Track 1: a new beginning

[gratuitousgerman]

[The sound of a motorcycle engine is recorded for a while, then gradually purrs to a stop.

A voice speaks, with a distinct accent and a fairly incredulous tone:]

Riding with the wind often takes me to new places, but I hadn't intended to go quite this far out of the city. [Looking around at passing townsfolk for someone who looks likely to be helpful, but no one seems to be making eye contact.] Perhaps some pretty Fraulein will stop and help me with directions back to the city of angels? I seem to have lost my way as my mind and wheels wandered.

((ooc: Open if you're in the City Royale (he's riding a motorcycle the same color as his coat), and his open journal has showed up in his pocket to record the whole encounter.))

Comments

[gratuitousgerman]

[Speaking slowly now, he's obviously getting confused by Lloyd's ignorance.] ...It's a motorcycle. And...ja, it runs on an engine like a car, but...

Where are we? [What is happening to his life]

[gentleidealist]

[Lloyd steps back and looks up.]

Huh? You've never been here before?

[gratuitousgerman]

Nein. I thought I was familiar with the area around the city, but...it seems I find myself considerably more lost than I intended to get.

[gentleidealist]

It really isn't that big. Once you get used to it, I mean.

... Are you new to Paradisa?

[gratuitousgerman]

Ja, I am, assuming that's the name of this town. I don't suppose you'd mind helping me with directions back to Los Angeles?

[gentleidealist]

Cair Paradisa's the name of the castle up on the hill. [He points.] The town is uh, City Royale, and the world as a whole is generally referred to as Paradisa.

[He pauses.]

I'm not sure how to break this to you, but no amount of directions are gonna help. You're stuck, man.

[gratuitousgerman]

'Stuck'? I don't see how... [He looks back the way he came.] Surely, if I was able to ride here on this road, going back the other way will take me to where I last came from, ja?

[gentleidealist]

Nope. [He shakes his head sadly.] You drove into a whole new world, buddy. Back that way is just forest and then the Dead Zone.

If you ride up the hill to the castle, you'll find a room with your name on the outside. Everything in it is yours.

But you're stuck until the castle sends you home.