welcome to
the collected nations of struxta.It will happen at random- you could be asleep, or wandering the Temple, or a variety of other options. It will feel a little strange, like a sudden warmth spreading across your skin, and then your bracelet will light up. When you blink again, everything has shifted - changed, developed, like in that blink of an eye you have advanced thousands of years into the future. Around you is a city, a technological marvel. Buildings rise up from the dirt and through the clouds, figures of all shapes and sizes buzz around you. They seem to pay you little mind - a quick glance, maybe a pause, and then they will continue on their away. Ahead, there is a low rumble of thunder, a dim flash of light. It doesn't seem to be raining, but there is an electric hum in the air. A NOTE FROM YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD WITCH
But before anything too weird can happen . . . your watch flashes again, beeps once, and on it has a new message, a hologram-sparkly image with a young woman who (to some individuals!) looks a fair bit brighter than she did a few weeks ago. To those who are new, you will recognize the voice -- Astoria, the guardian of the Temple (or, if you're a bit more pessimistic, your effervescent kidnapper).
 "Hello, my beloved travelers ♥ and new ones, too! My name is Lady Astoria the Witchess-san." The way she says it, though, it is very clearly something of a joke. "I'm so glad you are settling in, adjusting to your new powers . . . I apologize for not coming forward and greeting you all like last time. But I am feeling much more like myself, and ready to send you to a new world ♥
This one is named Struxta . . . Struxa? No, I think it's Struxta. It's very metal. I'm not sure what's wrong in this world . . . but I can feel something building. Pulsing, it's very chaotic. I'm afraid I can't be more detailed than that, I did have a headache earlier . . . Akira told me I was fine ♥" And, again, you can likely guess that Akira definitely did no such thing. Astoria clasps her hands, her bright blue eyes shining, with a bright smile. "Now! Please be safe, and please mind your manners, and tell me all about it when you return! I'll see you soon. ♥"
And, just like that? The humming in the air grows louder, you feel an odd tug in your stomach, and before you can properly adjust yourself to the sensation of being cast across the universe . . . you find yourself in Struxta. (Astoria, it seems, did have it right the first time.)
 THE HOSTELJust as it was in El Minha, it appears that upon arrival, each character is outfitted with a room at one of the largest, arguably most impressive skyscrapers in the city. Nearly two hundred stories tall, and with each floor containing nearly sixty rooms. Every floor, every room, every door is of the highest tech and the more advanced security. The watches that Astoria has given each of the Circle Members act, in many ways, like a key, a credit card, an ID, and any other form of identification the players will need during their stay.
The rooms themselves are simple - one bed, roughly full sized, with a light, a desk, a chair, and a variety of plugs and buttons. Characters are welcome, if they are able to find the appropriate plug, to charge any and all devices they may have. There is a TV of sorts in the room as well, with access to all manner of shows and news stations.
The bottom floor of the building is almost as large as a city block. It is open, sleek, and clean-cut. A kind of open meeting room, which has - upon inspection - been modified to include what appears to be a restaurant. Which, given the fact the group of Circle members who have arrived in the city are the only natural bodies around? Includes the fact you are the only members of the city who have to consume food and nutrients. Upon even closer inspection, the technology used to make the food seems a few decades behind that of the rest of the city, but it still works, and the food can still be produced. It might taste a little weird and turn out to be some sort of glorified goop, but it has some nutritional value.
The rest of the floor has a variety of seating arrangements and places to sit and chat with your other Circle members, but beyond the Welcome Committee, who is set up on the far northern corner, there doesn't seem to be many of the natives walking through.  THE SUPER CENTERHave you ever wanted to go shopping in the most technologically advanced superstore possible? Here is your chance! It appears that if you use your watch, you have been given a moderate amount of credit to buy clothing, toys, electronics, items, and anything else that might suit your fancy. You will not have enough to buy anything significant, such as limbs, organs, advanced computer technology, etc. But you are more than welcome to find a job to help collected more credits! Many of the stores within the Supercenter are hiring - greeters, cashiers, manual labor, errand runners, and everything in between!
