hadriel_logs | Event Log: Fourth Wall, Part Two

Who: Everyone in the city + Fourth Wall visitors!
What: Part two of the fourth wall event, hosted by Sorrow, Rage, and Hope!
Where: All around the city
When: November 1st-November 7th
Warnings: Visitors from other worlds!

Welcome to Hadriel! Or, for those who have been here, please continue enjoying your stay. Perhaps you arrived here last week, and have been wandering around since then, making new friends. Or perhaps you've just arrived, and have no idea what's going on. You may have woken up in the colosseum, or near a temple, or in one of the numerous other locations in the city. You might be confused and frightened to find yourself in this underground city, or maybe you're just wondering why you haven't been sent home yet, when others have.

Whatever the case may be, the situation in the city has changed somewhat. There is still a gently glowing path leading you to a nicely-outfitted party, but the specifics of it have changed. If you're a new arrival, it'll be easy to follow the path and find the party - if you're not, well, the color of the light has changed, signalling that something's different. Maybe you want to check it out?

Around the clearing are gently glowing flowers, illuminating both the tables and the rest of the area, bright enough to make things clear even when the larger light at the apex of the cave is gone. On the tables are an array of different kinds of food - however, sampling this food will quickly make it clear that nearly everything is spicy, whether subtly so or with a burning heat. The cookies seem to have chili oil in them, the dip has jalapeno-like peppers. It's hard to find anything that won't burn your mouth a bit. If you're lucky enough to find something that doesn't, though, it will most certainly be somewhat bitter or quite sour. That doesn't mean the food tastes bad - if spicy and sour are your sort of thing, they're delicious! If you're looking for something more normal, though, you're out of luck.

Also on the tables are a variety of drinks, and these at least are not spicy. Instead, they're the sort of warm, comforting drinks that might remind you of home, of curling up in a soft blanket while rain falls outside. Warm cocoa, hot cider, teas of various flavors. Just the sort of thing to soothe a worried newcomer.

Decorating the area are various banners with welcoming messages saying things like 'HADRIEL' 'THIS IS A PARTY' 'EAT FOOD' and 'DO NOT DIE'. They are all identical, with large black block letters on plain white paper. They look very similar to something that you might print out on a standard office laser printer at the last minute if you have no discernible sense of humor or fun.

Scattered around can be found exciting party games such as pin the tail on the donkey and musical chairs. Here and there can also be found various pinatas of different types. Break them open, see what comes out! If you're really lucky it'll be candy - if not, it might be full of bouncy balls or cherry tomatoes. Good times!
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Or maybe you don't like parties? No worries. The rest of the city has plenty of places to explore- maybe you'd like to stumble in our Silent Hill zone, have a quick look around the alien orchard, or check out any of the god temples that can inspire their chosen emotion. Be careful not to get lost in the tunnels leading away from the cave- none of them can actually move you above ground, but you may run into a few monsters on the way.

For those of you who came last week, here's your chance to help out newbies along with the people who have been here forever! Join in on the festivities if you like, or try to orient as many of the others as you can. Rule the newcomers at musical chairs, continue your fight club, pick up a second weird cave girlfriend and then watch as they dump you and hook up with each other! There's no end to the possible fun.
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Enjoy the fourth wall event at Hadriel! Once you're settled in feel free to explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies.

Fourth wall characters do not enter with phones so they cannot reach the network- however, if you'd like to handwave that they somehow got ahold of Mello's Newcomer guide to avoid the 'where am I/what is this' sort of questions, then feel free!

Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers November 1st-November 7th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well! Fourth wall characters will not have posting access, so grab an in-game friend if you wanted to do anything separate from the main log.
► Fourth wall characters will be in the city for at least one week. If you want them to stay longer, our applications are now open!
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You're clearly capable. [Especially if he's offering to go monster hunting for more ammunition. Maketh tips her head to the side.] I'd hate to think you didn't like our company.

Oh, is this a recruitment drive? [He chuckles. Well, considering he had a very similar train of thought when he came here, Sato supposes he shouldn't be surprised.]

