Intro Log: Don't Wake Tonberry

[hadrielmods]

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: Cute monsters, a way to pass the time, and plenty of newbies!

Waking up in Hadriel certainly has its down sides, but if this weird murdercave city is good at one thing, it's keeping people entertained. As you awaken on the hard ground of the colosseum, you might see a rectangular cardboard box lying near you. Ignore it for now, as you get your bearings, but if you get bored? Well, you'll find these exciting and unique board games will keep you entertained!

But how could you possibly get bored, when there are plenty of cute monsters around to keep you company? Sharing the colosseum with all the new arrivals are Tonberries. In addition to their natural cuteness defense, they also carry very large knives. They're slow-moving and look innocent and even friendly, but be careful - one strike from that knife and you'll be a bloody mess. They won't attack unless you get too close, but who doesn't want to hug a Tonberry? And of course, if you attack, they'll counter with extreme prejudice.

Managed to resist the urge to hug a Tonberry? Safely escaped from the clutches of the colosseum, new board game in tow? Awesome! 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 September 10th-13th.
► 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

[skelebro]

[Well, she's sure up in his space. At least she's not trying to grab his face anymore. 1 HP don't leave a lotta room for error when you're fussing around with a skeleton's personal space.]

Nah, I was just bone this way. I'm a monster.

[Aaaand that's not acceptable terminology in a world like this, and in a lotta people's worlds. Better amend that quick.]

Skeleton, to be precise.

[burn_all_the_babies]

[ Wow that must actually suck. Tina's had so many scrapes, cuts and broken bones, she can't imagine being one bump away from doing the Humpty Dumpty.

A monster you say? Hmm... Sure doesn't look like a monster, well not to Tina anyway. Again, his joke distracts her from any serious train of thought. Chuckling a little, pulling herself up to sit upon the garbage can she'd previously been abusing. ]

Dat mean ya gotta skeleton-key on'ya? Be reeeaaal handy if ya did!

[ Pointing to the locked store behind her. Feet swinging, Tina looks down at her skinny kneecaps as a thought grew in her mind. ]

... I have one of ya inside'a me. Didn't know it could all up and talk and shit! That's pur-itty cool gurl. When I'm ded, Imma let it wear me like a fancy dress and scare the SHIT outta the Vault hunters! AHAHAHAH!!

[skelebro]

[He arches a supraorbital ridge in apparent amusement. A bit of sleight-of-hand has him producing a small, silver key, seemingly from nowhere, which he allows to catch the light briefly before it vanishes again.]

Pretty sure there's other ways to get into the shops.

[Does it count as B&E if the city is mostly abandoned, and whatever nebulous owner of the shop has long since skedaddles? Probably not, right?

Not like he's got a dearth of equally-despicable sins under his belt. What's one more, right?]

"Vault Hunter," huh? That's a term I've heard before.

[His tone is a low, rumbling drawl as he starts inspecting the locked shop door without undue interest.]

[burn_all_the_babies]

So. Freakin. Cool.

[ That smile of her's only grew wider upon seeing the key that seemingly vanished just as quick as it had arrived. Did that really just happen? This guy was pretty cool! He joked and could do skeleton magic! ]

You have?! Have ya heard it used here before? ... Don't s'spoes you know a skeleton called Mr Boney Pants Guy, too huh?

[ Maybe if San's knew of the Vault hunters that was way? Would be pretty awkward if she'd sent a whole skeleton army, lead by Mr Boney Pants Guy to their deaths at the hands of the Vault hunters... Let's hope he's from a different world. ]

[skelebro]

Mr. Boney Pants Guy...

[He draws the words out thoughtfully before shaking his skull. In the same moment, the locked shop door opens with a neat click and swings inward in a fluid arc. And here he definitely didn't have a key to this place on him...did he?

Maybe it was a skeleton key.]

Can't say I have, no. I'm pretty sure I've just seen the word around on the network here. Y'know, the thing with the phone?

[He's got no clue what level of technology she's familiar with, but in any case, he's hardly being helpful if she's got no clue what kinda terminology he's referring to.]

[burn_all_the_babies]

[ He was forever going to be that cool skeleton dude as far as Tina was concerned! Key or no key, he'd gotten her into the place she needed to be, without any fuss or without having to blow it up. He was magic! ]

Oh that thing? Yeah, I was kinda gonna make it into a self detonating phone bomb, when I get the chance of course!

[ Smiling swaying in a mock innocence as she spoke of such a horrible device. ]

Hold up shawty. You sayin' there's Vault hunters that talk over the network!? ... Best. Day. Ever.

[ This was just getting better and better! Not only had she made a new awesomely spooky friend! But she'd also learnt that there could possibly be people from her world here too! ]

Ever see any'o them? Like, yas seen a hot ass damsel in yella with sweet blue hair? Oh oh! Or a big old supafly meat boy with a mask like dis? Butts better 'cause it's more badassier! Or Roland? He's ma bruva from another mother. Big, black, badass, no?

[ Excitement once more springing life to her eyes, bouncing from foot to foot, hardly able to contain herself. ]

[skelebro]

[Self-detonating phone bomb.

Well, everybody needs a hobby. Bit concernin' that this is a thing kids get up to, but he knows kids who've done worse. He's spoken to kids who've done worse on a semi-regular basis, not that he's particularly pleased about it.

He's really hoping she's not planning to actually turn her phone into a bomb. For one, that's just a waste of good resources.]

Uh, just one I've met. Tall lady, red hair, blue tattoos?

[He steps inside the shop with utter indolence, perusing shelves and whatever assorted miscellany may be stacked onto them, clearly with the expectation that she'll follow.]

[burn_all_the_babies]

[ Tina had been the cause of many a death back on Pandora... Heck, she'd even tortured people without so much as a second thought as to what she was doing. So making her phone into a bomb was nothing serious, really.

Following Sans into the store, her eyes scanning the walls looking for plug sockets, anywhere that would so evidence of a vending machine could be plugged in near by. ]

LILITH!? Oh dang son! Lilith's here?! She's one of ma main squeezes! She's pretty badass, about numero cuatro on the ladeez list!

[ Scrambling past Sans, clambering up one of the shelves so that she was able to see from above. Best way to scout shizz out. ]

WHAT! No vending machines!? ... I'm gonna DIE HERE!

[skelebro]

[Kid knows how to turn a phrase, he'll give 'em that. There's a low glint of amusement in his eyesockets as he watches her tear around the place like a kid at Gyftmas.]

Lilith, yeah. That was the name. [He snaps his phalanges as he recalls it.] And a few others, I'm pretty sure, but no one I've met.

[He leans up against one of the shelves, watching her scan the surrounding area, then chuckles.]

Nah, sorry. But on the bright side, the shops are pretty much full of free junk. I mean, no one's here to tell ya to pay for it, so. [He shrugs loosely.]