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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:]
anarchia: (skulking awoo)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-11 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
A collection of political writings, a biography of sorts.

[He says this with a casual detachment, as if it didn't spark a revolution that changed the entire course of his planet's history.]
myocordial: (094)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-11 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Heart narrows his eyes, but he's still very calm. He's pushing very deliberately here.]

So is your judgement any better now? You can work on it all you damn well want, but if you're still the same, it won't matter much.
myocordial: (047)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-11 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm just saying. It wouldn't surprise me.

...But I suppose we're just horribly unlucky.
myocordial: (151)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-11 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure. So that's good, isn't it? Right now, just look at it like... we're relying on Clarith right now.

And I'm sure she'll be waiting for you when we get back.
daughterofthemark: (Stratum 2: Auburn Thicket)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-11 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arianna looks away...]

Not anymore.

[...but then abruptly brightens up.]

In any event, there are many options. To fully catalog them would be quite an undertaking.
theosophomoric: (my head in a bag)

[personal profile] theosophomoric 2018-05-11 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably for the best you're not. The ones that aren't annoying are terrifying. Some of them are both. [There aren't a great deal of things that genuinely frighten Sonja, and in fact most of the extant masters only make her nervous, but she's still in no hurry to openly cross them.

She weighs the book a little in her hand, frowning at it as if the sheer incompetence of the prose is going to make it sprout fangs.]
Did you want this back? Honestly I think I'd suggest finding something else to read.
blackestwitch: (not having an existential crisis today)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-11 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
My friend? Ah... his name is Zel. Zel, say hi.

[ The cat meows again on command. He's a much cuter animal companion than kyubey. ]
blackestwitch: (tell me what do your elf eyes see)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-12 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...? ....Oh! You don't know braille, then?

I could teach you, if you'd like! [ She is being very forward, but very genuine. She wants to be helpful, and she wants to make a good impression! ] I don't even know what normal letters even look like, so all I know is braille.

It's really easy, though, I promise.
blackestwitch: (not having an existential crisis today)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-12 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Thanks. [ Gonna FEEL FOR IT and get her hands all over some other pizzas in the meantime.

It's okay. She washes her hands plenty. Unlike Jailbreak. ]
caduceusoncall: (Thanks)

rolled a critical failure on finding this book, gg me

[personal profile] caduceusoncall 2018-05-12 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting. Was it particularly influential to your world? It must have at least been to you, for you to want to find it.

[Despite scanning every shelf in the history AND miscellaneous section, she cannot for the life of her find this book. She finds more books about duck history, one book about the history of a small nation of rats living on an island under the earth's surface, and an annotated essay on a dragon war in a high fantasy world.]

[A shame, too. She was interested in reading this book.]
nojohnyouare: Full-body shot in the hall. (i need to make it right)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-12 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Have you found anything? Investigating.
founderinglight: ([ppppp])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-12 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
...Wait and find out for yourself.

[He's tired and getting fed up with being pushed on not nearly enough sleep. Time to grab some pizza to go.]
myocordial: (066)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-12 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing helpful as of yet. I've been too busy watching everyone to do much investigating. I talked to one of the androids, but... I'm not sure I learned very much.

What about you?
myocordial: (034)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-12 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
...Hm. I suppose I will, then.
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="nemissa" site="tumblr.com"> (Free me from this mortal coil.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-12 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, far be it from me to judge, you know?
makejapangreat: (guilt)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-13 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Does it? I wonder.

[His change of heart hasn't done anything for Akechi... except, maybe take the burden of thinking he caused his mother's suicide. That's one thing he was glad he could amend.]

My very existence here may well be a strain for him and his friends, even if I now have the best intentions. [A deep sigh.] I hardly expect for things to change in a day, but it is... upsetting, quite frankly, to know that I'm still doing damage just by being here.
honededge: (Intense)

[personal profile] honededge 2018-05-13 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Talon's brow furrows. If being remorseful didn't count for anything, he was in trouble, himself.]

I mean, you can't control how they react to you being here. All you can do is try to be a better person than you were, you know? If they can't forgive you, that's their prerogative. What matters is that you eventually forgive yourself, in my opinion.
nojohnyouare: Looking to the side. (to say it to you)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-13 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Not much. Random objects. It's very disjointed.
nojohnyouare: Walking down steps. (oh you take all of the pain away)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-13 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
...I'm glad. That you're all here too. ...That sounded wrong. I'm not glad that we're in a strange place again. Just that we're not alone.
notjustahacker: (pic#12179520)

[personal profile] notjustahacker 2018-05-13 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Probably the latter but I haven't tried that yet. Only ever used it in life or death battles before, so yeah.

[ Futaba stopped short at that, seeming to give this a decent bit of thought for a moment. ]

Like... actual titles of stuff that I know, or what?
have_hat_will_travel: (Chibi Smile)

[personal profile] have_hat_will_travel 2018-05-13 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
... Or what kinds of things we'd be looking for, yeah.

[Pidonus drops that point for now. She actually knows how 'encounters' work so...]
notjustahacker: (pic#12179519)

[personal profile] notjustahacker 2018-05-13 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Futaba didn't hesitate in giving a smile back in turn, nodding her head and watching as the older girl made to add her name to the room number alongside her own. ]

Won't say no to that. Haven't really gotten around to seeing what they all have for food yet, anyway.

[ Ah, gotta love Ann and her adoration for all things sweet. How could she eat so much and still look like that anyway? So unfair. ]
misanthropicprinciple: <user name="akolnoix" site="tumblr.com"> (Soggy puppy)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-13 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
[...Hair ruffle.]

Yeah. Couldn't ask for better company. Though I do wish Church would turn up sooner rather than later.
nojohnyouare: Contemplating. (some kind of resolution)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-13 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Confused blink.]

Knowing him... He'll come. The entire station will hear him.
anarchia: (skulking awoo)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-13 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[He nods.]

The author even more so. He brought about a war, based on the ideals recorded in that book, and I eventually chose his side.

[He speaks with a faint bitterness.]

But sometimes things are more promising on the page.