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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



fistsofchange: (Talkin')

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2020-08-21 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be honest, I'm not even sure what taffy is.

[Lin got the message, at least, that this girl wasn't as into dicks as she was. Well, they were hardly the only option.]

I'm Lin, by the way. Hi.
chamilia: (066)

[personal profile] chamilia 2020-08-21 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome to Sex Island, Lin. I'm Ilia. And believe me, this is how things usually are. Weird erotic parties in a not even half-rebuilt city.

[The reaction she had to seeing all the penis food makes Ilia think she might not mind all of that.]
fistsofchange: I'm going to get us involved again (I promise I won't get us involved again)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2020-08-21 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I was always curious about the 'carnal worldly attachments' the senior monks kept warning us against, but I never thought I'd encounter them like this.

It's...a bit much, but I'm doing my best to roll with it.
chamilia: (067)

[personal profile] chamilia 2020-08-21 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering we only have a possible way of getting home through random glitch or saving the island enough for the Augur to be nice, that's the best way to look at it.

[Ilia fell into it a bit faster than she had expected, but she'd backed up a bit since her wild, world-wind first couple weeks.]

At least the rewards people have been getting are worth it.
fistsofchange: And now I'm stupider for knowing it (This is stupid)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2020-08-21 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Getting rewarded for something that is supposed to be fun all on its own seems like a win-win scenario.

Or it would if, you know, if this was a volunteer situation.
chamilia: (076)

[personal profile] chamilia 2020-08-21 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, you could choose not to do it, but they have ways around here of pushing the subject.

[Like spiking drinks at the bar.]

So you either make the choices yourself, or they'll find some way to help. Robots don't have much understanding of boundaries.
fistsofchange: (Nothing about this makes sense)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2020-08-21 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a little ominous. I was going to indulge myself anyway but I didn't want to feel like I was doing it under duress.
chamilia: (029)

[personal profile] chamilia 2020-08-21 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome to Sex Island. [She says it again because really it does kind of emphasize everything you need to know about this place.]

So far I haven't dealt with anything that forced me to do something with someone else. It just makes pushes you to think it's a really good idea.
fistsofchange: (I don't know what that means)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2020-08-21 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I saw the cards. I don't even know what some of these things are. Like

[She taps her bracelet to bring up her card.]

...Hotdogging.

Not a clue.
chamilia: (068)

[personal profile] chamilia 2020-08-21 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ilia blinks at that, because What?]

Do you...eat a hotdog while someone watches? How is that even sexual?

[Then she thinks about it]

Maybe the library would...but I'm not sure I want to know.
fistsofchange: I'm going to get us involved again (I promise I won't get us involved again)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2020-08-21 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I do either, but I get prizes if I do it so I guess I better figure it out.

What's on your card?
chamilia: (067)

[personal profile] chamilia 2020-08-22 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Ilia had only directly shown one person her card when planning to swap some squares with them, but since everyone has one, it's not as awkward as it could be. She holds her arm up so her card is visible.]

Most of these are weird, but you can figure it out on your own.
fistsofchange: (I don't know what that means)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2020-08-22 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[She could figure out or at least guess at most of them easily enough. Some sounded slightly scary. Others sounded downright exciting! She noted that a few of them were already filled in.]

Well, it looks like you've got your work cut out for you.
chamilia: (081)

[personal profile] chamilia 2020-08-22 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
We all do. Still not sure when you've done "enough" for something to count.

[She hasn't actually tried to test it either, but]