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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Give in?

[She glances back at him, an amused smirk faint on her lips.]

Normally this is where I'd lean on my companion for information, because she's a Seer. By now she'd have figured out everything we needed to know.

[That isn't even too much of an exaggeration. Hypercognition is a hell of a thing.]

Buuut since she's not here, I'm going to be working outside my usual specialty of righteous violence, so I'm being reasonable about what I can accomplish in the next few minutes. The point, though, is that it's nothing new. Maybe the details change, but "trapped in a demiplane and need to figure the way out" is just "trapped in a Gehenna dungeon" is just "welcome to Sigil, City of Doors, good luck finding the portal you're looking for." And if you've been yanked around for a year now, then it's going to be a pretty damn big nuisance to deal with, right? I don't mind acknowledging being exhausted by this sort of garbage.

[ ...

The young man stares at her. It kind of looks like he's trying to think really hard about something, or like a realization is very slowly hitting Fabian in this moment.

His eyes even narrow, like he's trying to tell something from staring at her. Fabian's own world is just slightly different enough from the standard fantasy world that he didn't necessarily clock it right away, but with everything she's saying now.. ]

What's your class?

[ Most people don't understand him when he asks that question, but maybe she will.. Who knows.. ]

[She wouldn't have understood that question when she was his age, but her time in the planes had introduced her to a generalized concept of a word translated as 'class' -- a way of categorizing people very generally by what they could do and how they could do it. Some of those terms were already in common parlance, such as 'wizard' and 'warmage' and 'cleric', so the concept isn't so strange.]

They generally call those blessed by a god as I've been... 'crusaders'.

[A term she quite likes, actually.]

[ It's not really a term Fabian immediately clocks, but he doesn't disregard it either. After all, it's not like he knows all that much about any class that's not present in his own party - maybe it's just some variant of one of the other classes around. That's what he figures, anyway. ]

So like a paladin. [ He says, putting it in terms he does understand. She doesn't really look like a cleric, given her instinct of immediately fighting something invisible.. ]

I can't say I know much about it. [ The young man admits. Boldly. Stupidly. ] I don't deal much with gods. That is more my friend's thing.

Mmm. I can't say I'm anywhere near the moral and ethical standards of a paladin.

[That isn't to say she's evil or anything, only that she doesn't hold to those strict and abiding oaths. They're worthy of respect, to be sure, but Skeldric needs more than just them.]

[She cracks a smile, after a moment.]

Don't worry. I don't proselytize, swordpoint or otherwise.

[ He lets out a relieved sigh. ]

And thanks for that! From what I have seen from those who do, they aren't exactly the most pleasant people to be around. [ Then again, Kristen's family had been kind of.. special.

And not necessarily in a good way. Maybe they are outliers and shouldn't be counted, but it's not like Fabian has ever been in much contact with any god-loving people otherwise.. ]

But surely not all gods require you to be good, right? They seem to be all over the place themselves!

That's because they are. There's way more of them than you'd think, but only a small fraction associate with any given world, as I understand it. So they're all individuals, with everything that implies.

[Though she smirks, then.] Not that I'm really positive about the evil gods, especially the ones who have evil as a core element of their personalities. Not exactly great guys to have hanging around trying to destroy or conquer the world.

[ .. a slight, almost comedic pause, and then: ]

What's wrong with conquering the world?

[ Another pause, and then Fabian does make a hand gesture that seems to moderate his question a little bit as he continues. ]

I mean, as long as you aren't being an asshole about it. [ Whatever that might mean. Fabian sounds so weirdly genuinely and nonchalant about it, like he thinks this is very normal and casual. ]

[That gets a chuckle out of her.]

Generally that's part of it by necessity, unless you're using 'conquer' in a dramatic way that doesn't require bloodshed or tyranny. Killing people for the crime of not submitting and crushing established nations and cultures to install your own power is a bit asshole-ish no matter how you slice it.

[ This time the pause is a little less comedic. In fact, it seems more contemplative, like Fabian is actually giving it some thought now. ]

But it's not as if bloodshed has to be an asshole sort of thing. It depends on how you go about it.

Of course. Sometimes, maybe entirely too often, it's necessary, justified, and righteous. Although historically some of my best bloodshed has been metaphorical, thanks to the ones on the receiving end being undead. It just happens to be conquest that usually doesn't meet those standards, even done peacefully.

[Not going to hear a loyal Justicar of the god of war talk smack about violence, no sir.]

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