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

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-06 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that makes sense for the furniture. But the dishes too? Did the station not have dishes originally? [ She's just mulling out loud. ]
nojohnyouare: Contemplating. (some kind of resolution)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-06 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Helpful. He seems responsible. Ardyn... Also responsible. But in different ways.
makejapangreat: (neutral)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-06 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
... I see.

[Futaba is just as much Shido's child as Akechi is. And he's played a terrible role in her life, perhaps not as much as Akechi's... but pretty close. His hand with the napkin balled up in it comes to rest on the table in front of him, while his other fingers come up to idly wrap around the metal straw of his iced coffee and swirl it around restlessly.

He has a duty. A duty to protect them both. And beyond that, he's not sure. A duty to... guide them? To love them, even, despite that they will both hate him forever...? He can see in Akechi's eyes how set he is on hating him. As he should be.

After a few moments, quietly, he looks over at Akechi.]


Is this place good to you?

[He doesn't entirely expect an answer, or an answer that isn't just an insult, but he owes it to Akechi to at least try.]
makejapangreat: (pout)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-06 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[... alastor, that's kinda creepy and Shido is giving you a bit of a Look for it.]

Oh, well in that case... I couldn't be better besides that.

[the sarcasm is Thickening]
caduceusoncall: (Thanks)

[personal profile] caduceusoncall 2018-05-06 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well of course, none of us did, it seems.

[It had been a little joke, but also yeah, for real, nobody plans for suddenly Elsewhere.]

I had been on duty in Iraq, myself. Thankfully I wasn't with a patient.

[Come to think of it, there would be questions and a search and if she ever got back she may be considered a coward for running away from her duties. Nobody would believe she had spent the time in another realm. The thought sinks to her stomach and while Angela keeps a straight face, she feels real fear at the thought that she might not be strong enough to face the consequences of leaving so suddenly and coming back.]

Self sufficiency is good, but remember that you don't have to do everything alone. If you ever need help, feel free to come to me. I will either be in the medical bay or room 17.
makejapangreat: (smirk)

soon astolfo, soon

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-06 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[A wry bark of a laugh.]

If only that were all.
caduceusoncall: (Thanks)

[personal profile] caduceusoncall 2018-05-06 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as they say.

[Her hand comes up to her mouth to cover a small laugh. It's a habit she hopes to break one day.]

Thank you, sincerely. I don't quite have any analytical abilities past medical knowledge, and I'm not sure how far that will take me with some residents not being human, but I can certainly help with injuries and illness. Perhaps you can teach me the basics of magical analysis at some point.
makejapangreat: (alarm)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-06 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[He pauses, then slowly looks at Marla, brow pinched. And then he sees the giant fucking bat and the gem in her chest.

Okay.]


............ a what?

[just ignore them maybe they'll stop existing]
honededge: (Resting Bitch Face)

gg shido

[personal profile] honededge 2018-05-06 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Talon isn't doing anything special. Just poking around the desk, getting used to the touch interface of the computer. But when he hears the knock, he immediately tenses up. Reflexively, he reaches for his gun. He stops himself, though. Made a promise. A promise to relax, more or less.]

[But he sincerely can't imagine who wants to talk to him.]

[Shido will find himself face to face with one surprised boi and an apartment that is somehow already messy. The bed is not even a little bit made (Talon is a thrasher), the couch has a rifle propped up against it, and there's a change of clothes draped over the back of that couch as well (not folded).]

[Right. The repenting guy. He did say to find him if the wound got infected.]


Oh boy. No offense, but you look dead in the water, chummer.
honededge: (Happy)

[personal profile] honededge 2018-05-06 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha, fair enough.

[Talon grins. That's not a bad answer, really. His own crimes were pretty standard for his world. Murder, theft, springing people from jail (or from unlawful kidnapping, in one case), that one time he destroyed years worth of research because someone else deemed it unethical. Typical, really, no big deal in his mind now that he's numbed himself to it. That's why he's willing to start over.. He hasn't done anything irredeemable in his opinion.]

