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[The device falls with a clatter to the ground, some feet away but still very conveniently pointed at Dave who appearifies out of fucking nowhere, bent double with shades sliding down his nose and he's coughing pretty severely. It's been about half a day since he tried to travel back in time, only to end up in what seemed more like an alternate dimension than another point in the timeline.

Unlike the icon, there is no blood and his shades aren't broken, but he's having a hard time breathing correctly. He seems to be somewhere in the City, with buildings looming tall. He leans against the wall and tries to get his bearings.]

What... the fuck... was that.

[He pushes his shades further up his nose to obscure red, red eyes. One last shuddering breath before it evens. He then moves to grab his device, frowning at the blinking red light. Fuck he so did not look cool just now. But fuck if he even cares. He switches it back to text, trying to appear REMARKABLY CALM and POSSIBLY FAILING.]

so its awesome that in all the introductory pamphlets and shit no one thought it would be kind of critical to mention the fucking other city floating around
do i have to wait for city geography 201 or something before i can find out about the advanced goings on and local haunts
well fuck you too professor numbnuts

[ooc | Some background info: Dave attempted to go back in time. Specifically, back to "when the clock was first built." Obviously, he can't do that, so he ended up in the Shadow City!]

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Yeah, you can't walk there.

How'd you get there? Not on purpose, I hope.

haha no i had no fucking clue what this place was or that it even existed because no one knows shit about this place
i tried jumping back in time

Well, it never seemed like the sort of thing to just bring up in conversation. We fuss enough about this place, why drag the other half of it into things if we haven't got to, you know? It's not like we end up in there often enough.

You can time travel?

and then shit like this happens and an innocent dude gets all tangled up in mysterious webs when he didnt even have to
but yeah i can time travel
or well
i used to before the deities were like haha fuck you

Look, it isn't my fault if the guides haven't included the other City.

Why in Merlin's name did you want to time travel here?

oh my freaking hell
i kinda just expected for it to work like normal
not end up in some weird freaky ass alternate dimension or whatever the fuck that place is

Yeah, I get that, but what were you time traveling to?

the beginning
which sounds pretty ominous and dramatic but it kinda just made sense to me to see how this place worked

You mean—when this place first started? Bloody hell, that's actually sort of brilliant, in theory. Shame it didn't work.

I don't know if I've heard of anyone trying that before.

shame is one way to put it
chokingly ass over toes awful is another
but i mean if you think about it it kinda makes sense
if too many people came around here with teleporty or time hoppin powers itd fuck up their whole omnipotent deity schtick

Most people probably need help to do that. Time travel's possible in my world, but you need a specific thing to do it. And even then, right, I'd imagine the deities wouldn't let that go very far at all.

stingy assholes
no wonder no one knows shit all when it comes to this place
even stopped by the library out of desperation and that was even more of a mindfuck than it usually is

Your best bet's asking people rather than asking the library. Sometimes I can get it to agree with me, but that doesn't happen very often. It's a stubborn thing.

its like it has no idea how to be a library
abandoned by its parents as a youngin and it thinks it can do whatever it damn pleases without punishment

Isn't that how the whole City feels, though? The deities, the monsters, the library.

wow you know
youre right
this entire place is just one undisciplined and spoiled little brat
alls we need to do is grab a paddle and give it a good spank

And get spanked right back with a curse for our troubles, I'm sure.

yeah ok but
you cant tell me it wouldnt be kinda worth it

Fighting back's always worth it, mate.

the only question is whether its an actual attainable thing
this godly spankstick
powerful enough to strike the rumps of anthropomorphic cities and you know
divine beings

I'd suggest trading for it, but apart from the fact that trades are miserable, I doubt the deities'll give you something to hit them with.

figured those douchelords dont play fair when it comes to trades

It's all about being specific.

you get something good from them before?

My trade was kind of selfish. I know other people've traded for good things, though. Stuff from home, sometimes, or for someone else.

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