Intro Log: Puddle Jumpers

[hadrielmods]

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for September
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: September 10th-13th
Warnings: Fresh meat, lots of rain and angry ogres

If the rain on your face isn't enough to wake you up in the colosseum, maybe the thundering footsteps and- well, thunder- is. The first thing that you may notice is that it's incredibly wet around here, with winds that could knock you over if you aren't careful and thunder that brings with it a torrent of constant rainfall.

That's all fine though, because the gods saw fit to help you out on your way in and now everyone will be waking up wearing a rain coat! These coats are a little odd, and some of them are downright silly, but we trust that you'll make do. Of course, a few of the raincoats have additional sleeves, neck holes, and entirely too many buttons as well- but hey, it's the best we could do.

Wait, what was that about thundering footsteps? Oh right, as you're navigating your new fashion choices, there are some monsters afoot who will want nothing more than to grind you into a pulp and eat you- well, if you're organic, that is. If you're not organic, then they still want to grind you to a pulp, but maybe not so much the eating part.

Ogres are from many fantasy stories, but these in particular are from the Dragon Age series. With incredible strength and stamina and massive horns, fangs, and a bloodlust for violence, these monsters won't stop until everyone around them is a blood smear on the ground. They're also not too happy about this rainfall either, so be careful not to slip in the puddles as you run away from them!

Once you've splashed around a bit, feel free to run off into the stormy abyss of our islands. 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 September 10th-13th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
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Comments

[toiletseat_girl]

[she was being completely honest. this world's been better to her than her own has been, stupid god tricks included.

and she's got no reason to hide what she is. not here. here, she can be as open about it as she pleases. and it pleases, if only for how much it would have pissed her old boss off]

A Grim Reaper. Those who collect the souls of those about to die and send 'em on to the afterlife. At least that's what I did in my world. Here? Kinda the opposite.

[sallyfaced]

[The slight surprise in Sal's tone isn't necessarily from what she is, but more from the fact that being what she is she's just...here. A lot of questions surfaced internally, but he didn't want to barrage her with any, so he kept it simple for the time being.]

A grim reaper. So it's not just a one person job? There's more of you?

[He supposed that made sense if he actually sat and thought about it.]

(cw: suicide mention)

[toiletseat_girl]

[she nods]

None of 'em are here, but yeah. There's more. And we're assigned to divisions. I had murders, accidents, and suicides. All the people who are guaranteed to ask you to take it back.

[very little makes sense about Reaping in George's world, but she's since learned that hers isn't the only way of death]

(cw: suicide mention)

[sallyfaced]

Oh...that must be rough to deal with.

[Sal has trouble enough just talking to them sometimes. Sure, once he gets passed the mortal wounds still very present on their bodies it's easy to just...talk to them, but that doesn't mean he doesn't think about it. About their deaths, or the lives they left behind, or regretfully gave up.]

Actually, if they don't want to go, you take them anyway, right? If so, how come some of them still hang around? Or they escapees or something?

[It would explain why they always seem as if they're in a rush to leave after a minute or two.]

[toiletseat_girl]

It wasn't fun, I'll tell you that.

[as long as George got to the soul before the death, it didn't retain any of its wounds. unlike the time Mason didn't get to a person before she got mauled by a bear]

Yeah, kind of have to. Tried to figure out ways around it at first, but they all backfired. And they don't hang around. At least not in my world. I don't get to leave until the soul moves on to the afterlife.

[sallyfaced]

Oh, I see. Huh.

[So it probably works differently where she's from. Not that he has any idea how it really works where he's from, either.]

They hang around a lot where I'm from. My apartment is full of the dead who can't seem to let go of the place.

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah, it's weird.

[death seems to work differently in almost every world. it really is weird]

Seriously? That's gotta suck. Are they at least decent roommates?

[sallyfaced]

[He's going to try not to make any attempts at wrapping his head around it at the moment. He'll only get dizzy.]

Most of them are just scared, I think. But for the most part they don't cause any trouble. I'll go back and visit them whenever I can. When they'll show themselves, at least.

[toiletseat_girl]

[good plan. Hadriel in general is a lot to wrap your brain around, adding death to the mix? that's a guaranteed headache from hell]

Can't say that I blame 'em. Death's scary shit. And that's nice of you, it's probably lonely to be a ghost. But they're shy?

[sallyfaced]

Yeah, it is.

[Of course, he doesn't have the whole grim reaper perspective, but he's seen enough to agree heavily that death is some scary shit.]

I guess that depends? My friend Megan...she only comes out for me and my best friend. And even that took her a while. I think she's just shy. But others...sometimes I get the feeling something is holding them back.

