms for at least part of this event so PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES)

[kaijuice]

anti-owl sentiment brought them together......... betrayal tore them apart

[omniavincit]

archimedes is a kissass, these bots are the salt of the earth!!! /unfurls my robot npc cr chart

[kaijuice]

please please make one of those. i am begging you as a friend and human being

[omniavincit]

AHAHAHAHA I have never in my life made a cr chart

but it is very tempting

[shiftedshape]

NOT THAT YOU ASKED but i really like the airtable thread tracker + cr chart combo I have because it auto collects all the threads you have with people for you, so it does like half the formatting for you by virtue of already being a spreadsheet and also has more info than a normal cr chart would have......

you can copy it here and this is Loki's for TRJ so far as an example

for all your robot cataloguing needs

[omniavincit]

OOOOOOOH THANK YOU I love the little icons

[aposeme]

oooh why

[omniavincit]

I'M GONNA BE REAL EMBARRASSED IF YOU'RE NOT ASKING ABOUT THE BOTS but he likes them and hangs out with them because:

1. he is homesick 2. he is curious 3. he feels guilty about Lawrence, who disappeared from the Barge :( 4. they're not part of the ~system~ (archimedes is obviously a tool of the man), which he still has a ton of misgivings about 5. he always kinda vibes with anyone/anything that's forced to clean up messes and goes overlooked

[aposeme]

OH I MEANT ABOUT THE INMATE DORMS BUT DONT FEEL EMBARRASSED i also like this information & its on me for my query not being clear

i didnt know lawrence vanished! lawrence nooo

[omniavincit]

yeah it just happened 😔 didn't even get to take any horses with him...

BUT LMAO OK to answer your actual question ahahahahaahah William's making Rhys stay in the inmate dorms until he goes a week without talking about Hyperion/his old job/how important he is

[aposeme]

SO WHY IS WILLIAM THERE ALSO

[omniavincit]

Friendship 🤗

also to protect with gun

[counterstep]

fight me silky i dare u

[kaijuice]

can he please go for the wrong arm (as in: the one that's made of earth's strongest metal) because i personally think that would be hilarious

[counterstep]

you mean bucky nailing him with it? lol i mean bucky can punch through things with his right hand too

he might potentially break all of silco's face with the vibranium one... unless that's what you want 👀

[kaijuice]

oh i meant breaking the knife and or teeth on it lmAO

[counterstep]

bucky will avoid the face typically but he definitely can CRUSH your dreams in front of your eyes

silk all u had to do was work with him and look what u did

[kaijuice]

look on the bright side bucky now he knows you're not ~*weak*~ and will cooperate more readily. as is a completely logical and reasonable train of thought for a person to have

[counterstep]

even tho bucky isn't ever going to threaten him with it lol
but i mean he would never complain about silky being more cooperative


on the matter of silky bucky just namedropped him lol https://returnjourneynet.dreamwidth.org/1357.html?thread=18509#cmt18509

[kaijuice]

HAHA excellent i'll skate in

and it's less about a threat than it is that if he's going to spend any energy thinking about someone, they ought to be Worth His Time etc etc. what's the point in an enemy who's easily disposed of. who can have a years-long obsession with THAT

[counterstep]

and then he finds out bucky was experimented on and that he survived all that and he's 70 years older than he is biologically etc etc

and metal arm


he's a fascinating specimen silky u just had to give him the chance lol

[kaijuice]

some day, something for them to ""bond"" over

[counterstep]

please i need it lol