Not Quite the Last Train

[lionunchained]

WHO: Shiro and Open
WHERE: Sh'ka
WHAT: Exploring
WHEN: October 15th on
WARNINGS: None so far.


Arrival
Somehow, luck was finally on Shiro's side. He'd always claim that if he didn't have bad luck, he wouldn't have any luck at all. Okay, sure, it wasn't really so bleak as that, but he could be over dramatic sometimes.

He had decided to take the train out of Temba and to Sh'ka. His intention was that he was only going to stay for one day, but that plan quickly got waylaid when the train arrived from Temba and it would not return. Further more, some of those who had escaped had reported a strange darkness that had come over Temba suddenly.

After attempting a few more times in vain to try and get the train moving since it sounded like something was happening in Temba, Shiro was forced to give up, stalking away.

Security Center
Since he now had a forced vacation in Sh'ka, Shiro decided to do some exploring. He headed into the security center to see what was there, struck by the oddly relaxing nature of the facility. Strange he thought. A building such as that wasn't normally relaxing in any sort of way.

He happened upon the video that was playing, watching it for maybe five minutes before he got bored and went exploring again. When he cam back a few hours later, he looked back at the screen and raised an eyebrow.

"Is the video repeating?" He could have sworn he had just seen that part...

Theater
Shiro went to the theater when he saw that it seemed to active like the security center had been. He had no previously interacted with the Graq and since he didn't have the communication data point, the words meant nothing to him at all, but would stand in the back watch the figures that danced around on stage, trying to figure out from what they were doing and what was actually going on in some cases.

Around
Shiro could often be found around Sh'ka, exploring whatever he could so there was not much option to go anywhere else. At least once a day, he could be found at the train, trying to see if he could get it to go back.

What was the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result?

Comments

[lionunchained]

He nodded. "It seems... like it is a play of some sort. Like an old time production on Earth. I know in a lot of amusement parks, they'd have animated or animatronic plays set to start on a loop so it didn't matter if someone was in there or not; it would still play so you could walk in near the end of one and stay for a while and see it again."

He glanced back at the stage. "I guess, kind of reminds me of that."

[kree_soldieress]

Another thing that Kree did not have. things such as that.

"A form of amusement. I wonder why it is running now. Do the Agrii wish to distract us from the darkness that swelled over Temba?"

[lionunchained]

"Perhaps. Seems to make as much as sense as any unless it is trying to tell us something... which may not be likely."

He glanced over at her again. "Did you actually see it?"

[kree_soldieress]

Trying to tell them something? That was a question was it not?

"They did not seem to know this place. The Ga'Re, who sent us. Perhaps this is something we can learn for them, bring to them?"

Did she see it? Lauri-Ell nodded. Indeed she had.

"It was, I believe the human word is ominous."

[lionunchained]

"Perhaps. Not sure. Without the ability to understand the play, I think we are just guessing as to what it could mean."

He raised an eyebrow at the fact she had seen it. "Really? That bad?"

[kree_soldieress]

That bad? Oh yes, worse than it even. She frowned and thought about his question, though. Was what she considered ominous a good enough metric?

"I thought it was very ominous. I have not seen darkness swell like that before, and I have lived most of my life in space."

[lionunchained]

Shiro frowned. "That does sound very ominous indeed. I wonder what the intentions of it could be. That could also explain why none of the transportation is working either."

[kree_soldieress]

Yes, it likely would.

"I expect it is like the storms I have heard of. I understand it messes with electronics. I see no reason the ships and train should not be affected."

[lionunchained]

Shiro considered that for a moment when Lauri-Ell brought it up. “Hmm… that is a possibility. So a localized version of a storm? Since as far as we can tell it doesn’t seem to be moving. The interference might be enough to ground the ships that are here and keep the train from moving if there is enough it reaching out around it.”

[kree_soldieress]

"That is what I understand the storms that plague this planet to be. Localized, shutting down powers and technology. The ships were previously damaged from landing in a storm."

Which was why there had been repairs on them when she'd first arrived.

[lionunchained]

He nodded. “But this still feels strange compared to that. I seen the storms a few times, but my gut is telling me that whatever is happening is not normal. I can’t really tell you what I have to base that on, but…”

He sighed. “I guess we won’t know what is happening in Temba until the trains start again. Until then, it is just speculation on my part.”

[kree_soldieress]

Has he? Lauri frowned.

"I wasn't aware there was one of the storms since we had arrived," Lauri said, a bit sad. She didn't really know what to do, how to handle this new news. Had people been suffering without their powers and technology?

"I don't know if I should speculate or not. I wouldn't know what data to work with."

maybe I derped lol I thought there had been at least one storm

[lionunchained]

He nodded. “Probably good to try and not speculate since there’s nothing we can do about it either way. I suppose it is human nature to speculate though. Trying to figure everything out even when they don’t have any clues.”

[kree_soldieress]

Human nature? The woman raised an eyebrow at that. Clearly not human here.

"Then perhaps we shall try and find some answers here. I shall go to the stage and see if there are clues."

[lionunchained]

Yeah, it was clear that she wasn’t human. He hadn’t been sure if the same sort of idea applied to people from her world, but they certainly applied to humans. Well, at least the ones that he knew.

“Sounds like a plan. If these plays started up not long after whatever happened in Temba happened, then there might be a connection.”

[kree_soldieress]

"True," she agreed. Honestly, she had come to Sh'Ka with the storm, and thus didn't know when this all happened. "It's possible this started before. Were you here before things happened?"

[lionunchained]

He nodded. “I was here a few days before whatever happened. Unfortunately, I didn’t come in here so I didn’t see if any of these plays were running then.”

[kree_soldieress]

"We shall have to ask others," she noted as she continued her descent. "Would you like to join me in investigations?"

[lionunchained]

Shiro nodded his head, definitely ready to walk with her as she headed up to the stage. “Yeah, someone else might have come in here and seen whether was something was happening or not. Sure, I’ll join you. Two heads are better than one.”

[kree_soldieress]

"I do not know if that is correct. From what little I know of species with two heads, or what we would perceive as two heads, they are often in conflict with themselves."

Expressions were always the harder things to get in other languages.

[lionunchained]

Yes, expression from other languages, other cultures, other worlds… those were all hard. Shiro took it in stride though, smiling at her comment.

“Really? Seems rather counterproductive to be in conflict with ones self, but I guess that can’t be helped from time to time. Have you met many of them?”

[kree_soldieress]

"I think it is because they are of two minds in everything," Lauri offered. "When one is always together with another, either they come to agree a lot, or not very much at all."

Met many of them? She shook her head.

"I have received briefings but nothing more."

[lionunchained]

He thought about that for a moment. “I guess that’s the way most people are, I think. If you agree with someone else, then you can do anything. If you don’t, then it can be like trying to move a mountain. So I’d imagine a two headed creature would have the same problems… just more dramatic since they have to get agreement on practically everything.”

He nodded. “I see. I wonder if there are such things in our world as well. If Coran were here, he would most likely know about them.”

[kree_soldieress]

"IT is like making decisions by committee," she noted. And yes, strangely that's a term she's heard of before. It was something that was coming up more in her culture now.

"Is Coran a friend of yours?"

[lionunchained]

“Seems like it. I think that would get kind of exhausting after a while if there had to be a debate every time I wanted to get a drink.”

He nodded his head. “Yeah, Coran is the advisor for Princess Allura. He knows a lot about the universe that we’ve never had to know. More races than I can count, different alien creatures. He made a whole video about the weblum, which is a large space creature that eats rocks in space.”