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Intro Log: Eight Legs No Heart

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for June.
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: June 10th-15th
Warnings: Spiders. Soooo many spiders. New people. Probably swearing.

For once, the new arrivals to Hadriel will not be waking up on the cold hard ground of the colosseum. Oh, sure, you'll still awaken in the arena - but this time the Door has been kind enough to ensure that you wake up comfortably arranged in a very nice chair. Or maybe not so comfortably. Some of those look pretty awkward - hopefully you didn't wake up with a crick in your neck! And hey, feel free to try to drag some of these super cool chairs to your new homes. They're probably not cursed or anything.

As you make your way out of the arena, be careful getting to close to the walls - well, except that's the only way out, so good luck! Chilling up on there waiting to get the drop on you are Skulltulas. These funky-looking spiders have squishy underbellies, but their upper exoskeletons are hard and very difficult to break through. They really just want to nibble you a few times, and maybe suck out all of your blood. No big deal, right? Have fun!

Have you conquered your arachnophobia and managed to escape? Great! Feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies. Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers June 10th-15th.
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Muscovy comes running but then stops and watches this for a few moments to get a feeling of the situation. Then watches a bit longer, his head tilted. The spider seems to be dumber than the others, if it hasn't managed serious damage yet.

So he walks over and crouches down next to Victor's head, assuming that the skulltula is too busy with its victim, and offers him a dagger.

"You should stop flailing and stab it in the belly instead, yes?" Since the man is in a perfect position for it already.

Approaching the scene shows that the spider is being abnormally aggressive and angry about this specific victim, if very ineffectual at actually stopping him from flailing. Victor glances over to see a child with a knife. Shit, he is definitely looking very uncool at the moment. Seeing the dagger, Victor grits his teeth and forces himself to roll over under that spider. "Hey kid! Get back before you get hurt!"

Okay, the spider seems to not care about easy prey as it just seems agitated by this less than compliant meal under it. Still, Victor's trying to play hero here. He draws his feet in as close as he can, pulling his knees up to his chest and plants the heels of his shoes on the things abdomen. With a loud grunt Victor tries to rock back and kick up, flipping the thing up, off of Victor and onto its back. Victor tries to kick up as well but stumbles a bit, while the thing hurries to roll over.

...Well, he now was in a perfect position for taking care of the spider.

That kick was impressive, but the spider doesn't seem put off and indeed seems to be angry enough to try at its victim again, no matter what. It really is a weird spider.

And Muscovy is certain that he wouldn't be able to run up to it in time to stab her before it's back on its feet. So he offers the dagger to the man again, watching the spider so he can step away in time before it returns. "You should stab it in the belly, yes?"

"Why do you know that? Who gave you a knife anyways? That's a shitty thing to do." Far more concerned over handing knives to children then the angry spider. A spider that has gotten back on it's feet and is ready to pounce again. Though Victor's not totally oblivious. He snatches the knife from the kid and kicks the spider hard in the face to hopefully stun it.

He's not going to get under that thing again. Victor lunges and puts the knife right between the fangs of that spider and forces it in to the hilt. He twists it a bit and holds the spider back until he feels it begin to weaken. He presses the thing backwards a bit until it slumps.

Victor lets out a relieved breath and stands up, pulling the knife free. "I should keep this you know? But if there's spiders maybe you should go out there alone."

Victor turns it around, and hands it to the kid handle first. "Do you know what city we're in kid?"

He doesn't get a chance to answer or remark on that the man should really stop being silly before Victor finally jumps into action and takes care of the skulltula. But he remembers his words and, once Victor hands it back, studies the dagger for a moment to answer the question. Two of them are from Maglor and one is from Rey, so - but they are easy enough to tell apart.

"My lord father gave it to me. It is a very good thing to do because if you cannot defend yourself you will get hurt and people will take you even less serious, and you can't help others, yes? And you might make people get hurt or die because they try to help you."

As for where they are, since the middle part doesn't need to be addressed once he's received his dagger back -

"I haven't been outside yet, but big bro said that it is a city in a cave and that we can't go above ground."

