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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-11-26 09:45 pm

( closed ) let it snow, let it snow, let it -- yeti?!

Date & Time: November 27th - December 5th, 3313
Location: Spaceshuttle, Winter Wonderland Exsilium
Characters: All those on the official scouting mission to Exsilium.
Summary: The Transports send down a collection of their own in order to investigate the whys of the sudden drop in radiation on the island, and to locate the Initiative.
Warnings: Please PM the mod account should anything in this log go into graphically violent territory.
Notes: You know the drill! Specify dates and times in subject lines, set up as many scenarios as you like, and for information on if a run-in with Exiles will net your character(s) a chance to talk with or make contact with the Initiative, ask over here!

The satellite imagery AI was able to capture and download onto tablets doesn't speak adequately to the pristine, chill landscape the space ship descends into under cloaking technology. The crystalline landscape is almost beautiful, stark brights and shadows turning the countryside into something soft, alien, and deadly. Winter has arrived, in a way some may be familiar with, and to others, may be entirely new.

The ship is a mile out from the largest identified gathering of heat signatures and power structures, in a city built over part of what once was London, formerly known as Exsilium to the Transports. There is no Eye of London to be found, only a partial tower that stands suspiciously close to where Big Ben once stood. The river Thames remains present, but the built up structures, the identifiers of "modern" Exsilium are all gone, lost and buried underneath the snows if ever they existed.

This is not a friendly landscape, though the people are friendly enough, should you not go out of your way to offend them or display your alien natures.

Find the Initiative. Take stock of the landscape. Report back what you can. Scouts, you are our best hope in understanding this new landscape.

Good luck.
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[personal profile] oldsoldiersneverdie 2013-11-30 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Not towards us - not in any organized sense, anyway. [He shrugs a little] Too far away to get much else without going into a trance, and I don't think I want to try that out here.
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[personal profile] highfrequency 2013-12-01 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe we should have some people stay and build a shelter while the rest of us go check out the natives.
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[personal profile] oldsoldiersneverdie 2013-12-03 03:35 am (UTC)(link)

[He nods] Good idea - not sure what sort of welcome we'll get in town. Hopefully someone here knows how to build quinzhees.

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[personal profile] highfrequency 2013-12-05 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
[He's smiling, mostly because Nate said he had a good idea.]

Heh. Not if you call it that.

Just say "igloo" and someone will get the idea.

[He understands the distinction, of course. It was an Alaskan tribal elder who taught him how to be a scout.]
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[personal profile] oldsoldiersneverdie 2013-12-06 04:16 am (UTC)(link)

[Nate rolls his eyes but doesn't seem too put out by it] Igloos actually take some degree of skill. Anyone can make a pile of snow.