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Tweak says, "I am the Walrus"

Kitty Pryde (shadowkitkat) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-10-23 16:38:00

Entry tags:

gamewide plot, kitty pryde (616), nyx ulric

Who: Anyone who wants to be spooked in space!
What: Scary alien time
Where: Through the doors and into USCSS Nostromo
When: Open throughout the Halloween Event

While returning to Earth from Thedus, the Nostromo was diverted to the Zeta II Reticuli system when the ship's mainframe intercepted a distress beacon originating from an uncharted planetoid. The ship is top of the line for her age, complete with hypersleep chambers, mess hall, infirmary, and other industrial areas. The ship also comes equipped with the AI designated MU-TH-UR, to answer questions and make sure the crew is on mission. And through the ship there is a feeling of being watched, though the crew seems to be nowhere to be found.

'Evidence of the Nostromo's unceasing mechanical vigilance was everywhere on the quiet ship, in soft hums and lights that formed the breath of instrumental sentience. It permeated the very fabric of the vessel, extended sensors to check every circuit and strut. It had sensors outside too, monitoring the pulse of the cosmos. Those sensors had fastened onto an electromagnetic anomaly.'

Inside the bridge, small and built only for one person, there is a read out of the mission:

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Kitty | Nyx

shadowkitkat
2019-11-07 04:52 am UTC (link)

"Shit," Kitty swore as the alien began to break through the door, or at least broke through the glass nearly managing to latch on to Nyx. This was not a good situation at all and they were very obviously outmatched by these things. They just needed to find a way out and get back to town as quickly as possible, or at the very least get off this ship.

"Okay, just - keep a hand on me, okay, whatever happens, whatever you see, whatever we're facing, keep a hold on me and I can keep you phased with me." Sure maybe phasing through the aliens wasn't going to be the best thing for either of them but as long as she kept them phased they should be fine, or mostly fine.

She held on to him too though, and with his agreement that she was leading the way she started off, phasing through a wall and into the next room. The map she'd pulled up was small and not nearly as detailed as she'd have liked but it would do the job well enough. They jumped through a couple halls and a few more rooms, through machinery and what looked like sleeping pods of some sort maybe? She wasn't sure - there were too many unknowns here, but she kept them moving until they came up to the final door.

"Okay, I'm going to open this - I don't want to phase through it since I'm not sure if there are any sort of technical parts in the door that I'll fry. So just.... keep an eye out I'll get this open and we'll get out of here."

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Kitty | Nyx

insomniashero
2019-11-07 06:32 pm UTC (link)

The way these aliens operated, were very close to like how things he'd notice fighting Niflheim. Almost robotic or like a hive. Something driving their instincts and giving the, directive. Nyx didn't know how it operated exactly, but he was absolutely not interested in anything more than getting away from this hellscape.

Holding onto Kitty Nyx paid attention to the surroundings. There was absolutely more than one or two or however many. They looked very similar to each other, so Nyx really wasn't sure. But what he was sure of, was that they were apex hunters trying to get them. Eat? Did these things even eat? And with which mouth? Just more questions with even less answers.

Making it to their final destination, Nyx turned from Kitty while she worked on the escape pod. Looking about, he looked down a corridor and saw it. It was a door that did not look like the others. It was their door. Their escape. "Hey." He whispered slinking back to Kitty patting her arm. "Hold up." He dragged her with him to the edge of the intersection on the corridor and pointed down at the door. "Look. Is that.." Nyx's tone hopeful. "That's our ticket, right?"

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Kitty | Nyx

shadowkitkat
2019-11-09 04:22 am UTC (link)

She didn't like this, the way this was set up the escape pod - she knew the way ships worked, and this was - well she should have known better than to just run for the pod and hope they could get in. Ships didn't work like that, there would be some sort of hub, some sort of display to set up the ejection of the pod and now she was there fighting with tech she didn't quite understand knowing that if they didn't figure this out she and Nyx were looking at the very real possibility of not surviving this place. She'd have just phased them through the door if she wasn't worried that she might just fry any tech that was actually important to keeping the craft space worthy.

Things never could just be easy it seemed. For all that she had hoped that this trip might be a change from her usual fast paced insanity that she normally found through the doors, it seemed that nothing had changed and she was here now stuck in this place and the only silver lining to all of this was that John wasn't here too.

Thank god for Nyx really, keeping an eye out as she worked to try and open the door, spotting the thing she hadn't seen as she'd been so focused on the pod. She let him pull her away from where she'd been working to see what he had noticed. Her stomach sank realizing what it meant. "We're going to have to run for it." She said after a moment. She didn't like it, it was a bad idea, a narrow corridor but with their ticket back home on the other side what other option did they have.

"We'll do it like we did before, yeah?" She said making sure they were on the same page, "You keep close and I'll do my best to phase us through any of the worst of it - all we have to do is make it to the door and we're out of this."

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Kitty | Nyx

insomniashero
2019-11-10 06:19 am UTC (link)

One of those things, where for their first time together in this type of situation, they both just ran right into their duties as a team. Without even voicing too much on their roles. They both just knew things that needed to be done, and that showed when it came to Kitty. She wasn't a soldier, that much Nyx could tell, but she was absolutely a team player. That alone, made it easy to work with Kitty during this high stress situation.

While they took in the surroundings, and Nyx couldn't help but agree. That door was their prize and the thing they needed. "Run for it. You take point, and I'll be right behind you." Nyx nodded some watching for movement in the corridor. Having seen the things move quickly and appear from nowhere, it made it a risk for sure. "I think we need to stay low since we know they like being up above, but quick."

Taking a deep breath he steeled his nerves again. Simple as that, and he was calm and ready. These were just a different breed of monster for him to fight. Nothing more fearsome than what he fought during the war with Niflheim. This, he could handle. "Alright Captain." Nyx smirked. "Lead the way." With her on the move, Nyx was right on her heels.

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Kitty | Nyx

shadowkitkat
2019-11-13 12:44 am UTC (link)

She was relieved at least that Nyx seemed to be okay with her taking a bit of the lead, trusting her to phase them both when they needed it, to get the door to the pod open but now - well now things were getting more complicated as if things could get any more complicated than being trapped on what seemed to be an abandoned space ship filled with alien monsters. But here they were.

"Just make sure you keep close, whatever they are - they aren't .." She trailed off hearing the sound of something coming up behind them, no they didn't have time to stand around talking about what they were going to do, they just had to do it and Kitty was going to trust that Nyx could keep up. So she grabbed him, almost wanting to keep them phased through the whole thing, but knew it wouldn't be reasonable to do that.

But she moved quickly, ready to phase if she needed to, keeping an eye on him and the door, always keeping her eye on the door lest it disappeared again leaving them stranded a second time.

And then there was a flurry of movement off to one side of her and Kitty didn't have time to brace herself for whatever was coming for them.

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