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

April Sinclair | OC + TVK

[technologic]

[Being suddenly flung from one place to another was not something April is okay with. One minute she was in Prospero, next she's... Where is she? It's like one of those old movies she would watch when she was bored.]

Hello? Can anyone tell me what's going on?

[And anyone who can sense a Persona would be able to tell that she has one.]

[gaveupfeeling]

[Sorry, April. Her husband is going to be uncharacteristic for a moment and, upon spotting her, come up and hug her.]

[technologic]

[Blink, blink. And then she hugs back tightly, almost clinging to him.]

... I-I'm glad y-you're here, Ledah.

[gaveupfeeling]

Likewise. I worried when I couldn't find you.

[technologic]

[April pulls back just enough so that she can kiss him on the cheek.]

S-same here... I probably would have panicked i-if I didn't f-find you...

[gaveupfeeling]

[He takes her hands in his and squeezes them.]

Do you know anything about this place?

[technologic]

[She gives his hands a squeeze back as she looks around.]

N-not really, besides that this place looks like something from those old western movies... H-have you seen anyone else from Prospero?

[gaveupfeeling]

Ein and Saori, so far. Perhaps there will be others.

I haven't watched many western movies. Should I have?

[technologic]

[April perks up at the mention of Saori, and then she giggles quietly at what he says.]

N-nah. They don't really tell you much besides that they wore hats a lot, and got into gunfights over everything... We could take a look around, though.

[needsteaplz]

[Saori looked up when she heard a voice she hadn't heard in what felt like ages. She lifted up the brim of her hat, revealing more of her face.]

A-April?!

[She runs over and gives her little sister a hug.]

Oh, April! I never thought I'd ever see you again!

[technologic]

S-Saori...? [She squeaks when she's pulled into a hug, blinking in surprise as she returns it. And then she tightens it when she realizes it really is her.]

S-Saori! I missed you s-so much when you l-left!

[needsteaplz]

I know, I know...Not a day goes by when I worry for you guys! Margulis told me I had left.

[Nope, not letting go yet.]

[technologic]

[That's good, since April has no plans to let go yet either.]

I-I'm so glad I got to see you again... I-I-I was s-so scared that I-I wouldn't be able to.

[needsteaplz]

I get the feeling this is only a temporary thing but this gives me a lot of hope. I wish I could bring you and everyone in Prospero with me but I don't think I'd be allowed to.

[technologic]

... W-why do you think you wouldn't be allowed to?

[needsteaplz]

I didn't get sent back to my own world. Instead, I was pulled into another version of Earth, far into the future. The Initiative, the ones who brought me there, they're the only ones who can do that. Plus, we've hit a hard patch ourselves.

[technologic]

Huh? W-what happened?

[babel_hacker]

April!

[A familiar voice calls out, before Atsuro runs over towards her. He looks about the same as ever, right down to that hat he always wear.]

[technologic]

Huh- Atsuro?

[She stares at him in surprise, blinking a few times.]

... I-I didn't think I would see you again, y-you were gone for months...

[babel_hacker]

It's great to see you too, but...gone for months?

[It doesn't take him that long to know what she means. To be honest, he almost expected it. If the others went home, he's just as susceptible. And he feels like he was jinxing it back when he start looking for helpers with the Shadow Database, in case he was absent...]

Did I went home as well?

[technologic]

Y-yeah, you did... A lot of people got sent home. [She rubs the back of her neck with a sigh.] But it looks like people from Prospero are being brought here...

[babel_hacker]

Thought so. I was wondering when it's my turn again but didn't return. [Since he was gone for more than a week.] If it's just us, I can understand why. We're non-natives with powers.

[Is it safe to mention Personas?]

[technologic]

[April nods, rubbing the back of her neck.] Well... It's certainly an odd change, either way. Though things weren't going so well back in Prospero.

[babel_hacker]

Oh? What happened while I was gone?

[He's not idealistic enough to think things went well.]

[technologic]

Things just... Came to a standstill. No matter how much we tried, we just couldn't really progress and find out more. It was pretty frustrating.