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MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-11-03 17:27:00

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:mingle, artemis crock, carol peletier, data, deanna troi, ianto jones, kitty pryde (aoa), korra, malcolm reynolds, martha jones, momotarou mikoshiba, pavel chekov (au), piper halliwell, raito sonozaki, rebecca crane, sougo okita, ton phanan, tyki mikk, wally west

Day 296 — Real MarinaNova — Central Core Awakening
[The last thing you remember is walking through a glowing door. Whether that was a good decision or a bad one is going to depend heavily on how claustrophobic you are, because right now you are fully encased in a very streamlined, sophisticated pod. It is regulating your body temperature, monitoring your vital signs, administering nutrition and dozens of other odds and ends to keep your body functional and healthy during its stay.

You're not usually conscious for this part of things. If you were, it would be a pretty boring experience. On the plus side, there aren't any tubes or wires attached to you. Those are a little too outdated for technology like this. The other plus is that you can open your pod hatch with a push. Luckily for you, those muscles in your arms and legs haven't atrophied. That's part of the science, but it's not perfect. There will be some aching and discomfort.

Take a minute to take stock of everything. You're wearing a bodysuit you don't remember putting on. You're in a giant, spiraling room you've never set eyes on before and your powers—if you have any—are blocked. But you're not alone. There are other people pushing their own pods open or lying still and silent in theirs. In fact there is a very large number of pods. You might not recognize everyone, but that doesn't mean they weren't an inmate at one time—they were even if it was brief.

For the moment there are no bots coming for you, no alarms going off that you can hear, and no immediate threats. The space is vast and the doors aren't locked, but you also might not recognize them as doors or understand how to activate them just yet.]

(OOC: This mingle is for those who went through the doors only. There will be two additional mingles for those who went through the doors and one for those who stayed behind. This mingle should be confined to the central core. The next one will be for exploring. EVENT INFORMATION | REAL MARINANOVA INFORMATION. Make sure to read these links. They have additional information you'll need for this setting.)

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2014-11-05 05:22 am UTC (link)

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[ deanna is slow to open her eyes, even slower to take stock of everything. she'd wanted to see what might be on the other side, for whatever reason she can't quite come up with due to one very disturbing and highly distressing fact:

the number of times she's been without her empathic abilities has just grown by one.

she's a starfleet officer. she's been trained to deal with situations logically, to think on her feet, as it were. she's even had the dubiously grand experience of being kidnapped and surgically altered to look like a romulan before being briefed on the mission she was kidnapped for. that had been a trip and she'd somehow managed to play that part.

but every time she'd lost her empathic powers, it was like losing a part of herself over and over again. she feels claustrophobic, as though the tiny little pod she's in is about to collapse in on itself, squash her before she can fight through it. in fact, it feels like it already is, like the pod is already sucking the life out of her. so she fights it, she pushes at the other side as violently as she can, managing to push it open with enough force to practically throw herself to the floor. she lands on her hands and knees, gasping for breath, clearly out of sorts.

she hates this feeling every time she has it and this time she doesn't have her imzadi there to help her work through it. she's alone.

she was never made to be alone. ]

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[ after she has herself a little more under control, deanna will decide to look around more. if she can't figure things out with her empathic powers, the least she can do is look at the other pods around her. some are empty, the people milling around with her. but some are full. some have familiar faces.

deanna pauses at a few of them, but it isn't until she starts seeing the other starfleet officers that she realizes just how bad this looks. it's a combination of the realization that they're all trapped, inactive and practically lifeless, and the sense of bubbling panic that comes with losing her empathic abilities that has her dashing towards one pod in particular. ]

Will?!

[ her voice breaks, calling across a distance that seems to stretch even as she crosses it, simultaneously pushing her farther away and pulling her closer. it seems to go on forever until she finally descends upon that one pod, fighting to get it open so she can see for herself. so she can hold him. because that's exactly what she needs to do right now. she has to know if he's dead, alive, inactive, whatever. she has to.

imzadi. imzadi, she calls to him telepathically, over and over, despite knowing that if her empathic abilities are dampened, then her telepathy won't work. but she has to try. she has to. she's missed him for so long.

he isn't responding and she buries her head against his chest, tears dripping down her face, carving out the path of her sorrow. piper has it easier is a thought that crosses her mind. at least piper's husband isn't caught here like will.

despair will be the only thing she feels for a long time after this. ]

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	2 notrosesshadow 2014-11-06 12:11 am UTC (link)
	[The crying alerts Martha to trouble. She rounds this particular pod to see Deanna, in absolute tears over the body of a man. A man who she assumes is the imzadi Deanna had mentioned before. A wave of sympathy washes over her.] Deanna? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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2014-11-06 05:03 am UTC (link)

[ it'll be a few seconds before deanna registers that anyone's said anything at all and a few more before she can force herself to look up and find the person who belongs to that voice. when she does, her black eyes are rimmed with red, tear stains crossing her cheeks. the only time before this that she's fallen apart in the prison was that first night. but back then, she'd had will's comforting embrace to help her deal with shinzon's wake and her lack of empathic powers.

now she's alone. well, she has her friends, one of whom stands beside her, but they aren't quite the same. still, they are all she has and for once the counselor needs help. ]

Martha. [ she tries for a smile, but it comes out very shaky and strained, before she looks back at riker's immobile form. ] I wish you could have met him while he was still-- [ alive. conscious. here. ] He would have liked you.

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	notrosesshadow 2014-11-07 12:44 am UTC (link)
	[Martha moves forward and places a hand on Deanna's shoulder.] I'm sorry dear. May I? [She waits for Deanna's permission before reaching over to examine Riker. Immobile but alive. There's nothing she can do for him here.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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2014-11-07 03:14 am UTC (link)

[ deanna of course nods and sits back to allow martha room to look at him. deanna trusts martha as a doctor and she's likely one of the only people here whom deanna would allow to look at her husband right now. ]

How is he? [ her voice is soft, as though she isn't sure she can handle the answer. ]

I can't sense anything. I can't even feel his presence. [ they've had a talk about riker before and about deanna's abilities, so martha should know how terribly cut off she feels right now. it's like deanna's lost herself again, the part of her that is her abilities and the part of her that's linked with her husband. ]

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notrosesshadow
2014-11-09 08:20 pm UTC (link)

[She lifts his eyelids. Everything seems to be normal. Other than the fact that he's unconscious.]

I wish I knew. Everything about him screams healthy and normal. Minus the coma. It's all over too. So far, the only people I see who seem comatose are those who vanished from the prison.

[Which brings a whole other group of questions to the forefront of her brain.]

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2014-11-11 02:48 am UTC (link)

[ it means a lot to deanna that martha takes the time to examine him. ]

I can't decide if that's a good thing or not.

[ it probably isn't. but at least she's assured that will is alive, as are the others like captain picard. ]

Is there anyone you know here?

[ has martha located anyone she knows, like doctor magnus, whom deanna is certain captain picard would have been looking for if he were awake. ]