From One City to Another [Open post event info and start]

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Who: Everyone (guests and non-guests alike)
Where: Geartopia
Summary: Event in City start!
Warnings: Cowboys and Gears
EVENT INFO: Read about it here if you're a new comer!

The Mayoress keeps her word, and the Visitors are whisked away and changed into more suitable clothing for this world, free of charge. As they step down from the portal -- a stark contrast to the last time it was used, a giant man standing easily over eight feet tall and resembling a mammoth takes out a piece of string and measures everyone for their complimentary hat, vest, goggles and boots, as a small team works nearby to adjust the sizes of the materials they already have. It's rather interesting to see them at work, cutting with iron scissors - a spiderlady using her own silken string along with a robot aide to patch things up. Before long, you are given an outfit that's been tailor-fit for you.

Hopefully you aren't too arachnophobic, she's a nice old lady.

Once that's all done, the Mayoress speaks up.

"Come with us, please!"

Robotic horses and chariots draw them into the middle of the town, as a small map is given to everyone, but it's overly simple at best.

As they arrive in the town square, a look around reveals that the people here seem to be a mixture of humans, humanoid animals that have evolved, and robots. The feeling is very Old West, but with it all kept at a simple level despite the advance technology present. Compared to Hinoto-Ri and its lights, bright city and atmosphere, Geartopia feels like it falls on the opposite end of the spectrum. There's barely anything that would make you think of a modern city.

Which is why those that don't look like they belong stand out even more than you do.

Confused people from various worlds, not meant to have landed here... but currently with no way to go home, are stuck in Geartopia, violently torn from whatever they had been doing.

"We ain't sure what happened," she tells the Visitors, shaking her head. "But the past three days have been nothin' more than a giant mess! And they keep pilin' up. We need you to help us figure out what's happenin’!"

As they continue towards the town's center, she gives a bit more explanation: Once, long ago, Geartopia was built by aliens visiting the planet that granted intelligence to some native species. That includes her kind! The giant black obsidian monoliths humming precariously outside of town are an example of that. Normally the rocks only work when they need to contact other worlds. Three days ago, they started to glow, and that's when others began to appear here. People that had not been planned for. And they were still coming in, too...

The technology the elder aliens left them allows them to contact other planets during times of distress, but otherwise, there is nothing futuristic going on - the aliens wanted it this way and for the most part, the population respects this. Most of the area is dry and arid, with very tiny grass and shrubs growing over the hill, and, strangely enough, an area from town that is densely populated by forest.

They'll need your strange and powerful manpower in the upcoming days… just like twenty years ago, when the previous mayoress had called upon great heroes for aid.

[OOC Info about Geartopia:

- Saloon and bars of all sizes. Most are comically named with an object and a color. You can find all sorts of them across town. The shadier ones can be found at the far end of the west.

- There are hotels with gear-driven pianos playing wistful tunes as you drink hard liquor made from cactus juice, honey and barley. The honey wine is especially prized and costly.

- There is also a small carnival with a steampunk and old west fair, sugar and cactus fruit pies, whole animals roasted over open pits, musicians, and a single wooden coaster. It's not much, but the food is excellent.

- Be careful, however. The cactus fruit does cause stomach aches for most people not native to this world.

- There are farms around here, if you feel like having real food and doing honest work.

- The general store has steampunk items for sale, but most of them are much too expensive for the visitors at this point. You can try to barter.

- Oh, and news travels fast. Cause problems, and the rumors will travel to the mayoress fast enough.

- Start posts with Open or Closed depending on what you want to do!

RP VISITORS NOT FROM STRINGS: Here’s your own situation: Your character showed up here anytime from the 4th to the 16th and they have no idea why. They just popped out from their own place and popped in here. HAVE FUN!]

Comments

Open!

[greatseal]

[Minako is rocking her new steampunk outfit, even if she does think the goggles look a little silly. Especially combined with the hat! She actually ends up abandoning the hat and perches the goggles on top of her head.

