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Date: December 1st
Location: The Observatory.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: New Transports arrive and are shuffled into the Observatory after their initial briefings.
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. 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; they show multiple variations of satellite images, focused on... somewhere snowy. It's difficult to say more than that, but those that record heat readings seem to suggest there are people there, where ever "there" is. It's night outside the great wide windows, and the lunar landscape isn't much to look at right now. But, hey, at least all the lights are on, right? No more creepy red emergency lighting upon arrival — not that you'd know anything about that.

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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Comments

[capitulated]

[ is this how you greet your equally lost clan members, yata. yes thanks, thanks a lot. eric just. looks at that finger for a moment. turns his head away when he comes to the conclusion that yes, yata’s definitely just as lost as he is.

really, the loud and obnoxious attack on everyone else should have been enough of a hint, right?

it’s too bad this place has the tendency to auto-translate things, because eric--really doesn’t intend to talk in a language yata can understand. ]

Because he’s not here, stupid chihuahua. [ they’d know, right. ]

[counterattacked]

[Whoops, sorry bro. They're cramped in the cities he comes from, but moonbase is a whole 'nother animal. He's stooped a bit, leaning over to a side to pick at a tether on his right thigh and doing a pretty shit job of existing in general. All grit teeth and jagged posture and shaking shoulders. The compounding frustration at a task that he can usually do with his eyes closed isn't helping.]

Huh?

[He's focused on expending so much of his remaining energy on it that his head jerks up sharply when Shinji opens his mouth. A little startled. He blinks, brow furrowed at the cello (what the hell?) and then assumes the most obvious- that Shinji wants to get past him. And since the guy had the good sense to be polite about it, he doesn't bristle. Just looks sort of vaguely sheepish and moves out of the way as well as he can.]

Shit, sorry. I've almost got it.

[vimdicare]

[Erika preferred to wander around when new arrivals came in. She would check on them once they seemed less annoying confused but that could wait.

It's why she's lucky enough to hear the metal thud. She blinks and peeks into the storage. Ah. A scythe. Something dearly familiar to her.]

...Personally I think you made an excellent choice.

[scienceinacan]

Eh, really? So... did you just want to see what kind of food this place has?!

[ And then Watari thinks. ]

There should be one!

[ Or at least, mun assumes there's one. I don't think Exsilium the city had one but they're at the moon base at the moment... ]

[battering]

[ yeah. they'd definitely know.

yata rolls his eyes and sits himself down next to eric, giving him a shove with his elbow. ]

I told you not to call me that, asshole! [ augh, have another shove for good measure, and because yata is annoyed. he's stuck in a stupid place with stupid eric.

... which is oddly better than being alone right now, not that he needs to know that. ]

He has to be here. He wouldn't just let us get taken away like this without coming to bring us back.

[cradlerobs]

Then is it really necessary to have so many? I have other matters I need to attend to.

[Milla doesn't bow in return, and looks kind of baffled by it. It reminds her a little of Rowen, though.]

Milla Maxwell.

[vimdicare]

[Oh free food. Awesome. Erika will be taking some.]

...What an excellent greeting! Hello as well. [There she greeted someone: him. Now she gets food and flip through the leaflet and-

-start laughing her ass off.]

[cradlerobs]

That's remarkable. There's a lot more snow there than there is in Kanbalar. If it's actually inhabitable, then what is the point of being here? Wouldn't it make more sense to be on actual ground?

[cyphered]

Well, that's a reaction he's used to. He doesn't bother to try and hold down the chuckle that bubbles out of him, but he has enough in him to call at the elf's retreating back.

"I'll buy you a drink sometime, yeah?"

But he's not going to keep him from leaving. Judging by the way he's inspecting the soaked hole in his shirt and the healed skin, he's still coming to terms with what had just happened.

Estellise Sidos Heuressein l Open

[astion]

[Okay so. This is. Unexpected, to say the least. Estelle is used to traveling back home, but this, this is something entirely new. A whole new world aside from her one back home. She has barely begun to grasp the size and scope of that, let alone other planets, other universes out there among the stars. Really, it's terrifying at the same time as it is amazing and exciting.

Though initially, she's merely overwhelmed, rather in shock at all of this and bewildered as the group is ushered around and given a brief explanation of sorts regarding the situation. Naturally, this means that Estelle is more or less people watching for a bit while she tries to wrap her head around it all. Really, considering everything she's somewhat calm about the situation, or at least appears to be. It wouldn't be the first time she has been kidnapped after all.

Okay, she might not be as much of a fighter as say, Yuri or Flynn. But she can still find other ways to help! She's certain and determined in that much. But first things first, finding her way around. After she stops being so distracted from the screens and view of the Earth. Such a new and strange place to her, staff placed in front of her as she takes in the sights.]

Wow. It's amazing! Oh-sorry!

[She apologizes, attempting to shift out of the way of the person she just bumped, or that bumped into her.]

pretend i always used this pb, ok.........

[onblackwings]

[ She's really only here for lack of anything better to do, and she's not exactly pleased about it. Another new swarm of arrivals, when it's crowded enough here as is, great. So she watches from a lean against the wall, arms folded over her chest and golden eyes narrowed critically.

Ah. Look. Another gray child. Don't they already have plenty of those?

