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Date & Time: Jan 12th to Jan 19th (real time), July 11th to July 18th (historical time), 1884
Location: Black Rock, New Mexico, USA
Characters: All transports
Summary: Fearing UE reprisal, the Initiative corrals all transports and shoos them onto a mission back to the Wild West, to vote Gerald "Moony" Jackson in as Mayor of Black Rock. Transports are encouraged to used all their wiles to encourage townsfolk to vote in favor of him, too. Other than that, they're free to roam as they will for 7 whole days! Good luck finding food and shelter, masses. (See the OOC post for more information.)

The Initiative had been terse and rushed as they gathered the transports into the Transporter room, and anyone unwilling to participate will have been forcibly hurried along. The Initiative employees had seemed distracted and worried, and unwilling to stand around and debate. It was time to move. The teleportation had gone off without a hitch, and a roomful of transports have been treated, quite suddenly, to a broad and sunny blue sky, and especially to the heat of mid July in the American West.

Enjoy your weeklong stay in Black Rock, New Mexico! The town is small and sleepy, with just 3 good saloons and one questionable (but considerably cheaper) one. There are a few inns, but these inns aren't quite prepared to room a sudden influx of over 300 travelers, and some people might have to bunk up or get creative with their sleeping arrangements. If you sleep in an inn at all, of course. There's plenty of unexplored wilderness out there to sleep in instead, isn't there? Just make sure to check your boots for scorpions in the morning.

The only instructions are "vote for Gerald "Moony" Jackson for Mayor, and try to convince others to do the same", and you've been given just enough money to cover a very sparse room and board for 7 days, if you don't spend it in anything else.

So, how do you spend your time?

Edit: Overflow log!

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[caligulas_aquarium]

Well, this is a pain in the ass.

[He slumps against the side of a building and using it as a way to find some shade, but damnit it doesn't really help much - he lived most of his life in a really, really cold part of his world. He's a goddamned fish. Future dystopian Earth is always nice and cold WHICH IS WHY MISSIONS LIKE THIS SUCK, GODDAMN...

He isn't even going to bother trying to convince people to vote for this guy, HE CAN'T EVEN PRONOUNCE VOTE. HOW DO YOU WOTE FOR SOMEONE. So instead he's leaning against this building just doing fuckall tbh but he eventually slumps into a seated position on the ground.]

Fuck this, I giwe up.

[fintastic]

[ Soon, he might have a bit of company in the form of a some what familiar cowgirl, sitting down next to him and trying to hand him a water bottle. ]

Here, drink this. All of it. You'll feel better, I promise.

[caligulas_aquarium]

[OH GOD WATER PRECIOUS WATER yeah he takes that the minute she offers and chugs it down like no tomorrow

Eventually though he's gotta stop drinking and when he does there's just one thing on his mind-]

You are really gettin' into the whole thing here, aren't you. With that getup a' yours an' all.

[fintastic]

( continue! )

[combats]

[ Eridan isn't the only one giving up. Jacquese tried, he really did, but people in general didn't have much patient to stand around and read what some mute guy had to write. Persuading people to vote without a voice just wasn't going to happen it seemed.

So hey Eridan, here's a horned guy slumping against your wall with a defeated sigh, forlornly clutching his miniature blackboard that still has 'Please vote for Jackson' written on it. ]

[caligulas_aquarium]

[Well, that catches his attention. He almost skips straight ahead to telling him he can't sit there or just to plainly go away, but he catches attention on the blackboard annnnnnd...]

That seriously the best you could do?

[combats]

[ Jacquese glances over at the kid with a mild frown when he speaks. It's not that he takes offense, not really. It's just not the nicest thing to hear after all that effort. But oh well, how was the kid supposed to know?

To answer, he points to his throat before he shakes his head and then shrugs his shoulders and holds up his hands in a 'what am I supposed to do' sort of way. ]

ooc

[caligulas_aquarium]

Gonna continue this thread over here in the overflow log!

[undroppedeaves]

[Sam saw the figure by the wall and though he couldn't see much from where he was he guessed from the clothing that this was one of the transports, he went over to see if he needed help. The heat was difficult for a lot of people (Sam included).

When he actually got near though he blinked in astonishment. What manner of creature was this?]

[caligulas_aquarium]

[Most of the trolls here as long as Eridan are probably used to weird looks by now and catch it instantly, but in his case he remains difficult. He's always just...difficult.]

What's your problem, finless? You gonna stand an' stare all day or what?

[undroppedeaves]

[Of course he is. Sam blushed and lowered his gaze.] I'm sorry I didn't mean to stare truly. I was just wondering if you needed help and then... well I 'aven't seen anyone with horns like yours before.

[caligulas_aquarium]

What, ain't ewer seen a troll before?

[Help, though.

Hmm...]

You got any water on you?

[undroppedeaves]

A troll? Well I have but they were stone and they never did look like you.

[This is a troll? But he's awfully short... For a troll. Not for a hobbit, he's larger than Sam. Sam pulled out his water bottle and handed it over.] Here you go.

[caligulas_aquarium]

[He focuses on the water first, actually...finishing the contents entirely before even thinking of responding.]

Gah. [Wipes a little excess off of his mouth with his sleeve.] I swear, you humans got such a messed up notion of trolls, y'know that? You all think we turn to stone in the sun or liwe under suspended pathways an' eat children, when we're a ciwilization that preceded the creation of ewerythin' earth wise by millions a swe-...years.

You guys are the primitiwe ones here, not us.

[undroppedeaves]

Well in my world they do. Turn into stone that is, I saw it with my own two eyes. [But this troll isn't though he does seem to be practically melting.]

Beg your parden though I'm not a human.

1/2

[caligulas_aquarium]

Well it's awful stupid; I mean we don't exactly like the sun but we don't turn to stone in it.

Do these trolls a' yours ewen got horns. I bet they all bleed the same color too, ugh.

sorry this reply was so late! orz

[caligulas_aquarium]

What are you then?

no worries!

[undroppedeaves]

I didn't see any horns, or blood at all but I'd say they bleed the same as anyone. [Bleed the same colour? What did that mean... Sam was confused but also interested.]

Oh I'm a hobbit

[caligulas_aquarium]

Figures. Just a buncha lousy no good fakes if I ewer heard of any. Best just to forget 'em here, we're the real sorta troll. The best sort.

A...hobbit. The fuck is that ewen, you just look like a short human.

[undroppedeaves]

Well I don't know about fakes, they seem real enough to me, but there's no reason why stuff ought to be the same in different worlds.

[He frowns] Well they are not. We are very different.

[caligulas_aquarium]

Different how, then? If you're so sure you should be able to prowe it, right?

[undroppedeaves]

Well no hobbit is that much taller than me, humans are a lot taller. Hobbits generally live a lot longer than big Folk and we consider ourselves children until we have lived thirty three years. We live in hobbit holes, sort of underground.

[He paused and looked pointedly at the troll.] But we ain't dwarfs either.

[caligulas_aquarium]

So you're short an' liwe underground. Honestly all that you sound like you really got goin' there is the lengthier lifespans.

An' I don't ewen know what the fuck a dwarf is either.

[undroppedeaves]

Not properly underground.

[A blink, most people he has met so far have at least known what dwarfs are, and mistaken him for one.] They are taller than hobbits, but smaller than men. They usually have beards.