[intro log] we're beary pleased to meet you!

[hadrielmods]

Who: New arrivals - everybody!
What: Welcome to Hadriel. Enjoy the bears.
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: October 10th-17th
Warnings: Bears, made of bear meat. Possibly bear attacks. General confusion.

You awaken on the sandy ground of the colosseum. Its half-ruined walls rise around you, stretching up to the sky - or what passes as the sky, as instead of blue sky and clouds you'll only see a rocky ceiling far above, with a bright source of light illuminating the cave.

Where are you? What are you doing here? Who are all these other people? Pressing questions, but far more pressing right now are the giant, hungry dire bears who seem to have appeared here along with you, and who are now waking up as well. And boy, do they not seem happy about it.

Once you've fought, run away, or successfully hid from the bears, you've got an entire city to explore. Sure, a lot of it is in ruins and it's totally empty, except for you, your fellow arrivals, and the bears, but there's things to be found and stuff to investigate. You can even find a house to live in if you're one of those fancy types who prefers not to sleep on the streets.

Unfortunately, one thing that can't be found at first is food. Hopefully you brought some with you or you managed to kill a bear or two, because the city is entirely empty of food until the 13th of October, when you will awaken to a gift of food on your doorsteps. Some of it might be strange-looking and alien, but hey, at least it's edible, and you didn't even have to kill anything to get it! Someone's feeling generous. After this, food and other items will be able to be found in the various stores around the city, though if you're looking for something specific, you might not have any luck.

Not long after, on the 15th, the electricity in the houses - and the rest of the restored parts of the city - will sputter to life. Hopefully you're not too near any lights or outlets when that happens, because there's a fair chance of exploding bulbs and sparks flying. At least you can turn the lights on now, though!

So now you've got food and electricity, the bears are all either dead or have fled into the caves around the city (you didn't go too far in there, right?). Things are looking up! Except for the whole 'trapped in an alien city, what the hell are we doing here' thing. But that's probably not important, right?

► This log covers October 10th-17th.
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Comments

[zen_en_vert]

Tell one of my friends. Steve and Tony are here, and they're good people. They'll be able to come after me, and know what to do in the aftermath, which can be- physically hard.

[casperdisaster]

Run away, call Steve or Tony.

[Noah gives a sort of definitive nod. Both of those things do not require a whole lot of courage, so they are things Noah can do. He looks around at the sort of debris scattered everywhere. Whatever this city went through it was a doozie.]

... Look on the bright side, you probably won't be able to make things much worse.

[zen_en_vert]

[Bruce actually laughs, giving him a quick, sideways glance and a grin.]

That, I'm afraid, is entirely true.

[casperdisaster]

[Noah smiles shyly, feeling pleased to have gotten a laugh from Bruce, he strikes Noah as a guy who doesn't laugh as often as he needs to.]

Um, I make things cold if I get upset. Me. Things around me. Ghosts, cold spots. Even with the living body and all...

[zen_en_vert]

You've noticed that happening here.

[Which brings him to something interesting;]

So you were incorporeal, and now you're not?

[casperdisaster]

Oh, it was bad when I first woke up in the body after seven years without one - I was someplace else and like on a train? I turned that into a fucking ice box I was freaking out so bad. [The profanity sounds kinda weird coming from him, he's just so unassuming and nonthreatening, he doesn't seem like the type to swear. He sighs.] I mean like - I could sort of touch things okay, I looked alive if you didn't know what you were looking for - on the good days anyway.

[zen_en_vert]

The afterlife is a train?

[That seems weirdly allegorical, somehow.]

Okay- do you think you could be specific with that kind of ability? It'd be great if you could use it.

[casperdisaster]

Nah, well, they said it wasn't the afterlife there. And my friends were there with me before we came here and they aren't dead. [Yet.

Noah sighs and shuffles his feet a bit at the question of if he could be specific.]

The - the being cold thing?

[zen_en_vert]

Yes. Is it purely involuntary, or if you focus now, can you make it manifest?

[He can't help but be curious, as someone who has learned to use his own emotional reactions to his advantage.]

[casperdisaster]

[Noah shakes his head sadly.]

It's just a reaction. When I get scared enough or upset enough it just ... happens. Whether or not I want it to.

[zen_en_vert]

I guess the most you could do then is slick up wet pavement, and try to bring one of those bears down with black ice, and that's quite the gamble.

[casperdisaster]

... I'd rather not be bear-bait.

[Noah is kind of a coward, okay. And he's never really tried... weaponizing his abilities before. He's not sure he wants to.]

I'd probably just screw it up and trip myself.

[zen_en_vert]

Good reason to practice, if you can. In situations like this place, people end up- there will be dangerous parts ahead. In my experience.

[casperdisaster]

I think I'd just freeze up. Uh.

No pun intended.

I'm kind of a coward.

[zen_en_vert]

Oh, nonsense. I've seen you getting a cut doctored, you're braver than most.