Thanks...<br/><br/>*edits*<br/><br/><hr/><br/>I sent this in a PM to some of the new players, but here it is again.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>New Arrivals Guide:</strong></span><br/><br/>All new arrivals, for now, are to post in the "Martian Surface" thread. (If this changes I will say so here).<br/><br/>Please be as creative as you like, but do try and follow the pattern of what has gone before. There will be a welcoming committee outside the base waiting for you all, and to help unload the shuttle.<br/><br/>Several important things to note and that you may wish to include your characters' reactions to in youir opening posts:<br/><br/>1) You are on a NEW WORLD! Be awe struck!<br/>2) There isn't much air and what there is will kill you. You are therefore wearing a pressurised environment suit.<br/>3) The sky is PINK, and the ground is ORANGE!<br/>4) You have only been out of deep sleep for a few hours - the last thing you remember was climbing into a sleep pod as the ship orbited Earth.<br/>5) The shuttle ride down was a bit like riding a roller coaster but without any rails under it!  The ride started in zero gravity.<br/>6) Mars has 1/3 the gravity of Earth. Things fall at 1/3rd the speed they do on Earth.<br/>7) Instead of being the size if a ping-pong ball held at arms length, the sun is the size of a pea held at arms length.<br/><br/>And please remember: If you park your character in a corner and wait for someone to come up and say hi, no-one will. This happened to several players from the first wave and they just dropped out. If you go up to the others and say Hi, they will say "Hi" back...<br/><br/>See you on Mars...<br/>