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rekindleme2014-03-18 04:07 pm
rekindlemods) wrote in rekindleme2014-03-18 04:07 pm
Intro Log - March 2014
Who: Everyone
Where: The Welcome Center
When: 18th March, afternoon
Summary: The new arrivals, freshly pulled from their worlds or others, awaken in a strange place...
Warnings: Inbox death may occur. System overload at own risk. SOME NPC RESPONSES WILL BE SLOW UNTIL THE ONE WHO PLAYS THEM IS PRESENT.
It's a shuddering breath, a sensation of being pulled to elsewhere and finding oneself pressed against something on the soft and some place cozy. However, before one can fully stir, there is and odd, warm stirring sensation that lifts you up from wherever you've been dropped, when you begin to drift off once more.
Yet the feeling passes quickly, and when you awaken, you begin to realize your surroundings. It's a small room with what some might recognize as a Far Eastern theme when it comes to decor, from the walls to the sofa (or bed) you find yourself on. Illumination is provided by carefully crafted lamps, and even a candle flickering on a nearby desk. The doors are made from paper and wood, with a thin frame; through them it's easy to hear other people stirring, talking, or coming to.
You are not alone...
Close at hand there's a note that reads:
WELCOME CENTER
Newcomers: Please come downstairs to the lobby for refreshments and your welcome packets!
Odd... This wasn't written in your own language, and yet you find it easily understandable. Soon enough, if you don't enter on your own, there's a gentle knocking on the door as someone comes from downstairs to usher you along.
"Welcome to Saeng Seong! I know you must be confused as to where you are and what's going on, but we promise to explain this to you once you've had a chance to stretch your legs!"
Whether you go downstairs immediately or linger a little longer, eventually you must come down and get out of the small space, and sooner rather than later would probably be better. You'll find yourself in a well-lit lobby, filled with comfortable-looking couches and chairs. Along one wall are refreshment tables, loaded with all sorts of warming, comforting food and drink, including some you probably aren't familiar with. On the wall opposite are a pair of desks, each with a sign and a person seated behind them -
Irene, General Assistance
Devin, Technological Assistance
Unlike a few waves before, the only people in charge seem to be the people behind the desks. They look a bit busy.
However, before you can go over and give them a piece of your mind and ask questions, the same person who ushered you downstairs hands you a manilla envelope that contains your welcome packet, urging you to read this before asking the two figures questions that the packet likely answers.
Inside it, you will find: a ring with a key and apartment number on it, some kind of cash card, a map and informational guide to the city, and a letter folded neatly on the top -
Outside, and through the translucent glass you can see a banner hanging from the tiled roof of the building across the street. It's looking bright against a mostly blue sky:
WELCOME TO SAENG SEONG
(ENJOY YOUR STAY!)
Where: The Welcome Center
When: 18th March, afternoon
Summary: The new arrivals, freshly pulled from their worlds or others, awaken in a strange place...
Warnings: Inbox death may occur. System overload at own risk. SOME NPC RESPONSES WILL BE SLOW UNTIL THE ONE WHO PLAYS THEM IS PRESENT.
It's a shuddering breath, a sensation of being pulled to elsewhere and finding oneself pressed against something on the soft and some place cozy. However, before one can fully stir, there is and odd, warm stirring sensation that lifts you up from wherever you've been dropped, when you begin to drift off once more.
Yet the feeling passes quickly, and when you awaken, you begin to realize your surroundings. It's a small room with what some might recognize as a Far Eastern theme when it comes to decor, from the walls to the sofa (or bed) you find yourself on. Illumination is provided by carefully crafted lamps, and even a candle flickering on a nearby desk. The doors are made from paper and wood, with a thin frame; through them it's easy to hear other people stirring, talking, or coming to.
You are not alone...
Close at hand there's a note that reads:
Newcomers: Please come downstairs to the lobby for refreshments and your welcome packets!
