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.
[Nate's just finishing up a day of bullshitting people with stories in exchange for stuff when he wanders into the bar. The culinary offerings in this world are pretty great, and that extends to their beer, apparently. But his mouth spreads into a grin, beer forgotten, when he sees who else is here.]
You are this place is up to your standards, pal? I hear they let the riff-raff in.
Dorian wasn't quite sure what his face was going, but he knew his heart rate increased (a physiological phenomenon he wasn't about to acknowledge) at the sound of that voice. It was probably a natural thing that his response to Nate be visceral in nature, the man was quite possibly the first person he spoke to when he arrived here and he had a little brother quality about him that the mage adored. Of course he was older than Dorian, probably, but that's hardly the point.
He fixed Nathan with the best grin he had to offer before raising his own drink to the man.]
Clearly. You are the riff and the raff, but you know what, I find that I do enjoy the company.
[One thing Dorian can't say he'll ever get tired of when it comes to this place are the hugs. Of course he likes to pretend he's smooth and too good for hugs, but they don't happen enough where he's from, especially where he's from. Nobody wants to get anywhere near a 'Vint and nobility in the Imerium? Forget it.
So when Nate hugs him Dorian curls an arm around his shoulder and laughs, he's happy to see the riff-raff, clearly.]
I can't say that I'm sad to see you either, happy in fact, and I want to hear all of the details. Like how we went from prison dump to paradise for instance.
[ooc: Lol I lost my mind and forgot that apps were due on the 30th, I intended to come back this month but I got sidetracked by kittens. Clearly I'm on top of it XD]
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FLINGS SELF AT also Kaittos
You are this place is up to your standards, pal? I hear they let the riff-raff in.
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Dorian wasn't quite sure what his face was going, but he knew his heart rate increased (a physiological phenomenon he wasn't about to acknowledge) at the sound of that voice. It was probably a natural thing that his response to Nate be visceral in nature, the man was quite possibly the first person he spoke to when he arrived here and he had a little brother quality about him that the mage adored. Of course he was older than Dorian, probably, but that's hardly the point.
He fixed Nathan with the best grin he had to offer before raising his own drink to the man.]
Clearly. You are the riff and the raff, but you know what, I find that I do enjoy the company.
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[He extends his arms to give Dorian a big bear huge. Thank goodness, the guy remembers. Nate's lost too many space friends.]
Welcome back. Or condolences, maybe, but I can't say I'm sad to see you.
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[One thing Dorian can't say he'll ever get tired of when it comes to this place are the hugs. Of course he likes to pretend he's smooth and too good for hugs, but they don't happen enough where he's from, especially where he's from. Nobody wants to get anywhere near a 'Vint and nobility in the Imerium? Forget it.
So when Nate hugs him Dorian curls an arm around his shoulder and laughs, he's happy to see the riff-raff, clearly.]
I can't say that I'm sad to see you either, happy in fact, and I want to hear all of the details. Like how we went from prison dump to paradise for instance.
[ooc: Lol I lost my mind and forgot that apps were due on the 30th, I intended to come back this month but I got sidetracked by kittens. Clearly I'm on top of it XD]
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Oh, that was a great time. A shame you missed it. It was a really pleasant trip, actually, with room service and everything.
[Hahahaha not it wasn't.
ooc; no worries! they'll be open again soon.]