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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Mm... hopefully strawberries or raspberries for the syrup. The green funnelcake... I think it might be dyed, so it probably tastes a bit artificial.
[These are his bets, he's locking in.
Anyway, they'll get to the food court and the stand selling the funnelcakes, and Ain will order one. Two, if Wolfwood wants one. He's having this before his actual dinner (because of course he is), and the menu doesn't exactly say what flavours are in it. That's fine, he's adventurous, and Ain will sit down on a nearby bench with his funnel cake and take a bite.
The dough is pistachio flavoured and the syrup tastes like sour Skittles.
Mm. Yeah, okay, Neo Eden food is Something.]
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Wolfwood opts to not order one just because he knows if he has a funnelcake he won't be able to eat dinner-food, but he will try a bite of Ain's. Funnily enough, he's never had pistachio so he can't clock the flavor at all...and the sour skittle flavor is a sharp, sour-sweet fruity thing. It's a VERY weird mix in his mouth.]
...it ain't...bad, but I wouldn't really call it good either.
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[You know a food isn't the best when Ain, notorious "eat whatever" guy, is making a face at the flavour profile. But he paid for this, dammit, he's going to eat it. Eat it he does, whether Wolfwood helps or not, and that leaves room for "real food" aka whatever junk restaurants the amusement park has here that's unhealthy but filling enough to keep people going.
There's a chicken place, a pizza place, and what Ain would call "classic Elrian" aka it's Korean food but there's also Chinese and Japanese and Vietnamese — it's a basic Asian restaurant that doesn't know what it wants to be, really. Ain just calls it the Elrian place. It's probably actually Something as far as Neo Eden is concerned, but.
Ain... wants a cursed street corndog, he thinks. And whatever horrid food "watermelon chicken" is supposed to be, which sounds like it was meant to be orange chicken but made by the devil himself.]
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And here Mr. "has never had a corndog" is, looking at it like he's not sure he should eat it.]
Is it burnt?
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[Ain has a fairly normal looking one, he asked for a potato one covered in spicy mayo, but uh. It looks more like a tater tot rather than one with fried potatoes, which yes essentially is the same thing but the texture is different, okay? That means there's no breading on it. It's a tater tot wrapped around cheese. The spicy mayo is neon orange instead of regular orange.
It tastes like a standard k-dog but with tater tot. Huh, okay. Not horrible, but Ain still isn't too sure about this one either.]
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It tastes fine, even though it looks like it shouldn't. What about yours?
[Ain's looks like it's glowing with that mayo sauce, holy SHIT.]
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[Nom.]
The spicy mayo is still spicy, it's just glowing, for some strange reason. They like things that glow here, don't they?
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[He turns his corndog around, then holds it out to Ain slightly.]
Wanna try some of mine? We can swap. It's pretty normal tastin', not actually burnt.
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Nom.]
Mm, yeah, that's good... I still don't think we'd use rye bread though. I think that's what it is?
[It's a new strain of bread called Gye and no one can decide if it's pronounced Guy or Gay.]
Here, try this one.
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So fine he'll do the same thing, leaning over to nom Ain's corndog. They're doing that thing couples do in romcoms where they cross their arms and share their food and he's not even doing it intentionally.
Also Guy bread...]
...yeah I like this one better.
[You just like starch my guy.]