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TDM 003

TDM 003: #BEACHBUMS

I. BEACH

Welcome arrivals, new and old! The skies on Erku may be perpetually gray, but the weather has taken a sudden turn to summertime heat. Fortunately, soaring temperatures have chased away more of the strange fog that conceals so much of the island, unveiling a charming, sandy cove dotted here and there with rustic love shacks. These shabby little lean-tos are dusty and sparse, but they provide everything one (or two, wink wink) might need for a little relief from the sun. Just don’t wander too far... that fog has memory-loss properties.

II. DRINKS

The 'bots are very apologetic about the whole fog incident, and they are trying to get on the new arrivals' good sides by giving out fancy drinks. Of course, they still haven't mastered the art of making things properly, so each drink has a little something... extra.

Geloso: Has a slightly bitter, yet refreshing herbal taste... and it will make you feel inexplicably envious of virtually anything, to a petty degree! Be it someone else’s shoes or their incredibly muscular physique, you’re jealous enough to tell them about it!
Colpito: Fruity and sweet like candy. If you drink this, you will feel hopelessly infatuated with the very next person who catches your eye!
Vivace: Delightfully tart, with a flavor somewhere between citrus and raspberry. This summery drink will fill you with bubbly energy. Whether you’re feeling flirty or just mischievous and playful, you’ve never felt more alive!
Verace: Creamy, earthy, and a little nutty - the flavor is hard to describe, but delicious. After drinking this, you’ll feel strangely compelled to spill something you’ve been keeping a secret, no matter how incriminating or embarrassing.
Conoscere: The robots are especially excited about this flavor! They’ve heard organic beings enjoy chocolate, and hope you like their first attempt (it’s a little bitter, but it is chocolatey). Those who drink this will feel incredibly confident and sensual. Better yet, if you share it with a partner - which the 'bots encourage you to do - you’ll find that every touch is enhanced, and every sensation is shared between the two of you. A lucky few may even be able to sense one another’s thoughts!

III. SNACKS

Lo! As you ask, the Augur shall provide. Thanks to the efforts of your organic predecessors in restoring the planet’s Eros energy, edible fishes and seaweeds have returned to the ponds and the shores of Erku. If you fancy yourself savvy to basic survival skills, why not fashion up a fishing rod and catch yourself dinner? Just be careful if you happen to hook one of the octopus creatures from the deeper waters - they can be quite forward with their tentacles!

Or, if primitive angling isn’t in your repertoire, you can always trade some credits for a tasty catch from one of the food stalls along the coast. Most stalls are manned by 'bots, but there’s nothing stopping an enterprising arrival from setting up shop. No credits? No problem! The robots have also provided a bit of entertainment, and any volunteers to man the kissing booth, get dunked in the wet t-shirt dunk tank, or grill up some fish - among other opportunities - will find credits automatically loaded onto the payment app of their bracelet devices. The 'bots are recruiting especially hard for participants to work in the gloryhole tent!

IV. SPARKLES

As dusk descends, the white sands of the beach suddenly come alive with glittering lights. It’s as if the darkened waters have carried a thousand shining stars from the depths of the sea to the shores of the cove. In actuality, each little twinkle is a bioluminescent plankton or jellyfish! Feel free to wade among them and admire their shine; even the sting of the jellies won’t hurt you... though they do pack a different punch. The tentacles of the jellyfish elicit a powerful aphrodisiac response, which gets the heart racing and the blood pumping for an intimate touch. The effects come on within a matter of minutes, and last for a few hours. Only time will relieve the symptoms, but a partner will help to make it more bearable.

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N A V I G A T I O N

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[ Is it her ass? Elle's just gonna go with her ass catching people's attention, because then it at least justifies the whole thong situation she has going on. Having been around here a little bit, instead of wandering the beach in her street clothes she's got a cute green one-piece but it sure does show her off a little.

So, probably, that's why a total stranger is talking to her. Elle turns, gestures to herself - with a confident if somewhat falsely so smile - almost sloshing her 'Verace' whatever that is. ]

Who, little ol' me?

