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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴅᴛᴇᴀᴍ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴅʀɪᴇʟ ([personal profile] hadrielmods) wrote in [community profile] hadriel_logs2017-01-10 09:13 am

Intro Log: Eat Your Veggies

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for January
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: January 10th-16th
Warnings: Luscious greenery and confused newbies


As has become tradition within the good (well, okay) city of Hadriel, new arrivals will awake on the floor of the half-destroyed colosseum. Confused and disoriented, you may be wondering where you are and what you're doing there. Don't worry! Someone will probably tell you sooner or later, as long as you get out of the colosseum alive.

Oh, right. About that. Along with the poor, innocent, vulnerable new arrivals are a number of other new friends! Well, maybe less 'friends' than 'horrifying monsters', but are you really going to be picky? Wandering the arena are Shambling Mounds. These creatures are large, unattractive piles of vaguely humanoid-shaped vegetation. They hit hard, they can take a lot of damage, and if you're really unlucky they might manage to engulf you with their weird plant bodies. If that happens, you'd better try to get free fast - otherwise they'll just walk off with you stuck inside and kill you later at their leisure.

The Door appears to have cast a wide net for 'plant monsters', and while Shambling Mounds are the only ones that can actually hurt you, it's managed to pull in a number of smaller, less dangerous carnivorous plants. Some of them are even kind of cute! So if you were looking for a pet venus flytrap or a new pitcher plant, you're in luck. Scattered around the colosseum are carnivorous potted plants, just waiting to find a new home.

Make a new plant friend, or get eaten by one, or run screaming! Whatever you choose to do, once you find your way out of the colosseum there's plenty of other distractions. Feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, a new monster, a project to help with, or simply scavenge for supplies. Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers January 10th-16th.
► 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!
elegant_and_proud: (smile)

[personal profile] elegant_and_proud 2017-01-15 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Ikaruga notes the words 'my guardsmen' rather than 'my colleagues'. So Maketh is in charge of them, or at least high ranked within the group. That's good to know. Maketh has some authority to make decisions if there's something Ikaruga needs that she can't get for herself, for some reason or another.

"But of course. Special circumstances require the assistance of someone with a specialized skillset. As you said, it's only logical."

mismanagement: (005)

[personal profile] mismanagement 2017-01-15 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
At least this one knows how to bargain without throwing in useless threats. Maketh nods, smiling ever so slightly. "Precisely. And as credits have little meaning in this place, I find it best to pay outside contractors through other, more useful means. It's important to have friends in circumstances like these. You never know when it's going to get...complicated."
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[personal profile] elegant_and_proud 2017-01-15 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Friends are very useful indeed. The two men I asked you about...I've fought alongside them for upwards of ten years."

She's not worried about this information being used against her. On the contrary, it's stated because Maketh has shown the ability to consider the implications of what she's dealing with. In this case, an experienced mercenary who's still capable of some loyalty to specific people. Why bother with threats when she can simply imply that she'd be a good friend and a terrible enemy?

"The gods seem like they would occasionally make things very complicated."
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[personal profile] mismanagement 2017-01-15 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Ten years is an impressively long time for a mercenary. That means Ikaruga is organized and knows how to play well with others. Probably too smart to lose her temper easily. That will make her an efficient ally, if she can be controlled.

Maketh nods slowly. "That they do. I think you and I will get along just fine, Ikaruga."
elegant_and_proud: (at peace)

[personal profile] elegant_and_proud 2017-01-16 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
"I believe that we will. For my future reference, do you prefer to be known by your full name, your first name, or your last name?"

She knows it varies person by person. In her case, she's simply cast away the name she does not wish to be known as, and hasn't used that name in years.
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[personal profile] mismanagement 2017-01-16 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
How polite. It's a nice change.

"Maketh will do."