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capemods ([personal profile] capemods) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2013-10-24 01:18 pm

EARTH 24*(&A$%7HGKPOI

WHO: All transdimensional imPorts.
WHERE: The town of Capers.
WHEN: October 24th, noon, to October 29th, noon.
WARNINGS: Probably violence, but alert me if something else evolves and I can update this.
SUMMARY: Lachesis pulls a group of Cityverse imPorts into another world adventure -- here be the wilds of the west, and dinosaurs!
FORMAT: As you please!



You arrive at the town of Capers from one split second to the next -- from the asphalt and concrete of the City to the dusty and earthen dirt of this wildwood space. The sun is hot and the sky is streaked with thin clouds. The landscape of the town is sparse, utilitarian; you'll find saloons and dance halls, quarries and fenced corrals, the local gaol and the hanging scaffold, the shops and medical facilities (barbershop included). In fact, the logwood architecture of the buildings direct into those four major categories, and the structure of the town forms something circular, much like a compass. You might have been ported in at any of these places, as Lachesis would have delivered you at random.

The sun in the sky burns a golden yellow, peering down at you like some celestial eyeball. Almost feels like it's watching you.

You're wearing your clothes and you've got your communicator on you, but that's about it. You can still contact the Network, but you cannot leave this world. And since you look like such an outsider, it takes only a few moments for you to be ushered by local Samaritans to the Capers Town Hall. There, in his white suit and black belt, stands Mayor Eisner -- and he greets you warmly. He tells you that Capers is used to extradimensional pioneers, and he's happy to invite you into his town. But for a town like his to survive at this unilateral crossroads, certain customs must be observed -- you understand, there's a method of expectation that enables order. You might catch glimpses of other imPorts filing in, being escorted by the kindly souls they came across. Mayor Eisner asks you your name and your favorite color. He asks you if you're a spiritual individual, or more secular. He asks you about the first animal that comes into your mind.

Then he ponders your face for a moment.

Then, with a strong and genuine pat on your shoulder, he tells you who you are, in his town of Capers.

You are free to reject or accept the role, but that all comes with respective consequences.

Welcome to Capers, hero.
buttpatting: i just thought that up isn't it a great idea (it could very well be organ harvesters)

[personal profile] buttpatting 2013-11-16 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Hannibal already finds the idea of actual, real, nonfictional superpowered individuals to be odd. He thought nothing really that much stranger could happen, but then they found themselves here.

Anything must be possible, then, even that which people in his world never imagined.
]

You don't believe in magic? [One spot where an eyebrow would be lifts as he looks at him, a little quirk of his lips following shortly after. The question is absurd. Or, it would have been, not too long ago.] I must confess I never have, either. Then I found myself in the City, and now here. You tell me about people having the parts of animals. Perhaps anything truly is possible, even magic.
invoking: (hesitate.)

[personal profile] invoking 2013-11-16 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
No, I do and I've seen all sorts here... it's different from what I've imagined. Magic isn't commonplace where I'm from.

[ It has a lot of negative connotations and those who dabble tend to seek out dark and treacherous things.

He looks to Hannibal, confused. ]


But the Porter is made from technology. That's science, isn't it? I thought magic and science weren't the same.
buttpatting: who makes it on time unlike that peter parker (people delivery boy)

[personal profile] buttpatting 2013-11-19 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
No, they are not. Science can be tangible in some way. With surgery, I could touch bodies and manipulate back to as healthy a manner as they could be. With astronomy, we have gained the ability to prove, without doubt, that the Earth revolves around the sun. With math, we can see numbers and equations and come to proper conclusions once they are worked out. Magic, as I have always seen in portrayed in books and movies and so forth, cannot be quantified as such. Practitioners may have various levels and have methods to get better, but...it's hardly the same.

[Or so he might have thought once. And now that he's said it, is it possible the Porter is just a science so advanced no one could ever believe it to be real? Is he stepping into those who would sneer at Copernicus? But. Here he has been told of powers, and that cannot be science. Unless he was injected with some sort of drug that caused such things to manifest, what could it be but magic?]

Here, they both seem muddled, as if they overlap. This technology is like nothing I know or has been known before. I find this makes it difficult to classify.