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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! ]]

Comments

[bunnivore]

[ 'if you don't know him, then forget it'.

this is the first thing that goes through alice's mind but for some miraculous reason she does not actually say them out loud. god knows she really wants to but right now, as much as she did not want to admit it, she needed help. ]

Uh, he has blond hair, green eyes, and he looks stupidly happy most of all the time. [ that idiot. she looks a bit angry, but it is only because she's worried about him. ] And he's always running off without my permission.

1/2

[anklets]

[She hasn't seen evidence of that last point in... Mm. But it's enough. Oz's cheer had faded into slightly twisted smiles when he'd spoken to her of Baskervilles and crimes, and she's sure those bogeymen would hardly notice or care for his happiness or sadness so long as they caught him between their fingers.]

[anklets]

[ sllllowly: ] He isn't here right now.

[bunnivore]

What do you mean he isn't here right now?

[ at least this confirms that he's actually around. whoever this girl is, she knows him and therefore she was determined to make her find oz!

wait, why is oz hanging around this person she doesn't know anyways? ]

Hey, who are you?

[anklets]

[What's with that tone? Frowns, although it's only the uneasy, tense line of her shoulders which sets the expression apart from a pout.]

I'm his friend. [ firm ] We've been rooming together for quite some time now, and that's why I'm saying he isn't here. He's gone on a mission.

[bunnivore]

[ rooming together.

this upsets her, but keep in mind that she did get upset at ada for getting to close to oz during their reunion, and she's his sister! she pouts. ]

What about Seaweed Head? Is he with him too?

[anklets]

I'll need a proper name to say.

[Not unkindly, Lenalee isn't in the habit of being brusque to younger girls. Still, Road had tricked she and Allen both, and once had been enough, once had been more than enough.]

[bunnivore]

Raven.

[ there's this pause, because only she calls him raven. ]

People call him Gilbert. [ that sure was weird to say. ]

[anklets]

["People"...]

Gilbert is here.

[bunnivore]

[ oz, break, sharon... her list of people isn't very long. ]

Tell me where he is. [ rudely demands things is her life. ] I'll go find him.

[anklets]

[ sssssucks her teeth ] I'm not his keeper. Don't go running blindly about, either. It isn't safe right now.

[bunnivore]

I'm fine.

[ she scoffs first before flashing a confident smile. ]

I'll just kick them!

[anklets]

[A...

conspicuous glance at her feet.]

Will you? [ shakes her head, no, she's already tested that ] I don't think you understand. What's been set loose isn't something you kill; they're all zombies. They like to get back up again after you've knocked them down.

[bunnivore]

I don't know what that is.

[ she gives lenalee this long hard look of confusion. how can something get back up after you've killed them? none of that makes any sense to her. ]

[anklets]

[Everyone should all be so lucky. Smiles, tenuously, to which there is little humour, and wrings her fingers.]

It is when a corpse begins to move again, as though it had not died.

[bunnivore]

[ she's seen enough corpses in her lifetime to know that whatever lenalee was talking about is serious. at least she is able to get rid of the chains that eat people, those things are just as disgusting as corpses she would think.

corpses that don't die sounded... annoying.

she falls quiet, as if remembering something. ]

[anklets]

[It's a conscious effort to soften herself. She needs to be out there, every inch of her is buzzing for it. There are too many faces in here, nearly suffocating for their diversity, but very few are of particular import to her. How selfish.]

For that reason, [ she's choosing her words carefully, now, taking care with the silence this girl is giving her ] it's been advised to keep to housing until everything is under control. Should Oz return, I'm sure he'll [ tightly ] hurry there.

[ because he's without a weapon, a...ha ]

[bunnivore]

He better.

[ she mutters this, clearly not enjoying the logic being set down before her. she was worried enough, due to the fact they were basically having a three-way show down before she ended up here so she didn't need this on top of that too. she shuffles her feet, clearly a little uncomfortable. this might be the first time she's held an actual conversation with a stranger without her companions since she's met her usual circle.

there's this short pause before she adds: ]

I'll punish him if he takes too long.

[anklets]

[But logic is all Lenalee can wield with no monsters to put a boot to. She knows nothing about children, she grew up too quickly. And to her, that's what Alice is-- a child. One with sharp eyes.

But,] That's two of us, then.