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Date: November 1st
Location: The Observatory.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: New Transports arrive and are shuffled into the Observatory after their initial briefings. The zombie plot will not spill over into this area, this area is safe and unaffected! To face zombies, characters must leave the area, and please move to the event log with those threads.
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 — 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. It's night outside the great wide windows, and the lunar landscape isn't much to look at right now; the only lighting comes from dull red emergency lights, but there are… noises. Listen carefully. Over the voices of your fellow Transports, now and then you might catch the sound of a scrape, or a low and muffled cry. It doesn't sound human. Are there animals up here?

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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Good. [Her expression is like an old woman's who's finally seen something she approves of in this darned generation. That blinks away quickly, though, in favor of something more wide-eyed and soft-faced, as she finally starts to nibble at a crumbled piece of cookie.] You've been here some time?

[Sounds like small talk, but she's starting to think of this whole thing more academically, and when you want to know something, you might as well ask straightforward questions.]

Over a year now, yeah.

[He's here to answer questions, so that's fine with him.]

[A year may not be a very long time, but that honestly sounds awful.]

I want to go home. Do you want to go home?

[He smiles sadly when she says she wants to go, but honestly:]

No. I like it better here.

[Nodding, nodding. She'll file that away for later. Then she waves a cookie at him.] I'm looking for someone. If you have been here for that amount of time, you must know many someones. He's taller than I am but his hair is like mine. He wears glasses. He has an idiot's smile. Since I was right next to him before I came, I'll be irritated if I can't find him. So, did you see anyone like that around?

Not yet, but he mighta got here with the latest wave. I'll keep a lookout. He like your brother or something?

[Brother... Gross........]

No. But we don't usually go places without one another. If you see a person like him, and he acts annoyingly pleasant, it's probably him, so you can say, 'Shijima and Shiratama are looking for you.'

[She licks her fingers, to get all the crumbs.]

Did you make these, by the way?

[He mouths Shijima and Shiratama silently, memorizing it before he nods.]

Oh, uh - Yeah, some of 'em. It was a bunch of us got together last night to make 'em.

[Jesse, that's adorable.

She seems to take that as a sign that she should eat them more voraciously.]

Good. [There are crumbs on her chin. No manners.] Being annoyed like this makes me so hungry. I'm glad you're all so lively. Good job.

[Not in any position to judge someone's manners.]

Um, thanks. Eat at much as you want.

Yep. [She's already decided that that's definitely her next course of action, and busies herself with more of them, seemingly caring to shut up for now. A moment later, though, she says over her shoulder,] I'll remember it, cookie guy. [Solemnly, like he's done her a favor.]

[He's sheepish.]

It's no big deal.