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hadriel_logs2018-12-10 10:48 am
hadrielmods) wrote in hadriel_logs2018-12-10 10:48 am
Entry tags:
- *intro log,
- agent maine,
- anakin skywalker,
- caedra nisariel,
- daenerys targaryen,
- dr. newton geiszler,
- elena fisher,
- finn,
- franklin delano donut,
- george lass,
- inquisitor trevelyan,
- ivar ragnarsson,
- keith,
- knock out,
- kylo ren,
- laura palmer,
- margaery tyrell,
- mariane cousland,
- nathan drake,
- poe dameron,
- scott ryder,
- shigeru miyata,
- starscream,
- tinya wazzo
Intro Log: A Day at the Beach
Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for December
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: December 10th-13th
Warnings: None
What: The intro log for December
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: December 10th-13th
Warnings: None
It's icy cold when you wake up, so let's hope you arrived here wearing warm clothes. They're not too easy to find right now, either - Hadriel is a pretty unwelcoming place. You're on the floor of the colosseum, which is sandy and (right now) a bit frosty. It's you, the other newcomers - and of course, a battalion of newly-arrived giant scorpions, just as confused as you and ready to fight. They're big and fast, they've got armor covering their creepy bodies, and that stinger will seriously mess you up if you're not careful. So... welcome to Hadriel!
You might be cold, but the Door doesn't seem to be. Scattered across the ground of the colosseum can be found some beach towels with creative designs. And if that's not enough, you'll be all prepared for a day at the beach with these cute sandals (jandals?). Too bad there's no beach and it's really cold and everything sucks, right?
Once you've finished dreaming about a warm beach vacation, feel free to look around. 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 December 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!
colosseum
[Because c'mon, Lup knows her brother's rep in Hadriel and this sounds real fake. She loves him completely, duh, but he's an absolute disaster and no sane person would ever be running around spewing that out without compensation.
But this handsome stranger is grabbing her by the hand and whisking her away to the exit, so guess she's going to put that question on hold for a second.] Look, I respect the enthusiasm here, but cool it a little, fam. I'm a big girl, I can take care of a few giant scorpions on my own. Ain't my first time.
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It she. Lup. The one who had all the fire, and the same cooking skills, and he thinks Taako told him once that she's both married and undead? But he never officially, uh. Sourced that. It's been over a year and he's still not sure if Taako was just messing with him.
Anyway, he definitely does not have the chill for gracefully approaching this right now. ]
I never got the impression you couldn't! Okay? I would just really like it if I didn't leave someone behind in the giant scorpion pit, and you were there!
[ Still..... has not released that hand, though. Second nature.
He didn't know what a scorpion was, exactly, until he was today years old. That's a fun fact. Finn 100% is mentally incapable of picturing 'these but smaller' now. ]
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This total stranger keeps hold of her hand, speaks to her as if they actually know one another, and continues to drag her to safety, even after her quip. Just who the hell is he?]
So. I've got about fifty questions, my dude. [Maybe even more. The elf lets herself be dragged along for at least a few more feet before she puts up a protest, digging her heels into the ground and pulling away from him, looking more surprised than offended. The scorpions can chill for five seconds while she sorts this out.]
First off, uh, who the fuck are you?
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Finn: objectively the weirder-sounding person in this equation, like some sort of shoehorned fandom OC brought to life.
Finn: looks at Lup like she's out of her mind instead anyway. Well, in fairness, what he does is look around like she must have stopped because of a pesky obstacle, and then glance over at a more heavily scorpioned part of town over there. And then look at her like she's the weird one.
Although in fairness, her stopping does make more sense once "who the fuck are you" hits the scene. (Kind of surprising? Not too surprising? They only talked a couple of times and there was a pretty dense population back there.) ]
-- Finn. My name's Finn. [ Finn should probably turn more thought to Riverview's big multiverse explanation, and its history of people leaving and then turning up again, sans memories, but it actually never happened with someone that he knew before they reappeared. That's one of the facts that got rusty on him after a while. ]
And I'm pretty sure my name would still be Finn if you asked me outside of the death trap. Actually, I'm pretty sure the forty-nine other questions would all be the same anywhere where we're not about to get eaten!
[ The stopping makes more sense, but he still does not understand why the stopping has commenced anyway, basically. ]
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Unfortunately for Finn, that name doesn't ring any bells for Lup, so she stands her ground instead of fleeing from the scorpion pit like he'd no doubt prefer.]
Ugh, just, c'mon. Chill for one sec, will ya?
[Without even sparing a glance towards the giant scorpions inching up on them, the elf throws out a hand and whips up a souped-up fireball, aiming it straight for nearest cluster of scorpions. Sad for them, they burn up just as easily as normal-sized scorpions do.]
There, better? Now how about some answers. How do you know my name?
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Finn looks like he's trying very hard to come up with a fresh argument that will get them out of the deadly monsters zone and into a zone where he can figure out where the hell Poe wound up. He fails to find such an argument. She burnt a lot of the argument to a crisp. So while Finn staunchly refuses to take his chill levels up even a single notch, he does have to admit... that that is technically... better.
