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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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[Don't ask him about art, Daisy. Or if something worked well with the room.]
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Judging by the way it looks from out here? I don’t think we have to worry about that.
[She thinks briefly about offering assistance, but decides that if he needs help he’ll ask.]
The door is right in front of us.
[Which she does happen to reach first, so she holds it open for him.]
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As long as there aren't any rats or roaches. I may be a city boy, but I'm not willing to have any critters with more legs than I have sharing my quarters.
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She lets out a soft snort at the mention of rats and roaches.]
I don't think we'll have to worry about that here.
[She says, judging by how clean this area seems to be at least. She's lived in some pretty shitty areas and this doesn't appear to be one.]
What city are you from?
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[He's reading the area around them, picking up heartbeats, electrical charges, the static hiss of lights.]
Is it a big building? Meaning, are they expecting a lot of us?
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Me too. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but I grew up in Hell's Kitchen.
[Stepping in further she notices a sign pointing to the recreation room around the corner.]
It's pretty massive, and apparently there's a recreation room here too. So, safe to say they plan on bringing more of us here.
[Which she is clearly not thrilled about.]
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[If he ran into Foggy or, god forbid, Frank, he was going to figure something fishy was going on.
He listened to Daisy mention the recreation room. He'd picked up on a few things, but having them verified helped. He sighed.]
That's not exactly heartening.
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[Daisy says, maybe a little too casually. But she’s dealt with multiple universes/worlds for quite a few years now that it’s her normal.]
No, it’s not.
[She’s pissed off, and not just because she was dragged away from her home. That wasn’t new to her, not in the way it was for others her. It’s the fact that she just finished undoing her regret, and she was supposed to be home after being away from years.
Inhaling deeply to try and calm the anger building in her, she turns to look at him again.]
I’m Daisy, by the way. Figure we should know each other’s names if we’re going to be neighbors.
[And being thrown together in whatever challenges they’ll be put into.]
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[He'd been thinking more along the lines of the area in the world they'd stolen people from. More like 'New York' versus 'Monte Carlo' or wherever others might come from. The idea of universes hadn't even crossed his mind. He was a lawyer, Daisy. Not a magical surgeon. Gosh.
The question that small comment had brought up had distracted him for a bit until he heard her say her name. Then he shook it off. He held his hand to her left, scraping together the vestige of a smile.]
Matthew Murdock. Matt's fine. I think you're the first floral name I've come across. Not a lot of those outside of Rosa's.
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Is she going to have to be the one to tell him this?]
There’s multiple universes out there. Different timelines too. It’s—
[Maybe she should leave it at that for now.]
Complicated.
[That’s putting it mildly. Smiling gently when he holds his hand out to her, and she gives his hand a brief shake.]
Nice to meet you, Matt. Yeah, I haven’t met anyone else with my name either.
[Not that she had gone by that name up until a few years ago. Noticing someone coming out of the elevator she nods her head again out of habit before asking,]
Should we check out what the apartments are like?
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[He gave her hand a light squeeze back, a smile paired with it.]
It's a pretty name. I bet it goes with a pretty owner, if I remember what daisy's look like right.
[Apologies, Daisy. He's a flirt. It's genetic.
He tips his head as she speaks again, tapping his cane on the ground.]
Getting an idea how much room there is and what I might bang into isn't a bad idea.
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You're not wrong.
[Her smile turns soft when he compliments her, and while that sort of flirtatious remark would normally make her roll her eyes he's got that charm about him.]
I guess that depends on who you ask.
[She says dismissively before taking a step towards the elevator.]
Elevators are this way.
[And once they make it there, she presses the button to call for it.]
Did you grow up in New York?