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]

Do they even have a good reason for not telling us anything? It just seems super sketchy to me that they're being all hush-hush about really important stuff, you know?

[sciencelizard]

Not... really.

[She grimaces just a bit.]

Mostly they don't trust us, I think. S-Some people do lie to them, or were working with the Null to sell them out, so... I guess I don't blame them so much. But I wish they would just talk to us more.

[itsnotaonesie]

Talking to us is the least they could do. None of really asked to be here as far as I know, and it's really not fair to judge all of us based on what a few people did.

[sciencelizard]

[Alphys nods.]

It's true. They're just s-scared, I think. They all almost died before... it's hard. To make them trust us. But I think we've earned it, or well, I think so, but... a lot of us still don't do what they really want. It's hard, to decide h-how to do good sometimes.

[itsnotaonesie]

Their definition of "good" might not even be the same as the rest of ours. Like, I don't know them, so I can't really say that for sure?

[sciencelizard]

Y-Yeah.

[Not to mention that the Gods don't even always agree with each other... like Delight. Alphys thinks about her once in a while, the choices she made. It's sad.]

It's a lot. I just wish we could work together. But everyone's desperate, and scared, so we... do what we can. Uh. I guess.

-- I'm sorry, this is, uh, totally not what you asked! Uh, to do and everything. I can stop bothering you.

[itsnotaonesie]

No, no! It's fine! Learning experience, y'know? I like getting other people's takes on all this stuff, it's kinda helping me put all the weirdness into perspective. Like honestly I was worried that was distracting you from your work.

[It's probably a lot more important than Peter's goofy shit ngl]

[sciencelizard]

[She waves her hands in front of her chest.]

Ohmygosh, no, d-don't worry about it. I was just tinkering. It can be hard to find that old info, and I know a lot of people are, uhm, really against the Gods. It's important everyone has the facts.