Ohhhh yay I won! There was so many good cupid entries though
(not sure if the PM's for prizes were sent out yet but I remember gaia just giving me an gateway error when I first saw the notification from here so that was a pain in the butt; it also seems to have messed with my notifications since I missed one quote today orz so hopefully didn't miss anything )
♦Masked Tragedy
"Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
Time to choose sides; are you a Capulet or a Montague?
10:34 GST: Research spacecraft Athena-IV's navigation module fails. Crew sends distress call to headquarters. (The data will later show that the crew were already dead by the time the distress call reached central command. There is a 5 hour communication delay.)
11:15 GST: Athena-IV has made a successful emergency landing on Charybdis-XII. It is yet unexplored. Atmospheric conditions are favorable to organic life.
12:41 GST: The crew report that the ship's life support functions are intact. They have spotted a cave that contains a substance that visually resembles H₂O. They send a team to initiate sampling and analysis.
12:50 GST: Contact with the sampling team cuts off abruptly. They never return. Video from their head cameras shows colorful mollusk-like lifeforms on the cave walls. A team member comments that they seem docile and the team proceeds into the cave. The mollusks were not docile, only awaiting their moment to strike.
01:32 GST: Contact with Athena-IV cuts off.
Three days later, a rescue spacecraft circles Charybdis-XII to search for survivors. Satelite photos reveal remnants of the spaceship, which appears to have been exposed to large amounts of acid. Colorful mollusk-like creatures sit all over it. Further inspection is deemed pointless and the rest of the Athena-IV crew is presumed dead.
Houston we have a problem." Your spacecraft flew way off course and you landed on a strange planet. What do you find there? Feel free to do a scenic or showcase some strange lifeform.
First contact after venturing out of the spacecraft...
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Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 2:15 pm
"Houston, We have a problem." Even though the unexpected planet proved viable for life and had no sign of technology as we knew it, when we stepped off the ship we found life--and that life didn't take kindly to our landing right in the middle their 'sacred ground.'