Intro Log

[progressmods]

Who: Everyone!
What: Your first magical day
Where: Progress City Tranport Center
When: Right now
Warnings: None planned!



[Today you found a ticket to a theme park. It seems relatively normal, except that it reads: Lifetime Parkhopper Pass to Progress City. ”The Most Magical Pocket Dimension in the Multiverse!” This is not a theme park you have ever heard of, if you live in a world where theme parks are of the norm.

For some reason you’re drawn to the ticket. There’s something… magical in this piece of paper, and you can practically hear it calling out to you, and you feel compelled to pick it up. It’s strange, but it’s a piece of paper, what’s the worst that could happen?

However, the moment you pick it up, you feel yourself being pulled. There is nothing pulling you but there is an overwhelming sensation that something is pulling you by the chest into the ground. You don’t have time to process what’s going on before you suddenly fall over, the strange feeling going away the moment you hit the ground.

It takes a few moments for you to regain your bearings, but as you look up you are suddenly hit with the fact that, wherever you were before, you certainly aren’t there anymore. It appears to be a transport station of some sort, and a very sleek and new one at that. Monorails pass by the station every couple of minutes, with small, slower moving vehicles consistently move in and out of the center.

The innermost wall, right behind where you stand, is lined with portals. It appears that you came in through this portal, but if you try to go back the way you came in, you’ll find that you are unable to enter it, no matter how hard you try.

While the realization that you are now trapped in this strange place, you will soon find that you also have a strange band strapped to your dominant wrist. No matter how hard you try to take it off, it seems like it’s stuck on there.

At least you’re not alone, along with a bunch of other people who arrived around the same time you did, there are humanoid people who seemed to be intrigued by your arrival. They’re all generally nice, but get confused if you ask them why you’re here and why you can’t leave. They will, however, happily tell you the name of the place you’re in if you ask:

Progress City.]

Comments

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

Oh, I was quite skilled at it. But I never learned wandless magic, I'm afraid. I really do recommend learning from my mistake. [LEARN MORE THAN ONE WEAPON.]

That said, this place does seem to be lacking... something.

[hallotween]

Oh, wandless magic is all I know. All I have to do is want something and it happens. [she looks at her hands.] Even when I was trapped in the hotel, I could still use my magic, even if it didn't always work right. Here, it's like something's... cutting it off...

[she. stares at the magicband.]

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

Oooooh, that sounds fascinating. So: something's blocking your natural current of magic. Like a dam blocking a reservoir except it isn't helping anyone and you actually really need that river flowing to glide down with the ducks and the birds and the magical fish.

[hallotween]

Exactly! I think. It has to be this thing [waves wrist] doing it-- that's more believable than something like a whole world not having magic.

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

There's bound to be at least one, mind you. But I highly doubt it would be this one. What with the sinister glowing portal of ultimate destiny and terror.