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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2018-07-10 10:08 am

Intro Log: DIY Survival

What: The intro log for July
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: July 10th-14th
Warnings: Who's that Pokémon?


You wake up on an alien planet. All around you are things that might be familiar- rocky ground, stone columns of a colosseum, overcast and dreary clouds above- but there's a lingering doubt in the back of your mind that you're not where you should be. Nearby, there are a dozen or so other people going through the same thing, so maybe you can stop and say hello... or, if you're more of an antisocial type, you might sneak away before anyone takes special notices of you.

Be careful of sneaking too far though, because you may run across an unfriendly Kabutops! From the Pokémon franchise, Kabutops is a prehistoric creature with scythes for hands that can cut through the water (and human flesh) like it's nothing. Its skin is rough and difficult to penetrate with basic weapons, and contrary to what anyone canon-savvy may expect, they are impossible to tame- so you might try to run while you can.

If you manage to escape from the pointy dinosaurs, you may find some hip new ways to accessorize! Strewn about the ground with the new arrivals are an assortment of bedazzlers in various states of functioning! They may only have two stars on Amazon, but Bedazzlers are a cultural landmark, easily used to bling up your lifestyle! Alongside the various equipment are, of course, various studs, gems, sequins, rhinestones, and anything else that you could possibly attach to some clothing or hand towels or curtains or underwear with a Bedazzler kit. Happy crafting!

If you've finished collecting all you need for your new home decoration, 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 July 10th-14th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
► All characters arrive with phones that have network communication and the newbie guide installed.
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
writtendestiny: (016)

Poison | OTA

[personal profile] writtendestiny 2018-07-10 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Poison doesn't do much while she's here, but she does watch. The small, bird-boned girl sits by the fire pit, cradling a drink in her hands, observing everyone who passes by her with a sullen intensity in dark violet eyes framed with straight black hair. The fire casts wobbly, sharp-soft shadows over her face, making her look one moment a worn adult, and the next far too young to be here with any kind of beverage.

She's holding a glass of beer, if you get close enough to make it out, but her real interests here are the warmth and the people (and maybe, later, the drinks that are being set on fire at the bar). Most of the time, she doesn't smile at the people who catch her eye, though it doesn't look deliberate so much as she simply doesn't think to do it.

If you're not put off by the overall vibe she gives off, moving closer to her provokes a surprised blink and a small, reserved almost-smile. Did she even realise she was staring so hard at you in the first place, you might wonder. Perhaps not.

Should you venture to sit with her, she'll glance your way and lift her drink in a small toast.
]

To your health.
dedikated: (079)

[personal profile] dedikated 2018-07-14 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
( The girl is hard to forget, really, with those eyes and those scars, and beyond all the effects of the city she was in before Hadriel, maybe she does look a little too young to be in here, but who is Kate to judge? She's been drowning her feelings in alcohol for twenty years now.

So, instead, she sits down next to her and gestures for a shot and a pint of something strong, tilting her head at the toast before she raises the small glass and knocks it back.
)

Cheers.
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[personal profile] writtendestiny 2018-07-19 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[The eyes are usually what people remember. It's not often you see that kind of shocking shade of violet, even back where Poison comes from. The girl nods to the glass raised to her, and sips on her own drink.]

Nice to see you again.

[Did she ever ask for the woman's name? She isn't sure, but she can't remember if now, if she did. Rather than ask it, she follows the movement of the small glass and nods to it when it's lowered.]

What was that?
dedikated: (ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ᴛʜᴏsᴇ ʙᴏssʏ ʜᴀɴᴅs)

[personal profile] dedikated 2018-07-20 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
( Probably not, and Kate isn't the best at freely volunteering information, particularly when she's taken by more important things. Explaining Hadriel. Making sure someone isn't in need of immediate medical attention.

Or answering the question asked.
)

B52, or somethin' like it.

( Can you really call anything here the actual name of the drink when it's all created from the things the Speakeasy obtains from the city, from the orchard, most of which is entirely unfamiliar to her. )
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[personal profile] writtendestiny 2018-07-22 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
[She snickers softly, though she isn't sure why she does it. Maybe it's the drink.]

B52? They haven't thought of any better names in here?

[She's heard of drinks being called funny things that have nothing to do with what they're actually made of, so why not do that here? Unless the bar owner is the type of practical person who prefers to name things by chemical compounds, or the number of times they had to experiment with it to get it right.]

