Wednesday DE: On the road

[galen_erso]

How does your character usually travel in their world? Do they like it?

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[configuration_birdwatcher]

On foot. Or on tank treads, sometimes, if they want to spend the energy on that partial transformation. Since this was their only mode of transportation for over a decade, and is also a basic bodily function, they're puzzled by the idea of having an opinion about it.

They used to travel by drop pod, which would be bone-shaking if they had bones and usually meant they were being sent somewhere unpleasant, so they weren't a huge fan of that. As a member of Overwatch, they can travel in various large vehicles, like the Orca jets that double as spawn rooms for both teams on control-point maps. The novelty of that hasn't worn off yet.

[for_everyone]

Yes!

[angry_friendship_wolf]

For traveling around Tokyo, Yamato actually has a moped by the time of Tri, although a lot of times using the city's public transport is quicker, if maybe less comfortable. He's pretty fond of riding it, but he is definitely going to upgrade to an actual motorbike as soon as he can.

In the Digital World, it's usually a case of walking. He can get places fast by riding Garurumon, but Garurumon can only seat two people maximum (and even then, it's a risky proposition that's saved for emergencies, since Garurumon is covered in razor sharp feathers and it's easy for a passenger to end up cutting themselves on one), so any travel in a group is done on foot. Occasionally, he'll ride Birdramon with Sora or Ikkakumon with Jyou, if he needs to get somewhere via air or water. The former is pretty cool, but the latter is slow and dull.

For getting between the two worlds, the main eight usually use Gates, which are set to physical locations -- there's one over Odaiba, another over Hikarigaoka, another in Kyoto, and one above the shrine near their old summer camp (and there's implied to be one in Shimane, near where Yamato and Takeru's grandparents live and close to where Meiko lived), and a few more across the world: One in Sydney, one in New York, one in Paris, one in Hong Kong, one in Moscow, and one somewhere in Mexico. In the Digital World, there's one over File Island, and one beneath Castle Vamdemon, and implied to be more.

Gates are temperamental, and while any Gate in one world can connect to any other in the corresponding world, the kids always end up getting dragged back towards File Island. Yamato's not hugely keen on them, and the fact that all the Gates shut a year prior to Tri has not improved his opinion of them as a mode of transit.

[holdingacat]

There are several ways to travel in Night Vale:
- Walking, and Cecil lives close enough to work that he can walk, but it's not advisable in the mid-afternoon sun. Or when there's feral dogs. Or when the Street Cleaners come.

- By car, and Cecil can drive. He doesn't mind driving, but shifting streets can make things tricky.

- By helicopter: Not Advisable unless you are part of the Sheriff's Secret Police, or a Vague Yet Menacing Government Agency. If you are those people with the yellow helicopters: You may go straight to hell, bye bye now.

- By train (underground): Not Advisable. CECIL DOES NOT APPROVE.

- By train (aboveground): ... no, don't do this either. CECIL DOES NOT APPROVE.

- By beam of heavenly dark light: Not advisable/possible unless your name is Erika or Old Woman Josie.

- By self-powered flight: Only available to Hiram McDaniels and Josh (sometimes).

- By submarine: Only possible by Russians.

- By Old Oak Door: Sometimes very helpful. CECIL SO EFFING DOES NOT APPROVE WHO IS APPROVING THESE THINGS??

- By horse: This method is generally only used by the baristas. Cecil thinks it's pretty quaint.

- By bicycle/motorcycle: Varying degrees of environmental friendliness/badassness apply. Cecil has no opinion of these modes of travel at the time of this printing.

This has been: Traffic.