It had been about a short while since Mauvian Technology has started to act up. Instead of getting better, it had only gotten worse. The cats were still unable to find or fix the problem and phones were starting to drop calls randomly and more regularly. The static made it almost impossible to hear anything on the line and any texts sent through the senshi phone wound up appearing corrupted, distorted, or unreadable. Severe malfunctions included unintentional trips to space instead of connecting calls, or constant crashing on all models of phone. Reception came and went but it hadn't been good for a while.
The cats needed to do something something--and fast. Their computers had started to be affected by the same problem, and who knew what that meant for the databases and any other important information they had stored on them?
Thankfully, there must have been one lucky cat among them; a single message managed to send, uncorrupted and unhindered, to every senshi cell phone, cat ear piece and knight ring that it could reach:
"All Cats are to report to Cat Command, immediately. Please spread this message so that all White Moon Mauvians are aware that they are desperately needed."
The time and date had been included--now they just had to show up.
Before the text, the command center had been unusually empty but it was expected that the Mauvians would all arrive at roughly the same time. Any initial scan of the area or the computers would yield the same results as they'd found in the days leading up to now--the computers--they seemed to run just fine, and there didn't appear to be any traceable viruses, bugs or hacks.
It didn't even feel as if there were youma in the area--not even behind the boards that hid the hole created by a destructive youma nearly two years ago. It had been the most destructive thing to happen to the command center, and while the damage had been repaired, there was no telling what else lurked.
The computer screen stayed blank for the most part, the occasional snow from static that plagued all the Mauvian technology.
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Mauvians are free to come and mingle! They can explore the main room or try to find anything odd but for the time being everything seems all right! Prompts for this roleplay will appear ~every 24 hours. You are free to join at any point in the roleplay, so late starters are welcome! Missing a prompt does not exclude you from participation.
Update: There have been some requests for what the room looks like so please check the spoiler.
Beneath Destiny Tower there is a secret panel that can only be activated by the star on a cat's forehead. It opens a hidden door in the base of the tower that leads down a stairwell into a large, shielded room. Only Mauvians may enter; they are not permitted to bring any guest, regardless of bond or alignment. An immense energy dampening system is in place here, so Mauvians can assume human form without any risk of someone tracing their energy signature.
The room is large enough to have a few couches and tables. It is not decorated with anything other than screens, wires, and blinking lights. Several large computers line the walls; they seem to be both ancient and futuristic. The consoles take up whole walls and are all connected.
Wendell had no idea what was happening but it was an adventure.
He was currently sitting back on his haunches in the back of the place, looking very excited about what was coming. Or not coming. Or might be coming.
Hopefully there would be snacks.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 2:38 pm
Sumi had gotten the message and decided he best go down to the command center since he hadn't gone in a while. He'd been waiting for Arsinoe to finish up some more things for the Homeworld database before he took the information in, and given the computer issues he wasn't even sure it was safe to put in.
As cats came and went he slipped inside and looked around. He didn't see Eta anywhere so instead headed for a brow cat that at least looked like he wasn't busy.
It had been his first visit to the command center. Thankfully, since discovering Thraen and his refuge, Magnus had begun to catch up on going events and learn what he could. Not to mention he no longer looked like a stray stepping off of the street. It wouldn't have dampened the mauvians spirit even if he still was a stray (well...technically he still was, but at least her had a place to hunker down at night) but if he hadn't found the eternal senshi it was unlikely he would have heard about the meeting.
Blue eyes took a gander around the room. It was impressive. Most impressive. And it seemed he was the fir...oh nope! There were 2 other Mauvians who had beat him.
"Hey there!" He called to the other Guardians. One looked ready bounce out of his skin in excitement. "First time here too?" He questioned, not really caring if others knew he was a newbie to the scene. Well, new oldie? Whatever. Technicalities didn't matter. He just assumed the other mauvians excitement stemmed form a first time visit. Maybe he was wrong.
Turning to the other mauvian he tilted his head. "So it's not common knowledge why we were called here? No idea who sent the call out?"
A delicate looking silver cat swept into HQ like a tornado, rushing through the door and down to the main room. The moment she was safely inside, her form burst upwards in a shower of showy little sparks and bare feet pattered where paws had been.
Trailing a billowing cape and twin tails of blue hair, Ash stomped into a space clear of little furry bodies and came to an indignant halt, her hands braced on her hips.
