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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:]
serrata: (5 - Ikjn0rx)

[personal profile] serrata 2018-05-03 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. When it's called for, and all that. But I promise I won't go looking for trouble, at least.
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[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2018-05-03 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I can boost people's combat skills, or their mundane abilities. Some of them can remove the effects of stuff like poison or burns, or just offer healing and energy replenishment.
rhododendronhoney: (smile)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2018-05-03 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't eat too much, then. Although if you do, chamomile tea is pretty good for a stomachache.
thoroff: (021)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-03 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds incredibly handy.
misanthropicprinciple: (S I G N)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, good point. Well, that's a pain. And if this has been going on for a century, there's probably too much crap to go through to get any sense of it myself.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. ...Hey, we get our own shower. That's a plus.

[He thinks about it, then says:]

You know... there's nothing saying we can't each claim a room and then just share the one while we use the other for something else. Like a living room, right? So we have a little more space.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I... guess I understand the feeling. Be kind to your arteries, though, Mai. We can't count on this being a simulation.
misanthropicprinciple: (This reminds me of a puzzle.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. There's a new building?

[He hasn't been here long enough to register anything as newer than anything else.]
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. My original world doesn't have magic, but it is aware of a... certain theory that allows for particular people to transfer their consciousness through time and space, under the right circumstances. And later, I got to experience more serious interdimensional travel, though don't expect me to explain the science behind that, it's five thousand years ahead of me.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really my job, either. You royal types and your sleeping, I've accepted that it's pretty much a force of nature we mere mortals can't stand up to. I work around it if I need anything.

[The book goes on top of Izunia's head.]
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[personal profile] serrata 2018-05-03 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true. It'd take a bit of moving things around, but we could make it work.

[ And then she looks thoughtful. ]

Actually, come to think of it... I think there were a few rooms on the sheet that said "merged", or something like that. Maybe there's a way to get rid of the wall and open both rooms up?
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I can look into it for us. Probably means talking to the androids, but I'll check whose rooms they are first and ask how they got it done.

[He rubs her back. No need to talk to the Overbots if she's not comfortable.]

If we can't, I'll still stay with you. And take another room. Just to be contrary.
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[personal profile] cyclicalconcept 2018-05-03 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, of course!

...!

Speaking of, Akechi-san had mentioned special headphones to help cancel overlapping Noise frequencies in the unstable areas...? Do you know who I talk to for those?
cyclicalconcept: (but I dun wanna be awesome right now...)

[personal profile] cyclicalconcept 2018-05-03 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] cyclicalconcept 2018-05-03 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, goodness, this is hard...hmm...

Actually, I've gotten to liking cinnamon buns...
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-03 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Five thousand... So you traveled into the future?

[She doesn't sound even slightly surprised by that. Like, yeah, time travel's not that weird when interdimensional travel's already a thing, but even so.]
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[personal profile] serrata 2018-05-03 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She wants to feel bad that he's having to do any of this. This is just as upsetting an upheaval for all of them as it is for her, but she can't make herself feel guilty about it. Not yet, anyway.

So instead of responding right away, Yuuri leans over so she can slide her arms around him and press her face into his shoulder. ]


... I'm glad you're here, Junpei.

[ Even though they shouldn't be – even though they should be at home where they belong – she doesn't want to even imagine what sort of a mess she'd be, having to do this alone. So long as the others are here, she can handle just about anything. ]
misanthropicprinciple: (Serious for once in my joke of a life)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Forward into the future and somewhere to the side, distance-wise. Didn't get back to Earth--even the Earth of that future--until the end
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[personal profile] bulletnews 2018-05-03 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
There's just something special about natural ones, though...

[It's lacking something not easily quantifiable.]
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-03 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Where did you go, then?
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="5i2" site="tumblr.com"> (For you.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Me, too.

[He holds her and rocks her gently, pressing another kiss to the crown of her head.

Man. She doesn't deserve this.]


Would've taken a damn long time to track you down the traditional dimension-jumping way, but you know I would, right? I'm glad whatever brought us here saved me the trouble.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="nemissa" site="tumblr.com"> (Free me from this mortal coil.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, wait. How familiar are you with the concept of outer space?
nojohnyouare: Staring ahead. (and wash away my colours)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-03 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[She unapologetically starts eating the fries-and-gravy pizza anyway.]

Exercise will compensate.
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[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-03 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh...

[That's a 'not at all'.]
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I went to, uhhhh. Imagine another world, except it's really only a large house floating by itself. No land around it to speak of. I was trapped there for a couple months, escaped to another planet in that same, uh, plane of existence, and then was captured again at a waystation between worlds.