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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-04-29 11:56 pm
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INTRO LOG - APRIL/MAY 18

Eventually, Charm starts herding people towards the parked exploratory drone, a few at a time, mostly people who have finished their noodles or other business. "It's almost nightfall at the Station," he says, "and with this many new arrivals, we're going to have to make multiple trips."

(For those who might ask, he also explains that they've chosen not to stabilize the noodle shop for the time being, as the other androids will almost certainly want to speak to Viella, and have no other way of doing so, due to the fact that they don't dream. Aside from that small region, the Fissure is largely stable.)

It in fact takes four trips total to get everyone to the Station. Those of you who don't fall asleep on the way there - the minute you hit stable reality, the inability to sleep vanishes, and most will be hit with a wave of exhaustion - will find that the Station Annex, a building off to the side of the main station, has been finished, at least outwardly.

By the time the first group arrives, the sun is dipping towards the horizon; by the time the last gets there, it's set, leaving a few pink-tinted clouds in the sky. The drones drop everyone off (and that is everyone, even though of you who have fallen asleep) on the observation deck, where those of you who didn't get your fill of noodles will find several buffet-style tables set up with...

...Pizza? Yeah, pizza, in damn near every variety you can think of, including a few things that only loosely fall under the heading of "pizza." Half a table is full of calzones of various varieties; another significant chunk is things that are just desserts in the general shape of pizza, including a couple of iced cinnamon pastries, a pair of brightly-colored "pizzas" made of canned fruit over cream cheese, and a two-layer cake that's just decorated to look like a pizza, with strawberry jam and round slices of strawberry 'pepperoni' sandwiching yellow icing. Finally, the last third of the third table is just three baskets of breadsticks with varying amounts of cheese and garlic, accompanied by two turrens of dipping sauce (one white, one red) and a tower of little plastic dipping cups.

(Those who opt to head directly to bed will find that the banquet gets packed up and moved back to the kitchens around midnight, though it stays warm under a stasis enchantment for roughly the next day before someone packs the remainder into the fridge.)

In the common room, meanwhile, the usual boxes of clothes and trading post sign are set up. Unclaimed rooms can be claimed by writing your name in on a list set up next to the boxes, on what seems to be a broken music stand with a large ROOMS AVAILABLE sign hanging from it. There is also a rather hastily assembled, hand-poked Braille version of the sheet (with the paper punched through in one or two places).

Those who go looking will find that the androids are somewhat more absent than they usually are after an expedition; save obviously for Charm, and Strange who arrives on the deck as usual not long after, you'll have to go looking. Considering the amount of the station you have available, they could be just about anywhere... But perhaps it'd be worth checking over in that new building...?

[Mod note: Strange is the only NPC with a top-level this round, but others may respond to your top-levels, especially in the Annex areas! Consider it a fun surprise. c:]
founderinglight: ([my place plz])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-01 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Goodness, no, I still cared that much for dignity back then. Cup over your armrest.

[And when Ignis reaches, he will find a mug of still-warm black coffee held out by the handle.]
letsplayer: (Flatter)

[personal profile] letsplayer 2018-05-01 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
It's red velvet. So you can, I dunno, pretend it's the blood of your enemies or some shit like that.

[Now that her Ampharos has set it down, she scritches its head softly. Yes, good sheep thing.]

...how the fuck are you doing the coffee thing.
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[personal profile] promittere 2018-05-01 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
A pity. Could you have imagined the scandal? [He takes the mug gladly, careful not to spill any on Izunia or himself before taking a careful sip.] Thank you.
founderinglight: ([hold])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-01 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
It's no trouble. I carry plenty of extra these days. Every time I run the dishwasher it's a near full load of mugs.

[He summons another mug for himself and sips at it with a sigh.]

And I may not have slept on the throne, but that certainly didn't stop everyone. Peregrinus - the Wanderer, to you - was particularly notorious for it, likely because he sleepwalked at night.
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[personal profile] promittere 2018-05-01 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
I have plenty of cans to go through first, but I might have to take that idea in the future.

[He raaaises an eyebrow.]

