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.
The shot strikes true, right through the skull of the fish. At first it may not seem as if it works for the creature continues swimming right for the docks, but no. It begins to slow, the white water around it turning calm as it quickly loses momentum, and finally, finally it floats gently to a crawl. A last nudge against the wooden docks arrests its movement, and the creature stops a few feet from where Nathan stands.
Link had just been about to leap off the top of it, but seeing as it's been effectively neutralized by the helpful gunslinger, he sees no need to. He lets out a sigh of relief, but he can't help but hold back the stupid grin on his face. Damn, his heart is still racing from that bit of excitement. What a rush! ] ....Looks like this thing won't be bothering anyone for a while, huh?
[ He says, climbing down from the beast. ] Thanks for the--
[ A few of the locals shouting indicate that it's not over quite yet, though. Most of them turn to run, and those that cannot simply grab for something with which to cover themselves with. Behind him, Link can hear a sharp intake of air. Turning to look, he's greeted with a bloated, inflated fish-monster, its skin stretching and swelling like rubber. ] Uh--
[ This is the last middle finger to its predators: a death that involves spewing copious amounts of black ink everywhere. ]
[Nate's landed plenty of headshots before, which is either impressive or horrifying depending how you look at it. Never on a moving fish, though. It's a day of firsts for everyone.
He steps forward to give the guy a hand, only to turn and see what's about to happen.]
Oh for fuck's sa—
[Whatever he was about to say next is muffled by the mouth full of ink.]
[ The black, ink is more like goo as it splatters just about eveywhere, staining his clothes, the docks, the sails on the boats nearby, and puddling upon the ground and marring the surface of the harbor. When the fish deflates it floats along the surface, harmless and--most importantly?-- dead.
He's afraid that he won't be able to pay for all the damages this has caused.
Or--- or. As he looks at some of the locals coming out of their hiding places, many of them begin gathering up the black goo into bottles and containers, some of them arguing among each other of who gets to claim what's in front of their stalls verses it being a free-for-all. It all indicates that whatever was spewed upon them, it's rather valuable. ] ....Huh. Would you look at that. [ Link comments, casually raising his hands behind his head. ] Looks like we've struck gold. [ Excellent. He can use the money. ]
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The shot strikes true, right through the skull of the fish. At first it may not seem as if it works for the creature continues swimming right for the docks, but no. It begins to slow, the white water around it turning calm as it quickly loses momentum, and finally, finally it floats gently to a crawl. A last nudge against the wooden docks arrests its movement, and the creature stops a few feet from where Nathan stands.
Link had just been about to leap off the top of it, but seeing as it's been effectively neutralized by the helpful gunslinger, he sees no need to. He lets out a sigh of relief, but he can't help but hold back the stupid grin on his face. Damn, his heart is still racing from that bit of excitement. What a rush! ] ....Looks like this thing won't be bothering anyone for a while, huh?
[ He says, climbing down from the beast. ] Thanks for the--
[ A few of the locals shouting indicate that it's not over quite yet, though. Most of them turn to run, and those that cannot simply grab for something with which to cover themselves with. Behind him, Link can hear a sharp intake of air. Turning to look, he's greeted with a bloated, inflated fish-monster, its skin stretching and swelling like rubber. ] Uh--
[ This is the last middle finger to its predators: a death that involves spewing copious amounts of black ink everywhere. ]
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He steps forward to give the guy a hand, only to turn and see what's about to happen.]
Oh for fuck's sa—
[Whatever he was about to say next is muffled by the mouth full of ink.]
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He's afraid that he won't be able to pay for all the damages this has caused.
Or--- or. As he looks at some of the locals coming out of their hiding places, many of them begin gathering up the black goo into bottles and containers, some of them arguing among each other of who gets to claim what's in front of their stalls verses it being a free-for-all. It all indicates that whatever was spewed upon them, it's rather valuable. ] ....Huh. Would you look at that. [ Link comments, casually raising his hands behind his head. ] Looks like we've struck gold. [ Excellent. He can use the money. ]
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[He spits and takes a sniff at his arm. Nope, just ink. Gross.]
Looks like you did them a favor. I'd recommend staying out of the water in the future, though. That thing might have a buddy.