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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:]
myocordial: (139)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ah yes, that annoying little trick.

That's no fun at all.
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Quite fun when you're doing it.

[Beat. Coffee sip.]

If you have warping from Ardyn, you could probably learn.
daughterofthemark: (B4F. The ancestry of evil powers)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Trust Arianna's intentions, but not her judgement.]

Not... trouble, exactly.
founderinglight: ([hold])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
At a later time, perhaps.

[He's still tired enough that that's a risky proposition for falling asleep.]

Hmm, these will probably do... At least they're black.

[Said about a pair of trunks that he shakes out and holds to his waist for sizing. They're perhaps a bit on the shorter side for him, but it's hard for them not to be with how tall and thin he is.]
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
...Did you see something?
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
I do, yes.

Hm. [He doesn't sound all that curious.] I do need more practice with all that anyway, so I suppose in that way it's worth learning more about. But avoiding hits isn't my style. If you can't even feel your opponent's strength, then what point is there?
founderinglight: ([hold])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
...You certainly are something, aren't you.

[He's... sleepily impressed and slightly terrified of how casually that's said.]
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Am I? I just like to fight, that's all. A proper battle gets my blood pumping like nothing else.
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... You have those waiting, do you? That's some inconvenient timing.
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
The touch of a god of war is in my family's blood and there are still few of us who consider the idea with such relish.

[Said while very pointedly staring into his cup of coffee. When he's managed to unleash that mostly-coherent thought out, he tips the mug back and slams about half of it.]

Come to my aid, almighty placebo effect.
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[personal profile] byanyother_name 2018-05-07 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Kurama gives a sleepy blink of surprise before offering the (physically) older man a gentle, appreciative smile. Awkward as it is, it's a kind gesture.]

If you arrived in the forest, I doubt it's anything that would surprise you to hear. The dream figments there were unfortunately skilled at stirring up bad memories.

Things I would have been happier not to see again. But I'm fairly sure my experience was more the norm than the exception, it's nothing special.

[He says as if he didn't have to experience his worst nightmares again and again.]
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I think they've rather just collected anything that comes to hand. I'll not complain, though it makes matching cake pans a bit difficult to locate.
daughterofthemark: (27F. Imprisoned by God's keys)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
...I saw Clarith.
myocordial: (115)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
But still some. They must have been very strong, yes? It's a shame they aren't here.

[Because he... he would want to fight them. Like, real bad.]
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[He doesn't need to ask more, because he knows it can't have been good. The forest hadn't been kind to any of them.]

...I'm sorry.
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[You know he doesn't even need to say it for Izunia to get the idea?]

You're incorrigible. Sorry, I'm afraid that Ardyn, Noctis, and I are what you get.
daughterofthemark: (B3F. Malice cloaked in lies)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[She wants to, but...]

...will you give me your word?
daughterofthemark: (10F. The Flame Demon's domain)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
...yes, of course. It may be something none of us have considered. Something like... a dragon.

[...okay sure]
daughterofthemark: (25F. The overlord of daybreak)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
I hope she is all right. We never saw the real Clarith in the forest.
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
If she wasn't there and she isn't to be found in here, then I imagine she's likely still where she should be. Unlike us.

Which is difficult in its own way, of course. But safe.
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
And you've already proven yourself boring to fight. Hm, perhaps less so in a proper one? No... No, I doubt that.

Still, I have Ardyn, of course. Even if his hand-to-hand skills are a little lacking.
founderinglight: ([ppppp])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
You haven't seen me fight, you've seen me reflexively dodge a punch.

[Those are not at all the same thing, Heart.]
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Your instincts tell me plenty. As does your personality.
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
You know next to nothing of me beyond my brother's justifiably biased account. If I didn't think I could take the hit, I wouldn't have offered. I just prefer not to.
daughterofthemark: (27F. Imprisoned by God's keys)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
I hope so. If she is not there, then...

[What if she was in the forest, and they missed her?]