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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[ Look at that smarmy smile and the amused tail flicks. He's loving this so much. It's not something the two of them do back home, after all. Not when it comes to something as large scale as this, anyway. They have to work together to make Kjerag better, and they have each other's backs all the way through.
Here though? This is temporary. Hence, this is just a game. So of COURSE Enciodes is going to have so much fun with it. ]
How is your business going, my love?
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Gnosis will not break down. (Yet.)]
No complaints. No celebrity endorsements either, but I do have employees, and I did have to upgrade the storefront I initially bought. The bank loan for that was paid off easily, and now I find myself in another one.
[You know how that goes. :')]
I'm certainly not struggling to survive, though I don't have a sprawling office complex like this [gestures with one hand off to the side] with a fake tree outside to make it twice as corporate.
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Yes, a loan, I'm sure. For your... merchandise? Your advertisements? Your recognizable logo?
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For the cost of materials and building space. The materials have largely paid for themselves by now, thank you very much — but I had to pick up another for the larger building. As I said.
[He does not have a recognizable logo :( ]
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His feathers fluff out, and Gnosis offers a response in the form of a cranelike squawk before he straightens out and adjusts his glasses. Hmph.]
As if I'd need your charity, Enciodes. You won't hear me begging any time soon.
[will he tho]