Intro Log: Off my chest

[hadrielmods]

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for April.
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: April 10th-13th
Warnings: Newbies, explosions, and things that are definitely treasure chests and not evil monsters out to get you.

Welcome to your first day in Hadriel! Enjoy your surroundings, meet your fellow travelers, and be sure to start exploring so you can collect as much loot as possible!

On the ground around you may notice bang snaps, scattered haphazardly. Try not to step on any of them, or you might burn your feet! Feel free to gather them up and use these baby fireworks however you see fit; there are dozens strewn about on the ground. Popping them will emit clouds of smoke of various colors, and... well, not much else.

Is there anything else lurking around? Glad you asked! If you look around, you may find a few innocent-looking treasure chests. Which you know, normally means free loot- except, in Hadriel, nothing is quite the way it's advertised of course and the chests are actually dangerous mimics. Mimics- often disguised as treasure chests- are monsters with surprisingly quick movements and gaping maws filled with teeth. They exist to try and fool an unlucky traveler into thinking they've gotten something good... only to lunge at them in their moment of triumph and prove that life is actually terrible and nothing comes for free.

Good luck!

Once you've managed your daring escape from the colosseum, feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies. Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers April 10th-13th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well!
► All characters now arrive with phones that have network communication.
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

Comments

[dogsanddaughters]

My mom fought in an arena one time.

[Arenas are different from the fighter's pit. They're much worse. Miriam swallows hard and made herself smile so the fear wouldn't show in her voice. She's not going to be a baby about any of this, no sir. She's a trooper.]

She fights in rings most of the time, though. She wins a lot.

[Miriam nods to herself, keeping an eye on Damen and Barnaby. So far the dog hasn't picked up anything bad.] But they kill people in the arenas. They're not good.

[barbarus]

[ Damen's eyes slide to her, wary. The way she says that puts him in mind not of the arenas of Akielos, but of those in Vere, where the objective is not sport but performance.

Her mother was taken. Damen pushes past the sick feeling that starts in his stomach. ]

No. Those type of arenas are not good.

[ Damen sees more of the treasure chests to their left, and consciously steers away from them. There's no sense in tempting fate. Then, ahead, there's something popping up all over the ground, lighting little fires beneath the people trying to walk. Damen isn't familiar with fireworks, but he knows a trap when he sees one. ]

We are not going to let that happen. Watch where you step, Miriam. They're trying to scare us. We won't let them.

[dogsanddaughters]

[Miriam nods and takes out her stun baton, holding it at the ready. Just in case. She doesn't like fighting, not really, but she doesn't want to die either. And now that she's met Damen, she doesn't want him to die either.] I got grenades. Just in case. An' I'm not scared.

[That's a lie, but she's going to repeat it until it starts coming true.]