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

[temperedavatar]

"Yeah...that seems pretty clear now," Korra admitted. On the plus side, doesn't this point more towards this place not being related to the spirit world? She hadn't gotten the impression that spirits took time to name the different areas. So much was starting to make sense and at the same time not make sense at the same time. It was a good thing she wasn't prone to freaking out. One step at a time, right?

Korra shrugs at the statement, "Well, where I'm from people do. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of areas further inland that are pretty uninhabitable. Most of the places with people are near the coast where we have access to ports and trading. But the Southern Water Tribe has definitely seen a big increase in population in the past few decades."

Part of it is likely due to water benders returning to the South, but it wasn't like people weren't living there before without them. Of course, there is also another explanation, "Maybe our South Poles are a little different too."

She glances back at the locked door, "Speaking of places to live. You mentioned checking some kind of sign up sheet? I'm guessing some people have been here for awhile, huh?"

[blackestwitch]

Wow. Living at the South Pole. Maddie is dying just thinking about it. Maybe it IS warmer in this person's version, but how warm could it be near the pole?

At Korra's question, she pauses. "Something like that. I've been here about a month, and I don't think people have been here much longer. Like a few months more, maybe." And then, for clarification, "Except the androids, who are the original residents."

[temperedavatar]

A month isn't too long, and yet it's enough time to get settled in a place, as Korra has found. Not long enough for it to be homey, but enough to be familiar with a place to some degree. "I might have missed the sign up sheet. I guess I'll have to go back and find it before I go trying any more doors."

"Androids?" The term is unfamiliar to her, for one, but also they apparently aren't around. Not that Korra knew to look for them, but so far she'd only encountered humans. "How long have they been here?"

[blackestwitch]

"Androids. They're like..." Maddie struggles to think of how to explain it to somebody who keypads are a futuristic invention for. "...I guess, human-like machines? That move and think and everything else like people. I don't know how human they actually look, since." Waves a hand in front of her eyes like Toph. "But yeah. Anyway, they've been here since way before us, and that's about as much as I know."

[temperedavatar]

Korra found that a little helpful. It was certainly more than she'd known before. Unfortunately, the only reference she has for a machine-like human are the mechasuits her girlfriend manufactures. She imagines though that they aren't quite like that since, obviously, those need a pilot. She doubts asking about that would get her anywhere either.

"Well, thanks for the description all the same. I guess I'll figure it out when I see them then. Is there anything else you think I should know?"