hadriel_logs | Intro Log: Puddle Jumpers

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!

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I think he wants you to get out of his swamp!

[Okay, so these ogres look nothing like Shrek, but Spidey don't care. He's just making mouth noises to get the thing's attention anyway, which he seems to have successfully done. It turns in his direction, where he's sticking to a wall like a creepy bug, and immediately gets a face full of webbing. Yeeaaah that probably won't distract it for too long, but at least it's not trying to squish this new guy at the moment?]

[ If that's Shrek then kids movies have gotten really dark since the last time Jake saw them. But he's not one to look a distraction horse in the mouth and he scrambles out of the way of the ogre, only slipping a few times in the mud in his efforts to get away. ]

He can have his swamp! I don't want it!

[ Oh wait. Mouth noises. Maybe shouting was a bad idea since the ogre is rearing around towards Jake's voice now. ]

[Cool well, the distraction had only worked for a second, but it still counts as progress! Kind of. Radical penguin raincoat guy was off his ass, and while the ogre sure is trundling towards the poor guy, it's at least partially blinded thanks to the face webs.].

Y'know, distractions only work if you don't draw attention back to yourself? It's okay, though, we'll work on it. Practice makes perfect!

Also, maybe dive to the side.

[because spider lad just leaped off the wall, webbed up Big Dumb Ugly's creepy horns, and is yanking himself in to kick this sucker in the back of it's giant freaky head. Even if Spidey doesn't manage to knock it down, it's still stumbling forward and getting pretty pissed. So like, DODGE.]

[ Jake would probably have been a bit quicker on the whole dodging thing if not for the fact that he realized that Spider-Man just saved his ass.

Wow, Spider-Man kinda sounds like a kid. Weird.

Oh, right, not getting crushed by Shrek's bigger, somehow uglier cousin. Jake rolls out of the way before he gets trampled and gets the hell out of the initial blast radius before turning to make sure this is actually happening. Is he being punked? Do people get punked anymore? ]

[Dunno, is Ashton Kutcher relevant anymore? Don't worry, Spidey wouldn't punk you.

He also won't let this dude get smooshed by the ogre, because he's nice that way. While Jake's rolling out of the way like a badass action movie star, Spidey's steering the ogre the other way by yanking at the webbing stuck to its horns. It charges face first into a big pile of rubble, which must be super embarrassing for it. It's made even more embarrassing by the fact that Spidey is now cocooning the bastard to said rubble with more webs because he is so tired of fighting these things today holy shit.

After wasting a ton of webbing on that, he hops off the ogre and hurries over to check on penguin bro.]

Hey buddy, sorry about that. Are you hurt or anything?

[Yeaaah Spider-Man kind of sounds like a kid and isn't much bigger than one. It is the littlest Spider-Man.]

[ Oh god. That is definitely Spider-Man.

Oh god. Spider-Man is a baby. Isn't he supposed to be the sort of teenager that manages to look like a dude closer to thirty? This is so weird. ]

No I'm cool. Totally cool, this is fine. I'm just having a huge nervous breakdown which is why Spider-Man saved me from a giant demon monster thing.

[Yeaaah maybe those other spider-mens are better at pulling off the whole I'M TOTALLY AN ADULT thing but they're also not fun-sized, SO.]

Well, really I'm saving you from a giant demon monster thing because I don't want you to get eaten by a giant demon monster thing. Also the nervous breakdown should pass--

[He pauses for a second and then just points at this guy like he's just realized the most exciting thing ever]

Wait, you know who I am! You are literally the first person here who knows me.

[ At least one of them is excited. Jake is still spiraling into a big-time freak out. ]

Uh, of course I know who you are. There are about a billion comics and cartoons about you. I'm pretty sure I dressed as you at least three times for halloween when I was a kid.

[ At least that many times. ]

Quick question though, how old are you?

Old enough to know better, young enough to get away with it?

[Oh, don't worry. The excitement doesn't last, it's replaced with confusion almost immediately.]

Let's uh, circle back around to that one in a minute, though. People have put me on Youtube a few times, but I think I'd know if there were comics and stuff. ...Wait, how old are you? I haven't been doing this long enough for someone as old as you to have been dressing like me for halloween when you were a kid.

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