hadriel_logs | Intro Log: Please Remove Metal From Luggage

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for August
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: August 10th-13th
Warnings: New folks, metal falling apart, fun stuff

As you wake up on the sand of the colosseum, gazing up at cloudy gray skies, you might wonder what you're doing here. Where are you? How did you get here? You'll figure it all out soon enough, so try to clamp down on that rising panic, or you just might end up in a dangerous situation.

Because, of course, you're not the only thing that arrived. The Door has also chosen to pull in some rust monsters. These monsters may look a bit like insects, but they're much larger, with a rather vicious bite. You can fight them, but be careful - anything metal that touches them instantly begins to corrode. Your sword, a bullet from your gun, even your robot friend. Might want to keep a little distance.

And that's not all. Scattered across the ground of the colosseum can be found a variety of unique and delightful musical instruments. If you're the musical sort, maybe you can figure out how to play one - or maybe you already know. Hopefully no rust monster has wandered too close to the one you want to try, or you might find that it's missing important metal bits.

Once you've found a way to express the song in your heart, feel free to leave whatever bit of safety you've found. 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 August 10th-13th.
► 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!

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~~Goddamn millennials always glued to their goddamn phones~~ No like honestly Peter's on his phone too, probably texting someone. Who even knows, whatever he's doing though, he's instantly distracted from it by a guy in a... what is that, a spacesuit? Armor? You don't see that every day, but then what Peter had been wearing when he'd first showed up was probably a whole lot weirder, so he really can't judge.

Just standing around and staring at Captain Spacesuit over here was probably super rude though, so he's going to maybe stop doing that and offer to help this guy out.

"Hey, man. You need help finding somewhere?"

Keith had been determined to ignore the staring since the other human didn’t seem like a threat and all, but at the actually helpful question he does pause.

Right, Keith, not everyone is out to attack you.

He looks up from the phone, then approaches Peter, showing him the map on it.

“I’m looking for the temples, the guard, the clinic, and the fire brigade. I just arrived, I’d like to know where they are for when I need them,” he explains.

If it helps, he was only staring because he's a giant nerd and he thinks Keith's getup is kind of awesome, but he can ask about all that later. Now it's time to be all polite and stuff and try to help a newbie out, and he takes a look at Keith's phone.

"Mmkay, let's see what I can do... Okay, first off, I hope you don't get sea sick, because a lot of this stuff is on different islands. Like all the temples, there's a couple on each island. Uh, the clinic is on this island, we're actually not far from it right now, and one of the temples is pretty close too. I know the guard like, headquarters I guess, it's up on the northernmost island. Each of the other islands has a watch tower, not sure if they're connected to the guard, but they're kinda fun to climb on. Fire brigade though, I'm actually not sure about that one. I haven't been here too long myself, so I'm still kinda finding my way around too."

Keith nods, listening intently to Peter's explanation.

"The ... 'newbie guide' said something about one. I thought I'd check it out," He says, regarding the fire brigade. It wasn't really specific, but the name is pretty self-explanatory from the sounds of it. "How long have you been here?"

"Yeah, I dunno if it's a place or if it's just some group of people. I never really thought to ask about it. But yeah, I've only been here about a month. It's been uh... interesting?"

Boring, it's been super boring. Mostly because there's no internet, but also because there aren't enough buildings to swing around on.

...No, it's really just the internet thing.

"What's happened in that month?" Keith asks, wanting to hear more information about what kind of dangers can be expected on a regular basis, if fires are a common enough thing here, that whole deal.

Hard to prepare when you don't even know what you're up against, and the newbie guide only covers so much.

It helps that he's already gotten used to no internet.

Peter's gone a whole month without internet and it's kind of making him a little stir crazy, but he'll probably get used to it. Maybe.

"Oh, jeez. Um, not a lot that I've gotten too involved in. People have been getting ready for some big boat trip to find the Door, which is apparently how we're supposed to be able to leave, I guess? Uh, this cop dude I talked to said that he heard that the Door is actually some kinda Cthulhu monster, so I dunno, maybe that means we'll have to deal with Eldritch abominations at some point? Anyway, the gods or whatever have been helping out with all that stuff, so I guess the month was pretty quiet? I don't really know what counts as 'normal' around here yet, though."

Terrifying eldritch abomination. Okay, that's... sort of new.

"Got it," Keith says with a nod before pausing and looking at Peter again. "... are there a lot of kids here?"

He has no idea if that part's even true. Well okay, he has no idea if anything he's been told is even true, but that part seems the most insane, so.

"Kids, uh. I mean, nobody super young? Like, I haven't run into any five year olds, and I really hope nobody that young ends up here. There's a few teenagers running around, though."

Keith has long since learned to not call bullshit on the universe. Your situation is never so weird that it can't get any weirder.

Ever.

He nods at the confirmation of teenagers and not many kids.

"How old are you?" Peter looks young, but he could just be runty. Keith was runty for his age for a long time.

Yeah, at this point Peter wouldn't even try to argue with that, as much as he wishes he could.

He also kind of wishes that he didn't perpetually look like he was twelve, maybe then he could avoid the age questions. Honestly though, the fact that he tends to wear pretty loose fitting clothes isn't doing him any favors in that department, it probably makes him look way scrawnier than he actually is.

"Seventeen. Why?"

He doesn't sound annoyed about being asked his age, at least.

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