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

[hadrielmods]

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?

► This log covers October 10th-17th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well!
► The network will not be available until the 17th.
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

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[full_of_bad_ideas]

- Colosseum 10/10 -

”I’m not in your apartment…” Isaac croaked in protest before he rolled over to his side and gave a few weak coughs. His eyes opened and he fixated on the ground which was a dry, brownish-red, surface. Immediately the sight of it informed him that he was not where he was meant to be. Tau Volantis was covered in snow, he should be face deep in winter. Isaac slowly pushed himself up and took note that he was not alone, he could see other people, but more shocking was the sight of large brown-coated beasts.

They weren’t necromorphs but they were, in their own right, still monsters by their size and offensive features. Claws were as long and thick as his elbow down to his fingers. It didn’t take long to realize that, like himself, they were rousing.

Isaac quickly to to his feet and pushed himself to stumble a few feet backward before he turned around to find the nearest exit. As he turned he found even more bears flexing and stretching. The sight overwhelmed him and he focused past them, difficult as that was, to find a plausible route out of this.

This–– whatever this was. That had to come later, safety first. As they say.

- The Park 10/13 -

Isaac managed to kill a bear, it was by itself otherwise he doubted he would’ve had the ability to kill it. He took from the lessons gathered from his world and worked on cutting off two limbs before he decapitated it with his weapon. Once it was dead he took too examining it at a closer proximity. The massive bear was large enough to build a convenient store in. Though it was hunger more than anything that brought his thoughts to the possibilities that lurked within that massive girth. One definite possibility came to mind: meat. Though the thought didn’t come without concern on whether or not the meat was safe to eat.

Isaac stood there for a long time, losing himself to the sight of the fallen mass and considering whether or not he wanted to try the meat. As far as he could tell, the bear was just an animal — overgrown by a few acres, but just a bear.

If he were home he would be concerned and the thought of eating the fallen would not have come to him, at least before he recovered logs of starving units on Tau Volantis left without any resources and turned to the fallen infected necromorphs to feast on. That didn’t end well for them, that didn’t end well for anyone.

Yet, there was more to this than Isaac’s concern on if the meat was safe or not to eat. He didn’t have John there to smack some sense into him and so his thoughts were spiraling down a darkness that had him thinking: Am I dead? Am I a necromorph - did I turn into those fucking things? The fear of that overwhelmed him as he stood still and stared at the spilling blood pooling around his feet.

- The Stores 10/17 -

He could no longer blame his displacement on his mind, on his confusion, on some fucked up feature of his body suit seeping too much oxygen in his helmet making him high. This was his reality, ironic and unbelievable as it was.

A skyless world full of vagrants like himself, from all sorts of worlds and different times of his world as well. He’s even talked to some people claiming that they were from his world - his earth - but their account and time line was confusing to his own account of history and his own timeline. As if they had come from a parallel universe.

It took a week to accept it but once he did it made moving around the city a lot better than the first few days in which he was still stuck under dazed and confused. Now he had purpose, and it helped a ton that there was working electricity and food.

park

[sparkler]

Dorian has been doing his own exploring, his own hunting. His magic is enough to keep him safe - if he can't scare the bears off, he can usually kill them, though it takes some effort and he's had a few close calls. But really, he'd like something besides bear meat to eat, so he's out and about, investigating this strange cave he's been trapped in.

He approaches the man, somewhat carefully, as who knows what to expect from anyone? But he seems - distracted, so Dorian isn't particularly worried.

"There's no need to simply stand there. Your shoes will get ruined."

Colosseum!

[deus_machina]

This had to be what being in an earthquake felt like. Adam stumbled, falling to one or the other knee a few times before he was able to get far enough from the epicenter that he could jog. Only when he was able to mostly keep upright did he glance around him and behind him to see what was going on.

Adam had just enough time to realize those were giant bears and this wasn't Panchea before he looked ahead again. There was a man (he assumed given the height) in a weird suit just ahead and Adam followed him. They both had the same idea: to get the hell out of Dodge.

He was able to catch up to the man and he spotted a tunnel inside the Colosseum wall. "Hey, over here!" he yelled to the other before he ran in that direction. Whether or not the man would follow him was up to him.

park!

[unmakes]

Sally made it out of the coliseum in one piece - relatively, with just a broken rib to show for it - and while she made what she considers to be a solid attempt at hunting, apparently nail guns are just plain no good for killing giant bears (go figure) so she's spent most of the rest of the time keeping a low profile and trying and failing to scavenge.

When she hears the bear in distress, it occurs to her that this might be her chance. A year ago, she never would've thought like this, but after twenty odd months in a different survival hell, she's come to realize that most life-or-death issues call for either opportunism or some kind of murder. In this case, just the opportunism. Because if a bear that big is in that kind of pain, there's a decent chance it's being attacked by another bear, which means there'll be shit left to scavenge, almost guaranteed.

But that's not what she finds when she arrives. Sure, there's a dead bear - sliced and diced much more deliberately than she expected - but rather than a second bear, there's just... a guy. A guy who seems to be utterly lost at the growing pool of blood dripping out of his brand new kill.

Her brow knits, and she takes a few more steps toward him - almost strolling, so it doesn't seem like an attack from the side just in case he's the crazy kind of lost-in-a-pool-of-blood. Sally stops a couple of yards away, and after a second she speaks up. "Hey, so are you... okay?"