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

[ilovepuppies]

[Things were finally back to normal. Well. As much as they could be. Star had saved the universe twice in a matter of weeks and now she just wanted to have a crisis free life. It was a few days since Marco returned to Earth when she finally started to relax. For the first time in a while, she woke up that morning without the brief moment of terror before realizing she was still in her own bedroom and not in a run down mansion or hotel. She just stared at the ceiling for a minute before letting out a sigh of relief. She was home.

She goes about her day like normal, and almost doesn't think anything of it when she spies the ticket sticking out of her bathroom mirror.]

Lifetime parkhopper... whaaaa?

[Star yanks the ticket free of the mirror to get a closer look. Her mistake, as she immediately feels the falling sensation, and lands on her face on the pavement.]

Gah!! What the heck? What's going on!?

[She jumps up, brandishing her wand, immediately aware that something bad just happened. This is not her beautiful castle in Mewni!]

WHERE AM I!?

[angelgoatdemon]

Something called 'Progress City'. I don't recall Elysium building a-- wait.

[He glances at the Star, then back to his own ticket. Back to Star, and then the ticket. Maybe three more times for good luck.]

Wha-

[ilovepuppies]

[Star does a few doubletakes of her own. It's more of a quintuple take at this rate. She looks at Lekmet, then down at her hands to confirm that yes- she still has skin, so she's not dead. That's... a plus??]

Hang on, is it already that day you're allowed to come visit already? It's only been like two weeks!

[angelgoatdemon]

[A quick glance at the others made sure he's the only skeleton around, so unless this group decided to rob a grave together...?]

It's nowhere near close to visit, maybe a whole bunch of people decided to curse themselves from the living world just to see?

You didn't steal anything, did you? W-Wait, but this doesn't look like Elysium. Oh no- Oh no no no no not again-

[PLEASE NOT ANOTHER RITUAL HE'S ALREADY DEAD????]

[ilovepuppies]

[Hahaaaa okay Star was fine as long as she didn't say it out loud but now it's right out there in the open. LET'S PANIC!]

I-it's not! It can't be! Hades is, like, SUPER dead! And I have this!

[She produces the wand.] I'll blast anyone who tries to make us murder someone!

[angelgoatdemon]

Hades is long gone, it can't be! He's much deader than I am!

[The lack of lungs won't stop him from hyperventilating a little bit.] It's gotta be someone uhhh-

I'm not sure how anyone expects to kill who's already dead? Hopefully it's not that, anything but that!

[marryapanther]

I'm afraid I have no idea, myself.

[For the most part, Bagheera is still trying to avoid the humans if he can. But he makes an exception for man-cubs. And while this girl looks older than his Mowgli, she's still clearly a cub.

He's still braced just in case she decides to lash out at him, though.

hey star remember when you killed a lion by accident and got executed for it, here comes a different big cat try not to do it again ]

[ilovepuppies]

[Star jumps, nearly dropping her wand in the process, but she manages to grab it and hug it close to her. nope definitely not pointing magical tools at big cats ever again]

DUDE, do NOT sneak up on me like that!

[marryapanther]

[Bagheera jumps about a foot in the air, fur bristling. It takes him a moment to register what she's saying and that she's not about to attack him.] I-I'm sorry. I temporarily forgot human hearing is weaker than most animals. [The number of times he's scared the daylights out of Mowgli- accidentally or on purpose- is too high to be counted. The boy has learned plenty over the years, but that can't make up for naturally worse hearing.]

[ilovepuppies]

It's fine! Okay, no, it's not fine. I'm really jumpy right now, for Reasons.

[Reasons such as 'this is entirely too much like the time I got kidnapped and forced to participate in a year long blood ritual']

[marryapanther]

Believe me- I understand. I wasn't of the right mind when I first arrived here, myself. Are you alright? You're not hurt, are you? [Belatedly, Bagheera realizes that if she was injured, she likely wouldn't want to tell that to a wild animal with big teeth and fangs.]

[hallotween]

Hi, Star!

[she's pounding her fists on the portal this is just a normal day]

[ilovepuppies]

Marnie!? How many of us are here?

[At least she's got the right idea!]

We are so not letting anyone lock us in a mansion!

[Just gonna beat on the portal with her wand.]

[hallotween]

I've seen a couple of us so far-- something really weird is going on.

[nods] Definitely! There isn't a mansion here, though-- no hotel or anything. We're... all out in the open.

[ilovepuppies]

It's a trap. It's gotta be. I bet if we start walking we'll just loop back on where we just were. That's what they did when they let us out of the mansion I was stuck in!

We gotta find whoever brought us here and make them pay.

[hallotween]

I'm already betting it's Rod. [star got to defeat HER nemesis it's marnie's turn]

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

I'm afraid I'm presently lacking a map of my own, dearie. Or a local pamphlet. Do people still have pamphlets?

[At least her favorite honorary granddaughter is here. Even if Eclipsa's dressed more for midnight tea sessions than outdoor picnic talks.]

[ilovepuppies]

YAH! [She spins around and points the wand at the newcomer... who looks strangely familiar.]

...Wow, I'm really glad I got dressed before I picked up my ticket.

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

[A little giggle.]

Yes, well, if you're going to be person-napped into a strange, bizarre locale, you might as well be in fuzzy slippers. Any comfort is welcome comfort, you know.

[ilovepuppies]

Iiii guess you got a point. I blew up the god of the underworld in bunny pajamas.

[There is SOMETHING that Star can't seem to shake.]

Have... we met? I swear I've seen you before somewhere.

[allknowledgegoodknowledge]

[...hm. That's. Hm.]

...Yes we- You don't recognize me?

[spazzed]

( heyyy fellow universe saver! granted he can't. lay any of that claim to anything he's done personally, but more to his group of teammates, but that isn't important!

what's important is that he. might have watched her fall flat on her face after she'd picked up her ticket and he. understands that on a level that he doesn't feel comfortable disclosing, but rest assured that it's there. and he approaches at the very same moment she whips her wand around, and he halts, holding his hands up defensively. ) Whoa! Uh, I probably know as much as you do, but watch where you point that thing, huh?

( lance. be careful. sheesh. )

[ilovepuppies]

[Okay, he doesn't look like the host of an elaborate blood sacrifice, so she lowers the wand.]

Jeez, how many prisoners have they kidnapped, anyway?

[spazzed]

( he shouldn't look like the host of an elaborate blood sacrifice.

… the heck does that even look like?

anyway. )

Was everybody here taken? ( it's more of an out-loud thought than anything else, but it's totally a valid question. ) You think?

[ilovepuppies]

[If you want Star's honest opinion? Kinda cute, but that's besides the point.]

Well, I definitely got kidnapped, and you definitely got kidnapped, and in my experience, this kind of thing happens to large groups of people at once!