Intro Log: Busy Little Bees

[hadrielmods]

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for July
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: July 10th-16th
Warnings: Fun for kids of all ages!

Another day, another mysterious transportation to a strange and alien city inside a cave surrounded by monsters. Or maybe that's not normal for you? Weird! You awaken on the ground of a large arena, a stone ceiling stretching high above you. Welcome to Hadriel! Oh, but you aren't alone. That 'surrounded by monsters' bit? Yeah...

Do you hear a buzzing? Better start running now. Along with all the newbies, the Door has brought in quite a few tracker jackers. Wasps are already horrible, and these things are even worse. Bigger and much more dangerous than the insects they were genetically modified from, tracker jackers will sting anyone they think is a threat. Their stings cause extreme pain and hallucinations, and if you're stung too many times - well, that's it for you. You can try to calm them down with smoke, fight them, or just run like hell. Maybe you'll get lucky.

It's hard to fight if you don't have a weapon, though. But hey - you're in luck! Rage, who usually supplies the city with weapons, is currently gone, but the Door has provided you with some instead! That's right, you might find a sword, a gun, a bow and arrow, or an exotic foreign weapon to defend yourself with! Of course, they're all made of plastic and completely incapable of hurting anything. Have fun!

Let's hope your legs are faster than those wasps, and you survive your first few minutes in Hadriel. After you've find your way out of the colosseum there's plenty of other distractions. Feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, a new monster, a project to help with, or simply scavenge for supplies. Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers July 10th-16th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
► All characters arrive with phones that have network communication and the newbie guide installed.
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

Comments

II - shops

[pellameno]

[ Raidou flags Pell down on his way to the clinic. He's a slight figure with long dark hair braided over his shoulder and a medical bag hanging at his side, and he looks up curiously at the voice. A newcomer, one he hadn't encountered the day before. Pell stops and smiles at the stranger, then points in the direction of housing, where spires rise up above the other buildings. ]

See those spires? Those are the apartment towers. They're marked on the map on our phones, too.

[the_fourteenth]

[Those huge towers? Raidou blinks up at them for a moment. They looked as tall as the office building where he worked back home, and that was the tallest building around for miles and miles.]

Ah, yes...

[When Pell mentions the phone, Raidou fishes his from his coat pocket and looks at the screen, frowning slightly.]

Um. Could you show me where the map is?

[pellameno]

Of course. Here...

[ He adjusts his bag on his shoulder and steps in beside Raidou, taking the phone and holding it so the man can see what he's pressing. The map icon does in fact look like a tiny map, and tapping it brings up the city map, with a blinking marker showing where they are. ]

That's the GPS. See how the arrow turns to show what direction you're facing? [ Pell tilts the phone this way and that to demonstrate. ] Right now we're by the shops, and you want to go here, to the spires. You can zoom in and out with two fingers.

[the_fourteenth]

GPS? [Raidou peers over Pell and watches closely.] Oh, a compass?

[He reaches over to zoom on the map, and he does so a few times, fascinated.]

...That's amazing. Thank you. These things do a lot, it seems.

[pellameno]

Sort of? It shows which way you're pointing but it also tells you exactly where you are. See?

[ He smiles, then, because he felt much the same about the phones when he first arrived. ]

Impressive, aren't they?

[the_fourteenth]

Very. I've never seen anything like it. This whole place is... interesting.

[He really didn't know what else he could say about it. It was weird, but he's been through some weirder stuff. This seems like just another day, except for the whole being trapped indefinitely part.]

So, ah... People have been stuck here for awhile, right? What do people do here all day?