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progressmods) wrote2018-03-03 03:24 am
progressmods) wrote2018-03-03 03:24 am
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progress city test drive #1
| Here You Leave Today And Enter The World Of Yesterday, Tomorrow And Fantasy. Welcome to Progress City's first official test drive meme! This game is a panfandom jamjar set in a flux dimension inspired by Disney Theme Parks (particularly Walt Disney World in Florida) and the original concept for EPCOT (a city that would connect to the theme parks). Whether you're looking to join us or are just here to play around for a little bit, we have a few prompts below for you - but you're also free to come up with your own! | |||
| Prompt A Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, you find a vintage-looking ticket. The next time you blink or close your eyes for any reason, you open them and find yourself somewhere else - Progress City's Ticket and Transportation Center. You have no idea how you got here, and definitely don't know how you got this weird thing on your wrist... You'll learn, eventually, that Progress City and it's world-class themeparks are a popular tourist dimension across this universe. People can get in here very easily, but for some reason, that unremovable band on your wrist isn't allowing you to use their transporters to get home. To compensate, you'll be offered a job in the parks and free housing for the duration of your stay. Is that something you're willing to take? | |||
| Prompt B While you're here, you might as well spend some time around the theme parks in your downtime. It's easy enough to get to them - the city offers free 24/7 monorail and peoplemover transportation to each park, and you also get a free annual pass for yourself with your stay (lucky you)! If you're at all familiar with Walt Disney World, these four parks will seem...remarkably familiar to you. But there's little subtle differences here and there that that make this seem different - and the ones in charge will seem confused by the concept of a "Walt Disney World". Must be a thing about different dimensions. Nevertheless, you're still going to have the occasional bit of free time here, so there's plenty to see and do here across all four areas. Go ride some rides and eat some Dole Whip, you crazy kids. | |||
| Prompt C With the housing, you also get offered a job by Progress City's mayor. Maybe you decide to take it, maybe you don't, he's not gonna kick you out of your apartment unless you deserve it. But this poses a good way to get some actual money. You'll be matched to a job around the resort - hopefully one you enjoy. You could end up working in the parks as a ride operator, serving food, managing a shop, working security, or ending up as a pool lifeguard. There are a number of possibilities here, and you can always change your job later on if you find one that may suit you more. | |||
| Prompt D Over time, the thing on your wrist changes. Namely, it'll start taking on new colors, designs and occasionally icons that reflect your character's personality and appearance. You'll find that by concentrating you'll be able to utilize your band to... cast magic spells, of all things. These also seem tailored to your character - summoning weapons, creating projectiles, putting foes to sleep? It seems that no two bands are alike when it comes to this. ...Occasionally, you'll spot one or two small ink blot-like creatures scurrying about the city or the parks, creating an inky mess and leaving a small amount of chaos in it's wake. Those don't seem advertised. Perhaps they'd be good to try out your new abilities on, or maybe you'd prefer to practice a little bit first. | |||
| Wildcard As always, feel free to come up with your own scenario if none of these inspire you! | |||
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[Beaker shrugs- he doesn't know what to tell you, other Beaker. He sure as hell doesn't know why there's two of you. But hey, you're Muppets, so weird stuff like this is kinda... not unprecedented. It's not like it's even the first time there's been more than one Beaker running around... But of course, Bunsen had a hand in that- Oh!]
Mimeeemeee minimuhmee Bunsen?
[Has other Beaker seen him, maybe? He might be the cause of this! If he's even here in the first place...]
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[He starts listing off locations he's searched so far. The Magic Kingdom, Cinderella's Castle, so on and so forth. You know, locations featured in The Muppets at Disneyworld.]
Meemiimeep meemoo, meep meemiimeep...
[Something about the Hall of Presidents and the terrifying animatronics.]
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Memee-mii meep menuhmeemii mee-meep! Mimimi me miimini mee-mee-mimeep.
[Just because they haven't found him yet, doesn't mean he's not here! They could try looking for him in the places they haven't checked yet! Like... well, uh, the Haunted Mansion, which happens to be very close by. How about that. Beaker falters a little bit when he notices it.]
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Nuh-uh. Meep meemiimeep meemoo meep meep meemeep. Meemiimeep meemoomeep--
[He's sure they can take a break or something from searching for Bunsen. It's not like the good doctor is going to break down, have a midlife crisis, and start dressing in ridiculous outfi--
Hm. Wait.]
