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 ⏴
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⏵FULL NAVIGATION⏴

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⏵ arrival ⏴

[ being kidnapped or even brought to a new place is all too familiar for clarke but doesn't make it any less concerning for her. the abrupt wake up in finding herself in the hospital and suddenly dealing with a woman who nothing more than a hologram gives her unwanted sense of deja vu and she already hates it here. it inevitably leads to less than polite reaction on her part in the moment of demanding to leave so she can get back home only for the hologram to disappear from the room] Oh sure, take the easy way out and disappear.

[she lets out a frustrated sigh, trying to figure out a plan. maybe she should have approached it different to get answers but honestly she probably wouldn't have trusted anything said either. she doesn't waste any time just sitting around though as she pushes herself of the cot making her way through the open doors to explore her surroundings and find some better answers. she wanders around the hospital corridors for a bit but beyond that it turns out that it was just as jarring being in the open area outside too as she immediately notices the striking difference in the scenery compared to what she's used to from how things are back at home on the ground. it was like something right out of a book she'd read or something she would draw but she doesn't dwell on that for long either with trying to focus on her current situation. she ventures onward and for anyone who happens to pass by either in the hospital corridors or outside, she'll call out to get their attention] Hey. Did you happen to get any answers about our arrival?

⏵ water you doing? ⏴

[clarke had heard the warning from both aurora and the companion bots by this point but it's something she opts to ignore. it all sounds like an deliberate excuse to keep people from exploring and much more like they are hiding something instead which seemed like the more plausible explanation to her because it wasn't logical that the river would cause such side effects, it was straight up ridiculous.

she heads over out of curiousity in part to see for herself and to also determine how much truth was behind these warnings. she eventually finds herself by the edge of the river, initially staring at the water being mindful of any danger in the waters but it seemed safe enough from her observations at least.

a. from all the caution she is taking with all this, she can't comprehend how there is anymore more to water like what they are being told] It seems completely normal— those warning can't be real.

b. alternatively, she settles in to sit by the riverside after sliding off her boots, dipping her foot only get startled as the water temperature shifts from hot to cold] What the hell— since when does water do that?

⏵ bonding bingo ⏴

[ it is after the fiasco over by the river that she circles back around to the buildings and upon receiving the bingo cards from aurora. bonding with people? right, sure she can do this or at least try. she looks over the card prompts, some seem lighthearted while a few of the prompts seem to imply the opposite] Some of these really don't seem to be related to bonding. What did you get?

⏵ wildcard ⏴

[ hit me up with anything else! currently undecided on canon point but happy to roll with the any of the prompts or whatever else. ]

Edited 2024-02-25 18:43 (UTC)

( after running into clarke (1) at the hospital, it doesn't seem as insane that when she gets out of that pristine clusterfuck ( see: extreme distrust of an abundance of supplies and apparent well-meaning medical care regardless of the motive out in the open ) and far out into fresh air near a river that she almost literally bumps into clarke (2) dipping a foot in the water. the absolute shock and guilt that had let loose, well, she'd thought she was dead and that raven herself had been the one to determine to leave her behind to turn to ash.

she's dealing. )

Since you were dumb enough to ignore all the warnings and stick your foot in anyway.

( in the sense that she isn't dealing at all, okay? bulldoze through it, it's fine. )

Don't look at me. I'm not touching that with my bare hands.

TDM 001

clarke griffin | the 100

( water you doing, b )