initiates: (BRETTE)
exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2012-09-22 08:46 pm

transport log » ❝ welcome to Exsilium ❞

Date & Time: Sept 23rd, 2012.
Location: The Initiative Hold & Courtyard.
Characters: Everyone.
Summary: New Transports have all arrived and have been shuffled into the Courtyard after their initial briefings.
Warnings: None.

You've just been hustled and bustled through mazes of information and literal, wide corridors of the Initiative Hold and you've been equipped with your weapon—be it a gun, a sword, or even your existing powers. They've handed you this light netbook and a small pouch of coins (or a debit card, if you're more inclined), and there are several Transports before and after you going through the very same motions. You can hear the Greeter's voice as she walks alongside large groups, telling them all about the history of this place and sharing with you your purpose here in a hurried and urgent tone. "This isn't standard," she's saying, walking perhaps faster than most of the people she's dragging around. "We don't normally have so many Transports at once. Please, let me show you into the courtyard."

You pass what looks like huge gymnasiums, all with dummies and targets strewn and splayed around the room. Training areas. There are even classrooms, and a few small offices. You're rushed past a large library while the Greeter informs you that you can find almost all your information there, if you've got the time to look—and trust her, you'll have time. You don't spend a lot of time in the bank, and it's a bit of a blur of exchanges with more and more of these strangely-accented and oddly polite-seeming members of the Initiative.

Soon enough, you're in a massive courtyard bustling with all the other Transports. It's not exactly what you'd expect, and it looks more like barracks than anything—huge walls of concrete and stone, separating you from all of the hallways you'd just passed through. It's raining heavily, and dark clouds loom in the air. It's a chill cold, and there are shelters—long cloth hangings that extend from the walls of concrete to house you from the rain, but not enough. Most notably, the courtyard is filled with a marketplace. Even in the cold and the rain, there are several citizens seated at their covered booths and tables. They're selling all manner of their own handmade goods and foods, and citizens and Transports alike are traveling from one small covered shop to another in search of all manner of necessities.

The Greeter's voice has become so faint now, but you swear you can make it out in the back of the crowds as she tells you, "Good luck. Be safe!"

Her voice is drowned out by the busy marketplace, though even the transactions taking place are somewhat subdued. Nobody is overly happy, really, though most citizens can be found with smiles on their faces. It doesn't seem like they're that shocked to see you, either; even if you're not bound in tattered rags and wrapped in heavy shawls as they are. You're welcome to walk up to a shop, and find yourself something to eat—hey, maybe you'll even find something akin to a raincoat. Or, you can join the others under the coverings against the walls. Where am I? What war? She was talking so fast, and it didn't all make very much sense… did anyone else catch it all?

Welcome to the courtyard. Welcome to the Initiative Hold—and most importantly, welcome to Exsilium.
eyecontact: (didn't expect that)

[personal profile] eyecontact 2012-10-05 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[he nods. well, of course! he doesn't look that out of place, does it...? granted, Jericho's used to being underestimated, so he doesn't look that put out.]
obfuskate: sᴏᴜʀᴄᴇ: ᴏғғɪᴄɪᴀʟ ᴀʀᴛ. (✘ there's no time for games!)

[personal profile] obfuskate 2012-10-05 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Now he's interested. Shadow whirls completely around, eyes locking intently on him. He still seems stern, but the intrigue is noticeable in his expression. ]

There must be more to you than what meets the eye then.

Demonstrate for me.

[ Words likely won't be enough to describe what this one can do. ]
eyecontact: (erm well)

[personal profile] eyecontact 2012-10-05 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[demonstrate? ah ha...that...Jericho looks skeptical, even with the smile. the guy really doesn't know what he's asking, so it's hard to blame him for wanting to know, but...

he shakes his head. not a good idea.

You probably wouldn't like it

hastily written, shared with a shrug, but at least it was something.]
obfuskate: sᴏᴜʀᴄᴇ: sᴏɴɪᴄ ғʀᴇᴇ ʀɪᴅᴇʀs. (✘ forever an indignant little shit.)

[personal profile] obfuskate 2012-10-05 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Nonsense. If you must, you should at least describe it.

[ man boy you got no idea what Jericho's capable of, do you? you silly hedgie.

Shadow leans back into a wall, one leg crossed over the other and arms folded neatly over his white fuzz. Well?
]
eyecontact: (shaky ground)

[personal profile] eyecontact 2012-10-05 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[the thought hits him pretty suddenly. the whole debacle coming from letting slip what Raven's powers were...even if it turned out to be a big, mean prank, the implications were pretty bad. what if the same could be made of his own powers? sure, a couple people know, but they haven't blabbed about it...

Jericho shakes his head, refusing as quickly as the notion settles in. he waves his hand in a pass, dismissed way, backing off. sorry!]
obfuskate: sᴏᴜʀᴄᴇ: ᴏғғɪᴄɪᴀʟ ᴀʀᴛ. (✘ bow down to the ultimate.)

[personal profile] obfuskate 2012-10-06 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I see. Well then...

[ He twirls on his heel again, a dark chuckle emanating from him. When Shadow the Hedgehog laughs, it is never, ever anything good, so that is incentive enough for Jericho to possibly worry. ]

... I will just have to find out in a different way.

[ He leaves that vague. His intention? When in the battlefield, he will seek him out. He will witness his powers. Now he must know what makes this one tick. ]
eyecontact: (not right)

[personal profile] eyecontact 2012-10-06 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh...

this isn't good. :( Jericho knows it, but all he can do is shake his head. he's obviously not very good at handling this kind of thing! he better back out before he causes a real problem.

at least, away from bustling crowds of already-confused people.

no. sorry. he better go.

cue high-tailing it out of there!]