TDM 004: WASHED ASHORE

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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

Comments

[trost]

Uhh. [ He's still trying to figure out how this works and he can't wrap his head around it. It's probably for the best that Klaus doesn't elaborate. His sensibilities would not be able to handle it. ]

Looks more gross than fun. [ He only learned about the concept of kinks a month ago, so no, he's not at the level where he can see the appeal of fucking a sea creature yet. ]

So do you have an octopus in the family, or something?

[occulti]

I don't know.. slimy things slithering into every orifice of your body. Maybe it's a little gross and fun.

_{[ He'll stop right there because Jean just said something hilarious and he can only agree. ]}

Yep! Complete octopus. He's adopted.

_{[ They all are. But Jean doesn't need to know that. Klaus just only wishes Ben was lingering around in his spooky presence to hear that, but he guesses now that Ben has a physical body he can fuck off and do whatever he wants, finally. ]}

He's got a good personality, though. I mean, if you're looking for the personality of stale bread.

_{[ HE'S KIDDING. But Ben never wanted to have as much as fun as he did. ]}

[trost]

[ It just sounds ... gross, and he's trying to get the image of slimy tentacles crawling up his body out of his brain now.

This description of Ben is not doing him any favours. Jean just imagines a large, talking octopus who is apparently very boring. ]

A complete octopus ... Sounds like your parents were willing to just take in anyone.

[occulti]

_{[ are you saying Ben isn't a large, talking octopus who is apparently very boring? ]}

There were specifics. Being born on October 1st, 1989, and having some super power.
I mean, Dad really didn't like kids, so.. he just wanted special kids.

Unless. Unless.
You're an octopus. Yes.

[trost]

[ Now this is the opposite of what he had assumed. Why that date? Why an octopus? The more he asks, the more questions arise. ]

Guess I was wrong. Now I'm not sure someone with such extremely specific criteria should be adopting children.

[ But what would he know? He's not a father and might die before ever getting the chance to be one. ] Your home life must be interesting.

[occulti]

_{[ Klaus laughs, though a bit nervously at that. There's a lot of stuff about his life he doesn't want to think about, but those are the things that make it interesting. ]}

You have no idea.
But, you are right about that. We weren't even adopted the right way either. We were just kind of bought and taken in under the same roof.

_{[ Now he's saying we, but he's making this sound a lot more awful than what it is. ]}

'Cause.. we're special. Or an octopus.

_{[ HE WILL NOT SAY BEN IS SPECIAL CAUSE IT'S FUNNY. He thinks it's funny. ]}