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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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[A nod.] Everything you know! What are the people like? Are there aliens?

[A pause... and she gasps!] Does anyone like arts and crafts here?

Everything I know is a lot! But yes, there are aliens, and most people here are very nice. Some aren't, though so you have to watch out for them!

[ She has to think on the latter, of course there has to be something, but she's trying to remember who she saw saying it most recently. ]

I know there are lots of people who like arts and crafts, I don't remember offhand, but if you ask around on the network you're sure to find a few people!

Got it! [She flashes the peace sign with her right hand, smiling and completely unconcerned.] There's aliens and bad guys here, too!

[At the answer to her last question though, she pauses, lowers her hand... and pulls out her tablet, quickly holding it up.]

With this, right? That's how I talk to everyone else, right? It's not the same as my phone, but it's cooler than any tablet I've seen before!

Yes! With that you can get on the network, where people talk to each other and share documents and all kinds of things! It's pretty easy to use, even if you're not good with computers, like me.

Ahhh! I get it, it's like old social networks! [Nothing like the more advanced one she's used too though, oh well!]

Thanks, thanks! IIIII think.... If we're all gonna be here, it's really cool of them to give this to us.

There's usually a lot more when you get here, better weapons, nicer housing, but being on the moon means there's less of everything. Sorry you had to get such a lame welcome, but maybe when we get back we can have one big welcome party for everyone who didn't get a good introduction!

[She gasps.] But being on the moon is so super cool and exciting! So we've got less of everything, it's still the moon!

[But, wait, wait, does that mean...] How else is it even more super cool and exciting on Earth?!

Well, there's...

[ Really awful weather? ]

Monsters! But they're not bad, they're kind of neat to look at! And a lot more space!

A lot more space... [She seems to consider this, very, very seriously consider this, before...] But we're in space!

[That doesn't make any sense at all, don't mind her.]

What are the monsters like though?

Well yeah but we can't use that space 'cause there's no air!

[ It totally makes sense. Lots of sense. Totally. ]

I guess they were all kinds of monsters though. Mutants and stuff, from all the radiation! One time there was a giant monster and it had a lot of little monsters living on it too, and I thought they were cute but nobody else did.

[...Oh. Point. Point, she's got a point!]

...You're right! There aren't any space suits, are there?

[Back to monsters though, monsters...]

Woooow! Why didn't they think they were cute? They probably were!

Well sure there are! Maybe. But no one wants to be in a space suit all the time.

[ But yes, monsters. ]

They were cute! In their own way! And even if they weren't it's not their fault for not being cute.

Yeah, yeah! They're just different. We probably look really ugly to them, too!

Aaaaahh, do you think I'll get to see some of them soon?!

Hopefully! That is what we are working towards. Though they might not be around anymore if we fix the island too much...

That's not fair to them! We should find somewhere for them to stay.

It's more like they... won't have ever existed to begin with! If that makes sense!

Huh?

[Wait a minute, wait a minute...]

Oh... Whoa! Is this that time travel thing?!

Yes, that's exactly it! It's a little hard to get used to, but at least we don't have to think about it too hard, not like the guys who make the machine work.

Ohhh, I get it!

Yeah, yeah, that sounds super extra complicated. It'd be nice to find out more about it, but I guess it's good I don't have to be a genius and all to do it!