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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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((OOC: Jim is post Star Trek Beyond, and because it's always hilarious, I am OK with muses recognizing him from Popular media if they're Earth based and post 2009 - not sure if that's good in the game proper but for a tdm it's fun!))

Arrival

This was... not how Jim had expected his day to go. What he had expected to happen after his usual morning routine was that he'd collect the dossier for today's meeting at the Opening of the New Vulcan Science Academy building built for Spock Prime, he'd spend some time with some stiflingly uptight Vulcans, spend the whole time tallying up how many times they called him illogical, and then maybe play chess with his first officer in the evening.

What he had not expected was to be beamed into a transporter room that was certainly not like anything he'd seen in the modern federation, and then ganged up and scanned by at least seven different robots and then shuffled out of the hospital.

This was certainly not New Vulcan.

"What in the fresh hell?"

Drinks
Verace:
Jim had always liked Irish Cream, it wasn't something that the replicators could get quite right without fresh cream, and well, the Enterprise is many things but a cattle ranch is not one of them.
The drink itself is delicious but about halfway through he can't help but feel odd.
He looks visibly confused, the desire to just open his mouth and talk is...
This feels familiar. There's a beat of panic in his face as he remembers the mission with a truth serum - and he immediately puts the drink down, turning away to get anywhere but here when he bumps into someone...

Conoscere:
James T. Kirk has never been a bashful man, nor even a particularly chaste one; but he has to admit that in the last three years of their mission the whole one-night stand, wham, bam, thank you ma'am approach lost it's exciting and shiny appeal after he left the Academy.

But he's not there, any more. He's not a captain right now, and as far as he can tell, none of his crew are here at all. What's wrong with treating himself and someone else for a night?

He slides over to someone who catches his eye, grinning at them striking up a conversation.

"Are you as new as I am here? Want to make it a night to remember?"

Sparkles

There are many, many planets with beaches that do this when the sun sets, Earth being one of them. The bio-lumiesence of some coasts have always fascinated him and to be able to just stand there in the beautiful water and watch-

Something solid slaps against his legs and he startles slightly. He can't see any seaweed, and the wave retreats from him in a slow roll, obscuring anything it might have been.

Does it feel warmer now? Hmn. It's probably nothing...

[Miranda is full of vim and vigor herself, excited and ever helpful, thanks to the Vivace she's drunk. It had ended up being her favorite of the drinks and she maybe had more than one of them...

She bumps into a man who looked like he was trying to leave and immediately reached out to grab him arm.]

Are you leaving? Where are you going? Do you need any help?

[Extremely enthusiastic about helping people right now, she is, sorry.]

"No!" He squeaks. Oh, smooth, Jim. "No help needed I just-I was so scared that Spock was going to leave the Enterprise-IneverevengottotellhimhowI-" Jim slaps a hand over his mouth, eyes wide and blush already high on his cheeks.

Holy shit.

Miranda watches him struggle and cover his mouth and realizes he most certainly does need help, but not the kind she may have originally thought.

"Oh, I understand," she says to him, patting his arm soothingly. "It's always strange coming to a new world at first, but don't worry, your friends likely don't know you've gone. Spock was his name, right? Is he the friend you're missing most right now?"

Apparently, even putting a hand over his mouth isn't going to be enough.
"Yes. Yes? No? I don't know? Can a Crush be a friend? Is it still a crush if it's been going on for years? I miss Bones, but not in the same way. What the hell was in that drink?"

Help him.

Oh. Oh. Certainly in need of more help than Miranda was expecting. But this is fine! She can still assist him as best she can. Her cheeks are a bit flushed just thinking about all of this because issues of this variety have never been something she has known how to manage. But she told him she would help and help she would!

"Ah...hm...I don't know?" She laughs, honestly. "I would not be surprised if they were manipulated, but that's not such a big deal, is it? At least they're not poisoned." Manipulated food would not be the worst thing she's known robots to do.

"As for your friend, ah...well I think you answered your own question! You've had it for years and they've still been your friend, haven't they? You didn't give up your friendship back then, did you?"

"Yeah but like he's incredibly bad at telling human emotions apart and as far as I can tell we've kept it purely professional and also his girlfriend would probably kill me if I said anything even though I don't think they're together any more and Holy Fucking Shit what was in that drink?"

Jim would very much like to die now, he thinks.

"You should ask the robots, they might tell you if you do so politely!" She should not sound as cheery as she does when she says that, but that is to be expected of someone who is so full of energy and vigor to be of assistance.

"But you shouldn't worry, too much. Just be honest with your feelings. Whatever they are, he's special to you and you to him and isn't that what matters most?" Friendship is just as important and just as powerful, in her opinion!

"I don't think I really want to know, actually," he's just glad he hasn't had an allergic reaction to anything yet.

Yet.

"I also don't think I should tell him that I sort of maybe love him eitherraaaaaa-" Jim gets stuck on that last syllable because he really did just go ahead and say that out loud, huh.

He can't help but furtively look around to make absolutely sure that none of his crew are here.

Oh. Oh. She is all but bursting with all of this. He seems quite distressed by admitting his feelings, so perhaps he's not yet ready to open himself that way to his friend.

"Don't worry, it's fine!" She reaches out to grab his arm. "Let's do something else and then you can think on it as long as you need to." She's gonna pull him along the beach to play in the water if he lets her. Something to distract him!

Being physically run into was unpleasant. It had happened more in one day in the new world than the rest of his entire life back home. Sesshoumaru rocked a little on his feet, but the human hadn't hit him that hard. Lucky for the human. He looked down his nose at the man and resettled his kimono with a practiced gesture, waiting for an apology.

Because clearly he was owed one.

Jim doesn't even hesitiate, the words spill from his mouth before he gets any chance to think them through.

"Oh! God I'm sorry, I'm just trying to leave because I'm pretty sure that drink was spiked and I've been spiked so many times at this point I really don't want to go through that again an-" Jim forces himself to stop speaking, there's an audible clack as his teeth smack together and he presses his lips together to try and keep them closed.

Already?

What the fuck?

Sesshoumaru's eyebrows both went up when the man started babbling. If he'd thought it was from fear of him, he might have been gratified, but whatever made the man talk, it was something else. Something to do with a drink? Oh. Oh. So he was like the others, affected by drinks they ought not to have consumed. Humans. Why did they do such foolish things?

He watched with something like amusement as the man finally managed to stop the flow of words, clearly angry at himself for saying anything at all. Interesting. So perhaps it wasn't making the man amorous toward whoever stopped by? Then what was it doing to him? Forcing him to talk? Interesting. Might as well put the theory to the test.

"You should be pleased that this ill-advised drink hasn't made you want to pair up with the next face you happen to see. I've met some who ended up with that result. Tell me, do you have a name? Are you from this strange place?"

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James T. Kirk of the AoS Variety

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I gotta sleep so ill get back to you in the morn ♥

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