January Intro Log

[savmods]

Who: New arrivals and old residents
When: January 5 and beyond
Where: Avagi
What: Hello, nice to meet you
Warnings: Label where applicable.

Arrival

A shiver of light, a sense of falling, and Avagi's portals have claimed another traveller. For those first stepping out of the Ingress Memorial, Avagi may be rather disorienting, but some areas are quite lively, and there are plenty of places to explore. As newcomers make their way into their new home, they'll encounter new acquaintances and a few pitfalls. Last month's time distortions have settled... for the most part. The strange flickering light atop the Ingress Memorial's central fragment lingers, though, pulsing and shifting in strange, hypnotic patterns. Left to their own devices, a character may stand in place for over a day, entirely unaware of their surroundings or the passage of time. They can be snapped out of the daze... with effort. And in most cases, touch. Over the last few months, Avagi's sudden population has done a good job breaking in old living spaces. Unfortunately, after a century of disrepair, some of those systems have been quietly breaking down. Today? It's the plumbing. The Bar, Bartering Block, and several of the Labs are rapidly imitating a swamp. The Gym has acquired a new pool, and Sanitation is mostly underwater. Residents of the Chemistry and 🙀 housing sectors may need to start putting up sandbags—or bailing their rooms dry. Whether to lend a hand or loot their neighbors, someone's going to need to (dive) get to the bottom of all this. The water spillage is mostly clean, but if conditions persist, that won't last long. While a few (aquatic) species of the local mini-dinos are enjoying the new swimming space just fine, their more feathery compatriots have rapidly gone from bedraggled to soaked... and heading towards hypothermic. The recent spate of exterminations has them warier than usual of humanoid life, but less hostile (or more oblivious) station-dwellers may find a small flock trying to get dry in front of their space heaters—or any sources of potential warmth.

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[Welcome to Thisavrou! If you haven't already, we encourage you to check out the OOC intro and calendar for January. Oldbies, please also make sure you've glanced through the activity check. A mod update will be going up soon with information on what's coming up, but if there are any questions in the interim, feel free to use the activity check comment.]

Comments

[redshitlord]

Dude. Where've you been all my life?

[Which is really weird out of context.]

Literally nobody agrees with that! Why's it so hard!

[sketchycharacter]

I dunno. People are assholes?

[He shrugs. He's used to some people writing off others based on preconceptions. Life as a criminal will do that.]

Maybe I haven't met a lot of cyber guys, but he was one of the cooler ones I've known.

[redshitlord]

Shepard's not an ... asshole. [Congrats, Nate, you taught the robot a swear.] Sooo... I dunno why she's so mad at him.

Yeah.

Yeah he was, man.

[sketchycharacter]

[A role model, right here.]

Shepard thinks that? Really? That's surprising.

[She has good judgment, usually. And thinking badly of their dearly departed robo-buddy is not good. Does not compute.]

I'm sorry, man. Sucks to lose someone when they go.

[redshitlord]

Yeah, dude. She... like. Won't listen to me about it. So I dunno.

[He kind of does. But he's been too blindsided by the loss to really listen to anything Shepard's had to say.]

Y-

Yeah. It's. It sucks a lot.

[sketchycharacter]

[Huh. He might have to talk to Shepard about that—or not, because it's not his business and t's been months. But still. It's weird.]

Always does.

[Okay, that's way too much exposure of emotional vulnerability.]

Good thing we've got plenty of other bullshit to occupy our time.

[redshitlord]

[He nods, ends up twitching a shoulder. But yes. Definitely enough on the emotions there.]

[When he lifts his head again he manages a smirk.]

Like weird flooding scrap?

[sketchycharacter]

Like the weird flooding scrap.

[He looks up and gives Sideswipe a crooked grin.]

And, y'know, all the other crazy things that have happened.

[redshitlord]

The... whole... seeing memories thing?

Or the "hey bee tee dubs, you're three hundred years in the future" thing?

Those also suck. Just sayin'.

[sketchycharacter]

Those both absolutely suck. You ask me? We should stick to one time, not the past or the future. But nobody asks me.

[redshitlord]

I mean, maybe we go to the future... and get like, some cool stuff...

But then come back. Y'know?

[sketchycharacter]

Eh. It's doable. Better be damn cool stuff, though.

[redshitlord]

How about like... real teleporters? Not like, space bridge stuff, because thaaaaaat's ridiculous.

[sketchycharacter]

Dude. Everything here is ridiculous.

[redshitlord]

Dude.

Your face is ridiculous.

[sketchycharacter]

[It's not an especially clever line, but something about it strikes him as funny, and Nate cracks up.

Congratulations, Sideswipe, you win.]

[redshitlord]

[He grins, and punches a fist into the air.]

Score one for the Autobots.