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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



apodictic: (pic#14175716)

[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-22 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Your support is appreciated, Garma Zabi.

[ a pause, and then he adds, rather dryly, ]

It is nice to have a productive conversation with one from your family.
instrumentalized: (shock; huh??)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-22 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Keep insulting Mineva and it might not remain productive for much longer. Though for now, Garma is a little too dazed by information to get mad, exactly. ]

You really do not like her, then.
apodictic: (pic#14175736)

[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-22 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's not going to answer that directly. what he will say is -- ]

My Captain is working hard for spacenoid independence. So is she, in her own way.

That there are two leaders in one organization bodes nothing but trouble. [ angelo, looking displeased: ] I will not stand by to see my Captain get questioned at every turn as to whether or not he is fit to lead, just because he carries the legacy of being tied to Char Aznable, who is a dead man, anyway.
instrumentalized: (serious; thinky face)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-23 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That makes some sense. Even with his siblings, there'd been strife between them, and they were coleaders rather than differing factions within one organization. But what really sticks out here... ]

Mineva is loyal to the original Char?

[ Please say it ain't so...... He has no personal relationship to Mineva and she has never met him, but yet, he can't help feel a little betrayed by his own flesh and blood here. ]
apodictic: (pic#14175713)

[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-23 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't call it "loyalty".

[ loyalty means different to him as it does to the princess, after all, though one can argue angelo just takes it a bit too much to the other end. he's not saying it as a bad thing, however; only that garma is imprecise about it. ]

But she has some affection for him, having spent some time with him in her childhood.

[ and because of that, he supposes that her distrust is inevitable, though he still doesn't approve of it either way. ]
Edited 2020-08-23 21:14 (UTC)
instrumentalized: (anger; you offend me)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-23 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
... he really is entirely shameless.

[ First you KILL him for being a Zabi and then you go chill with Mineva?? The circumstances aren't that simple, but Garma does not exactly feel like being gracious and accepting the complexities of the situation. He's been killed just yesterday. The wound is fresh and he is not entirely sure how to work through it yet.

... wait. ]


Was. He was shameless.

[ Saying that really ought to make him feel better. Yet, he simply stands here, balling his hands into fists. ]
apodictic: (pic#14017079)

[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-24 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
The Supreme Leader makes allies easily.

[ that's all he says about that, because it's a minefield he'd rather not enter anyway. garma zabi must certainly have his own perspectives about it; his captain isn't here to instruct him on how to navigate it and he just decides, in the end, to drop it. ]
instrumentalized: (stress; serious; you're full of shit)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-24 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
... oh, certainly.

[ Bitter? Who's sounding bitter? Garma Zabi? Never. But he's getting the message that he is not going to be able to disgrace Char to Angelo nearly as much as he would like to, and he's been raised better than to waste his breath needlessly. ]

I expect we'll be able to stay in touch via this bracelet communicator?
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[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-24 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
We are. My username is 'gallica'.

[ he gives him a withering glance. ] Understand that I am willing to help you survive this world; if you ask for help, I'm certainly going to provide it.

But I am never yours to command. [ don't even think --! ]
instrumentalized: (serious; smug; arrogant boy)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-24 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... wow, you do not need to make that face at him. Garma's expression turns a little colder in turn.]

You're his. I understand very well.

[ Not perfectly, but more than he would like to. Char Aznable, Full Frontal... it doesn't matter, not that much. ]
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[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-24 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad.

[ at least they've set that line now. the last thing he needs is to butt heads over chains of command.

in any case, all that talk is done. the only thing left is to commiserate over his portrait and coffin, which, lol. angelo looks at the food stalls. ]


Have you eaten?
instrumentalized: (stressed; anger; huffy)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-24 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And then Garma's expression isn't cold anymore so much as just disgusted. Why did you remind him of the festival? He's going to get over this whole sex island thing eventually but right now? This is so much. He has not looked at this much phallic anything in, well, ever. ]

... reluctantly and very little.
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[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-24 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ look, angelo's not happy with it either. ]

There are food stalls. If you ignore how they look, the food is edible.
instrumentalized: (stressed; making excuses)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-24 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I am aware and yet unconvinced.

