hadriel_logs | It's Sushi Time!

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for August
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: August 10th-16th
Warnings: Murdercrabs for the murdercave. A delicacy!

It's early in the morning when you feel the telltale thud of hitting hard-packed earth. Whether you're used to the feeling or not, you'll probably have a bruise or two from hitting the ground, which is another way to say Welcome to Hadriel!

In our beautiful city of Hadriel, you can find many treasures and wonders, like the creepy cat clocks, or the baby face cuckoo clocks, or some dali clocks, or... well, they're all clocks, and lucky for you, they all have different times set on their hands!

Be careful not to spend too much time lingering around with the timepieces, as there are monsters afoot! You should be careful or you'll be overrun by war crabs! These mollusk-like creatures are several feet in diameter and a few hundred pounds, so be careful when dealing with them! They're also capable of utilizing their steam-powered machinery to launch rusty grenades and musket bullets at you- don't think that close range is a good idea either, as their sharp pincers can amputate entire limbs, and they're quicker than they seem.

You might want to get out of this place as soon as possible- maybe one of the other folks around you can lend a hand? Sure, they might be just as confused as you, but there's strength in numbers, after all!

After you've 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 August 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!

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[Magnus feels something slam into him from behind, and he whirls on a heel, heavy jousting lance at the ready, totally prepared to stab some crustaceans, but... Oh, shit. It's just a person.

Wait. Those ears look pretty pointy... If there's no elf in this lady, Magnus will eat his weird toe shoes. Which he doesn't particularly want to eat. He's pretty attached to them. They're comfy, okay.

Magnus tries not to think about the weird conversation he had with Lup during her arrival, and looks instead for what the newcomer must have been running from. Sure enough, there's one of those fucking crab things scuttling towards the both of them.]

Oh fuck.

[Well. He takes off running past her, straight towards the machine crab, lance at the ready. It realizes very quickly that he's just gonna run charging straight into it, and starts readying itself to shoot some bullets. Recognizing that, Magnus grabs a clock as he runs, and chucks it as hard as he can at the crab.

It overshoots completely. That was a sweet 5 he just rolled. Guess he's not proficient in throwing clocks.]

Uhh--

[The crab shoots him and he gets knocked right over onto his back. So much for playing hero.]

[Kyna doesn't have much time to react before this new, burly dude is sprinting towards the crab and then... utterly failing to hit it with a clock. Cool, cool. She doesn't move at all, because that strikes her as an absolutely terrible idea, and instead raises her hand again, electricity crackling along her fingers, but this time the spell creates a sustained arc. The crab shudders.]

Whack it already!

Yeah, uh, on it!!

[He groans and lifts himself back onto his feet. Thank god for these fighter maneuvers, am I right? He managed not to get his anywhere life threatening, but these things are way scarier than he gave them credit for. He should've brought a shield, is the thing.

He runs and finally reaches the creature, metal crab still recovering from the electric shock, and aims his lance at the thing's underbelly, where it looks slightly fleshier. This time, he actually manages to hit it with two quick stabs that grind against the metal and pierce rusty flesh.

The successive attacks of both electricity and some good good stabbing are enough to do it in. It screeches weakly and collapses.

Magnus takes the time to breathe, and looks down at where he was shot by the crab. Man. There's a hole in his shirt. Plus he's gonna have to go to the clinic again. This sucks. Thankfully, the musket bullet didn't hit much deeper than surface level -- he's got leather on underneath his shirt. It sure knocked the wind out of him, though, and he makes his way back to the part-elven wizard with much less energy than before. She's a wizard, right? Probably. There's too many different kinds of magic, but it looked like she was packing the sort of heat Lup does.

He salutes halfheartedly, smile sort of sheepish. He sure did fail to do much to save her ass. She ended up having to save his.]

Hey. Magnus Burnsides. You wanna get the fuck out of the proverbial fire pit?

[Wizard is a very safe guess, and by the time Magnus finishes off the crab, she's grinning. That was pretty impressive anyway.]

Kyna Midha, and fuck yes. What is this?

[Kyna crosses the arena towards him, and her smile fades when she spots the hole in his shirt.]

Are you okay?

Probably bleeding, but what else is new, right?

[He's the party tank. He takes the big hits.]

I've got some armor on, don't worry. I'll have it looked at later. I'll explain everything, but for now, you just gotta know that these guys won't follow us out of the colosseum.

[He gestures at her to follow him, and starts leading the way at a jog, taking the route that looks the most crustacean-free.]

[Kyna trots after him, frowning thoughtfully.]

This is fucking weird.

[Great observation, Kyna.]

I can heal you a little. I'm not like, awesome at it, but at least it won't hurt as much.

What? For real? I thought you were a wizard! God, this just figures, my cleric can't even heal when he is on speaking terms with his god and now people from other classes are showing him up.

[Clearly he can't be hurting that bad if he's able to mouth off about Merle rather than jump at the chance for a heal.]

I mean, yes please.

I am a wizard.

[Kyna digs into her jacket pocket and pulls out a gold necklace, the pendant shaped like the sun. She holds it up helpfully.]

A cleric gave this to me. It doesn't do a lot, but it's something I guess.

Well, who isn't?

[Besides him. Ignore him, he's got that good good envy.

But he does inspect the necklace after she produces it.]

Oh, yeah, magic items. Duh. I've operated so long on a dearth of them I forgot it was possible to just have stuff.

[Kyna casts prayer of healing, which gets a boost from the terrible, metallic gold winged heelys she's wearing.]

Why do you have a dearth of them? That sucks.

[He can feel his wounds closing up, and he sighs with relief.]

Oh. That's because I showed up here with nothing on me. Literally. Nothing on me.

[He was 100% nude and it sucked.]

All my good junk's at home and I'm stuck with whatever I can find here, which isn't much. I could ask one of the gods but I don't wanna owe them nothing.

It's Sushi Time!

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