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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: (tell me what do your elf eyes see)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-12 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh...? ....Oh! You don't know braille, then?

I could teach you, if you'd like! [ She is being very forward, but very genuine. She wants to be helpful, and she wants to make a good impression! ] I don't even know what normal letters even look like, so all I know is braille.

It's really easy, though, I promise.
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[personal profile] promittere 2018-05-16 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be appreciated - it was never something I would have thought a necessary skill. [The blindness was, after all, abrupt and unplanned.

At least he didn't die?]


I hope you'll find me a quick study. I'm sure there are much better things you could use your time for.
blackestwitch: (see what i have to put up with)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-16 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
There really isn't anything for me to use my time for here, actually, other than maybe pamper my cat and try to learn my way around this place. And even if there was, I'd put it aside in a heartbeat to help somebody adjust to this life.

I know it's not the easiest thing in the world. But I have fifteen years of experience with it, so I'd might as well put it to good use. [ Living blind, that is, not braille. She promises braille is super easy still. ]
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[personal profile] promittere 2018-05-24 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
In my experience, cats are more than enough of a time sink than you'd usually expect. [At least when they require things like the freshest of fresh caught fish and then need that to be cooked.]

It would be nice getting help from somebody who knows more than I do. When...it happened, my friend's tried, but. It was not the time to be coddled. [And it still isn't, but he's stubborn.]
blackestwitch: (thanks for coming to me ted talk)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-24 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You get it! Getting coddled is the worst. Like, you have to learn to work around things sighted people take for granted - in your case, I guess adjust is the right word - but you don't need your hand held, right? [ She. Might have entirely different experiences. And expectations. To what Ignis is talking about.

Maddie has an instinctual negative reaction to being coddled because she hates being seen as a burden. Yet she's totally seeing (ha get it) Ignis as an ally there. ]