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Date: December 1st
Location: The Observatory.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: New Transports arrive and are shuffled into the Observatory after their initial briefings.
Warnings: None.

Your arrival here has been very unceremonious. One second you were somewhere else, and now, very suddenly, your feet hit the glowing white of the Transporter pad, and you're here. You aren't alone, either. There's a crowd of others around you, each seeming just as bewildered, angry, or confused as you might feel. At the head of the group is a woman in purple robes, solemn and taciturn. She hurries over a quick overview of your intended purpose here, and gives direct answers when asked for them, but to most things she simply shows you how to access the tablet you've just been given, or tells you that the DITR's greeters will explain everything. On the tablet, you can find the history of this place and a record of what your new cohorts have experienced. Someone stands on hand to give you a weapon, and though the armory is now greatly reduced, you should be able to find something to suit you.

You're shepherded down a walkway tunnel and into the Observatory, where you will find screens mounted on three sides of the wide room; they show multiple variations of satellite images, focused on... somewhere snowy. It's difficult to say more than that, but those that record heat readings seem to suggest there are people there, where ever "there" is. It's night outside the great wide windows, and the lunar landscape isn't much to look at right now. But, hey, at least all the lights are on, right? No more creepy red emergency lighting upon arrival — not that you'd know anything about that.

You're free to explore the base, visit and use any of the VR rooms, or discover your new room and roommates, but try not to step out of any airlocks if oxygen is a requirement for your system.

Welcome to the moon base, and to the remains of Exsilium.

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Lee Ping | OTA

[manifestum]

[ So when you close your eyes for a few seconds while sitting in front of your computer, you sure don't expect to open them to find yourself in a completely different universe the next second. If this even is a completely different universe? The woman in purple seemed pretty adamant about that one, but recent events considered Lee finds it hard to take most people at face value these days.

At the same time, there aren't a lot of other explanations to whatever the heck just happened! Not a lot, but that doesn't mean there areno other explanations. While the moonscape and the impressive computer screens sure are convincing, Lee isn't really buying the idea that they're real, or the fact that this place is really called Exsilium.

He's known way too much for a long time so this has to be... ]

Coral Grove...? This has to be the place, doesn't it?

[ He seems completely unaware of the fact that he's speaking out loud as he paces back and forth in front of the screens featuring snowy landscapes. ]

[hotdate]

[Heath likes to see the new Transports arrive. Mostly for the free cookies (being deprived of them on his own arrival will never sit well with him, nuclear war or not) but also because he never knows if someone from home will arrive.

This guy sure isn't from home, but Heath will wander over all the same]

Nope, sorry dude, this is the moon.

[manifestum]

[ Woah! Another kid around his age? This guy doesn't go to Lee's school though. Lee would have remembered someone so... distinctive looking. And considering none of the brainwashing techniques work on him, he's pretty sure no one would have could have just made him forget another person... so that raises the question, are there other schools out there involved in the same whacked out experiments his school is?

He can't say he'd be surprised at this point if there are.

Give him a second, he's gotta glance around to make sure no one can hear them. And now that another person is there talking to him he's lowering his voice so no one can hear them--

REALLY, LEE? ]

You don't actually believe that, do you?

[hotdate]

[Monster High is an experiment in of itself, but the students, a little less so. Still, this guy is either crazy or a spy, Heath hasn't decided which yet. Still, he glances around surreptitiously, just in case it is the latter. But his comment makes Heath snort]

Unless I've dreamed like, the last two months of being stuck up here, yeah.

[manifestum]

[ Definitely not a spy. ... After everything he's gone through recently though he's gonna have to get back to you on the crazy. ]

Wait. You've spent the past two months on the moon? But did you actually ever go out on the moon moon? Not just sitting around inside this weird high tech looking bubble?

[hotdate]

...Uh...no. Not exactly. I kind of need oxygen to live and that isn't out there.

[manifestum]

[ Wow that was a painfully literal answer. ]

No, I mean, obviously yeah you need to breathe. Did you go out there in space suits? If this is really the moon then there have to be some around, right? You wouldn't be able to get here without them.

[duplicitoussight]

[And in comes the residential comic relief.]

Carol Grove? No way, no way. That doesn't fit at all. A more accurate name for it would be Moon Grove.

[manifestum]

[ Always needed in stressful situations like this one. Right now he's getting a blank look from Lee though. ]

Pretty sure that's not the name though.

