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unknownseas2022-06-12 10:14 am
bathymetric) wrote in unknownseas2022-06-12 10:14 am
And with the sweat of your brow...
Fun Fact: Did you know that if the multiverse is real, there could be an almost infinite square mileage of completely unexplored ocean out there?
No reason.
...
You wake in one of 25 rooms with a sense of unease that doesn't quite track with how nice the accommodations are. Maybe it has something to do with the giant window leading out to the sea. The temperature is low, which might make you wish you had woken up under the luxurious covers instead of atop them. The lights, too, are low. But next to your bed is a small personal radio, and it's playing a song for you. There's also a small note printed on folded cardstock next to it.
Dear Prospective Citizen,
Welcome to the Helios Suites at New Rapture. The time should currently be 12:00 PM. Please take a moment to get your bearings and become acquainted with your new environment, then meet in the hotel lobby at 1:30 PM sharp for an orientation with Mayor Fontaine.
With only that for guidance, there's only the one thing to do: get out there and start exploring... well, it's hardly a full city, but it's something! And in the halls (or on the wall of your suite or the lobby), you very well may find up to 24 other captives.
What you do until your meeting with Mayor Fontaine, well... that's up to you. Every room certainly gives you something to talk about.
No reason.
...
You wake in one of 25 rooms with a sense of unease that doesn't quite track with how nice the accommodations are. Maybe it has something to do with the giant window leading out to the sea. The temperature is low, which might make you wish you had woken up under the luxurious covers instead of atop them. The lights, too, are low. But next to your bed is a small personal radio, and it's playing a song for you. There's also a small note printed on folded cardstock next to it.
Dear Prospective Citizen,
Welcome to the Helios Suites at New Rapture. The time should currently be 12:00 PM. Please take a moment to get your bearings and become acquainted with your new environment, then meet in the hotel lobby at 1:30 PM sharp for an orientation with Mayor Fontaine.
With only that for guidance, there's only the one thing to do: get out there and start exploring... well, it's hardly a full city, but it's something! And in the halls (or on the wall of your suite or the lobby), you very well may find up to 24 other captives.
What you do until your meeting with Mayor Fontaine, well... that's up to you. Every room certainly gives you something to talk about.
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Ha! Well. I must admit that Hisui's culture is not one of excess; it is not something that we are accustomed to in our land. We make due with what we have, and what we have is usually shared among our people...this is quite the shock indeed.
[...Okay no, he's gotta ask--]
I must say, I have never seen a... [He takes a moment to consider how to word this. Only a moment.] ...Being, quite like yourself, before! Might I ask what you are? Are you some sort of Pokémon...?
[IS THIS SOME NEW MAGNEZONE FORM HE'S NOT YET AWARE OF]
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[Misfire raises an eyebrow, tilts his head.]
No…? Or - maybe? Yes? Depends, if that’s some kind of specific thing or another name for ‘mechanical life form’ -
[His face, currently, is just ‘??????’]
You know what? Let’s make this easier. Less complicated. Skip out on all the cultural guesswork. [He steeples both forefingers together, then points them at Adaman.] What’s a ‘Pokémon’?
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The more I talk to you, the more I am doubtful of such a thing--but Pokémon are what we call the many creatures who share the vast land of Hisui with us. They come in many different forms and sizes, and it is not uncommon to see a Steel type such as yourself among them.
[...that's what we're going with i see]
But if that is not the case, as I assume--what are you? You're quite interesting, whatever you are!
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You assume correct - never heard of a land of 'Hisui' before. I'm a cybertronian, from the planet cybertron, though that hasn't actually been home for a millenia. [He shrugs.] In layman's terms, I'm an alien space robot. You follow?
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I believe I can follow that much, yes.
[it's basically the equivalent of "oh, it's like that. i understand everything now." <- doesn't get it at all]
It's so interesting how the worlds we all seem to come from vary so much...I've heard many stories from the others, but never of anything like yours.
Where exactly have you been staying, for that millennia, though? Are you versed in traveling to other worlds?
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[He rolls is wrist in some kind of gesture with that.]
Ever since I got busted out of my way to prison, the closest thing to ‘home’ has been the W.A.P. That is, the Weak Anthropic Principle. Our ship. That we use for travelling through space. Our spaceship.
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Intergalactic conquest, huh...were you a soldier in that war?
[There isn't any judgement, at least? But man. War really does just happen everywhere, and the idea that it could happen on such a larger scale...]
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Pretty much everyone was. Unless you got out early enough, there came a point where you had to choose a side.
[Ah. Civil War. Civil War that ends up escalating to involve a bunch of other parties. Who doesn't love it?]
The Great War was so...uh...Great that at this point it's pretty much the thing our species is known for. And we literally shift from one form into another. Can't say I'm too broken up about it being over.