Intro Log: Eight Legs No Heart

[hadrielmods]

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for June.
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: June 10th-15th
Warnings: Spiders. Soooo many spiders. New people. Probably swearing.

For once, the new arrivals to Hadriel will not be waking up on the cold hard ground of the colosseum. Oh, sure, you'll still awaken in the arena - but this time the Door has been kind enough to ensure that you wake up comfortably arranged in a very nice chair. Or maybe not so comfortably. Some of those look pretty awkward - hopefully you didn't wake up with a crick in your neck! And hey, feel free to try to drag some of these super cool chairs to your new homes. They're probably not cursed or anything.

As you make your way out of the arena, be careful getting to close to the walls - well, except that's the only way out, so good luck! Chilling up on there waiting to get the drop on you are Skulltulas. These funky-looking spiders have squishy underbellies, but their upper exoskeletons are hard and very difficult to break through. They really just want to nibble you a few times, and maybe suck out all of your blood. No big deal, right? Have fun!

Have you conquered your arachnophobia and managed to escape? Great! Feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies. Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers June 10th-15th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
► All characters arrive with phones that have network communication.
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

Comments

[circumitus]

You and probably almost everyone else here.

[Almost.

[She huffs.] Because a few months ago, a couple of our "hosts" thought it'd be a great idea to contaminate the food supply with human meat. It hasn't happened again since then, but wouldn't put it past them to try anything at this point.

[This is why she prefers catching her own dinner if she ever has that hankering for steaks.]

[fortunefavored]

[Newt blanches at that information] What the fuck? That's seriously messed up!

[circumitus]

It was even more fucked up when it turns out that eating human meat here can also turn you into a monster.

[JUST ANOTHER DAY IN HADRIEL, THOUGH.]

[fortunefavored]

[Newt's quiet for a moment, mouth twisting in a scowl] ....I hate the fact that it doesn't surprise me at all.

[circumitus]

[Pff.]

Not sure if that says anything about you, or wherever it is you're from.

[fortunefavored]

[Newt snorts at that] I think it says that I've seen way too much fucked up shit over the past year and a half plus. [yep tearing into that pocky again, finally getting to the little silver package, which he's going to pop open]

[circumitus]

[Rey just stands there as he rips into that pocky.]

What was so special about the last year and a half? [And plus. And how.]

[fortunefavored]

I was kidnapped and taken to another universe by an evil corporation that took over the world and experimented on us like lab rats. [yep, he's gonna be shoving a couple sticks of pocky in his mouth now, at which point he makes some sort of really obscene noise] Holy shit. [muffled around bits of cracker and chocolate l o l]

[circumitus]

[Oh. Huh.

[That actually sounds familiar.]

Sounds like something someone else here went... through... [Her voice trails when he starts stuffing his face. Not that she's disgusted or anything. Rey is the last person you can expect to judge anyone on terrible eating habits.]

[fortunefavored]

[Newt blinks, swallowing, because yeah THAT gets his attention] Yeah? Who?

[circumitus]

Guy named Carlisle. Said he was taken to another universe as well. Wouldn't be surprised if there are others.

[Rey conveniently neglects the fact that this Carlisle also mentioned there being another version of herself in said universe, because... yeah. She's still not comfortable with the idea.]

[fortunefavored]

[Newt frowns at that, trying to wrack his brain for the name...but then he shakes his head] Nope, don't recognize the name. Not that I knew everyone in Haven, but when you're hanging around Murder Town a lot, you wind up getting to know most of the other inmates.

[circumitus]

[Haven? "Murder Town"...? Rey just lifts a brow.]

Doesn't sound like it's the same world. The one he came from was some spaceship.

[That's what she read from the notes, anyway.]

[fortunefavored]

Nah, the place I was kidnapped to wasn't on a space ship. Or if it was, it was a really really big one giving no indication that it WAS a space ship. So there's that.

Though I'm not ruling out the multiple shitty universe theory, though.

[circumitus]

That is probably for the best.

[Considering what she's learned recently, the prospect of there being other pockets in the universe toying with other worlds doesn't sound too unlikely.

[At least, it's no more unlikely than the situation they've all already found themselves in.

[...Rey has been here too long. She's getting jaded by these things.]

What sort of place was it, then? You said it was a town?

[fortunefavored]

A town? Uh, well kinda sorta? [he huffs] Basically, we were kidnapped from our world by this Evil Corporation that controlled the world. They basically kept us in this cage they called Haven and experimented on us whenever they felt like it. [y e p]

[circumitus]

[Figures people would call a place like that "Haven". Make it sound welcoming and innocuous at first, and then...]

That's fucked up. [Coming from someone who knows a thing or two about being locked up and experimented on. But that isn't a can she's about to open in front of a stranger.]

[fortunefavored]

[Newt chokes on a laugh, though really, it's not funny] Yeah, that summarizes it pretty well. The whole thing was really fucked up.

[circumitus]

Well, congratulations. You've just gone from being a corporate lab rat to food for some supernatural entities.

[Your prize is a shit cherry to put on top of that shit sundae!]

[fortunefavored]

Great! Another shithole. Well, at least there's food. [and so saying, he's shoving a jar of tomato sauce in his backpack]

[circumitus]

[Slow blink.]

Did they... not have food in Haven?

[fortunefavored]

Oh, they did. If you looked hard you could scrounge up about one meal a day on average. Towards the end of it, someone actually managed to plant a garden but it hadn't gotten that far. [that is to say, he didn't always look his malnourished]

[circumitus]

[One meal a day? That would explain some things, then.]

So what happened towards the end? What's the last thing you remember before coming to this place?

[She's wondering if there is a pattern of some sort, or a break in one. No one tends to remember what happened between their being sent here, but these people who get pulled into similar worlds from this one seem like anomalies.]

[fortunefavored]

[Newt's mouth thins into a line, then.]

...they put us all to sleep. Said they were going to remodel or something.

[circumitus]

[She scoffs.]

Some remodeling that was, if you're here.