( closed ) let it snow, let it snow, let it -- yeti?!

[initiates]

Date & Time: November 27th - December 5th, 3313
Location: Spaceshuttle, Winter Wonderland Exsilium
Characters: All those on the official scouting mission to Exsilium.
Summary: The Transports send down a collection of their own in order to investigate the whys of the sudden drop in radiation on the island, and to locate the Initiative.
Warnings: Please PM the mod account should anything in this log go into graphically violent territory.
Notes: You know the drill! Specify dates and times in subject lines, set up as many scenarios as you like, and for information on if a run-in with Exiles will net your character(s) a chance to talk with or make contact with the Initiative, ask over here!

The satellite imagery AI was able to capture and download onto tablets doesn't speak adequately to the pristine, chill landscape the space ship descends into under cloaking technology. The crystalline landscape is almost beautiful, stark brights and shadows turning the countryside into something soft, alien, and deadly. Winter has arrived, in a way some may be familiar with, and to others, may be entirely new.

The ship is a mile out from the largest identified gathering of heat signatures and power structures, in a city built over part of what once was London, formerly known as Exsilium to the Transports. There is no Eye of London to be found, only a partial tower that stands suspiciously close to where Big Ben once stood. The river Thames remains present, but the built up structures, the identifiers of "modern" Exsilium are all gone, lost and buried underneath the snows if ever they existed.

This is not a friendly landscape, though the people are friendly enough, should you not go out of your way to offend them or display your alien natures.

Find the Initiative. Take stock of the landscape. Report back what you can. Scouts, you are our best hope in understanding this new landscape.

Good luck.

Comments

27th: Arrival

[icy_heavens]

[This is probably the most relaxed anyone in Exsilium has ever seen Hitsugaya. But as he's in his regular clothes, you wouldn't think he's thought to dress for the weather.

[He takes a breath of the open air, looking more comfortable than he has in months. The whisper of snow under his feet, the brisk wind snapping at his sleeves, the deep chill that's settled over the land . . .

[It's a serious mission, and he'll of course treat is as such. But for the moment, he's just going to appreciate the open expanse and the pleasantness of winter. It's been too long.]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

[Nate raises an eyebrow at the way the young man is dressed, because he'd have thought anyone picked for this mission would at least have the common sense not to freeze to death from his point of view]

Sure you're going to be warm enough?

[icy_heavens]

[Freeze to death. It'd be laughable if Hitsugaya were more inclined to such a thing. He is in fact exercising plenty of common sense here. And it's a testament to how much this environment soothes him that he doesn't even scowl at the question.]

I am, in actuality, more than comfortable as I am.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

Well, if you're sure. [Nate doesn't sound that certain but that's because 99% of the people he knows aren't immune to frostbite]

[icy_heavens]

Quite certain. If cold could harm me, then I'd have irreparably injured myself with my own abilities quite some time ago. [Welcome to death gods with ice weapons, Nathan.]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

...Ah. Ice powers, I take it? [hey, he knows a guy who can turn into ice! But just one, so not exactly a common skill to him]

[icy_heavens]

Correct. [Among other powers, but that's the only one relevant to this discussion.]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

My apologies, then. Not too common a power in my world. [There's Bobby and... Bobby, basically]