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erku mods ([personal profile] erkumods) wrote in [community profile] ercookies2020-08-18 06:03 am
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TDM 004: WASHED ASHORE

TDM 004: WASHED ASHORE


Arrival



This time, you come out of the water. While the Augur reboots, the Nameless Island's own inherent energy draws people in. It's like being suspended between realities and walking through a rift in dimensions. It may make you sick, or that might be the motion of the ocean, lifting you and carrying you to shore.

Waterlogged and covered in sand, new arrivals will be greeted by robots who welcome them with towels and bracelet devices. The A5 card is already loaded up. Inventory will be found a day later, wrapped up haphazardly and delivered to each person's makeshift home.



I. Feel the friendship!



Recent arrivals and visitors to the beach may notice a sudden influx of hundreds of bright red crustaceans crawling (and coupling) across the sand. It's crab mating season, as it turns out, it's a regular invasion! To keep the beach a pleasant place to gather for the island's inhabitants, the robots are offering credits to especially enterprising crab-catchers. Grab a bucket and get to work! Be sure to watch out for their pinch, mind you. Their little claws are tiny, but that doesn’t mean they don’t hurt.

Surprisingly, there is another effect that even the robots don't anticipate: islanders who are pinched by the crabs find themselves feeling instantly buddy-buddy with the next person they spot. Did you just become best friends?! Get pinched one too many times, however, and those feelings may sour into a crabby mood, indeed.

If you are feeling particularly vengeful (or just hungry), the little crabs do make for delicious gumbo. Once cooked, they have no side effects whatsoever.



II. Phallus Phestival



Although the Augur is offline and supplies are scarce, the robots of Erku are still eager to make their run-down little island a welcoming place for the new arrivals. To that end, they have arranged a three day festival to boost morale and promote the generation of plenty of Eros energy to assist in the restoration of the damaged and decayed parts of the city. The robots claim that this celebration was once a cornerstone of the long-lost civilization of the island. By the dawn of the first day, every island resident will find at their doorstep (or tent flap, mobile suit, etc) the traditional costume of the ancient islanders to wear to the festival. It appears to be... a giant sheet? There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the sometimes garish colors and patterns of the fabric, but at least the robots have uploaded instructions on how to wear it to your bracelet device.

Attendees will find food (mostly crab-flavored), confections, and household necessities in rather suggestive shapes, as well as goods you might find handy to complete your A5 squares: sex toys, pervertibles, sexy maid outfits, and the like. While islanders are welcome to set up shop on the festival grounds and sell (or charge) whatever they like, all items from the robots are offered up for free to those who wear their traditional island garb!



III. Fireside Adventures



Each night of the festival is wrapped up in style with an enormous bonfire on the beach, where drinks, fruity cocktails, and lively music appropriate for dancing is all provided at no cost by the robots. Even if you’re not usually much of a dancer, the longer you stand by the fire and allow it to warm your limbs, the more you feel like moving! Not only that, but everyone is looking quite beautiful by the firelight, are they not?

If you’ve grown tired - or if dancing just isn’t your thing - you might prefer to sit back and swap stories on one of the many driftwood log benches the robots have prepared for seating. Or, maybe you’d prefer to rough it for the night in one of the beachside canvas tents. Better claim one quick, though, or be prepared to share… there’s only one sleeping bag!


N A V I G A T I O N



nobiliteatime: (♜ a completely mystified bee)

[personal profile] nobiliteatime 2020-08-20 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He winces in sympathy as she nearly chokes on that banana, averting his gaze so as to spare both of them the awkwardness of him watching her inhale what's left of it. Not to worry, Ingrid, he's already seen plenty of much worse breaches of noble conduct. ]

Yes, delicacies. They are certainly cleverly designed.

[ He's too proper to approach the phallic nature of the food in any manner other than an oblique one, of course. He quickly changes the subject. ]

Ah, you must forgive me for surprising you. I had tried to catch your attention a few stalls back, but you were rather intently searching for something, and I lost sight of you in the crowd.
eques: (Default)

[personal profile] eques 2020-08-21 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ a part of her is very grateful that it's ferdinand who found her like this. despite his uninhibited nature, he's the poster child of nobility through and through and will be very discreet about this incident. even now, he's avoiding it altogether, preferring to choose what to comment on and what to say.

another part of her is mortified that it's ferdinand who found her like this. if only because of his high standards from those of noble birth. like her.

but since he's moving on from the subject of her food and their rather diverting shape, she's moving on, too. it's the only way to avoid this rather awkward topic and talk about something else.
]

Oh, I wasn't really searching for anything specific. I was simply looking around. [ strange island with its strange food and even stranger, er, customs. ] You should've called my attention. You know I would've turned around.
nobiliteatime: (♜ no wall is too high for us to scale)

[personal profile] nobiliteatime 2020-08-21 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If Ferdinand could read Ingrid's troubled mind, he'd probably reassure her that no matter how much food she may have inhaled, it pales in comparison to the wake of devastation left by Constance's merciless slaughter of his cookies meant for tea parties. Alas, he has no such ability, so she may not ever get to hear that particular story.

Still, her stock has not lowered any in his eyes. ]


Ah, you are quite correct. I did not wish to startle you, but perhaps I was too cautious in my approach.

[ She seems to regard him as one might regard an ally, which is certainly how he remembers her as well. Given how many people have expressed shock to even see him alive, he considers that a fair improvement. ]

But no matter. It is good to see you, even if these are not exactly the best of circumstances.
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[personal profile] eques 2020-08-21 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ constance is a menace. a cute menace, but a menace all the same. ]

You mean meeting on an island where we're tasked to do morally suspect actions?

[ to be honest, she'd rather fight the war all over again than do whatever these golems are suggesting her to do. the fact that ferdinand is greeting her as if it's been a while since they met makes her wonder when's the last time they've spoken or at least seen each other. ]

How is this place treating you, Ferdinand?

[ c'mon, like of all people to be brought here, he's certainly one of the last persons she would ever expect to find himself doing questionable acts. ]
nobiliteatime: (♜ do i look that pitiful)

[personal profile] nobiliteatime 2020-08-21 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Even such an innocuous, well-meaning question causes Ferdinand's cheeks to redden ever so slightly, his eyebrows knitting upward in trepidation. He is very much the sort of person who wears his heart on his sleeve, and what his sleeve is saying right now is that he would prefer not to go into too much detail. ]

Ah, well... it certainly does have its challenges. No doubt about that. It has been a rather eventful few months.

[ Ah, but enough about that. It wouldn't be proper for him to dwell too much on his own troubled thoughts. Not when a comrade may be in need of reassurance. ]

But enough about that. I assume you just arrived recently, yes? Time works in rather... mysterious ways here. Especially regarding how we each arrived here in the first place.