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etrayamemes2024-02-23 01:16 pm
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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:
 ⏵ 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. 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. |
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Mizu isn't going to call the woman a liar to her face. Not yet. But she's curious. Hiding her sex is the price she pays to move through the world freely, and yet here's a woman armed to the teeth with nothing but a lie to excuse herself. And she doesn't look like a bandit, the type who brazenly flaunts law and custom on the outskirts of civilization. So who is this woman?]
And the daggers? [She nods to the holster.] Also family heirlooms?
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Of course, she doesn't know how the man across her will react. He might be a samurai, or just someone who carries a sword.
She juts her nose at the man's weapon and narrows her eyes at it. ]
Your sword broke?
[ There, nice deflection! ]
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She's not prepared to let her curiosity go just yet. A woman samurai, a woman who fights... the possibility is too interesting – exciting, even, not that she'll allow herself to show excitement – not to keep pushing.]
Three daggers and a sword. More weapons than could be considered proper.
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What's it to you?
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It's strange. A woman with so many daggers. Even stranger to see a woman carrying such a sword. Unless that woman were a bandit, and the sword stolen. [Perhaps, by being forced to deny that she's a bandit who stole her sword, the woman will give up more information about herself.]
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Are you a castle guard? You don't look like you're on duty.
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Very deliberately, she turns her back on the woman to stick her head in another room, checking for Taigen. And testing to see what the woman will do, daring her to strike.]
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And it's not stolen.
[ NUNYA BUSINESS, STRANGER.
Meanwhile, Rin just watches Mizu looking into the other room. She has no intention of fighting this stranger.
Mostly because she would very likely lose. ]
What's in there?
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Nothing. [A truthful answer. There's nothing in the room but a bed and a small table. No Taigen. She turns and stalks towards another door, eyeing the woman as she passes her.]
I could turn you in. I'm sure it would be worth a handsome reward.
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Okay, so she would be lying if she tried to claim that the stranger's threat didn't make her sweat a little. However, she keeps her head high and holds Mizu's gaze. ]
Where would you even turn me in? My sword was in my room when I woke up, so I doubt whoever's in charge here minds. Otherwise, they would've confiscated it.
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Where the law is broken, someone will mind. [Something she has not always found to be true. But she says it with conviction.
She glances in another room. Still no Taigen.]
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[ She watches the stranger look into the rooms one by one. Really, Rin should get looking herself. So she goes and opens a door near her where they haven't yet been. It's empty. ]
Wherever we are, I doubt it's Edo.
[ Admittedly, before waking up here, she was in an underground prison where medical experiments had been conducted. That had looked vastly different, though. Dark, dank and dirty, where this place looked bright and clean. Almost too much so. Could they secretly have such facilities on Edo Castle grounds as well? Rin seriously doubts it. ]
Possibly not even Japan. So the laws might be different, too.
[ Though considering she's been kidnapped here, Rin would not say she's very concerned with the laws and the keeping thereof right now. ]
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[Mizu has never been to Edo, but she cannot imagine that this is what it is like. If she had to guess, it's like Kyoto. Big. Crowded. Confusing. Too many people and places and nowhere to be alone.]
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[ The surprise in the man's question kind of implies he might not be from Edo. But he's familiar with it, at least. ]
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We did not have... 'samurai women' there. [She scowls.] We did not have anything there.
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And I'm not a samurai. I mean, I'm from a samurai family. But as a woman, of course I can't bear the title.
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[She could be as skilled as a samurai. But a woman would never be allowed to hold such a rank, no matter how skilled.]
Or bear such a sword as that-- [A flick of her eyes to the sword at the woman's hip.] --as a weapon.
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I'm no samurai, but I am a kenshi. Someone who uses a sword. Or, well... sort of, at least.
[ Look, she knows by now there are limitations to her skills. ]
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[Mizu is still very curious about this woman who carries a sword. And claims to know how to use it. But rather than wait for an answer, she passes by the woman again, looking through another doorway. ]
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[ Curious now, Rin follows and peers through the door behind Mizu. ]
Empty...
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[Satisfied that this is yet another room that does not contain Taigen, Mizu moves on, leaving the woman to stare through the door as long as she wishes.]
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[ Okay, fine. Rin will admit it. But not more than that -- if the stranger wants to know more, he'll have to ask. ]
Did you also wake up in a room like this?