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

OTA!

[all_wound_up]

[Nano can be found wandering around the town a few days in, having been yanked from Hinoto-Ri by a random flareup of the Trapezohedron's power. She's lost, confused, and also sort of amazed at the sights and sounds around her - after all, she's never been to a place where robots were commonplace before. She spends a lot of time in particular looking at the robotic horses, as some of them even have clockwork keys like her own sticking out of their sides.]

The horses are robots...? And even some of the people...!

[dogfixation]

Blink blink.

"Is that strange?"

[all_wound_up]

I've never been to a place where that was normal.

[dogfixation]

Canopus considers this, consulting with his parrot friend as he does so.

"...oh. I'm used to robots, so I didn't think about it."

Slight pause.

"My name is Canopus."

[all_wound_up]

My name is Nano. It's nice to meet you, Canopus-san.

[Nano smiles, bowing politely.]

[dogfixation]

The parrot makes an inquisitive parrot sound.

"Ah. This is my friend, Katsudon."

There's a slight pause as Canopus regards Nano - and the key in her back.

"...are you also an Anti-Shadow Combat Unit?"

[all_wound_up]

Anti-Shadow...?

[Now where has she heard that before...]

Do you know Labrys?

[dogfixation]

Shaking his head no.

"I only know my brother Sirius. All the other Combat Units were decommissioned."

[all_wound_up]

Decommissioned?

[dogfixation]

Nod nod.

"The Kirijo Group is not very good at making robots."

[all_wound_up]

But... but that's like killing them!

[dogfixation]

"Exactly."

Now you're getting it!

[all_wound_up]

That's terrible! Why would they do that?

[dogfixation]

"Mitsuru's grandfather wanted to end the world."

A slight pause as he consults with Katsudon.

"I don't think he was very smart."

[all_wound_up]

Those poor robots... it wasn't their fault they were built by someone like that. I'm sure they just wanted to live...

[dogfixation]

Yes yes yes very tragic.

"You still haven't answered my question. Are you an Anti-Shadow Unit?"

[all_wound_up]

N-no...

[Nano shakes her head, still frowning and looking terribly distraught.]

[dogfixation]

"So you aren't my sister, then."

Slight pause for thought.

"I think that makes you the first robot I've ever met that isn't related to me."

[pinkutau]

[Speaking of robots...here's one with just the same sort of question.]

Are they so unusual where you come from?


[Granted, she herself isn't exactly accustomed to machinery of this kind, to say nothing of the modded horses...]

[all_wound_up]

I'm the only robot I know of in the world I come from.

[pinkutau]

I see...

[Must be difficult.]

I'm quite accustomed to them. I'm a machine life-form myself, and I used to live among many others.

But these designs are quite unusual...

[all_wound_up]

Unusual...?

[Nano shuffles her feet, suddenly self-conscious of the key in her back, especially considering she saw at least one wind-up horse before.]

What do you mean?

[pinkutau]

The aesthetic. It seems to be built on steam-related technology...I don't see it very much, but I know it exists.

[She seems to become ever-so-slightly more fixated on the clockwork types around her...]

It's fascinating. Even the humanoids are modified so...

[all_wound_up]

I've never seen anything like it before. It's a little exciting, even though it's so different.

[pinkutau]

[Just as you see - Momo seems quite pleased.]

I completely agree. It's enough to make me want to stay for a while, so long as nothing terrible is waiting.