Podpop

[cityship]

[ooc: Newbie Helpers List | Instructions: Post your character with one post establishing them as being podpopped. Tag each other in groups of 2's, 3's, and 4's, to get some interaction to start with. If a thread doesn't already have 2 or 3 people tagged in, tag it with your character's podpop popping near the other people, rather than making a new

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[nodamsel]

The first thing she was aware of was the frantic howling of her dog. Nothing particularly new, Boulder never shut up, even when they were at camp. There was always something to bark at, and bark he did. But the new parts came quickly after the distant barking. She was dumped from a disgusting liquid-filled sack onto a fleshy floor. Gasping for breath she pulled herself up to her elbows, squinting through the goo covering her face. A moment later there was a friendly large tongue, lapping the stuff up without trepidation, and she reached out taking a hold of her dog's neck the second she could see, pulling herself up

[deusrexmachina]

Hal Emmerich came into the world disoriented, everything swimming before his eyes as he was ungracefully ejected from the capsule and onto the floor, feeling not so different from a fish out of water. It took him some time to rise to his knees, and even longer to stand as he took in his new environment. A foreign environment, like nowhere he could yet recall. And from the moment that thought penetrated his mind, Hal had to do everything within his power to quell his rising fear and panic, though his heart was already hammering in his chest.

His next thought was that he had to be dreaming.

No other explanation made sense to him, though his senses seemed to be screaming at him that things were most definitely otherwise. He could feel the slime on his body, and the faint heat of a blush rising to his cheeks when he became so very, very aware that he was naked, with whatever cover the slime provided him hardly adequate for someone as awkwardly self-conscious as he was. He could hear that voice in his head. Not through his ears, but in

[nodamsel]

It was lucky that she'd been warned off by Stacy, because while that hardly eased her, she was a little more slow to call her hound in to attack.

"Calm down," she sighed, whistling for Boulder to return to her side and starting towards the man avoiding eye contact. "I do not harm innocents, and so long as you're not going to attack me, the dog will behave." She would probably actually find his behavior more amusing, had she not just stumbled upon him in the middle of a fleshy hallway without any of her gear.

"I'm guessing you've got about as much of a clue as to what's going on here as I, hm?"

[deusrexmachina]

"Attack you? I, no. Why would I? I couldn't possibly..." he said, almost more to himself than to woman. He might've laughed, had the circumstances been different. Him attack something? He couldn't even fight to save his own skin.

At her next question, however, Hal shook his head, shrugging his shoulders, and trying very hard to keep his mind off the fact that the both of them were naked. He felt awkward just thinking about it. "...You're right on both counts, unfortunately, though I wish I did."

[fluffyapartheid]

A little red creature with many legs, not much bigger then a short dog, slipped out of a pod and landed on the floor. She slowly opened her eyes and rolled to her feet. For a moment, she was calm, having not quite comprehended the situation yet. Then, panic started to edge into her thoughts, her fur standing on end. She did not recognize this place. Had she been captured?

||You have been Chosen to accomplish a Great Purpose.||

She listened to the voice speaking, but it did little to calm her. But she had few options, and for now, she decided it would be best to listen to the voice. Still, she would look for answers.

[icanhashat]

Jayne was confused.

Jayne was covered in slime.

Jayne was naked.

Only two out of three of these things did not bother Jayne so as he balled his fists and tensed up for an attack his mind raced to try and put all the pieces back together.

Alright I was in my bunk...drinking...and then...

Nothing. This was not unusual for Jayne either after all he did like to indulge till he could indulge no more.

There were people around him, all of them looking as disgusting and confused as he was and...oh hey womenfolk. Well shame and modesty had never been Jayne's strong suits either.

As thing settled down he muttered ambiguously, "Gorram it not again..."

[seeing_eye_cat]

There was a crack, a hiss, and then a pod near Jayne broke open, releasing- Well, that certainly wasn't a humanoid.

Certainly didn't seem to be concerned with the fact that he wasn't wearing clothing, either. Then again, Arhu never wore clothing - fur was good enough for him, thank you. Still, there was this whole issue about being covered in absolutely disgusting slime.

"Oh fwau, what is this vhai'd stuff? Irh's balls, this is worse than the blown-up rats! This is worse than London's mess!" He probably wasn't particularly understandable, given that he was speaking in Ailuran, the feline language that all cats use, but he was definitely shouting in it, so Jayne should at least be able to hear the yowling, spitting little half-grown cat.

Arhu managed to recover his equilibrium now that he was on his feet - never took long - and hesitantly tried grooming. But augh, the taste was disgusting, and he made ew-faces the first several licks. So. Gross.

