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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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( she waves a hand weakly at him, the cloak slipping down over one shoulder at the movement, so she catches it quickly and wraps up once more. it is very warm. she could probably have tossed all the water she wanted at him and he still wouldn't have gotten cold.
though, the mental image of her offering him her dress, knee-length and flapper-style, is a little amusing. she giggles. )
Maybe I should try to fight you instead.
( if she can tick off the box without winning, it would at least be an amusing way to pass the time. anakin seems nice, in his own way. he reminds her of someone. or maybe that's wishful thinking. the truth is, he reminds her of someone, if that someone had come from a very different world than hers. )
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You d-don't need to, you wouldn't have anything for yourself.
[It's not him wearing a dress that embarrasses him so, but the fact that it would leave her with nothing. He offered the cloak because he had other things on underneath that. Taking the last item of someone's clothing was out of the question.]
Fighting would be better.
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they're in this together.
so she raises both hands in loose fists, not quite knowing what to do, him being the first person she has ever tried to hit and all. what do you do, what do you not do? )
Alright. ( she smiles and then, tightening her right hand, makes to punch him on the upper arm. ) Would you believe, I've never done this to anyone before.
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He raises his hands also, palm open as he catches her fist. He's wearing gloves, but it's his left hand that catches hers so there's no sign of the solid metal of a prosthetic.]
Not even as a kid?
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she straigthens up and tries twisting in his grip, her free hand waving around uselessly. )
My mother had very strict rules about fighting. My brother respected them and because he did, I never got into fights.
( that is to say, if charles hadn't been so stoic about these things, sylvie imagines she would definitely have gotten into fights and often. )
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Not a rule breaker, huh?
I might have been a little different from you.
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( what she means is to say, they can be something different from what they were. it's possible, it's done! feeling him steady her with his other hand, her mind registers the glove but she doesn't consider it beyond that, too preoccupied with their current -- oh, does she dare call it a fight? is she really ready to tick a box?
finally managing to wrestle free from him, she steps back a step and looks him over, trying to figure out how to land a punch. she could never hit his face, people don't change more than that either, but maybe kick him in the shin?
crotch, she can almost hear eloisa whisper at the back of her mind, that's the knock-out point, topolina.
no, sylvie couldn't do that either. but shin would be fine, too. he said himself, no one has insisted that she win to do her job. she circles him, hoping he'll turn after her. )
I might have become a rule breaker later.
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She's older than Ahsoka and far less battle ready, but there's still something familiar in a practical demonstration. He's never considered himself the teaching type, he'll need to examine this later.]
Too bad I haven't.
[He feels like Obi-Wan too, waiting for her to make the next move just as his master once did for him.]
Do I need to watch out for any underhanded tricks?
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( she laughs, but finally decides, this is her chance. if she can just get close enough, she might get him in the shin. so, she moves forward as quickly as she can, not exactly lightening fast reflexes on her, though, and she aims a kick at his left shin, hands raised in front of her for balance as she rises up on one leg to do the move.
she's off balance, completely open and has no idea what she's doing. even as she makes the attempt, oh, she knows, she's playing sitting duck.
exactly how much so, she simply can't tell. )