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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. |
arrival.
She does eventually return to the hospital. There’s something called a cafeteria there, she’d been told. And even though she doesn’t trust anything about this… she does need to eat. She can steal something and go somewhere else.
Only Cassandra doesn’t make it back inside. There’s someone sitting outside, eating a sandwich and… she’s not sure. But she’s drawn to a halt all the same. She might be prickly and wary and suspicious, but under all that, under all the trauma and anger she has a very caring heart. So she stops. And approaches before she can remind herself that this is all another one of the Briarwoods’ tricks.
“Are you all right?” She’s a slip of a girl, looking younger than her fourteen years, with wild, white-streaked dark curls tugged over her right shoulder, the question spoken in a voice laced with a rather proper sounding accent. English, if England existed in either of their worlds.
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"Oh, hello," she offers, shaking her head. "Just lost in my thoughts. Lot to take in."
She offers over the other wrapped half of what is a roast beef sandwich, though of course it's a different-but-similar thing from her perspective.
"Hungry? It's meat of some kind. Not bad."
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Not that she believes them at ALL. This is just another one of the Briarwood’s games. That’s all.
She shakes her head, although she’s tempted. She is hungry, after all. But she doesn’t want to take someone else’s food. And not entirely because she’s suspicious and mistrustful. It’s not hers. “No, thank you.” Even as prickly and wary (and furious) as she is, she still has manners. Even if she feels a bit rusty with them. "I can get something from the cafeteria later." If the word cafeteria sounds a little strange on her tongue, it's because it is.
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She shrugs, taking another bite of her sandwich. "Suit yourself. Beats rations, I'll say that much. But yeah, I don't entirely believe what they're saying, either. Then again, where I'm from, the idea of there even being multiple universes was impossible enough."
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“There are different planes of existence, where I’ve come from. Which I suppose are similar enough to universes to make it… a little less strange to me.” Not that it matters, because she’s still certain that this is just another game the Briarwoods are playing.
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"Lucky," she replies, taking another bite. "We have 'em, just that you're either alive or...well, not, so it's a bit of a hard line between them."