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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[Ugh. He reminds her of one of the archive scholars, an old, bent little foxlike yugoloth who somehow manages to try and tower over everyone with his supposed knowledge since he doesn't have the physical stature to do any intimidating. It rarely works on any of them of course and if he wasn't so quick with his spells she would rip his head from his body herself, but it isn't worth the effort.

Newt isn't worth that effort either, though in this case it's because she actually needs him and Alphys and the others to do all of the bullshit they talk about being able to do. Needs them to stay alive and healthy and able to work.

How distasteful.]

No miracles. Just get it done. The moment the gods get involved to do this themselves is the moment you've failed.

[Newt's less-than-intimidating physical stature doesn't stop him from straightening at her attempt at a command. His eyebrows shoot up. Who does she think she is? No one's talked to him like this since Pentecost sent him to find Hannibal Chau, and at least Pentecost could pull rank. Not only was he the Marshal, but Newt actually respected the guy.]

Oh, good, so I have a couple of weeks to solve all our problems or I've failed? Where do you get off charging in here and slinging orders around? Sure, let me just magically pull a solution out of my ass! I've been sitting on critical info that will get us all home in a couple of days, but I thought I'd just keep it to myself until you bullied it out of me!

[A few weeks from now, when Newt sees that anonymous post with a picture of Caedra's frozen body, he will sorely regret mouthing off to her. But, for now, well. He picks up the scalpel and settles back in to his mess of ogre parts, waving her away with his free hand.]

"Just get it done." Are you kidding me? I don't owe you anything.

Who says you only have a couple of weeks?

[Is that really all he's willing to invest? Great. He's truly an atrocious individual and this is a waste of her time. It's only the hope he might achieve anything at all that keeps her from pulling her blade on him and spilling his insides across the lab floor right here and now. Well, that and she's aware that if she aggravates a member of the lab, they might all decide to use whatever they do find against her, or to withhold their findings from her somehow.

Irritating creatures, all of them, and she has no restraint left to give so she just shakes her head and turns to leave. But first:]

You owe me for sparing your life. Get to work.

[It's rare that Newt will let anyone have the last word in an argument, but he decides to make an exception here for two reasons.

One, this is his lab, and he was already trying to shoo her out of it anyway. It's not like she's listening to him, and clearly she's got a skewed idea of how Hadriel works if she thinks the gods are going to give them more than a couple weeks with the fragments. Even if the gods don't reclaim them, they're not just going to sit around and wait for Hadriel's finest to do the work for them. Hell, it's a miracle they're even allowed to study the fragments before forking them over.

And two, something about that last comment unsettles him. Like, yeah, logic would dictate that it should, given that it was essentially a death threat, but he's gotten those before. No one ever means it.

He can't shake the feeling that Caedra does, though.]

Yeah, whatever.

[It's muttered half-heartedly as she walks out. After a moment or two, he shakes it off, and turns his attention back to his specimens.]

Intro Log: Puddle Jumpers

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