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[Open] To every thing there is a season...
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sojournermodThe first thing: At what passes for mid-evening in Sojourner's day-night cycle, the lights--including the ones in the sky--go out completely.
Some little panic ensues. Most of the human denizens of the ship can't find their way about in pitch darkness, after all, and it takes some fumbling for flashlights and other sources of illumination to restore something resembling order to the people who are out and about. Many are worried that this heralds something worse. Some gather to say their prayers. But after about an hour and a half of this, the lights gradually wink back into existence, leaving the passengers in what appears to be more of a typical Sojourner nighttime.
The second thing: About halfway through the 'night,' the ship's gravity loses hold on most of its rooms. Or lightens absurdly, at any rate: sending items arcing aimlessly through the air at being touched, causing passengers to move at ridiculous leaps and bounds through the air. Other rooms are, strangely, affected by stronger gravity: making moving through them a slog. A few have lost gravity entirely. This too seems a temporary effect, which resolves itself before daylight comes: maybe a malfunction in the ship's computer. Though Ship's Services notably doesn't have anything to say about it: I'm sorry comes its vaguely placatory voice to many aggravated passengers. I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean. Anyway, things are back to normal before dawn.
Until it happens again. Both things.
The darkness floods Sojourner a few hours later. Then: again, almost a day later. The gravity effects come on and off at similarly uneven intervals. They don't seem to have any connection to each other, or to the day-night cycle...
...come to think of it, wasn't there a day-night cycle before? Now the duration of each time seems entirely arbitrary, and unpredictable: switching between what seem like high summer days and Arctic winters.
Something is going terribly wrong on Sojourner. (It's just a massive nuisance, others argue.) But it's not at all apparent what.
[OOC: Hello and welcome to Sojourner's first ongoing plot! \o/ Feel free to tag any of your characters reacting to any combination of the above events, at whatever time - or make your own post! See the OOC post for more details.]
Some little panic ensues. Most of the human denizens of the ship can't find their way about in pitch darkness, after all, and it takes some fumbling for flashlights and other sources of illumination to restore something resembling order to the people who are out and about. Many are worried that this heralds something worse. Some gather to say their prayers. But after about an hour and a half of this, the lights gradually wink back into existence, leaving the passengers in what appears to be more of a typical Sojourner nighttime.
The second thing: About halfway through the 'night,' the ship's gravity loses hold on most of its rooms. Or lightens absurdly, at any rate: sending items arcing aimlessly through the air at being touched, causing passengers to move at ridiculous leaps and bounds through the air. Other rooms are, strangely, affected by stronger gravity: making moving through them a slog. A few have lost gravity entirely. This too seems a temporary effect, which resolves itself before daylight comes: maybe a malfunction in the ship's computer. Though Ship's Services notably doesn't have anything to say about it: I'm sorry comes its vaguely placatory voice to many aggravated passengers. I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean. Anyway, things are back to normal before dawn.
Until it happens again. Both things.
The darkness floods Sojourner a few hours later. Then: again, almost a day later. The gravity effects come on and off at similarly uneven intervals. They don't seem to have any connection to each other, or to the day-night cycle...
...come to think of it, wasn't there a day-night cycle before? Now the duration of each time seems entirely arbitrary, and unpredictable: switching between what seem like high summer days and Arctic winters.
Something is going terribly wrong on Sojourner. (It's just a massive nuisance, others argue.) But it's not at all apparent what.
[OOC: Hello and welcome to Sojourner's first ongoing plot! \o/ Feel free to tag any of your characters reacting to any combination of the above events, at whatever time - or make your own post! See the OOC post for more details.]