I had no idea the moniker was that tongue-in-cheek.
foolishjustice: (Delicious caffeine.)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-05-01 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
Psychic powers.

[Don't mind him pausing to drink a bit more.]

I can create any liquid I want.
founderinglight: ([my place plz])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-01 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, he certainly did other kinds of wandering as well, but I suppose I'm more prone to remembering much of the family as people more than any sort of legendary figures.
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[personal profile] promittere 2018-05-01 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
You would know them better as the people they were than the legends, being able to watch them grow first hand.

So I'm sure you have stories for all the Kings of Yore...?
photoshooter: (PATHETIC 📷 Or did I just Beta you?)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-01 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
O-okay. I will.

...If it turns out I can't control it, would it be safer for everyone if I left?
letsplayer: (So you want to be a Pokémon Master?)

[personal profile] letsplayer 2018-05-01 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Her mind goes somewhere for a moment before she barely manages to stifle a laugh. ]

Yeah, guess that makes sense.

[Help.]
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-01 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, most of them, yes. The most scandalous would probably be... that Eugenius - the Clever - had a near-exclusive preference for men. This in itself is not that noteworthy - the family has always tended towards what you'd call 'bisexual' in general but we've had outliers in both directions - but the issue lay in his decision to marry anyway, and then not tell his future wife that he'd only ever slept with men and never even seen a naked woman before their wedding night.

...He also, not unrelatedly, invented an early form of artificial insemination.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="sketchbooklyn" site="tumblr.com"> (Kiss me.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
I never mind, ojou-san. [He kisses her head.] We'll settle in, figure out who's got the bouncier bed, and I'll only take off once I'm sure the locks work.
misanthropicprinciple: (Oh. Poor baby.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
I guess I could also eat bread pockets, or bread circles.

[Dad, come on, it's Carbs City here.]

These are fine, they're easily transportable and I've got a lot of ground to cover.
misanthropicprinciple: (3+6 is...?)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Okay, that's one point in favor of believable randomness...

Does it seem to favor certain worlds so far? Not just with the people, I can see that myself, but with anything else it pulls in, too.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="nori-mori-blog" site="tumblr.com"> (Anti-heroic)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
Come on, they never let us starve, did they? Pizza's traditional in some cultures for feeding a lot of mouths at once.

[He still doesn't trust this place as far as he can throw it, but he's not going to be shy about food, at least.]
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-01 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
I have no doubts about your ability to learn to control it, provided you put in the effort.
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-01 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
I can at least take a look for you, though I'm not sure how much would show up on a preliminary scan.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-01 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of hard to tell? I mean, most of the books we get seem to be in the same alphabet we use, when you look in detail through the translation magic, but that's about the only reliable metric. Technology level varies wildly, so do languages - pretty much everything. I know Bottom's got a bunch of seed samples that don't grow naturally in this world, too.
misanthropicprinciple: (Explain me a thing.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yup. A well-informed man is a happy one, and the sooner I know the ins and outs of this place, the better. How's it going on your end? Looks like we about doubled your numbers.
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-01 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Who knows? It might even depend on which form you scan. I was never able to look like this in the real world until I showed up here.
photoshooter: (INHALE 📷 You guys...)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-05-01 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Nod nod nod!]

I will, I promise I will. I want to control this as much as anyone else.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="chane" site="tumblr.com"> (Aside...)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. I haven't, but you could ask my dad? Tall guy, his name's Ardyn, if you explain the situation he might be able to kit you out with something at least to practice with.

[He holds up a finger.]

Probably shouldn't be training with live steel at this level, right? We just started out.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="chane" site="tumblr.com"> (Aside...)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
It's also absolutely not the same thing as pizza, but okay. I mean, I don't think anyone would say no to more of that, the meat wasn't bad after days of pre-packaged snacks.
misanthropicprinciple: Edge edge edge edge edge EDGE HARDER EDGEHOG (I grew up.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
But that could be related to geography or history, right? Technology, languages, even plants vary like crazy within any given world. The only thing I can think of that might be consistent would be the history.
burninglight: (into the darkness we will fly)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-01 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're going to go look around, do you want to take Luscinia with you just in case you need to find one of us in a hurry?