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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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N A V I G A T I O N

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Why don't I just scoot over enough you can share?

[ SURE, it'll be extremely squishy but...

Well, surely Ryuji doesn't mind TOO much? It's not like Ren is a stranger. ]

[...ugh. Ryuji really doesn't want to deal with trying to make someone else move out of a tent, especially when it's likely someone he doesn't know...and he's drunk...

So he sighs again and moves to force himself into a sit next to Ren, even if they're like...kinda squashed together.]

You asked for this.

Oh, I don't mind. Personal space doesn't exist for friendships as close as ours.

[ He's messing with Ryuji but honestly? He doesn't really mind. Ren's reserved a lot of the time but he's not...really reserved. ]

[He's pretty sure Ren is just being cheeky, but...whatever. It's a tent, and Ryuji is tired after a long couple hours of partying and repeatedly striking out with every girl he tried to talk to. For his efforts, he'll lean heavily against Ren's side. Enjoy that!!]

So uh...m'glad to see you here. Was about to think it was just me and Takamaki.

[And Ann, who he's now seen in another thread let's pretend I mentioned that.]

[ What if he DOES enjoy that, what then. ]

No, there's the two of us and then Kasumi... [ RYUJI WOULDN'T KNOW HER EVEN IF YOU PLAYED THE GAME SHE'S...ONLY IN P5R it's fine Ryuji never knows anyone. ]

Are you okay?

...who's Kasumi?

[He's...drunk, that's probably obvious from the way he sounds and also the smell of alcohol.

And maybe the fact he doesn't know who Kasumi is, questionably.]

She's from the year below us.

[ A Royal addition party member Ryuji never interacts with much anyway it's fine!!!

Ren knows people can remember less than one another anyway. ]

At Shujin.

I don't...remember.

[Man. Maybe he did drink too much.]

Well, haven't seen'er anyway...how long have you been here?

A few months.

[ He sounds far too blasé about it. ]

You just got here, right?

Months...?

[Man...Ryuji presses a hand to his face, his brows furrowing.]

Yeah...yeah. There were crabs all over the beach.

[He's pretty sure that did actually happen.]

But I sure as hell don't remember you bein' gone that long.

I'm not surprised. There's something weird at work.

[ He waves it off. ]

You got the regular introduction from someone?

Yeah...I think so.

[We're going to say Yes to save Ren the usual schpeal, even though Ryuji probably doesn't fully get it still because he's...Ryuji.]

Don't make much sense to me though...

Yeah, well.

[ WELL... ]

What's on your card?

[...Fuck. He was hoping Ren wouldn't mention that, but of course he would, wouldn't he?]

D...does it really matter?

[Yes, it does. It matters a whole lot, actually??]

[ Honestly Ren is mostly a curious bitch... ]

Well, I'm wondering if we have any matches.

[REN....]

I...dunno, I mean. There's some pretty wild shit on there. Like, I don't know how they expect me to do any of that shit when I hardly know any of these people.

[LIKE he does know some of them but...he's pretty sure all of the girls would literally murder him, and he's not yet come to terms with whatever bisexual tendencies may be sleeping inside of him enough to entertain doing anything with a guy...]

[ Come be bisexual with him Ryuji -

But okay, fair. ]

Knowing people isn't really a...requirement, here.

[You need to be at LEAST 10 in his confidant ranking for that, Ren. Are u up for the challenge.]

Doesn't surprise me...

[There's a pause as Ryuji looks over to the tent entrance, as if he's worried someone might be listening in, before he looks back to Ren.]

So have you, like...done anything yet? You're not taking the whole card thing that seriously, are you?

[He'll be able to gauge what he should do here by Ren's example, surely.]

[ WOW??? LET HIM BE RANK 10, HE'S TAKEN YOU ON SO MANY DATES - ]

Well, I do want a nice kitchen.

[OKAY...fine. Ren gets to be rank 10, because knowing him he's probably bought ramen for Ryuji TOO many times.]

Why am I not surprised...

[He groans, throwing his head back to look at the ceiling of the tent.]

Alright, fine. You give me one of the squares on your card, I give you one of mine. Sound fair?

Oh? Well, which one would you want?

[ He has a lot of them. ]

Dude. I just said one, not the whole thing...

[But of course Ren doesn't care. It's Ren. So Ryuji will just...take a look, if he's sharing. Some of the squares are pretty tame, while others...

Multiple penetration causes the color to drain from Ryuji's face.]

So like...did your card just get picked for you, or...are you really into all this stuff?

I can't say I've ever tried most of this.

[ But it's not like he HATES the idea of any of it? ]

[Well...

Ryuji looks at the card for a long moment, and it's hard to tell if the redness of his face is from alcohol or what he's reading. Mainly because...quite a number of his match with Ren's. Some he absolutely will not admit to.

Like...public. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea.]

I guess, uh...dirty talk is one that's on mine too, so. S'that enough?

Sounds fine to me. ...but do you actually know how to dirty talk?

[ He's experiencing Intense Doubt. ]

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