And Our Next Destination Is... Elpis!

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Hello, folks! Tomorrow, the island will have had its fill of tiny adorable murder bears and flee somewhere a little more... metropolitan. (But not too much. It still remembers Ilium vividly.)

It will settle down, oxygen bubble and all, right on the edge of the city of Concordia, on the moon Elpis AKA Space Australia. Concordia was once simply the moon's biggest spaceport, but after some, uh, less than ethical mining, Elpis experienced an event known only as The Crackening which split its surface and coaxed vast ravines into existence. Now Concordia is the biggest city around.



(for some value of city)

The planet of Pandora hovers high above Concordia, filling up the sky with spectacular if terrifying vistas every day. If staring at the universe's most dangerous planet isn't your thing, though, why not nip indoors to Moxxi's, get stupendously drunk on cocktails that temporarily increase your health, reloading speed, damage regeneration or fire rate, and run the slot machines? (Just don't piss off Moxxi herself. She's more than just a pretty... everything.) If that's not your style, there's the Springs' Emporium of Stuff, where Janey Springs will be happy to sell you junk, help you fix or buy guns, and ramble relentlessly about her awesome badass stoic gladiator girlfriend, Athena.

Other features include Nurse Nina's clinic ('Jab'n'Go'), who'll be happy to patch you up and decontaminate you for a fee, and the Black Market, where you can trade in any moonstones you find for expensive weaponry. Yeowch.

Don't want to stay indoors? Why, with such a beautiful death trap of a moon outside Concordia, who would? Elpis has no oxygen in its atmosphere and a level of gravity that can be referred to as 'very, very bouncy, try not to jump straight over a building', so make sure you grab a complimentary oxygen mask and tank at the causeway if you're planning to head out there. Remember that oxygen is not limitless, so if you plan to be out for long, keep an eye out for Oz kits and oxygenated force fields all over the moon.

That's the pro-you exploring stuff. The anti-you exploring stuff is an exhaustive list that contains, but is not limited to: scavs, kraggons, rathyds, stalkers, threshers, torks, shugguraths-- uh, you get the point. Try not to get killed? Sure, you could rely on those New-U Stations to rebuild your body, but why run the risk?

Questions, comments, pie?

I Never

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It's been a week, I'm on self-enforced vacation from anxiety, and I still feel like memeing. So... meme me. We last did this one in December, so it's about ready to get done again. Woo!

In the immortal words of notmysupervisor, the regular rules are thus:

Everyone know the drinking game "I've Never"? It's basically that.

Tag in with a situation starting with the words "I've never," which can be anything from "I've never sang on the stage at Caritas" to "I've never cut off someone's hand in space." Then, other characters will ping off of it indicating whether they've done it or not. If you have done it, the custom in the drinking game is to, well, drink, which you can express with a succinct *drinks* or something a little more creative. So get those boozing icons ready!

And by all means, ping off of other characters to ask for details on the sordid things they're drinking about. The more detail, the better!

As with any meme, of course, all pings are IC but have no IC consequences.

So get to it! Remember to keep checking back throughout the day to see if any new situations have been added for you to ping to!