The Supercenter is attached, as most of the buildings seem to be in this city, by a roadway of interlocking bridges and stairways- to a point that you could, if you wanted to, move about the entire city without stepping foot outside. There are bridges on every level of the Supercenter, as well as a network of pathways and semi-roadways within the center itself.
There are no restaurants or bars, but there are plenty of areas to relax and people robot watch if you so desire. Otherwise, shop, explore, find weird mechanical devices of the likes you could never imagine back home. There are all manner of stores, some art galleries, music centers, arcades, and more here. There is no limit to what you can find and what you can experience.
Everything is automated, but there are still helpful employees of various appearances at each of the stories to help you decide and browse- small, flying blocks that speak in primarily beeping noises that (thanks to Astoria's wonderful watches) you can somehow understand, completely human-appearing androids of the utmost style and elegance, and everything in between. Take your time, do a little shopping or go to work, and enjoy the pique of futuristic capitalism.  THE RACESIn the south-eastern district of the city, a large section of the city has been modified into a multi-level, vast, complicated race track of sorts. Think Tron, meets Speed Racer, meets a type of racing that is something all their own. It's fun as hell, fast as hell, and dangerous as hell. Sounds great, right?
What is simply known as ‘Racing’ here in Struxta is complicated, but at its heart is exactly what it says: it is a race. A race of cars, bikes, and everything in between through an obstacle course of everything you can imagine. It seems to all be linked, electronically, to a motherboard that decides - each race - what the drivers will find. Each race was drastically different, with dangers galore. One day you might find that the road is full of spikes, the next it might be slick as oil, there could be loops that defy gravity and breaks in the road that seem to be impossible to cross, but that's what the modifications and specialists in the garages are for, right?
The rules are simple: if you have a vehicle, and you have a driver, you are allowed to race. First one to complete the track, wins.
Surrounding the main track is an entire industry of shops, stores, garages, meeting places, lounge areas, and viewing rooms. There are robots who make entire livings on the industry surrounding the Races, without ever having to step food onto the course. Some of the areas will be cleaner, like the rest of the city, while others may air on the side of back-house garages. While there won't be any dirt or natural life forms, for the first time you might catch sight of rusted metal, oil slicks, broken down previous versions of what's out on the road. There are some practice tracks, some experimental safety sections to test out new additions, etc.
The one thing that holds everyone together, here, is the excitement around watching. The excitement around the competition. There are Races every five days, so that gives you just enough to get settled. And maybe find a car.  THE LIBRARYAs many have already come to hear, there are plenty of libraries and museums all across Struxta. However, there is one that is known as The Library, which archives anything and everything in the history of all of Struxta, spanning back its entire history, over thousands and thousands of years. The building itself is as large and impressive as The Hostel, nearly two hundred stories tall, possibly more, and as wide and long as a city block. But where in the Hostel each floor had been made up of rooms, each of these floors are large, open areas, with dark, imposing servers held behind tight, clean cabinets.
No one else seems to be here, which gives the impression that The Library is not open to just any native of Struxta, and that in fact - as members of the Circle you are being given special access to what would normally be off-limits.
In the middle of each floor, there is a small collection of tables, with large screens. These touch-screens will be your access into the Library archives. And that is the thing - you will have access to everything, but as it turns out, everything really means everything, and with backups spanning the course of thousands of years in the past, it will take a lot of time and a lot of energy and a lot of research determination to find anything of use. Not because it is difficult, just because it is so massive and so overwhelming.
The only natives you will find will be on the first floor, as a kind of secretarial position for the building. They are more than happy to try and help guide you through the search process, but they will not follow you up to any of the other floors, and there is a distinct feeling of being entirely alone when you do go up to begin your search. Alone, but watched, somehow.
