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.
I'm sure they're having a good t-time waiting for us, Richie. They're probably sk-skipping rocks somewhere. They'll be jealous of all our adventures w-when we get to them.
[He'll believe the others are all there and somewhere safe for both of them if he has to. He smiles at Richie, soft and small but warm, and tries to focus on the low light around them as they descend. When the stairs stop, it's hard to see, so Bill goes first and slowly, feeling along the walls.]
Keep hold of my shirt, Richie. We just have to c-cross the room. Watch out for the ru-rubble.
[He doesn't know how long the corridor is but he's taking it slow and easy for both of them, reassured that Richie is there by the slight pull of fabric and his friend's never quiet mouth.]
[He doesn't even feel the need to make some funny comment about it. What matters more is also believing that their friends are out there. Everything would be fine and work out, he has to believe, if they're together.]
I can't watch for what I can't see, you know! [Still, he clutches the back of Bill's shirt and stumbles along behind him.] What's the point of living that sci-fi movie life if they're not even going to have lights down here?
M-maybe you should try lights on. [Bill grins, and it carries in his voice. The idea of voice activated anything is ridiculous to him, but Richie said sci-fi, and it amuses him.]
I think I f-found something. [Said as he comes to an abrupt stop, his knee bumping something metal. When he reaches out his hand touches rubber, and the spokes of Silver's wheel turn slowly in the quiet dark.
He's careful as he stands Silver back up, and checks to make sure the rusted old bike can still roll.]
[The reference goes over Bill's head, after his time, unfortunately for Richie, but Bill stops right in front of Richie at the question, turning to try to make him out in the dark.]
Back wh-where the hole in the floor is? I d-don't think we could make that j-j-jump with the b-bike, Richie. [He had doubts either of them would make it either, though he believes he might have been able to.]
There has to be another st-staircase around here s-somewhere. We'll find it and then we c-can look for the others, o-okay?
We go back, and I j-jump the gap and g-get help while you s-stay put and don't d-do anything d-dumb. [Under different circumstances, he might have made a joke about cannibalism but in light of recent events he just doesn't have the stomach for it.
In the meantime he keeps feeling along the wall until his hands find empty space.]
We're going around a co-corner, Richie. Watch your step.
I can pull off being a damsel in distress while you go off to be a hero, Big Bill. [And then, shrieking in the most girly voice he can muster:] Oh please, someone help! I'm gettin' the vapors!
[Still, he heeds Bill's warning and he tries to keep from stumbling over himself this time.]
Performance of the y-year. [Bill shakes his head, but he can't help but smile a little at Richie's unending Richie-ness. He helps lead Richie through the side section until he stubs his toes on a stair, catching himself on a railing mid-fall.
[If Bill could have seen him he would have laughed. As it is he helps his friend up the stairs behind him, holding his bike up as best he could as he carries it up the stairs with them.
When they get to the top, they're just on the other side of the hole, and Bill steps a few steps closer to look down into it again, now too aware of how deep it is after their trek up the stairs.]
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[He'll believe the others are all there and somewhere safe for both of them if he has to. He smiles at Richie, soft and small but warm, and tries to focus on the low light around them as they descend. When the stairs stop, it's hard to see, so Bill goes first and slowly, feeling along the walls.]
Keep hold of my shirt, Richie. We just have to c-cross the room. Watch out for the ru-rubble.
[He doesn't know how long the corridor is but he's taking it slow and easy for both of them, reassured that Richie is there by the slight pull of fabric and his friend's never quiet mouth.]
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[He doesn't even feel the need to make some funny comment about it. What matters more is also believing that their friends are out there. Everything would be fine and work out, he has to believe, if they're together.]
I can't watch for what I can't see, you know! [Still, he clutches the back of Bill's shirt and stumbles along behind him.] What's the point of living that sci-fi movie life if they're not even going to have lights down here?
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I think I f-found something. [Said as he comes to an abrupt stop, his knee bumping something metal. When he reaches out his hand touches rubber, and the spokes of Silver's wheel turn slowly in the quiet dark.
He's careful as he stands Silver back up, and checks to make sure the rusted old bike can still roll.]
Now we just have t-to find a w-way back up.
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[Bill stops too quickly, and Richie stops too late, bumping his face right into Bill's bike. He makes a startled sound, but otherwise is fine.]
Can't we just go back the way we came?
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Back wh-where the hole in the floor is? I d-don't think we could make that j-j-jump with the b-bike, Richie. [He had doubts either of them would make it either, though he believes he might have been able to.]
There has to be another st-staircase around here s-somewhere. We'll find it and then we c-can look for the others, o-okay?
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[So maybe he'd forgotten about the whole trapped on the wrong side of the floor thing.]
What's your plan if that was the only staircase and we're trapped down here, doomed to cuddle for warmth and chew on rubber tires for sustenance?
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In the meantime he keeps feeling along the wall until his hands find empty space.]
We're going around a co-corner, Richie. Watch your step.
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[Still, he heeds Bill's warning and he tries to keep from stumbling over himself this time.]
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Think I f-found our way up.
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Oh, Bill, my hero.
[Once Bill starts up the stairs, Richie's immediately behind him.]
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When they get to the top, they're just on the other side of the hole, and Bill steps a few steps closer to look down into it again, now too aware of how deep it is after their trek up the stairs.]
Lucky we d-didn't fall in, huh R-richie?