trans_9 | City Exploring [CLOSED]

Who: Gamzee, Tavros, Karkat, Volanz, Lash
Where: The City
Summary: Wunderkind show the Trolls around the City and discovers that discarded concert venues are apparently the PROMISED LAND. Perfect place to build a hive?
Warnings: Gamzee and Karkat have potty mouths. Lash will probably not be able to resist replying back in force.

It had been a small while since she had seen them during the poddrop. Lash had been busy with this and that and probably things in the sensoriums. Regardless, she hadn't forgotten what she said about the pod-slime things they so loved to sleep in and now that they were mostly built, it was time to go around finding a place to set up camp. Or well, what they called a hive. Whatever. They were kinda weird.

Well, Tavros and Gamzee were nice enough. She hadn't heard about this Volanz guy, so hopefully he wasn't like Karkat. After sending them out a message on the com-system, the Wunderkind had waited near the entrance of Level 4. She had her Neoneotank with her (Mark S after the first one exploding during the battles a while ago) and sat on top of it, having arrived much faster than the time she had given them. The vehicle was able to go much faster than the one before, and, she hoped, they'd be able to push the boundaeries of the explored area and come upon something interesting. Or fun. Maybe not too dangerous.

Then again, danger was fun!

Either way, it was gonna make for an interesting ride.

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"Well they go around armies, causing carnage and destruction wherever they go," she explained. "This one is special because I designed it myself. Most tanks have caterpillar gear wheels under them. It's unpractical! My tank can move in much more varied terrain. A normal tank would get stuck in mud because it's so bulky and stupid."

Then to show what she meant, she disappeared for a second, fired a shot from the tank (into a already destroyed building) and reappeared grinning.

"Tada!"

"Yeah, very impressive," he sneered, clearly unimpressed but perhaps a little frightened--not that he would ever show it, of course.

"Are we going to get on with this or not?"

"Yeah sure!" suddenly, the legs plopped down and the entire contraption fell to foot level, as the backdoor opened. "Climb in!"

Gamzee like Karkat was a little intimidated by the bulky death machine, but wasn't reserved about letting that be known. "I dunno... You sure it's safe to go in?" He had already recovered from his facedown fiasco and stood now, but the way he supported himself slumped over like that could reel in bets about him teetering to the ground all over again.

After that description and demonstration of destructive potential, Volanz decided it was probably safer inside the tank than out here while the thing was on.

"It explodes other things, not itself?" he said, shrugging, and climbed inside. He found a spot to sit and tried to make himself relax.

The key word there being "tried".

Karkat stayed at the entrance to the tank for a long moment, not entirely comfortable with a vehicle of such magnitude, especially if it was meant to explode things.

But hell if he was going to let that show, pushing past Gamzee to take a seat inside the tank.

"It's completely safe!" She told Gamezee, tapping on the vehicle and making it echo. "I built this thing to resist and Ohm attack I think, and it'll go so fast you won't believe your eyes!"

She was selling how AMAZING this tank was you guys....trolls. Troll guys.

"Anything you'd like to see first? Wanna ventured into the undiscovered country later?"

As if Gamzee really NEEDED to be placed inside anything that would go so fast he wouldn't believe his eyes. The transport tubes had already been a doozy. For crying's sake, he nearly lost his footing when Karkat shoved past! All Gamzee muttered in response was an "Auuuh..." at the thought of even more zooming around as he chose to follow suit and hop into the back of the neotank anyway.

It was pretty lucky that the tank was accessible by Tavros. That way, he could avoid any embarrassment involved with not being able to get in like the rest of his friends so easily managed. But anyway, he would just take that and let it go because it wasn't that big of a deal to him, especially since he didn't want to think about that too much.

He entered the tank after Gamzee did, looking to Lash just before he continued, almost as though he were asking permission. He went ahead and climbed into the tank anyway. It was probably safer in there anyway, but that was not his predominant thought.

Karkat was, of course, already impatient.

"Let's just fucking go somewhere," he growled, eager to get this trip underway. The sooner they got to where they were going, the sooner he could get out of this screaming metal death trap.

"Okay, let's get on with it!" Lash chimed in, agreeing with the troll for once. She stepped on the gas, as they began their journey along the river. Passing by the large Central Park (which Lash dismissed saying they could come back to it later as there were 'much cooler things to see', they soon arrived at the Plant Temple. Formerly an intricately designed temple woven from one giant living plant with unseen roots, the original temple is mostly destroyed and regrown as a much more wild thing.

A loose dome of woody branches shields a small grassy field that is home to several very large, opened flower buds.

"That's the plant temple," Lash explained. "I don't think anyone ever gave it a name."

"Plant temple sounds like a legitimate enough name, probably," Tavros commented lowly and offhandedly, trying to get a look at the fixture in question.

It looked... mystical. Dang.

"Yeah but plants are boring anyway," Lash added with a dismiss of her hand. "Especially compared to everything else around here."

City Exploring [CLOSED]

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