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MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-11-05 20:44:00

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:mingle, artemis crock, carol peletier, data, haruka tenoh, ianto jones, kitty pryde (aoa), korra, pavel chekov (au), raito sonozaki

Day 296 — Real MarinaNova — Exploring
[You have an adventurer's spirit, or maybe you're just following the crowd, whatever the case, you've left the central core behind.

What else is there to see and do and find? Hungry? Maybe you can find yourself a delicious pill to eat in the cafeteria. Or maybe you want to spend your time and energy breaking into a closet in the dormitory. Explore. Make some memories. You may even end up keeping them.

But how much longer do you think it will be before someone puts you back in those pods you so recklessly abandoned?]

(OOC: This mingle is for those who went through the doors only. The locale section will detail the areas you can explore. Please note that some areas specify barriers that would prevent exploration! The next one will be for encountering the engineers in their natural habitat. EVENT INFORMATION | REAL MARINANOVA INFORMATION.)

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	kitty_has_claws 2014-11-07 01:48 am UTC (link)
	[There may be nothing of consequence behind the locked storage room in the dormitory, but that hasn't stopped Kitty from taking a crack at it with some carefully aimed and timed high kicks to the door since there aren't many solid objects to hit it with. Necessary violence!] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-11-10 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	[Chekov puts his fruitless investigation on pause to watch Kitty. Even if she doesn't force anything open--and it would be nice if she did, since he really wants to see what's locked up--he quite likes observing acts of badassery that he'll never be able to perform.] Does this method usually work for you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-11-12 04:37 am UTC (link)
	[She pauses mid-kick before making contact again and relaxes her body once more before looking at him.] It's been known to. I couldn't find much in the way of tools to help out. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-12-06 04:37 am UTC (link)
	It's as if someone would prefer that we not dismantle anything. [He can't imagine why!] Does it take much strength to do that, or could I feasibly be taught how to open things that way? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-06 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	I like that you want a lesson before you even see if it works or not. [She shifts again, leg coming up and she applies the force just so and there's a crack as the door gives way.] See, this was really the time to be impressed. As far as strength goes, even if I had more than usual it would be cut off right now. They're inhibiting our powers. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-12-07 07:48 am UTC (link)
	Even if it fails to work, it looks very cool. [And there, it worked! And he is impressed, thank you, but seeing what's inside is more important than displays of impressed-ness.] They're inhibiting powers here that they would not inhibit in the dome? Why not take powers away all the time? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-07 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Don't know. [Looking inside what appears to be a pretty unimpressive storage room.] I guess because there was no danger to them in us having them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-12-07 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	[Why did they even lock this stuff up? He pokes at a flip flop. Maybe it's secretly something interesting.] But there is danger to them in us having powers here? [He looks around for something else to get into.] That would mean that there are things here that they don't want us to interfere with. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-07 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	[Maybe just to see who would break in. She inspects the very uninteresting contents, looking for anything hidden beneath or behind them. Knocking walls to hear if they're hollow and all that.] That's kind of my hope. Could just be hope talking though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-12-07 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	It's reasonable. Hope alone is not that reasonable, usually. [But he's starting to think that trying to break into every compartment is less than reasonable. Maybe whoever's in charge wants to keep them distracted.] Kitty. Does anyone believe that we are really kept here for rehabilitation? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-07 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	The wardens seem to, but given that they are programmed to believe it, I don't know that I'd trust them. [She sweeps her eyes over the unit again. She nothing worth breaking a door down for.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-12-08 12:12 am UTC (link)
	So you think that the wardens are a part of whatever deception we are experiencing, not the powers behind it. I think that we won't find anything here. [Unless they really want to rock some flip flops along with their scuba suits.] In the room with the containment cells we were being kept in... did you see anything unusual? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kitty_has_claws
2014-12-08 12:45 am UTC (link)

At the old prison one of the wardens actually arrested the engineers who created it. I figure they are at least higher on the food chain if they aren't the top of it.

[She stops her search and actually looks at him for part of their discussion. It's a novel way to change things up.]

Everything was unusual. I didn't get very far examining the technology without any tools or really much in the way of anything I could repurpose as one. You?

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candothat
2014-12-08 01:47 am UTC (link)

Really? Then not only are the engineers and the wardens not the same people, but the wardens must exist outside of the dome, as well. [Every time Chekov thinks that he has a guess about the way all of this works, something forces him to rethink it. How bothersome.]

Exceptionally unusual, then. I didn't find anything useful, either, but maybe something was overlooked? Maybe there was a button that went unpushed?

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	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-08 08:54 pm UTC (link)
	Why do the wardens have to exist outside of the dome for that? [But she nods to his last question.] It's a big room. A team of us could spend a week in there and not have it all figured out. We have no idea how much time we have. [Maybe this is it for them now? They're up and they stay up so they don't contaminate the others?] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

candothat
2014-12-09 09:40 am UTC (link)

If the engineers are the ones who create these prisons, then it would make little sense for beings who exists only inside of that prison--the wardens--to have power over them. No sensible being would make another knowing that they will need to answer to it.

We can do our best with as many people and as much time as we have. Would you like to go back there with me? Two sets of eyes are better than one.

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kitty_has_claws
2014-12-12 04:11 am UTC (link)

As it turned out they were able to pull strings even after their incarceration. They introduced different things to mess with us and replaced the warden who captured them with a different one.

[She looks thoughtful.] This place looks like a dead end and I already tried to breach some of the other areas and I wasn't getting anywhere. Does seem like there are probably more answers back there.

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	candothat 2014-12-13 04:53 am UTC (link)
	The engineers are incarcerated, also? [That throws a wrench into his theories. He doesn't like wrenches in his theories.] What did you make of the containment pods? Does your universe have any similar technology? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kitty_has_claws
2014-12-13 10:44 pm UTC (link)

Not anymore. At least I haven't seen or heard anything about them since we showed up in this prison.

[She looks over at him.] Did anyone tell you there was another prison before this?

And yeah, the pods are more or less like things I've seen before. We have a lot of alien and super genius tech running around. [But that didn't make this totally alien in a new and different way.]

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candothat
2014-12-14 01:00 am UTC (link)

No, this information is new to me. [He puts off reading everything Data can provide for a couple of days in order to explore and look what happens!] If we return, I will be sure to familiarize myself with all available history.

[He would ask for a summary, but the words super genius tech distracted him.] Running around your world, or here? And how well-versed in this technology are you? We have no time now, of course, but I would be interested in hearing about the technology that you are familiar with.

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	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-14 01:23 am UTC (link)
	[She's just going to side step the "if" that is totally justified but a little hard on the heart.] At home. The tech here is alien even for me, but I've gotten the hang of it. At least the stuff we've been seeing up until now. I have a knack for it. I don't exactly have any training except experience. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-12-16 04:34 am UTC (link)
	[Oops. Sorry about that.] Experience and a knack are enough. You have undoubtedly learned a number of things that I have not through experience alone. [He sighs.] And nothing that I have been taught has been helpful here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-16 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	It's probably by design. They can choose who to bring here so why not bring people who aren't familiar with their brand of tech, right? Doesn't mean we can't learn it, but it gives them time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	candothat 2014-12-17 07:09 am UTC (link)
	That is both clever and very rude. Has anyone attempted to interfere with the dome from within it? From the wardens' station, perhaps, or from a remote device? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2014-12-27 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	There have been hacking attempts. Usually ends up in glitches in the system. The force hasn't made any direct attempt against it. [And sometimes she wonders if that's smart or really stupid.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)