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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:]
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
The way I see it, either we're here by accident like they said, and the food's safe, or we're here on purpose and there's no reason for them not to keep us in good shape. I'd rather not keep dipping into our food reserves if I can help it, since we have no easy way to eat that doesn't involve relying on this world in some capacity.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh--right. Yeah, I did. Junpei Tenmyouji.

[He offers his robot hand to shake. This is weird, but, well, it could be worse, he guesses. And it's a better impression than he made last time, surely.]

You were here already?
honededge: (Resting Bitch Face)

[personal profile] honededge 2018-05-01 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean I don't plan on it. When I'm sure that the station is secure, I might even leave the gun in my room.

[The thought makes him a little queasy. Just leaving his gun somewhere else, walking around with just a knife in his pocket. So far he's met carnivorous deer and been told of giant, invisible seagulls. And those were funny and all, but what if something else giant and invisible and carnivorous decided the station was a buffet? What if there was an internal threat they won't be aware of until it's too late? He can't shoot the weather but what if a storm brings the cliffside down, collapsing the station, and everyone falls into anarchy? So many what ifs.]

[Still, he can see he's not making things better, and he does feel a little bad.]


People are being pulled in from other worlds, you never know who's going to come through the fissures, right? All I want to do is be sure nobody comes through that wants to hurt me or anyone else. And once I'm sure of that, I'll be so out of the way and quiet, you'll forget I'm here.
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breadsticks

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-01 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Leave some for the rest of us.

[She doesn't really care all that much — the only thing that even caught her eye was that he seems to be using the same power as Izunia — but jeez, dude, chill a little.]
honededge: (Resting Bitch Face)

[personal profile] honededge 2018-05-01 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Wearing 'em to remember something? That's fair, but "well-deserved" doesn't mean "can't get infected", chummer.

[Wow he's 0 for 2 on people letting him help with injuries. Is it his breath? Is it the gun? Is it the fact that nobody knows who he is and he's offering to throw magic at them while they're vulnerable?]

[It's his breath, isn't it?]
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[personal profile] power_of_dominance 2018-05-01 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice to meet you, Junpei.

[Soma only briefly registers the mechanical hand, thinking nothing more of it than he would the prosthetics they have in his time. He shakes hands, still with that gentle, warm smile.]

Mmhm. A couple of months, I think? Sometimes the Fissures make time seem to flow strangely, and I'm sure our internal clocks are all messed up.

[The purple kittehfly flutters up from his head, flying quickly around Junpei four or five times before settling back into Soma's hair. Soma chuckles.]

Zoomies again, Polaris?
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Much Later

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jesus Lucian Christ, this place is going to take forever to investigate.

Junpei decides to be strategic about it, for his own sanity. ("Sanity.") He starts with the central area, taking down books from each shelf--politely keeping them in order, he's not an animal--and feeling around the space for buttons, switches, cameras, or bugs. None of his searches have turned up anything so far, of course, but there's no reason not to be thorough.

It's boring work, though, and there's Uncle Shitweasel, snoozing away like he hasn't a care in the world. After replacing everything on the shelf he was working on, Junpei dusts himself off, considers the man, and then gives in to his base urges.

He takes some books from the TO BE SORTED box and, carefully, begins to stack them one by one on top of Izunia.]
misanthropicprinciple: (You threw it on the ground?)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, I need the carbohydrates. I've got a ton to investigate and I'm running on, what, three days straight of no sleep? Hard to tell with the everlasting twilight back there. Point is, simple energy conversion.
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-01 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Why not get some sleep, then? The station isn't going anywhere.
founderinglight: ([ppppp])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-01 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's five or six books in that Izunia stirs with a sleepy sound - ]

Mmmnn?

[What's going on, why are there books.]
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Sleeping surrounded on all sides by the unknown, hosted by seemingly friendly but unfamiliar robots? Not happening anytime soon. I, at least, need a mental map of this place, and I think my family would appreciate knowing there's nothing to worry about, too.
misanthropicprinciple: (Explain me a thing.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, cute. [He's not bothered.] New friend from the "Fissure," I take it?
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Shhh. Don't move. I'm sorting.

[No he isn't. He's trying to build a card house out of books. A book house.]
thoroff: (046)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-01 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah, another of these...]

I'd tell you that I've been here a month and nothing at all untoward has befallen me outside of the Fissures, but that's not going to reassure you, is it?
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope. Ex-detective, I was paid to be equal parts skeptical and nosy.
founderinglight: ([ppppp])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-01 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...There's a table.

[That isn't flying even when he's just waking up, sorry Junpei.]
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[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-01 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Maddie is very not comfortable with people going out of their way for her, but she's also smart enough to know that, most of the time, it'll only make things more awkward to fight it if they've already started. ] I feel bad enough asking for help to get my computer set up. But I mean.... all right. Thank you.

[ And to avoid making things more awkward, have a quick subject change! ] My name is Maddie, by the way. Maddie Curie.
misanthropicprinciple: (Explain me a thing.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more fun this way.

[The way where he gets to be an asshole.]

I think you're a lighter sleeper than Dad, actually. I usually get farther with him.
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-01 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. Well, suit yourself, I suppose. Don't push yourself too hard, though — whatever your trade, you're still only human. [Pause.] I presume.
misanthropicprinciple: (Explain me a thing.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Correctly. Well, mostly, anyway.

[He waggles the fingers of his robotic prosthetic hand at her.]

I'm Junpei. And you are?
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[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-01 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
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[She doesn't seem to want to say any time soon. Her face is slowly turning red, however.]
blackestwitch: (tell me what do your elf eyes see)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-01 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
The.... Fissure? [ Somebody has neglected to explain some things to Maddie. ] Is that something to do with that dream forest?
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-01 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[She watches it with an expression of obvious curiosity tempered by just enough tact to not come out and say "so what's with the metal arm?"]

Wren. Nice to meet you.
nojohnyouare: Even her clothes look like Clarith's. (the ship is slowly sinking)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-01 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mai nods in agreement.]

You're right. And the food is good. Did you try the one with fries.

[To demonstrate, she goes straight for a pizza with... there are definitely fries on this. And gravy instead of sauce. Sure.]
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[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-01 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all right. I'm just trying to get myself used to this place's layout, so don't worry about me. [ Her voice is young - somewhere in her teens, by sound.

And, after she speaks, there's the soft 'meow' of a cat, coming from up on one of the counters. Footsteps shuffle over toward that meow's source. ]


Just, uh, let me know if I'm getting underfoot or something.