Thread: The Darkness of Space (QueenChaos & JuniorWizard)

The planet seemed almost unnaturally quiet, for Lara in the swamp it was much more obvious, but for Jade in her temporary home against the cliffs, hidden from the twisting, blackened trees it was much less noticeable. The lack of any sort of rustling about the trees should have told her something, should have made her more aware of her situation, yet it was futile in the end, the girl was too far panicked and annoyed to have been able to properly assess the situation. It wasn't long before the darkness had overtaken the planet, the stark cold a powerful contrast to the almost muggy warmness of the few hours they'd spent on the planet after they landed. Despite that mugginess the few pieces of scattered wood and leaves she had managed to cobble together burned in a small pit in front of her. They were from the black trees, and as they burned they seemed to twist, distend and contort themselves into all kinds of odd and strange angles. As she was nodding off to sleep, Jade could swear she managed to catch sight of the branches twisting around the flame, embracing it before a dark, deep goo dripped down from it. A snap of her head and the quick blinking of her eyes however and the visions were gone. How long had she been asleep? It must have been awhile now. Jade could barely think to herself as she awoke, the cave now in pitch black darkness due to the dead fire in front of her. She'd never seen the true darkness of a world, living on ships meant that there was artificial light no matter the time of day. With the tiny satellites of this planet, even the light reflected to the planet was minimal during the evening, and Jade was unable to even make out the hand in front of her face. Still, even as she struggled to adapt her vision to the darkness, she heard the rustling of black tree branches against the ground outside. Had they been long enough to reach the ground? Jade was fairly sure they hadn't. Still, more unnerving was the soft chittering that seemed to be emanating from deeper in the cave, slowly bringing itself close. Lara on the other hand didn't even have the comfort of the caverns, instead she was subjected to the freezing, battering wind that flowed through the more Earth like trees of the swamp. They hung and swayed in much the same was as the swamp trees of Earth, but unlike those they all seemed to be half buried in the swamp itself, their trunk usually sprouting from the pools of water, leaving the canopy only just a little ways above her head. Despite the fact that the suit would normally keep her warmer, the fact that it was half filled with muddy, stagnant, freezing water meant that the young girl actually felt more cold from the suit than if she'd discarded it completely. Still, walking around buck naked on a freezing alien planet was hardly a good idea, either. Despite this, she still trucked on it an attempt to look for something that might help her, effectively stumbling through the swamp in the dim twilight. As her feet tripped and tangled with the various foliage of the floor of the swamp, thick roots choking out her path, something more sinister brewed. Slipped through the thick roots and the twisting paths was a few small yet durable purple tendrils. They came from a large, bulbous flower just a few feet away that had sensed prey, and as they lunged forward, they attempted to wrap around Lara's ankles and throw her to the ground. Roll 8 As soon as Tessa had touched her she felt Ella's pulse increase, her breathing grow more sharp. Ella was a rookie in many things more than just as a soldier on her crew, and the fact that it was the captain making a move on her after such a stressful day must have been all the more nerve fraying. Yet still, she doesn't object, doesn't remove Tessa's hand and even slowly pushes herself back against the captain, sandwiching her chest against Ella's back. Luckily for the both of them this was just for warmth, even though the way her generous ass pushed back against Tessa made the rubber of the captain's suit twist slowly against her clit. The only unfortunate effect to the side of free love in camp was that even the normally hard willed Lucy was getting distracted. Try as she might the only thing she could make out in the camp was the bodies of her four team mates mashing slowly together, the darkness of the world around them like a brick wall. If she was the only one left out, she was definitely going to at least watch, just a bit.