Instructions: Post your character with one post establishing them as being podpopped. Tag each other in groups of 2's, 3's, and 4's, to get some interaction to start with. If a thread doesn't already have 2 or 3 people tagged in, tag it with your character's podpop popping near the other people, rather than making a new subthread. If you would like to play out them talking to the AI, please send an email to the mods making the request--we do this only by request. Then move onto the big Newbie Meeting. Once your character has gotten the rundown from the old crew, you may start posting entrance posts and freely tagging.]


||Pod Release Protocols Initating|| Stacy's familiar voice sounds out to all the podmates through the ship.

In the Pod Caverns, there are the sounds of: Pop. Pop pop pop. Poppuhpoppoppop. KASCHUNKhiiiiiiiissssss.

There is condensation and mist spraying out from cracks in the pods, as the people inside slide out onto the floors, covered in slime.

--

( There was nothing... )

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home.

Several people are set up near the doors to provide the new people with omnicoms and comm rings. They are also told they must read information about their current situation and a survival guide with their new omnicom. New crew-mates might see a tall dragonish guy with wings (but don't call him that) and purple girl among their number. There are also several authoritative-looking figures ready to introduce themselves.

There's a lot to tell the new people. It's going to be a lot to take in.

[ooc: Only new characters and Command Staff can start new threads for introductions, to limit the number of threads. Everyone else, just tag in and have your guys greet the newbies.]

Danny was, quite frankly, irritated beyond all belief. A little bit after his clone/cousin/sister Dani had been repodded, he too had been dumped back into podsleep for who knew how long. And really, it had been horrifying enough the first time. He hadn't really wanted to repeat the experience. But of course Stacy, GlaDOS, or maybe just his avia had other plans.

He stalked his way back up to Weapons and Possesions, and, diving straight into the piles of junk, started looking for his stuff.

"Nope, nope, nope, come on, where is that dang Fenton Thermos?" Danny muttered, elbow deep in a box

The setting was a familiar cafe in the middle of the Digital World, one populated with digimon of all kinds. It was here that Taichi lead his new team towards it. "Here we go, order whatever you want. Which means dreaming up whatever you want. The sensoriums'll do the rest."

"Once we're settled in, I'll explain everything but I think we've got hungry digimon with us," said Taichi as an afterthought. "Sensoriums create food so you can eat here, but there's no taking it outside it so you have to eat here to taste it."

"I'm leaving the door open, in case anyone else comes in. Let's greet everyone we can too."

(ooc: tag around, threadjack with permission, etc. Have fun.)

"I don't believe this," Tenaya said once she'd gotten to meet who Stacy had podpopped for her. "Sure, she could have popped, oh, say, my brother, but Stacy thinks to bring you?"

She was going to be annoyed, thanks. Dr. K was a genius, but there was the whole thing where she'd played a very loud violin to defeat Tenaya. Twice.

"So I guess I've got to take you out on a date or something now, right?"

Visitation Day came and went and Goliath still had not seen any of his clan in what felt like, and might have been, years. He still had not seen Elisa since she was nearly killed in his sleep, then vanished angry at him. There had been several times like these before, when the gathering of new crew members has been too painful for him to attend, knowing that his clan would come from elsewhere and at other times, and so podpops offered him only one chance at reunion with a loved one.

Disappointment had settled on him again, and he warded it off with productiveness. Elisa's car shone with the evidence of regular care, but the rest of the castle needed maintaining. He would invite more people in to work in the gardens, dispose of more of Xanatos' things - but first, he felt there was more still to gain by researching the Mayan sun amulet that he hoped could give him control over his waking and sleeping. It would be a good idea to contact Lupin again, but at the moment, it it pleased Goliath to conduct his research in solitude.

Deep in his reading in Castle Wyvern's library, he didn't hear footsteps until the door had already been opened behind him.

[EDIT: Subthreads now open for other characters to comment, starting with the Drunken Dragon]

There was a major difference in Aqua now that Terra was here, if only for a day. While she'd gotten a lot better since she'd first woken on the ship, the stress that was always present within her seemed to be gone, and the lingering darkness that had haunted her ever since Xehanort had forced her and her friends apart had lifted.

"I thought you might want to see a little more of the ship than just the house," she said. "The City's always a good place to start."