It's... a forest. Sort of. There's grass on the ground, and trees, and the sound of birdsong, but there's something subtly off about it. Strangely regular.

Huh. Anyone around?

N—

—yes?

"Welcome to Terraria," says a human with no discernible mind, emerging from between two strangely regular trees and holding out a canvas bag toward her. He is wearing jeans and a T-shirt and has a blank, fixed smile on his face.

Creepy.

But, ugh, best not to be rude.

"Hello."

"You can use your pickaxe to dig through dirt, and your axe to chop down trees," he says helpfully, continuing to hold out the bag in exactly the same manner and smile exactly the same smile.

Actively creepy.

She tries to see if she can feel any minds.

One. A few miles away, in that direction.

That's something, then. Does it feel baseliner, mildly divergent, or nonhuman?

There might be something non-baseline going on? Maybe?

Okay then.

No immediately obvious danger, she tells her sister, bouncing her the last few seconds.

Weird, she opines of the situation, but they've dealt with stranger, really. She steps through the portal and lets it collapse.

—and she is not next to her sister.

She is in a different forest, although it's just as strangely regular, and has an identical blankly smiling man in it holding out an identical canvas bag.

"My name is Kevin!" he says.

"The fuck."

"I am here to give you advice on what to do next. It is recommended that you talk with me anytime you get stuck," says Edie's blankly smiling man.

"Greetings, Emily. Is there something I can help you with?" says Emily's.

Okay this has been going far enough beyond "creepy" for anyone's tastes. She confirms that she can at least still feel her sister--thank fuck--and rises into the air--she has to bootstrap herself, no ambient magnetics--and takes off in her direction.

"They say there is a person who will tell you how to survive in this land... oh wait. That's me," calls Kevin as she recedes into the distance.

Yeah because she doesn't know better than to take candy from creepy strangers. Oh, wait.

"My name is Kevin!" says Kevin, in exactly the same tone as before.

And then she can no longer hear him, yay.

...

Biomes aren't supposed to change that abruptly.

They are not! And yet, up ahead there is a perfectly straight dividing line between grass and snow. On this side, bunnies and little songbirds; on that side, penguins and absolutely beautiful mysterious round hopping things. The round hopping things seem to be made of something translucent and jellyish, but coated in lovely patterns of frost so it's hard to tell what they look like underneath.

...The lovely hopping things are really tempting to go get a better look at but this place is super creepy so she should not do the obvious trap thing.

She keeps flying.

A hopping thing lands on a penguin.

The penguin explodes violently, showering the vicinity with blood and penguin parts.

Yep not going to investigate that was a good life choice.

She flies faster.

The next biome transition looms in the middle distance. It's... very red. And there is a faint smell of blood on the breeze. Are those trees bleeding...?

...She's going to fly around that one in case there's some chemical that will make her bleed to death.