[icanhashat]

Jayne stared.

And stared.

And stared.

Then finally, "What the hell?"

Eloquent as usual Jayne.

[seeing_eye_cat]

He turned when he realized that he'd gathered attention, and before he could really think about it too much, spat in the Speech, "Look, you don't even have any fur, so what are you looking at? You're covered in just as much of this vhai'd crap as I am!"

Considering that he is, in fact, using the Speech - the language that all living things understand, and quite a few things that aren't alive as well - Jayne just had a cat yell at him.

After a moment, Arhu grudingly added, "Oh yeah. I'm on errantry, and I greet you." Because he could just about feel the claws in his ears from Rhiow swatting him for forgetting his manners.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Mindy Macready was used to situations that weren't going her way having a start and ending point. She can recall choices that were made that brought her to the situations that caused immediate reactions. For instance, she became Hitgirl, she fights for her life. She chose to fight against Frank D'Amico, and she couldn't just beat them up: she killed them. She chose to trust Kick ass: she loses her father

[vissernone]

Eva tapped her husband's untouched plate with the tip of her fork, an impatient sneer on her face. "Peter, eat your dinner, for God's sake. Our son's going to be ticked off at you if you do this whole Veil of Mourning cra

[hit_girl_mindy]

Someone was taking to her. Crap. Okay,s he klnew jhow to handle a situation like this. daddy would have always told her be unassuming, and see EVERYTHING. It was the only way to stay alive. Sure, thios woman looked as if she could be someone's mom abd she had slime like her, but it could still be a trick. She still didn't have all the details.

"A ship, I guess," she replied, her voice sounding small. "I don't even know how we got here though. Something about fighting an alien species called the Ohm. I'm still trying to get all of this slime off me. What's going to happen to us now? Where are my clothes? And why pick us? I don't understand. I want to go home!"

Yeah, that was the typical ten year old reaction, right? Whining about stupid discomfort. The REAL questions were the ones that Mindy knew wouldn't be answered by someone just out of these disgusting pods. THose she'd have to get by moving out of this humid place.

"Where are you from?" she asked.

[andyallgrownup]

Well, this certainly wasn't one of the things that Andy had ever expected to happen. One moment he was at that party that his roommate had dragged him off to against his will, and the next moment he was... somewhere. Covered in slime.

And naked. And no wallet anywhere near him, Mom was going to flip whenever he told her...

And then he realized that this place wasn't anywhere that could possibly exist anywhere. What the hell was going on?

He looked around, seeing a few people near him... one looked like a woman and the other was a little girl.

He was about to ask them what was going on when he heard a voice in his head... and now he was just standing there and staring.

[hellraiser02]

"Euuugh..."

Duo ran a slime-covered hand through thoroughly slime-soaked hair with a grimace. Didn't these organic world-saving ship guys know what a pain it was to get alien snot out of long hair!? The least they coulda done was keep it braided for him, but apparently they really wanted their naked pod people kept 'au naturale'.

With an expression of pure irritation, he flings the newest glob of slime away, glancing around at his new surroundings. It sure isn't the trash barge the Gundams had been about to take off from, though the humidity within is similar. Did that mean Quatre and Trowa were still in Earth's orbit, or...?

And speaking of--

"Crap--"

Duo leaps out of the pod on an impulse, eyes sharpened as he realized-- Where was his Gundam!?

[nightbeatcop]

"No kidding."

Elisa was just next to him, awkwardly trying to squeeze goo out of her hair. Oooh....naked.

Very naked, awkward.

It wouldn't be the first time Elisa had regained consciousness in a strange place, but usually she had her clothes on, or at least people were waving guns at her, demanding...something or the other.

"Hey," she called. No time like the present, "Know where a girl can find something to wear?"

[hellraiser02]

The minute Duo's head wheels around and his eyes rest on Elisa he shrieks, head immediately whipping back around the other way and a hand coming up to cover his eyes.

Thaaaaat's a lady.

"Sweet Mary n Josep-- SORRY!! Didn't mean to look, sorry sorry!!"

Right, ask the awkward teenage boy where to find clothes. Jeez, who'd this lady think he was!?

"Uh, well I assume a clothing store would be a good place to start?" he manages out, hand still over his eyes, looking down. "Other 'an that? Ya got me."

[nightbeatcop]

Christ, it's a kid. He can't possibly be older than seventeen.

"Jeez!" So very naked, look at the ceiling Maza look at the- hey, what's that? "Look, I don't like this any more than you do, alright?! Just. Look, I see some kind of..."

It was like a ramp, if a ramp were made out of raw steak. And the steak were glowing.

And green.

"Let's just get out of here."