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⏴

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ She's known quite a few vampires in her day; some good, some bad. But of those she knows best, she considers the Ravenwatch family to be her friends and so Gemma isn't turned away from reading the generated text outing Hayan as one. And why not try to gain some friends and allies here? ]

Hello, I'm Gemma. I'm willing to go out drinking with you.

[Oh! Hayan can't help but really perk up at that.]

Really? Oh well that's -- um. Hm.

[...]

Is there even alcohol here?

[What a stupid thing to think about after being told her world is over and she's it's only hope. Yet so many things had been going on at home and something normal seemed really nice right about now. Her answer is gently sheepish.]

Sorry. I'd love to when there's time though. And, well, maybe places considering how barren this whole area is...

You know, I probably should have confirmed that before offering. Hm. I guess we'll just have to find out, won't we?

[ She doesn't sound too bothered either way. Really, it's just how she rolls because once you've been through like twelve nearly world ending events, lost and reclaimed your soul, and all other manner of things, you get good at compartmentalizing so you don't go completely mad. ]

With so few buildings that's fewer places to check, but I'm willing to wait as well.

I wouldn't mind looking through them really. Some of the buildings were ... familiar. In a really weird way.

[Like things she'd recognize from around home and all that.]

Were they? That's strange. I seem to recall one that looked familiar to me as well. Almost on purpose.

[ Which is a little unsettling, but at this point shouldn't surprise her either. ]

That's sounds about right. Makes you really wary of them, that's for sure.

[Doesn't help that she has been in a very elaborately constructed trap like this before too.]

Does that mean you'll be staying away from those familiar places?

[ She's not sure yet. Sometimes you have to spring the traps to confront who set them. ]

[She smiles a little sheepishly.]

It sounds silly I guess but yeah, a little. I ... got caught up in a place once full of old, nostalgic buildings like that. It -- wasn't great.

[ It sounds like a tough situation, whatever it was. Gemma gives a thoughtful hum. ]

I can see why you're in no rush for a repeat. I could always explore the place that looks familiar to me and report back with my findings.

[ How often has she done the legwork out in the world and reported back to her colleagues? Too many to count. This is natural to her. ]

[Mmh. Hayan does hate people going to explore alone if only because she feels she needs to be the one doing leg work. That said ...]

I'd love to hear about anything you find. Maybe it'll give me the strength to do the same, haha.

[She probably will in the end anyhow.]

Perhaps so.

[ Hey, she has no problem inspiring others. ]

In the meantime, how are you settling in?

Uh, well ... settling in it kind of a positive word. I guess you aren't wrong though, we're going to have to settle in.

I have no problem staging a rebellion, but that might prove difficult with no knowledge of how to return home, so it doesn't seem in our best interests.

A whole rebellion seems a little rushed. Settling in though seems kind of ... final.

[Then again if there worlds are in danger this is kind of final, isn't it.]

Well, not necessarily. We need food and shelter, right? So it makes sense to me, at least.

[ It wasn't her intention to sound like she was falling into line so easily, but she was looking at it from a survival point of view. ]

Ah, yeah, I guess so. Personally I don't need to much of either of those but I'm kind of the exception.

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