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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.

[[ ooc; As a note for players of current characters: please keep your root comments confined to the various groups and organizations that set up root comments to greet new characters! We highly encourage tagging around here, but since it's a log meant for new characters specifically, we ask that they be the ones to set up root threads to the entry. Thank you, and happy playing! ]]

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Ashraf Salib | OC

[highhealplz]

[ Today Ashraf is the lazy one, sprawled in a seat behind the table and looking generally good-natured, jovial, and perfectly happy right where he is. He'll lean forward to engage anyone that wanders near ("Lollypop?" or "Hey! How's the moon for you so far?"), and there's never a smile far from his face.

That is, until they get news about the zombie part. Then he loses the smile and disappears pretty fast, off to go find the fighting. ]

[maipokerface]

[The offer of a lollipop just draws this tight, annoyed look from one particularly dark-haired and crimson clothed young woman.]

... Why are you offering candy?

[highhealplz]

[ The good humor refuses to budge in the face of teenage moodiness, and he keeps right on smiling. ]

Why not? [ A beat, and he adds: ] Well, technically they're for filling out a medical form, but we're pretty lenient around here.

[maipokerface]

Because this isn't a field trip and I'm not five.

[Now she turns her attention to the stack of said medical forms, plucking one up to peer over it.]

[highhealplz]

Aw, that's hardly fair to yourself. Candy's for any age!

[ He leans forward over the table onto his elbows, glancing over the form she's looking over — like he doesn't know exactly what it says already. ]

It's pretty basic information, but still good for us to have on hand. [ And, thoughtfully: ] Do you have magic in your world?

[maipokerface]

Not really. There's bending but there's no magic in that.

[Frankly she wasn't interested in filling out a form, not in her annoyed state, but the question on magic was enough of a distraction to have her standing there eyeing this paper like she was trying to decide what words were.

Finally she offers a low sigh like she's been suffering for days.]

Do you have something to write with?

[highhealplz]

Oh—yeah! [ He scrambles around on the table for a second before coming up with a pen, triumphant, and handing it over. ]

Bending — that's what Korra does, I think. Do you know her?

[maipokerface]

[The pen earns a dubious look for a brief second as she takes it. She's used to brushes after all.

Then she lays the paper against the table to fill it out, talking as she does so.]

No.

[Scratch, scratch, scratch. A few lines filled out and she adds.]

I don't know many benders personally, beyond firebenders. I know of a waterbender, an earthbender and an airbender.

[Knows of but doesn't really know them. They're Zuko's friends, not hers.]

[highhealplz]

Well, I'm sure she'll be happy to add another waterbender to your list. [ He smiles brightly, but pauses and adds: ] I think she's working on the other elements. I'm not too clear on that, though. I mostly just help with the meditation part.

[maipokerface]

She can't. Only the Avatar can do more than one kind of bending.

[It's stated matter of factly and with this she straightens up, handing over her medical sheet. No last name, no illnesses, no allergies or any such. There's really nothing remarkable about her history at all.]

[lazyinlove]

What?

[Free candy has been known to lure teenage stoners from time to time, but this one is far more out of it than usual. He's shirtless and shoeless, any 7-11 in the universe would kick him out. Besides, he's holding onto the wall for support. Maybe you shouldn't have engaged him in conversation, bro.]

The moon...?

[highhealplz]

[ Son, he knows you. (Vaguely.) The moon comment wasn't aimed at Stanley, but he's happy enough to engage him. The dude looks a little lost. ]

Still the moon, yep. [ He smiles and waves a hand toward him, calling down a blessing onto Stanley. It comes with its usual brief blue glow, and should leave him feeling energized and strengthened. ] Should I be welcoming you back?

[lazyinlove]

[Well, that does something. He lets go of the wall and stares at his hands for a moment, confused by them. No way he just saw what he thought he saw. But he feels kind of...buzzed. Like an adrenaline kick or something. It's a weird mix with all the downers, but it's not unpleasant.

The thing about the moon is, though. His eyebrows go up, and the corners of his mouth turn down for a moment. He squints a little, trying to decide if a magic elfy kind of dude just hit him with lightning or not. Because that would be weird.]

But that was just a bad dream...

[highhealplz]

[ He smile fades, and he shakes his head slightly. ]

No, it wasn't a bad dream. I'm sorry.

[lazyinlove]

Oh.

[Right here looks like a good place to sit down. So he does. Hard.

Give him a minute, here.]

[highhealplz]

[ He's up quickly, and crouched at Stanley's side to set a hand at his shoulder even sooner. ]

We've got chairs, you know. Want one?

[lazyinlove]

Chairs. Okay.

[Stanley answers, though he doesn't get back up to take a seat in one. He does, however, give the hand on his shoulder a curious glance. The touch confuses him a little, but it doesn't seem to bother him. He doesn't make any attempt to shrug it off.]

I, uh. I'm in the way. Sorry. The floor just...

[highhealplz]

You're not in the way. [ He smiles softly. ] You can stay here, if you want. But a chair would be more comfortable.

[ He offers out a hand, palm up, to lend Stanley a hand up. It's not an insistent hand, though; it's refuseable. ]

[lazyinlove]

[Stanley doesn't refuse, though. He takes the hand up, easily and naturally. He's probably the kind of guy who finds himself unexpectedly on the ground from time to time.

He frowns a little, once he's on his feet again.]

You laser tagged me.

[braavado]

[Booooooored. She is so bored, and she looks it. Korra hasn't been helping out at the clinic for long, and the paperwork still makes her wrinkle her nose in distaste. There aren't many options when she can't heal with her waterbending, so Korra's been stuck with some of the menial tasks.]

How many people actually fill out the forms? And why are there so many questions on here?

[She snags one of the lollypops from the pile. Got to keep herself busy somehow.]

[highhealplz]

[ Ashraf answers patiently as always, although he keeps his eyes on the milling crowd outside of their table. Gotta be ready to snag a newbie, man. ]

Not as much as we'd prefer, and because we really, really like asking questions. We're good at it.

[braavado]

Do they really help?

[She eyes the pile dubiously. Living in the compound, and then with Tenzin, has it perks, she guesses. Someone's always come to her if she needs help, not the other way around.]

What if they just make some stuff up when they fill them out?

[highhealplz]

Not much we could do about that. [ He shrugs lazily. ] But it's for their own good, so it's definitely not in anyone's best interest to make up stuff.

[braavado]

[She drags one of the questionnaires over and reads it over, her eyes getting kind of wide when she sees some of them.]

Yeesh, these are really thorough. Who the heck remembers all this stuff?

[highhealplz]

Kirian does. [ He grins. ] He might be about the only one, though.