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capemods ([personal profile] capemods) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2013-02-23 11:24 pm

EARTH 5746JK1278!W welcomes you, hero.

WHO: Any imPort transported to Metricog of Earth 5746JK1278!W.
WHERE: The city of Metricog.
WHEN: The moment of midnight February 24th, 2013 to the moment of midnight February 28th, 2013.
SUMMARY: Now stolen away to a strange city of a strange world, our heroes are left to their own devices in their efforts for answers!
FORMAT: Whatever the player chooses.



This is the city Metricog. It is quite unlike the City you were living in but a few moments ago. However, in terms of global placement, it IS the City. Metricog belongs to a steampunk world with towering buildings of steel and smoke stacks rising to the sun. Streets are paved with bolts. Cogs and copper clocks and brass valves are etched into every alley, every concave. You will be sequestered from your world to this strange land FOR FOUR DAYS and greeted by stranger inhabitants: natives of Metricog are sentient and can communicate with you in a verbal-to-audio manner that you can understand (how strange), but they are not fleshed. They are natives made of oil, of coal, of natural gas – or of mechanics. There are androids so very human-like with their follicle wires or they are bodiless walls of machinery lining rooms and halls that see and listen and speak. The range is as wild as your imagination.

The atmosphere of Metricog twins what your City atmosphere is like – but not for the same reasons. Your very ability to breathe oxygen at ground level is dependent on the fifty house-sized bellows scattered about the cityscape. These provide a frequency of communication unique to the citizens of Metricog, no imPort can understand it directly. The fact that imPorts can survive the byproduct of these machines is pure coincidence. If anything were to happen to even one of these bellows, your oxygen levels would suffer. If two? You would find it hard to focus, to think, your blood would slow. If three? Try not to think about if three.

Any flora or fauna you might be remotely familiar with are secluded to well-protected glass biomes. Rabbits, pigeons and rats are collected under flower bushes and stubby shrubs and young groves in three separate biomes. Each biome is differentiated from the other in some way, even if they have overlapping elements. All are where Central Park would be.

Suffice to say, organic organisms like most (BUT NOTABLY, NOT ALL) imPorts are a rarity. So you will find it VERY peculiar when the native mayor of Metricog greets you and tells you that your flesh-and-blood brothers who had come just the day before!

Wait, what?

Yes, you’re only the second group to debut EARTH 5746JK1278!W. There's a reason why you were brought here by the omnipotent Lachesis (who gained her superior power and changed the world -- and the universe -- two years ago). You may not know it, but you're on the tail of five Vulcanus Skrull agents. They are all empowered in a special way that only Vulcanus can connive, and they are hiding from you. They do not want you here, it was never planned for you to come here. These agents have their own mission for Vulcanus, and it's to learn how to mine this world for fuel. After all, a war against imPorts needs fuel, and half the natives of Metricog are just the ticket. But you don't know that. All you know is what you're told from the mechanic and fueled denizens of Metricog: that your brothers had already come!

If there are people like you here, you need to find them. What if they're other imPorts? What if they're City natives? What if they can help you?

What if they have answers?
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[personal profile] wind_dancer 2013-02-24 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sofia walks through and finds herself dragged in to an interview. Unsure of everything that is going on so far, she answers the questions politely.]

No, I am definitely made of skin.

....no I do not have a mechanical heart.
invoking: (huh.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-02-27 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Recognizing Sofia from a distance, he makes a beeline toward her, only to see her being dragged by one of those strange machines. Concerned, he hurries over, trying to catch Sofia's attention. ]

Uh...
wind_dancer: (come off it)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2013-02-27 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
And this is Gilbert.

[Sofia tells the machine that starts insistently poking her until she answers.

She mouths a 'get me out of here']


He doesn't do interviews.
invoking: (constantly surprised.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-02-27 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh! [ Oh no, what does he do? He's never been very good at exit strategies and that machine is strongly bent on keeping them here. ] The young miss and I need to go...
wind_dancer: (Default)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2013-03-02 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[The machine whirrs out a question at him. 'Where do want to visit most in the city?"]

They keep repeating the same five questions.
invoking: (annoyed.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-03-03 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Gil deflates, looking a bit annoyed at the machine. ]

Let's just go. [ He beckons her, putting himself between Sofia and the machine just in case. ]
wind_dancer: (caught in the act)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2013-03-03 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sofia smiles at the act of the gallantry and thankfully, they are have no trouble as they walk out.]

Thank you, I owe you one.
invoking: commission. (bête noire.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-03-03 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He looks over at the machine and as it's not following, finally turns away to face Sofia. ]

It's quite alright. These machines are bothersome things...
wind_dancer: (smirk)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2013-03-04 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
They really are, I haven't found a helpful one yet. They all want something from me, like a quote or my hair.
invoking: (idek.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-03-05 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
They're trying to steal your hair?
wind_dancer: (lip bite)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2013-03-07 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. One of them blocked my way in the street, it looked like a machine version of Edwward Scissorhands.

[Sofia touches her long hair.]

It's silly, I didn't feel like giving it over to them
invoking: (ugh.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-03-08 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know who that is...

[ But he makes a face. ]

You shouldn't. These things are... creepy.
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[personal profile] wind_dancer 2013-03-12 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
When we make it back to the city, I insist you come over and watch it with me.


Have any of them tried to bother you?
invoking: (constantly surprised.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-03-12 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Uh... [ He's caught off guard for a second and then focuses on her questions. ] Quite a few... they've really never seen a human before. They wanted to touch my hair and hands...