[Maketh shrugs, not denying it.] I never ignore opportunity when I see it.

[Wise words, and Sato decides to take that to heart instead of evading further:] Well... I have seen the building I've heard in the Guard HQ. Why don't you give me a tour of what you folks have set up so far?

[Hmm. Interesting. Maketh smiles just a little.] I suppose I could do that.

[Of course he can't exactly abandon his bag of goodies, so he takes a moment to zip it shut and heave it up over one shoulder.]

No time like the present. [He says with a pleasant smile.]

[Hmm. Eager, isn't he? Maketh returns the smile.] You're right, of course. Come with me.

[She'll show him around. There's nothing worth hiding in the guard post, after all.]

[Sato comes along, matching pace with Maketh. He knows where it is just as well as she does, and it's not like it's a long walk.]

Are all the other members of the Guard former military?

[He asks conversationally. It's a guess, based on her mannerisms and practical choice of gear, but it seems a fair one.]

They are not. Only a few claim that. [Much to Maketh's surprise, everyone has been working together as a cohesive whole, no need for violence to keep them in line. She glances at Sato briefly.] I've been told it's obvious in my case.

[He chuckles pleasantly.] Only a little. So otherwise, just good samaritans then?

Something like that. [Maketh shrugs.] Most desire to do some good in the community. Others recognize the value of strength in numbers.

[She can work with either.]

I'm sure it's handy when there's monsters about. About how many people have you recruited so far?

[Sato keeps making small talk... well, small talk with very curious questioning, that is... as they approach the Guard HQ, such as it is.]

A dozen or so. [It's a vague answer. Maketh isn't sure what to make of this man just yet. He's intelligent, that much is evident, and careful with his words. She opens the door to HQ for him politely.] Enough for our purposes.

[She could, if needed, list the exact roster and what patrol routes each member had been assigned. Maketh had a feeling Sato was fishing for something, though, and wasn't sure she wanted to give him the answers just yet. It wouldn't be hard to find out information on the guard, especially for someone who had been in Hadriel as long as he had. But he wanted to ask her directly. Possibly just to see how she would respond.

Curious.]

It's not much, of course. But we are doing acceptable work.

[Sato steps inside, glancing about and taking in the layout of the place. If it was his own world, a dozen people wouldn't even be sporting to mess around with. Here... who knows, with the wild assortment or powers an personalities. So even if the tone is pleasant, the words are a little more abrasive.]

Are you? A dozen people doesn't seem like enough to do much when the so-called gods star making mistakes with the Door. And there's still quite a few monsters roaming the caves outside the city, even on a good day.

[Maketh frowns, standing up straighter.] We can respond to an incident anywhere within the city in under three minutes. A defensive perimeter has been established and despite our lack of resources, we have maintained it consistently. Of course we are outnumbered. But we have tactics and the gods underestimate that to their peril.

Well, that's encouraging to hear. [And the reply doesn't seem sarcastic, either, more jovial than anything. Tactics are exactly what the animalistic monsters in the tunnel system are lacking... what he's been missing, really.] And three minutes is very impressive.

[As he wanders through, he tilts his head to look at some paperwork lying on a desk, quite unabashedly starting to skim the contents.]

[Maketh leans back against a desk, just watching him. There's nothing worth hiding in the reports and she makes no move to prevent him from reading their contents. But it does say something, that he feels entitled to look without asking permission. Maketh isn't sure she likes Sato, but that's hardly the point. She'll need to know him soon. And if he's dangerous - most people in Hadriel are - then he'll need to be dealt with properly.]

Almost as good as my troops back home. But they were insufficiently motivated. Our guardsmen know their duty.

[There's not much to look at on the papers, and Sato just takes an easy stroll around the rest of the main office, glancing past a door here, inspecting items on a shelf there. Although he shouldn't underestimate anyone here, well... it's hard not to, when it feels like he could get away with anything.]

Must have been in the wrong places at the wrong times in the past to have seen them on duty. But perhaps I'll get to see them in action sometime soon.

[Sato says cheerfully, turning back to Maketh.]

Event Log: Fourth Wall, Part Two

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