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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:]
burninglight: (slipping through the cracks)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-04-30 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey...come here.

[Ardyn knelt down and put his arms around her shoulders to ground both of them.]

I remember you, and Junpei, and everyone we’ve met. There’s nothing holding my powers back. Those two things alone are enough to be sure that if anything comes at us with some ill intentions, I’ll tear it apart. You’re safe, so breathe and we’ll figure out the next step together.

I don’t know what to do either, but I know that if cautious optimism proves wrong and this does go badly, nothing is hurting us ever again.
serrata: (r027)

[personal profile] serrata 2018-04-30 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Tense as she is in his arms, it does seem to help with bringing her back to Earth. Or wherever it is they happen to be right now. With a long, slow breath out, she nods and leans into him a little.

Memory is the key. As long as they have each other, as long as they remember each other, that's a good enough start. ]


Whatever happens here... we'll be together, right? It won't– this time won't–

[ She doesn't want to voice it, as if putting words to the idea will somehow make it true. So instead she swallows her fretting down and goes with something else. ]

Whatever happens, we're getting through it together.
burninglight: (into the darkness we will fly)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-04-30 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right. No reckless choices and no self-sacrificing. Whatever should come next, we stick together, stay calm, and get through it without doing anything stupid.
serrata: (01 - L1I8oCo)

[personal profile] serrata 2018-05-02 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . ]

The first and the second, we might have a good chance at, but I think 'doing something stupid' might just be a guarantee at this point.

[ Tell her she's wrong, Ardyn. ]
burninglight: (can i bear to seek the truth)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-02 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...At least, no fatal ones. We excel at stupid things, I know.
serrata: (19 - HdZqgHP)

[personal profile] serrata 2018-05-03 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, well, that's much more doable. After all, we've got at least two people who haven't died once yet. Maybe they'll keep the rest of us troublemakers in line.
burninglight: (and my heart starts vanishing)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-03 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
I've not met the person who can keep you in line, princess.
serrata: (wow another yuuri icon im shocked)

[personal profile] serrata 2018-05-03 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ with a straight face, somehow; ]

You're making me sound like some sort of uncontrollable delinquent, running wild. I'm perfectly well behaved.
burninglight: (can i bear to seek the truth)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-05-03 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
When you want to be.
serrata: (5 - Ikjn0rx)

[personal profile] serrata 2018-05-03 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly. When it's called for, and all that. But I promise I won't go looking for trouble, at least.