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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 |
Crab Knight
Of course, this was going terribly, and left her completely unaware besides the brief warning shadow when Ingrid swept down upon her, the net smacking the back of her head. ]
Hey!
[ She turned, covering her eyes from the sun, only to see a pegasus-a pegasus! And Ingrid! ]
Ingrid, is that truly you?
[ Normally she trusted her sight, and she'd grown used to seeing others from Fodlan, but she *had* just been hit in the back of the head. ]
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but the apology gets sidetracked for a moment, ingrid's eyebrows furrowing at the sight of a fellow classmate. ]
Mercedes? [ on this island, of all people? she immediately coaxes her pegasus to land back on the sand, jumping off of its back and rushing over to her. ] You're here, too?
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[ Ingrid was a painful sight. The last time they'd met, it had been across a battlefield-and while Mercedes was more along the front charging Cornelia, she knew full well of her friend's fate.
Still, she offered a smile, albeit one with some hint of sadness behind it. ]
When did you get here, though? I thought the attacks brought all of us out of the woodwork these past few weeks-unless you've just arrived?
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I've just arrived today. [ the most unfortunate way, really. while she doesn't really dislike the sea, it doesn't mean that getting washed up on the shore is the best way to get to a certain destination. ] What attacks do you mean?
[ did the war reach this place as well? ]
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[ It wasn't really clear to Mercedes just *what* the enemies were. ]
They came from the ocean, and didn't stop until they'd reached the hospital and attacked the Augur-oh! Which is some sort of god, I think? The robots seem to worship it, and it has power.
[ She looked a bit sheepish, now. ]
I wish I could tell you more, but the attack meant that the Augur hasn't really been doing much since not long after I arrived, and nobody has really explained it to me.