I'll ask again when you inevitably need that wound cleaned up.
letsplayer: (all the children sing)

[personal profile] letsplayer 2018-05-06 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
When I was a teenager [a weird turn of phrase for her to say, but whatever, she's pretty much 20 now] I saw this video on the Internet of a bunch of pears being shipped in a box. Turns out if you don't use those little plastic fruit sweaters they get battered and wobbled around as if the whole thing was some kinda nineteenth century torture device for toddlers.

So. Pear wiggler.

[She tosses the giant monster bat an apple, which it devours whole.]
honededge: (Masked)

[personal profile] honededge 2018-05-06 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Talon doesn't say anything else, letting Down scuttle all they like. He does, however, spend the rest of his time on the roof considering whether or not he should just leave his gun in his room and trust the android outright.]

[After a while, he clicks his mask into place and sighs. Yeah, he'll leave it behind. If he's making people nervous, he's making the environment more dangerous, making people unpredictable. It's not an easy decision, Down, he hopes you appreciate how far out of his comfort zone he's going to ensure that nobody else has to leave theirs.]
foolishjustice: (Tell me when you're done yapping.)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-05-06 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[The phone goes back into his pocket, and he's going to grab a slice of pizza for himself. He glances at the mayo and fish again, before deciding to be adventurous and grabbing one of the more exotic looking ones. Some sort of sausage...the tomato sauce smells nice, at least.]

What does it matter to you? You've never given a shit one way or another, as long as it didn't affect my work as your attack dog.
superstylishsquid: (Is that supposed to impress me?)

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2018-05-06 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[You can't see his eyes, but can you feel him rolling them? While...reaching up with his tail to stir the food.]

How bad is it? First aid isn't exactly my forte, but I think I can at least manage changing some bandages.
seafoamgreen: You are not alone (It felt like a welcoming)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-05-06 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[Mercifully, she is at least familiar enough with what ham and pineapple look like- canned food from the Surface had occasionally wound up falling into the dump at Waterfall- to identify a pizza with both of those toppings visible.]

Yeah, looks like there's one, uh... [She makes an educated guess about Maddie's touching everything and her not noticing a bowl right in front of her, and phrases her directions in a nonvisual way:]

Two pizzas over to the right and one up from where your hand is.
Edited 2018-05-06 22:35 (UTC)
seafoamgreen: You want an ideal world, right? (Default)

Re: library

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-05-06 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Finally, someone who looks normal around here.]

Huh, really?

[She blinks in confusion, then seems to come to the same conclusion that he did.]

If I'm from the future, that's awesome. What year is it for you guys?
meowna: Made by @marshwiggle on Plurk (Always deceiving you into believing)

[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-06 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's 20XX for us! What about you?

[Just..... assume that's an actual year he said, probably somewhere around 2018-modern-day-Earth sensibilities. Persona games try to be clever and disguise when they actually take place.]
riderofcharlemagne: (uwah)

[personal profile] riderofcharlemagne 2018-05-06 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[The laugh takes him by surprise and, yeah, it's a little unsettling.]

What happened? You get involved in something serious?
riderofcharlemagne: (i eat stickers all the time dude)

[personal profile] riderofcharlemagne 2018-05-06 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe he should be about that life.]

It shouldn't be too hard to find one... [He idly splashes the water.] Does that mean you're thinking of joining me?
seafoamgreen: Too much obsession is stupid (Red as a rose is she)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-05-06 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeez, it's 201X for us...

[That's. Actually not a placeholder, it's literally what year the game says Undertale takes place in. She just straight-up said 'twenty-one x'.]

[Maybe you aren't using the same calendar.]
myocordial: (142)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-06 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
...Alright then. If you say so, I trust you will.

[Turns out he really shouldn't have. Lesson learned, trust is garbage.]

The forest was rather draining for everyone, I believe. I... hope you didn't run into too much trouble.
myocordial: (133)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-06 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Good, then.

You need to be well rested whenever I get that free hit I'm owed too. Otherwise, what's the point?
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
...Not gonna forget. Don't worry.

[Pizza into his face hole now.]
myocordial: (115)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad to hear it. I'd collect anyway even if you did, but... Surprise attacks aren't really my thing.
founderinglight: (Default)

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Don't work well on me anyway. Phasing reflex.

[Uggggggh he supposes he might as well try to wake the rest of the way up for this conversation. Ugh. The things he does for you, Heart.

Where coffee there we go.]