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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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Where are you?
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[ Venturing out will come... later. ]
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[Friends for life now obviously.]
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[Oh look who has found her room~ He pushes open the door and beams at her, looking slightly unhinged.]
Let's go~
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[ She sees the man coming into the room and... that sure is an expression. Was this a good idea? Oh, well, maybe he's just excited! Rin smiles. ]
Alright!
[ And she gets up to join him at the door. ]
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[He doesn't usually get honorifics used on him. His smile dims to something easier to stomach when he sees her. Another cute girl, hm? He keeps
getting stuck withfinding those!]I figure we'll try the Cafeteria first.
[And threaten the bots if that leads nowhere.]
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[ And off they go! ]
I hear they can summon foods from all of our... worlds? Sorry, I still have trouble wrapping my head around that.
[ She rubs her temple. ]
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[He kicks open the doors to the Cafeteria - what is patience and respect? - and looks around.]
The food comes out over there.
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Mmmh! Let's see... could I have mitarashi dango, please?
[ The bots are very strange-looking, but they talk like people, so she'll treat them as such. And wonder, oh wonder, mitarashi dango is produced! Rin gives a small bow. ]
Thank you kindly!
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A hawthorn tanghulu.
[No please. Xue Yang doesn't do pleases. He blinks and laughs when he is given a stick of very sticky looking berries. Yum~]
I guess it works.
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[ Damn, that looks good... ]
I'll definitely have to try it at some point.
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Try it.
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O-okay...
[ Then she gingerly takes the berry from him and pops it into her mouth. The candy crunches between her teeth, and then the tartness from the berries hit her tongue.
She has enough manners to finish eating before she comments. ]
It's good!
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Right? I've never had bad candy, but the tart and sweet of tanghulu is perfect~
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[ And well, since he shared, she should probably do so, too. She holds out her stick of sauce-drenched dango. ]
Want to try some of mine, too?
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[ Still offering the stick, if he wants to take it. ]
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He's not.Instead of taking the stick - like a normal person - he opens his mouth like a baby bird to be fed.]no subject
The way he opens his mouth, clearly expecting her to feed him, does make her a bit uncomfortable, though. She'd do that for Manji, but not for a stranger.
Once upon a time, she probably would've gone along with it, but she's grown since then. Thus, she politely holds out the stick for him to take. ]
H-here you go.