Geartopia More Info!

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▼ Welcome everyone!

 

Geartopia is kicking off on the 5th! (delayed a day due to head mod having connection issues since last week).

If you've gotten an invite from a fellow player or just wanted to join in on the fun, here's what you'll need to know about this 4th wall event!

▼ Character Rules

 

NO to Crack Characters or Characters based on real-life celebrities (so Nostalgic Critic or Steven Colbert are straight out.)

YES to relatives of your own characters, AUs, OCs or characters currently played in other games. As long as your characters do not cross or you keep munsterbation (playing two close characters by yourself) to a minimum, it is perfectly fine. You don't have to be in the game to join in on this fun either!

▼ WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO

 

If your game allows world hopping and/or is perfectly fine with your character disappearing to Geartopia for a short while, we are perfectly fine with this.

For members of Destiny Strings, this 4th wall event is not a 4th wall moreso than something that is canon and will be part of the game's actual history, so yes, traumatize them to your heart's content!

YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO CREATE NEW POSTS We will be removing restrictions of who can create posts for the event's days. Along with our open posts, but only in the log community (destinystrings). You will use the tag !geartopia to mark the event accordingly.

To make the best of the setting, please read the setting info below, or read the open introduction post.

THE EVENT ENDS ON THE 20TH But we will allow new posts to be created until the 24th and then it's backtag, backtag and backtag to your heart's content. And hey, if you like it here, you don't have to leave, you can come with us back to Hinoto-Ri!

▼ What does this event have to do with your game?

 

More than you know for now >B] We also figured it would be an interesting IC way to have a 4th wall event instead of having everyone stuck in the city. They're still stuck inside a city, just a steampunk one.

▼ Will there be mod-run events in this?

 

Yes! This is actually still tied to Destiny Strings, so there is plot involved.

▼ What is Geartopia like?

 

Geartopia is, to put it in plain terms, a cowboy-steampunk themed world. It was built a long time ago by aliens visiting the planet that granted intelligence to some native species. You can find a few remnants of their culture scattered around the land in the form of large stone carvings. The carvings also serve as guardians - once a character enters the planet, they are only allowed to visit the main town and surrounding area before they find themselves stopped by an invisible force field (there are other smaller towns, but they are far and few in between).

Technology is steampunk with a cowboy flair: there are trains, horses, chariots, lots of gears and dark clothing. The inhabitants are mostly humans, humanoid animals, alien natives and steampunk robots. The technology the elder aliens left them allows for contact with passing spaceships, but otherwise there is nothing futuristic going on on the planet - the aliens wanted it this way and for the most part, the population respects this.

Geartopia was visited by other Visitors before, including the crew of Transmigration 9, who helped solve a few mysteries twenty years ago. Now a new mayoress rules the city and new problems have arisen, with pirates posed to attack the place!

However you wouldn't know that.

There's just this fancy little thing that everyone probably forgot acting up again. The thing is, this world also has something similar, and just like you should never cross the streams, you should never cross the inter-dimensional space portals.

The result is a tear in the space-time continuum and a whole lot of people suddenly stuck in Geartopia that were not supposed to be there.

Oops. That might take a small while to fix. While the people of Hinoto-Ri will be able to go back and forth, everyone else without a proper destiny string is stranded until the situation is fixed...

▼ Anything else I should know?

 

If you could post what characters you are bringing here, feel free to do so! We're excited to see who this might bring.

▼ Posts!

 

First Open post (open to all!)

Comments

[ghostheadphones]

Matt here.

If I can figure out how to do this without muncest I might bring over one of my other Kazuya journals ('cause this one is for an AU).

I also have a journal for Malik from Assassin's Creed I might drag over, and/or a Walter from SMTIV, and/or a Jin or Shinjiro from Persona 3.

Or I might just drag out my old Zoidberg journal.

[dogfixation]

Canopus is from an AU where Ryoji was the Anti-Shadow Weapon Sirius and Aigis was the incarnation of Death.

Canopus is specifically his world's version of Metis from The Answer.

I will probably also bring in at least one other character - I am thinking Desco as she didn't have much to do during last month's event.

Also yes this is Walker.

[otakuro]

I am pretty much open to bringing any of the following if you guys want to see them around:

Palom | Final Fantasy IV
Ivan | Golden Sun
Roswell | Yggdra Union
Maribelle | Fire Emblem Awakening
Bow | Paper Mario
Yuki Nagato | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Yuki Nagato (Disappearance AU) | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Klarth F. Lester | Tales of Phantasia
Viridi | Kid Icarus: Uprising
Takeru Takaishi | Digimon Adventure
Susan Sto Helit | Discworld
Grimsley | Pokemon Black/White
Glinda | Wicked
Popocho | Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Lawfer | Valkyrie Profile
Beast Boy | Teen Titans (Animated)
Raquesis | Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
Lewyn | Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu

I've tagged around with them sometimes in testruns here.

