Who: Everyone! Where: City wide event! When: November 27th Summary: The end of the first round of storms occurs, and with a bang. Warnings: Power outages, a certain amount of stumbling around in the dark
After several days of constant rain, it feels like something should give. And in a way, something does; on the 27th, the storm clouds appear a little more dark, and a lot closer to the ground, with a certain amount heaviness that no amount of torrential rain pouring out of them is easing.
There's still some tension in the air; an almost electric charge that gets hairs to stand on end.
The only warning is a dazzling whip of lightning that snakes out of the sky and strikes into the city. The thunder roars a second later...Followed by every light in the city going fizzle-snap and shorting out.
It may be a long day, and without much in the way of power.
"Not something that can easily go away, even if we all like it to be." He was idealistic, but not so much that he was out of touch with reality. Steve wasn't expecting that everything will be fine with the world, not even in the future.
"Oh, you guys are already used to it, huh?" He smiled a little, well it was good that they at least tried to make the best of things. The creation of those airships sounded really neat. "Do any of these cards have monsters that spawn from the Mist?" He looked over at the different drawings, some ranging from not too bad to really uh, threatening.
"Many of them," Freya confirmed. "I haven't met a few of them, but I am familiar with monsters such as these." As she said it, she picked up two cards to hand to Steve--one bearing the image of a strange-looking cactus with limbs, and the other with a fiery monster with sharp teeth.
Steve looked at the unusual cactus shown on the card, the creature sorta looked like it was always surprised...
"That cactus can walk around and... fight?" Of course a normal cactus was a living thing and all, but not like this. They definitely didn't have a mouth for one. "And that one sorta looks like a floating fireball." He had the best observations. Although, Steve hadn't really seen monsters like this before.
"That is a cactuar. They attack by throwing their needles," she explained. "The other we call a bomb, because as you fight them, they attempt to explode. We tend to avoid them if we aren't certain we can beat them quickly."
Explaining what a bomb was to someone felt odd, even though she'd been here for months and had done it a few times already. Monsters were so common to her, and to come to a place where they didn't exist, or at least weren't widespread...
"I admit it's odd to think there are other worlds with no monsters. I'm assuming yours has none?"
"Um, they sure sound dangerous..." A cactus that throws needles and a monster that explodes. Yep, definitely dangerous.
"No monsters in the traditional sense. But some humans make up for that." He only had to think about World War II as an example of human depravity. And it was just one of many examples, if Steve wasn't lying to himself about it.
"I've no doubt," she replied. "But I'm glad that you don't have to face things like these often." Even if there were people in his world like the queen of Alexandria, who'd started a war out of pure greed, there was the possibility he wouldn't have to face that sort of thing. Monsters were more predictable, but they were a constant threat for the people of Gaia.
"Travel must be much easier for your world," she commented, trying to change the subject. "Have you been many places?"
"Definitely would have made surviving a little more difficult." Steve would have tried his hardest to survive and Bucky would have as well, but the thought of living in a world with monsters and with little wealth was definitely a challenge. "If that was the case, I'd hope we band together more and watch out for one another."
"I haven't. Couldn't really afford to travel so much." He smiled a little, trying not to be too much of a downer. "But wouldn't trade my city for anything."
Freya gave him a nod of understanding. Many people were bound to their homes by a lack of traveling funds, even if they did wish to leave. Even if monsters didn't exist in Steve's world, she imagined bandits would still be an issue; and for someone without battle training and weapons, it would be costly to hire the protection needed to go anywhere very far.
"What is your city like?" she asked. "Is it similar to this one?"
"Kinda. This city is more technologically advanced and the buildings have different structures, but it's a lot smaller overall." It was definitely a city still and not exactly tiny either, but New York was just huge. "Not as many people around here."
"It is a bit small for a city, at least at the moment," she agreed. "But I imagine that must be because the closed-off districts are still dangerous. I wonder how much livelier it must have been before this entire power issue.
"How large would you say your city is compared to this one?"
"Guess a lot of folks skipped town when the energy crises happened here." It made sense, even though some people probably didn't have the means to do so. Steve still wanted to help this place because of that.
"Oh, about six times the size of this city. But New York City, the place I'm from, is divided into different boroughs because of the large population. Still all one city though, in the end."
"I see..." It sounded as if it was about as big as most the cities she knew (aside from Lindblum), and those were all the seat of royalty for their kingdoms. "It must be an important place, to be so large and populated."
"It's well-known around the world. Has Wall Street and the New York Stock exchange, both important parts in finance and marketing around the world." Even though the stock market did crash when he was around. Things were better now, but they had a war on hand instead.
Though she certainly had no idea what either of those were, she would take Steve's word that they were quite important. It was as she expected, though she had to admit hearing that it was a worldwide matter was intriguing. She only wished her own world was so put together to have such worldwide relations.
"It's strange just how different Gaia and your Earth sound. It never ceases to astound me how unlike the other worlds I've heard of are to what I'm familiar with."
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"Oh, you guys are already used to it, huh?" He smiled a little, well it was good that they at least tried to make the best of things. The creation of those airships sounded really neat. "Do any of these cards have monsters that spawn from the Mist?" He looked over at the different drawings, some ranging from not too bad to really uh, threatening.
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"That cactus can walk around and... fight?" Of course a normal cactus was a living thing and all, but not like this. They definitely didn't have a mouth for one. "And that one sorta looks like a floating fireball." He had the best observations. Although, Steve hadn't really seen monsters like this before.
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Explaining what a bomb was to someone felt odd, even though she'd been here for months and had done it a few times already. Monsters were so common to her, and to come to a place where they didn't exist, or at least weren't widespread...
"I admit it's odd to think there are other worlds with no monsters. I'm assuming yours has none?"
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"No monsters in the traditional sense. But some humans make up for that." He only had to think about World War II as an example of human depravity. And it was just one of many examples, if Steve wasn't lying to himself about it.
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"Travel must be much easier for your world," she commented, trying to change the subject. "Have you been many places?"
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"I haven't. Couldn't really afford to travel so much." He smiled a little, trying not to be too much of a downer. "But wouldn't trade my city for anything."
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"What is your city like?" she asked. "Is it similar to this one?"
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"How large would you say your city is compared to this one?"
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"Oh, about six times the size of this city. But New York City, the place I'm from, is divided into different boroughs because of the large population. Still all one city though, in the end."
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"It's strange just how different Gaia and your Earth sound. It never ceases to astound me how unlike the other worlds I've heard of are to what I'm familiar with."