"I hope someone has an explanation for what's going on because this thing with the phones is ridiculous." She huffed, her tail lashing behind her. "And it's not MY FAULT. My upgrade is flawless... so obviously there must be someone else... fussing around."
Her human hand fluttered, fingers flicking at the word 'fussing'. Her lower lip swelled, jutting forward in a definite pout.
"People shouldn't mess with things they don't know how to work properly. Especially when other people use it too." The Mauvian grumped to the whole of the room in general, regardless who was actually listening to her little hissy fit.
Like other guardians, Réalta had gotten the call to come to the command center -- an odd thing, considering every other call or attempted communication ended up with her ears pinned back and regretting her decisions. She'd not yet been to the command center, and looked about warily. The tall feline wasn't unsurprised to see others had beaten her there, and in fact, she was rather delighted to actually see other guardians. And a guardian in humanoid form, she noted with a small pause in her step.
She had a million questions, the least having to do with what was going on with the technology failures.
But the humanoid one's burst of words made her ears pin back a bit briefly, and she approached her with a neutral expression and perked ears. "Who is to say it was any of us? Has this happened before, when someone's fussing around, as you put it, caused this to happen? Your anger is justified, but please be careful of pointing fingers. This is my first time encountering other Mauvians since I... awoke, and I would hope that things would not dissolve into conflict amongst ourselves." She kept her words calm, with almost a pleading tone for the female to, she hoped, calm down slightly.
Not that Réalta didn't understand her frustration. All of them were likely getting fed up with this mess. "Have there been any similar technical issues in the past?"
Liryn had been out and about when his communicator chimed with the incoming message - the incoming uncorrupted message.
The sender wasn't one that he recognised, but he didn't let that stop him from shifting direction and making his way to HQ at a fast kitty trot - because this was one meeting that Liryn had no intention of missing.
The thing with the phones had been worrying - very worrying - particularly as it didn't seem to be getting any better–
And whilst Liryn wasn't letting it stop him from making his rounds, the unreliability that seemed to be affecting the senshi phone and cat communicator was certainly serving to make things more difficult.
He wasn't the first cat to arrive, a few of the others already there by the time that he made it over to HQ, Liryn in time to catch the tail end of Ash's little mini rant as he made his way inside.
Unlike Ash, however he was keeping to cat form - well at least he was for the moment because he wasn't sure as yet which would be more useful - paws or hands.
An unfamiliar and much larger cat - at least relative to his own small size - was making her way over to Ash, her voice calm and almost conciliatory as she spoke to the blue-haired mauvian.
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Liryn is open for interactions
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 3:40 pm
Wendell promptly rolled sideways and flopped bodily onto the smaller, lighter cat.
"Nope!" he said cheerfully, as though he was not currently squashing a complete stranger. "Not at all. No idea. I've got no idea what's going on, and none of my people are here, so I can't ask them, and so I don't know anything, and it looks like people are upset and that's sad."
He lifted a paw and waved at Liryn, but remained tipped sideways on the kitten.
There was another cat, bigger than the one Wendell was currently smushing, that was talking to them and Wendell waved a paw at him too, his tail flicking back and forth, a bright eyed look on his face. The charms on the eyepatch jingled a little with the movement.
"First time for all!" Wendell said jovially. "Are you new? I don't know anything!"
He sounded absurdly cheerful for someone who knew nothing.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 3:51 pm
Sumi squeaked and flailed slightly when the larger cat flopped over on him. "Senshi aren't allowed here .. I think .." He squirmed under Wendell trying to get out from under the cat somehow.
It wasn't working.
With a huff, nudging Wendell with his paws, he gave up. At least the other cat wasn't too heavy so he wasn't entirely being squished but it wasn't very nice. "Everyone's upset because stuff hasn't been working. I haven't come to look at it much, cause im bad with the tech, but .... maybe something happened."
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 4:30 pm
Firstly, Faust waited for Quenton to read the summons to him. This demanded a margin of Quenton's expertise at urging Faust to focus. And while weathering Faust's sassy objections to being summoned for the first time in his kitty career, Thraen ran him out to the command center where the Mauvians were required to gather. A quick stopoff let Faust enter the building of his own accord, thereby leaving behind his human companion for the time being.
And as he entered, most of the cats still looked like cats. Except for the one that thought it was a good idea to send out a goddamn homing beacon to Chaos by standing around in her skin suit. The ******** you thinkin' Ash? Ain't you s'posed to be the smart one here? Faust chuffed at the display, and parked himself on a perfectly dusty piece of floor.
