destinystrings | 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!]

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[Wait. That voice.]

Akihiko-senpai?!

[Now she tries to swivel to get a look at him.]

[Akihiko has to lean back a little when the girl whirls around to look at him, and he again blinks at her with some confusion -- this time at the familiarity in her voice and the particular way she had address him.

He hadn't been called something like that in a long time.]

Yes?

[now she just stares. It's definitely Akihiko, but -
He's older. She can't be sure how much older exactly but he's definitely old enough to have graduated university by now.
...Then there's also the pesky matter of him clearly not recognizing her at all. Wherever and whenever this Aki had come from, it 's apparently not her timeline.]

Um... sorry about that. [she apologizes again.]
You're Akihiko Sanada, right...? I'm Minako - Minako Arisato

[He's dealt with teenagers recently enough to not feel odd about talking to one, so he shakes his head faintly at the apology before focusing on what she's actually saying.]

...Minako Arisato? [His brows draw together as he dwells on that name. It was so close to a name that was very familiar to him.]

[yeah... and it's close for a reason.]

You... may have known my brother. Minato Arisato.

[He leans back unconsciously at the response, his surprise clear on his face. To think he'd be hearing about him after all this time.]

I didn't know he had a sister.

[Minako nods. This conversation again.. But she's had it so many times now (with him, too) that it doesn't hurt anymore. Or so she says.]

That's because time works pretty strangely here, senpai.

...The brother I remember died along with our parents. And for the Minato you knew, it was the opposite.

So it's ... alternate universes?

[He glances around at his surrounding, frowning. Well, if he could be brought into an entirely different world like this, who was he to reject the possibility of alternate universes?

But if that was the case...]

Then you met me-- the other me-- in high school. Back in Gekkoukan.

[How's that for a leap in logic?]

[Not too huge of one, considering she keeps calling him 'senpai'.]

That's right! Though... it looks like that was a while ago for you.

[It's still a significant leap of logic for him. One step at a time.]

Yeah, that's right. Ten years.

[...Give him a moment while he thinks back on that time a little more...]

So does that mean you and Takeba were ... in the hotel...?

[...........................]

Why is that the first thing you're asking about?

[...to be fair she'd wondered about Minato's experience at the love hotel herself but. Akihiko.]

[It seems like a fairly obvious reason to him. And he doesn't notice that ... reaction from Minako.]

It already seemed like an odd place to go in with two guys and two girls. ...Then if Minato wasn't there, it just seems inappropriate.

[...Yeah.]

[Akihiko....]

There was a Shadow there. Appropriateness had nothing to do with it.

[Or are you calling Mitsuru inappropriate for organizing the mission.]

[Well, that was true, at least... He nods faintly, still contemplating -- not just on that moment, but that whole year.]

So that's a yes?

If you must know... You and I were in one room, and Mitsuru and Yukari-chan were in the other.

[She'd promised to keep it a secret, but that probably didn't include from himself.

Make of it what you will, Akihiko.]

[Well, it's not like Minato went around telling the story of what had happened. So he just cups his chin thoughtfully.]

Sounds like you had a hard time. I can be a heavy sleeper.

[There's even an apologetic note to his voice.]

That wasn't a problem.

[Akihiko.......]

That's good. It's not one of my best qualities.

[But he does seem to relax, now that it's better established who he's talking to here.]

It's nice to meet you, Arisato. It's too bad we didn't get a chance to meet before.

[Let's just... move on to this other topic, even if it's a bit more depressing.]

It's all right. I'm just happy you were there to help my brother.

[It takes a moment longer for him to properly understand the full weight of Minako's explanation. If they had basically switched places...]

So it happened to you, too? [A pause as he considers how to clarify.] You became that seal?

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