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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:]
daughterofthemark: (06F. A dancing blue vortex)

Library

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-01 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Things Arianna expected to see in the library: a shitload of books. Things Arianna did not expect to see in the library: a wolf.

She does not question this.]


Oh! Are you searching for something?
anarchia: (Default)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-01 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[He turns to her, glad not to be inviting too many questions about being a wolf that also talks and does things. Though, by this point, he's not entirely sure why he's still keeping this form. He doesn't need to pretend anymore.]

Just some reading material. Nothing in particular.
daughterofthemark: (09F. The unopened crimson jaws)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-03 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Does anyone really need a reason to be a wolf, when you get right down to it?]

Do you enjoy romances? I could make some recommendations, if the ones I'm familiar with are available here.
anarchia: (skulking awoo)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-04 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[He, briefly, appears flustered by the question. Of course, they had romance novels on Cybertron. Of course they were trashy and questionably written, and of course he would never have had any interest in them at any point in his life, because that wouldn't be fitting of his stoic and cool lone wolf persona at all.]

...Not particularly. [Said with a growl.] I'll entertain your recommendations, though.
daughterofthemark: (02F. Hazardous habitat)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-05 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course not. The very idea seems ridiculous.]

I-I could recommend a different genre, if you would prefer....
anarchia: (leaping awoo)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-05 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Okay, maybe he got a little too defensive and scared her a bit. He feels a little bad for that.]

It might be worth seeing what's on offer to begin with.
daughterofthemark: (22F. Denial on pain of death)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-06 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[It's understandable! When you're trying to get Arianna to Stop, there's really no right answer.]

I'm not certain yet, but there seems to be a wide variety. Fantasy, drama, science fiction, myst--perhaps not mysteries...
anarchia: (Default)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-07 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[He tilts his head.]

Not a fan?
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.
anarchia: (awoo rising revengence)

[personal profile] anarchia 2018-05-13 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[The brief dip in her composure doesn't go unnoticed.]

Then you should seek out something you like. I'll take it as a personal recommendation.
daughterofthemark: (09F. The unopened crimson jaws)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-05-15 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That is what I shall do, then.

[You know, once she finds something she recognizes.]

Ah, I've yet to introduce myself. I am Arianna Wakasa.
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?