[Velvet took another sip of her drink before she answered, studying the woman who had caught her eye. Which was strange in and of itself for her, since almost no one caught her eye, especially women? Weird day.]

[Of course, it didn't help that the part of her brain managing 'say hello to pretty people' wasn't actually in charge of the 'now what?' part. But she managed a nonchalant shrug, maintaining her little grin.]

I'm not looking at anyone else?

[Oh god what was she doing...]

[ Downside to facing Velvet: having to look at someone who was real hot but also could probably rip Elle literally to pieces. It made her heart jump into her throat in a way she still wasn't remotely used to, and she tried to wash it down with her drink. ]

Good.

[ She blushed at the grin. ]

Cuz I'm really having a weird time figuring out that I'm bi.

[ ...wait what did she just say with her own mouth? ]

[Velvet definitely could rip her in half. But she probably wouldn't? She had a lot better control of her temper lately! ...Best not to dwell on that...]

[The blush made Velvet's grin get wider, sliding into a more genuine, if surprised, smile because she had never actually had that kind of effect on someone before. Of course, what she said turned Velvet's expression into one of confusion.]

...Bi?

[Crap, was this something she was supposed to know? It probably was...]

[ ...well it could knock off one of Elle's spaces. The hard part was getting Elle to go with it on purpose for that sweet, sweet victory.

This was quickly turning into kind of a disaster, though, with Elle just blurting out what's been on her mind literally since arriving, and now the scaryhot lady not knowing... language. ]

Bi...sexual. Like, swinging both ways.

Wanting to get nasty with boys and girls.

[Blink. Blink blink.]

Oh!

[And now it was velvet's turn to blush, though she tried to cover it up with a huff and another sip of her drink. And mostly failed, blushing showed up really well on cheeks that pale.]

I...right. That. Never really heard a term for it before. I...

[Another sip of her drink and a sigh as her free hand came up to brush through her hair in frustration.]

I have no idea what I'm doing.

[ Suddenly Velvet's a little... cuter? It doesn't totally undo the sexy and scary parts of her image, but it's pretty neat to see that she's actually a person and not some kind of weird suppressed fantasy she's having. ]

It sure is the, uh, word people use.

[ One of 'em. Elle doesn't get the language all too well, except to talk about herself, and even that's a bit confusing. ]

...join the club? I'm Elle.

[Some part of her that still cared what people thought was relieved the woman hadn't mocked her for not knowing the lingo. Did she even want to know the lingo? Everything about this place was just so bizarre...]

[Still. No sense taking that frustration out on another person probably just as kidnapped here as she was. She lifted her glass in a bit of a greeting as her other arm fell back to her side.]

Velvet. And thanks. I think?

[ Why make sexuality even more confusing? Why make being stuck here more confusing? Better to be cool and then make fun of people when they deserve it, or after they're your friends. ]

Obviously, I don't know what to do with...

[ Vague gestures. ]

Wantin' to, uh, do stuff with girls. So we're both pretty lost eh?

[Velvet hesitated, thinking that over. She knew the...biology of it all. Rationally. You didn't grow up in a rustic village without helping with the livestock sometimes. But anything beyond that...]

[And yet, looking at the woman, she was attractive. And whatever might have been influencing her, she had to admit she was feeling that attraction? So that was...a thing...]

[She made a noise that was almost a laugh and shook her head, lifting her free arm in a bewildered shrug.]

Apparently? I hadn't realized I was lost till just now so.

[Life, huh?]

[ There was, like, reproduction and birth. And then there was fingerbanging another girl while leaning up against a tree, like the image that she couldn't quite keep out of her mind. ]

This place'll do that to you.

[ Hand on her hip, she sipped at her drink and stepped up closer to Velvet. ]

...but you did still get my attention.

[It was a good thing she hadn't said that out loud, Velvet might have bolted like a scared rabbit, really.]

