Talk About Timing...
While chaos was going on in the city, a level below the Living Areas, the rest of the ship was functioning normally. Stacy, apparently oblivious to goings on in the city, likely do to her malfunctioning sensors there, carried on with ship business
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West would be yelling, except that he's made the terrible mistake of trying to breathe in before spitting out the slime that's found its way into his mouth. He tumbles out of the split in his pod's membrane and ends up coughing up a lung on his hands and knees on the eerily fleshlike floor.
"Wha--" cough hack cough "--th' hell--" choke hack ow.
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Hey West, what's your opinion on voices that come out of nowhere?
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Ah, sarcasm. Last refuge of the almost-gibbering.
With one hand, he reaches up to rub at his sore throat, and freezes as slime slides over slime.
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The voice would sound motherly, if it wasn't too busy being monotone. At least it wasn't threatening him while he was naked and covered in slime and in a room made of fleshy weirdness?
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What would have been another snippy if only questionably witty retort is cut short when he realises that the voice is not your common-or-garden audio experience.
"--what the hell?"
His own voice is rather shrill, but he can probably be forgiven for that.
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A tentacle detaches itself from the wall, armed with a syringe.
||You seem distressed. Would you care for a mild sedative?||
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"No!" Now he scrambles upright, if only for the purpose of being out of range of the freaky syringe-tentacle. The disbelieving face he's pulling is fairly impressive: if his eyes stretched any wider then the balls might fall out.
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The tentacle disappeared into the wall again.
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Now that he's on his feet rather than coughing on all fours, it's a lot easier to take in said freaky slimy room and all the freaky slimy things about it.
Well, to stare around it in shock, certainly. The 'taking it in' part might take longer.
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The room that West found himself in was beyond huge. The walls were covered in pods like the one West had been ejected from, and they seemed to go on for as far as the eye could see in every direction. The light was dim and greenish, and was it just him or did the walls look like they were breathing a little?
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Eep.
(Also, there is a reshuffling of limbs in order that his nakedness be not quite so obvious. Because he really doesn't need embarrassment on top of fear, c'mon.)
He spins around. More meat room in that direction, too.
Eep.
"Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit."
When dealing with weirdness, West's immediate reaction is to freak right the hell out. Getting ahold of himself can wait until after the initial meltdown.
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Usually the podmates had started asking questions at this point. Perhaps she ought to sedate him anyway...
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No more tentacles, thanks. They really wouldn't make his day.
"Shit!"
What did he do the last time he felt like his skin was going to leap off his muscles from the sheer electric energy of the fear in him? Oh yeah, he yelled a few wild accusations and then flew the hell away. Nowhere to fly to this time.
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Well, that certainly derailed him, even if it didn't calm him down any.
"I'm in a-- a gut cave-- and there are public bathrooms?!"
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