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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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That's the best news I've heard all day. [ Or in the last hour, however much time has passed. ] Always preferred traveling to staying still. You ever go anywhere interesting?

Uruguay, Russia, France... Nazi Germany, once. And once we all went to this beach way back in dinosaur times, like all Jurassic Park.

Wow. Non-stop fun and relaxation then, it sounds like. Here I was just picturing... Mexico.

[No, Mexico is not fun.]

The beach thing was actually real relaxing. The dinosaurs were mostly outside where we were. The rest of it... Well, at least it ain't boring, right?

[ If he only knew. ]

Yeah. It is a little reassuring. At least you can get away, even if it's just-- just you. [ He pauses, glancing downward briefly. ] Um... anyway, sorry. Probably should leave you to your cookies, didn't mean to get up in shooting the shit.

Nah, don't worry about it. I'm mostly here for the talking part. It's my job or whatever.

If you say so. I tend to talk a lot when I'm nervous. Bad habit of mine, so I won't be offended if I should be shutting up about now.

[Jesse snorts. This guy is pretty funny.]

Seriously, it's cool. I'd be a shit greeter if I didn't like the talking part.

[ He smiles, a bit more sincerely than any of his others. ]

Must help, being a people person around here. Plus you get first look at any new faces, that's gotta be fun.

It is, yeah. There's so many different kinds of people here, you know? I dunno why everybody's in such a hurry to get home, 'cause to me it's like - like once in a lifetime opportunity, yo. I wanna see as much as I can, hear everything about everybody and where they came from and... Yeah. If you ask me, this is the life.

I can't blame you. It's... gotta be interesting, I'm not one to knock trying out something new. [ Especially if you're comfortable with the whole "talking a lot" thing. ] ... Probably the people missing their families. Anyone will be in a hurry if they've got something else they should be doing.

We got a time machine. Ain't like you're missing anything, 'cause you can just go back to the same time you left.

[ Quiet for a couple of moments. ]

Yeah. Yeah... you're right. I might just be over-thinking it -- no real accounting for things like homesickness across the board.

Nah, I get it. When you're away from your people...

Well, it's like you said. They aren't even gonna notice, right?

Yeah, but you notice. And it's lonely.

Loneliness isn't so bad. Once you've lived it once or twice, you've learned it, so... you can make it a less immediate issue.