here they talked of revolution, here it was they lit the flame

[initiates]

Date: October 1st
Location: The Observatory.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: New Transports arrive and are shuffled into the Observatory for the show of the year. Initial briefings are very brief this time around, and that Greeter just won't stop crying.
Warnings: new confused people and old sad people??

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, with eyes red as if she'd just finished crying. 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. There, you can find the history of this place and a record of what your new cohorts have experienced — although it won't have Network access for another 8 hours. 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. The only lighting comes from dull red emergency lights, and the scenes of a dreary, rainy city from various cameras up on the screens; the largest of the screens opens up to a view of Earth from a good distance away -- this one isn't a screen at all, you might realize, but a window. As you watch, all screens in the room fill with light, impossibly bright. It consumes the buildings, the people, everything. There is no sound played, perhaps mercifully, only that white light -- and then nothing.

Through the large window, there's a pinprick of light over one of the landmasses on the blue planet. It grows to a tiny blossom and then dies away, but a cloud begins to mushroom outward in the same spot. It pushes the natural clouds out of the way, claiming that small portion of the world and wrapping it in a uniform gray.

Strings of numbers begin to fill the blanked out screens as the base's AI begins collecting data and calculations, but the show seems to be over. 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, with front row seats to the grave of Exsilium.

[[ooc; reminder! The Network will be down for 8 hours after the wave of new Transports.]]

Comments

what a bootyful destiny...

[rewarded]

[It's your lucky day, Wingul, because you've managed to catch the attention of one (1) eldritch mommy...!!

Which is to say, she's going to stop right before turning a corner in order to glance back at him. Here's to hoping whatever he has to say is interesting enough, because she doesn't want her good mood to go down the toilet. Although, watching a whole nation go up in the sky probably isn't something that should put someone in a good mood.............]

Yes?

[ebonwing]

[ Lucky day indeed... first he dies, then he gets kidnapped, then he meets Not-Cthulhu!!! ]

That world down there... do you know the name of it?

[ He's looked through his tablet thing kind of, but as he's never heard of most of the places named there, he wants to make sure by actually talking to someone in the same situation as him. ]

[rewarded]

[Let it be known, she totally going to be looking at him with the most incredulous look on her face for all of 0.5 seconds. Isn't this something they teach in kindergarten??? Or at least someone should have pointed it out if he's from another world, man. This ain't her job.]

Yeah, that's Earth. It's usually not this ugly looking, though.

[USUALLY.]

[ebonwing]

[ RUDE separate worlds are a big deal to him!!!!!!!

Earth, though... he's never heard of a place called Earth. He knows what earth is of course, but he's also pretty sure that nothing in Elympios mentioned an 'Earth' either. ]

Are you talking about the explosion?

[ Yeah tbh the Lance made a nicer looking explosion... ]

[rewarded]

[WOW WHAT A LOSER.]

Well, I don't see anything else screwing up the view.

[That would be a yes, even if this could hardly be called having a view. At least she's trying to think positive????]

[ebonwing]

[ It's true he is a loser. ]

Do they usually welcome new arrivals with such finesse?

[ His sarcasm. It's obvious. ]

[rewarded]

No. They usually throw them out to the rain, but you got lucky. Aren't you happy?

[Right back at u, my dude.]

[ebonwing]

Yes, I would not want that.

[ Explosions or rain?! ]

Do you know of a place called Rieze Maxia?

[ He just needs to check. ]

[rewarded]

Nope. Never heard of it. [Accompanying that with a shrug.]

I'm guessing that's where you're from, though.

[ebonwing]

You're correct.

[ If he was taken from the middle of the game, this entire "unfamiliar worlds" thing would be shocking. As it is, Xillia covers that pretty well... enough that he's a bit unsettled, but not in complete disbelief.

He then gives her a side look. ]

I'm going to guess that you get conversations like this often.

[ He purposely used guess... rude, Wingul. ]

[rewarded]

[Alas, she's 100% rude assbutt proof. It comes with being a rude assbutt, yourself.]

Good guess. You'll get them, too, once you stick around long enough.

[Girl, you've only been here for a month...]

[ebonwing]

[ Assbutt group represent. ]

How long will that be?

[ He's a bit disgruntled at that — he's supposed to be... well, not in the shape he's in now. It's really too good to be true in a way. ]

[rewarded]

Give it a month. Or two. It's how long I've been here, anyway. [One month, she means, not two.

But he doesn't have to know that.]

[ebonwing]

[ He makes a soft snorting noise. HE DOESN'T REALLY HAVE ANY REASON TO NOT BELIEVE HER so "a month or two" it is. ]

I can see why it would get tiring.

[ Honestly though, underneath all of the crap inside of him, he's still a really good person who wants the best for people. So he'll probably help out... but he can understand the idea of getting tired of it. ]