Game: ViewScream

[errours]

Who: spacefaring idols!
Where: Game Tower
When: Day 130, late afternoon

[ There’s a musical chime from your phone. And then the world around you goes black.
—And cold. And then speckled with points of light—more and more, a shimmering tapestry of stars—

…Then, abruptly, there’s hard metal beneath your feet, the cold gone, and you’re in a wide room done in steel and chrome. Flickering computer monitors are set into the walls amidst switches and panels.

Is this the future is now dorm? Heart Soldier? No, the thick windows show you to be surrounded, still, by stars: This is a spaceship. Or, rather, it’s the Game Tower as a spaceship. Text scrolls across the various screens:

Welcome, THEMiS crew.
Contact with anomaly in: 40 minutes.

Seated across from all of you at the front of the room, in a swiveling chair that suggests a captain’s seat, is a red-haired woman in a cream silk dress with a high slit up the thigh. Her crossed legs are covered in burn scars up to just above her knees, but her smile is all relaxed confidence. ]


Welcome, idols. I’m so pleased to be your Host today.

Comments

BRIDGE

[idolpro]

[ At least there's always video chat to save you. ]

LiliS to ALL

[theyregooddogs]

Who needs medical?

pep! to engineering.

[puzzlers]

We have a warning message up on our screens

PROTON CORE IN CRISIS MODE
IMMINENT REPAIR REQUIRED TO PREVENT MELTDOWN.

TRR to All

[syncintohell]

Taisho Roman Revolution has been tasked with engineering—

[ and, pausing to have a coughing fit ]

—if you require our aid, do say so.

hss to all.

[420blazeit]

Shit's fucked, tell me your problems.

☆ZRAEL to AlcheME

[rollplayinghouse]

[just a bit stiffly:]

We've got something causing paranoia and hallucinations. Could we get your help?

AlcheMe to All

[neigh_sayer]

[appearing on the screen in a SPACE WITCH HATCH]

Yoohoooo! Let's give it our all not to die horribly, guys! Alcheme's in a bit of trouble though. . .

We've got alien parasitic lifeforms trying to break in! And a proton core on the verge of meltdown! Plus our sensors are down and we need to like jettison something??

Please help your cute space therapists! We've got stuff for people too~! Liiiike Cortical Net Harness, Remote Cerebellar Shield and a Telekinetic Probe, no big deal!

sensitIV to BARiTONES

[sancrimony]

Good afternoon. You have medical problems, yes?

BiT to All

[syckophant]

Hello~

We have Psionics, if anyone needs assistance with that.

FiN to avante

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

We're in need of weapons. We can provide engineering if needed.

WC to Avante

[forthetainted]

[you can see from the vid screen that aries has actually gotten into costume (where the side panels are actually leopard print and he seems to be doing his best to. well. play along

he's not very good at it though]

Oi! Weapons team, this is uh-- oh yeah, xenobiology! You there? We've got about a million giant ass bug things about to break in here at any minute and need some support!

ZRAEL to avante

[stakesthesame]

[ kind of wheezing, and with intermittent coughing: ]

We uh. Need weapons help, if you can. Dumb bugs chewing through our guns or whatever.

fin to ZRAEL

[resonantblue]

Greetings. Future is Now requires your... xenobiology?

We require that.

Please respond.

HSS to pep

[crossmyheartandhope]

Hey, you guys are on helm too, yeah? We better figure out who all's getting what from who, if we wanna make sure everyone gets through okay.

BiT to WILD CITY

[innerdaemons]

Hello! I've met one or two of you, I believe ...

We have a bit of a -- mold issue. A parasitic mold issue, specifically. Are you able to assist?

FiN to SensitIV

[asonoficeandfire]

We require medical assistance. It would be appreciated if you could help.

hss to fin

[foolmetwice]

[FURIOUSLY RUBBING AT HIS EYES and also now scratching at his arms. he's jittery as FUCK and does not look. . . completely there]

Hey! future is now! We need your engineering shit; is there anything the helm can do for you in return?

TRR to fin

[syncintohell]

[ looking like a sickly wreck, and also has his eyes closed at the comms desk for some reason, but messaging: ]

There are at least four people who need our aid— AlcheME, Wild City, Pep Pep, and Heart Soldier Senshi.

We cannot aid all of them on our own. Respond.

pep pep to ☆zrael

[heroicsacrifeyes]

Hello? We need help with xeniobiology, if you have it. We have parasites - mold clawing through the door.

WC to All

[iamverybadass]

[ There are a whole bunch of flashing warning lights happening in the background of this vid featuring a handful of Wild City's members manning different comm consoles. Talon's looking kind of stressed; shocker! ]

We are facing numerous problems:

A core in melt down
A lack of weapons in the face of incoming attack from an insectoid alien race
And an...I believe an AI malfunction that will jettison us if we do not correct it.

We are a xenobiology unit. We can offer spores, gene therapy, or a...xenomorph. We are in discussion with a few units already, but we—I believe this will be a more efficient communication than repeated individual negotiations.

BAD END=DEAD END to WILD CITY

[motorcycle_noises]

We have a parasite problem and no solutions for it. We can trade a Force-Shield Generator if you've got any problems that can be solved with that.

Can we make a trade?

BiT to Peppep

[shittylittlebrother]

Ah... excuse me.

[an awkward nerd fusses awkwardly with his glasses]

We ah, need some support of your department. Do you have any resources left available?

TRR to sensitIV

[syncintohell]

LiliS has promised away all their medical care to others. Will you aid us?

Avante to AlcheME

[calmthefoxdown]

Ah, hey...

We have a broken canister here and I think it's kind of messing us all up in the head. Do you have anymore solutions available?

avante to pep

[softlyfalling]

Avante to pep... I think Heart Soldier is overwhelmed, and we're having trouble with sensors—if it doesn't, ah...

[ she looks momentarily distracted, and then looks back— ]

The computer's saying it'll, ah, jettison our sector. To preserve station integrity. I don't know if you can render any assistance.