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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:]
personalityquarks: (Strange)

STRANGE

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Strange is seated some way down from the pizza buffet, occupying one of the chairs at the umbrella table. Those with keen eyes - or with useless eyes but keen ears - might note the small silver bell now tied to their ankle, out of the way where it won't interfere with their work. It rings quietly on alternate footsteps whenever they walk.

For the most part, Strange is content to let people approach them, though there are some handful of familiar faces who may be approached outright. Well, and one that's close enough to familiar, anyway.]
rhododendronhoney: (welcome to the shop!)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2018-04-30 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, the pizzas aren't the only thing filling these tables. For quite a while today, Cori has been at work mixing and cutting and frosting, and now she's hauling out giant plates of cookies, both plain sugar and chocolate, in all sorts of shapes. There's circles, stars, hearts, even a few shaped like the resident androids. And of course plenty are frosted as well-blue, red, yellow, and green, as well as various other colors and patterns from mixing the basic colors. As people start returning, she starts waving to them.]

Welcome back, everyone! I figured you guys should have some snacks to go along with the pizza, so I've been making cookies for everyone! Come and have some! Especially you new people, you've probably been stuck out there without any good sweets for a while, right?
burninglight: (into the darkness we will fly)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-04-30 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Despite being more exhausted than usual and quite fed up with this whole thing on what was effectively Day Fucking One, Ardyn didn't leave the observation deck right away; better to stay in the open and check in with the others first. However, he also didn't eat anything--opting instead to take a cup of coffee out of the Armiger and struggle to stay awake on that for now.]

[Later on, he'd claim a room for himself and very definitely not be seen until at least noon the following day.]
photoshooter: (RAIN 📷 Noct...)

[personal profile] photoshooter 2018-04-30 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Heeeeeeey, Strange. If Prompto's just blinking blearily at the calzones for what seems like a long time, it's not because he's avoiding any particular pressing conversations or anything, haha.]
burninglight: (can i bear to seek the truth)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-04-30 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Ardyn, standing off to the side and watching the group as only the truly paranoid could, was fairly preoccupied with the cup of coffee he'd gotten from gods only knew where. But not so preoccupied that he missed the approaching android.]

Can I help you?
dragonmouth: (I just wanna be naked)

[personal profile] dragonmouth 2018-04-30 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ She hasn't eaten anything except for some of the fruit from back home and that bowl of noodles, so the pizza is a welcome sight. She has literally never had a pizza before in her life until now, however, so she takes a slice in between two hands and folds it neatly, her bite the daintiest of bites.

It's very slow and deliberate, but she is eating about as much as you'd expect of a half-starved teenager if you actually watch her long enough.

...later, she's curled up in a corner of the greenhouse, quietly hating herself while the cat with different-colored eyes sits on her ribcage.

Looks like someone found out they were lactose intolerant? ]
Edited 2018-04-30 07:33 (UTC)
dubiouslychthonic: (the docterrorist is in)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-04-30 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Jetshard's looking decidedly worn down when she gets back to the station - she's definitely not going to try and pull an immediate post-dungeon shift at the medbay this month - but she does make a point of seeking out Strange before she goes back to her own room to collapse.]

Ran across something interesting in the fissure.
founderinglight: ([ppppp])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-04-30 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Immediate aftermath

[Izunia returns to the Station on the second load of transports, and perhaps predictably, he immediately summons a familiar chair from his Armiger and falls asleep in it, snoozing the entire ten-minute flight. And once he's been awakened and gently shoved off the drone, he...

Immediately goes for one of the lounge chairs, pulls the blanket and pillow out of his Armiger, and goes to sleep again. Zzzz. Goodnight everyone.]


Later

[When he wakes up, it's mostly to shuffle in the direction of the food that's still set out on the deck, three or four hours later. He looks kind of out of it as he sips a mug of hot chocolate - coffee is pointless, he's eating and going back to bed - and munches on a blue-iced heart cookie Cori left behind while looking over the pizza.

Please help him, he's not awake enough to make toppings-related decisions.]


Much Later

[And some nearly fourteen hours after that, in the early afternoon, does he finally shuffle his way to the Annex and wander around the library for a while, before...

You guessed it. Napping again, in one of the chairs in the central area, Managing Quadrants for Imbeciles sticking out from under his elbow.]
Edited 2018-04-30 07:31 (UTC)
misanthropicprinciple: (This reminds me of a puzzle.)

[personal profile] misanthropicprinciple 2018-04-30 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[So, first of all, Junpei's shoving many breadsticks straight into the Armiger. He knows what he's about, son.

After that, and after hanging around his fellow Airlocked Champions for a while to make sure they're situated and stable for the moment, he takes himself, his breadsticks, and some gross Japanese energy drink off to inspect the station from top to bottom--no pun intended, android buddies.

He can be found on literally any floor. Any room. He uses a coin to warp up to the sensor-covered upper level of the roof to take a look around. The off-limits meeting room 1 gives him pause for a moment; Junpei very clearly wants to go in, but something's stopping him, and it's probably not propriety. The labs take a lot of time to go through, especially when he has no idea what he's looking at for most of them. When he gets down to the kitchens on the residential floor, he checks his watch and looks faintly surprised.]


Huh...

[The farm level is actually not as interesting to him, while the generator level at the very bottom is. Junpei finds himself following the cables and examining the water distiller, trying to figure out how it works.]
meowna: Made by @marshwiggle on Plurk (Default)

[personal profile] meowna 2018-04-30 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
Road Trip!
[The drones, as overcrowded as they are, could use a little lightening of their load. So what better way to pitch in as a new member of the community than by taking some of the burden of transportation upon himself? If you're part of the Persona 5 crew, or one of their friends that they might have decided to drag along, feel free to hop aboard the Monamobile! This catbus is a damn smooth ride, complete with adorable ears and tail, a motor that purrs like a happy cat, and comfortable seats that hold up to seven people--or maybe a few more, if you're willing to get really cozy.

