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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:]
blackestwitch: (i'm gay)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-01 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Does that kind of thing happen a lot around here....? [ Poor Maddie is blushing up a storm. ]
nojohnyouare: Walking down steps. (oh you take all of the pain away)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-01 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I'm new. But some of us...

[She coughs.]

Regardless. Probably not a problem.
blackestwitch: (thanks for coming to me ted talk)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-01 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I would. Hope not. At least, not in a public place.
nojohnyouare: Preoccupied with eating. (but that's a conversation)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
...It's hard to get used to normal people.
blackestwitch: (see what i have to put up with)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not very normal, are you? [ WOW MADDIE. ]

...Not that I really am, either.
nojohnyouare: Even her clothes look like Clarith's. (the ship is slowly sinking)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-03 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mai stiffens and frowns. She looks Maddie over and finally shakes her head.]

It seems uncommon. Among the people here.
blackestwitch: (Default)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Maddie cannot see the stiffen or frown! Sorry frand. ]

Is that so? That's... pretty weird, in and of itself.
nojohnyouare: Getting up, shutting down emotionally. (a thousand other faces)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-03 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, it's not like Mai's changes in expression usually exceed 1mm anyway.]

Interesting people. For the people I came with... It was on purpose. The first time. But apparently an accident now.
blackestwitch: (let me talk at you)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She wants to ask about "the first time," but let's continue with this other train of thought for a moment ]

You'd expect a very random spread from an accident. Not a... swath of "interesting" people.

'course, the most interesting thing about me is that I'm blind, so that's not actually saying too much.
nojohnyouare: Turning to speak. (they think i'm crazy)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-03 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
There's more than that. There's more to most people. Even if they don't know or say.
blackestwitch: (thanks for coming to me ted talk)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-03 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You almost sound like a motivation speaker there. [ Not sarcasm! ]

But I mean, seriously, it doesn't seem like there's that many people here. Yet I've already met a king, a monster... plus there's you, and me. It's weird.
nojohnyouare: Talking. (what i've become)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-04 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
King... Ardyn's brother. Right? I don't understand him.
blackestwitch: (Default)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-04 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
He did mention he was a twin. [ Actually he mentioned Ardyn by name but Maddie already forgot. ] That's probably him.

What don't you understand about him?
nojohnyouare: Talking. (what i've become)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-04 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
...I don't know what I expected. I didn't hear much about him... after things. [After she died and whispers trickled down with everyone who followed her about memories.] But not someone nice. Calm. Understanding. ...Not like that at all.
blackestwitch: (let me talk at you)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-04 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He did seem pretty calm and understanding. Maybe a little too calm? But I guess if he's really royalty, they have to build up that skill.
nojohnyouare: Talking. (what i've become)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. Though... What did he say?
blackestwitch: (Default)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-06 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
We mostly talked about his blind friend. Uh, for obvious reasons. He also gave me a quick rundown on some things about living here.
nojohnyouare: Contemplating. (some kind of resolution)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-06 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Helpful. He seems responsible. Ardyn... Also responsible. But in different ways.