Odd... This wasn't written in your own language, and yet you find it easily understandable. Soon enough, if you don't enter on your own, there's a gentle knocking on the door as someone comes from downstairs to usher you along.
"Welcome to Saeng Seong! I know you must be confused as to where you are and what's going on, but we promise to explain this to you once you've had a chance to stretch your legs!"
Whether you go downstairs immediately or linger a little longer, eventually you must come down and get out of the small space, and sooner rather than later would probably be better. You'll find yourself in a well-lit lobby, filled with comfortable-looking couches and chairs. Along one wall are refreshment tables, loaded with all sorts of warming, comforting food and drink, including some you probably aren't familiar with. On the wall opposite are a pair of desks, each with a sign and a person seated behind them -
Irene, General Assistance
Devin, Technological Assistance
Unlike a few waves before, the only people in charge seem to be the people behind the desks. They look a bit busy.
However, before you can go over and give them a piece of your mind and ask questions, the same person who ushered you downstairs hands you a manilla envelope that contains your welcome packet, urging you to read this before asking the two figures questions that the packet likely answers.
Inside it, you will find: a ring with a key and apartment number on it, some kind of cash card, a map and informational guide to the city, and a letter folded neatly on the top -
Welcome to Saeng Seong!
You are among a new group of arrivals to our city, from many far-apart worlds.
We have gathered you here because our city is in a crisis, and we are at our last resorts. The energy of the city is in a slow downward spiral, and is dangerously close to expiring altogether.
That's where you come in - you and everyone else we've brought to the city. Unlike those of us here, you have the potential to generate the energy the city needs, but you'll need to work together to do it.
Why? Because the energy can only be generated when two people touch each other. Any touch will do, but it must be between two of you who are new to the city. If you don't keep in contact with someone, eventually your energy will begin to drain as well, making you dangerously ill.
A few other things:
The closed-off sections of the city are closed off for a reason; approaching them will cause your energy to drain very rapidly. We're working to open the rest of the city to you as soon as we can, but for now, please remain within the first five districts of the city.
You have been given a key to a one-bedroom apartment in a complex set aside for you and the other new arrivals, near the riverside in the 1st district. You're free to change your living quarters whenever you like, and we encourage you to move in with someone in one of the larger apartments. When you want to change, just come back to this building to exchange your key.
We've also included a cash card with a living stipend; if you're unfamiliar with this system, or the network established for new arrivals, you can talk to Devin in the lobby for help. It's what he's here for. If you need medical assistance, contact Mai, one of our nurses.
Again, welcome, and thank you for all your help.
Irene
Arrival Liaison
You are among a new group of arrivals to our city, from many far-apart worlds.
We have gathered you here because our city is in a crisis, and we are at our last resorts. The energy of the city is in a slow downward spiral, and is dangerously close to expiring altogether.
That's where you come in - you and everyone else we've brought to the city. Unlike those of us here, you have the potential to generate the energy the city needs, but you'll need to work together to do it.
Why? Because the energy can only be generated when two people touch each other. Any touch will do, but it must be between two of you who are new to the city. If you don't keep in contact with someone, eventually your energy will begin to drain as well, making you dangerously ill.
A few other things:
The closed-off sections of the city are closed off for a reason; approaching them will cause your energy to drain very rapidly. We're working to open the rest of the city to you as soon as we can, but for now, please remain within the first five districts of the city.
You have been given a key to a one-bedroom apartment in a complex set aside for you and the other new arrivals, near the riverside in the 1st district. You're free to change your living quarters whenever you like, and we encourage you to move in with someone in one of the larger apartments. When you want to change, just come back to this building to exchange your key.
We've also included a cash card with a living stipend; if you're unfamiliar with this system, or the network established for new arrivals, you can talk to Devin in the lobby for help. It's what he's here for. If you need medical assistance, contact Mai, one of our nurses.
Again, welcome, and thank you for all your help.
