Intro Log: Death Comes

[hadrielmods]

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!

Comments

[liketeenspirit]

[Pfff, she got huffy about it. One, that's funny, and two, that sense of defensiveness means the chances of it being a gang are pretty slim. He wasn't too worried about it, but she's not lying. This woman's uptight, but she's straightforward.]

Okay, okay. I believe you.

So, let me get this straight. Your goals are to learn about the Door and find a way back home, and in the meantime, you keep the peace and handle any trouble that comes along, right?

[mismanagement]

Essentially. We haven't had many problems with the people here. Only with what the gods cause.

[liketeenspirit]

[Yeah, he's heard people dropping hints about that. The gods are gonna try to scare them, or piss them off, or...make them really hopeful? Just how much trouble do the gods actually cause?]

Aaah...I dunno, I've never really been part of a team like that before....

[He rubs the back of his neck. The thing is, he's never had to do anything like this. He's not sure working with a bunch of cops is going to go well for him. Still...]

But I guess you guys are my best chance at finding a way out of here, aren't you?

[Ichigo knows he's no genius, and his people skills need work. He's not going to learn how the Door works single-handed, and he doesn't have the raw power to deal with threats on his own anymore. He can't detect disturbances through sensing people's life energy, and while he's yet to meet a normal human who could go toe to toe with him in his current state, Ichigo's known for years now that there were tons of things out there more dangerous than a normal human, and things like that definitely exist here. I don't want to work with people I don't know sounds pretty lame to him in the face of their current predicament. That kind of thinking is both small-minded and frankly embarrassing.]

I dunno if you'll get along with me, and I can't promise I won't decide to leave. Hell, I'll understand if you decide to kick me out. But I guess I can give being on your cop team a try.

And even if I do get kicked off it, you can still count on my help with anything big. Y'know, if you want it.

[mismanagement]

[Maketh nods, biting down the urge to correct him. What the guard does is not the same as law enforcement. But--he's right, in the ways that matter.] That is all we can ask. Thank you.

[liketeenspirit]

Is it okay if I wait a few days? I want to get a better idea of what's around here before I start patrolling it.

[mismanagement]

[Maketh nods. She's not in a position to drive away potential guardsmen - if he needs time and convincing, then she'll give it as tactfully as she can.] Quite alright. We have maps, if that would be of interest to you. Granted, the terrain of the caves tends to change, but it's better than nothing.

[liketeenspirit]

Couldn't hurt to take a look. Where do you keep them? Do you have some kind of headquarters?

[mismanagement]

You can download the maps from the network. And yes, we have a headquarters. It's marked on the map.

[liketeenspirit]

....oh.

[Oops. Guess he should have spent more time messing around with this thing.]

This phone's newer than mine. I don't have it completely figured out yet.

[He pulls it out of his pocket and starts poking around, looking for the maps. Juuuuust a second...]

Okay...okay, I think I found it. It's this, right?

[He turns the phone around to show her, yes, a map.]

[mismanagement]

[Maketh peers at him curiously.] But your world has such technology?

[Enough that he knows it by name. Interesting.]

Oh, yes. That's correct.

[liketeenspirit]

[OK, cool, he knows where to go now. He'll be by after the monster-hunting and city beautification event is over, and he'll complain about the paperwork he's got to do, but he'll buckle down and do it. When it comes down to it, Ichigo works hard and is pretty reliable.]

Huh? Yeah, we've got phones. Your world didn't?

[mismanagement]

[Maketh shakes her head.] No, no. I mean, we did once, but such technology is outdated.

[By generations.]

It's hard to tell what people are familiar with. That's all.

[liketeenspirit]

[He stares.]

So you're from the future?! That's pretty cool.

[mismanagement]

Perhaps. [Maketh smiles.] My world is--well, it's different from the others that people come from. Tell me, do you only have one planet?

[liketeenspirit]

...no, we have nine. Well, actually, eight I guess, since they decided Pluto wasn't a planet anymore a couple years ago...

[He's misunderstood.]

[mismanagement]

[Well, that's a decent start. Maketh nods.] I see. That's more than I've come to expect. Space travel is largely unheard of in most worlds. But that you have eight habitable planets is--good, I suppose.

[liketeenspirit]

....oh.

No, uh...they're not really habitable. They're all too hot, too cold, or made of gas. We've gone to space -- we just haven't really sent anyone past the moon. I think we've sent unmanned probes out pretty far into the solar system, though.

[Somehow, though, he gets the feeling she won't find that impressive at all...]

[mismanagement]

[Maketh blinks.] Oh! I apologize, I misunderstood.

[Apparently his world is still in its primitive stage. A shame, but nothing to be done for it.] Not many people here come from a place like mine, I've found.