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capemods ([personal profile] capemods) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2013-04-21 09:16 pm

THE GOTTALA WASWER

WHO: ImPorts.
WHERE: Gottala Waswer of TíraFórsae.
WHEN: April 21st 2013 noon to April 25th 11:59 PM.
WARNINGS: Possible violence, gore.
SUMMARY: Off-world adventure on EARTH KLADSUO834LKSFDLKJ8718=LAJD
FORMAT: Whatever.



[This smaller Gottala looks more like a floating scrapheap yard -- and in many ways, it is. Waswer harvests metal from decaying Gottalas and resells the material to wealthier, more robust city-ships. Such is their industry. The heart of Waswer is a replicator facility that manufactures coal. Quite obviously, coal as a fuel source cannot be mined in the traditional sense, and Waswer is fortunate enough to have invested in a very specific replication formula.

Unfortunately they were about three quarters of a century too late, because there are way more efficient fuels. Waswer is just barely keeping on.

A smaller Gottala that holds about 500 people, Waswer sometimes struggles for sustenance -- they don't have the skill or technology that other Gottalas specified towards fishing or flora replication have.

There's an old story about a man from Iswer falling in love with a woman from Jelebellios. Such an indignity was his courtship, that Jelebellios hired out the two more fearsome mercenary Gottalas to raze down Iswer, nearly destroying the ship entirely. The next fifty years were spent rebuilding the Gottala, and renaming it Waswer in fervent memory of this great offense.

Needless to say, people from Jelebellios are imprisoned on sight.
]
incywincyhero: (spidey: ay yi yi)

[personal profile] incywincyhero 2013-04-23 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spidey hasn't made much headway with the local language, but when he saw some imPorts coming from another ship-island being "forcibly escorted," he thought it best to follow.

He's braced for a fight, but the jailers don't seem to have any objection to letting him in to some sort of visiting area to see the prisoners. Immediately, he hurries in the direction of the figure slumped against the wall.]


Gil, is that you? Hey, hey -- can you look at me, buddy?
invoking: commission. (very no.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-04-24 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Spider-man is the last person Gil expects to see here. When he tilts his head up, he suddenly seems to spring to life. ]

You?! You're here?
incywincyhero: (spidey: arms crossed)

[personal profile] incywincyhero 2013-04-24 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, a bunch of us are. Looks like the Porter's up to her tricks again. You all right? Besides the obvious, I mean -- did they hurt you?
invoking: commission. (apprehensive.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-04-25 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'm fine. [ Well, not really, but that's besides the point in his head. He gathers himself and moves closer, lowering his voice: ] Are more of the crew members still around?
incywincyhero: (spidey: it's tingling more than ever now)

[personal profile] incywincyhero 2013-04-27 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean the locals? [Spidey glances around automatically, even though the nearest guard is at the other end of the hallway, putting on a show of not paying attention. Even though she shouldn't be able to understand them, he copies Gil and pitches his voice lower.] They're keeping an eye on us, yeah. Not the friendliest types, are they? Surprised I managed to talk my way in here, if we're being honest.
invoking: (mistrust.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-04-29 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Locals? I suppose if they all do live here... [ Living on a ship is just weird.

He sighs and starts looking around the cell's entrance, trying to find some way to open it. ]
I need to get out of here. Perhaps one of them has a key?
incywincyhero: (spidey: oy vey)

[personal profile] incywincyhero 2013-05-04 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Whether I can convince them to use it, is the question. I mean, worst comes to worst, I can bust you out, but we're in the middle of the ocean. Not a lot of places to hide, even if they didn't all know this place better than us.
invoking: (not this shit again.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-05-04 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn... do you have an idea where the ship is currently headed?
incywincyhero: (spidey: this is my thinky face)

[personal profile] incywincyhero 2013-05-05 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Since the ship you came off of undocked from this one? No idea. I navigate by landmark, not sextant. And even if there were landmarks here... [He shrugs.]
invoking: (agony of desire.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-05-06 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ He sighs. ]

There's no way I can stay in here.