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

[missiondeterminant]

[He knows that feeling, about figuring out how to live with no orders or supervision, and it's terrifying and exciting all at once. Everything she mentions he files away as possibilities of things to try, still only just beginning to develop hobbies or interests outside of what he was made to do.]

What kinds of things are you learning at the lab?

[Might as well ask about that first, because he's got the ideas of reading and singing well enough.]

[64th]

A little bit of everything. Whatever his projects are, I help, and then I also spend time learning whatever sounds interesting. Chemistry, astronomy... it's all interesting even if I don't understand all of it. [ at least she has the opportunity to learn. ] Gives me something to do with my day.

What do you do here? [ upside of living on some weird isolated planet? lots of time for hobbies. ]

[missiondeterminant]

[That's definitely interesting; Connor has a lot of basics and even some advanced knowledge in various sciences due to it having been programmed into him, but he finds he likes the idea of learning more. Maybe this Newt person would be willing to teach him too, at some point.

As for the question he looks briefly unsure, then maybe slightly sheepish; the emotions are genuine, although he's allowing his social integration program to make them more visible on his face. He's still learning to emote naturally.]

I joined the Guard, but I have very little free time at home and so I have few hobbies. That's part of the reason I was asking about what you do.

[And that's truthful, although he's vastly overstating with 'little free time' and 'few hobbies'; it's really more like 'no free time' and 'no hobbies', but he's working on that too. He also wasn't asking just because of that, because he really was just interested in the answers as far as learning about her goes. So far she's on his very short list of pleasant humans.]