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.
[Thankfully, Kurt's enhanced senses pick up on the 'help' before Stan ends up in a pile on the ground below.]
Hang on, [he reassures, barely sparing a glance down before leaping onto the wall.
Which doesn't occur to him might frighten Stan; he's assuming the boy would rather be back on his feet, instead of-- well, not being alive? He gingerly slinks across the wall and offers his tail out.] Okay, I know you're probably a bit freaked out right now, but can we lose it after I've got you back on a solid surface?
[ The leaping person shocks him, though the voice otherwise might have been reassuring a sense of panic was already rising and just escalates then. His grip nearly slips as he tries to figure out exactly what he's looking at and what they did. ]
Is that a tail...
[ He's definitely freaked out? What if this is a trick? Regardless, he doesn't see many other options and his grip is already slipping and he doesn't really want to be Mashed Stantoes today. ]
[Sigh. Do they really have time for this? He already told you to contain yourself for now, Stan!
Regardless, Kurt shakes his head, withdraws the tail and offers his tri-fingered hand out instead.] Would you rather this? Either way, you can grab on or slip and I catch you then.
[Pardon his (haha) curtness, but he'd rather not have to explain why he had a child almost lose their life in his presence because of fright.] But ja, it's a tail, to answer your earlier question.
[ Look, his curiosity is hard to contain. He just can't help himself sometimes.
The tail's still unnatural and he's torn between not wanting to believe it and being offended by it and well not wanting to die... Oh god his hand too...
So, he reaches out and grabs the hand since it's the one that's offered now and well it feels more normal than grabbing a tail. ]
[To be fair, he has problems containing his own curiosity, so he's got no room to judge on that. A life or death situation may not be the best time to ponder such things, though.
Stan's hand takes his own and Kurt firmly grasps it, pulls the boy up to where he'll be able to loop both arms around his shoulders.] Hang on, [he commands, waiting until he knows there's a secure grip around him.]
And I highly recommend that you close your eyes.
[Meaning, "Don't look down," even though saying it usually has the adverse effect.]
[ Stan wonders how the other's so strong and nimble and then wonders if he's human...and then he's wondering if he's real, if anything is real or if he's just crazy. It's highly uncomfortable and well his fear is lessened all the same with the other grasping him. Stan finds Kurt easier to hold onto and obeys quietly for now.
The start of 'why' begins but he clamps his mouth shut instead and squeezes his eyes shut and just follows the good advice for once. ]
[He waits a moment longer, making sure Stan is absolutely secure before easing into scaling across the spanse of the wall toward a more stable part of the floor. It feels like an eternity, but once they are there, Kurt raises a hand and pats Stan's shoulder, signaling that he can look.]
After you open your eyes, put your feet straight down beneath you.
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Hang on, [he reassures, barely sparing a glance down before leaping onto the wall.
Which doesn't occur to him might frighten Stan; he's assuming the boy would rather be back on his feet, instead of-- well, not being alive? He gingerly slinks across the wall and offers his tail out.] Okay, I know you're probably a bit freaked out right now, but can we lose it after I've got you back on a solid surface?
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[ The leaping person shocks him, though the voice otherwise might have been reassuring a sense of panic was already rising and just escalates then. His grip nearly slips as he tries to figure out exactly what he's looking at and what they did. ]
Is that a tail...
[ He's definitely freaked out? What if this is a trick? Regardless, he doesn't see many other options and his grip is already slipping and he doesn't really want to be Mashed Stantoes today. ]
Am I supposed to hold that?
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Regardless, Kurt shakes his head, withdraws the tail and offers his tri-fingered hand out instead.] Would you rather this? Either way, you can grab on or slip and I catch you then.
[Pardon his (haha) curtness, but he'd rather not have to explain why he had a child almost lose their life in his presence because of fright.] But ja, it's a tail, to answer your earlier question.
[Will a distraction work? He's hoping so.]
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The tail's still unnatural and he's torn between not wanting to believe it and being offended by it and well not wanting to die... Oh god his hand too...
So, he reaches out and grabs the hand since it's the one that's offered now and well it feels more normal than grabbing a tail. ]
Shit.
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Stan's hand takes his own and Kurt firmly grasps it, pulls the boy up to where he'll be able to loop both arms around his shoulders.] Hang on, [he commands, waiting until he knows there's a secure grip around him.]
And I highly recommend that you close your eyes.
[Meaning, "Don't look down," even though saying it usually has the adverse effect.]
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The start of 'why' begins but he clamps his mouth shut instead and squeezes his eyes shut and just follows the good advice for once. ]
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After you open your eyes, put your feet straight down beneath you.