That just feels underwhelming.
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[personal profile] dedikated 2018-07-22 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
( Kate shrugs. She never did understand most cocktail and shot names. )

Have to ask the naming committee.

( Which doesn't exist. )
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[personal profile] writtendestiny 2018-07-26 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[The girl smirks, very slightly. It's the kind of cutting humour she can get behind.]

Just point me to their office.

[Which isn't going to happen, so Poison satisfies herself with getting comfortable in the seat and watches the fire flickering in front of them. It's... comfortable. Warm. She likes it.]

It's not so bad here.
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[personal profile] dedikated 2018-07-29 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
( Good girl. She can live with this child. Kate sips at her beer and bites back a grimace at the way the alcohols mix on her tongue, the aftertaste of the shot still strong against the almost creamy smoothness of the beer. )

"Here" Speakeasy or "here" Hadriel?

( Both are true in their own way, in Kate's opinion. )
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[personal profile] writtendestiny 2018-07-30 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Poison sips at her own drink again, scrunching her nose up slightly against the taste but taking another sip regardless. She turns the glass around in slender fingers and shrugs, giving a wry little smile that barely turns her lips up at all.]

Both. This place is nice, but Hadriel... [The name still feels strange on her tongue.] I'm still waiting for something dangerous to happen.
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[personal profile] dedikated 2018-08-02 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
( Unfortunately for Poison, that's a stance Kate wouldn't want to discourage. It's sensible to expect danger in this city, to regard every month as the one where Rage or Fear might once again decide well, Hope'll revive them and let their worst ideas loose on people. Or their time free from the Null comes to an abrupt end.

It doesn't always happen, but why take that chance?
)

Makes you like most of us.

( It's not good to be lulled into a false sense of security, whether that's with the people here or the city itself. )

Worryin' how long its been since anything attacked.

( Other than the monsters that appear with the new entrants, of course. )
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[personal profile] writtendestiny 2018-08-12 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Perhaps it's fortunate, then, that Poison wouldn't be dissuaded from her that particular stance whether Kate wished to discourage it or not. She's learned, through growing up and everything that has happened since, that it's far better to be prepared for the worst than to hope for the best.

Call her a cynic, but she's been burned far too many times already by false hope.
]

I wouldn't know about that. [She frowns, her eyes drifting around the room.] How long has it been?
dedikated: (ꜰᴀᴄᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴇssɪɴɢ ꜰᴇᴀʀ)

[personal profile] dedikated 2018-08-12 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
( Hope is a high risk thing. The rewards addicting, the let downs crushing. It's all but impossible to fully guard yourself from it, as Kate knows all too well. Life would have been very different if she'd learned the trick to that.

Still. Preparing serves people well.

Her lips purse and she mulls over the openings of the Door since the invasion, the last big battle Hadriel fought.
)

Seven months, I think.
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[personal profile] writtendestiny 2018-08-15 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That is a long time for nothing to go wrong.

[Even in Gull she might have said the same thing, but the Box had made her more cynical than she already was. Seven months? She would have been questioning it far before now in that other place, where barely a month would go by without some kind of disaster that killed dozens.]

What should we expect?
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[personal profile] dedikated 2018-08-15 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Seen zombies before. Slow things. ( Not like the zombies that existed in the movies back in her world. They were less scary than they were annoying, really. ) Shit tried to possess people once. Rage made people want to kill each other.

( But the worst ones really? )

Monsters'll be let loose if the Null attack again.

( It's a pretty good tactic, true. They distract the Null and build fear for the eponymous God, but it means that the people fighting down in the city have another enemy to worry about. )
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[personal profile] writtendestiny 2018-08-18 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Let loose?

[She tips her head slightly, her eyebrows briefly lifting. So far, nothing she's seen here, or heard of happening has even come close to the horrors she's had to endure in her two years under the tender care of the Technicians, but she has to remember that everything is relative.

These people have suffered, too.
]

How many of them can swim?
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[personal profile] dedikated 2018-08-19 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
( It's more the constant ricocheting, if you asked Kate to put into words why it's so bad. For every monster attack and forced bloodlust, there's the stupid things, the good things. Things like overly competitive paintball and waves of self-indulgence. Breathers that make it easy to let your guard down and forget that this place is just fine with hurting and killing you for the sake of the gods getting their feed. )

No idea.

( She's pretty sure the ones that can't have been killed by now, because there's nowhere for them to go. )

Who knows what's down in th' sea.