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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-10-31 02:25 pm

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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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GROUP ROOT THREADS

[personal profile] initiatesnpc 2013-10-31 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Have a group established to welcome/greet/make faces at newcomers? Head to this entry to get a mod comment for next month's log! For this log, feel free to post it where ever and whenever you'd like.
Edited 2013-10-31 21:43 (UTC)
hostage: (amused ☣)

THE WELCOME PARTY || OPEN TO ALL (ESPECIALLY NEWBIES!!!)

[personal profile] hostage 2013-10-31 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[A group of tables have been arranged by the entrance to the Observatory, bearing trays of cookies in a wide variety of flavors and shapes (some more misshapen than others). Each cookie is lovingly decorated with colorful frosting, sprinkles, or other candy. Cookies containing nuts have been set aside with a note that warns for allergies. A large sign beside the trays reads in handwritten block letters: FREE - TAKE WHAT YOU WANT.]

((GREETERS: start a new thread for your character! VISITORS: tag a specific person or tag the main thread if you're up for interacting with any random greeter!))
hostage: (wistful ☣)

Jesse Pinkman | Breaking Bad | OPEN

[personal profile] hostage 2013-10-31 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jesse is seated closest to the cookie tables, slouched in his chair and watching the newcomers pass by with great interest, as if eager to be saved from boredom. From his position there, he seems to be the man in charge of this establishment. A strange sight, to be sure. The cookies in front of him look so sweet and cheerful, but he looks like your average street thug: hollow-eyed, unshaven, dressed in black - complete with a leather jacket. Still, he doesn't look unfriendly. Just out-of-place.]
bumbles: (Default)

FREE FIRST AID KITS & CLINIC INFO DESK – next to the cookie table | OPEN TO ALL

[personal profile] bumbles 2013-10-31 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Note: clinic workers, post thread starters for your characters!! Newbies can either reply to specific workers or just to this comment for a random worker!

ALSO: as soon as they hear of the space!zombies, the clinic table will be shut down so that staff are concentrated in the clinic and out and about helping people, but info sheets and maps to the clinic will still be there!


( The table is a pretty basic set up: white cloth, boxes underneath with enough first aid kits for all the new arrivals, about one hundred kits in all because the arrival numbers have varied a little the past few months.

There are different areas and signs set up over the table, and various staff circulating.

FREE FIRST AID KITS - contents here!

MEDICAL FORMS INFORMATION
Detest Magic and Mages?
Part of a Species Allergic to Penicillin? 
Have Some Medical Condition We Should Know About?
SAVE TIME AND AWKWARD SITUATIONS BY FILLING OUT 
YOUR MEDICAL INFORMATION TODAY!

Those who fill out today get a free lollipop!

and right next to the medical forms there is this sign, too. Because SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS:
NOT HUMAN? DISCUSS HEALTH OPTIONS
We want to make sure we have all our bases covered to keep you healthy.

We have non-human clinicians for you to speak with if that makes you more comfortable.

BLOOD DONATIONS

TRAINING AND CLASSES
Beginner and advanced classes available!


MEDICS, HEALERS AND VOLUNTEERS
We'd love to have you on the team!
)
Edited 2013-10-31 22:01 (UTC)
vaccination: (introductions.)

Ellie | The Last of Us

[personal profile] vaccination 2013-11-01 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Ellie is standing around the table, eyes combing through the newbies. It feels good to be productive and she hopes all this hard work does some good. Still, she looks a little uneasy with all these people around. It's a lot.

Yet whoever passes close enough gets a small smile and a verbal invitation to check out the table and pick up a first aid kit.]
hyanaimne: Meeting. (Aelou.)

Tempest | OC

[personal profile] hyanaimne 2013-11-01 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Tempest is trying not to look as awkward as she feels, and for once she's doing a decent job of it. She keeps an eye on the growing crowd, offering (what she hopes is) a friendly smile to anyone who approaches. Though she can't help fiddling with whatever's in reach, a nervous habit, but hey, it's a start]
highhealplz: they look reaaaaaally nice with this coif (smile | i'm wearing slotted pumps)

Ashraf Salib | OC

[personal profile] highhealplz 2013-11-01 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ Today Ashraf is the lazy one, sprawled in a seat behind the table and looking generally good-natured, jovial, and perfectly happy right where he is. He'll lean forward to engage anyone that wanders near ("Lollypop?" or "Hey! How's the moon for you so far?"), and there's never a smile far from his face.

