Post by Rome Betzner on Jul 13, 2021 15:06:56 GMT
OPEN TO ALL - Eden Matthias Jayne Xahra Skye Rome Betzner Dain
Rome hadn't seen much of her travel companions since they first arrived and were shown to their rooms. A room with a GORGEOUS view by the way, and it was something she loved waking up to. It was also, admittedly, really hard to turn in for sleep when you had such a beautiful sunset to watch at night. She'd been sleeping very little, and sky gazing a whole lot since settling in. She knew where to find a hot meal, how to navigate to the hangar for work, and where to pick up parts if what they had in the workshop wouldn't work.
Life so far on this ball of mass and gravity was good. It was another one of those mornings she'd woken especially early just to see the sun rise, and it was as satisfying as ever. She felt calm, renewed, rejuvinated, and ready to put her brain and body to work. But just as she was beginning her descent from the cliffside apartments; the ambient glow of color in the sky began to change. She looked out on the horizon and watched as the radiant light from Astreus sun grew more saturated and distinctly more purple in hue as the humid mist rose above the treet cover and swirled into densely packed clouds.
"What is-" she started to ask out loud when an ear splitting alarm cut across the settlement. "I don't remember any mention of this in orientation," she murmured as her gaze trailed slowly left to right and took in the sky as far as her eyes could see.
There was a swirling vortext
and then another
and another...
and they all flashed neon purple at the center. Leaks of neon light spread out in the foggy cloud cover - like streaks of liquid being absorbed into cotton and bleeding further from the source.
People began rushing past her to the main facility.
Rome followed the crowd and listened to the voices as everyone buzzed with a mixture of excitement and terror.
"Who will they send this time?"
"Did you hear what happened to the last team?"
"That's just a rumor"
"No it's true, they moved the whole team out of the apartment they shared. I heard the new arrivals were given their old space"
"Even if it is true, is it really worth the risk?"
What Risk? What team? What rumor? Rome wasn't sure what they were talking about, but there wasn't time to ask since the group had arrived to the main facility and it was crowded. She hadn't seen this many people in one place since she left Earth. The steward was standing heads above the rest of them, looking every bit the cowboy as the last time she saw him.
"The anomaly is back" Legend said, his voice projecting loudly over the crowd by some unseen amplifier. "And we need to catch it before Pacha does."
Rome hadn't seen much of her travel companions since they first arrived and were shown to their rooms. A room with a GORGEOUS view by the way, and it was something she loved waking up to. It was also, admittedly, really hard to turn in for sleep when you had such a beautiful sunset to watch at night. She'd been sleeping very little, and sky gazing a whole lot since settling in. She knew where to find a hot meal, how to navigate to the hangar for work, and where to pick up parts if what they had in the workshop wouldn't work.
Life so far on this ball of mass and gravity was good. It was another one of those mornings she'd woken especially early just to see the sun rise, and it was as satisfying as ever. She felt calm, renewed, rejuvinated, and ready to put her brain and body to work. But just as she was beginning her descent from the cliffside apartments; the ambient glow of color in the sky began to change. She looked out on the horizon and watched as the radiant light from Astreus sun grew more saturated and distinctly more purple in hue as the humid mist rose above the treet cover and swirled into densely packed clouds.
"What is-" she started to ask out loud when an ear splitting alarm cut across the settlement. "I don't remember any mention of this in orientation," she murmured as her gaze trailed slowly left to right and took in the sky as far as her eyes could see.
There was a swirling vortext
and then another
and another...
and they all flashed neon purple at the center. Leaks of neon light spread out in the foggy cloud cover - like streaks of liquid being absorbed into cotton and bleeding further from the source.
People began rushing past her to the main facility.
Rome followed the crowd and listened to the voices as everyone buzzed with a mixture of excitement and terror.
"Who will they send this time?"
"Did you hear what happened to the last team?"
"That's just a rumor"
"No it's true, they moved the whole team out of the apartment they shared. I heard the new arrivals were given their old space"
"Even if it is true, is it really worth the risk?"
What Risk? What team? What rumor? Rome wasn't sure what they were talking about, but there wasn't time to ask since the group had arrived to the main facility and it was crowded. She hadn't seen this many people in one place since she left Earth. The steward was standing heads above the rest of them, looking every bit the cowboy as the last time she saw him.
"The anomaly is back" Legend said, his voice projecting loudly over the crowd by some unseen amplifier. "And we need to catch it before Pacha does."