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Digimon City Quick Start Guide
Welcome to Dome City, a place where Digimon and humans live and work side-by-side! This is a city of diversity and technological advancements, and of course… Digimon!
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The wonderful Horizon Archipelago that the city is situated upon, however, also suffers from troubles. Ever since Jan 1 2000 hit, unlike the rest of the world, this place was actually affected by the feared Y2K glitch, and in ways no one could have expected…
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THE GLITCH
All of Horizon Archipelago, including Dome City, is cut off from the rest of the world, nothing gets through the fog surrounding the place: no creatures, machines nor digital/analog signals.
Objects might also change unpredictably, usually into other similar objects. Oh and everything is like it was in the 90s – fashion, entertainment, computers – and the glitch will make sure things stay this way.
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Digimon are part of society just as humans are. Some even prefer to wear clothes. They can be seen holding different jobs, in local media or even just as partner Digimon to humans. While Digimon are data, and due to that glitchable, it tends to be rare or reverts as if they were somehow protected. (Most of them at least!)
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There are Digimon who were born from eggs in the city, those who came to the islands before the glitch and those that .. for some reason spawned here from the digital world.
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... AND EVIL DIGIMON
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There are also malicious Digimon who attack Dome City. These Digimon seem to mainly come and raid the City every New Years, making this the most dreaded time of year. It is suspected organized groups of Digimon have found a way to come from the digital world at will during the annual year turnover.
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HUMANS
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A human that is aged 12-65 and has received a D-Vice package has the potential to get a partner Digimon! These packages are seemingly randomly sent out to locals, and ever since 2015 also to the rest of the world.
‘neo tamers’ & ‘lost tamers’
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‘Neo tamers’ are people who find themselves mystically brought to the island after touching a 'tamagotchi' that came in a box (D-Vice) in 2015 and later. 'Lost tamers' remained on the island before the new millennium or were born here.
The only way for ‘lost tamers’ to know of the world and knowledge beyond is via the stories of ‘neo tamers’.
‘Neo tamers’ also get to keep their smartphones with the most basic functionalities like calling and texting. Modern media and apps/games not befitting the 90s become glitched beyond recognition or wont open at all.
Any other clothes and items the ‘neo tamer’ might happen to have on them, get transformed into their 90s counterparts on arrival.
The D-Vice aka Gotchi
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A D-Vice is a multifunctional device that looks a lot like a tamagotchi. Its main purpose is to act as a link connecting a human and Digimon pair and allowing a partnered Digimon to switch between different unlocked digivolution stages at willl.
D-Vice Teleportation
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A person outside Horizon Archipelago touching a D-Vice results in them quite promptly being teleported to Dome City.
Most 'neo tamers' as new people are often called, arrive on New Years, but not all of them, and some even experience various glitches with the whole process.
CCard
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Every human also gets their own CCard, which acts as both an identification document and payment tool.
CCards of unpartnered humans are white, and turn the color of their representative crest once they get a digimon partner!
Bits
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The in-world currency that characters use is the same as many Digimon games use in the Digital World - Bits! While humans need to touch their CCards to a payment terminal in order to pay for goods, Digimon simply need to touch it without the need of additional tools.
Want to know the details?
Read more about Dome City and its inhabitants, D-Vices, CCards and more on the DC wiki!
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