[ This is Coral Grove, isn't it? It's gotta be... Maybe? ]

[duplicitoussight]

[He gives a short laugh.] Sorry, sorry then! But this place is nowhere near where you think it is. The moon's pretty far from Earth, y'know.

[manifestum]

[ Hesitating and looking over at the window that looks out across the moon's surface, before looking back at Kano. ]

There's no way this is actually the moon though, right? There's no way that's actually possible.

[duplicitoussight]

Do you wanna take a walk and find out?

[manifestum]

[ Squinting at this guy. He might actually, if he had a spacesuit on the off chance this really is the moon. ... But that also requires him to trust these people to give him a functioning spacesuit. He does not. ]

I think I'll pass.

[cradlerobs]

[Milla overhears him talking to himself and approaches. She's curious as to what he's talking about.]

What's Coral Grove? That's not familiar to me. [Neither is this entire place for that matter, but she's still butting in and being nosy. No manners what so ever with this woman.]

[manifestum]

[ In her defense Lee was talking out loud, and he doesn't even have any spirit buddies that he's chatting with. You can't really expect things to stay private when you're monologuing for the world to hear.

Or the moon to hear, in this case. ]

Apparently? The place they take people who know too much. And considering how lost I'm feeling right now, I think they made a mistake bringing me here.

[cradlerobs]

[He needs to get some spirit buddies, those guys are legit to hold conversations with. You know, giving their unwarranted opinions and all.]

Know too much about what? Is it the schism? Muzet did seem determined to erase anyone who knew of it.

[manifestum]

[ He's friends with a mythological creature that his high school uses as a mascot... does that count? Tatz doesn't talk much though. Except that one time Lee was hallucinating... ]

The what now? And who?

[cradlerobs]

[Not really, bro, they have to talk back. Hallucinations though...]

The schism. It's the barrier that surrounds Rieze Maxia. [She doesn't feel like talking about Muzet though.]

[manifestum]

[ He was sick. Like really, really sick. Don't judge him, his principal wouldn't let him go home. ]

Yeeeaaaah, I don't have any idea what you're talking about right now.

[ So she could blab away about Muzét and he wouldn't understand any of that either. ]

Re: Lee Ping | OTA

[alightlost]

I think they called it an observatory, not a grove.

[Seiya didn't mind the talking out loud. It was a common habit. She was trying not to chastise either; just make small talk.]

Whether they're observing us or the stars is the better question.

[manifestum]

[ He's pretty surprised that no one he's spoken to seems to know what Coral Grove is, but Lee's starting to get this weird feeling that maybe, just maybe, the completely whacked out explanation he was given when he first showed up might not actually be a lie. ]

You know, I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty sure Coral Grove isn't an actual grove either.

[ Sounded more like a prison, actually, but this doesn't look like a prison to him. ]

I'm also lso pretty sure that whoever brought us here aren't all that interested in star gazing.

[alightlost]

You never know - the two could go hand in hand.

[Seiya was almost positive now that this boy was just that - a normal boy somehow whisked away from Earth along with her. Or maybe she was the unintended kidnappee, but her ego was enough to assume that coincidences like that just didn't exist.]

At the very least- [She gestured a thumb at the reinforced glass.] It's quite the view.

[manifestum]

[ You might need a very loose definition of the world normal for Lee to fall under that category, but compared to a lot of the people that were dragged here? Yeah, he was sort of almost normal. He still considered himself mostly normal.

Definitely normal enough that it didn't make a lot of sense to him why someone would drag him to another world to help fight a war. ]

Yeah, it's that if nothing else. But honestly? I'm not really interested in star gazing right now myself. If this really isn't Coral Grove, then there's gotta be some halfway reasonable explanation for what's going on right now.

[alightlost]

[ But of course. The same could be said for Seiya, but she always carried herself differently anyway - egos will do that. ]

If there is a reasonable explanation, it's still not good enough for me. I don't appreciate being taken away from my work like that - not one bit. [She smirked.] And it isn't star-gazing either. You?

[manifestum]

Are you asking about my work, or if I appreciate being dragged here? Because if it's the first I hate to break it to you but I'm fifteen, so my only job is trying not to fall asleep during droning lectures for seven hours every day. If you mean the second, then no way! Obviously not. Who would?

[ Well... some weird people might, but they don't count. ]