hadriel_logs | INTRO LOG: FACE OFF

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for November. Don't get your face eaten!
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: November 10th-17th
Warnings: Monster-related violence, people lamps, general unpleasantness, mass confusion.

You wake up on the hard earth of the colosseum. By the state of things and the various aches and pains in your body, you've probably been passed out there for awhile. A few things should immediately become clear to you upon an initial assessment.
1. You're not alone
2. You're near other people who look to be in a similar state.
3. You're also near an assortment of human shaped lamps.
4. You're also near something that skitters off into the shadows of the colosseum.
Of all of these alarming things, the skittery object might be your largest concern. Be wary when turning corners or shutting out the lights: the Hunters work best when your vision is obscured, so their gelatinous form is even harder to spot. Their main goal will be to kill people of course, though they prefer to hide in corners and smaller rooms. Watch out when trying to work through the halls of the colosseum to find the outdoors- they're surprisingly quick, and they prefer to kill their prey by opening their face-flaps and wrapping their mouths around your head. Fun!

More information on Hunters can be found here!

Second largest concern? Maybe it's the people lamps. Maybe it's the actual people around you. Whatever it is, be sure to familiarize yourself with it quickly. The devil you know is better than the devil you don't, after all.

All done with the horrible monsters and awkward greetings? Try your hand at exploring the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies until your little heart is content. Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers November 10th-17th.
► 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Bruce has realized that a few more people have arrived from home, but hasn't yet heard the news about Wanda. He's as of yet unprepared as he makes his way down through the strange architecture, and out of the weird lobby. Coming face to face with the architect of the worst nightmare of your life is never an easy experience.

He doesn't look angry- she would know if he were angry- he just looks absolutely, positively stricken, stopping face to face with her and tightening his hands on his bag.]

[Bruce may later be comforted by the fact that Wanda hadn't expected to see him either. She freezes in place, eyes widening, and while the urge to take a step back is there, she holds firm in place. Her expression almost mirrors his, remembering the last time they saw each other face to face like this. He'd wrapped his arm around her shoulders, tight under her neck, and she'd had to shoot her own power through herself to push him back.

They'd fought together against Ultron, they were on the same side now, but what had happened between them was entirely unresolved.]

I did not know you were here as well.

I am.

[He says, even though what he's thinking about isn't trying to subdue her, it's the moment right after he woke up and saw the looks on their faces, the soft blur of someone explaining exactly what he had done to that city while he was so angry and afraid.

He clears his throat. Reminds himself, this is not the place or time. Reminds himself, she's just lost her brother, she doesn't need this.]

Did you just arrive?

[She should move. She should do something. Anything other than standing there tense, waiting for this to spiral down into some of the same hostility as before. Her lips press together, thinning.]

A few days ago, in the arena. You've been here longer?

[A month or so like Steve?]

A month. I arrived in the first wave, with Steve and Tony.

[Tony, who he just can't find lately, but he doesn't bring that up.]

[Banner and Stark? Wanda's not sure what unsettles her more, the two of them together, or the fact that they've all been stuck in this place for a month.]

I arrived with Romanoff. Several others I do not know. I found the Captain the first day as well...

[But she wasn't aware of Bruce's presence. Did not know she would run into him. Even now, she's not certain what to say to him.]

Natasha is here?

[He isn't sure which is more complicated, her or Wanda. He does know that his life is about to get a lot more interesting. As though Hadriel in and of itself weren't enough, frankly.]

Let me show you to Steve's apartment.

[She nods at his question, unaware of the complicated situation between he and the other woman. Even if she were, she'd be too distracted by this careful conversation they're having now to think much on it.]

Apartment? Do you mean the house where he is staying?

House- sorry, yes. Some of the city lives in houses, where different occupants each take a room, and some live in apartments, they're not far from one another. I think it just depends if you want the community or the privacy.

Steve has a few locals staying with him already- or rather, people from different worlds.

Yes, I know. I've stayed the last three nights. After my injury...

[She pauses, not having wanted to tell him she was hurt, vulnerable. She could run if she had to, of course. It wasn't that bad. But it would hurt to do so, potentially open her healing gashes.]

Regardless, I have not met them yet. You stay here then? An apartment for yourself?

I haven't decided yet. I had a place, but then I decided that we needed to establish a clinic, and since that project began I've been living there, in one of the houses- only my hope is that I'll be able to convert it into a residence just for any doctors on call.

[And go back to staying somewhere else.]

Once there are more doctors, I mean.

[It's smart, of course. A clinic would be useful, something she's already aware of with her leg still at the beginning stages of healing. Not only that, but already Wanda is finding it interesting interacting with Bruce away from the others. Perhaps it's just the change in circumstances, the fact that they're not on opposite sides that makes it easier to interact with him and not that he's away from Tony and all of his terrible decisions.]

There is one--Doctor Hawkeye Pierce--he arrived when I did. He was the one who bandaged my leg initially. I have not seen his credentials and his bedside manner is...peculiar. But he may suit your purposes.

[He's extremely chatty, but if Bruce can handle Tony, surely he could handle Hawkeye as well.]

Thank you, Wanda.

[He agrees, quietly. He's still not sure exactly what to say, whether to ask her more about her settling in, whether to ask her about her brother- definitely not that, he decides.

Benign enough;]

If you see medical supplies, we're collecting them. I'd appreciate any help.

[Ah, that is no doubt easier to talk about. Necessities rather than the elephant in the room. Tower. Whatever.]

I'll bring you what I find, though you might consider assembling first-aid kits as well. Not everyone may be close enough to reach your clinic once it's established.

That's not a bad idea. Right now we don't have anything close to extras, but once we do, we could distribute them as widely as possible.

[She nods, glad that her idea seems to have merit to him.]

Of course. Until then I should...leave you to what you were doing.

[Wanda's not really in a mindset to make an attempt to build bridges with him once more, and she's at her limit for small-talk with the man. For as inoffensive as their conversation is, it still feels tense to her.]

Get in touch if there's an emergency.

[He says, with not a little relief.]

Good luck.

[She raises an eyebrow at that, but nods, in acknowledgment of what he's said even if she's not certain she'll call on him unless she has to.]

And you.

[Turning, she moves to limp off away from him, whatever direction it may be that will get her the most distance the fastest.]

INTRO LOG: FACE OFF

14th

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject