Multiversal travel can be disorienting, but there’s no need to worry! All side effects are temporary and lessen with each trip. Your body may experience several sensations at once: being pushed forward as if a hand is resting on your back, momentary and startling blindness, a gentle ringing in your head. You may have difficulty discerning whether it is hot or cold, but where you have been prodded is noticeably warmer than the rest of you. Some may suffer dizziness while others are perfectly fine. You notice that the area you are in is filled with a soft cerulean light and feels slightly humid and dark despite the glow around you. Regardless of your current state, however, the stress of transit forces your body into unconsciousness.
Waking up is another story. Or maybe it isn’t.
You find yourself in a nondescript room; sometimes with others who have found themselves in the same situation, sometimes alone. Welcome to Avagi Station, your new home.
Avagi
That First Step, it is a Doozy:
There are always risks to exploring new environments and Avagi is rich with new nooks and crannies to explore. You’re checking out a new corridor that’s been opened, though there have been signs warning that there are areas where structural stability has been weakened by neglect and the passage of time. But maybe things have been going well, you’ve found a few interesting things of note and you’re ready to head back to your bunk for the day.
Except when you turn to leave, the floor is giving way without a screech of metal. Hopefully you’ve got some good reflexes and can catch yourself before you topple down a shaft that seems to go down at least thirty or forty feet. Do you call for help or struggle to handle it on your own? And more importantly, how are you getting around this giant hole in the floor now that it’s there?
The Buddy System:
In order to help new arrivals find their bearings the more experienced residents on board have decided to try out the buddy system in order until the new arrivals get their space legs. The guide is responsible for answering any questions, showing them all the important facilities and making sure their new friend doesn’t wander anywhere too dangerous. And what better way to get to know your buddy than to try and help them find all the supplies they need to be comfortable in their new home? Hopefully the barter blocks have some clothes in your size or else it could get a little bit awkward come laundry day.
Shining Bright:
The Observation Station is the best place on Avagi to get a look at the storm that rages all around. However today when you stop by there’s something strange and new to look upon. It’s not clear if it’s a change in the environment or perhaps an effect of the living energy that opens the portals but the entire room is filled with softly glowing floating lights. If you venture into the room and dare to touch one of the lights you’ll find that you find a song playing in your mind that fills you with a deep and abiding sense of peace. What you do with that feeling is up to you but it seems that these lights aren’t going to cause any harm then why not let yourself relax in a beautiful space for a little while?
Kaittos
This month there is a portal to the planet Kaittos, a peaceful world containing one large land mass and a scattering of lived-on islands across a clear blue ocean. On the mainland, a large city-state occupies the central region and southern coast and resembles what some travelers from some versions of Earth might know of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Bustling and lively, the city is clean and well provided-for due to the temperate climate and the bountiful natural resources found on its northern side; orchards, farms and forests extend into the distance, butting up against a small mountain range. The technology level is low compared to Avagi, with carriages and candles in place rather than cars and electric lights, but the craftsmen of the world have managed some very impressive mechanical feats.
Kaittans, the local residents of the world appear somewhat humanoid, but the bipedal race has hooves rather than feet, silvery skin and three eyes with vertical pupils. Although there is no sign of any other sentient species in the world, the locals are nonetheless excited to meet their guests, rather than suspicious or afraid; for some reason, they are not surprised that aliens exist, merely that they are here.
Visitors are encouraged to explore the city and partake in an exchange of goods and ideas, to share their culture and stories with the locals. Perhaps there’s a merchant willing to trade a bauble for a story or you want to try something entirely unknown to your palette in the culinary quarter. The possibilities, while not quite limitless, are enough to keep the curious busy for quite a while.
[ Stan wants to say yes very badly. Maybe the other would stop being so negative but then again it could just lead to a lot more fretting and so, Stan settles for a shrug in answer instead of an actual answer. Sorry Eddie.
He goes to grab his back, carefully pushing the kickstand back up in his deliberate way and climbing onto his bike after walking it near to Eddie. ]
(He says this with some flourish, pulling his bike up under him, kicking back onto his feet to wag the bike back and forth between his legs. It's a dumb thing to do, but it's fun because of how the rubber of his wheel bounces out and it reminds him a little bit of hero action-poses seen on some comics and movie posters.
He pops the bike back down and climbs right on back up, pushing off. He rides effortlessly on the path to the ice cream stand Rogue had shown him. Kid had a compass built into his head, not a lick of confusion or doubt as he tracked his way along. They arrive soon enough and Eddie climbs off his bike.)
It's blue and tastes kinda like fruit. Not totally ice cream, but it's a lot like it.
[ There's really nothing else that needs to be said and Stan follows Eddie toward the ice cream stand. He's rather excited. He likes ice cream after all and it seems like the other knows exactly what he's doing so Stan doesn't really question it. Luckily, the trek wasn't even that long and he dismounts his bike, again deliberately putting the kickstand down. ]
That sounds weird but cool. [ He's not sure how that works at all but if Eddie's into it then he doesn't have much reason to doubt it... probably. ]
(Now that Eddie wasn't having a partial meltdown over seeing a good friend, he thinks to put his own kickstand down. See, Stan, he can be responsible too. Then again, the two of them got on real well most of the time.)
It's only a little bit cool.
(Definitely not. At least Stan knows it won't kill him. Eddie is eager to show off this new treat though, and he's got some things to trade in, so he heads right on up. He's been getting the ice cream for a couple days now (on his birthday, he had eaten way too much, but he had been alone- so no one could blame him) and knew the order by now. He holds up two fingers, ordering a dish of blue, almost frozen yogurt looking stuff but not quite, and finally turns around to hold out Stan's portion.)
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He goes to grab his back, carefully pushing the kickstand back up in his deliberate way and climbing onto his bike after walking it near to Eddie. ]
Are you?
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(He says this with some flourish, pulling his bike up under him, kicking back onto his feet to wag the bike back and forth between his legs. It's a dumb thing to do, but it's fun because of how the rubber of his wheel bounces out and it reminds him a little bit of hero action-poses seen on some comics and movie posters.
He pops the bike back down and climbs right on back up, pushing off. He rides effortlessly on the path to the ice cream stand Rogue had shown him. Kid had a compass built into his head, not a lick of confusion or doubt as he tracked his way along. They arrive soon enough and Eddie climbs off his bike.)
It's blue and tastes kinda like fruit. Not totally ice cream, but it's a lot like it.
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That sounds weird but cool. [ He's not sure how that works at all but if Eddie's into it then he doesn't have much reason to doubt it... probably. ]
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It's only a little bit cool.
(Definitely not. At least Stan knows it won't kill him. Eddie is eager to show off this new treat though, and he's got some things to trade in, so he heads right on up. He's been getting the ice cream for a couple days now (on his birthday, he had eaten way too much, but he had been alone- so no one could blame him) and knew the order by now. He holds up two fingers, ordering a dish of blue, almost frozen yogurt looking stuff but not quite, and finally turns around to hold out Stan's portion.)
Careful. It can stain your mouth.
(Ask him how he knows.)