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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-06-10 11:47 pm
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IC INTRO - JUNE '18

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?

----

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.
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[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-15 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Hot water, kind of swirly- it's basically the same thing as a washing machine, right?]

So, real important question for you here, super fucking serious.

[Jail asks, with an expression of grave and terrible solemnity:]

Would you get it if I tried to flirt with you by making a joke involving the word 'horny', or does whatever translation shit that's going on here not cover puns?

[JAIL NO.]
dubiouslychthonic: (go on)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-06-15 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[The troll arches an eyebrow behind green-lensed glasses.] The pun translates just fine, but I can't imagine that broadcasting the pun ahead of time is going to do any great wonders for the pick-up line.

[Not that she's got any great high ground on that front, but. It's the principle of the thing.]
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[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-15 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Well it's not gonna be good- let's not kid ourselves, if it was funny it wouldn't be a pickup line. Cheesy pickup lines are for seeing if whoever you're hitting on thinks you're hot enough to make jokes that fucking dumb without killing your chances.
dubiouslychthonic: (Skeptical)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-06-15 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
An interesting theory. [Her tone is dry, but not disinterested, and she cracks a smile.] You make a lot of personal decisions based on what people are willing to overlook?
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[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-16 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, that sounds way classier than 'whatever I can get away with'. Sure, let's go with that.
dubiouslychthonic: (distracted)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-06-16 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad to be of help.

[She leans back in the water a little, slipping down in her seat with a sigh. It's been a long night, and a long week, although at least she's not as exhausted as she'd been in the aftermath of the forest fissure.]
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[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-17 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
So, you got a name or should I just call you 'gorgeous'?

[Aaand she accompanies this with a wink. Jail, why.]
Edited 2018-06-17 00:39 (UTC)
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[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-06-17 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[The troll chuckles. She's not sure she's impressed, exactly, but she's not immune to flattery, either.]

It's Jetshard. You got one, or should I just call you "determined?"
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[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-18 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Name's Jailbreak, but I'll take 'determined'. Or 'sexy'.

[At least she's finally met an adult who has something like a proper troll title?]
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[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-06-18 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
{Something like. It's not quite the right length, but Jetshard's grasp on written English is uncertain enough that she'd need to see it written down to be sure how many letters it is anyway. Anyway, she's stopped expecting humans to have sensible names, and she's more interested in putting a face - half a face, anyway - to a name that'd been mentioned to her earlier in the night. Faith had, after all, suggested that she might find Jailbreak of similar political sensibilities to her own.

Not that she's inclined to turn this conversation to such things. Not at the moment.]


I'll take that under advisement. It's good to have options.
nor_iron_bars: And in my soul am free (No that ain't your style)

[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-18 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thanks for wingwomaning this, Faith. Sort of.]

Oh, I give fucking fantastic advice.

[This is a lie.]
dubiouslychthonic: (Laugh)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-06-18 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jetshard laughs. Her grin is a broad enough now that she's not making any particular effort to hide that her teeth are... not particularly formidable by troll standards, but certainly more fang-like than a human's.] Oh, yes, I'm sure the judgment of someone whose first impulse is to fling cheesy lines at a strange woman of - I'm assuming, here - unknown species is impeccable.
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[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-18 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ooh, interesting, those might be fun to figure out. ...and frankly, the fact that this is Jail's first reaction to noticing the very sharp teeth of the woman she's been hitting on should tell you everything you need to know about her judgement.]

Yep, I'm a bastion of wisdom. I got all kinds of secret techniques and cunning strategies that'd tell me what species you're from. There's this one super fucking devious one I call... asking.

By the way, what species are you?
dubiouslychthonic: (Skeptical)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-06-19 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Asking? Pretty underhanded. Probably some kind of war crime.

I'm a troll.
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[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-19 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well, I'm a loose fucking cannon, I don't play by no rules.

Huh, neat. Like the horns, very stylish. I'm a human, but I get the feeling you've probably seen us around by now. We get around like that.
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[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-06-19 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[She chuckles.] Oh, yes, I spent the better part of my first few weeks here buried in a pile of human medical textbooks.
nor_iron_bars: Alone that soar above (Keep doing what you're doing)

[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2018-06-19 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh, maybe I oughtta start doing some research. Any recommended reading?