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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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[Apparently Peter and Johnny have the same mature and professional relationship in this other universe as they do in hers.]

Peter, there are better things to do than compare yourself to my brother.

[Sue loves Johnny dearly...but she also knows he's tremendously annoying, since he's been practicing on her longer than anyone else.]

Oh, and trust me, I'm usually doing them. Running away, learning new techniques when he goes on about how handsome he is, avoiding awkward questions about whether or not his roots are showing ...

[Peter has a feeling that none of this is going to make any sense to her, so he decides to supply the explanation.]

He's living with me. He's my ... "cousin." Him and Bobby Drake. Johnny Parker and Bobby Parker in May Parker's home for wayward youths who might be superheroes. [And Gwen, he adds to himself.]

...I would not wish Johnny on your Aunt May.

[She likes May Parker. Though May stands a reasonably good chance of getting Johnny to behave, which is more than most people can claim.]

Do I dare ask why you've got my brother and an X-Man living incognito at your house?

[And were they selected on the basis of who was most likely to destroy the place accidentally during a food fight that escalates into using powers?]

Uhh, it's kind of a long story. [Which is also code for: something terrible happened and I don't want to tell you. Something terrible happened and Peter doesn't want to tell her. If she doesn't know about it, if there isn't a parallel to it in her world, she doesn't need to know. That isn't to say that he doesn't think she can handle it, but this is already weird enough.]

But Johnny and Bobby wanted a normal life. Only they kinda suck at it, go figure.

[That doesn't sound anything like Johnny. (Well, except for the sucking at normality part.) He's the only one of them who's loved having his powers right from the start.]

Hiding powers isn't easy.

[Peter's obviously hiding something, but she knows not to pry, at least not right away. It'll probably come out accidentally in a week, anyway. This is Peter Parker she's talking to.]

No, it isn't—especially when you're a guy who sets himself on fire.

[There were a lot of bouts with that failing. The thing with Rick and the thing with Lily Allen seemed to be cases in which it definitely failed. They were trying to help, but there was a lot of failure involved there. That didn't even include superhero stuff for the most part (except when Aunt May enlisted them to help).]