etrayamemes | TDM 001

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TDM 001

⏵ arrival⏴
Arrival goes as anticipated. Characters awaken in the pristine, new hospital, greeted by Aurora and potentially getting a rundown of what's happening depending on their approach to being dropped somewhere new. The door to their room opens, and new arrivals are left free to explore their new environment.

Or what exists of it anyway. Exiting the hospital will show that there isn't much of anything just yet. Generally, Echo can build new facilities before new arrivals awaken, but it appears that this time… well, it didn't happen. The apartment complex exists, standing just beside the hospital, and there are a few facilities that are half constructed, companion bots carrying around rebar and other necessary bits and pieces, but they're not quite ready. Oops. But maybe, just maybe, one of those half-built facilities is familiar - a childhood home, a favorite supermarket, the run-down garage they worked at as a youth, a grounded spaceship in the middle of one of the massive bridges connecting land over rivers.

The companion bots will offer quiet apologies if approached; they were expecting new arrivals to touch down, but not quite this early. They'll be ready soon! A few more days at most, they promise. In the meantime, do not stray too far from the hospital. While most of Etraya looks habitable, they have not finished verifying that it's safe for its new inhabitants.

The apartment building and hospital are safe, and the land directly around them is fine, but beyond that? Stay away. But hey, the hospital's cafeteria is fully stocked with cuisine from across the multiverse! Please feel free to settle in, choose an apartment, and get to know your new friends.

⏵ water you doing?⏴
Decide not to listen? Well, the companion bots had offered their warnings.

Etraya is a new establishment, one that received newcomers before it was ready. And as such, the land has not quite been prepared for their arrival. Wandering off the land the apartment building and hospital are settled on comes with very, very poor results. Take a step down into the river below, and you'll find yourself uncomfortably hot. Or cold. Or hot and cold, because whatever that 'water' is, it wasn't meant to be played in. The only way to resolve the temperature regulation issue, as Aurora informs, is finding a buddy to cuddle up with. Those who are lucky may have a nearby friend they're familiar with and don't mind leaning a shoulder against. Those that don't? Well. . . have fun having a very uncomfortable conversation with a stranger, asking them if it's alright if you lean into them or hold their hand for a bit. Any physical contact will do, as long as it's directly skin-to-skin.

Except that's not where the contact stops. Characters will find that, for the next several hours, they'll feel everything that their companion feels. Frustration, anger, amusement, homesickness that comes from being so far away from their families and friends - all those feelings? They're not your feelings, they're our feelings now.

No explanation is given for how the empathy bond and the temperature regulation are related, but it may have to do with how since they had decided not to listen, it was time to test how well they could cohabitate with their new friends.

⏵ bonding bingo ⏴

Maybe it feels a little too much like Obi-Wan had when receiving Leia's message, but all new arrivals are their universe's only hope. Except they're not the only ones arriving, and not the only ones who are trying to keep their worlds safe. Instead, they've arrived with several others who carry the same weight on their shoulders. And they aren't meant to go through this alone. The people they've arrived with are both their new companions and their competition. Both comrades to fight beside and enemies to battle against, depending on what the specific mission of the month is. But currently?

They're here to bond. It's important to get to know those who they'll be spending the next unspecified but lengthy amount of time with, isn't it? To that extent, Aurora's hologram waits just inside the hospital's front doors, offering bonding bingo cards to those willing to participate. It's not necessary, but she does specify that this is one way to get ahead: cooperation is important, especially given what they're going to face together. Bingo cards are three long and three across, and offer a multitude of activities you can do to check each box off.

Some examples include:

Learn someone's biggest secret

Get into a fight

Tell someone something that you've never admitted out loud to

Throw a drink on someone

Win a game of pool in the apartment building's recreation room

Cheat on a card game without getting caught

Hug a new friend

Get stabbed

Steal something important to someone

Pull off an elaborate prank on a stranger

⏵ matchmaker ⏴

When the earpiece is put on, a nice green HUD(head-up display) lights up in front of new arrivals. It asks them for their name, which is fairly standard for these.

Except it seems it wants them to put together a profile to help pair them off with other new arrivals. For some, this information may autofill with what Aurora was able to discern about them from watching them in their home worlds. But some lucky individuals may catch their profiles before they're posted live, and have the opportunity to edit out information included in fields, even if they're not able to clear it out entirely.

Welcome to Aurora's idea of matchmaking. Have fun getting paired off with a buddy or four, with your profiles exchanged between one another. Maybe they're the perfect match. Maybe this is a nightmare in the making.

⏵ OOC ⏴
Welcome to our first TDM! We're excited to have you here. For more information on character arrivals, click here. For any questions relating to the TDM please reply below. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ.

⏵FULL NAVIGATION⏴

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

1. Arrival:

Waking up in a hospital room is never a great sign, especially when you're a vigilante and especially when the last time you woke up in a hospital you were waking up from a coma. So Dawn wakes up with a startled gasp, her dark brown eyes wide and afraid, her mind desperately trying to piece together what happened and why she is suddenly here.

Which of course is Aurora's cue.

After speaking with the strange AI woman and receiving all the usual information Dawn thanks her and slowly starts to put herself together, she feels disoriented and strange and yet there is some comfort in knowing that she didn't mysteriously die in her sleep or something like that.

But on the flip side, it is a little nerve wracking to be told you are your universe's only chance at being saved from destruction.

So in order to ground herself she goes for a walk, wanting to see the rest of the area and if there are any other people here who might have more information than she does.

2. Bingo:

At first glance the bingo card she is handed doesn't seem so bad, until she sees one specific item on the list and she huffs out a small indignant noise.

"Get stabbed? Who on earth would pick that one?" She says out loud and turns to whoever is nearby.

