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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:]
nojohnyouare: Looking up again. (they want to break me)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-16 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. I'm trying to learn more about that now. To catch up with everyone.

[Technology is hard when you went back to the year 2000 and most of your friends are from the 2010s.]
myocordial: (110)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-16 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Right, you are a little behind compared to a lot of us. Sometimes I forget.

I'd give you tips, but I think a lot in my world isn't exactly found in the same time period as other worlds. Like... well, me, I suppose.
nojohnyouare: Preoccupied with eating. (but that's a conversation)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-16 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
No robots like you for most of them. Faster internet. Yuuri explained texting once. And then all the space things. ...I'm working on it.
meowna: Made by @marshwiggle on Plurk (Default)

[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-16 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Only one way to find out! It'd be over here if they do.

[He'll just lead her into the fiction wing; they've got to have some manga, even if they don't have those particular giant robot series.....]
bulletnews: (well then what about this)

[personal profile] bulletnews 2018-05-16 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it sure sounds like she can't, given every advantage the imperious condescender has.

Still, I think the heir can take it. There's probably a way she could be worse than that current empress, but I can't see what it is from here.
makejapangreat: (regret)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-16 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[........... just. sighs tbh.]

Yes, I'm starting to get that feeling.

[and he hates it, thanks??? how the fuck is he supposed to survive in a crazy world like this...]
makejapangreat: (neutral)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-16 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
... I do. I'd rather this heal on its own time.
makejapangreat: (neutral)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-16 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[............. this is like the knife version of a magician's hat pulling out a really long string of cloths tied together.

Why does she have a pizza cutter...]


... I suppose you're powerless too, then.

[She wouldn't have a need for all these things if she had magic to defend herself with, right?]
makejapangreat: (regret)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-16 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[WOW... HEY.. that's probably needed advice.]

Thank you.

[He'll rise from his chair now... his wound hasn't been redressed yet but he figures he'll do that back in his room. Wincing a little... it's still a bit raw.]
promittere: (Default)

[personal profile] promittere 2018-05-16 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Still always a good idea to be aware of the resources available to you, lest you find yourself with nothing.

[He holds out his hand as asked, curious. It's not shocking or surprising there could be other elements you could harvest, but it's still a new, odd thing.]
founderinglight: ([hold])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-16 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Into that hand, a tiny, damp crystal is dropped, tingling with power.]

That's a fragment of one of the deposits in the caverns below the station. There's a number associated with what seems to be wind energy as well.
promittere: (Default)

[personal profile] promittere 2018-05-16 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be appreciated - it was never something I would have thought a necessary skill. [The blindness was, after all, abrupt and unplanned.

At least he didn't die?]


I hope you'll find me a quick study. I'm sure there are much better things you could use your time for.
blackestwitch: (see what i have to put up with)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-16 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
There really isn't anything for me to use my time for here, actually, other than maybe pamper my cat and try to learn my way around this place. And even if there was, I'd put it aside in a heartbeat to help somebody adjust to this life.

I know it's not the easiest thing in the world. But I have fifteen years of experience with it, so I'd might as well put it to good use. [ Living blind, that is, not braille. She promises braille is super easy still. ]
daughterofthemark: (27F. Imprisoned by God's keys)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-17 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I will be.

[Which is not actually a promise to go to bed anytime soon, only a promise to avoid getting caught.]
letsplayer: (Astonish)

[personal profile] letsplayer 2018-05-17 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
...sorry if I went off on a weird tangent there; I've had this happen a few times.

[ She's notably not sorry that the first time she asked if this was his first time being jamjarred, she referred to it as "popping the multiverse cherry". ]

dragonmouth: (I just went to cvs and bought condoms)

[personal profile] dragonmouth 2018-05-17 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ It takes her a few moments of hesitation before she answers. He's obviously assumed she doesn't have any powers, and that's odd for its own reasons - where she's from, everyone has a power, just about, unless they haven't used to control it, or...something like that. That might be what he's referring to. He probably hasn't had it willingly stripped away like Tali's mother has.

