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etrayamemes2025-10-03 08:07 am
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TDM 010
❬ Arrival ❭
Arrival goes normally! Hooray! Characters awaken in a sterile hospital bed in a clean, white room to the hum of machines under the unnatural lighting common to well-kept institutions.
The door to the room swings open, revealing a hallway that stretches out ahead of them adorned with framed photographs of Jack-o-Lanterns. There’s noise from outside and the enticing scent of autumn coming from the lobby. Today the welcome buffet has mulled cider in a hot drink dispenser and mini-loaves of pumpkin bread.
The door to the room swings open, revealing a hallway that stretches out ahead of them adorned with framed photographs of Jack-o-Lanterns. There’s noise from outside and the enticing scent of autumn coming from the lobby. Today the welcome buffet has mulled cider in a hot drink dispenser and mini-loaves of pumpkin bread.
❬ Shake it, Shake it. ❭
Outside the hospital, a weird fog is clearing. For those who have just arrived, this doesn’t meant much. But for everyone else, this is the hard-earned success after two weeks of blindly groping about in the spooky fog. The pollution is steadily clearing as it is being cycled out of the air. The people of Etraya should be getting back to normal physically, though surely the lingering feelings are no fun. For newcomers, there is just a weird energy in the air. Perhaps an activity as diversion would help?
As everyone tries to gain their bearings, Aurora asks everyone through their earpiece, new and old, to survey their surroundings for odd goings-ons.
It is a little unclear if this is something Aurora needs done dressed up as an activity, or if this is an activity dressed up with enough mystery and urgency to warrant involving all the people of Etraya. Either way, there is a task to complete.
So what sort of odd things are occurring? Just look around! Everything from homes suddenly subject to mundane, harmless poltergeisting to full blown bizarre weather phenomena and creature sightings. It seems that although the fog is leaving, it left some souvenirs behind, and Aurora needs help cataloging what's happening around Etraya for the bots to address.
Maybe you just think you’re really unlucky today and stuck in an episode of the X-Files. Maybe you catch sight of a bizarre creature that shuffles off into the woods. It might be raining upside down from the lakes, or the electricity in your home just won’t work for whatever reason.
Or maybe you’re particularly personally unfortunate, and your powers are working again, but not as expected.
In any case, you had better capture it on film. At your feet will be a regular old polaroid camera, a stack of film, and a sharpie to explain the photo and note the location.
Go to each of the islands and survey your surroundings. If anything seems strange, snap a picture! Though it seems some things about the geography have changed, so you might want to check with the HUD map to gain your bearings first.
As everyone tries to gain their bearings, Aurora asks everyone through their earpiece, new and old, to survey their surroundings for odd goings-ons.
It is a little unclear if this is something Aurora needs done dressed up as an activity, or if this is an activity dressed up with enough mystery and urgency to warrant involving all the people of Etraya. Either way, there is a task to complete.
So what sort of odd things are occurring? Just look around! Everything from homes suddenly subject to mundane, harmless poltergeisting to full blown bizarre weather phenomena and creature sightings. It seems that although the fog is leaving, it left some souvenirs behind, and Aurora needs help cataloging what's happening around Etraya for the bots to address.
Maybe you just think you’re really unlucky today and stuck in an episode of the X-Files. Maybe you catch sight of a bizarre creature that shuffles off into the woods. It might be raining upside down from the lakes, or the electricity in your home just won’t work for whatever reason.
Or maybe you’re particularly personally unfortunate, and your powers are working again, but not as expected.
In any case, you had better capture it on film. At your feet will be a regular old polaroid camera, a stack of film, and a sharpie to explain the photo and note the location.
Go to each of the islands and survey your surroundings. If anything seems strange, snap a picture! Though it seems some things about the geography have changed, so you might want to check with the HUD map to gain your bearings first.
❬ Bingo was his Name-o ❭
To encourage the people of Etraya to go out a little further than they ordinarily might -- and maybe to help ease them out of the terrible fog -- Aurora has presented this task in a light-hearted format: bingo-based raffle prizes! Available in your HUD is a bingo board! Listed are the 21 islands to explore as well as 4 main anomalous areas to look at.
If you open the HUD, it looks like so:
It seems someone tried, but not very hard, to make it fun.
✨RULES✨
✨PRIZES✨
If you open the HUD, it looks like so:
It seems someone tried, but not very hard, to make it fun.
- Each square is completed with a thread taking place on that island that includes 5 or more comments from your character. In character, it's completed by them documenting an anomaly on that island.
- For every completed bingo line, the character gets one ticket entry for the raffle prizes, up to a maximum of 5 for a full card.
- Each bingo card can only win one prize, and we will draw in order from grand prize down sometime after apps are processed this round.
- Teaming up is allowed, but if you share a card you have to share the prize!
- Grand Prize (1): Place and name a new trolley stop!
- Runners Up (6): Notes related to the meta plot like the ones seen here. Each is unique.
- Consolation Prize (3): A small item that will assist with the next mission.
❬ Tra la la ❭
Whether it’s coming to a new land suddenly or trying to reattach a sense of reality to your surroundings, exploring as buddies or a group is highly encouraged. After all, you might need a hand out there. Depending on who you are, getting all around might be tricky. However, this should be doable over a couple weeks, especially as a team.
