Discord
09-03-2022, 12:40 AM
OOC Note:
It already has plenty of tools, medical gear, and repair stuff at hand, indeed.
Entertaining...entertaining...this whole radio broadcast thing gives the chimera a great idea. It hastily grabs spare metal to weld together a mock puppet stage (effectively a box, with two pipes and a sheet on top of it, alongside curtains made from a spare fire blanket. I then makes some rough sculptures that are meant to be puppets. One is hackneyed from a broken pistol it took from its original owner and a lamp damaged beyond repair. The other is a mixture between a bend and charred microphone and a piece of pipe with a litany of holes. It decides to give things a trial run, to get acquainted with puppeteering.
The pistol puppet is dubbed 'Captain Wordstew' while the microphone puppet is 'Lord Baddeathkillsyoudead'. The show begins.
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The curtains open on the production. The captain enters stage left.
Captain: "Ah, what a fine and glorious day. It certainly is day. I am a big fan of day. Day it is. It is day. Yes.
Suddenly, the stage shakes. Lord Baddeathkillsyoudead enters stage right.
Lord: "YOU ARE INCORRECT CAPTAIN WORDSTEW. It is in fact, before dawn. Ergo, it is mornight."
Captain: "Mornight isn't real. You made that up."
Lord: "All words are made up, Captain Wordstew. All of them. They exist to convey meaning. Mornight has a clear meaning. The part of quote en quote morning, which is still in the dead of night."
<The captain looks as flustered as a scrap piece of metal with minimal articulation can look>
Captain: "...uh. um. actually."
<vague laser sound effects>
Captain: "Eat laser, sucker."
<generic movie scream>
Lord: "Ow. That's ruuuuuude. I'll be calling...my lawyer!"
<dramatic music>
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I honestly do not know how I feel about that play, ranger. It. Was certainly avant-garde.
Anyhow, there isn't much to report on for the rest of the trip to the distress beacon.
Even once the system of the beacon is reached, there is still no reply. In the distance, sensors pick up a station. It is lightless, perhaps without power? Once the Eyepiercer gets close enough, it runs a scan...
Critical abnormality density detected. Full spacetime subversion is likely.
The ranger prepares a less than polite method of entry, backing up the Eyepiercer and boarding its shuttle for launch procedures. It mutes the radio for the moment, to better focus with the precision needed to plan a ridiculously fast ballistic entry into a space that is almost certainly full of great risk.
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And, that leaves us with an opportunity. Abnormal space is particularly malleable.
Are there perhaps any threats or themes you all would like to see show up? Complications? I'm sure Management would love to really make the proper Cosmic Horror section something for you. The audience.
