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.
(Dealing with Richie Tozier was Eddie Kaspbrak's one genuine talent, if he had any at all. Eddie making a fuss was half of how he dealt with it. Richie would be an absolute menace if Eddie didn't make a fuss (though in some ways, he would also probably be more tolerable too if Eddie didn't react so Goddamn much). Eddie is satisfied with Bill's response, smiling a little bit, because see? Bill got it.
That smile doesn't last very long. He had been nervous about Richie seeing the evidence of Eddie being left to his own devices, and he was just as nervous about Bill seeing it. It was a different kind of nervous, though. He didn't want Bill to worry about him, and he knew how it looked, really, he did. At the time it had seemed like a good idea, but at a glance, Eddie felt like he looked crazy. He knew he was crazy, at least a little bit, and that was still something he was struggling to deal with. But Bill had already gone through so much. The last thing he needed to worry about was Eddie.
The hand on his shoulder is reassuring, but only just enough to get Eddie to open the door. It was just about the same as when he had shown Richie, only his medicine bottles had, at some point, been knocked over.
Eddie steps aside so that Bill could go in first. Maybe, Eddie thought with that stupid soft childish hope, if he swelled up big enough, he could hide all of it. He'd paint over it if he wasn't still paranoid about forgetting everything. He shuts the door behind him, his eyes on the floor.)
I'll..I can show you where we're staying. Then you can pick wherever you want to stay. (Eddie's voice is faint, shaking around the edges. He had told Richie not to say anything, but he could never tell Bill that. Not when Bill's little brother was on that door. It didn't matter if it made Eddie anxious to think about Bill upset; it would be worse to take that agency from him.)
[Bill is quiet for a while. He steps past Eddie into the room without a word, and moves straight to the writing, standing before it, his eyes tracing each letter and his fingers ghosting just above each word and name.
He stops occasionally, first at the reminder meant for Eddie himself, then at the promise, and finally at the list of their names. With calm fingers and steady limbs he crouches and rests his hand besides Georgie's name. When his eyes reach IT he stands back up and turns to Eddie, moving over and pulling the smaller boy back into his arms in a tight hug.]
As long as we're all t-together, Eddie, I don't care w-where I stay.
(It's the kind of reaction Eddie would expect from Bill. A thoughtful reaction; one that he immerses himself in entirely. Eddie stands by, hands collected and knotting together anxiously at what Bill might say or do. What he might think.
But then Eddie's being hugged, a small sound escaping him, and his thin arms loop tightly around his best friend, his brother, and he buries his face into Bill's neck.)
I...completely forgot about all you guys.
(He confesses this very quietly, shamefully, as if Bill would actually blame him (he knows he won't). He leans back, staring up at Bill with large, wet eyes.)
I forgot about damn near everything, Bill.
(He slowly lets go of him, and glances at the wall.)
...I don't want to ever again. None of it. Even the bad.
(His eyes linger on the reminder for himself and he pinches his mouth into a thin line.)
I don't care either. I'm keeping you guys here no matter what it takes. (It's a bold declaration from Eddie Kaspbrak, Eddie who was never the hero or the leader. But it was a decision he had felt fiercely about since remembering, that if his friends would ever show up, he'd fight the universe itself to keep them there. Nothing inspired bravery in him faster than his own loyalty. Which was a bit of his downfall, but no matter. If Eddie was worth anything at all, he was worth his friends.)
It's alright, Eddie. We're h-here now. [Bill feels a shared shame, smaller than Eddie's, but his own memories had been a little distant since arriving, and there had been things he had either started to forget or fully put out of his mind. Eddie's conviction, though, is shared, and Bill just nods, reluctantly letting Eddie move about. As badly as he wants to just keep holding onto some part of his friends to keep connected to them.
He smiles at Eddie, a little thin as most of his have been since Georgie's death, but he doesn't falter.]
You won't f-forget again. We w-won't let each other forget. [They couldn't. There had been too much, and so much of it, painful or otherwise, was too important. Bill wouldn't let the dead kids be forgotten. He wouldn't let Georgie be forgotten. He wouldn't forget about what happens when they don't stick together and look out for one another.]
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That smile doesn't last very long. He had been nervous about Richie seeing the evidence of Eddie being left to his own devices, and he was just as nervous about Bill seeing it. It was a different kind of nervous, though. He didn't want Bill to worry about him, and he knew how it looked, really, he did. At the time it had seemed like a good idea, but at a glance, Eddie felt like he looked crazy. He knew he was crazy, at least a little bit, and that was still something he was struggling to deal with. But Bill had already gone through so much. The last thing he needed to worry about was Eddie.
The hand on his shoulder is reassuring, but only just enough to get Eddie to open the door. It was just about the same as when he had shown Richie, only his medicine bottles had, at some point, been knocked over.
Eddie steps aside so that Bill could go in first. Maybe, Eddie thought with that stupid soft childish hope, if he swelled up big enough, he could hide all of it. He'd paint over it if he wasn't still paranoid about forgetting everything. He shuts the door behind him, his eyes on the floor.)
I'll..I can show you where we're staying. Then you can pick wherever you want to stay. (Eddie's voice is faint, shaking around the edges. He had told Richie not to say anything, but he could never tell Bill that. Not when Bill's little brother was on that door. It didn't matter if it made Eddie anxious to think about Bill upset; it would be worse to take that agency from him.)
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He stops occasionally, first at the reminder meant for Eddie himself, then at the promise, and finally at the list of their names. With calm fingers and steady limbs he crouches and rests his hand besides Georgie's name. When his eyes reach IT he stands back up and turns to Eddie, moving over and pulling the smaller boy back into his arms in a tight hug.]
As long as we're all t-together, Eddie, I don't care w-where I stay.
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But then Eddie's being hugged, a small sound escaping him, and his thin arms loop tightly around his best friend, his brother, and he buries his face into Bill's neck.)
I...completely forgot about all you guys.
(He confesses this very quietly, shamefully, as if Bill would actually blame him (he knows he won't). He leans back, staring up at Bill with large, wet eyes.)
I forgot about damn near everything, Bill.
(He slowly lets go of him, and glances at the wall.)
...I don't want to ever again. None of it. Even the bad.
(His eyes linger on the reminder for himself and he pinches his mouth into a thin line.)
I don't care either. I'm keeping you guys here no matter what it takes. (It's a bold declaration from Eddie Kaspbrak, Eddie who was never the hero or the leader. But it was a decision he had felt fiercely about since remembering, that if his friends would ever show up, he'd fight the universe itself to keep them there. Nothing inspired bravery in him faster than his own loyalty. Which was a bit of his downfall, but no matter. If Eddie was worth anything at all, he was worth his friends.)
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He smiles at Eddie, a little thin as most of his have been since Georgie's death, but he doesn't falter.]
You won't f-forget again. We w-won't let each other forget. [They couldn't. There had been too much, and so much of it, painful or otherwise, was too important. Bill wouldn't let the dead kids be forgotten. He wouldn't let Georgie be forgotten. He wouldn't forget about what happens when they don't stick together and look out for one another.]
Do you want to show me the r-rest?