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[initiates]

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! ]]

Comments

[survived]

I still don't know much about the moon base, but it doesn't sound like a normal machine. [Well, the least he can do is turn his head and look behind him. Hajime gets to lead the way!]

[dayplanners]

Moon base machines are probably really loud, but not like this! [She points at the ceiling again, before shrugging and moving past Shion. Come on, Whitey, follow her!!]

Maybe it's aliens! [she continues, voice cheerful.] I wonder what the aliens here are like. Do you think they'll wanna talk to us?

[survived]

Aliens? What kind of aliens?

[Honestly, he's not familiar with the imaginary creatures that most people think of. The moon has already been thoroughly explored, so any alien lifeforms would be known by now! Not to mention that simple bacteria and such wouldn't be able to talk. They're on two completely different wavelengths right now.]

[dayplanners]

Moon aliens! [she says, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. After a moment's pause though, she frowns, just for a moment, and seems to reconsider.]

Or from anywhere else in the universe! I don't know where the aliens I've met were from...

[Huh. Maybe she should have asked.]

They're still aliens!

[survived]

You've met them before?

[This girl is mystifying him more and more by the minute. He really doesn't have any idea what she's talking about, but since people are from different worlds here, all he can do is take it at face value.]

[dayplanners]

Yeah! [She doesn't even hesitate, only grins and nods.] They're my friends back home!

There's Pai Pai who looks like a panda... But D looks like a regular human! Those are my friends.

[survived]

So they're intelligent? [Didn't he come across a book in the underground room about something like that? Could that be what she means?]

[dayplanners]

Hmm? [A beat.] Yeah, they're really smart!

Pai Pai's our leader. [As if that explains everything.]

[survived]

[HE'S SO CURIOUS....]

I doubt we'll find anything like that here, but we can look if you really want to.

[dayplanners]

[She shrugs.] You can't know if you don't look! I bet there's lots of them hiding somewhere!

[A pause and she grins.] Some of them look just like us.