That is, until they get news about the zombie part. Then he loses the smile and disappears pretty fast, off to go find the fighting.
]
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Anne Boleyn | The Tudors

[personal profile] ensorceler 2013-11-01 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She's doing her utmost to lay on the charms needed to help draw people in or placate them (especially in times Donny talks himself into corners), but her flirtations and teases are not as heavy as they might normally be. She has been much more pious since the move to the moon, after all, and continues to wear black even now, though her jewels are white pearls.

Though she only has one prayer book, don't be surprised if she shares a prayer along with the first-aid kit. And maybe an extra lollipop. Obviously news of the invasion has yet to reach this area, but by the time it does, she'll be away. That will be then, and this is now, and now she's all smiles and courtesy. ]
Edited 2013-11-02 01:02 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ensorceler 2013-11-01 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jesse hi you look terrible. She's been handing out first-aid kits and talking people up for quite awhile and she still looks as fresh as can be, even dressed all in black. Bobby has been intentionally left in the bedchamber as he has no desire to see new Transports and she has no desire to rub the obscenity of it in his face.

Whisking over to his side, Anne reaches out both gloved hands to take one of his, attempting to pull him up from the chair. ]


How are you to guard my tarts from fiends if you remain so still here like a statue?
Edited 2013-11-01 23:07 (UTC)
maipokerface: ([043] well i'm bored)

[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-01 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[The offer of a lollipop just draws this tight, annoyed look from one particularly dark-haired and crimson clothed young woman.]

... Why are you offering candy?
highhealplz: and those were the last words the annoying warp begger ever heard (smile | trust me it goes to prontera)

[personal profile] highhealplz 2013-11-01 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The good humor refuses to budge in the face of teenage moodiness, and he keeps right on smiling. ]

Why not? [ A beat, and he adds: ] Well, technically they're for filling out a medical form, but we're pretty lenient around here.
lazyinlove: (pear)

[personal profile] lazyinlove 2013-11-01 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

[Free candy has been known to lure teenage stoners from time to time, but this one is far more out of it than usual. He's shirtless and shoeless, any 7-11 in the universe would kick him out. Besides, he's holding onto the wall for support. Maybe you shouldn't have engaged him in conversation, bro.]

The moon...?
maipokerface: ([031] without tripping on the past)

Mai | Avatar: the Last Airbender | OPEN

[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-01 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[At first all she can feel beyond the first flush of fear is annoyance, one that fades into downright anger the most the situation is explained. A militarized government - she knows about that well enough, even if she had no hand in the military itself. The bits about the future and dystopias are new to her and she pays as much attention as she can while her anger mounts.

Then it's a history of the place, a record of previous events. When weapons are handed out she waves the idea away, stating that she's more than well-armed. She can feel the weight of her various blades on her and they bring her a sense of grounding and comfort. Regardless of where she might be, she could at least always defend herself. Her knives never let her down.

Along with a herd of others she finds herself shuffled down a tunnel and into an Observatory. And that's when the anger really blossoms into being. There's nothing but darkness and dull red lights, noises beyond that that sound like nothing she's heard before.

And suddenly she's hot with her anger.]


What's going on exactly.

[OOC: Mai's going to end up off investigating those noises, looking for some real answers. If you're interested in going with her, we can eventually transition over to this thread or start another when the time comes. o/]
maipokerface: ([012] what is the feelin' takin' over?)

[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-01 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Because this isn't a field trip and I'm not five.

[Now she turns her attention to the stack of said medical forms, plucking one up to peer over it.]
highhealplz: (smile | the sweet sounds of lex divinia)

[personal profile] highhealplz 2013-11-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, that's hardly fair to yourself. Candy's for any age!

[ He leans forward over the table onto his elbows, glancing over the form she's looking over — like he doesn't know exactly what it says already. ]

It's pretty basic information, but still good for us to have on hand. [ And, thoughtfully: ] Do you have magic in your world?
maipokerface: ([077] Like the colors in autumn)

[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-02 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Not really. There's bending but there's no magic in that.

[Frankly she wasn't interested in filling out a form, not in her annoyed state, but the question on magic was enough of a distraction to have her standing there eyeing this paper like she was trying to decide what words were.

Finally she offers a low sigh like she's been suffering for days.]


Do you have something to write with?
shotup: (get it off your chest)

roy harper ; dc comics ; come at me bros

[personal profile] shotup 2013-11-02 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[This has got to be the crappiest dream Roy has ever had. He has nightmares, sure (who doesn't in his line of work?) but generally speaking he's pretty good at keeping control and steering things in the right direction. And he's trying, man is he trying. But no matter how much willpower he exerts, his surroundings stay the same and this sterile, solemn world refuses to change.