He doesn't mind if you lot fall asleep inside him--but whoever's driving, don't fall asleep behind the wheel!]



Buffet Bash
[He's kind of liking this place's style of providing copious amounts of food at once! An illustrious Phantom Thief like himself deserves to dine plentifully and at his leisure, after all. Early on in the festivities, people may see a small tuxedo cat in a gorgeous collar, mingling with the other members of the group--most of the time, though, he'll be in his bipedal, masked mascot form. After all, it's way easier to grab food when you have something vaguely resembling hands!

.....Honestly, though, it would be even easier to grab food if he was more than like two feet tall. If you don't want him jumping, climbing, or walking on the tables, you may want to help him serve himself. On the plus side, he's not nearly as tired as some of the people returning from the trip, and seems to be in remarkably good spirits? He's awfully social, too--even if you don't approach him, there's a decent chance something may catch his eye and have him interested in chatting with you. What might he notice?]
superstylishsquid: (Would you look at that.)

Buffet

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2018-04-30 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Hello kitty, there's a devil walking up to you while you're trying to bounce up to reach the table. He smells like...well, mostly like thunderstorms, though with something underlying that brings to mind predatory creatures.]

Need a lift, little guy?
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, hey, Prompto, ring-ring it's the doc.]

...I'm not going to lecture you. But I do hope you've learned something about the value of preventative exams.
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know, can you?

[There's a small smile and a bit of humor before the android's expression goes back to business.]

I'm Strange. I understand that some of your people have issues with medical exams, and you wanted to talk to me?
serrata: (01 - L1I8oCo)

[personal profile] serrata 2018-04-30 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ With an unceremonious THUMP, Yuuri drops a three pound jar of gummy bears into one of the boxes, because that's a cursed object and she doesn't want anything to do with it.

... She will be taking that chunky knit pink blanket, though. It's cosy and she's cold. Let her live. ]
personalityquarks: (Strange)

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh?

[Strange is looking up with a bit of a smile at Jetshard's approach. Good to see you, medbuddy.]

What is it?
rhododendronhoney: (smile)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2018-04-30 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Cori skips up, a red-frosted, heart-shaped cookie in one hand.] Hey, want a cookie to go with that-oh. You're...not Izunia?
meowna: Made by @marshwiggle on Plurk (Default)

[personal profile] meowna 2018-04-30 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! That's pretty thoughtful of you!

[Who wouldn't want to at least try such heartfelt homemade goodies? Hopefully Cori (and everyone else) doesn't mind the mascot taking a running jump onto the table to be able to actually reach any of it.]
personalityquarks: (Top)

GENERATORS

[personal profile] personalityquarks 2018-04-30 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
[So hey about that water distiller -

A couple minutes into Junpei's examinations, the door slides open and an android comes down the steps. This one's wearing an orange scarf and a slightly harried expression.]


Oh, shoot. Didn't think anyone'd be down here - you're one of the new ones, right?

[The voice is the same voicebank as Charm's, though with a slightly different rhythm.]
ladytakamaki: (looking like a princess)

road trip

[personal profile] ladytakamaki 2018-04-30 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
You're the best, Morgana!

[ the catbus is the way to go, and it's comfy in here! ann is definitely not driving, but...dang. she suddenly feels really tired, and starts yawning. ]

Man... Is it just me, or do you suddenly feel-- [ yawn ] really sleepy?
theosophomoric: (migrate to the slaughter)

Buffet

[personal profile] theosophomoric 2018-04-30 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Sonja's used to keeping tabs on any cats in her immediate vicinity - Fallen London's cats represent a spy network that puts the humans' Great Game to shame, one that a canny human can sometimes take advantage of. Or which an incautious human can find will put her in serious political jeopardy. While she's on modestly good terms with the woman that many of them report to, Sonja's not so close a confidante of the Duchess that she's given to assuming the cats aren't going to inform on her.

Even with the knowledge that she's now very far from the Neath, it's still second nature for Sonja to notice the presence of a small feline form who seems to be having some difficulty. It's also second nature for her to do her level best to sneak up behind him while he's distracted by trying to get up to the table, although she at least thinks better of just grabbing him.]


Spot of trouble, puss?
rhododendronhoney: (cheerful)

[personal profile] rhododendronhoney 2018-04-30 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa! [Cori backs up and manages not to get a faceful of flying mascot.] Careful! [Still, she assumes he knows what he can and can't eat, so she's not going to be too worried about him eating chocolate or sugar or anything like that.]

So, you're one of the new people? It seems like there's way more of them this time...
dragonmouth: (So I said "fuck it")

[personal profile] dragonmouth 2018-04-30 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
...I've never seen anything like this.

[ She takes a blue one and inspects it closely. WHY IS IT FLUORESCENT BLUE, THAT'S NOT A COLOR FOOD IS SUPPOSED TO BE ]
stormkingofshepherds: (When I have lived the span of hours)

Greenhouse

[personal profile] stormkingofshepherds 2018-04-30 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Nathaniel's been avoiding the buffet table for most of today, not wanting to run into too many new people. Still, he looks a little concerned when he comes across the ill girl here.]

...are you alright?
dragonmouth: then proceed to punch them in the face? (So you're saying)

[personal profile] dragonmouth 2018-04-30 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
...I think I ate too much.

[ She rocks herself gently, not getting up from the fetal position. ]

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