hadriel_logs | Intro Log: Rock This City

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for January
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: January 10th-14th
Warnings: New folks, rockin' dudes made of rock, and collectible friends!

This time, it's different.

There's no cave, no stone walls looming up around you and overhead, no stifling air or artificial light- not that you'd appreciate it, seeing as to how you've probably never been here before. And still, when you land facefirst on the dirt ground of the colosseum, you may not quite appreciate all the improvements and steps we've had to take to get here- after all, you're still surrounded by strangers in a crumbling city on an alien planet in the middle of nowhere.

Oh, and you're being attacked by Earth Elementals. These creatures are tall, between seven to ten feet, and made of solid rock, capable of punching through all the squishy bits of you- and for whatever reason, they definitely want to start punching. They're incredibly strong and, seeing as to how they're enchanted alive and have no internal organs, they're very difficult to kill.

But don't let that scare you off. For all the collectors in you, you can also find a very special array of beanie babies all scattered at the ground at your feet. Do you know that some of these things will be worth a lot of money someday? Better find the rarest one and stockpile it while you can! You might run into the rainbow crab, the platypus, or the sought-after bald eagle, or many more! Be sure to never take the tag off and never ever let anyone play with them so they don't lose value.

Once you've got your kids' college fund squared away, it's time to start exploring! You can 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 January 10th-14th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
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Alana.

[ Okay, so this isn't so bad. At least now she doesn't feel like she's at risk of being pierced by an arrow. ]

Do you, hum....have any questions?

[ She lands it as an hesitant offer, since she's not really good at explaining this place. It just kind of is what it is and she isn't even sure how it works yet, and it doesn't sound like a lot of people do, either.. ]

That may depend entirely on how much you know. [Which, naturally, he can find out by asking questions, but there's something else too.]

And if you're going to sound like your mind is broken while you're explaining it.

[Nil's a fine one to talk about people's minds being broken, but he's already come across far too many people who sound far too content about being in this place.]

Er. [This guy's a...charmer.]

Depends on what you mean, I guess?

[He is the most charming, honestly. There's no one more charming.]

I met a... person earlier, who had obviously been somehow convinced that everything about this place was entirely normal.

[Squint.]

Am I to expect the same from you?

Oh.

Hell no.

[ Alana pulls a face, not angry or irritated or confused, mostly the face of someone who definitely knows what he means and completely disagrees with whoever he's talking about. ]

I've been pull into this place, away from my family, against my will.

This isn't exactly a beach vacation for me.

[Nil's expression pulls into a small smirk. Finally, someone he can actually speak to and not feel like he's hitting his head against a stone wall.

He finds his fingers itch far less for his bow now he knows that not everybody here is touched in the head.]

Then we were surely not drawn here for the same reason.

[In his experience, people with families don't tend to lead lives like he does.]

Depends on what you mean.

As far as I got it, we're here because the universe is random and cruel, and we're supposed to feel some emotion gods or some shit. And help them fight some angry nihilist robots.

That's what I gathered, anyway.

[Sounds almost like home, except he's sure that the robots have no concept of nihilism. He'll leave that to the people living in luxury at the top of Meridian, with no mind for the lives of those further out in the Sundom.]

Life is random and cruel, and the sooner that idea is absorbed and acknowledged, the better it would be for everyone. [Nothing ever happens just because you want it. Things take action.]

So, you understand the problem. What will be your solution?

I hear that. [ Though, if she were to be honest, there's a part of her that wants to believe that things happen for a reason. And not just the bad things.

Without Marko to pull her mind out of that hole, it's hard not to fall into it. Because either things are random and cruel and chaotic, or she's just a horrible person who's done awful things to deserve all of this. ]

Right now? Fuckall if I know. [ The frustration is clear in her voice. ] Figuring this place out and find a way out of her, mostly. Finding a way to do that hasn't been easy.

[ Specially since nobody seems to have an answer on how exactly to do that. ]

Certainly not, when all those who might have the answers have been indoctrinated into accepting their continued existence in this place as inevitable.

[That's how he's come to see it, at least. Nil is not the type of person to stay settled, never camping in one place for too long if he camps at all.

It won't take long before he starts to go stir-crazy in this city.]

Arrangements like this only last so long before they break.

It's not that simple, buddy.

[ She wishes it was. She wants to think it is, but...]

This place isn't normal. There's people in here from all over the place. Like different realities and timelines.

So they say, anyway.

How do you think you ended up here?

I wasn't thinking of the how, but the why.

[Nil's tone is deceptively mild, but his mind is turning over. He has already worked out that she's not the same kind of person that he is. She has a family.]

What thread binds all of us?

Intro Log: Rock This City

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