[ He's blushing a little... Help him. ]

In the back of my head I just keep hearing that it is unbefitting for my status to be seen this way.
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[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-24 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell that voice to shut up, because you want food. Nobody else here would care that Garma Zabi is eating cock-shaped confectionary.

[ anyway. They Go To The Food Stalls. ]
instrumentalized: (stress; serious; doubting)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-26 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Watch Garma wince at this... His delicate maiden heart is not ready for dicks. Or maybe too ready for dicks, deep down. It's all very terrifying. ]

Survival training was nothing like this.
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[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-26 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Please do not make it any easier for me to make scathing comments about your survivability.

[ said as dryly as possible because this is .... angelo's talent.

he's going through each stall, at least, to find the most filling for him. at this rate, they're the suspicious-looking hotdogs. ]


Let's try that.
instrumentalized: (stress; yes make the arrangements)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-27 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... being outright disrespected is better than being disrespected but having people sugarcoat it to suck up to his family. Yeah. If he thinks of it this way, then it's at least a little less awful to just let this stand.

Just let this stand and then pay for a cock-shaped hotdog with his hard-earned crab-catching money because no, he is not putting on the toga, there are such things as limits.

So here's Garma Zabi, staring down a horrid dick-food and mustering up all willpower he has in his pampered mind to open his mouth and bite off the tip.

--- at least that makes him realize he was hungrier than he thought. ]


... fortunate that they at least know how to cook.
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[personal profile] apodictic 2020-08-28 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
They need us alive to restore their world.

[ angelo is just chomping on that dick. he has another stick in his hand, because he's a growing, hungry boy. ]

They are, however, very persistent in sticking with their theme.
instrumentalized: (stressed; uhmmm bad)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-08-31 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I really fail to see how something this on-the-nose is actually mood-setting.

[ Have they ever heard of roses and dimmed light and an airy balcony on a starry night? Soft satin pillows? Scented candles? ANYTHING? ]
apodictic: (pic#14014127)

[personal profile] apodictic 2020-09-01 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ angelo shrugs. ]

There are benefits to being crass.

Anything else that follows after is a bonus. Such as affection or love.

[ and really .... the only reason why angelo can speak so detached from the situation is because his captain isn't here. ]
instrumentalized: (stressed; serious; thinking)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-09-01 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What a depressing perspective... Garma is a romantic at heart, he adores the idea of love overcoming the odds, so this is... well. He's not going to argue about it now, but still. ]

Even if I were to pretend, for a moment, that affection and love were not of any priority to me... I would not find any of this... appealing, not even on the purely physical level.

[ Please tell him that people do not get a boner from looking at dick-shaped pastry?? ]
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[personal profile] apodictic 2020-09-01 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You can put on a show with all of these pastries and probably mark off a box from your card, provided you help your partner to an orgasm in addition to putting on a show.

It's useful in that way.

[ angelo isn't being sexy right now so he's not really going to demonstrate that, but at least the point is made? some of the corndogs have cheese in them, so biting in it will result in a rather sensuous-looking corndog oozing delightful cheese. ]
instrumentalized: (awe; didn't know that)

[personal profile] instrumentalized 2020-09-01 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
... oh.

[ That's much to think about. Garma is just going to... keep eating, and consider the concept of not being humiliated by the experience so much as being an observer actually enjoying the show... Huh. Maybe he gets it? In a really flustered and scandalized way. His poor sheltered sensibilities are going to take a lot of hits in this place. ]
apodictic: (pic#14014123)

[personal profile] apodictic 2020-09-03 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ angelo shrugs. ]

It's just an idea, in case you choose to indulge in that card of yours.

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