I JUST... REALLY LOVE XENOMORPHS

[dousing]

IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU MEME Sure we've got your fun interplanetary romps, your space spaghetti westerns, your xenoromance. This is none of those things. This is you getting lost in the depths of space. This is you being stuck in a silent hulking dead ship with no idea where to turn. This is you hiding in the dark and hoping the creature doesn't see you. This is you, surviving some kind of horrors. Or not. Do your best.

THREAT • YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHIES Xenomorphs, facehuggers, necromorphs, predators, whatever: the threat you're up against is some kind of being you've never seen before. Perhaps they're engineered somehow, perhaps they've evolved this way. Either way, I hope you can figure out how to kill them before they kill you. • I'M AFRAID I CAN'T DO THAT Why the hell did we think building un-tethered AI was a good idea? Your threat is an android, or a ship's AI, or I don't know, a sentient race of evil ships that want to destroy all life and suck it into tubes to make a weird baby shaped ship. WHATEVER. The point is, technology is going against you. Can you beat out something with that much processing power? Maybe having bigger firepower will help. • I LOVE... ROCKS Your threat is environmental. An exploding sun, an alien planet with an inhospitable atmosphere, your ship's life support systems have failed, your shuttle has gone down in flames. Can you cobble together some way to fix the problem before you all die? • THIS IS NOT A RESCUE SHIP Screw the other problems, what you're up against are HUMANS. Or, you know, whatever species/race matches yours. We're not xeno-racist here. Anyway, you're being targeted by your own. Maybe you're in the way of a scientific development, or you've become expendable, or they want to take over your ship, or they're just plain evil. • ABOUT 15 SECONDS Holy shit. Holy... shit. You were outside your ship making repairs and you got knocked off track. Maybe your fancy magnetic boots failed. Maybe some debris from your ship took you down with it. Either way, your space walk has become a space "holy shit help I'm going to get spaced, someone get me back on board." Try not to panic. • WE'RE THE ENEMIES You've been out in space too long. Everything is going strange and everything is a threat. Is your space sickness psychological or physiological? Is it spreading? Is there a cure? LOCATIONS • PLANETSIDE Crash landed. In an outpost. Building a new life. You're on a planet not your own and things are going horribly wrong. What can you do when you have no way home? • STATION SWEET STATION Whether you're out in your ship or in a streamlined space station, things are rotten in Denmark. You'd better fix that circuitry before you all die. Just a suggestion. • THE GAPING MAW There's nothing around you and all you can hear is your breathing. Are you calm? Panicked? What's it like floating in the vast expanse of space? • IT'S INEVITABLE You're lost in your own head. You can be anywhere, but maybe you're the threat because you've short-circuited from being in space too long. The mind can only take so much. Try to be gentle. Try to breathe. No one's after you, it's all in your head. As always, these are just suggestions. Also, not all examples are strictly hard sci-fi but we do what we want in these parts. Make up anything you want, as long as you're having fun!

Comments

"Marie" | OC | OTA

[onewithwater]

Kairi | Kingdom Hearts (Kairi the hero AU) | OTA

[keyblade_heroine]

(OoC: Let's see if I can actually do tags here!)

Djem Ahmad | OC

[fresh_to_deaf]

[well this sounds horrifying.]

peter quill | mcu | ota

[nostalgiabomb]

treize khushrenada | gundam wing

[draizeng]

sympathies → planetside

[nuozha]

Wufei has been Earthbound for eight weeks now. The crash happened six days ago. The first death was four days ago. The latest death was two hours ago.

It feels like a countdown.

The ship (transport carrier, light load, likely only carrying people looking for people like them) had only had one living person in it when it had crashed, a woman babbling incomprehensibly, wounded and so panicked that it took three people to sedate her. There weren't enough bodies to compensate for a full crew and scorch marks on the walls told them... what? There was some kind of viscous residue too, corroded holes in metal that were even more questionable.

They could never get a clear answer to that question. The woman that had stumbled into their tiny world had finally become lucid for a few moments two days later. Burn them, she'd rasped out and then died. Wufei had overseen the disposal of the ship himself. They take nothing from it, nothing that could have been potentially useful. It's not worth the risk. The entire thing is immolated, ripped to pieces, melted down, by Shenlong. By the time he's satisfied there's almost nothing left at all.