"Little kids shouldn't be worried about that sort of stuff. Adults should just be reliable, you know? But unfortunately I can't be reliable right now so you go ahead and hold onto that until your big bro gets off his ass and comes to your rescue, okay?"

Victor's logic is really flawed there. He's lecturing the kid on having a knife then insisting he keeps it. It doesn't matter though, he is already thinking of the next problem. "So you got kidnapped too, and this ain't New York City so I guess it's time to go harass the locals. What do you think?"

Victor checks his pockets and his hostler. He finds the gun is there, fully loaded and ready to use. Tucking it away again he checks his wallet and badge. "What sort of shitty kidnapper leaves you your gun and knife anyways?"

He'll just... watch Victor happen for a bit.

There's a lot of Victor happening after all, and half of it doesn't match the other half. At least there's the interesting bit of information in there that he is from that same strange city that Firo is from. The one where all the roofs are flat.

At least the last question seems like it is that actually requires an answer. "It means that they either want us to fight for them, or that we cannot hurt them with weapons anyway, or that they are very dumb." At least that is what he has gathered from earlier experiences.

"Whatever it is, they're going to regret it. I don't got time for this sort of shit." Maybe Victor should stop cursing around children, but right now he's just not having it.

Glancing back to the kid, he frowns. He's not going to be all that great at helping him right now. "Look, kid, you seem smart so go find the local authorities and get yourself to safety. I need to figure out which asshole did this to me. Got it?"

Not that he's dismissing the kid. The kid does seem like he's a bit more with it than Victor's comfortable with. But if this is something Huey did, no need to get other people involved in one of Huey's experiments.

"If there are local authorities here, they are most likely the ones responsible for this, yes?"

Or there are no real local authorities. At least it should be like this judging by his own experience and by what he has heard from others.

...He's not going to stop Victor. But he might just so decide to follow him, because Victor really is very lively and that is always a nice trait to be around, and besides, if he keeps acting like this he will probably get into trouble with everything interesting here, so Muscovy will be able to observe what interesting things there are.

"That or they're overwhelmed. If they're behind it I am going to bury my foot so far up their... You know what, never mind. That's between me and them."

Victor's not a great babysitter but he doesn't object if the kid follows him out. He watches the dark, high spots for movement and does not plan to get surprised this time. He makes his way out into the open to see that this place is truly unique. "What in the hell?"

It's alien, too alien for him to even recognize the architecture. "No, what the hell is this place? This doesn't even look like a place. How the hell am I supposed to find my way in a place like this?"

Okay, so he's asking the air these questions because they're not directed at anyone in particular. Still, this is beyond weird.

Not that Muscovy doesn't agree, but for the moment he mostly just enjoys the show.

If he knew what popcorn is and had some, he'd totally popcorn.gif at this. As it is, he just stands there and happily observes Victor be very lively.

He giggles a bit while doing so because Victor is funny. How would a different type of architecture make navigating harder if there are clearly streets and buildings, separate from each other?

Victor's traveled enough to recognize that these aren't anything he could recognize. Either they are in some strange country, really strange city, or someplace else entirely. Maybe a mock city? Maybe something like a town created by some strange immortal playing games? Who knows? He doesn't.

"At least we're not in a forest or something. At least there's buildings so they have to have food, right?" The place doesn't seem exceptionally populated, which gives Victor a bad feeling about the whole situation. Not that giant spiders weren't a tip off that things were not good.

...Now he's just confused.

"There is always food in a forest, yes?"

Even if you can't hunt, you can gather berries and similar things, and even if you can't do that there will be less tasty things that are edible. It is actually easier to come by food in a forest, at least without people getting angry and if you know how to do it. ...Maybe this man doesn't know how to do it. He has to think of his big brother.

"...Are you from a very big city?"

"Not all the food is for people." Also, that is totally not the point. Look at those spires! They're not like any sky scrapers he has ever seen. Of course this is just him freaking out, it's probably not as bad as he thinks. Right?

"And yeah I'm from a city. Who wouldn't be? I mean you got everything there. And all the people. I'll never get the country folk who think fighting for survival when you don't have to is some sort of noble cause. It's stupid. Just build a city and live. Unless you're a farmer or something."

"Yes, but it is for people too, if they can find and catch it."