Apart from the islands themselves, four bingo squares are for the big anomalous areas that just appeared:
The Farway Craters: It looks like meteors struck the land here. Narrowly missing the bounce castle, a new lake has formed in its place. Each of the craters does something different. One might be highly magnetic, making a miserable time for a robot or someone wearing armor. Another might be full of alien sea life. The largest crater hosts a little hurricane whipping about, throwing objects that may have mysteriously gone missing as of late.
Nevergrey and Ochreward: Where two lands were once separated, they now meet in a steep hill. Should you climb one side to go down the other, a powerful gust will blow you back the way you came with echoing laughter.
Alcyone’s Sandening: Heading south from the hospital, past the forest and the campgrounds, it seems the peninsula has gone missing. Or that Seasands has gained a new island. It seems both can be true. The space where some land once was is now engulfed in a thunderstorm, roughly 30 feet wide and 50 feet long.
Uketon: Heading south in Dewpoint, someone familiar may notice the abrupt break in the island. Should you wish to cross this way, you will have to content with large rocks floating up from below the water’s surface, rising high until they’re out of sight.
Apart from the islands themselves, four bingo squares are for the big anomalous areas that just appeared:
The Farway Craters: It looks like meteors struck the land here. Narrowly missing the bounce castle, a new lake has formed in its place. Each of the craters does something different. One might be highly magnetic, making a miserable time for a robot or someone wearing armor. Another might be full of alien sea life. The largest crater hosts a little hurricane whipping about, throwing objects that may have mysteriously gone missing as of late.
Nevergrey and Ochreward: Where two lands were once separated, they now meet in a steep hill. Should you climb one side to go down the other, a powerful gust will blow you back the way you came with echoing laughter.
Alcyone’s Sandening: Heading south from the hospital, past the forest and the campgrounds, it seems the peninsula has gone missing. Or that Seasands has gained a new island. It seems both can be true. The space where some land once was is now engulfed in a thunderstorm, roughly 30 feet wide and 50 feet long.
Uketon: Heading south in Dewpoint, someone familiar may notice the abrupt break in the island. Should you wish to cross this way, you will have to content with large rocks floating up from below the water’s surface, rising high until they’re out of sight.
❬ NOTES ❭
📌 — The above prompts are just there to get you started. Feel free to play with the setting and concept beyond what we've suggested here! In particular, we encourage everyone to add to the new world-building threads on the location page for each region as they explore!
📌 — Turn in your bingo cards here and edit the comment with thread links as you complete them. Bingo prizes are available for current characters. We will wait to draw prizes until after apps have been processed, so new characters on the TDM can also participate if accepted.
📌 — For all questions relating to the TDM specifically, please use the mod queries comment below. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ.
📌 — Turn in your bingo cards here and edit the comment with thread links as you complete them. Bingo prizes are available for current characters. We will wait to draw prizes until after apps have been processed, so new characters on the TDM can also participate if accepted.
📌 — For all questions relating to the TDM specifically, please use the mod queries comment below. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ.
bingo
Very familiar.
Weirdly so.
So instead of sitting down with his camera looking at the way the wind is moving everything in circles, he approaches the man.]
We're in Jinglewalk, if that helps.
Aaaaaaaace
[he says idly, over his shoulder, but when he actually looks up to face the nice helpful person, he does a full-on double-take reel-back]
What the hell?! Ace? Is that you??
no subject
[Ace blinks, trying to place the man when he spots them. The swords.]
Wait! You're Zoro! Luffy's crewmate? Right?
no subject
[granted it's been 2 years and how many filler arcs but...dude! Can't forget that sassy-ass face!<=
...except for the whole "read in the newspaper you were dead" thing, shhh]
So, uh. Where are we now? What was that about jingling?
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[Ace laughs and looks around.]
We're in Etraya, and one of the places in Etraya is called Jinglewalk, which is where we are right now.
[He guesses Zoro got a full on explanation of why he's here when he first appeared in Etraya
and hopefully a better welcome than Ace himself gotand so the explanation is not so difficult.]We gotta go around the whole place finding anomalies or weird things in general, because last month there was this weird fog, you see, that made everything difficult.
no subject
Yeah, I guess. But what do they call weird around here? Because, y'know, one person's weird is another person's...not weird.
no subject
Well, there's the monsters for one, they shouldn't be around. Think of the most plain, normal, boring place you've ever been in, and that's "normal". Etraya is kinda like that.
[ACE NO, IT'S NOT!]
So anything that will make you go "huh weird" is most likely, weird.
no subject
All right, then, makes sense. I'll follow your lead. Monsters, though... [he does the ol' neck-crack and shoulder-shrug of readiness] Now that sounds like fun. Point me at 'em, I feel the need to let off a little steam.
no subject
I'm sure you'd be great to fight them, there's quite a few around!
[And the snakes. All the snakes.]
no subject
[Ace do not just point, he will be gone in an instant and show up again three days later having never seen a monster. As it is, he's already looking around eagerly]
Here in Jinglefuck? Or somewhere else?
no subject
Here, come on, it's nearby.
[He doesn't know of Zoro's magical ability to get lost yet.]
no subject
How long have you been here? I got the whole story that they tell you but I dunno what to believe until I see it for myself.
no subject
[Well, it's longer than six months, but who's counting any way?]
They send us to different missions every once in a while, and we get to fight most times, do some cool stuff, then come back here to decompress and relax. It's fun really!
no subject
Fun, huh? Well, if you think it is then it must be. I don't get most of the people here but I know you wouldn't lie to me.
no subject
[From what he's seen, Luffy's crew is strong!]