i walk around all day inside a dream,

[agogemod]

WHO? Everybody!
WHAT? Time to do that stuff you voted about.
WHEN? BASE, home sweet home.
ANYTHING ELSE? Violence, as always. Please warn in subject lines for anything beyond physical violence, and move to a personal journal if things go beyond PG-13. Also, potentially, alien... animal.... murder........

TOUCH BASE;

backfill armed services echelon
COST re-appropriated vehicle 854A-5.2

hey remember this thing.

CATCH AND RELEASE

Because YOU demanded it!

Well, most of you anyway. The poll is closed, and mercy won the day; the DACTYL droids now patrol the corridors, beeping and blinking when they detect a nest of Shapers in the walls. It's your job to dismantle the wall (the DACTYLs will help) and shock the things with the provided implement. Only one per person; the DACTYLs will remember if they've already given you one.

Of course, as always in COST, there are tons of ways this could go wrong. The Shapers send you to sleep before you get the wall open. You accidentally shock yourself. The wall stays closed. One of the DACTYLs malfunction and send you to an empty hole (or did the Shapers just escape in time?).

Or maybe you just really like murder and keep killing the little space frogs instead.

Whatever you do, be careful. Shapers can still send people to sleep as a defense mechanism, and this late in the game, it'll be a sleep very difficult to wake from.

Oh, and if you shock another person with one of the batons? The DACTYLs will let off a klaxon noise and begin escorting you to the brig. Breaking the droids or trying to escape will not make them happier.

As always, if you have any questions, ask away. For those of you keeping Shapers, remember to let us know here by the end of the day (ish, it's a soft limit, but still a deadline). For those of you going Norman Bates on the fuckers, tell us about it. Oh, and if you're morbidly curious about what Shapers look like from the inside, here you go.

And don't call Animal Control. You are Animal Control.

NAV. NETWORK LOGS OOC PLURK DISCORD

Comments

[masque]

[has to carefully keep the same pace as noctis so he won't hurt hei any further... he's not saying anything, just quietly being angry, and it's weird. hei's the first person he met when he arrived, after all.]

We're gonna — ugh — have to. Hei might not be the only one pulling a stunt. [looking down at hei...]

Tell the truth, are you just going to try again or no?

[dipolar]

(it's unfortunate to be kept in the dark where hei's future motives are concerned, but he remains silent despite the question posed. he's trying to concentrate on preserving body heat, huffing repeatedly with low-lidded eyes. it's exhausting, he's so tired, each point of contact numbing. he can remember being this cold, but he can't remember when or how he warmed himself up.

thankfully, they're near the cells at a very far corner of the ship.

hei doesn't know what'll be done with him, his guess being solitary confinement for however long it takes for him to realize his errors but — doesn't feel he's made any.)

[fessus]

[ There's a brief shake of his head that he realizes a second later is probably too easy to miss, forcing himself to speak up. ]

Nah, don't think he is... So one thing at a time. I don't think he's gonna' talk and I wouldn't want to if I were him either. But I can say if anybody tries again then I can do this as many times as I have to, too.

[ Another line in the sand. Should Hei leave the brig, regardless of how he manages it, Noctis will be just as ready and willing to face him again. Rethinking his stances has never been something he's quick to embrace.

Hei's leg knocks against the wall as they urge him around a corner into a tight turn, cells looming with doors cracked wide. Noctis's aim is the nearest one, ready to deposit him and give him the chance to hopefully rest as soon as possible. ]

[masque]

[it doesn't take them much longer, thankfully, as akira enters the nearest cell, deciding to prop him up against a wall for him to lean on. pretty intent on not talking, yeah, which is probably a good thing.

shakes out his arms when they're finally free, eyes on the man who's still struggling with the cold... hopefully noctis does something about it.]

We should let the commander and sergeant know. I don't know if they'll do anything, but somebody has to be aware that he's in here.