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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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Well -- you can probably count on no floods happening up here, so that's a relief.

[ Some shitty optimism. ]

Just gotta worry about little stuff, like... meteors and black holes.

Unless those guys ... the UE? Unless they figure out the perfect way to traumatize us once they get closer is a drowning simulation.

[And Peter is assuming that will happen because the villains—or the effective ones—always seem to find him.]

And the likelihood of meteors and black holes is actually slim to none, but don't quote me on that.

Do you know how to swim? 'Cause that'd help. But if I had to bet money I'd guess aliens first.

[ That's a mild relief, actually. ]

Really? I always thought they were all over the place... everywhere. But seeing it all up close, it is pretty big out there. You've probably got the right idea.

Good on swimming. [He doesn't seem too pleased to test that, though. That flood really was a big deal.]

And I think I've got the right idea, unless this is a universe that's undergoing some problems. Which is possible. The time travel factor could be knocking a few holes in things.

"Some problems" seems pretty accurate if we can't even live on a planet anymore. We're not even on Mars, we're on the moon.

[ It's messed up. He doesn't like space. ]

At least if time travel caused the problems, it can probably also fix 'em. That's usually how it works, isn't it?

The moon is slightly more stable than Mars, though. I mean, if we had to choose, but it says that life didn't get advanced enough to consider Mars, or they decided against it. Either way. But when it comes to time travel, if they have that technology, then the fact that it is actually one of their most advanced forms of tech tells me that it could be doing more damage.

[When it comes to the whole time travel deal, he knows he's lacking enough of the scientific background to make a fully educated opinion, but something tells me that the same could be said of the guys at work here.]

[ Something of an unsettling notion, somehow. He mostly wonders why they're stuck up here if this time travel stuff is really all on the "up and up." ]

It could be. Maybe it is and we don't know it yet. All of this technology's way beyond anything I know, I feel like we might as well all be stuck in the dark.

[Peter thinks about that for a moment and shakes his head. There's no reason to be stuck in the dark if they want them to help, so he has every intention of looking into that tech.]

They might explain it to you, if you really need to. I'm gonna ask, anyway. Better than sitting and wondering.

Yeah. Probably will. Sorry to-- I shouldn't be bothering you with all this crap, we both just got here.

[ With a sigh. He should give this kid a break. ]

Anyway -- take it easy, Pete, okay?

Yeah, see you later.

[Taking the hint, he raises a hand to wave before he heads off. There are cookies to be had.]