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oo2 | video | filtered from NPCs.
[ the feed switches on to reveal connor’s face in fuzzy close-up, staticked and blurred. after a moment, it focuses, and he leans back until his shoulders are visible, one arm held out to grasp the camera, which now is recording with a slight worm’s-eye view. his hair is longer, curling around his ears, nearly touching his shoulders, and his stubble's taken on about a month's worth of growth. (he's in his jumpsuit, the sleeves rolled up, so he looks more like a scraggly pilot rather than the mad scientist he actually is, which wouldn’t be such a terrifying thought if he didn’t live up to the stereotype at least 60% of the time.)
hope you guys like handheld shakycam, because this is being filmed more like ahorror movie nature documentary than an actual network post.
the background is quite clearly the science department, banks of computers and jumbled heaps of overturned machines stretching on and on for yards behind him. there's an oddly-shaped outcropping of metal jutting out behind his head, but with the angle of the camera, it's difficult to see exactly what it might be—or if it’s anything at all. spoiler: it is. ]
a very dry voice off-camera drawls out a hey. connor glances to where it's come from, grins quickly, and returns his attention to the device. ] Chapel says hullo.
Anyway, I realised I hadn’t made a proper post since I got back, so I figure now’s a good a time as any. [ he pauses, looking off to the side again, as if to check on something. ]
Erm, right, context would be good—long story short, I was here before, very first month. No, can't tell you how I disappeared or why I'm back— [ actually, he's got a few theories, starting with unfinished business that he fully plans on finishing ] —but I am, and I’ve been here for about a month, workin’ on a few things. Probably why you haven’t seen me around. I’ve been a bit. Underground.
[ which explains the beard, tbh. moving on...
the camera turns from connor’s face to the massive bulk of machinery that had been just off-camera, now revealed to be one of the crudely repaired particle accelerators on the second floor of the science department. chapel is bent over a nearby console, a pair of goggles keeping his hair (mostly) off his forehead; unlike connor, he’s wearing civvies, faded yellow t-shirt standing out against the dingy metal of the machine. he waves a hand in the direction of the camera without actually looking up from his work.
the accelerator is actually monstrous. mostly because it seems to be connected to at least one other cannibalized accelerator, arcing magnificently around the gigantic room like a ridiculously big metallic snake. ]
We’ve been tryin’ to cobble together something like the LHC back on Earth, because we’re not really... allowed to check out the actual jump drive itself, and I’d really rather not drive the commander round the pole, if that’s alright. [ just audible offscreen is chapel’s mildly affronted comment: "well, she likes me." ] All this stuff’s really advanced—I mean, like, really advanced—but we’ve been making some progress. It’s not much, but we’re getting there. And we’re, um—we’re about to execute the first trial run, actually. But it’ll be fine. Just try not to come up here for the next... few hours or so, eh? We’ll try and keep things relatively quiet. D’you—?
[ he’s been pacing for the last couple of sentences, and seems to have ended up with chapel in the periphery of the feed; the question’s aimed at his fellow mad scientist, who takes the comm from connor and looks into it himself. ]
It's... actually, it didn't end up much like the Large Hadron Collider, except for the part where we're running two beams of high-energy elementary particles at each other in a circle. This thing's more like the LHC's midget descendant.
Anyway, uh. Long story short, if you hear any weird noises coming from the science labs or if it looks like there's a brownout going on, it’s not actually the jump drive starting; you’ve still got a couple of days on that front. It’s just us running a souped-up particle accelerator. Please don’t panic.
[ has the phrase “please don’t panic” ever made people not panic? quick poll says NOPE. ]
If we see anything good happen, we’ll stick it on Space Youtube. If not—eh. [ SHRUG. ] We’ll just try again until something does, I guess. That’s all I got, so.... [ chapel glances off-camera quickly before tossing the camera back connor’s way. literally tossing. sorry about that half-second of shakycam ceiling shots, guys.
connor catches it like a pro (a slightly startled pro) and flips it up until it’s got his face in view again. he looks a little apologetic, but it’s unclear as to why. ]
Over and out.
