etrayamemes | TDM 009

❬ ARRIVAL ❭

Arrival does not happen normally. While the AI known as Aurora would typically handle your incoming- this time it is instead a strange coincidence. And while she would ordinarily contact you, provide you with context and access to the network- she cannot currently reach you. One moment, you are where you were, and now you’re here: in the middle of some kind of Comic-Con looking event. Weirder still: you now have some kind of super power. You will find that your arrival on this Earth may have granted you new capabilities - perhaps someone without abilities is now able to fly, or someone with their own set of extraordinary abilities now has something new to help with.

❬ SUPERFEST ❭

Not to be confused with Hero-Con or Villian-Con. This is a fan-made convention in downtown SF that takes place during a prime Con weekend that boasts that everyone is welcome here. Well, as long as they adhere to Con Rules. Sleep, Eat, Drink Water, Shower, and don’t blast any holes in the walls. They already have enough of those. Despite the recent Kaiju attack with corresponding tsunamis and earthquakes, the Convention Runners are utterly committed. Though it is held and hosted by fans, there’s a nice variety of Artists, Exhibitors, Panels, as well as a live-streamed Cosplay Contest. Artist’s Alley & Dealer’s Hall Are you even a slightly public hero or villain? Find fan art, merch, even fan comics of yourself and your friends- Or enemies. Panels You don’t even need to have anything planned! Seems like there were some cancellations. Slip in and talk about whatever you like. Cosplay Contest Wear your own costume to the contest- Or find a knock off of someone else’s in the Dealer’s Hall. The Water That Makes You Stupid Yes, the convention is staffed and run by fans… But it’s still run by someone, isn’t it? The badge line is long and the weather is sweltering. Grab a SUPERFEST branded water for $12- Or drink from the fountains as soon as you get into the con center. The Convention President is testing a chemical that will make you harmlessly stupider for a handful of hours to loosen wallets and increase overall enjoyment of convention activities.

❬ THE DIVIDE ❭

First earthquakes and tsunamis culminating in wide scale Kaiju attacks, now this. It’s more subtle than any of those things, but reports of people being dragged by some invisible force or teleporting cross town start emerging. And these people all have powers. But none of them are on your corresponding apps, nor in your network. Weird. It would really be best to investigate this matter. After all, it seems the Hero and Villain organizations (League of Heroes and Vale & Venture) want more information, and if possible- to recruit members before the other does.

❬ THE SAN FRAN WALKING TOUR ❭

For the first three days, the boundary that new arrivals can travel seems very stable. It’s centered upon the convention center, shifting no more than a couple of city blocks in any direction. The boundary is completely invisible and totally indestructible. It can only be found by touching it. After those first three days, though, the boundary starts to move, and the newly warped in have no choice but to come along with it, even if they end up dragged through traffic or made to make hasty exits from buildings. Yet should they come truly against something they cannot escape- Like a closed alleyway or a freight train, they will find themselves spontaneously clipping through the force field boundary and projected onto the inside opposite end of the bubble. It must be disorienting to be thrown a few miles from where you just were.

❬ MISSION NOTES ❭

📌 — This Earth heavily resembles current-day Earth. All cities will be what we would find on the map of our Earth - meaning, there is no Gotham, or any fictional cities in play. Players are free to create their own locations within locations! We won't be monitoring this closely, and want to give players free reign to play with the environment around them as they would like. 📌 — TL;DR: A body-hopping interstellar being has come to visit Earth 2’s San Fransisco for the Fan Convention as well as provide a self-guided walking tour. Newcomers to the TDM are stuck inside the several mile radius of his force-field. He doesn’t know it’s happening, but the Force Field is impenetrable for TDMers, and will push and pull them around San Francisco during these two weeks. 📌 — This setting is from our current Off-World Mission. Additional details can be found HERE. 📌 — Characters already in game are welcome to post to the TDM, too! Please mark them as current characters in your header. 📌 — Because of the way newcomers are arriving, players are welcome to treat this as a fourth wall event of sorts! Threads can be remembered by those in game even if those they speak to do not app, as long as it's approved by all necessary parties. 📌 — For all questions relating to the TDM specifically, please use the MOD QUERIES comment below. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ.

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» SUPERFEST

[ this is more or less gary's personal heaven. he loves superheroes and costumes and people geeking out. sure, the heroes aren't quite the ones he's familiar with but this isn't his first rodeo in an alternate universe, he can roll with this.

he can be seen buying merchandise, participating in the cosplay contest with several costumes, or approaching people who seem obviously not from this universe. ]

Hi. Hello. Excuse me. Is this your first time finding yourself in a different universe and-slash-or timeline?

[ a very normal way to approach strangers at a con. worst case scenario, he can claim he's roleplaying. ]

» WALKING TOUR

[ at any point after the boundary starts to move, one might find gary in any of the following situations:

- barely avoiding being ran over
- actually being ran over (but getting up right after. he's fine.)
- approaching every single long-haired blond person he sees and being immediately disappointed they're not who he wants them to be.

eventually, he will latch on to the first person he sees who seems remotely authoritative. ]

So, what do you think would happen if someone was to— let's say, open a door to a pocket universe, and the rules were that you have to exit this universe through the same door you entered it, and let's say, hypothetically, that this invisible barrier moved while you were in this pocket universe, so when you exited it, the door you exited from is no longer within the invisible barrier.

