Even if Kang hadn't already decided to stay by the tavern, he wouldn't have been able to get very far from it before running into hordes of robots. They'd moved into the City quick (or had they been there all along?), and several were making a beeline that way, from all directions in an attempt to completely surround it, their intentions clear.

Cursing, he rushed over to the other building, where he happened to live, to grab his armor and weapons. He'd gotten out of the habit of carrying more than his dagger when he was in the tavern itself; that was something that was no longer going to happen. By the time he got back downstairs, he could already hear their approach, and he hoped that others would show soon. It was one of the slow hours, with little to no patrons.

[Planning thread is here.]

Lightning was restless.

It was a relatively normal state for her to be in, especially since she felt almost like she stuck out like a sore thumb among the crew of strangers, not having found her "niche" yet. It didn't help she'd been lucky enough to completely miss out on a big and violent event, whisked off to run mazes instead.

( and you can't hold me down; )

Snow was in a great mood. But Snow was always in a pretty good mood when Serah was happy - and Serah was happy just to be around him, so that alwaya worked out. But seeing her face, how absolutely ecstatic she was when they spotted Lightning on the Observation Deck ... they were pretty lucky, he thought. And in that joyous moment when he thought things couldn't get any better, Snow had heard Sazh's voice in the crowd. They were all waking up, one after the next, slowly but surely. It gave Snow hope that more would be following suit soon enough. The Obs Deck had cleared and there had been no more familiar faces to see, but he knew for sure that next time, they'd repeat the cycle.

When things had finally calmed some - enough that at least the newly awakened Lightning and Sazh could find their bearings, it was an easy choice to help the two get acquainted with the ship and her layout, Snow and Serah decided. So into the city the couple led them, on the way pointing out corridors and transportation tubes, explaining where everything could and would lead if they wanted to get somewhere or explore anything more in-depth themselves down the line. Snow pointed out the places he knew as they walked through the city. "Oh yeah, that's Le Prefecture, where the Council usually has their meetings. Uh, I'm not actually sure what that castle's supposed to be," he said when he gestured over to Castle Wyvern. "And that's the Atori Teahouse - bet you can't guess what that's for!"

For all intents and purposes, this was a perfectly normal tour of the city.

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. New crew-mates might see a tall man in green armor and snake 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.]

[ooc: Newbie Helpers List | 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... )

[ooc: Newbie Helpers List | 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 Initiating|| 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... )

Stacy's voice speaks over the whole of the ship. What she has to say has become very familiar over the the podlings have spent here.

||Pod Release Protocols Initiating,|| she says. ||Please proceed to the Observation Deck to meet your new crew mates.||

Those crew members that don't head to the Obs Deck on their own are hurried there via gentle but insistent tentacles. A few people stop by Engineering to help bring and pass out omnicoms and comm rings to the new crew members as well.

[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.]