⇨ MAINFRAME

[ringleaders]

Who: EVERYONE.
When: Day 92 - Day 105
Where: Mainframe, the city inside a computer.
What: The carnival stops at its next location, a computer world full of computer people. Except, this time it's not the Matrix, don't worry.
Warnings: Nothing inherently suspect here.

THIS PLACE, MAINFRAME↴ After the Nightrunners have done their search, you will be welcome to enter the tree portal into Mainframe. There is no loading room this time - instead, any alternations will occur as you pass through the portal. Remember to wear your icon buttons! If you aren't wearing one, you won't be able to pass through the portal, and during your stay you will not be able to remove it. The portal is currently opening into a forested area of Mainframe, filled with a bunch of sort of low res trees. A large section of a residential area has just been nullified by a Game Cube. A large quantity of former sprites and binomes are now wandering the city in the form of null worms, and the rest of the city is generally in a panic. You'll be able to learn about the details of what happened if you ask the locals, though they will act incredulous if you behave as if you don't know what a Game is. Just tell them you and the others just arrived from a different "system" in the "Net." Yeah, that seems to allay their suspicion. Nailed it. Here is a convenient map of the Mainframe from the original cartoon, which this setting is more or less based on. This Mainframe is larger and lacking areas dedicated to specific characters (no Megabyte or Dot's Diner), but is laid out basically the same, for reference's sake. ► LOW RES: Your glamour will come into affect as soon as you cross through the portal, and while you are here your body will function like a weird mixture of its original self and the formatting of a program. You can eat their food and use their amenities, but if one of them were to look at your coding it would be obviously foreign to them. Also, maybe your skin has turned blue, or green, and your clothes are suddenly way more 90's scifi? Maybe you look like a giant number 7 to other people. This place is weird, aesthetically speaking. ► RELIEF EFFORTS: For the altruist out there, you can offer help to the locals that are trying to recover from the recent Game loss. The buildings that were caught within the Cube's range are twisted and burnt out, as if the energy has been sucked right out of them, and it sounds like all the losers were transfigured into slugs. You might want to avoid Game Cubes if any show up. Just an FYI. (As if that will happen.) In the meantime, you can console the programs whose family members are now works, or help try to clean up the buildings that are now falling apart. Or, you can ignore all of this. That's cool, too. ► VIBRANT CULTURE: Despite being weird computer program people made of boxes and spheres, the people of Mainframe seem to live their lives much the same ways humans do. They have TV programs, restaurants, and other shops that you can buy weird 90's computer world bullshit from. There's even a Hollywood inspired area, where you can go to shows. They also have some neato hoverboard things you can fly around on. As usual, the Ringmaster will be giving people an allowance to buy any modest souvenirs or necessities during their stay. Feel free to be creative about fleshing out sections of the city! The mods barely remember the details of this show, either.

Comments

[insidescoop]

MMNNNNNHHHH Y-You tell me!!

[amusicaladventure]

I'll tell you! I'll tell you that I, Ash, would never flirt with a girl who wasn't A-class material!

[fortuneglass]

S-S-

[OHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOO...] ....

...You think I'm 'A-Class'...?

[She's blushin' Ashleigh, but it's a much happier one now.]

[amusicaladventure]

Carly, you're hot as hell. [Without the glasses, anyway. Those need work.] But more than that, you've got skill and talent, too. And you're nice. All that's a pretty killer package!

[insidescoop]

I... [...Joking aside, Carly finds herself blinking as her tone drops to something more serious. Obviously back in the Carnival, she doesn't wear glasses any more...but adjusting the ones she has on just now, she finds herself lost for words.]

...Y...You're serious..? ...All of those things, altogether..?

[amusicaladventure]

[Exactly. She looks so much better without them. Not a favor this world has done for her.]

Uh, yeah? Plus you're fun to tease, that's a plus too. [Ash grins, though she means that.]

[insidescoop]

[ OOOF! Now that just brings them back to a huff!] I-

H-Hey! That's not supposed to be a good thing!!

[amusicaladventure]

It isn't? But if you were cold as stone and impossible to move in any way, I'd find you boring and unapproachable!

[fortuneglass]

Haahhhhh, that's true, isn't it...

...I, I guess I wouldn't want to be like that at all..!!

[amusicaladventure]

Exactly. Honest and genuine is rare and so much better than fakey-fake people who you never know what they're thinking or feeling. Because a lot of the time that's something bad.

No worries of that with you, and I like that.

[fortuneglass]

[You're going to make her blush AGAIN...

...If she isn't already, for that matter. But as it is, Carly manages a smile, as bashful as she's acting.] ....Thank you, Ash...

[amusicaladventure]

Hey, hey. [Ash waves a hand idly.] I should thank you, I know I can be a bit much to put up with.

[insidescoop]

A bit huh...

[Is she joking SHE MIGHT...]

[amusicaladventure]

Well, obviously my amazing looks and talent make up for my atrocious personality, most of the way anyway!

[insidescoop]

Hohhhh? If you're not careful, they'll start to reflect it with that attitude!~

[amusicaladventure]

Well, you might already say I'm totally catty!

[insidescoop]

Ohhh!!! ...That was horrible!

[amusicaladventure]

Just like me!