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phantasmalrift2018-04-29 11:56 pm
phantasmods) wrote in 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:]
(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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[Undyne appears to be examining the pizza with an expression of deep, serious thought, looking back and forth between it and what appears to be a bowl of noodles she'd picked up at some point before they'd left Viella's shop. Apparently she just took it to-go?]
[She'd really meant to just eat it there, but every time she tried to start eating it had just reminded her of Alphys and how excited she would have been to try real, actual ramen, made by a human and everything... In the end, she wound up waiting too long and accidentally walked out holding the bowl, ramen still uneaten, and hadn't noticed until they were back at the Station.]
[Hopefully Viella wasn't really fond of that particular bowl.]
[She could just ask one of the androids to hand it over, and forget about the ramen entirely while she started in on the pizza, but that would be wasting food...]
[Mind made up, she pulls a cell phone out of one of her jacket's pockets and taps at the screen a couple times, pulling up her dimensional box app. The bowl of ramen vanishes into nothing with a faint chiming noise, and she puts the phone away again.]
[Then she starts in on a few slices of pizza. She's pretty hungry.]
Annex Library
[She's probably not the only one who thinks this library raises more questions than it answers, especially in the history section, but her muttered complaints as she looks through it may be a unique version of the problem:]
Alphys had way better human history books than this crap, where's all the giant robots? This isn't even illustrated...
[Someone might need to find the graphic novel part of the fiction section for her, because it's going to take a long while before she manages to find the manga on her own.]
pizzaaaa
She pauses when she reaches a noodle bowl. Because. What? ] Why is there a bowl...?
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[Undyne awkwardly picks up the bowl, getting it out of Maddie's way and disposing of it via dimensional cell phone app.]
Well, kinda mine? I forgot to give it back.
[She's going to return it to Viella eventually, she swears.]
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I'm, uh, not in your way or anything, am I?
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Nah, I'm just... grabbing another slice.
[Undyne hastily reaches out and snatches a slice of the nearest pizza, putting it on a plate without bothering to look at what kind it is. This is surely a good decision which won't come back to haunt her later at all.]
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She makes a face and moves on. ]
Uh, I'm looking for Hawaiian. You seen it?
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[Undyne is vaguely aware that Hawaii is a place somewhere on the Surface but that's about it, the Pineapple Discourse has entirely passed her by.]
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It's pineapple and ham.
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[Mercifully, she is at least familiar enough with what ham and pineapple look like- canned food from the Surface had occasionally wound up falling into the dump at Waterfall- to identify a pizza with both of those toppings visible.]
Yeah, looks like there's one, uh... [She makes an educated guess about Maddie's touching everything and her not noticing a bowl right in front of her, and phrases her directions in a nonvisual way:]
Two pizzas over to the right and one up from where your hand is.
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It's okay. She washes her hands plenty. Unlike Jailbreak. ]
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[Wow???? Jailbreak is not here, but I'm sure she washes her hands plenty. Crime not grime, txt it, etc.]No problem.
[Undyne munches casually on her randomly-grabbed mystery pizza. It proves to be spinach and eggplant. She briefly contemplates the life choices that have led her to this point, then shrugs and keeps eating it.]
How come that's called Hawaiian, anyway? Is that where they invented it?
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Have a little masked cat monster that only comes up to a few inches higher than your knees, Undyne.]
This is an entirely different world, you know--history might be way different here. Where I'm from, humans are still only starting to learn how to make giant robots.
[Not that the first ever USA vs. Japan giant robot battle wasn't amazingly awesome, but it's contemporary, not historical. Maybe she's from far in the future?]
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Huh, really?
[She blinks in confusion, then seems to come to the same conclusion that he did.]
If I'm from the future, that's awesome. What year is it for you guys?
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[Just..... assume that's an actual year he said, probably somewhere around 2018-modern-day-Earth sensibilities. Persona games try to be clever and disguise when they actually take place.]
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[That's. Actually not a placeholder, it's literally what year the game says Undertale takes place in. She just straight-up said 'twenty-one x'.]
[Maybe you aren't using the same calendar.]
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[He hadn't realized enough people lived underground for there to be a standard calendar, let alone one that's different from humanity's. She doesn't feel like a Shadow, but she's obviously not human, either, if she's trying to look up human history..... it must be some kind of world specific thing, huh?]
My world pretty much only has one now, and it only uses numbers. But either way, you might need to look in other sections for giant robots--since people are still figuring out how to make them where I'm from, they write stories about them instead.
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I guess that makes sense, some of those history books Alphys lent me would've made pretty good stories.
[That's because they were literally just manga, Undyne.]
Know any really good ones?
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[She grins, looking intrigued at the prospect.]
Think they've got it here, somewhere?
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[He'll just lead her into the fiction wing; they've got to have some manga, even if they don't have those particular giant robot series.....]
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[One in particular catches her attention, with a picture of a graceful-looking swordswoman on the cover. She pauses, and pulls it off the shelf with a nostalgic smile.]
[Alphys would've loved this...]
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[He'll just climb up a few shelves to get higher. It'll be easier to talk like this, right? And probably easier to find books, too.]
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Looks like it's about some kind of order of knights, and their princess who got kidnapped. They're on a quest to get her back. And... something about flying horses? Neat.