...Well. At least this one looks to be slightly amusing for that sudden look of shock. A bit of a delayed reaction, maybe? She smirks, mostly to herself. ]

[ignitepass]

If Kagami-kun appears, he'll go there first. [ Not that Watari has any idea who Kagami-kun is, but the point of the matter stands. ] I should know where it is. [ And regularly check it for any extremely tall redheads being loud and obnoxious.

There's a pause, and then -- ]

The food is important, too. [ Just not as much as Teammates. ]

[pride_of_amarcia]

Well, it only just became this! It was pretty bad before recently, so...

[cradlerobbed]

[ Yeaaaaah... I'd say that if Jude were from the same canon point he might have trouble taking Gaius' word at face value, but lets be real here, while Jude might not always agree with Gaius he'll probably never assume Gaius is straight up lying to him.

Other people? Maybe. Maybe Alvin has screwed him over enough times that he'd be a little more wary about trusting total strangers, but no Gaius is always getting a truth pass. So you better believe it that he's gonna be trying to reassure her over the coming months.

He does shake his head once at the question. ]

Well, sort of. I arrived here with Gaius, and while I never saw her myself I'm fairly certain I saw Muzét's name on the tablets. Wingul of the Chimeriad was here for a short period of time, but I'm the only one from our world still left.

Armin, buddy. 8(

[counterattacked]

[That's a familiar voice. More than enough to jerk his attention back to the present. Violently. He spins on a bootheel, moonscape forgotten in favor of more pressing and more personal matters. Before he's even found his balance again he's answering.]

Armin?

[There's relief in that. And it's loud, if less obvious than Armin's. He doesn't think twice about the welcome he gets- last time he'd seen his friend they'd been exchanging "goodbyes" and "good lucks" and "don't dies" before the expedition. And the last he knew, Armin's position in the left flank had been decimated by the female titan as she made her way through the formation. Before he can say anything, Armin beats him to the punch. He stops short, lifting a hand up to the bandage wound 'round his head (when had that gotten there?) And he frowns.]

I'm fine. It doesn't matter.

[He's fine. It'll heal. It's already healing. He needs to stop pacing and sit down and probably sleep for the next...day and a half, but there's no time for that.]

What happened?

[...As if what he's asking about should be self evident.]

[gamora]

( It isn't that Gamora isn't paying attention - she's not looking for anyone in particular, after all - it's just that she expects people to move out of her way due to being a force of nature in her own right. Which is why when she and Kory collide, there's a deep frown crossing her face. )

Watch where you're going.

[cradlerobs]

I don't have time for such idle pleasantries. I'm needed in the Temporal Crossroads, and I must not get sidetracked from my mission.

[cradlerobs]

[Ohh, boy. Milla's expression immediately shifts into one of pride. Her hair, her crowning glory.]

Sylph styled it for me. Isn't it wonderful? He took great care with styling each lock.

[firefromstars]

[ She spots the child approaching her quickly. Her directionless anger eases a little at the sight of green eyes. Human eyes, nothing like her, but the green is the same.

She doesn't relax, but she's not radiating the feeling of barely contained violence anymore. In a human, the change might have been an easy one to miss. Not so in her. She watches the child watching her. ]

Do you recognize me?

[scienceinacan]

Oh, that makes sense! If I'd arrived here first, I could've used that logic! I might've found Tsuzuki whimpering for the lack of sweets there...

But right! That works! On both things... the deal with Kagami-kun and food, that is!

[ Kagami-kun must be as entertaining as Tsuzuki if he's that into food! He likes people who love food. They're easy guinea pigs... ]

[counterattacked]

[He tugs a little harder than necessary on a strap, as if it had personally offended him. Maybe it has. That's what it gets for being uncooperative at a time like this. The stupid amount of his already hazy focus he's putting into this means he answers on a kneejerk. Give him a second.]

No, I've got it, I'm-

[And then his thought process skids to a halt. He rights himself abruptly, leans back against the wall to fix Kido with a hard and puzzled look.]

What the hell?

[Yes, Eren, that's helpful.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

You and me both. I should be back home plotting on behalf of my Queen.

Instead, I get to be stuck on this world for... Almost a year now. And lately, mostly stuck in a cramped moon base because the winter wasteland you see on the screens now was a nuclear one for a couple months.

And trust me - with what's going on, your world's just as at stake here as it is back home. The United Earth don't screw around.

[cradlerobs]

[Milla is the picture of poise. Most of the time.

Milla seems to snap out of whatever's distracting her, probably much the Four's annoyance, and looks for the source of the voice.]

You're correct. It's very important that I return there to fulfill my mission. I have no time for wasting here.

[firefromstars]

[ She turned on the man, frowning deeply at him. ]

I have enough hands, I need to go home.

[ As tight as her control was over her temper right now, she didn't have to focus to be anything but literal. ]

[srslynotguy]

I'm afraid most of us have matters to attend to back in our home worlds but the Initiative seems to think their matter is far more important than those we were already facing...

And it's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Milla.

[ He smiles warmly at her. And then, maybe, blushes a bit when he realizes just what Milla is wearing. But at least she's not showing off a very ample cleavage. But if she did, it'd probably be on par with Judith's. ]