M-Meep meemiimeep. Meemoo meep. Meemiimeep meep meemoo meep meep.
[Okay. Haunted Mansion it is. But only if the other one goes in first.]
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Me?
[Why does Beaker have to go first! ... Well, whatever. He'll be the test dummy. That's their job, after all.
He's taking very, very cautious steps towards the Mansion, wringing his little puppet hands.]
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Hm. There are quite a lot of worrying tombstones here. Probably just part of the beginning of the ride, right? Yes? For spooky feeling. He can't help but try and cower behind the other Beaker, despite the fact they are the same height.]
every time you use that icon im gonna use it too. die mad about it
Beaker looks around nervously, meeping to himself. He's too concerned with the atmosphere to notice he's wandered off the path and towards the graves until he's right on top of them. And then right inside one.]
M-MEEP!
[Hope you weren't clinging to him too hard, other Beaker, because this Beaker just stumbled into an open grave! Hopefully its just there for the atmosphere, right?]
understandable have a nice da
[He nearly tumbles in after the other Beaker, but manages to catch himself on a nearby tombstone. He glances briefly at the inscription:]
DEAR DEPARTED
BROTHER
DAVE
HE CHASED A BEAR INTO
A CAVE
[...Well that's sort of. Strange? He turns his attention back to the fallen Beaker, meeping in a distressed manner. Hopefully no bones were broken. Do they even have bones? Probably not. He reaches out to pick him up out of the hole.]
i hope no diehard haunted mansion fans get mad at us if we dont have 100% accurate descriptions
[Beaker's fine, just a little muddy- no broken puppet bones here! He looks around, terrified, expecting to be sharing space with a skeleton or a coffin. Luckily, he's alone in this hole.
He grabs the other Beaker's hand gladly, and hoists himself back up with the other's help.
Beaker lies flat on the ground, panting a little- both from climbing and from panicking. He knows, of course, that all these graves and gravestones have to be fake- there's no way they'd bury REAL people here just for a theme park ride- but it still feels. Eerie. More eerie than it should be.
Hm. It just occurred to him that there's nobody in line. That's weird.]
its Fine
The entrance leads to a long hallway, decorated with spooky portraits and far too many cobwebs. Trembling, Beaker makes his way into the doors at the end of the hallway. He peeks in through the door to be greeted an octagonal portrait gallery. A sinister voice is heard.]
WELCOME, FOOLISH MORTALS--
[Hmm. No thanks. Beaker closes the door and turns back to address the other Beaker.]
Nuh-uh. Meep meemiimeep meemoo meep meep.
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Beaker knows, logically, that the voice is probably just a loudspeaker calling out a pre-recorded message, but the other Beaker doesn't care and by god, neither does he. If Bunsen's any further inside, then he better damn well come out on his own.]
Me-mimiii muhmeepmi menuhmee?
[Screw this. Let's blow this popsicle stand and get some ice cream, other Beaker. There's no way to tell if Bunsen's even in Progress City in the first place, after all.]
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Meemeep.
[Beaker nods--which, when translated to Muppet anatomy, is just bobbing his head in and out of his lab coat. Ice cream with a clone...double...whatever. Why not? He pauses for a moment.]
Meep meemiimeep meemoo meep, meep meemiimeep meep.
[If they see any Swedish taco stands, they might want to go in the other direction. Or Swedish food stands in general.]
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[Completely agreed, other Beaker!
Beaker starts back down the path away from the mansion, more careful this time not to stray.]
Meep muhme memuhmee-mi meeniimeep, mimimi muhmeep? Mimuh-mi-meemeep mimeemimee-muh meep...
[When did you first show up here, anyway, other Beaker? The park is huge, so it wouldn't be too surprising if the two of you had both been here for weeks and just... not crossed paths until now.]
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[He holds up two fingers--two weeks. He...thinks. He hasn't exactly been keeping track. He had spend a few days lost in the Animal Kingdom, trying to avoid the animals until he realized most of them were animatronic.]
Meemiimeep? Meep meemoo meep?
[What about him? How long had he been there?]
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Mimee.... mimimi mee-muhmee, mimeepmi memuhmi-mi meep?
[About... Hm, a month and a half now, for Beaker. He's kept count of the weeks because he keeps getting hired and fired for different jobs. Hey, it's not his fault the people at this place have a lower tolerance for him accidentally bringing destruction and bad luck everywhere he goes!]