lostcarnival | ⇨ 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.

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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And he's blue. His avatar still looks mostly humanoid, which is a good thing - he's not used to non-humanoid forms, so that would have been a disaster. He's no stranger to being rendered digitally, although for the most part, being in the Digital World somehow preserved his own look rather than changing it to something like whatever his form was supposed to be.

Blue is a terrible colour for his skin, especially when it's a light blue and it's kind of clashing with his blond hair (which, surprisingly, was not changed to blue).

The only way he recognises the yellow two as Psii is by his voice - even with the whole change, it still sounds similar enough that he can identify the speaker pretty easily. The yellow's also about the same shade as his hair colour, now that he thinks about it.

"... Any significance behind the colour and the number?"

He's just looking curiously at Psii's "two" form. Strange, he would have assumed that everyone would have looked like vaguely-human sprites.

He sighs, observing yet another carnival member who was lucky enough to get a not number shaped appearance. To be honest though, he was kind of starting to like the whole giant number two thing. It was pretty unique and also hilarious.

"Well, my sign is symbolic for the number two, and the yellow is for my blood-color." he smiles, looking amused, "Basically it's a troll thing."

⇨ MAINFRAME

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