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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2016-07-10 10:50 am

Intro Log: Death Comes

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for July.
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: July 10th-15th
Warnings: Deathclaws. That's all you really need to know.


As usual, the new arrivals in Hadriel will be waking up on the dirt ground of the colosseum, and as usual, they won't be waking up alone. This month brings coat hangers of all shapes and, uh, sizes strewn about the colloseum floor around all of the new arrivals.

Get up, get out, meet and greet, find some new exciting interior decorating options, but don't forget about the more prominent threat: the (newly) local deathclaws roaming about in the inner halls of the arena. These deathclaws are vicious bipedal creatures with long arms ending in curved talons, horns ripe for goring and, of course, teeth as long as fingers. These animals have been engineered to be as deadly as they can possibly be, so you might want to buddy up before taking one on.

Have you escaped from the deathclaws? Made a few friends? Not died horribly? 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 July 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!

deathclaws

[personal profile] whichend 2016-07-12 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Arya has fought off a few of the beasts already. She risks the Collosseum for the supplies, and sometimes the monster meat is good. The supplies were terrible this time. She's still holding out hope on the meat. Half a deathclaw carcass is slung over her shoulder, and she snorts a little at the man's comment. ]

Do those soldiers all smell like this, too?
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[personal profile] benumbing 2016-07-12 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It would've made an ambush a lot harder. What're you doing with that?

[Jack's not delicate. He's smelled blood and death and the piss of scared men running down their legs. But he makes a face in her direction, his hand lifted halfway to his mouth and nose like he might need to cover them against the smell.]

Did you kill it by yourself?

[personal profile] whichend 2016-07-13 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
this?

[ Arya looks back at the corpse she's carrying. Oh, yeah. That. She ought to cook it soon, or salt it, before it goes rotten. ]

I did kill it. [ She says, almost proudly. It wasn't that hard. ] It's for eating. I don't want to eat the gods' meat, so I hunt my own.
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[personal profile] benumbing 2016-07-14 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He does the double-take, looking from her to the carcass and back again. Either she's a better liar than he is, or she's telling the truth. He decides to take her at her word.]

And what if it makes you sick? [It smells like it might. Hell, the smell alone could do it.]

[personal profile] whichend 2016-07-18 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll taste it, little by little. I've done that before.

[ Arya has eaten worms, flies, and raw pigeon. She's tasted poisons in her training at the House of Black and White. This is no big deal. ]

Would you like to try some, when I prepare it?
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[personal profile] benumbing 2016-07-20 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Jack does respect her reasons for the risk. He has absolutely no desire to be in divine debt himself.]

We've just met and you'd invite me to table?

[That's surprising, possibly clever if she plans on using him as a food taster. Either way it makes him smile.]

I actually would. Let's try it together. It might even be fun to see which of us can hold it in the longest.

[personal profile] whichend 2016-07-21 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Only because you'd have guest right, and then we cannot kill each other, not by all the laws of gods and men.

[ Arya smiles coyly. She knows what she's doing. ]

I bet I can eat more than you.

[ Ok, so she might be a half-starved little girl, but she can dream, right? Arya turns and starts heading out of the Collosseum. Jack is welcome to follow her, if he wishes. ]
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[personal profile] benumbing 2016-07-21 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't care much for the laws of gods these days, but I think I understand anyway.

[His father had their enemy to dinner too, where his mother made sure that the forks in the hands of men who tried to kill him were polished and shiny. Some things are universal.

He trails behind her, snorting in amusement.
]

You don't know how starved I am. I'll tear the meat and suck the marrow from the bones. Do you want me to carry it?

[personal profile] whichend 2016-07-27 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not many do. [ Arya grimaces. ] But I'm sure you care about the laws of steel. If you decide to attack me at my table, you'll find that very steel through your ribs.

[ Threats are how a person makes friends, right? ]

No. I can do it.

[ Arya's too proud for that. It's not a long walk to the house she's staying in. There's a makeshift fire pit out back. Arya sets down the meat and starts up the fire. ]

So. Who are you?
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[personal profile] benumbing 2016-07-29 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Jack laughs at that, not because he doesn't believe her, but because it's such a difference from what he's used to, the small talk and polite smiles with thinly concealed disdain in the eyes. God, how many times would he have said something as vicious if he could have?]

I like that law. [Despite it being something of a threat, or maybe even because of it.] It's honest, no politics involved.

[He crouches down when they reach the pit.]

I'm Jack. I'm from a place that gave up steel a long time ago, and we're worse off for it.

[personal profile] whichend 2016-08-02 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Arya knows those polite smiles. They're part of the game of thrones, but Arya doesn't play that game. Games are for children; she is a wolf.

Jack accepts her terms and she nods approvingly. He's capable, this one. Knows which rules to follow and which to break.

Arya snaps a leg off and sticks it on a skewer, then begins roasting. ]


Do you have guns instead? I've seen their power, but they're too loud. Silence is just as important.

[ especially for someone Arya's size. ]
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[personal profile] benumbing 2016-08-05 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
We do have guns. And grenades and tanks. Have you heard of those? There's things that can make guns quieter, but probably never as quiet as a sword.

[Jack leans in, lowering his voice like it's a secret.]

It's a potato.

[personal profile] whichend 2016-08-11 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Arya shakes her head. She's never heard of grenades or tanks.

And when Jack leans in and tells her the secret is potatoes, of all things, she smacks him gently on the forehead. ]


That sounds stupid. I'd rather eat a potato, and wield a sword.