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

=D

[bythewaves]

"I pray that it will always be so." He says gravely.

"Well do I know how closely the Dark can press! But I hope that some will always stand against it."

:D

[unphase]

It will be. I'm not from Earth, but I know that it's had its defenders against evil. That's what we're trying to do now in the Legion, only instead of for a single world, it's for all of them.

They have to. Surrender's not an option.

[bythewaves]

An ambitious ideal! A good one too - I wish you joy in your fight, lady.

[unphase]

[joy in her fight. she'd had joy just before the pain, just before arriving here, but she doesn't even know if her side won]

I--hope so? I was in the middle of a fight when I found myself here.

[bythewaves]

Ah, but that is hard. You are not the only one drawn before your battles end - but I hope you will return to success, at any road.

[unphase]

Really? There are others? Who? [she sighs] I hope so, too. We were--outmatched.

[bythewaves]

In one way, my cousin Fingon, for starters - as he dies before his battle is over, although in many ways it ended with his death. [ Maglor manages to say that with only the smallest of winces, for in some ways Fingon's death, though a raw wound, is a very old wound, by now, and it's harder to countenance, with him here and alive ]

[unphase]

[she tries to not visibly react to the news that his cousin arrived here after dying in battle. she's afraid the same thing happened to her. but wouldn't there be some kind of gap between dying and coming here?]

Oh. I'm sorry for your loss. Losing people is always hard.

[bythewaves]

It... has gotten slightly more bearable with time.

[ He shrugs a little ] For me, that was a long, long time ago. Having him here, alive, makes things better.

[unphase]

[she tries to not visibly react when he says that his cousin was brought here after he lost in battle, but it's basically confirming her worst fears]

So. Do people come back from the dead a lot here?

[bythewaves]

Our captors here dislike it when we die, so yes, it has happened at least twice to my knowledge, and likely more often. But it seems that death is very temporary here.

[unphase]

How? Even where I'm from, we can't bring people back from the dead. It's impossible.

And. . . our captors. I read the "newbie guide," but it didn't provide much information about them.

[bythewaves]

[ He shrugs ]

That, I do not know. The one who calls himself Hope is responsible, that much we have acertained, but how he manages it remains a mystery.

[ A grimace ]

That would likely be because we have little information to give. We know their names, and their primary motivation to bringing us here, but precious little more than that.

[unphase]

[she doesn't want to ask and likely won't explain why if asked about why she wants to know, but she has to]

Does it work on people who died in their world?

I assume that they're not really gods, just advanced aliens using technology or magic? They really have no motivation for bringing us here other than to feed on us?

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor nods ]

It seems to. Two of my brothers and my nephew are here also, and all of them from after or during their death. And ... I cannot answer that question, I fear. But I do know that I have known those with power equivalent, and yet the only one of the Valar who styled themself as a 'God' was Morgoth, the Enemy.

[unphase]

[this. is not good news]

Oh.

[she furrows her brows slightly] May I ask what a Valar is? I've never heard of them before.

[bythewaves]

The Valar are what we name the Powers of my world - it's builders and architects, if you like. Those who sustain the world and are themselves sustained by it. They are the greatest of the Ainur, the Holy Ones, who came to Arda in it's beginning for love of what it could be. They are meant to be, so they tell us, our friends, and our teachers. But Morgoth wanted to be more.

[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.