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We're in spaaaaace ([personal profile] spaaaaaace) wrote in [community profile] space_jam2013-12-22 09:09 pm

Come on and slam

It doesn't matter what was happening before. Wherever your character was? They just faceplanted into steel flooring. If they look around, it’s just a short narrow hallway, very characteristic of a transport vessel. Emergency lights flicker and faint, urgent beeping can be heard from the end, which opens up into a room that is currently producing a faint, blue glow.

A happy tone plays and is quickly followed by a chipper artificial voice:

Huh! How weird. I can’t believe we got another one! Well, welcome aboard the Ithaca. We’re having a bit of trouble with our warp drive right now. Please stand by.

Suddenly, the ship hits a bit of turbulence. Whoever’s in the hall may be thrown around bit, but luckily there aren’t too many sharp edges on the bulkhead. What are a few bumps and bruises anyway?

Oh, you may want to move. I think a new crew member is arriving.

Further questions are just met with an overly apologetic Please stand by! But turn their back for long enough? Another unlucky “crew member” may come catapulting into them. The artificial voice doesn’t seem too concerned with exploration, though. Every door is unlocked. The ship remains turbulent as it sometimes spits out unfortunate souls, but with steady feet, may find the following places of interest.

Navigation was where all that beeping was coming from. There’s a super fancy galaxy map that would certainly be a lot more interesting if actually contained planets your character knew. Sorry, there’s no Sol System or Federation Space here! In front of that is a cockpit which has a bunch of blinking consoles in front of a really comfortable looking pilot’s chair. It’s probably not wise to touch anything.

Head back to the crew quarters, and in between the rows of bunk beds, there are several lockers. Open them will reveal a myriad of (abandoned) personal items ranging from spare clothes to fit someone with six arms to a comic book collection to an alien “personal massager.” The stuff looks like it’s been left alone for at least a month. Maybe two.

If they head down a level, they might hit engineering or the cargo hold. Engineering has quite the array of tools, from the most basic to the most technologically advance. The most peculiar thing, though, is a meticulously organized collection of bright colored plastic tools. Across in the cargo hold, there are several wooden crates along with a few tamper proof containers. Most of the crates are all labeled with the same name, for someone on planet “Gotor.” A clever character might recognize this as a planet that the Ithaca is happily speeding towards right now according to the map in navigation. Most of the boxes contain bowler hats. The remaining to apparently be dropped off at Gotor contain bowling balls.

((GO FORTH AND BE IN SPACE! Have a massive pile up in the hall or bump into each other in engineering or explore together! It doesn’t matter. Feel free to have them encounter other strange things not written about here. Make the Ithaca spit out an unfriendly alien that they have to hit with a shovel. Make as many subthreads as your hearts desire. Really, do whatever. After a while, the turbulence will settle down and Edgar will explain. ))
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[personal profile] righteousblade 2014-01-07 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
If one looked at Jack they would probably assume he's far from knowledgeable as far as technology goes. That's not to say they're wrong - having been born and raised (mostly) in feudal Japan, he wasn't exposed to anything like this ship for most of his life.

Of course being flung thousands of years into the future had changed all of that. He may still not be particularly knowledgeable, but he's at the very least familiar with the strange advancements science has made. It's why his mind isn't immediately blown by his new surroundings. Actually, having stepped into a portal just seconds ago, he was prepared to be somewhere other than where he'd just been. The problem is that the portal was supposed to take him back to his own time, not... not here, wherever that may be.

Then again, that wasn't really too surprising, either.

So for now he's set out to roam the halls, hand resting on his sheathed blade as he cautiously explores his new surroundings. Maybe there was another portal here?
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[personal profile] raiderp 2014-01-07 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Being lost and completely naked on a strange alien space ship was not Raiden's idea of a fun time, but persistence would eventually pay off. Down in the cargo hold he manages to find a box that contained his missing gear; his skull suit, his gun, and his high-frequency blade just as he remembered them.

Elated, Raiden wastes no time re-clothing himself first, though squeezing into a skin-tight battle suit was no easy task. He gets his feet through and shimmies the suit up to about his torso when he catches movement out of the corner of his eye.

"Who's there?" Very ungracefully asked as he fumbled one hand trying to hold up the suit and the other for his sword.