[ SCIENCE. ]
[ ooc: blue is connor, and green is chapel. specify who you'd like to speak to in the comment title! (we're sorry about your flists.) ]
hope you guys like handheld shakycam, because this is being filmed more like a
the background is quite clearly the science department, banks of computers and jumbled heaps of overturned machines stretching on and on for yards behind him. there's an oddly-shaped outcropping of metal jutting out behind his head, but with the angle of the camera, it's difficult to see exactly what it might be—or if it’s anything at all. spoiler: it is. ]
a very dry voice off-camera drawls out a hey. connor glances to where it's come from, grins quickly, and returns his attention to the device. ] Chapel says hullo.
Anyway, I realised I hadn’t made a proper post since I got back, so I figure now’s a good a time as any. [ he pauses, looking off to the side again, as if to check on something. ]
Erm, right, context would be good—long story short, I was here before, very first month. No, can't tell you how I disappeared or why I'm back— [ actually, he's got a few theories, starting with unfinished business that he fully plans on finishing ] —but I am, and I’ve been here for about a month, workin’ on a few things. Probably why you haven’t seen me around. I’ve been a bit. Underground.
[ which explains the beard, tbh. moving on...
the camera turns from connor’s face to the massive bulk of machinery that had been just off-camera, now revealed to be one of the crudely repaired particle accelerators on the second floor of the science department. chapel is bent over a nearby console, a pair of goggles keeping his hair (mostly) off his forehead; unlike connor, he’s wearing civvies, faded yellow t-shirt standing out against the dingy metal of the machine. he waves a hand in the direction of the camera without actually looking up from his work.
the accelerator is actually monstrous. mostly because it seems to be connected to at least one other cannibalized accelerator, arcing magnificently around the gigantic room like a ridiculously big metallic snake. ]
We’ve been tryin’ to cobble together something like the LHC back on Earth, because we’re not really... allowed to check out the actual jump drive itself, and I’d really rather not drive the commander round the pole, if that’s alright. [ just audible offscreen is chapel’s mildly affronted comment: "well, she likes me." ] All this stuff’s really advanced—I mean, like, really advanced—but we’ve been making some progress. It’s not much, but we’re getting there. And we’re, um—we’re about to execute the first trial run, actually. But it’ll be fine. Just try not to come up here for the next... few hours or so, eh? We’ll try and keep things relatively quiet. D’you—?
[ he’s been pacing for the last couple of sentences, and seems to have ended up with chapel in the periphery of the feed; the question’s aimed at his fellow mad scientist, who takes the comm from connor and looks into it himself. ]
It's... actually, it didn't end up much like the Large Hadron Collider, except for the part where we're running two beams of high-energy elementary particles at each other in a circle. This thing's more like the LHC's midget descendant.
Anyway, uh. Long story short, if you hear any weird noises coming from the science labs or if it looks like there's a brownout going on, it’s not actually the jump drive starting; you’ve still got a couple of days on that front. It’s just us running a souped-up particle accelerator. Please don’t panic.
[ has the phrase “please don’t panic” ever made people not panic? quick poll says NOPE. ]
If we see anything good happen, we’ll stick it on Space Youtube. If not—eh. [ SHRUG. ] We’ll just try again until something does, I guess. That’s all I got, so.... [ chapel glances off-camera quickly before tossing the camera back connor’s way. literally tossing. sorry about that half-second of shakycam ceiling shots, guys.
connor catches it like a pro (a slightly startled pro) and flips it up until it’s got his face in view again. he looks a little apologetic, but it’s unclear as to why. ]
Over and out.
[ SCIENCE. ]
[ ooc: blue is connor, and green is chapel. specify who you'd like to speak to in the comment title! (we're sorry about your flists.) ]
voice > video
With one hand he imitates a plane going by over his head:]
Whoosh.
voice
Don't worry about it. It's not easy to explain. Or understand, really. Even if you are a science nerd.
video
video