"Does your card say the same thing as mine?"

3. Matchmaker:

Dawn Granger (31)

Former ballet dancer who enjoys motorcycles, bar fights and good food. Can be stubborn but also gives great hugs.

4. Wildcard:
Want to do something totally different? Feel free to throw anything my way.

[Gene jumps slightly when he hears Dawn talk to him. While he has seen that people could talk and see him here, it was still taking some time to get used to. Trying to calm his nonexistent heart, he turns and looks down at the bingo sheet he has in his hand. Yep, it was still there. And with those terrible prompts too...]

I...I think so. I definitely have get stabbed on mine.

Bit of a weird thing to have on a Bingo card, isn't it? Can we both agree to skip that one?

[Gene chuckles at her words and nods. It is a strange bingo card indeed.]

Sure. Do you have any other ones? Most of mine aren't great.

[While not as bad as get stabbed, he isn't eager to do most of the things on there. Some due to what the prompts are, and some due to his mental state. He was sure a past him wouldn't have had any problem doing pranks on someone.]

[Dawn leans in to look at his card, making a thoughtful noise.]

Looks like everyone got the same items, well how about we start with a game of pool? That seems to be the least weird out of all of them.

[Gene looks down at his card and stares at the prompt. Pool? That could work.]

That's not a bad idea. I will warn you though, it's been some time since I've played anything like pool. Perhaps you could refresh my memory?

[He hopes his inability to feel things much wouldn't impact their game too much.]

I promise I'll go easy on you.

[She says with a little grin and leads him over towards the pool tables.]

So, what's your name?

[Gene offers a small grin at her words and teases back.]

Your mercy is appreciated, kind lady.

[As they walk towards the pool tables, Gene watches Dawn. It has been a while since he's been able to talk to someone like this. Especially without the threat of someone else's death baring down on him. And while he was tired, he didn't feel the ever consuming darkness threatening to envelope him here.]

Eugene Davis. But call me Gene.

Eugene, now there's a name you don't hear very often. [She says as she starts to gather up the balls on the pool table.] But if you prefer Gene, we'll go with that.

My name is Dawn Granger.

[Also this is Scott!Mun and i really couldn't help myself apparently all our characters have to meet and relate by playing terrible games.]

"It all kinda depends on where you're getting stabbed." No... No. That should not be up for debate. Stabbing is 100% wrong, in all its forms. Right?

Yeah right. Totally. He's not weird! He sort of has a moment though where he realises that he prooooobably should save a little face here.

"Maybe that's like, a weird free space. Mine has it too." Worlds worst free space. "I mean it doesn't say if it's a like or don't like thing right? It just says; 'get stabbed'" He shrugs his upper set of arms and holds his other set out.

[ooc: Hahaha omg I love it XD ]

"You're right, some places hurt more than others but I'd still rather NOT get stabbed. Stab wounds take a while to really heal."

How does she know that? Experience.

"Maybe you could find a loophole by getting something pierced? That's technically stabbing a needle through something."

[ooc: I almost didn't, but then decided I had zero chill.]

"What're doin' gettin' stabbed by dull knives? That's the worst." It almost sounds like he has experience too. But thankfully they both seem to move on from that particular discussion. Oh how sharp your knife is when you get shanked.

"Piercing is way different. You got any? What I wouldn't give to have a nipple or two to pierce." A big sigh, what he wouldn't have also given to be in this place with his real body again. It couldn't be that easy, get trapped in hell, get out of hell, and then somehow still be trapped in some sorta hell.

He spins the bingo marker around in a hand before slapping it down in the cell. He's gonna count it, apparently they can relate to the stabbing department.

[ooc: just one of the many things I love about you XD ]

Dawn lifts a brow at both the question and comment about nipples. "No, no piercings. And do you really not have any nipples?"

[Thank god, also if you want me to not bug you on other characters for comfort levels let me know! I am chill af, you know. I get if it feels ~weird~ and don't want to press buttons!]

"I'm technically not a mammal. So- no nipples." Which probably seems a weird thing to say considering he seems to be covered in a thick layer of fur. "And it just wasn't a thing back when I had them to pierce. Though I totally would have."

He sort of dances his fingers across the board. "So are these supposed to be things we do together, or relate to with one another?" Cause how the fuck is stabbing a bonding thing when supposedly they're supposed to be world saving. Stabbing doesn't seem very world saving friendly… although, seemed to work where he was last. Maybe the rules are different here. He'd wandered off when the robot was explaining things when he first got up, still not sure he wanted to get wrapped up with that sort of thing if he had the option. It was very unclear if he did or not

Edited 2024-03-13 23:20 (UTC)

[ooc: I'm totally chill with it 💕 I love playing around with new character dynamics.]

"Do you mind if I ask, what are the then? And who?"

Her tone is friendly and she offers a hand. "I'm Dawn."

"And I'm not really sure, no one really told me the rules. I was just handed a bingo card, I suspect it's a way to get us to mingle."

[ooc: awesome~! i'm glad cause variety is the spice of life!]

"Demon. More specifically? Arachnid." He stretches one of the multitude of arms he seems to have towards her to shake her hand. "Angel."

At the mention of not telling her the rules he has to laugh. This place is strange to say the least. But it beats where he came from. "Right!?" He laughs and rolls both his shoulder sets. "They want us to save the world and they ain't even got their shit together!"

[ooc: that it is!]

Both eyebrows go up and there's a slight hesitation before she shakes one of his nearest hands.

"Interesting name seeing you're a demon."

She then nods, "Apparently they weren't expecting us so soon but that doesn't exactly fill me with a lot of confidence if we are supposed to save our world's."

Dawn Granger| Titans

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