World Lore, Dice Rolls, Tables and Cypher System mechanics (Dropbox Folder)

We stepped out on to the sidewalk just beyond the glass windows and our senses were assaulted with foreign sights, sounds and smells. Everywhere we looked strange, exotic folks walked. The towering buildings jutting into the sky, some at strange angles that defied physics. There were even dragons and pterodactyls flying high above the glittering and glowing cobblestone streets.

Where the fuck did we just land?

There was a bench just outside the Welcome Center, or so the sign above it said. A few pedestrian’s walking past glanced at us as we sat down. I couldn’t help but openly stare as the creature that walked past me looked like an elephant from the Babar cartoons. There were people walking down the street with purple skin and green hair. It was a kaleidoscope of the unknown. “Where the fuck are we?” I said out loud.

Alex shrugged and sat down next to me pushing his hands into his bag and pulling things out. He patted down his pockets, searching for something, “Fuck!”

“What?” I asked.

“Lost my phone.” He looked down at the small device in his hand and fumbled with the buttons and it came on. “Gnome G2. What do you want?” the device growled at him. Two eyes and big bulbous nose jutted out from the screen. “Come one man, I ain’t got all day. I got a line a mile long. Get it out!”

“What the fuck are you?” Alex asked confused and glancing from the device to me.

The device sighed. “New user download initiated.” The face in the device squirmed and wiggled and popped out of the screen and stood about four inches high and Alex dropped it on the ground.

The creature, I was assuming was now a gnome picked it up and checked for cracks and handed it back to Alex. “I am the Gnome G2. I am your personal assistant. The device can do many things, and I don’t need to always be here.” He looked grumpily at Alex. “This device can ask me 2 questions per day and I will assist you to the best of my ability. As a new user, this question does not count towards your allotment but any questions not about my function will.”

“What can you do for me then?” Alex asked.

“I just told you.”

“No what kind of apps?” Alex asked.

“Preinstalled is a compass that will point you to your destination you think of. And a glamour token to change how other’s perceive your exterior appearance. There two additional slots you can install from the collection on offer at your tier.”

“Anything else you can do?” Alex started flipping the device around and checking it out. Almost ignoring the Gnome.

“What’s your name?” I asked.

I didn’t quite understand what was going on, but a personal assistant I understood that.

The gnome looked at me, “Invalid user.”

Alex smirked, “Just answer him.”

“I am a Gnome G2.”

“So that’s what we call you? Gnome G2?” I asked politely.

He growled at me. “Everyone just shouts Gnome at me.”

“Do you want a name?”

It looked at me quizzically. “Why?”

“Everyone has a name. You seem nice. And wouldn’t it be nice if they didn’t just yell Gnome at you?”

“I suppose that might be nice.”

“What should we call you then? Maybe Gizmo.” I smirked. Not only was it a fuzzy cute little critter I grew up with, it meant a do-da tech thing you didn’t know what to call it.

“Gizmo…”

Alex was pulling his lips in and trying not to chuckle himself while the Gnome played with the word.

The gnome looked up at me with a jaggedly toothy smile. “Gizmo at your ready.”

It made both Alex and I laugh. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Gizmo. I’m Nox.” I held out my hand to the tiny gnome.

He looked up at me with bright tear filled eyes and grasped my finger with his whole hand and shook vigorously. “I like you.”

“I like you too.”

“I bet you have your own.” Alex nodded to my bag and I fished around inside and found a similar device. Though it looked a bit different. Gizmo nodded. “That’s a Pixie two point oh. She’s a doll. I bet she’d like a name too. Just give that big old button on the front a push.”

I pushed the button and above the device a winged looking tiny humanoid girl fluttered her butterfly wings.

Gizmo didn’t wait for her to finish manifesting before he took her hand and pointed her in my direction. “This is yours. You take good care of him. His name is Nox, and he’ll give you a name if you want.”

“My very own name?” The pixie girl clapped and danced her way to me with a bright smile. She sat on my shoulder. “What will you call me?” She laid down on my shoulder and kicked her tiny little feet up in the air and rested her chin on her hands.

“I dunno.”

“How about Bitsy?” Alex grinned.

“Invalid user input.” She echoed what Gizmo had said in the beginning. I grinned, “It’s okay to answer him too.”

She turned to look at Alex with a giggle. “He’s cute too.” She clapped her hands. “I’m Bitsy.” She said fluttering up in the air and spinning circles. “I’m Bitsy!” she shouted again before landing back on the device look at me with wide purple eyes. “What can I do for you?”

“I think we just need to use your compass.” I said.

Bitsy touched the device and the screen opened up and she pressed a button that looked like a compass and smiled. “Here ya go sweetie? I’ll not count that against you since you gave me a name. But the next one will.” She grinned at me then poofed out.

“Someplace else to eat.” I said outloud while I thought about a nice sandwich joint. Something easy on the stomach and potentially less magical.

The compass needle spun and Gnome looked down at it. “That’s inconclusive you’ll have to wait a while and try again.”

Alex tapped the compass on his device. “Let me try.”

The Whole Story

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