He cannot quite keep up with all that Victor is saying, but also figures that that isn't the point of listening to him anyway. He's saying a lot of silly things, so it is more something that fills the air with the man's presence.

"Not all food that people in cities eat comes from farms."

Victor tends to fill the air a lot, not often with important nonsense. But the kid makes sense. "That's true, you also got factories, mills and all sort of things. Still city life is still the best, even if you have to compete with thugs and mafioso."

Not everyone competes with thugs and mafioso. But when you're part of what will one day be the FBI during prohibition era United States, sometimes you run into these things. At least his ranting has slowed down for a brief moment. "You have to fend for yourself a lot back home or something kid?"

"You have bullies everywhere, though."

He doesn't feel like that really changes between places - after all some thugs will come form quite a distance away to bully you.

"I took care of myself back home, because I had no parents and my sisters are pretty and a bit scary but they have their own problems and my little sis is not very strong yet. But then I found family in other places and they are strong and nice and make sure that I'm safe." To a degree including food and a place to stay, but that isn't where his emphasis is now. It is 'I have family who will come after you and kick your ass if you ever think of troubling me so even though I don't look like much of a threat I have a threatening back-up'.

He doesn't know if any of them are here, though. At least he has seen neither his big bro nor his mother or father, or even one of the more distant relatives yet, so going by his experiences, that means a high chance of all or most of them not being here.

But he definitely won't mention that to a stranger.

"Well, kid, just stay in the lines and do what's right and you'll be fine. I'm sure. And if your family is here you'll find them. If I see someone looking for a resilient little kid, I'll send them your way. Got it?" Okay, so he's playing nice to the kid for now. He's got a lot on his mind but it's not the kid's fault. They're in the same boat.

"Got any enemies I should keep an eye out for particular? Or just beat on some bullies?"

"Not that I know of yet."

He'll find out soon enough if there are, he figures, but... well, their number isn't big anyway, and all things considered he'll hope that they don't remember him and won't have a reason to have an issue with him here. Because then they can maybe become friends eventually.

"If you find people who are looking for me and seem nice," because that is the best way to describe all members of his family, clearly, "you can tell them that Muscovy is looking for them, yes?

...What is your name?"

"I'll be sure to do that. And you can call me Victor Talbot..." He almost chokes after he says those words. He didn't mean to say his real name. He meant to give this kid another.

He watches the kid a moment before shaking his head. Na, it can't be. Huey's probably spying on him or something. That's got to be it.

Muscovy is completely oblivious to why Victor is suddenly choking - even if he knew about the rule of the real name among his big bro's kind of immortals, he wouldn't see why it would be an issue. After all lying is very, very bad, and will get you in trouble, and aside from lies of omission should never be done, because bad things will happen.

So he figures that Victor is having actual breathing trouble here and, not being tall enough to give him a few hard pats between the shoulderblades, quickly loosens his quiver and steps around Victor to use it as an elongation of his arm to achieve exactly that. THe pats might be a bit harder and less well coordinated, but if it makes Victor stop choking, that's worth it, right?

"Hey! Hey! I'm fine! Stop battering me kid." It takes Victor a moment to realize what the kid was doing and he just gives a sigh. Can't be mad at him for trying, right? "Thanks, I'm okay now."

Well, that's awkward. There's way too many unanswered questions here and not enough time to deal with them all in one day. Instead he's going to distract Muscovy, or so he hopes, with more questions. "Do you think you can find a safe place to go or do you need help getting set up?"

"Good," Muscovy replies cheerily and lowers his quiver before quickly making sure that he didn't damage it and then reattaching it to where it was hung.

"I will find a place." He needs to see if Rey is here first, but if that fails, he'll find Firo again. Family should stay together and all.

"Good. If you get into any real trouble, just look for the guy with the badge, okay?" And with that Victor flashes Muscovy his Division of Investigation badge. A precursor to the FBI. He tucks the badge away before nodding off.

"I'm sure we'll meet again."

"I will look for you."

Not only when he's in trouble. Probably a lot more often, because this guy is fun.

But for now he'll go off to find his family, and with a wave, he turns to walk away.

"Until we meet again!"

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