hadriel_logs | [intro log] we're beary pleased to meet you!

Who: New arrivals - everybody!
What: Welcome to Hadriel. Enjoy the bears.
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: October 10th-17th
Warnings: Bears, made of bear meat. Possibly bear attacks. General confusion.

You awaken on the sandy ground of the colosseum. Its half-ruined walls rise around you, stretching up to the sky - or what passes as the sky, as instead of blue sky and clouds you'll only see a rocky ceiling far above, with a bright source of light illuminating the cave.

Where are you? What are you doing here? Who are all these other people? Pressing questions, but far more pressing right now are the giant, hungry dire bears who seem to have appeared here along with you, and who are now waking up as well. And boy, do they not seem happy about it.

Once you've fought, run away, or successfully hid from the bears, you've got an entire city to explore. Sure, a lot of it is in ruins and it's totally empty, except for you, your fellow arrivals, and the bears, but there's things to be found and stuff to investigate. You can even find a house to live in if you're one of those fancy types who prefers not to sleep on the streets.

Unfortunately, one thing that can't be found at first is food. Hopefully you brought some with you or you managed to kill a bear or two, because the city is entirely empty of food until the 13th of October, when you will awaken to a gift of food on your doorsteps. Some of it might be strange-looking and alien, but hey, at least it's edible, and you didn't even have to kill anything to get it! Someone's feeling generous. After this, food and other items will be able to be found in the various stores around the city, though if you're looking for something specific, you might not have any luck.

Not long after, on the 15th, the electricity in the houses - and the rest of the restored parts of the city - will sputter to life. Hopefully you're not too near any lights or outlets when that happens, because there's a fair chance of exploding bulbs and sparks flying. At least you can turn the lights on now, though!

So now you've got food and electricity, the bears are all either dead or have fled into the caves around the city (you didn't go too far in there, right?). Things are looking up! Except for the whole 'trapped in an alien city, what the hell are we doing here' thing. But that's probably not important, right?

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[through sheer force of being scolded more than once to keep his face away from oddly humming... things, lloyd had managed to avoid any real injuries when the electricity came back on, but confusion is almost certainly a look stamped across his face as he stares up at one of the lit bulbs.

when bruce approaches he finally looks away to give the man a slightly puzzled smile.] Heh, I guess I'm still sort of getting used to seeing so much magitechnology in one place.

[he seems to consider something, hesitates, before squaring his shoulders and asking anyway because, well. this is what he'd set out to do after leaving home again, wasn't it? even if he hadn't exactly planned to wind up here specifically, there was no reason to just stop looking.] Do you know... they're not using exspheres to power it, are they?

I've never even heard of an exsphere.

[Bruce admits, pushing his glasses up his nose.]

What's that?

Exspheres. [lloyd says and taps gently on his own resting on the back of his left hand, a small circular looking stone set into a crest on his glove. he's not too bothered or surprised that bruce is asking him about them, they weren't exactly a well known thing back in Sylverant before the merge.

it does sort of suggest that looking for them in this place might wind up being a bit trickier than he first considered though.]

They're kind of like little power sources? And they can be used to power up machinery or... there was a bridge between Meltokio and Syback that used a whole bunch of them to raise or lower it when they needed. Kind of like Mana I guess except... not?

[lloyd was probably the actual worst person to ask to explain this, sorry bruce.]

Well, it's interesting that they're in your world, but not universal. I'm very familiar with those kinds of mechanics at home.

[And this isn't a thing.]

One more sign that there are multiple realities we're coming here from.

Other worlds, I know about that! [lloyd tells bruce excitably, perking up slightly at the idea of talking about something he'd not entirely hopeless in. and also possibly a chance to help fix things?]

Did this place get split off from another one too? Is that why everyone is getting dragged here, you think?

I have absolutely no idea, but I'm alarmed by it.

[He admits, with a shake of his head.]

This kind of phenomena seems- so unlikely, and it can't be healthy, exactly.

Well I mean. [lloyd considers the issue seriously for a moment.] No, it's not really healthy. [and that was kind of a huge understatement. so many things had turned bad from the world split, people sadly among the list.]

I don't think I remember any stories about a place like this though. [which might not have meant all that much in the beginning, but since martel and mithos lloyd had honestly made an effort to read up a bit more on the histories and stories. he hadn't really wanted to be caught unprepared again.

obviously none of that had helped.] It's weird that there's no people here, right? I mean, people from here. Have you met any?

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