If he wasn't so stupidly stubborn, he might actually begin to worry. As it is now, he's willing to play along and let this play out. But he has to get home in time to tuck in Lian. And maybe punch Dick a few more times for good measure. That might make him feel better about whatever the hell is going on here.]
highhealplz: oops, did i pneuma your 50% backstab damage away? (grin | a bow rogue that's cute)

[personal profile] highhealplz 2013-11-02 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh—yeah! [ He scrambles around on the table for a second before coming up with a pen, triumphant, and handing it over. ]

Bending — that's what Korra does, I think. Do you know her?
highhealplz: the scholar robes are just bulky. but some of it is fat, yeah. (cajole | oh you don't look THAT fat)

[personal profile] highhealplz 2013-11-02 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Son, he knows you. (Vaguely.) The moon comment wasn't aimed at Stanley, but he's happy enough to engage him. The dude looks a little lost. ]

Still the moon, yep. [ He smiles and waves a hand toward him, calling down a blessing onto Stanley. It comes with its usual brief blue glow, and should leave him feeling energized and strengthened. ] Should I be welcoming you back?
highhealplz: they look reaaaaaally nice with this coif (smile | i'm wearing slotted pumps)

[personal profile] highhealplz 2013-11-02 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, he knows that look — the dazed, disbelieving one. There's no more new Transport a look in all the ranges of human expression.

So he heads toward Roy already with a warm smile in place, dressed in his usual ornate robes and with his twin fancy golden cross-tipped staffs secured at a loop in his belt. He's a pretty holy-looking dude, all in all.
]

Hi! Let me guess — new, right?
pixieboots: (Default)

[personal profile] pixieboots 2013-11-02 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's more determined than ever to be here this time, a whole hour before the rush as if somehow that's the thing that will make up the difference for skipping out last time. There's never an excuse here. Not really.

Having nothing to wear but civvies changes things though, so he's perched up on a table out in the open rather than somewhere higher up, legs dangling while he munches on a cookie and eyes the crowd while they filter in. He's had his eye on that one guy from a few minutes now. There's something about him. Something that's familiar and a little unsettling, in a way he can't quite pin down. ]


So how's the welcome wagon? [ And he offers up a grin he hopes is good and disarming, raising his hand up in a little wave. ]
undealt: (✒ little girl you have to see)

[personal profile] undealt 2013-11-02 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Gold, being the detail-oriented individual that he is, zeroes in on the one thing that doesn't belong. Not because he has any interest in thugs, but because he has an interest in whoever the hell knows what they're doing and doesn't look like they might give him cavities with their sweet temperaments.]

And do the sweets take the edge off or did I mistakenly wander into a bake sale, rather than a war?

[It's been a rough week.]
lazyinlove: (pear)

[personal profile] lazyinlove 2013-11-02 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, that does something. He lets go of the wall and stares at his hands for a moment, confused by them. No way he just saw what he thought he saw. But he feels kind of...buzzed. Like an adrenaline kick or something. It's a weird mix with all the downers, but it's not unpleasant.

The thing about the moon is, though. His eyebrows go up, and the corners of his mouth turn down for a moment. He squints a little, trying to decide if a magic elfy kind of dude just hit him with lightning or not. Because that would be weird.]


But that was just a bad dream...
braavado: (Don't worry; Jail break comes later)

[personal profile] braavado 2013-11-02 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Booooooored. She is so bored, and she looks it. Korra hasn't been helping out at the clinic for long, and the paperwork still makes her wrinkle her nose in distaste. There aren't many options when she can't heal with her waterbending, so Korra's been stuck with some of the menial tasks.]

How many people actually fill out the forms? And why are there so many questions on here?

[She snags one of the lollypops from the pile. Got to keep herself busy somehow.]
maipokerface: ([046] i'm doing this for the thrill of i)

[personal profile] maipokerface 2013-11-02 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[The pen earns a dubious look for a brief second as she takes it. She's used to brushes after all.

Then she lays the paper against the table to fill it out, talking as she does so.]


No.

[Scratch, scratch, scratch. A few lines filled out and she adds.]

I don't know many benders personally, beyond firebenders. I know of a waterbender, an earthbender and an airbender.

[Knows of but doesn't really know them. They're Zuko's friends, not hers.]