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

[zouichi]

Alan poked his head out of Lash's hair, looking slightly dazed but otherwise no worse for the wear. After a moment, he screwed his beady eyes shut, apparently lulled into a state of drowsiness by the warmth and familiarity of his surroundings.

Zouichi put a gloved hand to his temple and sighed.

"Okay, well. To answer your question, I'm not really sure how I got here. Probably a lot like how Lash did, only I had just about the worst dream about a decrepit old robot that liked to host science experiments in its basement, and... I guess that doesn't really matter. What's up with the decor?"

[oncearanger]

"I was back on my Earth, working on a top secret invention that could have changed our whole future. Apparently that's less important than returning to this life," Billy sighed, pushing himself upright and brushing the sand from his mechanic's coveralls.

He shared part of Simon's smile, though. "But I did miss you too."

[daswunderkind]

"Wait a minute...whose the old guy? D'you know us or something?"

Yes she missed all of you guys too. (Well sort of, you were still on the ship, as far as she knew.) Lash attempted to shoo her parroty cargo away as she asked her question, but her efforts were in vain.

[justadigger]

"I see," Simon answers to Zouichi and Billy before Lash's question gets his full attention. He glances down at himself, then laughs a bit. "I suppose I do look a bit different without the coat and goggles," he starts before smirking in that particularly cocky manner he was so prone to do. "Come now, though - you can't tell me you've forgotten who helped take down that spider robot here, or who ran against you in the council elections!" There's a beat, and his grin widens before he gets a little more boisterous. "Just who the hell do you think I am?" His voice is deeper and rougher than folks would remember, but likely just familiar enough.

[zouichi]

Lash's attempt to shoo Alan resulted in the parrot rolling over, so that his feet were now comically sticking up into the air and out of Lash's hair. So Zouichi made his way over to Lash to carefully extricate the bird.

Who's a good bird? Who's a good bird? (Protip: It was Alan.)

"Well, it looks like things here turned out all right. Wonder if anyone from our last visit's still around."

[oncearanger]

"I wasn't exactly here last time, so I'm not sure," Billy murmured, stretching his arms and glancing around at their surroundings.

"How dangerous was the situation then?"

SO RL hit me

[daswunderkind]

"Oooooh!" Okay now she remembered him. "You look...soo old!" She was a bastion of humility and politeness, that one.

(Protip: Gdit Alan)

"Well there was a stampede and cowboys and poker and basically it was pretty wild and dangerous and totally awesome!"

Let's never ask Lash to gauge what is good or bad because it will most certainly end up in how it is the greatest thing ever despite the fact that it was probably close to death a couple of times. At least she was filled with positive thinking!

"Well if Simon's old now I can't wait to see what other people around here look like!"