I'm figuring that out.

[She agreed, though her voice trailed off at the end as the blonde stepped closer. Maybe it was the hair that had really grabbed her attention? She hadn't known more than a handful of blondes in her life. It was a very striking color. Amber eyes flicked uncertainly down to the rest of Elle's figure as she continued speaking.]

[Well, maybe it wasn't just the hair.]

[Even through her nervous uncertainty she felt a bit of strength, a flirtiness that she had never would've thought was inside herself.]

Well what are you going to do now?

[Not quite a challenge, but close. Also oh god someone stop her mouth from saying things like that.]

[ All you had to do was spend a little time here, and half your personal interactions would scan like the start of a porno. And she wasn't, like, getting a bunch of sex, you know? But it was baked into the culture, and lifestyle here.

Elle still didn't really know how to turn on the sexy all that well, biting her lip as Velvet eyed her up, but here she was. Standing close enough to put a hand on Velvet's shoulder, leaning close. ]

I'm gonna start... by telling you that Velvet's a real pretty name.

[ And follow it up with a nervous laugh. ]

Then I should figure out where to set my drink down.

[Velvet tensed up noticeably at the hand on her shoulder, but she didn't pull away. It was...an instinctual moment, after years of not really being touched by anyone unless it was a hug for Laphicet. Or violence. But any discomfort she felt was replaced with an embarrassed little smile at the comment on her name.]

...Thanks.

[No one had ever said that about her name before. Honestly, she should probably get use d to 'no one had ever' about a lot of things, shouldn't she? With Elle so close Velvet could smell her now, she had no idea what to do. Did she want to pull away? To move closer? This wasn't anything she would have normally done so why...did she want to?]

[Maybe it was just the air in this bizarre place.]

[After a second of thought though, Velvet's free hand snaked out to catch Elle's glass in her fingers, plucking it away so she was holding both.]

...Problem solved.

[She said with a grin, caught somewhere between flirty and nervous. Now of course she had zero free hands, but she'd deal with that issue when it came up...]

[ Violence might not be as welcome as a hug - although Elle would probably call it her mistake, given how dangerous Velvet looks. Apparently she was smooth if she could get a pretty smile like that out of Velvet.

...wait did she just have to tell girls the stuff that she wanted to hear?

Elle leaned in closer, still keeping her drink straight up and then Velvet took that problem out of her hands. ]

Better not drop it.

[ Was she really gonna kiss this stranger? No, they'd exchanged names. It was fine. Elle smiled back, leaning up on the taller girl; put her now free other hand on her hip, and lightly pressed against her lips, heart jumping in her chest. ]

[Velvet was about to make a sarcastic comment about how she was perfectly capable of holding a glass when Elle suddenly leaned in and kissed her. It was as if her brain blanked out, and all thoughts of anything that wasn't the lips pressed against her suddenly shut down in favor of focusing entirely on that. Huh. Huh.]

[Her amber eyes went wide for a moment, and she might have pulled away if she wasn't already leaning back against the tree. So this was a kiss. It was...something. Nice? That didn't seem like the right word. It was definitely something. Of course, she didn't actually know what to do back, though after her initial shock faded away, she tried her best. It would be painfully obvious she didn't know what she was doing.]

[But she didn't drop the glasses! Just barely. It was very close. She definitely spilled them some though. Whoops.]

[ See, when you're getting kissed, everything gets a lot more complicated. Things like hand-eye coordination, balance, breathing, thinking - if you were at all attracted to your partner then it all went out the window.

Still, she had to figure out if Velvet was confused or just apathetic. That was a bit harder when Elle wasn't experienced either, but she leaned into it a bit, humming against Velvet's lips and hoping she'd give some more signs. ]

[The real issue was Velvet didn't know what she was either. Well. Confused certainly. And definitely not apathetic. But that didn't make things any easier. And with a glass in each hand, which had not been a brilliant idea at all, her options for what to do anyway were rather limited.]

