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lostcarnival2017-05-04 11:40 am
ringleaders) wrote in lostcarnival2017-05-04 11:40 am
⇨ MAINFRAME
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.
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. |
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"Wait, your blood's different colors? Does that mean there are trolls with, like, purple or pink or something? And what d'you mean 'used to' - or is that just 'cuz numbers don't have blood. Do you have blood right now?"
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"There are only twelve acceptable blood colors, so while there might be a troll out there with pink blood they wouldn't go around sharing it with people. The colors are maroon, orange, yellow, lime, green, jade, teal, cerulean, blue, indigo, violet, and... Fuschia. Trolls with other colored blood are somtimes born, but they are considered mutants and usually killed shortly after they hatch."
Okay, surely that explained it well enough and she wouldn't have any other questions, right?
"As for me, I'm not sure if I have blood right now, but being at the carnival changed it from yellow to purple."
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Nope, more questions.
"Really? This place changes people's blood?"
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More questions, of course. Still, he doesn't really mind answering them, not so long as she actually listened to the answers for them.
"There's things humans must have killed each other over, historically at least, right?" Though many of the humans at the carnival were peaceful beings, he knew war existed everywhere in one form or another.
"It's the same on Alternia. There are some trolls who think things should be a certain way, and they'll kill anyone who doesn't fit."
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"Yeah, there've been lots of wars and stuff on Earth." She frowns thoughtfully, crossing her arms. "Guess that kinda thing just sort of... happens, wherever you are. Still super weird, though."
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"Weird or not, it's just the way things are."
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She stops for a moment, looking vaguely concerned. If people's blood can change color in the carnival, is there some kind of weird blood racism situation she didn't know about? That would be one hell of a thing to find out all of a sudden.
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"No, it doesn't. I've never meet another species that has it at least."
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