[static. just a short burst over the Sphere Network. it's almost an hour before anything else happens ( Read more... )

[it sounds like an earthquake. the ground even shakes, plants and water trembling. but if close attention is paid, the rumbling sounds more like...let's say crumbling. the sound of rocks and sand and trees tumbling into nothing. out at sea, a couple miles from the beach, the sea starts to drain into a particularly massive hole, white-tinged ( Read more... )

This is Commander Orion.

[the image that appears n the Sphere network is no different than it had been all the times before. but the voice is heavy, reluctant. whatever the good commander is about to say must not be good]I want to thank you all for waiting this long. What I have to say is something that I'm not happy with in the least, but at ( Read more... )

[it's just after sunset when the rain finally, finally lessens, then ceases completely. with it goes the shadows and all the emotions that had appeared with them. the clouds remain, rolling ominously overhead, and it feels as though the ground and the plants and what remains of the animals are soaked to the bone, or their equivalents to bone. ( Read more... )

[it's late in the evening when the ship hovering above the Crucible finally moves. the fateful night has come. the weather apparently understands the gravity of what's going on; the fitful rains have solidified into a driving storm, wind whipping violently through the trees, churning the dark, opaque sea into a mess of froth and waves, and the ( Read more... )

[sometime early in the morning, as the rain outside grows heavier, now coming down in big, fat drops that are almost painful, there's a burst of static on the Sphere network, then a whine, and finally, a voice as well as a hazy image clad, oddly, in blue and white. the helmet makes his face impossible to see, but there's something strangely ( Read more... )

[the damp air and low clouds have finally gotten around to doing their job. sometime early in the morning, the sun blocked out by hazy gray-green coverage, it starts to rain. nothing serious, but enough of a wide, steady drizzle that everything ends up damp, slightly cold, and slippery ( Read more... )

[should any character happen to be out and about this fine morning, they might notice something a little...odd. the butterflies seem to have settled somewhat, though a few still flit here and there. the normal wildlife - as normal as a planet full of frog things can be - are filing back out into the forest and field, though their behavior remains ( Read more... )

[how peaceful the Crucible's visit to this planet has been! no hostile natives, plenty of food and water, wide open spaces, a lovely beachfront view, and no captain to torment his unwilling passengers! what a stroke of luck, no ( Read more... )

[it happens sometime early in the evening. it's slow at first, nearly unnoticeable: the tilt the ship has been dealing with for the past week increases, just a little. a few more things fall off shelves or slide across counters. if passengers are looking out a porthole or standing on one of the observation decks, the planet that the ship has ( Read more... )