Intro Log: HOLY F*^K THAT'S A F*&KI%G DRAGON

[hadrielmods]

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for October
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: October 10th-13th
Warnings: New faces, new greeting posts, and dragons. What's more to want?

If your first thought upon waking up on the cold, hard ground of Hadriel's very own Colosseum is 'maybe I partied too hard last night', one, Delight would love you and two, you're wrong. Or- maybe you did, but that's not why you're here. Instead, you wake up with the same clothes you were wearing when you were last home, but surrounded by very different people. So, make some friends! Might as well voice your confusion and concern and show the technologically unsavvy of you how to operate these fancy new phones, right? Just be sure not to trip over these odd bags of chips on your way to greet your fellow man.

Don't spend too much time out in the open, though. There are monsters about, and not quite the usual ones. This month, Hadriel is bringing in four dragons, each with their own unique abilities and raidboss-esque stamina. They'll be terrorizing the city until someone puts them down- maybe that someone is you! Maybe you should, uh, actually hide. They're hungry and territorial and mean and they're definitely out for a good meal. Check out our OOC post for more information, as well as who will be eventually killing the beasts!

But hey, once you escape from the dragons, feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies.

New, as of October's intro log is a Newcomer's guide that installs itself by default on every activated phone. Thanks, Mello!

Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers October 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!

Comments

[repelling]

[ Less likely he would have missed Arisawa-san or Kojima-kun, given his familiarity with their reiatsu. However, there could be strangers, people he's never met. It isn't as if their entire world is Karakura Town, however much it sometimes feels that way. ]

If you can. That guide made it sound as if there's not much more out there.

[ Uryuu pulls the phone from his pocket. It's a nicer model than Urahara-san gave him. Newer, newer than anything in their world, but it doesn't seem by much. A few years? ]

Kurosaki said three months. How long have you been here, Kuchiki-san?

[face_kick]

I've been here two months, so I don't know how much I'll be able to answer. Besides, it's been... busy.

[Zombies, candy, monsters, power failures (of the literal sort), things haven't seemed to slow down much for this place since she arrived.]

Though, it seems this place turns spirit bodies corporeal, or something similar.

[Thus explaining why Ichigo has almost no power, but this is still a conversation between the three of them.]

[liketeenspirit]

[While Rukia answers, Ichigo pulls out his phone and starts flipping through the newbie guide.]

Yeah, something like that. I haven't asked how it works, but Hope could probably tell you.

[Ew. He's glad he wasn't here for the wendigo thing. That sounds real gross. One near-zombie experience is enough for him, kthx.]

Man, Mello's an asshole, but I've got to admit, he's pretty thorough. The only thing he left out that I can think of is the city guard.

[repelling]

Busy? What's happened?

[ In fact, Uryuu had not realized there was anything strange in it, because Kurosaki's reiatsu had already been different. That faint pink. So accustomed himself to interacting with Kuchiki-san, and so focused on Kurosaki and his puzzle, he startles now to realize, yes, she's in a body, or has been made corporeal.

It's frankly embarrassing it took having it pointed out, but his curiosity overpowers it. If it had been Kurosaki, like when Kon took over his body, he'd probably have started poking her. For obvious reasons he doesn't do that, but he does reach for his glasses, leaning, peering. ]

Oh.

[ Cool, Uryuu, very cool. It's a wondering, thoughtful Oh, anyway. ]

Maybe it's self-explanatory.

[face_kick]

[She raises her eyebrows just a little at him when he leans in, but she'll allow it, for now. As long as he doesn't poke her. Then he might get smacked, but she's pretty sure he knows that.]

Wandering monsters, candy coming from everywhere all of a sudden, there was a week where no one's powers would work right at all, gods, zombies...

[There's the slightest hesitation before that last one, and her eyes flick to Ichigo, then away. Clearly the zombies were a bigger deal, for some reason, than all of those other things.]

[She shrugs regarding the City Guard. That's more Ichigo's speed, though it does seem to be missing. Though maybe it is something she should look into herself, if she's going to be here long...]

[liketeenspirit]

[He does the same -- a glance in her direction, not even long enough to make eye contact, then away.

But she left explaining the guard to him, so he'll pick up where she left off.]

He could at least have mentioned it. The headquarters is even marked on the map, but Mello's acting like it doesn't exist!

[r u d e]

[repelling]

....Why all of that? What kind of place is this?

[ Candy, abilities going haywire, zombies? Something else Mello-san's guide left out, not that he's realized it: what the gods regularly do. He read they influence emotion, read that they'd once contaminated the meat, but he hasn't seen the murals yet. The guide doesn't say, a god monthly does something to draw out an emotion.

It all sounds like nonsense.

But, abruptly, more importantly -- he notices those looks, that exchange that is just short of an exchange.

Uryuu Ishida does not pry, so he doesn't point out how obvious they're being, but he takes note. ]

I guess you joined the guard.

[ Deadpan. Kurosaki wouldn't be complaining otherwise. ]

[face_kick]

[Since all three of them are ignoring the thing they're not telling him lurking beneath those abortive glances it gets swept under the rug of the continuing conversation as Rukia tries to explain this whole god thing even though she only barely gets it herself.]

The gods, they... use us? Like a power source. And they do things, cause things to happen, to elicit emotions. Or sometimes they just mess things up, I think.

[Looking at you here, Confusion, looking at you Hope and Delight.]

[But, ah, it's nice to have someone to tag-team the Ichigo-teasing with again, it really is.]

Why, however did you guess, Ishida-san?

apologies for the short tag, hit me up if you want me to elaborate

[liketeenspirit]

[...

fuck you both]

So what if I did?

please elaborate. 1/2

[repelling]

They use us? And we're supposed to believe something they call a Door brought us here, without their input?

[ Even if he does choose to believe that, that makes their refusal to say where it is make sense. It makes sense, sure, but it isn't acceptable.

He might have begun down a path of building indignation, but for the distraction of Kurosaki.

Kurosaki, who is so, so easy. ]

[repelling]

[ Naturally, he lifts his hand, pushing at his glasses. ]

I wonder, Kuchiki-san.

[ There's humor in his voice. ]

Nothing. It's just like you.

[ And it is. Good thing his hand's in front of his face. It gives him time to suppress a smile that'd be much too soft for his pride. ]

[face_kick]

[Ahh, it is so wonderfully easy to rile Ichigo up. Brings a little light to these crappy cave days.]

[Since, well, yes, some things kind of suck.]

Yes, that is what I gather. By producing emotional responses they... [Here she shrugs a little, not understanding precisely how this works.] It's not as if they drain us of these emotions, we still feel them, but...

[liketeenspirit]

The more we feel, the stronger they get. If everyone in the cave's scared out of their minds, Fear gets power. If everyone's mad, Rage does. So they do stuff to us, mess with us.

[Welcome to the murder cave, Ishida. Ichigo's not happy about it, either, but he doesn't particularly want to elaborate. Ishida can find that out from somebody else--Ichigo wants the subject changed, so he does it.]

As for the Door, I can't say one way or the other. I've never seen it myself, but that doesn't mean much. Considering the kinds of things the gods can do, it could definitely be hidden somewhere we'll never get to it. All the gods I've talked to seem to agree that it exists, even if they don't agree on much else. And besides that...

[It's not that Ichigo trusts Hope. It's that he feels like Hope wasn't lying to him when Hope said he intended to send them all home. But Ichigo doesn't say that. Instead, he shrugs.]

It's the only explanation we've got. Anything else would just be a wild guess. I'll buy the story about the Door until a better one comes along.