Remember- if there is something that you wish to look up specifically, please ask over on the world interactions post so we can be sure that the correct information is shared! The best way to go about finding something in the Library will be going at search terms in teams, as there is so much information there is no way one person will be able to wade through it all. Additionally, please feel free to write up and work with your own prompts! These are presented as jumping off points for your characters, not limitations. The idea of this world- as with all the others- is to explore. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask them back on the mod questions thread back in the OOC post from before! And if you have any ideas regarding how your character will interact with the world, also feel free to check back into the world interactions comment from the OOC post from before, as well! From this point forward, the Circle has become involved with the Collected Nations of Struxta. What your character finds out, decides, and does from here on out will affect the future of this city- one way or another! But what you do is completely up to you. What you discover, explore, and uncover will be yours to discover, explore, and uncover. Who knows what you might find? :) |
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acatalepsy_logs2018-07-11 12:02 am
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[he doesn't think he does. so instead, he just. gives Daylight a knowing look, slowly lifts a spoonful of gray goop to his mouth. . .]
[and takes a bite]
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Akira!! What are you doing!?
[ meddy, hearing the commotion now, zips to the table to see what's going on. it doesn't take them too long to figure out what's happening between the boys and they are worried,
tsunderely.now it's meddy's turn to '!!!!' because really? they attempt to communicate with some of the other drones for a few minutes and this is what happens?
beep bwoop beep bip! ]
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[it isn't liquid, so it probably isn't safe for Daylight's consumption at all. but it is mushy enough that Akira doesn't have to chew before he swallows. it also doesn't go down easily (it doesn't taste bad, but the flavor is super weird, like nothing Akira has ever had before), soooo if there's a. . . slight green shade to his features, you can blame the goop]
[. . .]
[and a few seconds after he finishes the first bite, he just. thunks his forehead against the table and groans]
Ah. . .
We're going to starve.
[how. . . are they going to survive six weeks on GRAY GOOP]
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he crosses his arms and puffs out a cheek in thought of what akira had just said, huffing quietly. ]
... This can't be the only thing they're giving to you guys. I checked my rooms- There's, like, a bazillion ports to jack in for recharge and stuff.
If they have variety for that, I bet they more types of food. [ somewhere. maybe. possible. ] Maybe we need to ask them if there's more food?
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Iiii don't really have much hope for a society of androids who don't need to eat having the greatest culinary variety.
[if they don't eat, why would they have food? beyond. . . this]
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meanwhile, daylight acts as the foil to meddy's unsaid pessimism by being very optimistic and very talkative. ]
Anything is possible! I mean- I didn't think they would have video games and races and art galleries too but hey! They do and they all sound awesome and neat so... yeah. [ he tilts his helm to the side, considering something. ] Where did you get the food? I don't think I've seen a buffet station when I got down.
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[ugh]
I give them credit for trying. [aha] They could've just let us starve.
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meddy's antennas shoot up in concern when they start to get an idea of what akira is trying to do. is he really going to- oh no.
while meddy floats by akira’s side, booping and beeping at them with great misgivings about this decision of his, daylight himself looks pretty distressed at the thought of akira and the others starving. he's new to this whole starving thing now that his eternal efficiency system is no longer work, but it's not a fun experience so far. ]
I don't think... I bet they wouldn't have done that. They all seem pretty nice. A little- [ um. ] -uniformed, but nice. I'm sure they wouldn't have done that at all. Lady Astoria wouldn't send us to a place that dangerous.
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[ah]
[oops]
No, I think you're right. She wouldn't send us anywhere without food and other necessary resources.
[he imagines that is part of the reason there's a restaurant in the first place]
But what I'm saying is. . .
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I miss jagariko.
[:(]
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now is the time for daylight to use his ridiculous height to his advantage. he reaches out, now trying to give akira some comforting pats to the shoulder. unlike meddy, who is now hovering by akira and letting out low drones of disapproval at him for now, the 'bot pulls his strength back to make sure his pats are comforting. ]
Maybe we'll visit a world that has that. Or something similar to that. [ maybe they can ask lady astoria if she'll send them to a place like that? maybe try to cook it if possible? who knows. ] But I gotta admit- I've never seen Meddy this fussy over someone else with their food intake. It's kinda cuuueeeer... neat. It's kinda neat.
[ not 'cute' because day knows by now. despite him needing to puff out his cheeks to prevent himself from laughing at how meddy's antennas are twitching in a decidedly annoyed manner. ]
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[he doesn't even need to finish the word for Akira to know what he's saying, and for a moment? he can't really hid his smile. he has to press his knuckles against the back of his mouth to keep Meddy from noticing that grin]
I think this officially makes Meddy and I friends.
