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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:]
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh?

[Strange is looking up with a bit of a smile at Jetshard's approach. Good to see you, medbuddy.]

What is it?
dubiouslychthonic: (Smile)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-04-30 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of the wildlife had a really nasty fungal infection. The deer, specifically. Now, it could have been something the Fissure was doing, but it seemed kind of out of place when most of the magic nonsense the place was throwing at us was dream-related? So I took some samples after Prompto shot one.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be both - Fissures have been known to mutate the native wildlife through exposure. The dragon eels down on the shoreline are an example; they used to cap out around this big.

[Strange gestures out three and a half, four feet. The predators at Glitterstone now, obviously, are far bigger.]
dubiouslychthonic: (the docterrorist is in)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-04-30 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I didn't have the resources to do a proper dissection of the infected animal, but it appeared as if the central nervous system was heavily affected by a parasitic growth - it had mushroom caps growing along its neck and cranial hull, and up onto the antlers, and it was much more aggressive than the other deer I saw out there.

Honestly, if it's not something that reverted after the Fissure stabilized, I'm concerned about the risk the infection might pose to anyone going back to the forest. Especially if people are inclined to use the deer as a food source.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
If you've got samples, I can probably get us a targeted antifungal in a week or two. "Pop this pill if you think you're infected" and that should minimize the risk for most people.

Definitely probably shouldn't eat those deer, but I don't think most people are inclined to eat any part of the central nervous system anyway? It's got a high chance of complications for humans that can turn nasty, they just aren't designed for it and don't usually go for it. So latent infections should be okay if it's just brains and not the muscle meat.
dubiouslychthonic: (Smile)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-04-30 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[She grins.] I'll bring the samples up to the lab later, then.
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent. Take your time, we've got a number of things to do and you probably need your rest.

...Actually, when you come up, if you have nothing else pressing I may set you up with a label-maker, if Bottom's done with the kitchens by then.
dubiouslychthonic: (Skeptical)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-04-30 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I can handle a label-maker, if you don't mind everything being labeled in Alternian. I can read and understand the languages everyone else is using with whatever you folks are using for translation, but I'm not sure I'd be able to write in anything I don't actually speak.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. That could be a problem. The issue is that we have a blind arrival with this group and we're running around trying to braille-label everything. The med bay is lower priority because there's almost always someone there, but we need to get it done eventually.
dubiouslychthonic: (The Office camera stare)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-04-30 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. That is a complication. [Alternian does have a similar textured script, she's pretty sure, but she's never learned to use it so she has no idea how close of an equivalent it is, or if it'd work with the translation effect. If she could read and write it. Which she can't.]
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think it will be too much a problem, but it is rather making everyone run around a bit scattered at the moment. Plus with all these new arrivals, Top has to go activate the second water purifier... And we only actually have the one label maker.
dubiouslychthonic: (you did not just say that)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-04-30 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I can do longer hours in the medbay until we get it sorted, if you have other things you need to be attending to?
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-01 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm going to need to do another round of check-ups with all of these newcomers, but that can take a back seat for the time being. Apparently quite a few of them are uncomfortable with medical exams, so I think it best o let them get settled anyway.