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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:]
thoroff: (009)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-02 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it? Humans are the most common intelligent beings in my own world, so it never struck me as unnatural, much less sinister.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="akolnoix" site="tumblr.com"> (Are you... you're serious.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-02 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, but unless you want to make the case that it's like that across an infinity of worlds, it seems like something here is playing favorites.
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-02 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I couldn't even begin to contemplate the full breadth of the outrealms.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-02 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I know of seven galaxies' worth of different alien species and planets offhand. Uh, not that I could name any of them, but humans can't be that common in the grand scheme of things.
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-02 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe there's just something about humans that makes us more susceptible to falling into holes in reality? I certainly don't know how any of this works but even if it's more than coincidence there doesn't necessarily have to be some nefarious force directing it.
Edited 2018-05-02 18:57 (UTC)
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-02 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. I'll have to look into it. I know barely anything about this magic stuff, my version of Earth didn't have it.
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-02 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That also seems to be more often the case than not...

Mine does, but inter-realm travel is neither common nor well understood.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="nemissa" site="tumblr.com"> (Do you know who I am?)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-02 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that I have more experience with. Though not of the magic kind, and, uh, previously, not to this extent.
thoroff: (009)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-02 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that so?

[Genuinely questioning, not dry.]
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-02 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Trying to wake him for anything was always awful. Good luck, glad it's not my job anymore.

[He loves Ardyn but also damn it, Ardyn.]
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[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-02 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never heard of magic running in bloodlines before. [ She could see the magi being into that if it actually was the case, though. But her own parents are... well, her dad's not magical. Her mom might actually have been. ]

And, ah... Should I be calling you "your majesty" or something?
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[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-02 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mai mulls this idea over.]

Nostalgic. Almost.
have_hat_will_travel: (Huhwhat?)

Re: Hot tub

[personal profile] have_hat_will_travel 2018-05-02 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
... Oh.

[And now Pidonus notices the sign.]

I mean that part isn't an issue for me specifically, but. Might need to ask if someone can customize something?

... And of course this is a situation where I've got an interesting challenge on my hands.
anarchia: (distantly awoos)

tech lab

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-02 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[He hadn't been so keen on exploring the lab with a newly appropriate wariness of mad scientists, so seeing Futaba there is some pleasant surprise.

He pads up alongside her, looking over the laptop, and then to her eager examination of the room.]


What are you doing?
anarchia: (Default)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-02 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You have a familiarity with those types?

[He hopes not.]
anarchia: (leaping awoo)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-02 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course.

[He'll need those hours to sleep, it all works out.]
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[personal profile] matchmakes 2018-05-02 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Robin has a couple of things to drop off!

-> A single kitchen cupboard, the type you would find attached above a counter. It is not attached to anything.
-> A makeup brush with a pale pink handle that removes any pink makeup worn by the person it's used on (but only pink makeup).

The cupboard was useful for transporting things, but he doesn't really need it otherwise...]
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Pizza

[personal profile] matchmakes 2018-05-02 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I suppose it's dedication to the theme, if nothing else...

[Robin's only got a single piece of pizza on his plate and he kind of looks like hell in terms of exhaustion, but he's not so exhausted he can't be at least somewhat social...]
Edited 2018-05-02 22:11 (UTC)
riderofcharlemagne: (makasete yo scoob)

[personal profile] riderofcharlemagne 2018-05-02 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if you start to drown I can wake you up.

[So long as he's paying attention, of course. He peeks open an eye to glance at Izunia's rummaging through the swimsuits.]

Anything you like there?
riderofcharlemagne: (uwah)

room

[personal profile] riderofcharlemagne 2018-05-02 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Astolfo's merely passing through the hallways, until he catches sight of Shido. There's something about him that makes him really want to punch him, but it seems he'd already been beaten to that.]

What happened to you?!
founderinglight: ([my place plz])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-02 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Different worlds. That's a common enough reaction from most people here. Actually, I don't think I've heard of another world that does do it that way.

[Vague handwave. He's not too concerned.]

And please, no. Just Izunia is fine; I haven't sat the throne in a very long time, I'm quite retired.
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-03 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Not yet, but I suppose I can likely modify it with illusions if I must. Fit is probably more important.

[And also not being like, a speedo. He's not about that life.]
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[personal profile] honededge 2018-05-03 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Talon's not one for pushing, but he doesn't trust for a minute that this guy is going to properly clean his wounds. But hey, he can't force healing on someone who doesn't want it. Nor would he really want to. Having made his offer, his totem's pull is weakened. He's obligated to try, encouraged to succeed, but not punished for failing.]

I'm in room 25. [He gestures down the hall with a nod of his head. He claimed the room less than ten minutes ago, but it's his.] If it gets infected, come see me. The name's Talon.
dubiouslychthonic: (you did not just say that)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-05-03 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[On the off chance that anyone actually wants a somewhat battered car muffler, Jetshard's leaving one here.]
dubiouslychthonic: (The Office camera stare)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-05-03 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, we've got plenty of nuance. It just sounds like we have a more combative baseline we're working off of.

[The pair of them could, quite easily, continue in the vein of casual cultural comparisons for quite some time, Jetshard knows; they've done as much plenty of times in the past couple of months. And it's tempting to just kinda let it happen. But on the other graspprong, Jetshard's a grown-ass troll who is capable of not constantly beating around the bush, so -]

Can I ask if, well, there's a particular reason your immediate choice of reading material on returning to the station was troll social dynamics?