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[initiates]

Date & Time: Evening, 10th February 3312
Location: Transport Room
Characters: Open To All
Summary: Everyone is brought into the transport room at roughly the same time, in a great succession and flow of imported individuals. Everyone is being lead around in small bundles, or left to their own devices together inside the Initiative Hold.
Warnings: None.

Widespread and crowded, everyone is being transported into this unusually bright room with an efficiency that is almost horrifying. One after the other, new people are appearing -- being led, shown around and then ultimately abandoned with one final phrase; "Good luck."

The Initiative Hold is wide, like a small town in its depth and industry. You've received your weapon; you've got your keys, your netbook, and one of those robed strangers has shoved a small pouch full of what you can only assume is money into your open palm. You've been given an apartment, but where on earth -- are we on earth? -- is it? Your best opportunity right now is to mingle; at least, that's what everyone else appears to be doing. Those strangers in the robes have left. They're tending to the people who are arriving, one by one and in a quick procession. Energy bustles all around you, as you're strapped up with your sudden gifts and looking around.

Hey, maybe you'll even see some familiar faces.

Comments

[mesovortice]

"Weirder movies have been made," John shrugs, not that Bariyan can really tell. "Though I liked the movie. Most movies are pretty awesome. What's your favorite?" Because obviously he likes movies-- it's weirder to think that someone doesn't, nevermind the idea of never actually having seen one.

[stonefaith]

"Er," Bariyan says. He thinks he sees someone turn a corner ahead of them and goes that way. "I've never seen a full one, actually. I don't there's many movies back, uh, home. Where I'm from."

He switches the subject back to John. "Where are you from, anyway?"

[mesovortice]

"Oh, man. That sucks." John is a bit deflated, but when he asks him a question he grins again at full force. "I'm making you watch movies with me sometime, got it? There's nothing better than a good film. And I'm from the US! On Earth, if you're not from that planet."

[stonefaith]

"Ah... sure," Bariyan says, not really sure what the implications of his agreement are. But he'd have hated to say no.

Earth? "Can't say I've heard of it," he says. "What's it like there?"

Housing. Right. Still looking for that. Bariyan wishes they'd got a map of this place and hopes they're not just getting themselves lost in circles.

[mesovortice]

You have no idea what you just signed yourself up for, Bariyan. B movies, b movies everywhere.

"Oh man," John thinks for a minute, and replies slowly: "It's like... it's pretty huge. There are so many places and climates and just stuff that I can't actually pin it all down in a way that doesn't take ten years to say. It's probably the same for your place, right?"

[stonefaith]

"Hm. Yes, I suppose so." Bariyan guesses he's not surprised that whatever alternate world John is from, it'd be much the same as his own. Especially given that he and John both look basically human.

The door they just passed by has a room number on it. Bariyan stops, and then crouches in order to let John off his shoulder.

"These might be the apartments," Bariyan says. "There's a chance that Jade's already here?"

[mesovortice]

John hops off lightly, and looks up and down the hall. "Yeah, they look pretty... apartmentish. And probably! I'm gonna go put my stuff away in my room." He's fiddling around in his hood and finding his keys.

[stonefaith]

Bariyan grins down at John, though the expression has an automatic edge to it. "What room? You think you can find it?"

While waiting for an answer, it occurs to Bariyan that he's really, really hoping that this kid finds his sister. He just... seems so nice and naive and completely not safe alone.

[mesovortice]

"207," John is saying as he turns the keys over in his hands. He smiles. "I think I can find it. It should be up this way. It was fun meeting you and stuff, and don't think I'll forget about the movies."

[stonefaith]

207. Right. Bariyan commits that to memory.

"All right, I won't forget. I'm in... 202, I believe. Shouldn't be far. Drop by if you need anything," Bariyan says, and he starts to leave, heading back the way they came.

He stops a couple steps away. There he turns to say, "I'll keep an eye out for your sister, too. I'm... sure we'll find her." That done, Bariyan salutes John and continues on his way.