ARRIVAL ▒ 004

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Any and all.
LOCATION: Basecamp, Medical and beyond.
WARNINGS: Implied (and possibly explicit) nakedness.
SUMMARY: The Tranquility jumps again.
NOTES: Can be found at the bottom of the post.

T H E   C A M P   ( C U R R E N T   C H A R A C T E R S ) The alarms start late in the afternoon, the wailing cry drifting through the air still drawing a sense of foreboding to the surface no matter how many times you've heard it. Routines continue, but with a tension stringing tighter just beneath the surface. People jump at interruptions, startle at strange noises, the sirens spilling a sharp undercurrent through daily life of the camp. The jump is coming, and it's no longer clear what may come with it. It's ten hours later when it happens, the sun long set. A tremble in the earth, shaking up through the trees, sending the jungle's wildlife into distressed flocks of movement and alarmed cries. Against the night sky the wreck of the Tranquility begins to cord with lines of white light, threading across the hull like veins, some patches remaining dark, standing out against the vision like splotches burnt to the back of the eyelids. There's no great sound. In an instant, the ship is gone, a soft whomp, a feeling of air rushing past, the trees bending towards the site as if blown by a fierce wind. It's only a second. With a crack, the wreck returns, a rumble rolling through the air like thunder. The earth shakes. The trees tremble. The ship groans, the sound echoing out like the cry of a wounded beast. Everything turns white. You open your eyes again, breaths or minutes later. Blood is a warm seep on your upper lip, dirt warm under your face. You've fallen where you stood, scraped or knocked from the impact, and all around you others stir from the same haphazard sprawls, slowly climbing back to their feet. Others don't move at all. Scattered sparsely through the camp, they remain frozen in the moment. Eyes open, chests rising and falling in steady breath, but completely, utterly unresponsive. M E D I C A L   ( N E W   A R R I V A L S ) You wake up, alone in the dark. There's a breathing tube jammed down your trachea, and you're suspended in a tube of clear blue fluid. Through the fog you can see shadows of movement, the muted sound of alarms crying. Upon registering your level of consciousness, the gravity couch drains the fluid surrounding you and retracts the breathing apparatus; the doors in front of you open, and you're suddenly dropped several feet onto the opposite wall. The impact is painful, winds you, and it takes several seconds to overcome and persuade uncooperative limbs to move. All around you is chaos: the sirens of alarms are shrieking in your ears, close and claustrophobic in the wreckage of the medical bay you've awoken in, lit dim and red. Around you, others are waking up, falling from other gravcouches, stumbling to their feet. Light catches your eye, and you look up to see a huge rend in the outer wall high above you, overhung by broken structural beams and damaged cabling. Climbing up takes all the strength you have. You emerge in darkness, only the thin film of light from the two moons above giving you sight of what's around you - the vast shadows of an immense jungle. As your vision clears, you realize you stand on the hull of a colossal spaceship, crashed on an unknown world. In the distance, far out on a great swathe of torn up earth through the jungle, there are strings of electric lights, the orange glow of various fire pits. A camp, large, but seemingly still. Scatterings of movement, figures moving, and eventually some split away, bobbing bright spots of light heading towards you in the dark. This is your welcome party. N O T E S Anything remaining within a mile radius of the ship when it jumps will be irreparably damaged. Soft organics will be pulverised, while all trees and plants will initially appear fine but crumble to pieces within a day (or sooner if disturbed). Non-organic material will also be weakened, bending or falling apart when touched. Newly arriving characters venturing through the medbay will discover their inventory items scattered beyond the ship. Feel free to find all of your inventory items, or lose as many as you like, as they will be randomly distributed around the jump radius. They will also be able to find jumpsuits and other standard clothing in the wreckage of medical. The alarms will cut after two hours, a which point a looping audio message telling passengers to make their way to the blue lifts will be audible. The lifts, if investigated, will be missing, leaving only empty elevator shafts. The wreck will show increased signs of instability for a few days after the jump, and will have seemed to have sunk further into the rock of the cliff than it was before. As described, all current characters who have not levelled up on the abilities grid will simultaneously black out when the ship jumps. They will regain consciousness a few minutes later, suffering a minor nosebleed. Characters who have reached level 2 on the abilities grid will enter a state of catatonia for 1 hour, level 3s for 2 hours and level 4s for 3 hours. They will be completely unresponsive to stimulation while in this state, and remember only a blank whiteness once they've regained consciousness. If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to contact us via PM, the FAQ or Questions pages!

Comments

[divaricate]

[Oh my god.

Clint, aka: one of Wanda's actual favorite Avengers, seems to be recently gone from this place, and in his place is Tony, aka: one Wanda's not-so-actual-favorite Avengers. Can she return Tony for store credit?

Anyhow, she wipes the blood off her lips and sighs.]

Stark. Hi.

[She's ... trying. She's trying really hard. She hasn't had time to completely get over her bias against him, though, so this'll take more of that effort.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

[ he's acquired the right arm and left leg of his suit, a handgun, and his favorite sunglasses by the time wanda catches up with him. he pushes the glasses back in his hair, still tacky from the blue stuff, as he tries to find a pocket or something to put the gun in. no matter what the practices of these people, carrying weapons around didn't bode well. but he's sure not giving it up now that he's found it.

his expression is pretty well kid with his hand stuck in the cookie jar when his eyes rest on her face -- half expecting her eyes to glow red and for her to use her freaky mind grip on him again. he's still reeling from the first time, thank you very much, but he doesn't blame her. not really. the first thing he really thinks of is her brother and that's just sad. he's not having fun anymore (not that he ever was), he'd like the first ticket home please. ]

Maximoff. [ it's incredulous more than anything, he squints at her as if assessing if she's real. some welcome party. ] ...Hey.

