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

[itsnotaonesie]

Oh, man. Yeah, I can understand that. A little too well, I think, but I totally get that.

[He's pretty sure he knows how his fight ended, but to be taken from right in the middle of a bigass battle was probably a lot worse. There's just no telling what could happen.]

[unphase]

[she nods]

I. . . thought you might. Since as you said, in your battle, the bad guy won. That's what I'm afraid of.

Remember what I told you about Superman's powers?

[itsnotaonesie]

[He wants to say something encouraging, something like 'your guys totally could have won' or something, but it sounds like wherever this is going might just shoot that thought in the foot.]

Uh, yeah. He's got all kinds of crazy powers, I remember.

[unphase]

[unfortunately, yes]

There's another race of beings with the same powers under a yellow sun. Daxamites. There's this--group of Daxamites called the White Triangle. They believe that they're superior to all other races.

They already committed genocide on Trom. Five billion people dead. Then, they attacked Earth, intending to do the same. We were trying to stop them, but fighting beings with that kind of power is. . . difficult.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Wooooow yep that's pretty damn intense, he's kind of glad he kept his mouth shut.]

Yeah, I... wow. I can see why you'd be worried. That's intense. How big is their group, like, how many of them did you guys have to fight?

[unphase]

Fairly large, from what I've heard. But only four attacked Earth. And they were winning.

[itsnotaonesie]

Do they have the same weakness as that Superman guy? You said it was a meteorite or something.

[unphase]

No. They're supposed to be allergic to lead, but the one Jo and I fought wasn't wearing a protective transuit.

[itsnotaonesie]

At least lead is easier to get your hands on than the other stuff. So this suit was supposed to protect him from stuff like that, though?

[unphase]

It was, but he wasn't wearing it. And it's not like they need a lot of lead to be put into an allergic reaction, even trace amounts can kill them. So if he wasn't wearing the suit, he must not have been allergic to lead anymore. The how is what worries me thinking back on it.

We had a Daxamite Legionnaire. Andromeda. She was exposed to lead and Brainy cured her. And Violet found a White Triangle pendant in her room. So Andromeda must have given the cure to the others and betrayed us all.

[itsnotaonesie]

Oooooh, okay, I get you.

[He kind of winces, oooh damn that sounds really bad.]

Yikes. Oh my God, that's awful. Like, the only other explanation I can think of is that she was set up? But there's not really any way to investigate that now, huh.

[unphase]

[she shakes her head no slowly]

Andromeda had made her feelings about other beings plain before. She didn't even want a lot of them to touch her. So if someone did set her up, they chose the perfect target.

[itsnotaonesie]

Why would she have wanted to join your group in the first place if she didn't even like the people in it? Seems really weird to me.

[unphase]

It could be something as simple as wanting powers. Daxamites only have powers under a yellow sun. Besides, being picked to join the Legion was considered an honor by most UP worlds and she's related to a great Daxamite hero of the 20th century, Valor.

[itsnotaonesie]

I guess that makes sense. Well, kind of. I'm still in the 'making sense of everything' stage.

So these Daxamites, they're just like, average people when they're under any other kind of sun? How does all that work?

[unphase]

...how long do you think the 'making sense of everything' stage will last?

It's the ultraviolet radiation a yellow sun has. It charges their cells like a battery and it gives them superpowers. Rumor has it that Daxam was colonized by Kryptonians who were able to breed with the local population and that's why they have the same powers with the same requirement.

[itsnotaonesie]

None of this is anything I'm used to working with, soooo. I have no idea.

That would explain how people from completely different planets have the exact same set of powers, I was kind of wondering about that.

[unphase]

[she sighs] Neither do I. This is nothing like 2997. And can I say that I really don't appreciate being used as a food source?

Most Daxamites like to dismiss the theory, but it's the only thing that makes sense. Unfortunately, they're not big on letting non-Daxamite archaeologists in to study. [a little sarcastically] Which I'm sure is a big shock.

[itsnotaonesie]

That seems to be the general consensus. Nobody I've talked to so far seems to be a very big fan of that part. Or any parts, really.

Yeah they don't exactly sound like the most friendly group of people? Just sayin'.

[unphase]

Can't say that I blame them. We're being used. Who wants that? [she sighs] Is there anything here that's not terrible?

They're not. At least not now. A thousand years ago, Daxam was the home of Valor, a superhero who ended the Dominators' genetic experiments on humans to try and produce superpowers. He helped the subjects of those experiments settle on different worlds. But now it's. Different.

[itsnotaonesie]

The people are all pretty cool, at least the ones I've met so far. Lot of 'em have been real helpful.

Any idea why they're so different now? A change like that doesn't just happen over night.

[unphase]

[she breathes a sigh of relief] That's good. Good people can make a bad situation. . . bearable.

[she shakes her head no] For a long time, the technology for space travel was lost. The worlds Valor seeded grew up into their own civilizations with their own cultures. And while that happened, Daxam seemed to turn inward.

[itsnotaonesie]

It's made settling in a lot easier, that's for sure. I was so out of it when I first got here the people really helped a lot.

But yeah, man, wow. That really sucks. In like every way. Form everything you've said, that obviously didn't turn out very well.

[unphase]

[she feels out of it. she feels so out of it, stuck in a strange place with antique technology, separated from her boyfriend and friends at the worst possible moment]

Yeah, I can see how that would be helpful.

No. Not really. But there's nothing that can be done about it now, except by beating the White Triangle. However we can. They can't be allowed to win.

[itsnotaonesie]

[It's basically the shittiest situation ever. Peter feels this. Well, maybe not the being separated from a boyfriend part, but everything else? He feels this.]

You and your buddies all sound pretty tough. I have a feeling you can manage it.