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Sanctuary RPG Mods ([personal profile] sanctuaryrpgmods) wrote in [community profile] sanctuaryrpg2016-05-13 09:22 pm

And the station opens...

There were no flashing lights, no alarms. The doors to the quarantine chambers simply opened, the whoosh of seals breaking was the only fanfare.

Quarantine was on a quiet level of the station, a gently pulsing light set into the wall leading the chamber's temporary residents out into the station proper. Outside, station officials wandered by but paid no particular attention to the newcomers; new arrivals were nothing new to them, just a fact of life on Sanctuary. New people arrived in the chambers, station staff logged them, and the computers arranged everything else. So they went about their business, eyes glued to the screens they held.

Of course the newcomers weren't aware of any of this. Anyone who called out to the station staff was greeted with a wan smile and directed toward one of the many terminal screens lining the walls of the large open space between the central tower and the rest of the station.

The terminal screens asked for a fingerprint before offering any additional information. Their names flashed up with a map to their new home in the living quarters and some basic information on the currency contained in the chip in their hand and what it might buy them. A brief explanation of the silver communication unit followed, and then the news of the past twenty-four hours played. War on planets in a neighbouring system, the weather on a vacation world, sports scores for a game that seems a cross between lacrosse, hockey, and quidditch. Nothing of use, of course, nothing that could get them off the planet.

The quiet entrance to the living quarters was on one side of the atrium, and the sounds of a bustling marketplace that could not be contained came from a much wider opening on the other. People of all shapes, colours, and species walked through the space along with station officials and technicians using their tablet like screens, dark uniformed security officers chatting as they strolled their patrols.

The station carried on obliviously while the newcomers watched, each with only their credit chip, a place to live, and a basic outfit. Clearly that was all the welcome they were to expect; what happened next would be up to them.

[[Gathering post and opening of Sanctuary RPG. Put in your characters coming out their quarantine]]
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[personal profile] rememory 2016-05-25 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"This is not the first time you have time-traveled?" Sabine tipped her head thoughtfully while she watched him. "May I ask, are you part of a team that moves from time to time?" Because if he were like Clarice and her Exiles then perhaps she had found the first lead to a way home.
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[personal profile] du_vallon 2016-05-27 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)

"Once," he confirms, "but it's not like I was a part of a team or anything. I just woke up and instead of being at the garrison with the others, suddenly I was in the future." He grimaces to think that he'd done that journey with Aramis, but apparently, hasn't managed to keep him or Athos this time around. "No special powers or anything, me."

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[personal profile] rememory 2016-05-30 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah." After a decade of helping confused spirits find what kept them in the world, Sabine had mastered not letting people see her distress or frustration, so not a hint of it showed now. "You were taken from that future to this one? I wonder at the purpose of these kidnappings. Did you have a fight there or anything you were required to do?"
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[personal profile] du_vallon 2016-05-31 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
He shakes his head, a touch more subdued than he normally is, maybe because this whole thing is such a shock and he's starting to worry about getting back home. "No, we just lived," he gets out, with heavy frustration.
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[personal profile] rememory 2016-06-02 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
"That's discouraging," Sabine murmured, mostly to herself, but she did address the rest of her remarks to him. "If there'd been something to fight there, there might be here as well Then they would send us home when we had finished the task." She paused to let her mind and her stomach settle before explaining, "Where I'm from, that's something that has happened a few times." Yana, and Clarice and Mariko and TJ hadn't been returned home as promised though. Clarice's home was gone, and it wasn't until TJ's mother sent her boyfriend that she'd been sent home.

She sighed and tried not to get too upset. It would only aggravate the torn bonds. "So far, they seem genuine about not restraining our movements. That's something, at least."