GOOD MORNING NEW ARRIVALS
This time for real!WAKEY WAKEY.
As the storm finally peters out and characters can once again move above ground it becomes abundantly clear that the landscape has
changed. Where vast expanses of sand dunes once laid is now the half-buried remnants of what looks like some sort of...city? Full of structures. It stretches so far it's really hard to tell. But there is one thing characters will notice:
There are more stasis pods.
Revealed by the sandstorm, a whole new flurry of pods can be found scattered on the way to the city (curiously though, not
in it. Hurry and wake those guys up!
SPREAD THE LOVE. OR ACID.
With the departure of the storm there's even more new arrivals to be found besides those fellow travelers of yours! The
"Seedlings" and
"Cactus" are now both available, the former blown in by the storm and the former uncovered.
The Seedlings are generally pretty harmless. They like to burrow into the sand so only their "Leaves" plant-like leaves remain above ground, and they're quite happy to stay that way until surprised. Then they pop up and trip over themselves a little, before slowing down and wandering aimlessly. When they find a patch of sand that looks comfy they begin burrowing back down.
Pull or yank on their leaves though and you'll find yourself with
a face full of pollen that makes you want to just tell everyone
how super-cool they are. It lasts a while, and then you get a fever and vomit for two hours. Good times.
The Cacti are much less harmless and just...why would you eat them? Everything about this plant is poisonous, and cracking it open causes a corrosive acid-like substance to spill out. It'll eat through everything but...dirt, oddly. Metals and flesh are like hot oil on plastic.
DON'T GET LOST
And last but not least: The Forgotten City. Maybe you want to check out the Hull first for some loot, but maybe that's not such a cool idea anymore? Although it looks like the ship's definitely more powered after draining the suits of whoever went in, now it's started to spread and fill the sinkhole the ship's in. Suits can go from 100% to 0% in just ten minutes--not good!
Lucky for everyone else, it looks like
finally there's
some sort of civilization up ahead. Go on and check it out!
OR DO. THAT'S OKAY TOO.
Go nuts, have fun, and enjoy! (This is the wildcard option)
OOC
The
Flora, Fauna & Resources page has been updated with information on the seedlings, cacti, and crystals! These items are now all available for
Discovery, and The
Forgotten City will be available indefinitely from now on! Characters can take this time to settle & build up a foundation for themselves, explore the area, and of course, harass those poor little seedlings.
We encourage players to make their own open posts for this setting--you don't need to stick to just this intro log! But make sure to make our newbies feel welcome!
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A few work, most don't. A lot of them need to be repaired or more.
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[Clarke could ask a million questions about whether he knows how to fix them and if so how does he know and also does he plan on sharing? It took her a while but she has been soundly convinced of the usefulness of guns and other gun-like weapons and it would make her feel more secure if she had two or three more...]
[But this is a large man with a lot of firepower and she's being kind of careful until she has a better sense of what everyone's goals are like here. So, time to change the subject.]
What's that?
[She gestures to the safe he's sitting on with a suspicious frown.]
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[He taps at the safe with a foot.]
Something I found in one of the rooms, a research lab, from the looks of it. I figured it was better to take it out and investigate it away from the ship.
[Bruce, at least, is no stranger to suspicious frowns, given that he offers them on a near daily basis. He doesn't blame her either. No one should trust a person immediately in this sort of setting. Enough trust to get through, but not quite to rely on them entirely.]
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[She tilts her head at it, wondering if he's opened it yet, about to ask when the edge of a port catches her eye on one of the sides facing away from her. She leans over to get a better look at it and then frowns again. The pattern looks familiar.]
Wait a minute...
[She digs through the pockets of her suit, looking for the cylinder she found in the room where she found her gun. Sure enough, the end of it looks like it would fit perfectly into the port, judging by the pattern of the connectors. Maybe it's standard, then again there were plenty of ports on the ship and nothing that would fit...]
[She's about to just stick it in there when she remembers that there's another person here and he might not like that so much. She holds up the cylinder for him to see.]
I think this fits in that.
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He's only grateful there's possibly a key instead of needing to break into it. Likely, it would've ended in pain or worse. No way a safe like that would've been created without some measure of security or precaution.]
Go ahead, it's your key.
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[ooc: and here's what's inside]
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Not what he expected, but then again, what would come of a safe in space?]
Your key. Take what you want. [It's not as if there's anywhere to put it, nor is there anywhere they could take these items to get more information outside of the ship itself.
The biohazard bottle though... why would that be kept in a safe?]
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You're the one that dragged this thing across the desert. I don't even know what half this stuff does.
[She reaches in and touches one of the pieces of Kh'svil carefully, picking it up once she determines that it's not going to do anything unexpected. Some of the stuff looks familiar - the cells she knows can be useful if they haven't already been used - but some of it... it's a complete crapshoot whether it's worth carrying or not.]
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[He reaches in to take the canister labeled as a biohazard. Probably not best to keep it on him so closely, if it's radiation, but it might be of use. Why would anyone want to put something like that in a safe, along with materials?]
Me might find out eventually. If not? [He grins a little at the young woman.] We probably just committed a crime.
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I prefer not to think of scavenging as a crime.
[She picks up the plasma cells since she knows what those are, gathering them in front of her to count them.]
Besides, if there's anything left alive on this planet I doubt it cares about any of this stuff.
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[Whatever else is left, he takes it for safekeeping. Like she said, he went through the effort of dragging the damn thing out. Might as well make the most of it.]
What's your name?
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Clarke. And yours?
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