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[initiates]

Date: January 1st 8th
Location: The Transporter building.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: New Transports arrive and are shuffled through their initial briefings. Then... out into the cold?
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. You're guided through the armory and given a weapon, and though the armory is now greatly reduced, you should be able to find something to suit you.

You're currently in a large multi-roomed warehouse, graciously granted by the cagey and suspicious remains of the organization known as the Initiative. They don't know you or trust you, but they've given you leave to set up camp in one of the warmer corners of this building until you find a place of your own. And if you want to leave right now, step into the driving winter winds and never look back? Well, friend, you can be their guest.

Outside you'll find the wintery village of Exsilium, with most of its buildings permanently buried in snow and ice. There are tunnels underground to connect neighbor to neighbor to marketplace, and most of the people here use them, but you'll still see people braving the above ground weather here and there for a more direct route. They hardly glance at you, should you venture out among them — unless you don't look human. That hologram emitter the greeter pressed upon anyone non-human on arrival? Yeah, consider that very important to maintain good relations of any kind.

Welcome to the current reality of Exsilium.

Comments

[fintastic]

[ Feferi is mostly sticking to her table, trying to make sure that everyone who comes by and needs help gets it, and also trying to keep the stock list up to date, just to make things easier. But at some point she has to get up and stretch her legs, and what better excuse to do it than to try and get to some of the wallflowers?

She takes a spare blanket with her, and finds one huddled against the wall and, wordlessly and without permission, opens the blanket to drape it over him. She's quick about it, and doesn't wait for any protest-- he just looks like he could use a blanket, and nothing more. ]

There. That's better, isn't it?

[bertall]

_{[What -- oh. It's just a blanket. He... wasn't really expecting that to come out of nowhere.]}

Huh? Oh, um... Yeah...

_{[He lifts his head up to look at the stranger, ready to thank them but he just ends up staring instead.]}

...U-Um... You... Uh...

[fintastic]

Yes? Me?

[ She knows what he's probably going to say, but sometimes it's better to let them come to it on their own. She sort of feels bad for him, he did look pretty miserable. ]

[bertall]

You have, uh...

_{[How does he even say this without coming off as rude? UH... Okay, let's... just try and vaguely make fins on his own face here--wait, no that's pretty bad too. Crap.]}

Y-You're not human...

[fintastic]

Horns? Fins? Gray skin? All of the above? I know!

[ She doesn't stop smiling. Not even a little. ]

I'm a troll. I don't bite though! Not usually.

[bertall]

A troll...?

_{[Oh dear, now he's sweating more :c BITING KILLS THE MAN, FEFERI.]}

Usually?

[fintastic]

Not when it's humans, at least. Too squishy, and they don't seem to like it very much.

[ She shrugs, like she's talking about something as harmless as pinching. ]

Don't be scared.

[bertall]

Of course we wouldn't like it!

_{[FEFERI......]}

H-How can you expect me to not be scared?

[fintastic]

Easy! There is nothing to be scared of! You are perfectly safe here.

[ It makes sense to her, okay! ]

[bertall]

But you just said--!

_{[Fef you're going to kill him look at him here he's going to drown in his own sweat!]}

I-I don't want you to bite me! O-Or anyone for that matter!

[fintastic]

I'm not going to bite you! Why would I do that?

[ She will bite whoever else she wants though! ]

[bertall]

<sub>I don't know...

[cries why isn't Reiner here to bail him out of this]</sub>

[fintastic]

So then there you! No biting.

[ She doesn't even get it, why is this such a big deal? ]

What else can I help you with? You look a little lost over here.

[bertall]

S-Sorry...

_{[Because titans.]}

...I-It's not far from the truth, really.

[fintastic]

Okay. So what's one thing you need right now? Let's start off simple and we can take it one step at a time.

1/2

[bertall]

Reiner! He's my--

2/2

[bertall]

...He's my best friend and we were in trouble before I came here... I-I don't know if he's here, let alone where to even start looking.

[fintastic]

Okay, okay. Well first let me tell you that he is right where you left him. That is, the way the transporter works, you don't have to worry about him noticing you are gone.

[ She reaches into... well, hopefully he's just not looking close enough to see that she reaches into seemingly nowhere and pulls out her tablet. ]

How do you spell his whole name? We can find out if he is here!

[bertall]

...He'd notice. H-He'd have to. <sub>We were supposed to go back together...

[Okay yeah thinking about that right now wasn't doing him any good, so he's going to pick at some invisible lint off of the blanket. He's finding it pretty hard to look Feferi in the eye right now if only because he's sure he was tearing up already.]</sub>

R-e-i-n-e-r. I-If it goes by last name, then it's b-r-a-u-n. _{[He glances up a bit to steal a look at the tablet, his brows furrowing.]} I-I don't know how to use that.

[fintastic]

[ She starts navigating down the contact list but stops to take a seat next to him properly. ]

Here, I'll show you. There's a list of everyone here, in the contact list, and if someone is on it, that means they're here! And if they were not... well, then they're not!

[bertall]

So I might not see them again?

_{[He scoots over a bit to give her some space, but not far enough so he couldn't see over her shoulder.]}

...Does it have pictures of them too? Or just names?

[fintastic]

Just the name! At least on this part. If they posted videos, then you can see them, but I don't think it has pictures by default... look, here!

[ She points at the screen. ]

This is where his name would be, if he was here, but it's not!

[bertall]

_{[...Huh, well now that's spiffy. It's totally fine if he takes that space back so he could get a closer look, right?]}

...Would his name show up if he appeared? Or would he have to, uh, 'post videos' for it to work? _{[A beat.]} Um... A-Actually, what's a video?

_{[Bert you poor thing.......]}

[fintastic]

His name would show up if he arrived, yes! --you've never seen a video before?

[bertall]

...No. I, um... I've never seen half of the things here before.

_{[Trolls included, obviously.]}