Once that is settled, she sets out to explore the immediate area, following the map. Anyone she happens to run into and recognizes will end up dragged invited along as well. Hinoto-ri doesn't give many chances for out-of-town vacations, and Minako wants to enjoy this one as much as she can.]

[myimmortal]

[Unfortunately what she finds is someone with the strangest hairdo and..are those horns sticking out of her hair or just really weird spikes? Who knows.

It's like the first second she's not there and now she is, placing a hand over her shoulder and smiling.]

Hello, Minako Arisato!

[...Oh okay she knows her name too, that's not ominous at all.]

[greatseal]

[Definitely not ominous. Minako turns, but she's pretty sure she would remember someone with such a... unique taste in hairstyles.

Still, politeness counts.]

Hello!

[...] I'm sorry, have we met before...?

[myimmortal]

Nope! But you told me your name, so that's how I knew!

[This makes no sense whatsoever. She does not seem too perturbed by this.]

...But you can call me Bob!

[all_wound_up]

Minako-san!

[Oh good, a familiar face. Nano was starting to worry she'd have to explore this new town on her own. For her own part, she's wearing all of the cowboy gear they were given - and it looks exactly as silly as Minako thought.]

[greatseal]

Hey, Nano-chan!

[.....it does look pretty silly, but Nano can pull it off. The key actually helps her blend in with the locals even better.] Having fun so far?

[all_wound_up]

It's very different from Hinoto-Ri. I never expected to see so many other robots.

[greatseal]

I think it's pretty fascinating. We didn't have robots everywhere like this back home, either. [Just one very special robot.]

[all_wound_up]

It really is amazing. I look almost normal here.

Sorry for the late reply!

[doudemoe]

[Still exploring the place, with a better understanding of the situation. So when he sees Minako, he's kind of surprised to find her here.

All dressed up too. She doesn't waste any time getting into the local flavor. Not that she doesn't look great in it, but they need to be serious here.]

Minako.

1/?

[greatseal]

[Hearing her name called isn't too unexpected. There are a lot of people from Hinoto-ri milling about, after all.]

2/?

[greatseal]

[But the voice itself doesn't register until she turns, and actually sees the shock of blue hair.]

......

Minato?

3/4

[greatseal]

[Was it really him?

It looked like him, but that didn't mean anything necessarily. He could be the Minato Miki knew, after all.

But...


He'd called her Minako.]

4/4

[greatseal]

[which meant, the only proper reaction was-]

You idiot!

[doudemoe]

[--? Where did that come from? Have a baffled look on your not!brother's face.]

1/3

[greatseal]

Don't even try to give me that look.

[Minako looks impressively unimpressed at Minato's nonreaction and then-]

2/3

[greatseal]

[punches him in the shoulder]

3/3

[greatseal]

[...and then she gives up and just... hugs him as tightly as she can.]

1/2

[doudemoe]

[...Okay, what did he do? Minako usually isn't this...tsundere.]

[doudemoe]

[Whatever it is though, he's not going to stop her from hugging him. From how strongly she's holding him, somehow he feels she really needs it. He even places his hands around her shoulders, hoping to support her. That and he can't resist hugging her.]

Sorry, what did I do?

[greatseal]

[...Does he really not know?

But then, if he'd really gone home - gone back... to the Seal... it makes sense that he wouldn't realize just how much time had passed.]

You're late. You've been gone for months!

[doudemoe]

[Nope. He doesn't. And her answer only confuses him more.]

What do you mean?

[greatseal]

[...]

You left Hinoto-ri last April. It's October now.

[He doesn't even remember vanishing at all?]

[doudemoe]

[...No one in Mayfield vanishes. They just give into their programming completely and never regain their senses. The next clone may retain their memories, they may not, but the old one is as good as dead.

So he really is in a new world. One with a possibly different Minako than he knows. Crap.]

Is that where we are?

[greatseal]

Of course not.

[What are you even talking about, bro.] This is a different world - like that other time everyone disappeared from the city for a while, I think. We arrived here to figure out... well, why people are arriving here.