Intro Log: Please Remove Metal From Luggage

[hadrielmods]

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!

Comments

[unphase]

Oh. [she says slowly] We don't really have anything like that in my world. People believe in science above anything.

And there are always those who want to be more.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor smiles a little ]

Tis not a matter of believing - I have met the Valar, and their servants the Maiar and spoken to them. I'm sure I don't understand exactly how they do what they do, but their power is very real.

[ But that brings a grimace ]

Aye, that much is sadly true.

[unphase]

That would be very different, being able to meet some of the forces that made your world. All we had were myths that no one could prove.

[bythewaves]

That makes it harder. [ He agrees ]

But I think our world is... comparatively younger? I'm sure even we elves will be little more than myth, eventually. But my grandfather, for example, is one of the Unbegotten, the very first of the Elves to awaken in those days when the only light was the stars - I am only three generations removed from that very early beginning! But even by our reckoning, that was a long time ago - Men no longer recall their first days any longer, and as my people leave the shores of Middle-earth, I think we will also gradually be forgotten. For most folk here, I'm sure the beginnings of their worlds are too far back to know.

[unphase]

The only light was stars? How is that possible? Planets need a star to revolve around for the gravitational pull, so wouldn't there have to be a sun? And--and--and I'm overthinking this too much, aren't I? Sorry. It's just that I've never met an Elf before and everything here is very new so I have a million questions. [she looks sheepish]

[bythewaves]

[ He laughs ]

That, I cannot tell you, as I was not there. But this I know - my grandfather and those of his generation remember a world lit only by the stars. When they travelled to Valinor, when I was born, that was the first time they had seen Light, but they came from the two Trees - Telperion and Laurelin, from whose fruit and flower were born later our Moon and Sun, and I remember when Tilion first steered the Moon into the skies, and later was followed by Arien, and so began the count of the Years of the Sun.

[unphase]

[all of this sounds very strange and impossible to her, but she's not going to question the science of it. she has a feeling it wouldn't get her very far]

So your sun and your moon came from trees and you saw them being put into place? That must've been incredible.

[bythewaves]

Aye - mind, I did not see them being set into the sky! Indeed, after Morgoth and Ungoliant slew the Trees, we had thought their light lost forever. But none of us could fail to recognise the sources of the new lights in the sky when they rose. But the sun's rising was especially comforting, for Morgoth's creations hate and fear that light.

[unphase]

And Morgoth is your world's enemy. How do you keep him--or it--contained?

[bythewaves]

This not us who do so. [ Maglor shakes his head ] We fought him for a long time, and held him, or so we thought, but when he chose to strike back, we had no chance against him. But at the end of the War of Wrath, he had poured out so much of his power into the land and his creations, that the other Valar were able to bind him, and they threw him out of the Doors of Night beyond the bounds of our world, and there he remains, until, so the prophecy goes, he gains enough strength to break the Doors and return.

[unphase]

[she assumes that the Doors of Night have to be another dimension. it's the only explanation which makes sense. surely there can't be actual Doors of Night?]

That doesn't sound reassuring. What are you going to do when he does come back?

[bythewaves]

[ probably a little bit of both. #Tolkien ]

Fight him. [ Maglor says simply ] He is our oldest and greatest foe, and long ago, he slew my grandfather and tortured my brother, so my hatred of him is ... a little more personal than most. But that battle, they say, will be the end of the world, for the only thing that can defeat him truly will be to break the world itself, into which he has poured so much of himself that to destroy it will cripple him forever. But we do not know, for not even the Doomsman sees that far.

[unphase]

I'm sorry about your grandfather and your brother. That must've been painful. But what will happen to everyone who lives on your world when you break it?

[bythewaves]

We don't know. [ He shrugs ] The Wise amongst us speak of a Second Music, when Arda will be reborn and made right again, but none can see beyond the End, not even the Doomsman, so we have only Hope.

[unphase]

Hope can be a powerful thing, though.

[bythewaves]

There are few forces stronger. [ Maglor agrees ]

Utulien' aure! Day will come again - and it always does, e'en if we do not live to see it. That faith of the final morning is the very heart of estel, and why we keep going.

[unphase]

[she'll have to cling to hope while she's here. hope that she's still alive. hope that the Legion succeeds in their mission. hope for a way out of here.

she nods] That's . . . kind of why the Legion does what it does. To make sure that the day--and peace--will come again.

[bythewaves]

I hope you will live to see it!

[ He says with grave solemnity ]

Not all are so fortunate, but I hope you are one of them

[unphase]

["live to see it." that's almost funny as she's almost sure that she died in battle. but she can't let herself think about that]

So do I. And I hope that you are, too.

[bythewaves]

I have. [ Maglor smiles at her in thanks ]

Just before I was brought here, although this victory was nearly six thousand years of the sun in it's making.

[unphase]

[that brings her up short]

Six thousand? That's. . . a long time to wait.

[bythewaves]

Give or take a few centuries. [ Maglor muses ] And I suppose you could argue for longer or shorter, depending on when you want to start your count. Patience is not something that has come easily to me, but indeed, the day has at last come.

[unphase]

I know it wouldn't come easy to me, if I had to wait that long. I've never been good at patience.

[bythewaves]

[ He shrugs with a wry smile ]

I've nothing but time, these days. I learnt to wait because there was no other choice.

[unphase]

I guess I'll have to get used to patience while I wait for my friends at home to find me.