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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:]
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-01 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's not gone entirely, though..... That shouldn't matter for trying to fix it, right?

[Hope springs eternal? ♥?]
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-01 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
I have no idea, really. The entire concept is mostly unfamiliar to me.
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-01 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[His ears droop in discouragement; still though, he'll try not to let it get him too down.]

I guess I can leave it until I get home, anyway. There are more important things to worry about here.

[Such as, for instance, does getting a checkup mean he also needs a mechanic to take a look at his bus form?]
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-01 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
I can at least take a look for you, though I'm not sure how much would show up on a preliminary scan.
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-01 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Who knows? It might even depend on which form you scan. I was never able to look like this in the real world until I showed up here.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-03 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, that's very possible. Probably something about the ambient magic again, I'll have to ask Charm...
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-03 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Who's Charm?

[Oh, right--he shouldn't just be demanding things when he has things to offer in return too, huh?]

Oh, also--if you need a hand with anything, I'm pretty good with healing magic.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-04 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
One of my siblings - red scarf, you might have met him on the way back. He's our magic expert.

[The mention of healing magic gets a smile.]

I'm reasonably handy with it myself, but I'll never turn down an extra set of hands.
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-05 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I did..... I just drove back, myself.

[Have a wry smile.]

If everyone else here is anything like my friends, then you can never have too many healers around.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-06 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
True enough. With one notable exception, we've mostly avoided any major injuries...

[Of course that notable exception turned out to be someone who literally can't be helped by magical healing, of course, but. Well. They're just going to keep a better eye on him from now on.]
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-14 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
An exception? Who got hurt?
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-14 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Kid named Touma, but if you're a magical healer it wouldn't do any good anyway. Apparently he didn't think an ambient magic-rejection field was relevant information for the medical staff to know...

[Strange huffs a little. They're still a bit mad about it.]
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-14 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
.....H-how is that not one of the first things you'd think to mention?! That could make you either one of the most useful people in the place, or the biggest liability there is!

[That kind of guy should practically be immune to fissures and their weirdness, right? On the other hand, anyone who could just straight up throw a punch would be a legitimate threat. Talk about warped priorities.....]
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-15 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
I recognize that, and you recognize that, but...

[Strange just shakes their head.]

Honestly, it's for that alone that I'm grateful to Jetshard - we're magitek, I can't even touch the boy for extended periods without collapsing as though someone yanked on my power supply.
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[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-15 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Geez, sounds like he can barely be treated in a place like this..... I'll lend a hand however I can.

[Just wait until you realize you can't touch him either, Morgana. Identity crisis ahoy!]