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thepull_mods ([personal profile] thepull_mods) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull_logs2012-09-02 10:58 pm

September Arrivals Log

Who: September Arrivals, Greeters, NPC recruiters & anyone else who happens to be hanging around the Tower Apartments to 'welcome' newcomers.
When: Throughout September, 2012 (Please Specify Date & Time in Thread Header)
Where: The Sector 4 Baseball Diamond, Parking Lot & Lobby of the Tower Apartments
Summary: This is your catch-all one stop log for arrival interactions! New Newcomers can also meet and mingle in the apartment lobby.
Warnings: Nausea, potential for violence, language- add on any warnings or ratings as they come up.

It feels like a whiplash, like being plucked up into the sky and sucked through a very tight dark space before being deposited rather roughly in the City. Your character will be disoriented, dizzy, slightly nauseous, and very sore upon arriving in Siren's Port It is your choice whether your character arrives during the safety of the day or the danger of night.

Until recently, no one knew why, but every new arrival from another world gets deposited in the dead center of an ill-kept baseball diamond.

Some of the fences and signboards have been replaced with information and welcoming signs, posted by Newcomers as encouragement. However, from time to time some form of degrading graffiti'd tag might appear here or there, 'Go Home!' or 'Now You're Fucked, Newmeat' 'Welcome to Sirens Port, Population: Too Many to Add One More' and 'Attention Newcomers: Please wait here till sunset sirens to receive your welcoming package! =) ')

A person is thrown from their pull somewhere within the fenced-in baseball field, either in the dirty infield or tossed rolling into the overgrown dirty outfield. A recent fire has charred the left side of the outfield, and grass is only starting to grow back.

Standing on second base and facing home plate, one will see a rotten, old and deteriorating backstop and chain link fencing, much like any little league baseball field. Broken down bleachers made of worn out green painted wood can be seen in disarray behind this, and some old trees line the wall and fencing along the right side.

To your left is a walled in Dugout with a secured door. The dugouts are made of thick concrete and set low into the earth. This one has been outfitted as a safe place to enter during the night to hide and wait out the morning. Sometimes Greeters can be found here, waiting for people to show up. The Dugout to the right has also been cemented over and secured with a heavily guarded and armored door.

The Baseball Diamond is held by the Neutral Government, allowing greeters access to the infield to retrieve new arrivals. However, the small building constructed over the right dugout is still guarded heavily by government-controlled Voids, to block public access to the Core. Those who cooperate with greeters will be treated fairly and be given helpful information, lead to the Tower Apartments and offered a month's lodging. Those who put up a fight will be met with Voids and detained by police.

Just beyond the fence, in the Tower Apartments parking lot and lobby, SERO and AGI recruiters will be passing out informational leaflets presenting company propaganda, including discounted coupon booklets and travel-sized toiletries as a "Newcomer Welcome Package".

Other then the lights around the Core dugout, there is one single electric light above home plate that remains on, even in the Darkness. There is an open walkway near the dugouts that leads into the parking lot of the Tower Apartments. The front doors of Tower One are always kept unlocked, but you had best close them again quickly if you slip inside during the night. The office of the Landlord is well marked near the lobby, and you'll receive keys there.

The second tower is abandoned, it looks like there was some kind of bombing. Asking around, you might hear about the anti-newcomer movement and an attempt to blow up both towers. Explosive charges were set up in the elevator shafts, back in January. Tower Two's weren't disabled in time, so the building is taped off, and you'll be advised not to go wandering in there- it's no doubt structurally unsound, though the first tower still stands tall and (mostly) functioning.

Though temporary housing services are funded by SERO and AGI, they are now run buy the Newcomers themselves. With heavy funding and support contacts from both companies, the building is in a state of slow remodeling.
cancersticks: (pic#4790073)

[personal profile] cancersticks 2012-09-19 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
No. [ She shakes her head. She doesn't believe it-- refuses to believe it. There was a logical explanation for it, and when her world wasn't spinning, she'd figure it out. She exhales roughly, closing her eyes and putting an arm around her stomach. ]

Just tell me where my husband is so I can get us on the next flight out. Our son is waiting for us back home.
momchester: (= your friend is completely retarded.)

