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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: (122)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, what you could do has little to do with it.

But fine then, if you want a more fair assessment? Tell me this. What do you feel when you fight?
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
An awful lot of people came out of the forest. If she were there, someone would've run into her. So I guess she was fortunate enough to avoid all of this.

I'm sure that she's safe.
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
...It depends on what I'm fighting for.

[God, this is too complex a question for when he's half-awake, Heart? Give him a minute to slam the rest of his coffee mug, here, and dead-eye one of the particularly unappetizing-looking pizzas while he thinks.

(Mayo and corn? Really?)]


In a friendly spar, I enjoy the challenge. It's... it keeps me awake and real in a way that little else does. It's anchoring and satisfying.

But when it's to protect the ones I love... I'm angry. How dare anything try to harm my family, my people. Nothing less than complete destruction of the threat will satisfy me.
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[I mean why not.]

That would hardly be the strangest thing I've seen here, admittedly, though if it's for transportation purposes getting it to cooperate might prove a bit difficult.
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[There, finally, he sees some of what he admires in Ardyn in Izunia. The first proper sign of their relation, if you ask him, because appearances and superficial similarities don't say much at all.

And despite how he feels about Izunia, Heart does smile.]


That's more like it.

[And that is infinitely more interesting than how durable someone is.]

Whether or not someone is fun to fight is about a lot more than how capable they are. I wonder what you might be like with a proper fire in you... Driving you...

Now that?

That would be an opponent worth fighting.
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a smile that's difficult not to return, even if it is one centered a bit in bloodthirst. So he does return it, in a slightly tired way that makes the physical resemblance even more obvious.]

It's been some time since I managed much more than a spark for anything but rage against the heavens, but I consider it a work in progress at the moment.
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[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
...all right.

[Heart's certainty is easier to believe in than her own attempts at using the same reasoning.]


Do you suppose she is with Ruu-chan?
daughterofthemark: (24F. March of the endless brigade)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Transportation purposes? Do you mean people might ride dragons?

[...arianna what were you even thinking]
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
...I mean it's virtually a certainty in some world or another, given that I've already seen someone here who rides a sort of winged spiracorn.

[It's called a pegasus, numbnuts.]

But I wouldn't count on it happening here specifically.

[Don't get your hopes up, darling niece.]
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-07 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Heart shakes his head at that.]

The problem there is obvious. A lack of conviction.
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
...Not conviction. Hope.

[They're distinct enough that it warrants a correction.]
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[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-07 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Akechi, I don't speak without purpose.

[It does matter to him, in some way that he can't fully grasp right now. Akechi's his son. He's his father. He's wrecked his life, and owes Akechi kindness. Right now, that's good enough until he can sort through the mess in his head.]

For all the years you've spent working for me, I'm certain you're aware of that much.
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[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Of course I wouldn't form an expectation of something so specific.

[She was. She definitely was.]

Is a spiracorn something akin to a unicorn?
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-05-07 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Hmph...well, if you must know, I'm doing much better than I did during those years working for you. I have people around who care about me, for once.

[He gives Shido a very pointed look as he bites into the pizza, but it quickly loses its edge as he starts chewing and immediately has Regrets. Judging from the way his eyes water pull into a wince, something on there was very spicy.]
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
...Probably? I sketched one for Heart and haven't managed to show him yet, just a moment.

[This is what the Armiger is for, hors hors hors. He pulls a folder out and flicks through it before presenting the sketch to her -

but seriously though, that's a very large horse.]
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[personal profile] notjustahacker 2018-05-07 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's just a couple moments after Pidonus finishes that Futaba just stares, letting that all sink in. That was strangely entertaining. Like something she's seen out of one of her Neo Featherman DVD's, what with how dramatic and out there it was. ]

Huh. Totally obvious but it was still informative. Like exposition in a game or anime.

[ In other words, it's a compliment when it comes down to it. Though she can't help but add something else on after a moment. ]

I consider myself more of a cleric type, though.
nojohnyouare: Turning around. (you can't choose what stays)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-07 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Because I missed them last year. While in the hospital. ...Unlucky.
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[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-07 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Gracious... that is certainly... something akin to a unicorn...

[A whole lot of something.]
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[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-07 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. ...I can sleep on the floor.

[If Arianna needs the assurance, Mai can't just go back to her own room. Not when all that they've gone through started with Mai going out for night patrol.]
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-07 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Wren's mount is not nearly so large and vicious-looking, fortunately. You can see her in the stables, if you so desire. The other creature belongs to Astolfo - small man, pink hair, about your size? Wren's the girl with silver hair.
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they're good at this

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-07 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[It's more that Shido just happens to look over than anything than an actual thought that this girl is shady and might be doing some suspect things that allows him to see that.

In which case. Uhhhhhhhhhh. Uhhhhhh. Is he... is he about to be murdered?

... maybe he should just. Quietly. Get off the chair and leave.]
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-07 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
I'd be delighted to. It's a bit of a particular talent of mine, honestly; the others will occasionally call me for something that's more relevant for their fields of interest.
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[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-07 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... yes, probably. [He breathes out. Might.. as well, he guesses. He barely figured out how to wrap himself properly the first time.] Is there some sort of clinic somewhere here?
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-07 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? What kind of calendar uses 201X? I can't even tell if you're from before or after us.....
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[personal profile] have_hat_will_travel 2018-05-07 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Serious games and anime are two things that aren't things in my world. I want to learn more about them.

And a Cleric-type, huh? The phrasing implies a different way of getting there, but... Anyone good at healing's going to be intensely useful, especially as we get to the next dungeon - and the next, et cetera.