03 ▒ EVENT: STRELA OUTPOST ▒ ASSIMILATION

[ataraxites]

CHARACTERS: Ensemble production!
LOCATION: Strela Outpost.
WARNINGS: Mind horror, hivemindery, etc.
SUMMARY: Communal brainwashing.
NOTES: Divided by locations; players are free to indicate which day/stage, and to begin new subthreads wherever they'd like!

Looks like the authorities have apprehended you and have brought you in for processing. After being forced to wait in the waiting room, you're brought to the assimilation room - a terrible white cell, where you're trapped for hours, sentenced to be slowly stripped of your individuality.

Comments

[leaps]

[ sulu shakes his head slowly. he can't pretend that he's kept track of every person, but those who'd been kicking up a fuss? he'd seen them. he remembered them. he didn't remember a girl with blonde hair.

but who knew how many holding cells there were. still, trying to stay positive, that's the ticket. ]

No. But that's a good thing, isn't it?

i am so sorry this is so late. but. i need to mention how pleased i was that you replied at all. |)

[noscope]

[north wishes he could catch his breath - because it would be much, much easier to concentrate on the current situation if his lungs weren't burning.

as it stands, he can only take abbreviated breaths that catch in the back of his throat and having him wanting to cough more, but somehow, he manages to keep from losing his composure too badly. it doesn't sit well with him that the other hasn't seen south, because they'd been grabbed at the same time, and -

maybe she'd managed to get away. all right. staying positive is definitely a better alternative to thinking he's never going to see his sister again.] They grabbed her the same time they got me .. I know she has to be here. I have to find her. Get us both out.

alkjsgdafda never apologize i'm slow as hell myself boo

[leaps]

Just try to catch your breath.

[ sulu understood the impulse. there were more than a few people he wanted to check up on. the enterprise crew, jaye, his students, he wanted so badly to know whether or not they were safe.

but rushing into a half-concoted plan wasn't going to help anyone. sulu knew he wasn't kirk. kirk could make things work on the fly, and sulu envied him for it, but he knew he wasn't capable of it. he knew his own limitations. ]

They've got us outnumbered. We've got to wait for the right moment.

bene. good to know LMFAO SOB.

[noscope]

[he knows it would make absolutely no sense at all to rush in blind - how many times had he tried telling his sister the very same thing when they were assigned to a recon mission? (and how many times had she not listened to a word he said ..)

he nods, hoping to still the spasms in his lungs by holding the breath he'd managed to take for a moment and letting it go slowly. it seems to work, and he finally gets a good look at the other man.] I know this isn't the greatest time for introductions, but I'm pretty sure we haven't met before. What's your name?

[and then back to the matter at hand.] How many guards are there? Maybe, if we get enough people together, we can break through whatever defenses they have put up. [he would really kill for his motion trackers right about now. really.]

[leaps]

[ a grin flickers across sulu's face. it seemed like this happened a lot, the introductions in the face of grave danger thing. or then again, maybe his perspective was skewed. sulu'd been in far too many life or death situations for someone who was fresh out of academy. ]

I'm Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu. Kirk's helmsman.

[ and there were sulu's loyalties, neatly outlined and wrapped up in a few simple statements. ]

There's a good number, but it's hard to get a definite penned up in here.

[ and sulu didn't trust the natives not to be just as dangerous as the guards. ]

And we've got people in here who aren't fighters. Got to worry about them being caught up in any sort of fight.

[noscope]

[he can't say that he hasn't been in his fair share of skirmishes since he'd joined the military, but it seems like more things have been happening to him since he'd been accepted into project freelancer.

and even more so since he'd found himself on the tranquility. if he thought about it, he's almost positive none of it would make sense, but .. now isn't exactly the time to be thinking of that sort of thing.

he nods. he knows kirk - how could he not, with the fact that the kid is pretty much everywhere all at once? but he scowls at what sulu says next, because it doesn't look good for an escape attempt.

especially with so many of them unable to fight.] Point. Damn .. [north falls silent, looking out into the crowd of people moving about around them, wondering just what in the hell they've been brought here for, and why -

he shakes his head.] That's out of the question, then. So .. what? We just sit here and wait for them to do whatever it is they're going to do?