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piper90npcs ([personal profile] piper90npcs) wrote in [community profile] goneawayworld2020-08-06 08:59 pm

INTERMISSION

Who: Everyone
What: Sudden Plot Break
Where: The Rig
When: Post-Pathless Woods 2
Warnings/Notes: n/a

The world... glitches. The last second repeats itself once, twice, four times, and then the colors stretch and blur, like an old television set that's losing the signal. Then everything goes black.

And suddenly, light. Bright, glaring. The smells rush back, the harsh bleach anti-septic of the Rig. And the noises are almost painful as total silence slams back into the normal workings of Piper 90.

Blinking owlishly, surprised and looking a little uncertain, is a middle-management type. His suit doesn't quite fit, half a size too large, and he's used too much hairspray. Or maybe that's just cologne. Either way, he smiles brightly. "Well, welcome back! Well done and congratulations on the success of your missions. We had some drones at a safe distance, purely for security reasons of course, and we were very pleased with how you handled yourselves. Especially the way you, uh." He pauses and checks his clipboard. The bit he wants to reference is just a smear of ink, the printer must have had an accident of some kind. The best he can read is... "Benedicted that whole cumberbatch issue."

There. He beams, pleased with his translation. It makes no sense, but if he pretends it does, then maybe they won't ask questions.

"Now, we're certain you've had a rough day doing... that thing that you did. So we've authorized an extra serving of dessert for everyone and the rest of today off. You have half of tomorrow off, too. But don't worry about the working half! I'm told that Mister Planker has a special reward in store, so it'll practically be a full vacation day for you!"
heterochrocatic: (070 » I waited around)

[personal profile] heterochrocatic 2020-08-07 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Catra has been sitting there, stiff and uncomfortable ever since they got back. It feels uncomfortably like something she has experienced before--the portal and it's ever-changing realities. She swallows, her claws digging into the cheap plastic seating of her chair. As Dave speaks, she looks over to him with a grimace. ]

Fuck if I know.
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[personal profile] turntex 2020-08-08 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[The actual response, unhelpful though it may be, seems to snap him out of that stiff disbelief, and Dave drops unceremoniously into another of the shitty plasticky chairs.]

I don't even have the energy to address how fucked this is. I need a sub. Someone else play time god today, I'm calling out sick.
heterochrocatic: (049 » And I hope I never get sober)

[personal profile] heterochrocatic 2020-08-10 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Catra looks like she feels about the same as Dave. She slumps down into her chair with a low, unhappy groan. Her whole body is trembling as adrenaline begins to leech out of her bloodstream. ]

Fuck this. Fuck them. What the fuck?