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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] myocordial 2018-05-12 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing helpful as of yet. I've been too busy watching everyone to do much investigating. I talked to one of the androids, but... I'm not sure I learned very much.

What about you?
nojohnyouare: Looking to the side. (to say it to you)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-13 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Not much. Random objects. It's very disjointed.
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-15 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It is, isn't it? But then, the people are very disjointed also. It makes sense, if so much really comes from these... Fissures, they called them?

Ah, magic. Nonsensical as always.
nojohnyouare: Confused. (you are the morning)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-15 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Magic might make sense. And it's just that we don't know about it. I've researched as much as I can. But a lot is still difficult.
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-16 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Anything involving magic goes over my head, to be honest. Side effect of being technology, perhaps.
nojohnyouare: Looking up again. (they want to break me)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-16 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. I'm trying to learn more about that now. To catch up with everyone.

[Technology is hard when you went back to the year 2000 and most of your friends are from the 2010s.]
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[personal profile] myocordial 2018-05-16 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Right, you are a little behind compared to a lot of us. Sometimes I forget.

I'd give you tips, but I think a lot in my world isn't exactly found in the same time period as other worlds. Like... well, me, I suppose.
nojohnyouare: Preoccupied with eating. (but that's a conversation)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-16 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
No robots like you for most of them. Faster internet. Yuuri explained texting once. And then all the space things. ...I'm working on it.