AYA REINHART | ORANGE TEAM | CDC VOICE TEST POST

[uglybutterfly]

✖ OPTION A: THE DROP
Some guy is yelling into your ear via an earpiece, you're feeling sick and bruised from having been air-dropped, and you've fallen right in the middle of what looks like a great herd of very angry monsters. Either way, your only sign of good luck is that you're not alone.

✖ OPTION B: THE STAMPEDE
You're in your rover, camped in a very peaceful clearing, just trying to get some sleep after a grueling day of treading through mud. Suddenly it's thundering outside, despite the CDC reassuring you that raining is impossible on the planet. Then things start to rattle around, and now you're not the only one awake in the near dark. What's going on outside?

✖ OPTION C: THE SPIRES
It's supply drop time - the one time every cycle where food supplies are replenished, new clothes are handed out, and ammo is restocked. Problem, though: your team's batch of supplies landed on top of one of the very tall stone spires on the planet. How are you gonna get up there?

✖ OPTION D: THE RANDOM
For no logical or discernible reason, it's raining freshwater fish and soft meats. What?

✖ BONUS ROUND: CHAT ROULETTE
You've got a couple minutes before lights out, a two-hundred character limit, and unlimited texts to pretty much anyone with a user ID. To text or not to text?

Comments

[uglybutterfly]

Oh! I'm...uh, fine. I guess.

[She says, shy in front of this other person she doesn't know. She stares at the fish that she got off of her earlier, which flails helplessly on the ground. The umbrella grabs her attention, though (where in the world did it come from?). Not that she hasn't got her own tricks up her sleeve - the flap on the back of her coat opens, and her "bandages" come out, forming a curved cover above her head. The fish and meats bounce off of it.]

Do you know what's going on? I mean, this can't be normal...right?

((ooc: ahhh, that's great! Ferdinand looks really interesting from what I've read of his app! 8) ))

[foundallthebuckets]

[...Interesting. He doesn't visibly react to the bandages, but makes a note of them. Perhaps she's more than what she seems, as well?

Instead he just offers a slight smile, and a shake of his head.]

It certainly isn't something you see every day. But I'm afraid I'm as clueless as you about what's causing it or if this is normal for this planet.

[uglybutterfly]

Oh...well, maybe there's someone around who knows. I should ask Gliese, maybe...

[She says, with a small sigh. Really, in a way, she's almost glad for the weirdness. It beats having to focus on the whole "planet-demolishing" thing.]

I don't think I want to eat any of it, though. Even if it is kind of free food.

[foundallthebuckets]

That might help.

[And he can agree with that. It seems like quite a few of them have ended up here without being told the full details--he can hardly imagine a teenager would have signed up if they weren't misled. Which just makes him dislike this whole process even more.

But her second statement has him smiling a little more in amusement.]

That makes two of us. Ah, now that I think about it we should probably find more solid shelter... I'd hate to find out this is just a drizzle instead of a proper rainstorm.

[And as if to punctuate the fact, there's a solid 'whump' as a snake lands on his umbrella and dangles but doesn't quite fall off. It's enough to make him start a little and hastily shake the creature off.]

[uglybutterfly]

Ah!

[She jumps at the sight of the snake, eyes widening - well, okay, now she's had enough of this weird rainstorm. Aya grasps her forearms, nodding her head towards a rover nearby.]

L-let's go to that rover. Before anything, um, bigger falls down.

[foundallthebuckets]

[At least it appeared to be already dead. Unlike the other fish, which just flop around helplessly on the ground. Before long the ground's going to look like a silvery lake of scales if this keeps up.]

With my luck, it's guaranteed. [Which sounds really pessimistic, but that's sort of the point. Don't go jinxing him already 8(]

[But he moves towards the rover, trying to be quick while avoiding the mess of fish and meat on the ground. Which is trickier than it sounds, but eventually it's a success!]

[uglybutterfly]

[She follows him, trying not to let out a shriek when a few more dead snakes topple over her barrier of ribbons. When she finally makes it to the shelter, she lets out a sigh of relief, turning her face to watch the storm from the doorway. Her bandages start to retract back into her coat.]

I wonder how long it will last? I mean, if it's like any regular storm, it's bound to pass after a while.

[foundallthebuckets]

[And once they're under the rover's cover, he shakes out his umbrella before it just seems to crumple and shrink until it's just that scrap of fabric again. Which he tucks back into his pocket while his shoulders give a slight shrug.]

Hard to say, really. Maybe it's a hurricane.

[Which, he's only saying because that's twice now that her statement has been awfully close to a jinx. And it's become a habit for him to just come up with the worst case response, in order to counter any possibility of it happening.]

[uglybutterfly]

Oh no, that would...that would be terrible if it was!

[She says, shivering at the thought, but she notices the way that umbrella is turned into nothing more than a piece of fabric, and to be honest, she's intrigued. She pipes up again, furrowing her eyebrows slightly.]

...How do you do that? Um. With the umbrella, I mean?