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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:]
foolishjustice: (May I help you?)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-04-30 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
That would be his...chocobo, he called it. He found an egg while exploring a month or so ago.
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-04-30 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
A chocobo? What kind of bird is that?
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-04-30 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
A large one, that's all I'm certain of. From the size of the egg, they hatch at least as large as a fully grown chicken.
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-04-30 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Woah. Hopefully it'll be a girl, those sound like some good eggs.
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-04-30 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
The size would certainly make up for it if they only lay one at a time.

[All of this bird talk seems to have caught the attention of the bird currently in the car...or he's just confused about where Mona's voice is coming from, because the magpie is settling on the dashboard and cawing.]
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-04-30 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Mmhmm!

[Hopefully whoever is driving him doesn't mind the distraction of the magpie fluttering around. Morgana regards it curiously; he hadn't even met the thing until they'd gotten ready to go, after all. Speaking of hefty birds.....]

Hey there, big guy!
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-04-30 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
He is getting a little round, isn't he? I think the oversized insects in that Fissure left him spoiled.

[Goro says spoiled, the bird says content. The way he fluffs his feathers almost seems proud...]
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-04-30 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. If he's been eating those crazy bees, then getting that heavy just means he's a good hunter.

[Otherwise he'd be a roasted magpie, right? He has every right to be proud.]
foolishjustice: (Shall I explain?)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-04-30 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe, though I'd think that if he had to go to that much effort, he wouldn't have gotten chubby while he was at it.
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-04-30 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe he's just being smart about it. You don't think those things are dangerous?
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-05-01 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm certain they can be, especially at his size, but don't you think it would still be plenty of exercise?
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-01 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
It probably would be. You don't suppose he bossed around other birds to do the work for him?

[Is he a knockoff Honchkrow, maybe?]
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-05-01 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He gives a tired chuckle at that.]

Maybe. He can be quite demanding.

[The Magpie goes CAW.]
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-01 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Must be tough to leave your gang behind, huh?

[Sorry, Morrigan. At least you traded them for your borbdad?]
Edited 2018-05-01 08:01 (UTC)