Irene
Arrival Liaison
Outside, and through the translucent glass you can see a banner hanging from the tiled roof of the building across the street. It's looking bright against a mostly blue sky:
(ENJOY YOUR STAY!)
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[Lightning crosses her legs and folds her arms-- surprisingly easy now that she's gotten so used to the armor.]
Now I know that we're returned to the exact time that we've been taken, but it makes being here even less easy. [He's like one of only two people she'd confess this to, the other being her sister. He understands because they're both old soldiers and have gotten new professions after they left their old lives behind.
She doubts anyone else in this place can get that.]
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A duty that's on your shoulders. [He still has his title of Captain America back home, so he has an obligation to that.] People counting on you, even if everything's changed.
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[But the look on her face says what she's not-- she'd rather be there than here, because it's so important that she succeeds otherwise all is lost.
Lightning tends to do a good job at keeping her face blank, but sometimes something in her face just betrays her. Times like this.]
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Realize that some rather be here, but can't say I agree with them. [A city that messes with his memory and even more time stuff? Steve can pass on all that, even if it has been nice seeing some of his old friends here. But he's changed, so things are a little more awkward now.] So, officially a soldier again? [He remembers her telling him that she wasn't with the Guardian Corps anymore, but if she's in a war now...]
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The military of old is long gone, and so is the Corps.
[She wasn't there to see it though. Does it hurt that they're gone now? Yes, sort of. But that's an old life, it seems like a long time ago, and people moved on from needing the Sanctum, including its military.]
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...But you found something after the life of a soldier. [He's glad, even if the job is difficult. But Steve figures that it's not much about enjoyment, but doing what's needed to be done.]
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[For reasons she's not about to share with anyone, aside from her sister. Because if she told him that, she'd have to give him the cause of her reasoning, and that delves way too much into uncomfortable topics. Things that she doesn't want to share at all.]
That what happened to you too? [She's just making a wild guess here, but it's just a guess, and she doesn't care if she's proven wrong, or something like that.]
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More or less. [He's not sure if SHIELD would let him go. Steve knows that he's still useful to that organization and they would track him no matter where he went. He knows Fury enough to do something like that. But like Lightning, he doesn't voice these parts out.] Found me alive and I'm still with them. Plan on having it that way unless we have a major disagreement.
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Lightning also wonders if that's a weakness, something that puts a target on her back, and if something is going to happen to her because of that.
And at the same time, she cant help but get curious about what Steve's story is, because of how many parallels she's seeing from what she knows so far-- but clamps down on that almost immediately, because that'd mean sharing her life too, and she's not interested in that.]
I'm beginning to think this place likes people like us.
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Haven't met that many soldiers around here, honestly. [Maybe he hasn't found them, but Lightning is one of the couple of people he knows that has the same profession as him. Or used to, at least. They're still in a similar situation at any rate.] Run into a lot of kids though.
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[And that's pretty bad to Lightning, even if she honestly doesn't care much about this place or other people who've been dragged here. If people didn't get returned to the exact time they were taken, she would have thought that their parents would be sick with worry.]
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This place isn't safe, no matter what some might think. [But Steve figures that Lightning already has a similar thought to his, the scorn in her voice earlier was rather evident. It's also a bit strange to think that he used to think that Saeng Seong was okay, but things change.]
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The most she can hope for are kids not being messed with around here. The most anyone can hope for, really.
She sighs.]
I feel something will blow up in our faces and the locals will expect us to clean it up, because that's what we're here for.
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Only brought here to generate energy for their city. [Just strangers to solve the problem here, so Steve couldn't help but agree with Lightning's comment.] But if they expect us to clean things up, I'd still help. [Depending on what it is, of course. But Steve does want things to be better around here, despite all the kidnappings.]
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Disaster is still a disaster, no matter where you are. So all she can say about the matter is:] Yeah.
[She's not confirming or denying anything. Just... not giving a proper reply because she doesn't have an answer for herself.]