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phantasmalrift2018-06-10 11:47 pm
phantasmods) wrote in 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?
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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.
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.
aiden why are you like this
He'll go get a glass and some ice, that's got to work out, right? Hopefully this isn't the kind of spice that kind of gets worse with water... Okay, ice water get.]
Here, ice water... [Are. Are you okay. Are you alive.]
tune in at rank 6 or 7 to find out why! :D
... After that, he is making a face, hand scrubbing through his hair.
Then, after a lengthy pause, he casually sets the now... empty glass down, and... ]
Hi, it's nice to meet you. I'm Aiden.
[ All that Suffering has his voice a little raspy, but shhhh... ]
Gotta get them ranks
Likewise. I'm Minato.
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Okay, he knows he hasn't saved face even a little, but... at least the guy isn't making a huge deal out of it. If anything, he really seems... genuinely worried about him. This is confusing as hell, already... ]
Dare I ask what inspired that concoction?
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[That. That's the weird part of that mixture, to him? His own cup is still sitting innocently on the counter...]
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And... hot sauce?
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[A...couple years, maybe, at this point? God, he doesn't remember. Don't think about that.]
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[ He shakes his head. ]
We don't have anything like that, bad on my planet. Not the kind that's here, anyway. We have a sauce that is hot, but it's comes in an incredibly dangerous form. A person died from eating it.
[ LITERALLY. DROPPED DEAD. ]
It was so spicy, it gave them a heart attack.
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Wonder how it tastes. [Minato NO.]
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[ STARING FOR A MOMENT. ]
Are you a masochist, or something?
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Does it kill everyone or just the one guy?
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Some people eat it as part of a dare or big challenge.
[ There's a soft snort. ]
It's so intense that people have to sign a waiver before purchasing it, and some restaurants use a diluted form to host Spice Contests - whoever manages to eat the most of the food in a short period of time, wins unlimited food from them for a year.
Things like that.
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[So, a "normal" sauce, but probably spicier than earth standards. He could probably handle it, and if he couldn't...meh.]
Have that kind of stuff where I come from, yeah.
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The contests?
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Don't think there's any food that requires waivers though...
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That's probably for the best. Self-preservation isn't exactly any resident of Daeseon's strongpoint.
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... [Self-preservation, huh...] Wonder how different from Earth it is...
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[ He gives a thoughtful sound. Annnnd suddenly, he's going to casually start talking as though he's reading from some science book? ]
While too much of the sun's warm rays can be harmful to your skin, the right balance can have lots of mood-lifting benefits. Sunlight and darkness trigger the release of hormones in one's brain. Exposure to sunlight is thought to increase the brain's release of a hormone called serotonin.
Low serotonin levels are often attributed to anxiety, depression, panic attacks, insomnia, obesity, fibromyalgia, eating disorders, chronic pain, migraines, and alcohol abuse. This can result in the formation of other symptoms such as negative thoughts, low self-esteem, obsessive thoughts, and obsessive behaviors.
[ There's something awkward in the way he glances to the side after that. ]
Science has come far, but most of the vitamins that benefit mental health are still new. Besides, they focus more on physical health, when it comes to-... the hunters.
[ ........ ]
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Yeah. Earth averages out to twelve hours of sunlight a day....varies, depending on climate, season, whatever. Not sure how much good it actually does for people.
[There are still an awful lot of unhappy people out there. Depression, anxiety, all of that - all the seratonin in the world probably won't fix Earth.]
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Twelve hours a day...
[ That's not too different from what he's been seeing, so far. ]
And for the sunlight to do anyone any good, they'd need to actually spend a sufficient amount of time out in it. [ a faint smirk and shrug ] Oxygen only works because people are forced to breathe it in... But people aren't literally forced outside most of the time.