Despite the standard day and night cycle, some of you may notice this place still doesn’t feel quite right, a bit outside of time. That shouldn’t stop you from having fun! And should you need to go back to the Grove — or if you’re someone looking to get into Neo Eden in the first place — you need only to gaze into a mirror placed in each of your bedrooms or apartments and wish to go home… which may lead you to fall catastrophically through it to the other side. Try not to hit your chin on the ground.
Life goes on regardless. In this city, there’s a lot to do. You could go shopping at the strip mall near Mania Square, where Heimr and Ydalir have set up a temporary shop to continue to provide for everyone’s needs. They’ll still take shells, but there’s nothing much they can do if you run out of Credits — both will gently suggest you find work in Neo Eden. You guys own businesses back at the Grove, it can’t be that bad, can it?
The good news is, Mr. Bone-Jangles and his entourage of skeletons who you swear weren’t originally here 12 hours ago are happy to help you get a job, where the interview process involves simply “showing up and asking your holographic boss if you can be employed”. Starting your own business is more difficult — you’ll need a loan from the bank! — but not impossible. Any hologram humans that come in to buy things will ignore you, get what they want, and leave. The only time you can interact with your fellow neon-coloured humans is when they’re making a purchase, at which point their items will digitize and they’ll leave. All very odd, but at least the customers aren’t rude to you… or your skeletal coworkers who have joined you for back-breaking labour.
After work, perhaps you want to head to the amusement park — Thrill Point is an utterly massive one to the far northeast of the city past the river that cuts through the digital roadways. With drop towers, roller coasters, rides for little babies who hate heights and fun, and tons of food stalls to stop at, you could feasibly spend all night here and almost forget that you have to be at your next shift in the morning! If you seek a different thrill, Arcadia is a nightclub southwest of Mania Square, where the music plays all night, the liquor flows freely, and anyone under 21 who enters gets marked with an X on the back of their hand by a harmless laser beam. Just outside Arcadia is a small photo booth named “The Swap”, and if you enter with a partner, both of you hitting the “TAKE PHOTO” button will bodyswap you for 12 hours. It will also print out a funny photo of you as a keepsake. Enjoy being someone else for a while!
Head to the Rent-a-Ride, where you can rent any vehicle on wheels — electric scooters, cars, motorcycles, hoverbikes — as long as you can pay the expensive fee. Speeding will get you a ticket from your local robopolice; breaking standard civilian laws will get you arrested and thrown into the unmanned city jail. And try not to tailgate or crash your ride — not only will you be on the hook for vehicle damages, but you’ll be shafted with a ludicrous hospital fee. Seriously, people live like this?
But, if a calm walk through nature is more your style, City Park and its
digital trees to the north may suit your needs. The fish in the river here can be fished up by hopeful anglers, though all are wiggly, inedible robots. Hm.
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sticksandbones2025-04-01 12:12 pm
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Now, the fog wall is very strong now, so Corrupted things are going to have a near-impossible time getting in. It's to the point that, as Dion stands at the wall going pspspspsp, the things that come bonk themselves into the barrier, have a "what the fuck" moment, back up, try again... anyway there are like 14 corrupted boarlike things trying to hit the fog wall like a battering ram. The barrier does NOT give. It's impressive how strong it is now.
Dion has two options: He can look at one of the Guardians and go "grab one and bring it in here" and see if they'll do it, or he can toss the poison at/through the fog wall and hope it hits. Alternatively he can sit there going pspspsps until there are more feral hogs. 30-50, perhaps.
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Who knows if he'll pull it off. Maybe 29-49 feral hogs will eat their kin.
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He skewers one, and it squeals and wails louder, especially as it's pulled through the barrier. It's very clear that the poison is working; the thrashing grows quickly weak, a combination of being stabbed and also given that brutal poison, and the squealing ends by the time Dion pulls the whole feral corrupted hog through.
It is Very dead. I am going to assume Dion stabbed it somewhere vital because he's good at stabbing things, unless you want to correct me and say he stabbed it in the flank, in which case it struggles for a bit longer and squeals and cries and then dies after a few minutes.
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Despite its struggling, Dion will do his best to observe the creature. Does anything stand out as it dies from the poison? Blackened veins, extra bleeding? Anything to really indicate that the poison worked better than it should have or anything like that?
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- No extra bleeding as far as he can tell
- The poison seems to have caused tissue necrosis around the wound; when Dion removes the lance, it's very clear that either this hog had hog gangrene or the poison was eating away the flesh, almost like an acid would
- These are Suri Construct Creatures so they already tend to bleed something more along the lines of black ichor, unfortunately, so that doesn't say much.
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One last question, does the poisoned blood seem to have any impact on the ground around them? Lasting damage to their surroundings or something like that? You know, any signs of potential collateral damage!
EDITING TO ADD: after he does this he's going to use his lance to cut off a chunk of the hog. For science purposes. His hands are usually covered while he's in full gear so he definitely has gloves or something.
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Dion cuts a chunk off the hog and it's fucking gross bro, it's yucky. Nothing special other than what we've talked about but it's not pretty.