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Tweak says, "It's not my club. Not my rules"

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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Steve / Tony

captainhandsome
2019-11-02 01:14 am UTC (link)

Anything that was going to get to Tony was going through Steve first, acid or anything else. He'd lost him once and the image of that haunted him at night, kept him up sometimes, standing back and watching him turn into dust on a breeze. A great man, the greatest Steve had ever known, it tore him up to think about and he wasn't going to let anything like that happen again.

Steve could see Tony's point, the technology wasn't like that The Guardians had, or anything as high tech as Nebula. It looked more like the ships you saw on old TV shows and that didn't go filling Steve with confidence. Steve's personal nightlight did a pretty good job lighting the way and his eyes adjusted quickly to the low light.

It was too quiet, with that disconcerting feeling they were moving and Steve paused, stopping Tony too. He stayed still, listening carefully, sure he'd heard something. "I don't like this," Steve said seriously.

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Steve / Tony

allaboutego
2019-11-03 01:26 am UTC (link)

Tony stopped when Steve did, the hand on his arm comforting but also a little worrying, and he could realy just fucking kick himself in the ass for not bringing his nanotech casing with him. That just spoke of the kind of unprepared idiocy that he'd once told himself he was never going to deal with again, once. He was better than this. Certainly usually more paranoid. And now they were probably going to end up paying for it. There was no way this ship was as empty as what it felt like.

Tony really, really, hated not having the kind of hearing Steve did. And he hated feeling like he was being watched. "What is it?" He asked, low and equally serious, because it was obvious he didn't like it. Neither of them didn't like it. What they needed wasn't obvious facts, but an understanding of what it was they didn't like.

Not that Tony really wanted to find that there was a reason for their discomfort -- but maybe it might help. The dreaded feeling of the unknown was always the worst things about horror movies, and this felt weirdly similar.

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