IC INTRO - JUNE '18

[phantasmods]

After the fight with the siren has settled, those characters with phones hooked to the KEystone network will get a text -

Okay, everyone, you had better come back in. There's a storm brewing just off the coast.

Even given Up's usual professionalism, it seems rather... subdued?

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For once, there are no androids at all to greet you upon your return, or arrival, as the case may be. A shelter has been set up for the boats on the shoreline of Glitterstone, however. By the time you tromp up the lighthouse stairs to the level of the Station itself, the sky is beginning to grey with the promised storm.

There's not the typical feast outside, but there is a fairly extensive taco bar set up in the common room, left unattended as well. The room sign-up sheet and boxes of freebies are also there, complete with the Braille versions, and a note at the bottom of both room sheets reads "If all rooms are full, space has been made in the meeting rooms on the top floor. We'll have additional rooms available as soon as possible."

It does appear that someone has updated the murder counter while you were away, however, for the turning of the week. It now reads 15 weeks without murder.

Other than that, you're free to explore, including in the newly finished sections of the Annex (should you be willing to brave the storm to get between buildings). However, wherever you go, the androids are almost conspicuously absent - even in the medical bay and Down's workstation in the command center.

The meeting room they have for their own private use is securely closed and locked.

Comments

[dubiouslychthonic]

Really, because you just about look like death warmed over.

[Look, just because she's a doctor doesn't mean she's tactful. Seeing that he hadn't, like, panicked at the sight of her, she comes over; not wanting to crowd him, but... at this point if he wanders off and falls off the deck or something she's going to feel responsible. Such is the curse of the medic.]

You probably ought to rest. The station will still be here later, you know.

[biddentodance]

[He doesn't seem bothered, at any rate, neither by inhuman features nor lack of tact.]

I'll be fine. Happens a lot. [Not usually this badly, but he doesn't care. He does have cold medicine on him, but it'll knock him out and he doesn't want to sleep again yet.]

[dubiouslychthonic]

Mm-hmm. And do you generally find that that reassures people?

[biddentodance]

...Usually just get used to it? [People here are fussier than people in Iwatodai, so far.] Nothing I can't work through.

[dubiouslychthonic]

[Jetshard sighs.] Well, try to work through it in a way that doesn't involve you falling over anywhere dangerous, will you? If you need help, the medbay's just back that way - [She gestures back down the hallway, at the door she'd recently come from.] - and one of us is usually around. That'd be me, or Dr. Ziegler, or Strange - she's the human woman with the very pale hair, they're android wearing a purple scarf.

[biddentodance]

I have medicine with me. [Thanks to Akechi. He's more likely to be found conked out in weird places than dangerous ones.]

Android? [He has a robot friend, this is of interest to him.]

[dubiouslychthonic]

One of the original staff of the station - there's six of them, all of them are built to the same model so they've taken to wearing different colors so we can tell them apart more easily. [At this point, she's familiar enough with Strange's mannerisms that she'd be able to tell them apart from their siblings without the color coding, but honestly she's less sure she'd be able to positively identify some of the others.]

[biddentodance]

Cool... [He wants to meet them. How like Aigis are they? She's still pretty bad at behaving like an ordinary teen, but this place is already higher-tech than he's seen in Iwatodai.]

If I feel worse later, I'll visit the medbay? [He probably won't, actually. But he'll think about it.]

[dubiouslychthonic]

Alright. [She is thoroughly unconvinced but also as far as she can see the kid's not being a menace to anyone but himself, and sometimes you've just gotta let idiots be idiots.] Have you gotten yourself an apartment yet? I think we're running low, if you haven't ensured you have somewhere to collapse yet you probably ought to.

[biddentodance]

[Issue #43 when you don't care about yourself...]

Not yet. [But that would be a good idea... Good thing he's used to living with a bunch of other people.] ...How low?

[dubiouslychthonic]

I think we still have enough if some people double up - and we have enough people who have family or close friends here that that can very well happen - but we're going to have to figure out alternate housing options very soon. Keystone was built as a research outpost, not a population center.

[biddentodance]

... [He may or may not be considering the merits of finding alternative options to let others have the apartments.]

It does look pretty sci-fi... Researching what, the Fissures?