legionworld | Whistling in the Dark

Who| Everyone who signed up!
What| Whistling in the Dark Plot. The gang has to deal with threats around Legion World and the possessed
Where| Everywhere!
When| After Ferro's post on the network
Warnings/Notes| N/A

Everywhere around the ship things start to fall apart. Aside from the juddering as it shakes, lights start turning off, life support starts failing, the artificial gravity starts malfunctioning, and strange bursts of energy from the ship's engine causes electronics to stop working. And that's not all: it seems like every possible system that could be acting up is acting up.

In short, Legion World is a mess. And all they know so far is that some of the support staff may be responsible and that they're also possibly possessed by some kind of alien infestation that occasionally makes their eyes flash black.

It's time to get answers -- something that will be difficult with all the threats they're facing on the ship. Not only do the Legionnaires have to survive, the support staff will occasionally need rescue, too.

With the rate that systems are failing, the odds are not in their favor, especially since these malfunctions caused the escape pods to automatically launch without any crew in them. They'll have to work fast to stop the threat before everyone on Legion World dies.

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Parker tucked those facts away to turn over later and turned her attention back to running, and to listen to the sounds coming from up ahead around the sounds of their (well, mostly Brainy's, apparently his training didn't include lessons on running quietly) feet hitting the floor.'

Until, very suddenly, they weren't anymore.

"Whoa!" Parker yipped, throwing her arms out as she found herself flying through the air again. "The rings--?!"

"Negative. Failure of synthetic gravity."

The word he was looking for wasn't "synthetic," it was "artificial" but his meaning was at least still clear.

Brainy extended a shield construct to one of the many bars through the ship that were meant to be used in case of a gravity failure, and pulled himself to it. He extended another shield construct and used it to guide Parker over to one of the bars as well. There were at least one of these horizontal ladders in every hallway, just a solid kick away from anyone facing Zero G.

He started pulling himself along using it.

"Follow. Maintenance hub can allow fixing or untouched area ahead will still have gravity function."

Edited 2016-02-12 13:33 (UTC)

The invisible force field thing was...weird, but Parker adapted, letting it push her to the ladder. First she just followed behind Brainiac 5, but traveling this way was less than optimal. She pushed off the ladder and forward at an angle, spinning in midair to hit the opposite 'wall' with her hands and feet, then repeating the move again and again to carry herself down the passage at a faster rate -- and, also, making herself harder to hit should there be an attack.

Before long they reached another section of the ship -- this appeared to have gravity still functioning because the moment they passed through a junction they found themselves yanked back to the ground.

"Gravity functions here. Still must find maintenance hub to fix rest of hall functions. We may still also find lifeforms in proximity."

Red lights were on here, indicating that there were problems with the basic life support.

"Maintain vigilance. There may be life support damages. Subtle fallouts. C02 leakage. If you notice changing physical signs, say so. Shortness of breathing. Dizziness. This may be sign of life support problems."

"Whuff!"

Parker sprang back up to her feet, wondering irritably why gravity worked again, but her ring and her earplugs didn't.

"All right," she said, enunciating her words to be sure that Brainiac 5 could understand her. "I'll keep an eye out, because I definitely don't know how to fix any of this."

They were able to travel through a long hall without much incident, reaching an area where support staff were trying to fix some of the damage to the ship. As they moved along, Brainy kept checking his omnicom to see if he'd gotten function back.

That was when things started to go wrong.

Red lights started to flash and klaxons started to blare as this section of the ship locked down. Massive, heavy, nearly unbreakable doors started to block off rooms. Fortunately, everyone was still in the hallway.

He yelled something at the staff in Interlac and turned back to Parker.

"Lockdown. Bad. It may be false alert but may be a possible life support deterioration. We must move ourselves and the staff out swiftly. There is risk of entrapment in failing conditions."

Sounded like it was time to draw on her experience as a flight attendant that one time they'd had to crash-land a plane.

Parker fixed a brilliant smile on her face and clapped her hands three times.

"All right everybody, you heard the man! Let's go go go go!"

One of the members of the support staff had injured his (her?) leg. Parker ducked under the arm of their injured side and hauled them to their feet.

"Come on, time's a-wasting!"

They managed to usher people out the closing doors. The problem? Being the two people doing so meant they didn't manage to slip out.

As they ushered two of the last evacuees out under the rapidly closing doors they found themselves locked in.

"This way. Secondary doors."

They were going to need to book it. They didn't have time before all the doors to the second entrance closed as well.

Edited 2016-03-07 08:42 (UTC)

"You're wearing your transuit, right?" Parker asked, booking it as prescribed. "How much of the life support problems in here will those protect us from?"

They were like space suits, right? If they could survive the vacuum of space, they could take whatever Legion World could throw at them, right?

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