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.
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「Surely she doesn't mean the typical soul he's used to? It doesn't make much sense without the context.」

I don't think I do. What is it?

[She screws up her face a moment, trying to think of how to explain this.]

Well… in my world, e-everybody has a SOUL. Humans have stronger souls than monsters, and they last after death. Monster souls just disappear. But see, uhm… SOULs without a body can be absorbed. Taken for p-power. And since monster souls disappear, but humans don’t… monsters could take human souls. But no one wants that, and monsters would never— no one ever has. But humans were scared. They declared war, and we, uhm, got locked underground.

「Her explanation has his eyes widening and he feels a little chill down his spine. No, it's the the fact of what the humans from her world are afraid of, it's the simple fact that the souls (SOULs?) of the monsters disappear. It's the worst fate there is accordingly to his beliefs, worse than death itself. After all, he's all soul after all, stuck in a body that's not his.

He tries not to let that show, focusing on the history itself rather than the facts. It takes him a moment, surely it's not pity what she wants.」

If no one has, how do you know it's possible?

Well, during the war, it was j-just theory. I mean, I wasn’t alive then, I don’t know, but it did… happen, once.

[Everyone knows the legend. Her, a little more intimately so.]

The king’s children. We, we took in a human, once, a kid who got trapped in the Underground, but when they died because the got sick, the… the p-prince took their SOUL. To take their body back home. But they were killed.

[It’s… not the happiest party topic.]

We’ve been working on getting out of the Underground since the war. It’s been… c-centuries.

「It certainly is not. He's regretting his curiosity now.」

I'm... sorry, Alphys. I didn't mean to those such memories back to you.

「But it was hard to forget sometimes where one came from, wasn't it? Rarely he would not think about home, and about everything he went through, the past shaped the present.」

It’s okay, I mean, uhm… t-they’re just stories. I wasn’t around.

[Just stories, until she accidentally revived one from the dead as a ghost of their former self with godlike powers, yeah, that went so well.]

I just wish they were here. To s-see all this. To have gotten out with me.

「To wish someone they know got snatched by the Door was a big thing. He is so sure that there is no one in Hadriel that hasn't ever wished that someone they love or appreciate were there, he knows he has, but then, there was the whole guilt about wanting that came when he thought they would have to suffer through the same as they are, the god's events, their unfortunate war. He wonders if Alphys is the same.

He's not totally sure what he can say, every option seems to lead to a way to upset her more.」

Maybe they will.

「Either, back where they are from, or... if they were brought here.」

H-Heh. Yeah.

[She shakes her head a bit, grabbing her glass again off the counter where it had been forgotten.]

Well! Uh, that probably wasn’t good, uhm, party discussion, we should— do something! Fun! Yeah!

「It certainly wasn't, all his fault, of course. If not, he'll assume it anyway.」

All right. And what would that be?

「Did this place had anything fun to do for a change? ... Besides drinking?」

[She doesn't blame him for it. Her life is not the most fun in general.]

Uhh-- I d-don't really know. I guess there's dancing, but I don't, uh, dance really...

[Drag her out there Atem. Do it. It'll be adorable.]

「Well, she mentioned it anyway. She can see him downing his drink, yep, the whole thing, he, then, stands from the stool and in front of her.」

Good, because I don't dance either.

「He pulls a little bow at her, a hand behind his back and the other offering, so classy.」

[Aww buddy. That’s cute. She blushes, unable to stifle her giggles, but take his hand.]

Well, uhm— if you insist!

[She wiggles off the barstool to follow, in all her 4 foot tall glory.]

Intro Log: Rock This City

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