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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-26 09:45 pm

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

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.
imperfectness: (okay it's not supposed to do that)

[personal profile] imperfectness 2013-11-28 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
A) [Carlos isn't much of a stranger to the cold. The weather in Night Vale was often mercurial, but, being in a desert, nights were often cold.

Still, he's bundled up in a coat, gloves, and a knit cap. And yes, he still has on his lab coat (which can be seen keeping out from underneath the outer coat).

He has a Geiger counter, and he gives a low whistle.]


Yeah, seems like it's mostly safe out here.

B) [Actually inside the city, Carlos wraps his hands around a small cup of weak tea, wishing he had rum or something to add to it. He takes a sip.]

So I guess we start looking, huh?
keep_smiling: (wink)

B

[personal profile] keep_smiling 2013-11-28 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Elmer is all over the place, excited to explore a new place and meet the new(ish) people of the new(ish) Exsilium. The cold weather hasn't slowed him down at all.]

Right! We need to be able to act like locals, though. Even though we have no idea what locals act like. So our first step is... observation, I suppose!

A

[personal profile] jackanope 2013-11-28 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
U-Um, are you sure, Mr. Carlos?

[Joy disembarked shortly behind him, holding in her hand-paws the small device that would give her a holographic disguise while scouting. Her big eyes dart around at the vast white environment around them, and her feet fidget beneath her in the cold. Maybe she should have brought even more clothes - this might not be enough.]

Do you think there are any, uh... mutated... mutagenous... mutant-sauruses?
lucency: (❝ ᴛʜᴇ sᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ ɢᴀʀᴅᴇɴ.)

b.

[personal profile] lucency 2013-11-29 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
But where? [ she's got a similar cup of tea, and she takes a sip. she doesn't need alcohol in it, necessarily, and it's a nice relief from the cold, but belle just wishes for a tiny bit of sugar, honestly. ] I know what we're supposed to be looking for but - where do we even start? [ she laughs. ]
encharrneered: (thinking > no explanation)

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[personal profile] encharrneered 2013-11-30 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Conflict between speaking with a human or walking away without asking what that little contraption is. Which, which is worse? Which?

Well.

Obviously not knowing what the counter is, because Rinth eventually decides to stop giving Carlos a wary look and actually approach to point at what he's holding.
]

Yeah? And what's that telling you that you'd know?
oldsoldiersneverdie: (downcast)

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[personal profile] oldsoldiersneverdie 2013-11-30 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah - give me a second, I can maybe get us a direction to start in at least.
highfrequency: [human] (→ 5)

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[personal profile] highfrequency 2013-12-04 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
[OOC: Hope you guys don't mind me dropping Raiden into an existing thread for the sake of organization]

Copy that. Once we have a direction I'll start scanning in AR.