[toiletseat_girl]

[hoo boy. . . her perspective is that it's scary, messy, often annoying, and hard to deal with. for both the Reaper and the person who died.

she wrinkles her nose slightly] Holding them back? That doesn't sound good. In fact, it sounds potentially very bad.

[sallyfaced]

Well, I meant more like...non-literal. But it was kind of literal at one point. I think that might be over but I'm not sure.

[He shrugged, realizing the futility of trying to put it into words at the moment.]

It's pretty confusing to me.

[toiletseat_girl]

[she arches an eyebrow slightly] That sounds complicated. And yeah, confusing.

So were you born like that? Being able to see ghosts?

[sallyfaced]

I don't think so? [This is also confusing, if only because there are strange things connected to all of this going on with him and it literally makes his head hurt.] I mean, my friends can see them too, when they show themselves. It really only started happening when I moved into my apartment building. That place is swimming in weird stuff.

[toiletseat_girl]

Seriously? [she's never heard of anything like that before. of course, she's also never heard of anyone being able to see Gravelings before death and she did that, so what does she know?] So, you think it has something to do with the apartment itself? I've heard of haunted houses, but I always figured they were bullshit.

[sallyfaced]

Seriously?

[He didn't mean to echo her sentiment, but hearing that statement from someone who is apparently a 'grim reaper' is so strange. These differences are a lot bigger than he might have guessed, but it's fascinating.]

I guess that makes sense if they don't stick around where you're from. But yeah, that apartment is definitely...there's a lot going on there. You know when people in horror movies talk about a building having a dark past and lots of secrets? That...it's like that.

Crazy, huh?

[toiletseat_girl]

[there are no ghosts in George's world. souls all eventually go on to the afterlife. sometimes souls take longer than others, but eventually they all go away. the idea of souls sticking around as ghosts is totally new to her]

Yeahhhh, I've heard of that kind of thing. Right before the jump scare in the trailer. How did you wind up moving in there? I figure the realtor didn't exactly advertise that fact while she was showing the apartment.

Very fucking crazy.

[sallyfaced]

My dad just saw the place was affordable and decided to move us there. I get the impression things weren't so...haunting, before we moved in.

[There was no way to say that that didn't sound a little shifty.]

That, or not a lot of people saw anything. Even afterwards the amount of people who told me to stop talking about ghosts because it was nonsense was alarmingly high for a place where I couldn't blink without seeing one. But I guess...if you're not looking for that sort of thing you make up all sorts of excuses for the weird stuff you see.

[toiletseat_girl]

...that sounds more than a little creepy.

[yeah, it does seem a bit sketchy]

I guess. People can trick themselves into believing that all kinds of things that aren't real are. I've heard that's especially true for supernatural shit, 'cause no one wants to believe that the world is so strange that things like ghosts aren't just possible, they're real.

[sallyfaced]

Yeah, so the same can definitely be said of the opposite. I know someone who literally saw some really freaky thing once and when I met him he insisted ghosts and stuff weren't real. Crazy how the mind works.

[Of course, Sal can totally understand trying to rationalize away the scary stuff. Life can be hard enough without having to deal with creepy things you don't understand.]

[toiletseat_girl]

Seriously? You'd think he'd be open to the whole possibility of freaky shit thing, having seen some freaky shit. But I guess some people never really figure it out. That, or they insist on the whole denial thing because admitting it's real part would fuck with their sense of reality way too much.

[George kind of gets it. after all, she saw Gravelings, creatures which cause death, when she was alive. that was supposed to be impossible]

[sallyfaced]

It's definitely a life changer...the moment you realize something like that is real, so I can't say I blame him. Who wants their lives to me more complicated, you know?

[There was also a lot of other factors playing into it, like Larry needing to believe it was a curse instead of a ghost - a reason for why his father left him. Sal felt bad about it then, he feels worse now having to keep the truth from him.]

[toiletseat_girl]

Nobody. Hell, most people can barely cope with day-to-day life shit. Adding in ghosts? Yeah, I can see how it would kind of be a headfuck.

[George on the other hand never knew that seeing Gravelings while alive was strange. she just knew that they were there, they existed. it wasn't until she was dead that she found out it wasn't something that was done]

[sallyfaced]

Right? You know I saw a ghost goat one time? A goat. That's way too much to wrap my head around.

[He laughed a little, but it was true. Who would've thunk it?]

[toiletseat_girl]

A ghost goat? You're shitting me. I didn't even know goats had souls. It's too much for mine, too, it's gonna make me feel guilty for eating meat.

[but not too guilty. and she laughs, too]