[personal profile] momchester 2012-09-19 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[softly] Damn it.

[She sits down, offering Skyler the rest of the water bottle (at least half) and some Tylenol from her pocket.]

Skyler, I'm so sorry, but there just- isn't a way out here. The same reason you're here is the reason nobody here can leave. If there was a way, I would have left a year ago, when I first woke up here just like you did.
cancersticks: (pic#4790075)

[personal profile] cancersticks 2012-09-19 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She accepts the Tylenol, downing it with some water quickly, muttering a quiet thanks. She's relieved when she keeps it down. She swallows, putting a hand to her forehead. ]

Mary... I'm-- no. I don't know what Jesse told you to tell me, but I'm not falling for it. I just need--

[ She stops. Her words were slurring together quickly. Panic was rising, but still manageable. She'd find a way out. You don't fuck with a mother. ]

I just need a phone, and I'll get us out. All of us. [ She looks at Mary. Was she really stuck here? ]
momchester: ([with] dean look at me)

[personal profile] momchester 2012-09-19 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Skyler, breathe. Just breathe. You can't do anything if you're panicking.

[Calm, measured. Collected. A steadying hand on her shoulder. She knows how to deal with this.]
cancersticks: (pic#4789873)

[personal profile] cancersticks 2012-09-19 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She breathes, though she doesn't calm down. ]

I need a phone. [ She recites Hank's cell number in her mind. ]
momchester: (= what say you fuzzy britches?)

[personal profile] momchester 2012-09-19 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It won't work. They don't dial out.

[She gets out her own NV- which is, in fact, an Original Series Star Trek communicator - and flips it open, revealing a screen not unlike a smartphone or Blackberry.]

There's a Network on the island you can access, and you can make calls to anyone on it. So you could call your husband, but not someone who isn't here in Siren's Port.
cancersticks: (pic#4789968)

[personal profile] cancersticks 2012-09-19 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. So where do I get one of those ... things? [ She gestures to Mary's NV. ]
momchester: (= mr. white it's past seven)

[personal profile] momchester 2012-09-19 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Look in your pockets. You should have something.
cancersticks: (pic#4790074)

[personal profile] cancersticks 2012-09-20 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
My-- [ Her hands trail across her pockets, and she pulls out a phone that looked more expensive than she could afford. She states at it for a few moments, confused. ]

Who gave this to me? [ She looks up, though she knows the answer. Pinkman. She will still continue to blame him for this lmao ]
momchester: (= don't know she's beautiful)

[personal profile] momchester 2012-09-21 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
No one. That's how it works.

[She linefaces at the communicator in her hand. It literally looks like a prop from the Star Trek series.]

I came here in my nightgown and found this thing in a pocket that never used to exist.
cancersticks: (It feels so empty without me)

[personal profile] cancersticks 2012-09-22 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
But that isn't how things work. [ She scowls, trying to think through her muddled and throbbing mind. ]

Things like this don't just show up. They cost money.
momchester: (= blah blah blah)

[personal profile] momchester 2012-09-23 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Normally. But these are with us when we come here.

I can give you a coupon for a free charger.
cancersticks: (so fuck him and fuck you too!)

[personal profile] cancersticks 2012-09-23 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ She brings her hands up to her face, rubbing her eyes. Maybe if she rubbed hard enough, this would all go back to normal. She'd wake up in her bed again.

Spoiler alert: that doesn't happen. ]


Thank you.
momchester: (= um... the spice girls?)

[personal profile] momchester 2012-09-27 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.

[She feels for this woman. Coming here pregnant- what a horrible thing. Mary isn't even sure that pregnancies can last to term here; her only model is Jinx, and that... she and her husband still haven't cleaned out the empty nursery.

A breeze blows through, picking up and messing their hair.]


As a Newcomer, you get an apartment in that building free for a month.
cancersticks: (i threw a wish in a well)

[personal profile] cancersticks 2012-09-30 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
And then what? They kick us out?

[ Were the laws the same in Canada as they are in America? ]