Intro Log: None Hadriel With Left Shark

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Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for February
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: February 10th-16th
Warnings: Shark week

Once more, new arrivals will wake up on the ground level of the ruined colosseum. There isn't anything particularly comforting about it, either- everything is a bit cold and impersonal and there is, of course, the fact that nobody remembers just how they managed to wind up here in the first place. That can all be explained in time, though- until then, you've got quite a bit on your plate already.

And why is that? Well, that may be because you're also surrounded by sharks.

Yes, on land.

It doesn't mean that they're totally incapacitated though- you still have your two headed sharks, your giant sharks, and your sharktopus that are more than capable of flopping in your general direction before taking you into a death roll. And don't forget the (far more dangerous) sand sharks, capable of swimming through the ground as if it were water itself. You might want to start to find a life raft high ground soon.

But hey, if you manage to get away from the sharks, feel free to help yourself to one of the odd food shaped blankets. These cozy comforters are perfect for your new bed, but they tend to carry a faint scent of the food they represent, so be sure not to sleep on an empty stomach!

Listen to the Jaws theme, grab a harpoon, and get cozy! On your way to safety, make sure to 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 February 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!

Comments

[drabsolutelynot]

"I would imagine not." He could go into details about vital organ punctures and the physical symptoms associated with bleeding out, but he keeps it to himself.

Rosen nods in agreement. "Do you know a way out of here?"

[foundafamily]

"So long as you're not hoping to get outta the cave completely, yeah. Come on."

He again scans the area to make sure the coast is clear, then he lopes off at a brisk but easy pace. He watches to make sure this guy is following.

"There's a town right outside this pile of junk, but most of it's just as banged up. We can leave this--" he kicks a pile of rubble to indicate the ruins immediately surrounding them. "--but nobody's actually left this place completely. Not by choice, anyway.

"So, sorry, but you're stuck here with the rest of us."

[drabsolutelynot]

Rosen's not entirely certain that he's even here to start with. Waking up in a colosseum filled with land sharks and octopus-shark hybrids smacks of the types of dreams associated with psychoactive drugs. Perhaps one of the institution's wardens slipped him something with his breakfast. It would be a field day for the DoD if they could finally confirm him as mentally unstable, so he wouldn't put it past them to be underhanded.

Or perhaps he finally has gone insane.

Yet even so he finds himself following the boy's lead, jogging after him while keeping an eye out for tail fins and tentacles.

"Not by choice?"

[foundafamily]

Firo shakes his head. "No way. You think anybody would wanna stay in a place like this?" It's better than Alcatraz in some respects, but that doesn't exactly say a whole lot. The gap in the colosseum walls spills them out onto a relatively quiet street. Firo stops by a ramshackle building that's in as much disrepair as everything else by this road. "Might be some food in here if you want some."

[drabsolutelynot]

"No, of course not. But you seemed to imply that, although no one has managed to leave of their own volition, some have left? Perhaps involuntarily?"

At the offer of food he instinctively shakes his head. In the chaos he's found that he's not really hungry.

"How long have you been here?"

[foundafamily]

Firo nods. At the dismissal of the food, he keeps walking. "Yeah. Sometimes people just disappear one day. You never see 'em again."

He runs his fingers through his hair. How long has it been? "I'm not exactly sure. Might be almost a year now. It all sorta runs together.

"So odds aren't good that you'll be getting home soon either."

[drabsolutelynot]

Rosen cants his head to one side, the wrinkles of his forehead deepening as he tries to stop a grimace at the blunt statement. "Well thank you for the pep talk"

"So you've been here a year? What...what on earth have you done with yourself in that time?"

What could someone do in a cave for over a year?

[foundafamily]

Firo has to think a moment. "Well, it's not like I have my job here or anything, so it's hard to keep track."

He doesn't like not having his routine, especially given as he's kept it the same more or less for about nine years. What does he do here? If he has to think about it, he's been embarrassingly unproductive--that is, when he's not getting roped into somewhat destructive evil plots. "There's a bar. And the people here aren't so bad, as long as you steer clear of the weird ones."

The lack of anything concrete in the answer might reveal more than he really wanted to.