As for characters I already have, I'm thinking Lucas will be going to cowboy land for sure (his dad's a cowboy it's obligatory) and I'm still deciding between PG and Atsuro.

[blitzkriegzwei]

Let's see... I might bring in some of my various OCs for people to swat around/play with. These OCs include Sephira (summonsimulacrum - you may recognize her if you've snooped around Animus a bit) and the newly-created MiRa (whyshouldyoucare). I may even bring Strings!Sephiran back for a bit. So if you want to play with either the lady who once used people's souls as weapons or a combat android who comes from a Sentai-style universe or Sephiran, keep an eye out.

As for who I'm sending to Geartopia... Sasha's a definite, Fattycakes is a 90%, Apollo, Germany, and Zelgius are all maybes.

[imaketheclanks]

I hear you could use another Agatha Heterodyne? I hear you are all perhaps not yet adequately caffeinated? 8DDD

Also, if I can possibly rustle up some icons in time, I might bring in a classic World of Darkness werewolf, a Get of Fenris Ahroun. His name is Werewolf McWolfypants.

[capitalbackup]

Doji here.

I'll be bringing in Amane Kuzuryu (DeSu), but other people on my muselist are fair games.

[risingsunfox]

Hello, Nyx here! I will bring Shura and probably this guy right here to Geartopia. I can bring others on request.

This Raidou is from a DR AU where he is the personification of Tokyo. Don't be too surprised if he's surrounded by kitsunes.

[dreamyweegee]

frankie here im thnking about bringing in this guy here like idk who he is tho its a mystery

Also since Wighty just mentioned Viridi I'm MIGHTY TEMPTED to bring back Pit... And also another hedgehog, tho he don't talk much. At all.

[mrlivingskull]

I'm not part of the base game, but a certain Wighty led me here by making mention in Plurkland. I am presently curious and inclined to join in.

Not sure who I'd bring along just yet; it may happen that I won't fully decide until posts start going. That said, I've got this OC-type here, plus three Vocaloid 'bots (technically four, but one of 'em remains untested) - at this point, they're all equally likely.

[extraordinarily]

Pikari here, also known as your Yurippe-mun. For the event, I'll most likely be bringing in the following:

Haruhi Suzumiya (Afterliving-verse or canon-verse)
Airi Ban (Devil Survivor 2; mid-game)
Mei (Pokemon White 2)
Meiko "Menma" Honma (Anohana)

But if you guys still want anyone from this list, though, feel free to ping me through here or on my plurk!

[terminally_clever]

AIRIIIIIIII :D

[nosetricks]

Shun here. I may bring one or some of the following in for the Geartopia event. Requests welcomed!

Flynn (Before route choice) | Shin Megami Tensei IV
Sera | Digital Devil Saga
Kotetsu T. Kaburagi / Wild Tiger | Tiger & Bunny
Francis York Morgan | Deadly Premonition

[samurai_flynn]

Paradox, anyone? :D

Hello! I'm Ace, and I play Flynn too. ^^

[nosetricks]

Hellooooo~ :D

[floreatnoctem]

Hello, I don't play here (y e t) but I have this Chidori from an AU where Minato was Strega's leader and another (pyromantic) from an AU where she became part of SEES and Fuuka a part of Strega. But I also have some other ladies I might drop in!

Severa | Fire Emblem: Awakening
Yang Xiao Long | RWBY
Fabiola Iglesias | Black Lagoon
Asagi | Witchblade
Metis | Persona 3 FES (same AU as the first Chidori)
C.A. Cupid | Monster High/Ever After High

[vanisland]

Awe here.

As far as in-game people go, Atoli and Faris will be around in Geartopia since steampunk is up Atoli's alley a bit and Faris needed more leg room.

Non-game people I might bring in include:

Ein | Riviera: the Promised Land (can also come in TVK flavor or Rakuen flavor, although TVK flavor is most likely)
Elsword (Infinity Sword) | the canon is named after him seriously...
Grolla Seyfarth | Rosenkreuzstilette
Mir "Jacqli" Teiwaz Artonelico | Ar tonelico series
Mia | Golden Sun

[canwaitforthis]

Hi there! I don't play in Destiny Strings, but I thought I'd drop by with Akihiko Sanada. He's from a Persona -trinity soul- AU where elements from Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 Arena are added to flesh out his career choice and such.

I've also got a Yukari Takeba, played from the female protagonist route. Not sure if I'll drop her in yet.