If this were to happen, do you think the person would be free of the barrier, pushed back into it and possibly killed on impact, or do you think the barrier would stretch to contain the doorway? Or maybe there's a fourth worse option? I really don't want to risk a fourth worse option.

» WILDCARD

(( Gary is friendly and annoying and easy to put in any situation. He's likely to recognize DC people and he's very familiar with the multiverse and different Earths. I will roll with anything, you can hmu at #xolpup on Discord or fullofmystery ))

Edited 2025-08-11 03:18 (UTC)

Yes!

[He pauses, thinking about it. Then, realizing that technically it was his second time since he was in Etraya, and then was sent there to here, he makes a correction.]

Well, no. Second time. But how could you tell?

[While the red and black leather armor could have been chalked up to cosplay, the fact that he was asking someone why the glass felt so strange while holding a plastic water bottle was a dead giveaway.]

[ A young man! Excellent, this means Gary can be helpful. He loves being helpful, helpfulness is in his job description. Or was before he joined the Legends.

He doesn't really have a job description any more, but still, helping people is the whole point. ]

The bottle isn't glass. It's worse and cheaper, you have to twist the cap to open it.

[ He mimics opening a bottle to demonstrate how. ]

Sooo, when and where are you from?

Oh, thanks!

[He's able to get the bottle open with this additional information and he takes a drink.]

I'm from Karrnath. The year was 998 when I was brought...well, somewhere else first, and then here.

[After a moment, he thinks to wonder how this guy knew to ask those questions.]

Is it that obvious?

[ He supposes this man could be a very committed LARPer, but he's too young and too good-looking for that. People don't hit that level of commitment until their thirties, at least. ]

Not obvious exactly, but the alternative didn't seem right.

[ Gary knows Karrnath isn't an Earth country, and he's trying to place it among the non-Earth countries he knows and failing. ]

Where were you before here?

Oh. Good. Because I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to make it obvious that I'm not from around here.

[At least there was an alternative that people might accept, even if it didn't seem right to this person.]

But uh...what is the alternative in case I need a cover story? And I'm guessing you're not from around here either, since you figured it out so quickly.

[He considers how much he should share, but since this guy already knows this much, Dwayne figures there isn't much of a point in getting secretive now.]

I was in a city called 'Etraya'. Apparently we were...uh...brought there. For...some kind of reason. I don't know.

[He was originally going to say 'brought there to determine whether our universes should be destroyed', but then he figures he shouldn't tell this guy in case he doesn't already know about Etraya, because he doesn't want someone panicking about universes getting destroyed if they aren't in a position to do anything about it. He probably should have just stopped at the city name since he didn't have a cover story planned, though.]

[Manny was observing a couple of people who're discussing about their cosplays or the merchandises they'd bought when he was approached by Gary. The mammoth shook his head.]

If you asked me a year ago, I would've said yes. But right now, that’s no longer the case.

[ There are Many Questions running through Gary's head when he addresses the obvious mammoth. Such as, why are you a mammoth, or how did you fit through the door, or why are people not currently swarming you for pictures.

But he has met one telepathic gorilla and several regular dinosaurs, so, somehow, it checks out that he'd eventually run into a regular talking prehistoric animal. Why not? ]

I take it this is a different universe and different timeline for you?

[ This Earth is close enough to Gary's for him to assume mammoths didn't speak before they went extinct. That would've been so sad, especially if prehistoric humans hunted them anyway. ]

[Manny's already been informed about how mammoths in other worlds don't have the ability to speak. Besides, this world's already bizarre enough with superheroes and superheroes running about among other things.]

I think that goes without saying.

Not to put a fine print on it, Mr. Mammoth, but it doesn't. You could be a shape-shifting human, or talking mammoths could have co-existed with humans on this Earth for millennia. I don't know things, I can't go around making assumptions.

[ It's only after he's done talking that it occurs to him maybe he shouldn't be contradicting the big mammoth. The telepathic gorilla really didn't like it, and this guy is so much bigger and so much heavier. ]

Last time I checked, I've always been a mammoth for my entire life. The only superpower that I have is the ability to change size, and even then I only received this power after I arrived here a few weeks ago.

[To prove his point, Manny shrinks down to about the same height as him.]

Oh, that's—

[ Bringing up a whole new set of questions. But that's fine, that's cool, questions can remain unasked. ]

A friend of mine can do that, but he needed a special suit— he also has a shrink ray that he doesn't call a shrink ray. [ Okay, maybe one question does need to be asked. ] Did everyone not from this Earth get a superpower? Did I get a superpower? How do you tell?

[Manny nods as he grows back to his original size.]

Everyone who arrives on this Earth gets a superpower of their own. But we don’t know what kind of superpower it is until we try it out for ourselves. Takes some time to get used to it.

[Su You's pale long hair and obviously Fantasy Ancient Chinese(tm) clothes weren't that out of place among all these cosplayers...but the fact that he's trying to purchase a drink with an actual piece of silver probably did make him stand out.

He paused in his purchase, taking a moment to consider that question. It wasn't a long moment but still a notable one.]

...I suppose so?

TDM 009

Gary Green | DC's Legends of Tomorrow

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