[ is he on candid camera?? ]

[divaricate]

[Lucky for him, her abilities here are significantly weaker than what he knows them to be. But she won't mention that part just yet.]

You got here a few days late to see Clint, who mentioned to me that Natasha is around. Anyone else who calls themselves an Avenger, I have not seen or heard of being around here in the past month or so. [He probably wants to know the status of as much of his team as possible? At least she could understand that much if he does, so she offers what information she can -- she'd want to know if Pietro showed up here, after all. Who she, uh, doesn't know is dead back home, whoops.]

I hope you are not tired of dealing with unknown alien planets, because.... [She motions a hand around as if to say WELCOME TO AN UNKNOWN, UNNAMED ALIEN PLANET. Good times.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

[ it is relevant to his interests, so he appreciates that. bucky had asked him about steve. he must have left too. how fitting that he would now arrive. he actually really appreciates her... what, being civil? he doesn't know what he expected really. not this. ]

Tired? Oh, I'm downright exhausted. [ he hands her the gun backwards. don't worry lady the safety is on. ] Do you have a purse or something?

[divaricate]

Well, this is round -- however many. [She takes it carefully but also like "how the hell do I hold this? Tony what makes you think I can use this properly?????? but ok."] N..o? I can make one out of my shawl? [Like a half-assed backpack or some shit, we just don't know.] Should you not hold on to this?

[letmetakeaselfie]

[ he gives an approving nod when she takes it. see!!! it's easier when you just do what he says. ] No, I'm just looking for stuff. [ so yes shawl pouch and help him dig through awesome stuff. ]

[divaricate]

[sighing and taking the shawl off and ties it up, dropping the gun in there.] Like what? What are we looking for? Because if it is a way out, you are not going to find it. [was that sass? that was sass. she huffs and starts to help him dig.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

I didn't say that. Stuff. Cool stuff, wood stuff, metal stuff. Food stuff. Come on, hurry, these people are vultures. [ surviving first. he hasn't even started thinking about getting out yet. don't jump ahead and yell at him ok that's r u d e ]

[divaricate]

[/mutters some shit in Sokovian.]

The diet here is terrible, by the way. Avoid the river, I hear it is acid. [a river made of acid, yep that's a thing.] Are you going to try to reconstruct your suit with any metal things we find?

[letmetakeaselfie]

Acid river, got it. [ he doesn't sound concerned, mostly because he's not allowing himself to process any of this yet. he knows how to get through crazy shit like this unfortunately and he's in full-on work mode. ]

I haven't decided yet. But raw materials never hurt. [ is she concerned about him having his full suit back or was that a hint that he should get building? he's afraid to ask tbh or this bubble of calm might just burst. ]

You've been here a while? [ she's not covered in slime so that's a clue. also she was around to see clint who supposedly is gone now. two moons tho -- time here is probably meaningless in comparison to whatever is happening back home. ]

[divaricate]

[The last time she gave him an idea to build a thing, it didn't go so well, but she'd been more curious about how quickly he was going into Building Shit Mode here. She assumes there's two paces that can go: In five seconds or in five minutes.] Do you need adult supervision? [ (#sass). SAYS THE PERSON WHO NEEDS SOME HERSELF TBH. see: previously mentioned time she gave him Bad Ideas.]

Not as long as other people. It feels like a month or so, but time is here is useless, so give or take some days to that. Long enough to wonder why Pietro failed to make the trip here with me. [Aaaaand that may be Tony's tip off as to how far behind she is on things when it comes to memories of home.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

[ a month on this weird alien world. space. he used to dream of coming here, but the invasion had taken all of that away from him. this experience isn't exactly repairing the damage either. ] Yeah, actually. Know where I can find some? [ have a sweet smile wanda. he will sass with you all day so they don't have to real talk. that is his specialty. ]

[divaricate]

Yeah, I think do. [Said like she's giving Super Serious Thought to it here.] That's why I'm here. [Somehow that was said without laughing.]

But you could put up a help wanted sign, too. [I mean if he wants to sass all day she can do that.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

[ 'oh really' is mouthed in a very pepper potts reminiscent fashion. this actually feels okay so long as they're never serious for more than a second at a time. hey, it's worked for him for longer than this before, why not? ]

I still need materials for that so keep digging, princess. [ that's right he just called you that. it's real. ]

[divaricate]

Royalty have pretty crowns, you know. You can make one out of anything useful for it that we find. [uuhh, not so subtly requests that he makes her a crown?? #priorities.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

[ uh. did she just... he looks conflicted but then: ] ...If there's anything left over. [ that's tony for why the fuck not. ]

[divaricate]

[Tony you started it ok. You only have yourself to blame.] A tiara is also fine. [dig dig dig.]

Just so you know, anyone with abilities that are not entirely average human seem to find that they are weaker here. [Yeah sighs she'll offer that information now, in a sort of vague way. She doesn't say the EXACT words "so I can't really fuck with your brain here", but...]

[billionaires]

How magnanimous of you, Your Highness.

[ oh but then she's saying words he should actually listen to, huh? he opens his mouth to retort -- though with what he's not sure. his jaw clicks shut before he gets that far anyway. ] Oh. [ no that's it. ]

[divaricate]

I thought so. [trollface.png]

Yeah. You know, just so you know. You don't have to freak out [he'd had a legit reason to be wary, obviously.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

I wasn't freaking out. Or planning to. [ it's quick, but for the most part it's honest. if all he gets is wanda and as such a no-show natasha he'll have to make due. ]

...But thanks. [ for reassuring me??? ]