Whatever summoned him here certainly wasn't any of the cats already present - else they'd be gathered up for a presentation by now.
Etoile wasn't exactly a tech savvy cat, and it was a wonder how she had been chosen to be a Guardian Cat at all, given her track record... if being a Guardian Cat was something that one drew lots for and all somehow. Still, when the message had arrived on Alise's phone, the little cat had made it her duty to head for Cat Command, which hadn't actually been a place she had been to before, which was exciting- though also kind of disappointing that she would be missing her shows.
Oh well, hopefully they had snacks there, and she could learn something or two to tell her two young senshi companions about their phones.
Several other cats were already there, none of which she knew... maybe. Etoile, oblivious of any ongoing conversation, cheerily called out to them.
"Hello!"
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etoile's open for interactions, but i'll probably be slow to replyyy
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 5:35 pm
Miss Kitty was entirely unamused walking into Command, the tip of her tail lashing angrily back and forth as she entered. Albino red eyes flicked left and right as she studied the room, but nothing was amiss to her eyes -- but ther mauvian herself was in a mood. She'd made polans - plans to cuddle her people, maybe show her senshi her ferret babies - but no. All Mauvians, and phrased like orders as well. THAT left her fluffed and grumpy, and soon she made way to a perch, sitting and piutting on a look most akin to an evil cat that clawed one's owners and left sores and the like - maybe even messed outside of the litterbox. Hopefully, t5his weas resolved quickly, and the albino watched the unfaMiliar cats in the room attentively, tail still lashing in her displeasure at someone daring to order her and her glow anywhere, and if nobody noticed her angry glow she was not above nipping.
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Miss Kitty is open to chat!...Uhm.... As long as you don't try to tell her what to do... gonk
Broderick wasn't quite sure what to think about this message. He hadn't been... well, honestly, for all that he had been awake for a while now he hadn't bothered doing much as a Mauvian, aside from awakening his Myammy and meeting a few interesting people.
So he didn't really think he could be of much use in this mess, but it didn't seem like he had much choice about going to the command center. So here he was, trotting in and hoping his poncho looked neat and clean. With summer around the corner, watermelon season meant he was happily stuffing his face more often than not, and that tended to get rather... messy.
For now, though, he was reasonably assured of his cleanliness, and the orange and white Maine Coon was confident - okay, somewhat confident that he was going to make a good impression.
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Brody's open for interaction! He's .... he's probably not the one you wanna poke to help with the tech problem going on, though. xD;;;
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 6:25 pm
Ash's brows drew together as her pout increased, glancing down at the... large female cat that approached her to caution her after her frustrated outburst. The humanoid mauvian sighed as her face cleared and she waved a hand around at the gathering.
"Darling, the only creatures that have access to our database, and the phones, is US. Therefore, it was one of us that mucked things up." She sighed dramatically again, pressing her hand to her face. "My poor darlings... in such a pitiful state..."
Those same fingers reached to press buttons on the side of the visor she wore and the glow of it suddenly sprang to life, leaping off her face to hang hovering and human sized before them... and full of static.
"I would like to point out that there have been other... flubs by mauvians in the past." She said as she studied the display with a pained expression. "A few years ago, a bunch of humans were turned into cats because of a botched attempt on tech. I've never seen anything like this though. Not even a blip of downtime. It's always worked smooth as silk..."
It had taken Pyewacket some time to make his way to the Mauvian command center; things were busy in the book shop lately and he found himself preoccupied with horoscopes and getting petted by the shop's patrons. It was a busy life, but a good one. He wasn't that experienced with being a Mauvian, but he'd gotten the message broadcast from this very HQ and was curious as to what he'd find out here.
As he entered the secret headquarters, the first thing he noticed was all the other cats. "Oh my," he murmured to himself. He had never imagined there were so many Mauvians in Destiny City. And one, apparently, who had achieved their human form! Remarkable!
The fluffy blue-grey cat padded through the gathered cats over to the blue-haired humanoid Mauvian, who seemed to be in charge and talking to another cat, whom he remembered seeing at the hospital (and oh, what a mess that had turned out to be!). He sat down next to the elegant Savannah, twining his tail around his front paws, and listened for a bit.
"Excuse me," he finally spoke, "and forgive me, I am fairly new at all this. Am I to understand that the entire network is down? If that's the case, how did the summons to all of us get sent?"