They're still wary, of course. What killed the entire crew isn't clear and there had been nothing on the ship to attest to what it was.

Well, they'd found out, hadn't they?

It's almost impossible to tell how many there really are now, hulking shining black creatures and their offspring. It'd started with one but they hadn't been able to kill it (even with fire - it had been wounded but alive) and now it's reproduced. They aren't even sure if sequestering the civilians will help but they're as safe as they can be, what little fighting force they have doing their best.

(The first man to find out that their blood is acid had gotten away lucky and is still recuperating.)

Right now, Wufei is alone. Pulse weapons have worked the best so far but it's not like those are in abundant supply and it also isn't like Shenlong can fit into such close quarters. His head is bleeding, he'd had to shove his knee back into its socket about an hour ago, and he's not sure what direction he should be worried about. The corridor he's in is a tight fit but the creatures can fit into even tighter ones, somehow.

Wufei moves slow, careful, back pressed to the wall. He hasn't seen a human in forty-five minutes.

peter quill ★ marvel comics ★ ota

[starbuckslord]

Keith | Voltron: Legendary Defender

[tempredmental]

ota, s2 compliant

Duo Maxwell | Gundam Wing

[divine_braid]

ota

Michael Corvin | Underworld | ota

[lycanhybrid]

[Space vampire/werewolf, anyone?]

Scarecrow | Batman Arkham Knight | ota

[doctor_terror]

The Rat King | TMNT (2012)

[rateyes]

[roddy_reinigen]

[Roddy is a rat person. The Rat King has a telepathic communication with rats. Want to do something together?]

leto hawkins ▎original character ▎ota

[stardog]

Nemesis | Nemesis the Warlock

[archdeviant]

[ Depending on what game he's playing, he's happy to be either a hero or the monster itself- quite possibly a bit of both by setting up a horrible scenario just to be the one to fix it. ]

ripley! from alien3!

[muthurfucker]

[ SHE'S PRETTY MUCH LIVED THROUGH ALL OF THE ABOVE HASN'T SHE. (or not.) alien/s version are also available as slightly less depressing options. ]

josh lyman | the west wing | ota

[hardballsy]

Samus Aran | Metroid

[raisedbybirds]

[well I can't not]

[metaphobia]

[ Can I offer you a friendly but curious starfish alien? I can tailor him to that lovely kink list you have np :D ]

gamora | guardians of the galaxy

[godslay]

allison argent | teen wolf

[industria]

Harry Osborn › Spider-Man

[goblinjr]

( who's excited about james franco being in the new alien? this gal. this, however, will have to do until the movie comes out. up for whatever shenanigans you wanna go with! )

[old_school]

((Please tell Len you didn't just stow away on the Waverider, Harry.))

amanda ripley (ALIEN: ISOLATION)

[sollertia]

( up for anything! she's been through most of this already lol. )

Axton • Borderlands • OTA

[gloryhounding]

[Cross-canon welcome.]

Felix • Red vs Blue • OTA

[bloodformoney]

[He might be worse than the monsters in the dark. Any prompt is good with me.]

david dime ( billy lynn's long halftime walk ) ota

[hajjidontsurf]

Noctis Lucis Caelum | FFXV | OTA

[nocteconsilium]

what am i doing

[blindsider]

[ The problem with having an Integrated Guidance and Navigational Intelligence System is that they're constantly learning and changing. So while most of the crew get gentle chiming music of gradually increasing pitch to wake them, Noctis generally gets a fairly stern "Wake up, Noctis" -- or, if he needs to be out of bed within the next ten minutes, klaxons.

This is definitely a klaxons occasion. To be fair, it would be klaxons for everyone, but most of the crew is on the nearby station reporting findings from their latest jaunt on a derelict ship. It's Caelum, Fortis and Khara holding the fort, and considering Fortis has just expelled something that ripped the lungs out of Khara, there's nobody else to wake. But while the alarm blares in his sleeping pod, the neural interface allows the ship's AI to be heard as if he's speaking right in Noct's ear. ]

Get up, Noct. There's a situation.

Viktor | League of Legends | ota

[glorious_evolution]