And Tali has a power, but if he doesn't... her abilities aren't going to be of much use. All she really has in terms of powers are her nullification abilities. She's weighing her options. He's a big guy, and she hasn't seen enough of him to determine whether or not he's at all trained to fight. That's gonna be a problem in close quarters. Traditionally, guys who aren't working-class aren't really where she's from, and even then, that was only if they had an interest in the military or city guard. A quick glance at his hands and the fact that he looks like he got his ass handed to him suggests that 1) he's the kind of guy who probably hasn't done much manual labor, and 2) there's at least one person here capable of handing his ass to him. More to the point, she remembers that a lot of the assassins her stepdad sent after her were guys because that's what everyone expected...

If she tells him now, there's the option that he'd overestimate just how much she needs them, which would be to her advantage... but she's not sure whether or not revealing it would also mean he's going to ask her to use it for whatever he wants, eventually.

What to do, what to do... ]


In a few ways, I suppose.

[ Well, she answered the question. She does, in fact, lack power when it comes to determining who even has control of this situation. ]
Edited 2018-05-17 09:06 (UTC)
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-17 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't as though we could just leave you out in the world without any help or direction. It's similar to a refugee situation in that regard - to just throw up our hands and say "well, it's not our fault, so you're on your own" would be...

[Wrong, as far as they're concerned. Strange might not say it directly, but the troubled set of their expression makes that clear enough.]
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-17 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
...Very well, but mind that it doesn't get infected. You should be changing the bandages daily, and wrapping them tighter than you have been.
notjustahacker: (pic#12179517)

[personal profile] notjustahacker 2018-05-17 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Does it have some kind of meaning behind it, then?

[ Seriously. She did want to know, and besides. Even if it didn't, it was still a cool name either way. A grin quickly formed on her face and Futaba took absolutely no time in reaching her hand out to take his offered one the best she was physically able to. ]

Same with you, Carnivac. I mean, hey. It's not every day I get to meet a shapeshifting, sentient robot. You only like, see that in sci-fi movies, you know?

[ If he thought the awe was something else before, the interest that's now following should be just as surprising. ]

So you're all machine then, right? You can take a believable organic form but do you still have circuits and a high-level AI that serves as your brain? If not that, then you might have a brain that works similarly to a human's but with a more advanced, higher level of processing power capabilities.

[ Yup. Best day ever. ]
caduceusoncall: (Thanks)

[personal profile] caduceusoncall 2018-05-17 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid it is not always a guarantee that people will do the right thing.

[Her words may sound a bit grim, but she maintains her smile. At least, until she has to cover a yawn.]

Ah, my time in the forest is getting the better of me. Thank you again, and I will see you tomorrow afternoon, Doctor Strange.
honededge: (Masked)

[personal profile] honededge 2018-05-17 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck out there, chummer. Try not to beat yourself up any more than you have to. Or get beat up any more than you have to. You know where to find me if it gets out of hand again.

[Talon leans against the wall with his arms folded. What a bizarre and self deprecating man.]
serrata: (06)

[personal profile] serrata 2018-05-18 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither do we, usually. This just happened to be a special occasion, so you should be safe from now on.

[ unless cheese festivals are a thing here?? WHO KNOWS ]
dragonmouth: (I just wanna be naked)

[personal profile] dragonmouth 2018-05-18 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She lifts herself up, then lets out a pained groan. ]

I'm sorry I startled you earlier.

[ She's also sorry she mistook you for her Captain. ]
anarchia: (leaping awoo)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-18 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Carnivac.

[He gives her a nod in greeting, not about to offer his paw in handshake.]

Are you a newcomer?
anarchia: (skulking awoo)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-18 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[He keeps his gaze on her for a moment, then turns away, staring at the space in front of him.]

Our side lost, our leader lost sight of what we were even fighting for at that point. [The edges of his jaws twitch, hints of his teeth bared, but he tries to maintain calmness.] Too many suffered, and for what? Those who allied with the winners to make themselves clean of the crimes they committed?

[Though his voice is ever a growl, this one carries a tone of determination opposed to anger.]

Something still has to change. But I won't put it in the hands of a single leader again.