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

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[zouichi]

His emergence from the pod felt much like his first disoriented steps into the world outside of the simulator. But although the former had also been a shock, he had at least been prepared for his eventual release and designed to function properly in his new environment. This time, he was mostly just covered in some kind of unidentifiable green slime.

And he was naked.

His fingers went reflexively to his side, but his pistol hadn’t miraculously been spared the fate of the rest of his possessions.

On some level, Zouichi registered the contents of the ship's message, storing it away for future use. Stacy, ship, fight the Ohm, Chosen. He had never heard of the Ohm: a new player in the scramble for survival?

His systems sensed no immediate danger, which was good, and the presences of human life, which was better. He turned towards the sounds of the others in the chamber, instinctively seeking those who needed assistance.

[i_sell_drugs]

Howard, now clothed in the plant thing that the tentacles provided - and aren't tentacles just the most charming and comforting thing to find when you're woken up in a pod of goo - notices someone who seems just a bit calmer to the rest. Someone who seems to have instincts beyond Howard's 'panic, scream and cry' impulse.

"Hey! You! Why why why is there a computer talking to me, why am I covered in goo, and is there a way to appeal to the board that picked us as champions and tell them it was a really bad idea?" he asks, nearly hysterical.

[zouichi]

"Where did you get that suit?" asked Zouichi, and then remembered that the man had asked him a question, and also that he seemed very upset.

"I'm not sure, but it didn't seem like making an appeal was really an option. Are you a civilian? I will do my best to make sure you are not harmed."

[i_sell_drugs]

I will do my best to make sure you are not harmed.

Okay, Howard likes this guy. Doesn't trust him, but Howard doesn't trust anyone, but he certainly likes the idea of someone looking out for him in case that weird spiky turtle over there or the tentacles try to do a number on him.

"There's tentacles over there that do things I'm really, really not used to tentacles doing, but they give you clothes, or you know, whatever this is because it's breathing but I think it's supposed to be clothes..." he takes a few deep breaths. The air smells awful but not all that much more humid than oceanside California. "I'm a civilian and I have no freaky powers. I can't be expected to defend myself."

[level12headache]

For the second time in what, to Querl, was only a few hours, Brainiac 5 awoke completely disoriented. Unlike the first time, he was covered in a gelatinous liquid. He was naked and he was on a- were his surroundings biotechnological? He was both offended at his capture and the indignity of waking naked and covered in good… and absolutely fascinated

[smegging_hell]

There is someone else following the lights, currently trying to wring some of the gloop from his dreadlocks. And cursing, can't forget about the cursing. With every step that he takes, he mutters, "Smeg."

Dave Lister isn't best pleased with the world at the moment. He was warm and comfortable, until he was unceremoniously oozed out onto the floor. True, he was still warm, but he was sticky, and naked. And then she was talking to him again.

"Smeg. Smeg. Smeg, Smeg," goes the litany as he heads towards the clothing area. At least, he swears until he spots someone.

"Is it just the ooze, or are you really green?"

[level12headache]

Querl just looked at David. "Are you deformed or are all of your species pink?"

[smegging_hell]

"If you ask me, I'd say we're all pink. Well, mostly all pink," Lister is actually considering this. "Course, Rimmer always thought I was deformed, so it could be both."

"What it like, being green? Can't be easy."

[neveradamsel]

There were several things very, very wrong with her current situation. First of all - she's completely naked, and she's fairly certain that this is not where she was a...

Few minutes ago? An hour ago? Ugh - she's groggy and feeling a little nauseated and she's on her hands and knees after unceremoniously sliding out of a pod, and...

What is that disgusting mess covering her?

Furthermore -

"Why am I naked-!" Horrified and suitably bedraggled, she staggers to her feet, trying in vain to cover herself. Not working so well.

"Chosen to - ugh this is disgusting - an Ohm? Wait a second, Stacy, what others-! You could at least leave me a towel!"

[8wings]

There was a human here, or what looked like a human, and she was apparently trying to hide her entire body behind her hands.

"You heard Stacy too?" Anwei asked, standing at ease with her own hands at her sides. She was having to work pretty hard to keep that ease, though. "Are you from Earth?"

[neveradamsel]

"Yes, whoever she is." Roxanne's voice is a little more high pitched than she would have liked, but it's at least relatively steady this time.

Well, for the most part, anyway. All things considered, Roxanne is definitely not panicking. Nope, not at all.

"Of course I'm from Earth." Her blue eyes stay very firmly on the woman's face, and she clears her throat, and decides to mimic the other woman in her ease. "You aren't?"

[8wings]

"I was on a long-term work assignment on Earth, but no, I'm not." Anwei smiled to try and put the other woman at ease; unfortunately she smiled a little too wide, the corners of her mouth almost touching her ears in a jack-o'-lantern expression. Her teeth were white and chisel-shaped and looked very sharp.
"And I'm sorry, I don't have a towel for you," she added.

[ronnae]

Dropping unceremoniously to the floor, Ronnae coughed, spitting goo all over the floor. She opened her eyes looking down at herself before her face quickly reddened. She hurried to stand, her hands quickly covering her naked self as she looked around alarmed. For a moment she tried remaining calm. Her first instinct was to call out to her father, or mother, or anyone of her siblings for that matter. She decided however, for the time being to hold that thought in case her captors would hear her

[nokosi]

Nokosi had been sitting on the slick floor for the last few minutes, now; hands pressed flat against a puddle of goop, a lopsided smile on his face as the floor pulsed. It was almost like a heartbeat! Those Gnomes weren't lying when they spoke of their ingenuity. Or was it built by Draenei? Ethereal? They were naked, though, so it must have been Draenei.

"Fontaine!" he whispered sharply, "Fontaine, where -are- you? You know, these pod things remind me of harpies. You don't suppose harpies have captured us, do you?"

As his voice rang out in the large chamber, he cocked his head to the side, awaiting a response. Receiving no response, he finally took a moment to take in more of his surroundings.

"Fontaine, I-" his halted in his throat as he focused his gaze on the woman near him. His expression dropped as all the mirth on his face died.

"Ronnae. You're naked. Harpies only capture men, though."

[ronnae]

She blinked as she heard a familiar voice next to her. Her gaze turned slowly to view Nokosi next to her. Almost immediately the hairs from the back of her neck stood straight as a quick yelp escaped her lips, her face reddening heavily.

"Kosi! Wh- wait! Look away!" She clenched her eyes shut as she vainly tried covering herself. "Wh- how'd ya get here too?! Do you kn-know where we are? Other than the vague messages from whatever this 'Stacy' is?"

She opened her eyes slowly awaiting a response. She won't lie and say she wasn't relieved there was someone familiar here, the circumstances however where out of her thoughts at the moment and the young teen was more concerned with her nudity than anything else.

[nokosi]

He sat still as she spoke, silent even after she had finished, seemingly mulling over her words.

"Stacy? We're naked. Everyone's naked. Probably a Draenei ship. She said champions so I guess the Light chose us or something."

He squinted in the darkness, trying to make out the shapes of the other forms in the room.

"But if we have there's going to be a lot of angry Draenei. Isn't this the thing they've been waiting for?"

[8wings]

Anwei Ayles fell out of her pod with a splat, landing on hands and knees. After she sneezed the last of the slime out of her nose, she stayed down for a moment, looking around