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daylight doesn't bother to try and hide the smile and giggle of his at this point. ] Judging by their flustered denials over this, I think that's their confirmation on your relationship with them.
[ bwoop beep!
whap on the helm? totally worth it. if only because meddy's antennas are wiggling about in a way daylight can tell they're both flattered and touched at the idea of having an independent friend. ] Yeah! I totally pronounce you guys besties for life. You may now get impromptu checkups if Meddy feels like you're not drinking enough water.
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Huh. . . is he a medical bot for humans too, then?
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Meddy was created by a Galateion. They were supposed to help out with assisting in the medic's medical bays and stuff like that. [ there's a 'but' at this point. one can almost feel it- ] But! When the original owner of Meddy decided to leave for an adventure, they gifted them to Uncle Leeds when he was still a teenager! The medic and Uncle Leeds were close friends so Meddy was a parting gift of sorts and it was also to protect Meddy, since the trip the medic joined was kinda dangerous.
They learned about human medicine and health as a result. Better to look out for Uncle Leeds and Auntie Laura and everyone else back at NODICE.
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[every conversation Akira learns something new. which is actually kind of nice; he enjoys hearing about his friends' lives]
You can already tell what question I'm going to ask next, can't you?
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NODICE means Neutral Organisation Defences for Intergalactic Catastrophes and Emergencies. [ a deep vent because whew! it's still a long name. ] Meant to help anyone who needed help in the wake of some, um, bad stuff finally ending at the time.
I think Auntie Laura and Uncle Leeds founded it when they were... Hmm... How old are you, Akira? I think they were your age range at time. [ more or less. maybe give or take a couple years? ]
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Seventeen. [he answers simply, but he's continuing] So it's like an organization that helps out the galaxy when things go wrong?
[he doesn't want to call it a police force, since that doesn't feel right, but it's close?]
Are you a member?
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reap what you sow, original members.) ]
Something like that! Yeah!
The description of NODICE, I mean. I was never a member. A member-member. A real one. Auntie Laura and Uncle Leeds made me an honorary member but it never advanced beyond that.
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Why not?
[he asks curiously. Daylight seems like he'd make a pretty good defender-of-the-universe type, so. . .]
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They didn't think it'll be safe to bring me along during missions and stuff. I think I was the equivalent of a toddler then? Definitely smaller.
[ though to be honest? he would have considered his guardians/bondparents very, very cool if they had done that. siiiiigh.- ]
By the time I was considered old enough, they couldn't keep their promises to make me a full fledged member. [ because. you know.
lifespans. ]
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Wasn't there anyone else that could've officially made you a member? Heck, why do you even need that, anyway?
You could just do what NODICE does in an unofficial capacity.
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also daylight, internally: /remembers. ]
Maybe? By the time I was old enough to be considered a member, I was on the moon by then. Auntie Breakthrough was raising me at that point after Uncle Leeds' passing. She didn't think it'll be safe for me to join NODICE.
[ ... odd. he doesn't seem comfortable when talking about this auntie, judging by how he tries to make himself small and his winglets droop out of sight.
it might also explain the wild change of topic he asks: ] -What's the weirdest place you've ever been to? I thought it'll be the moon but it's pretty boring up there? If you don't have planned stuff to do in advance it's just... rocks and a few rovers and bases.
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[hm. Akira is the type of person to let other people come to him if they want to talk about something rough in their pasts, so. . . he lets this slide]
Weirdest place I've ever been to?
[loaded question!! and he considers his answer very carefully before he responds, perfectly nonchalantly]
Flying bank.
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he's just... imagining a bank he's seen from his old saturday cartoons. only it's in the air and it has these comically big wings. it may not be the most accurate thing in the world but let the hybrid have his day. ]That sounds so cool!
...
[ daylight. ]
I guess-
[ daylight no! ]
-it makes cents that you want to keep the money out of reach.
[ daylight deserves jailtime for that awful pun alone. ]
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