etrayamemes | 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⏴

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I'm also good with swords and battle staves

Meet me on the roof of the hospital at your earliest convenience.

and what's the magic word?

I said at your earliest convenience.

( this is about as close to manners and asking as he gets. )

the magic word is pizza
what do you take on yours?

I'm a vegetarian.

( that's specific, isn't it. )

My pizza preferences are no meat. Anything else is fine.

be there as soon as I can find us dinner

[Sometime later, she makes her way up to the roof. Who meets on a roof? Never mind that she's done so as well for years. In any case, she's there with a delivery style box -- she had to carry it somehow.]

Delivery for Robin, one vegetarian pizza with plant based cheese, since I didn't think to ask first. Hope you like New York style, as I refuse to eat anything else.

( a better question is who doesn't meet in rooftops? because damian certainly does.

it's where he is currently, after all. crouched low on the corner of the roof so he can watch anyone exiting the hospital below, cloak pulled up over his hair to cast a shadow over his face. when he hears hawkeye's approach, his head tips back in acknowledgment, hand reaching into his utility belt to pull out - a collapsable katana. tips himself towards kate just enough so he can toss the blade backward towards her. enough off the side it won't hit her at all, but close enough the intention is clear. )

Vegetarian, not vegan. ( a moment's pause, before he offers an almost hesitant: ) But I appreciate the attention to detail regardless.

Edited 2024-03-01 15:07 (UTC)

[She manages to catch the sword single-handed without dropping the pizza. Now she's wondering what kind of kid walks around with a sword in his belt. It's cool, but still]

Better safe than sorry. [Both answering her own mental question and in response to his statement.] I've met some who pick and choose.

[Sitting down on the rooftop, back to the parapet, Kate opens the box and offers the kid a slice.]

So, do they just start young in your world?

( he's thirteen. not young by anyone's count. most robins had started by his age. but he knows gotham's. . . traditions are far from universal, so he opts to take it less as an insult, and more as an actual question. for now. )

My age isn't relevant. I've been training for this, ( gesture down to himself, or more specifically, the R on his chest. before he reaches to take the slice of pizza. ) since long before I had even begun walking.

( had trained for things his mother considered better, actually. more important. but regardless of talia's opinions, he likes the role he's taken. )

[She can't really say much about anyone being a teenaged hero after going through her own fight over being allowed to do the same, first with the Avengers and then later with the whole Superhero Registration Act. Still, her mind lets the hypocritical thought fly.]

Shame you don't carry around a folding bow, or a Kree soul bow, but thanks. Now I just need to replace my costume.

[Then again, she's been thinking about updating it. No time like the present.]

The sword is not a gift, it's a test.

( he says, but he's mildly occupied eating his slice of pizza currently, thus the delay in attacking her. damian's free hand does raise, fingers flexing until the retractable blades within the knuckles of his gloves come free. curls fingers into a fist, and directs it towards kate. not nearly close enough to swing it at her, just enough that the intent is clear: they're going to duel. )

Regardless of what was said, we are stuck here with only one another. I would rather spend time now figuring out who is worth my time than need to when we are out of other options.

Oh, well... [That sure is something] Do you test everyone who offers you pizza or is it just me, unknown child of Wolverine?

[Has he thought that maybe she doesn't want to duel? Can't she go any time at all without having someone try to hurt her?]

There are better ways to check out my skills.

( wolverine who.

he's still eating his slice of pizza, idly munching away rather than swinging his hand at kate. they have time for that later, after he's satisfied his stomach. )

No, I test those whom I think may be useful. ( which also means he intends on keeping her around as long as she is. a compliment all of its own. ) But if you believe you have a better way of displaying your talents, I'm listening.

[Rude small child.]

Kind of low telling people you're dealing with you're only interested in them if they prove useful to you. There are all kinds of ways to be useful that have nothing to do with how well someone can use a weapon.

( her point has been made and is one he has listened to countless times before, from both richard and kent. his father, on a few occasions. pennyworth. none of it is new, which is why his expression when he looks over towards her looks more--bored than anything else. )

Did I say anything to suggest otherwise?

[If everyone tells you the same thing, maybe the problem is you, not them or the advice. ]

I just don't see why I have to prove my worth just because you aren't aware of how valuable I am.

Then don't.

( his hand reaches back over towards her, palm out. )

My sword.

Wow, you give up easily.

[Isn't that what she wanted? ]

What do I get out of it if I prove useful?

I will not continue asking when it's clear you have no interest.

( he would, if he had any information on anyone here. but there is no batcomputer, there are no league records, no cameras, files, data to sift through. she is an unknown, and not one damian feels like poking at continuously when he, too, is still determining his place here.

and if someone has no interest in stepping up, they're not one he would count on regardless. she asks what she gets out of proving herself, and damian - raises a brow. )

The katana, if I determine you're worthy of it.

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