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[cobamods]

WHO: You!
WHERE: Around the city!
TIME: All Through Day 1
DESCRIPTION: CITY TOUR MINGLE!

Maybe you stayed in Coba, maybe you went home and came back, or maybe this is your first time here, but everyone is suddenly greeted to a friendly, female voice over an intercom (or maybe it's a some other device? Depending on where you're from)

"Welcome citizens. We hope you're enjoying your visit! Transport will leave in twenty minutes for the Coba city-wide tour!"

If you follow the voice, you'll find yourself at a bus stop. Or is it a fancy monorail? A carriage? A couple of horses? Coba is flexible and will change herself to suit you, after all. And if you get left behind, don't worry! There's free cabs anywhere in the city, who also will be more than happy to give you their own version of the tour.

The Coba city-wide tour boasts an hour of informative information regarding Coba's most important locations, some extra brochures (with some extra savings in there, of course), and will finally return you to the place you left from.

Of course, maybe the tour isn't for you. After all, the party is still going on, and now Coba's businesses are really beginning to open and advertise what they have to offer. Have you checked out the free hotel room? Or maybe you're grabbing a free meal? Or maybe, just maybe - you're looking into an apartment!

Either way, Coba hopes you've been enjoying yourselves. She has so much to offer you.

(welcome to the first official post! Mingle to your hearts' content, and don't be afraid to make your own posts, either!)

Comments

[keymash]

It's still a weird trap. We can leave any time.

[breakrecord]

Oh, I meant financial trap, not physical trap. There has to be fine print to these free things that we aren't seeing. Spend one night in a hotel for free, and then five years later, bam! You'll get a bill that's been vastly inflated for interest.

That's worse than being trapped physically in some ways.

[keymash]

. . . Do you think about that stuff often?

[breakrecord]

I'm a recent high school graduate who's about to go to college. I have the same response to spending money as someone else would to everything around them spontaneously combusting.

[keymash]

That does make sense, but I don't think this place is here to drop you into an economical nightmare.

[breakrecord]

Maybe not, but ignoring all the time and space stuff and assuming this is a normal city...

What do they have to gain from all of this? They could just be trying to boost their economy by making it a tourist attraction, but with all the free stuff they're giving out? Either the city has a ton of stockpiled funds to pay the business owners with, or the city government has imposed a set of standards that a lot of people should be unhappy about. None of the shopkeepers seem unhappy, though, so if they do have so much money, then why the need to turn this place into a tourist attraction? Also, have you read the pamphlet? That opening is creeping me out.

Or I could be overthinking it! I dunno. I'm not an economist or a politician.

[keymash]

You've given this a lot of thought.

[breakrecord]

I sorta got trained to think critically about everything. Entrance exams, man. They'll wreck your brain.

[keymash]

How old are you?

[breakrecord]

Eighteen. How old are you?

[keymash]

Seventeen.

[breakrecord]

[He adopts a (greatly exaggerated) look of melancholy.]

Ah, I remember being seventeen. Those were the golden times of my youth, now so far behind me...

Listen up, sonny: You enjoy being seventeen. Live your life to its fullest and savor every moment. When you get to be my age, it's going to be nothing but studying and despair as you stand on the precipice of adulthood.

[keymash]

You're hilarious. Do you do stand up comedy as well?

[breakrecord]

Nah, I like my comedy to be personal and individualized. That makes it special.

[keymash]

Too bad. You could make some real money out of it.

[breakrecord]

[He considers this for a moment]

...You think I could get paid to follow people around and commentate on their lives with bad puns?

[keymash]

Well. Depends if you know the right people. Isn't that what they pay sports and entertainment commentators for?

[breakrecord]

What you're telling me is that I need to find a rich pun-lover who doesn't have many friends and needs the hollowness of their lives filled with laughter.

If you know someone like that, point me to them.

[keymash]

I'll keep a look out.

[breakrecord]

Thanks, Peter! Always good to have someone dependable around.

Oh, if I see anyone in need of a photographer, I'll send them your way, too.

[keymash]

Thanks, that would actually help a lot.

[breakrecord]

No problem! People ought to look out for one another.

[keymash]

I believe it.

[breakrecord]

Glad to hear it. Always good to have a buddy to help look out for you.

[keymash]

Yeah . . . Absolutely.