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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: (002)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-03 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. It's the least we can do to repay their hospitality, I feel, and they've suggested that it might help find a way to return to our homes besides.

[She pauses.]

There would probably have been fewer of us for this one if we knew ahead of time what it would be like, but we don't until we're there.
misanthropicprinciple: (3+6 is...?)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. The androids don't know, either? Guess they don't get out much...
thoroff: (046)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-03 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
They do have a station to keep running.
misanthropicprinciple: (A little hero on the inside)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought it was their job to research the Fissures, though. They don't actually go out to do that?
thoroff: (051)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-03 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe they were meant to support the humans who actually had that job.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="chane" site="tumblr.com"> (Aside...)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Okay, my bad. One of them did say they do all the maintenance and stuff, that makes sense.
thoroff: (002)

[personal profile] thoroff 2018-05-03 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently, the original researchers were sealed away for their safety. Fissure exposure isn't harmful per se but I've been told it may cause you to spontaneously develop magical powers.
Edited 2018-05-03 21:10 (UTC)
fistsofchange: I'm going to get us involved again (I promise I won't get us involved again)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-05-03 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I make no promises.

I might need that tea, later.
misanthropicprinciple: (Explain me a thing.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
...Not gonna lie, that's the most awesome side effect I've ever heard of.
nojohnyouare: Reading with glasses on. (but it's so hard my love)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-03 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...It's not?

[Nom.]
blackestwitch: (tell me what do your elf eyes see)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
You were in a... mall. Like, working there? There weren't any pizza places nearby?
blackestwitch: (sometimes i think about. stuff.)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Distorted reality... [ That sounds! Really familiar!!! But she didn't do this okay! ] Huh. That sounds like, ah, what one of the magical girls back home could do. Probably not as large, though.

[ And a quick subject change, so she doesn't get questioned about that too much- ] About how many of these Fissures are there around here?
blackestwitch: (see what i have to put up with)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not very normal, are you? [ WOW MADDIE. ]

...Not that I really am, either.
blackestwitch: (let me talk at you)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Mr. Izunia then. [ Like how she addresses a teacher at school, almost. ] I'd like to hear how magic works in your 'world' some time - I run... ah, ran... a podcast about magic. I guess I don't run it any more, until I get back home.

[ Her cat gives Maddie an 'are you serious' kind of expression and meows. Maddie brushed him off. ]
seafoamgreen: The nameless hero (Into that silent sea)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-05-03 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Pizza

[Undyne appears to be examining the pizza with an expression of deep, serious thought, looking back and forth between it and what appears to be a bowl of noodles she'd picked up at some point before they'd left Viella's shop. Apparently she just took it to-go?]

[She'd really meant to just eat it there, but every time she tried to start eating it had just reminded her of Alphys and how excited she would have been to try real, actual ramen, made by a human and everything... In the end, she wound up waiting too long and accidentally walked out holding the bowl, ramen still uneaten, and hadn't noticed until they were back at the Station.]

[Hopefully Viella wasn't really fond of that particular bowl.]

[She could just ask one of the androids to hand it over, and forget about the ramen entirely while she started in on the pizza, but that would be wasting food...]

[Mind made up, she pulls a cell phone out of one of her jacket's pockets and taps at the screen a couple times, pulling up her dimensional box app. The bowl of ramen vanishes into nothing with a faint chiming noise, and she puts the phone away again.]

[Then she starts in on a few slices of pizza. She's pretty hungry.]


Annex Library

[She's probably not the only one who thinks this library raises more questions than it answers, especially in the history section, but her muttered complaints as she looks through it may be a unique version of the problem:]

Alphys had way better human history books than this crap, where's all the giant robots? This isn't even illustrated...

[Someone might need to find the graphic novel part of the fiction section for her, because it's going to take a long while before she manages to find the manga on her own.]
dubiouslychthonic: (Smile)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-05-03 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. She did ask. You can't really complain when your blunt question gets a blunt answer, and her practiced composure mostly holds other than a bit of a green blush beneath the faint scattering of jade freckles that occasional sun exposure has given her. She brushes her bangs out of her face with one hand.]

That's a shame. There might be something relevant in my quarters.
blackestwitch: (tell me what do your elf eyes see)

pizzaaaa

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a girl in a flannel shirt and SURELY NOT EVERYBODY WAS KUNG FU FIGHTING T underneath just kind of moving down the tables the buffet is set up on, one hand holding an empty plate and the other running along the table's surface. She pauses when her hand reaches a pizza, puts her hands on top of the pizza for a moment to feel the toppings, and then moves on. Gross.

She pauses when she reaches a noodle bowl. Because. What? ]
Why is there a bowl...?
Edited 2018-05-03 23:13 (UTC)
nojohnyouare: Even her clothes look like Clarith's. (the ship is slowly sinking)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-03 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mai stiffens and frowns. She looks Maddie over and finally shakes her head.]

It seems uncommon. Among the people here.
blackestwitch: (Default)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Maddie cannot see the stiffen or frown! Sorry frand. ]

Is that so? That's... pretty weird, in and of itself.
nojohnyouare: Getting up, shutting down emotionally. (a thousand other faces)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-03 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, it's not like Mai's changes in expression usually exceed 1mm anyway.]

Interesting people. For the people I came with... It was on purpose. The first time. But apparently an accident now.
blackestwitch: (let me talk at you)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She wants to ask about "the first time," but let's continue with this other train of thought for a moment ]

You'd expect a very random spread from an accident. Not a... swath of "interesting" people.

'course, the most interesting thing about me is that I'm blind, so that's not actually saying too much.
nojohnyouare: Turning to speak. (they think i'm crazy)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-03 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
There's more than that. There's more to most people. Even if they don't know or say.
seafoamgreen: You want an ideal world, right? (Default)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-05-03 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[A silver ankle chain with a cluster of white and silver feathers near the clasp. When worn, it causes the wearer to fall more slowly - not enough to prevent all damage, but enough to make falls of up to twenty feet or so perfectly safe.]

[This is honestly pretty cool, but between magic and her own strength Undyne can already pull off some pretty ridiculous anime jumps, so into the box for someone else it goes.]
blackestwitch: (thanks for coming to me ted talk)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You almost sound like a motivation speaker there. [ Not sarcasm! ]

But I mean, seriously, it doesn't seem like there's that many people here. Yet I've already met a king, a monster... plus there's you, and me. It's weird.
seafoamgreen: Too much obsession is stupid (Red as a rose is she)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-05-03 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That, uh... that one's mine.

[Undyne awkwardly picks up the bowl, getting it out of Maddie's way and disposing of it via dimensional cell phone app.]

Well, kinda mine? I forgot to give it back.

[She's going to return it to Viella eventually, she swears.]