He never actually saw Lup do magic stuff. Mostly they talked about porgs and Taako. ]
I met you! A couple of times! [ It occurs to him in the vaguest sense that she might not be the same Lup? That was always one of those possibilities he never ended up experiencing. Or not really. He's been leaning into the assumption that the portal was a big lie and everyone got shuttled off to this arena trap to die or something for the past five stressful minutes.
She could very easily just not remember him specifically. It happens. He can't avoid a sinking feeling, though. Maybe partly because he's already put the "I met you" out there, so he can't try to lie his way out of this conversation. It's like being impulsive can be a bad thing. ]
Look, do you-- [ He gestures between the two of them like it at all is making a point. ] Did you get here from a city called Riverview or did you come here from home?
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Oh. [They... met? More than once? And she doesn't remember him? Yikes, talk about mega awkward. Lup's first thought is that this guy must be from Faerûn, from about the same time period that Lup and all of her family hail from. He must be one of those big fanboys of the Seven, maybe someone she's even given an autograph to or taken a picture with. It would explain why she doesn't remember him, even if his whole vibe feels pretty unforgettable.
It's either that or she owes him money and Lup is so not sticking around if that's the case.
Thankfully, Finn fills in the blanks with a single reference. At first, the name Riverview seems strange, striking just the smallest touch of recognition within the woman, even if she can't quite place why. But then she remembers the Lucretia who popped into Hadriel briefly some months before, speaking of this other world she'd been dropped off in.] Oh wait, shit! I remember Lucy talkin' about a Riverview before. I was never there, but she said there was another Lup an' Taako running around in that place. You're from there?
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He can admit, at least to himself, that he's always been bad with the "different versions" angle on things that the Quarantine introduced. Always grated a little. Because it's one thing if he considers himself disposable in the name of whatever greater cause, depending on the situation, but it's another thing to feel like the whole universe is saying he's just that easy to replace. It's the sort of facet of the multiverse idea that he's always ignored.
It's not a memory thing. She's literally not the same person. Or she is the same person, but not exactly. A bunch of nonsense. ]
Yeah. I'm from there. Nice to meet you. [ Big Multiversal Portals Just Keep Kidnapping Me: a Star Wars story that Finn desperately wishes he weren't a part of. ] Am I not the only one?
[ If this isn't a dumping ground for a corrupt government that occasionally shoves people through a portal to appease its unwilling citizens, convincing them that it's possible to fine-tune said portal to send anyone home eventually when in reality it's either completely impossible or they're simply not trying-- all part of a gambit to secure a growing population to clear out and colonize a wild moon for them--
Well, then Finn actually doesn't have any other guesses. That was very much the first thing he assumed was happening here. Become a rebel: immediately assume the worst of any authority, no matter how benign it may seem. ]
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Goodbye, this chick is not dealing with anything today.]
That's more like it. Glad we got that whole sitch figured out, I was about to call you out for being a stalker or something.
[Like, the most adorable looking stalker ever, but the point still stands.]
Just Lucy that I know of. Lucretia, that is. You know her, right? She's kinda hard to miss, but sad to say, she didn't stick around here for very long. Just filled us all in about Riverview an' took the fuck off back home.
[Hey with that kind of attitude, he's gonna do fucking amazing here in Hadriel. Lup can't wait to hear his opinions on the shitty gods running the show.]
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I know her. We're friends. [ Were, technically, if he brings in the fact that she left a good while before he did. But he doesn't like the past tense version.
Is it good she was here and left? Is it bad? Who knows. He can't figure out where he lands on that. It's good she's not here, but kind of a bummer that she's not here. ] You sure home is where she wound up?
[ If he has to figure out a way to detour to a multiversal rescue mission for all of his Riverview friends while he's out here, he guesses he will. ]
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Lup's smile curls wide to hear Finn thinks of Lucretia as a friend - that woman sure as hell deserves more of those - her whole expression shifting a little brighter, a little more welcoming towards the young man. After all, no matter what kind of awful impression he'd kind of made initially, Lup knows that Lucretia's good taste must mean he's a good bean. Someone trustworthy and probably prone to getting into trouble.
Lucretia has a certain type of friends, that's just fact.
But then he has to go on and bring up that and even if Lup's expression doesn't drop, both of her long ears dip down slightly. Thoughtfully. It's easier to think that Lucretia was sent home. That she was just temporarily offset from her destination, a layover between portals home. Thinking of the alternative? That's not so great.]
Why? You think there's any reason she wouldn't? Did your place lie to you too? Say you were going home an' drag you here instead?
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There are a few different things he could say as far as all those Riverview scientists are concerned. That he maybe eased into taking them at their word over the course of a year. That they were supposedly working on getting the portal lined up every single day since before he ever popped through it. That people got the word and headed home plenty often, as far as anyone ever heard. That he's pretty salty with them in general, quite frankly, and doesn't think much of their choices. Where Finn lands after a couple of seconds worth of thinking is: ]
They promised. If they messed it up for me, they could've messed it up for anyone.
[ Accidentally or on purpose. Which one he's inclined to believe depends on his mood.
Is this even a "different" Lup? Is there a step where people just get their brain scrubbed before they land on the next dumb planet? Does he need a power-nap and to reassess his situation in a more objective fashion? All great questions. ]