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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] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Okay, that's one point in favor of believable randomness...

Does it seem to favor certain worlds so far? Not just with the people, I can see that myself, but with anything else it pulls in, too.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-01 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of hard to tell? I mean, most of the books we get seem to be in the same alphabet we use, when you look in detail through the translation magic, but that's about the only reliable metric. Technology level varies wildly, so do languages - pretty much everything. I know Bottom's got a bunch of seed samples that don't grow naturally in this world, too.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-01 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
But that could be related to geography or history, right? Technology, languages, even plants vary like crazy within any given world. The only thing I can think of that might be consistent would be the history.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-02 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
The problem with that is that it's really hard to tell legitimate historical accounts from fictionalized ones without any other people of reference. That's why they're in the same wing of the library, actually.

So prior to people arriving, there's no way to know for sure.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-02 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't they put that page at the beginning of novels explaining that everything's fictional and all resemblance to people living or dead is coincidence?
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-03 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, most of them. But not all of them, and sometimes we find books without covers - stuff like that.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-03 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, good point. Well, that's a pain. And if this has been going on for a century, there's probably too much crap to go through to get any sense of it myself.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-04 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
More like a century and a half, but we only have fifty years or so worth of objects.

[Again, snowball thing.]

I don't think anyone would object if you really wanted to catalogue, most of the books just got moved to the library, but -

[Suddenly, Top is interrupted by the sound of the machinery kickstarting.]

Oh, there we go.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-04 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, got it working? Nice.

Anyway, no, I don't really want to catalogue, I don't have the patience for that. It's just that, if there's a pattern to all this, I want to identify it as soon as possible.
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-04 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Gotta test it still - let it run for a few before I hook it up to the water main.

[Still, Top leans out of the machinery wearing a satisfied look, hands on either side of the opening as a form of support.]

We haven't been able to find anything ourselves, but there's plenty of data if you want a look. Up's really the one you should talk to, though.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-04 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
All right. Which color is Up?

[At least he figured that gimmick out pretty quick, even having only seen Charm and Top so far.]
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-05 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[To be fair, he has experience with it. Matsus, Lucis Caelums, Quarkdroid fam, they all have the same general idea.]

Dark blue - usually wears it over their head. I think they're running around with the labelmaker right now slapping Braille on things, but they're usually in the Fissure lab or the Command Center on the top floor.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-05 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Fissure lab... oh, maybe that's the one I couldn't figure out. On the floor right above our living quarters, right?
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-06 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. There's a couple of empty labs, too; no one's using them at the moment, if you need space for something.
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[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-05-08 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
Really? Not that I have a project, but I can just take one over for whatever?
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[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-05-14 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, go for it. They've got some pretty good ventilation if you're going to work with chemicals, too, it's in the switches left of the door.