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etrayamemes2025-08-01 02:03 pm
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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For real?!
[ But she doesn't wait for confirmation; she grabs it out of his hand more carefully than her eagerness might imply, and hustles a few steps out of the line to properly appreciate it without disruption.
Toph holds it up to take in the scent before eating. ] Ahhhhh.
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[If he were good at spotting when a child would be a scammer he wouldn't have lost so much money to child scammers.
The thing was: children had been rare back in the celestial realm even before...everything. Zhao Muya's three disciples had been young when they'd been taken in but apart from his youngest none of them had been even a little childlike partly because of circumstances but also partly because of their personalities.
Which was to say: interacting with children always felt at least a little novel.
So, even though he did intend to line up again when she moves away he follows.]
Why haven't you had jianbing in a while?
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[ Toph sounds both casual and annoyed about it. She has a basic understanding of the technology situation after so long in Expiation, but she's still more or less parroting some of the words. They hadn't gotten a whole lot of explanation for anything, and she hadn't been all that interested in what few things they did know. ]
Kind of like being stuck in the spirit world, [ she adds, because that's how she sees it.
And that's all the explanation he gets because now she is happily eating her food, clearly relishing every bite. ]
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[He knows nothing of technology. But also...]
Do spirits have their own realm where you're from?
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As for spirits, yeah, pretty much. They visit sometimes but it's usually a bad thing when they do.
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Where he's from, there aren't spirits. Ghosts, yao, guishen and gods but no spirits.]
Why is it a bad thing?
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[ Toph shrugs. ]
I don't know, I'm not the spirit expert. But the simulation made me think of it cause it's kinda... dream-like, almost? Like -- stuff happens that doesn't make any sense. Like that wall that's been pushing us around.
[ She hadn't even realized it was invisible until somebody got caught up against it and was totally surprised. To her, it just feels like a solid wall. ]
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That simulation sounds a little like being trapped in an array.
[Which he is fairly certain is not what's happened here, at least? Maybe? Though he sighs at the reminder of that boundary.]
At least it hasn't done anything more dangerous than that.
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That doesn't mean she can't ask him annoying questions, of course. ]
Not yet, anyway. There's always something. What's an array?
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[He shrugs] It's purpose and how it's made depends on the creator so the ones that create a space of their own can be...dreamlike at times. Strange and out of touch with reality. Zhao Muya's were always confusing.