[Still, she was trying. With the other woman lean into her like that, it was easy to let her head shift back against the tree, and instead concentrate on what was happening to her. And doing her best to return it. She wasn't a slow learner, but she was definitely mostly mimicking what the blonde did. With no hands. And at some point she had closed her eyes, though she didn't even realize it.]

[ Life just came at you like that sometimes, you know? And then you were making out with random girls, and spilling both of your drinks. Elle wasn't exactly going for tongue, though, and after another long moment of leaning into Velvet pulled back, blinking.

Information could be gotten out of actually talking to people sometimes. ]

...hoooow's that so far?

[The kiss broke and her eyes flicked open, her expression caught somewhere between confusion and disappointment and more confusion.]

Uh.

[So eloquent. Just give her a moment here. She sucked in a breath and seemed to mentally regain her balance before she offered the other woman her somewhat emptier glass back. And she was definitely still blushing.]

It was...[She had no idea what the right word was here.]...Nice?

[She said it like a question, but more directed at herself than the blonde. Look, she was new at this!

[ Now, was that confusion and disappointment over no longer locking lips with Elle? That might be a good thing. Elle grinned at Velvet's confusion and talent at choosing her words.

Elle took her glass back, but kept close to Velvet, hand still on her shoulder as she took a long drink. And then a longer drink. Might as well... finish it? ]

Do you want... uh, hold on...

[ Gulp. ]

To make sure it was nice?

[Velvet just kept holding her own drink, and the way she had it gripped it wouldn't have been hard to believe she'd pretty much forgotten it was there until she actually watched Elle taking a drink from hers. And even then it took a few moments to actually register. Right. Drink. She took a smaller sip from her glass, her gaze still steady on the other's face. She was staring, wasn't she?]

I...

[Another sip of her drink, her weight shifting faintly against the tree. Okay. Now that the first step had been taken, it felt less...intimidating, somehow? Less like a boulder and more just a rock she'd probably trip over a few more times. Which was something she was much more used to. So she actually managed a little grin, with some real confidence this time.]

...I think I do, yeah.

[ Elle just tossed her glass. Amazingly, it didn't explode into fragments! Because leaving broken glass laying around would be super impolite. Normally, staring was pretty impolite too, but under the circumstances - and coming from someone as hot as Velvet - Elle could let it go, or maybe enjoy it, or maybe heat up a little from the attention.

Another shift, closer, pressed them together; heart pounding at how their bodies felt together. ]

...go ahead and uh. Touch me all you want, too.

[ Elle offered, and laughed nervously, and muffled her nervous laugh by pushing up again and meeting Velvet's lips with her eyes closed. ]

[Velvet's eyes shifted towards the shimmering glass as it fell, combat instinct drawing towards fast moving objects, but only for a second before they were tugged back by the feeling of Elle stepping closer to her. Right up against her. Oh that was also a nice feeling. Huh.]

Touching. Right, because I-

[Whatever else she was going to say was cut off as the kiss resumed. Right. She needed to stop worrying so much. Was that the drink talking or her brain? Eh. Whatever. Instead she just let her attention once more settle on the feeling of the other woman pressed up against her, the warmth of her skin, the texture of her lips. After a few seconds she let her own glass drop to the sand, spilling what was left of the drink. Alas.]

[Touching had her thinking way too much about her hands too, so she just let them settle on Elle's hips, one bandaged, one smooth, probably a slightly odd contrast.]

[ No more combat instincts. Just lovin' instincts! Elle was flying by the seat of the pants she wasn't wearing, but she was pretty confident that she understood: kissing, and grabbing asses, and touching boobs. How hard could it all be? There was just this woman right here, so warm, and soft, even if Elle could feel, this close, that she was strong too.

Her lips parted a bit, now, testing a deeper kiss out while she pondered the contrasting hands on her body. Those bandages weren't anything she needed to ask about - too personal, right? Burns could be pretty nasty if that was the deal. Didn't really matter for... this stuff, anyways. ]

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