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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



mettle: ᴘᴀʀᴀᴄʜᴜᴛᴇs (12598196)

[personal profile] mettle 2020-09-03 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's looking at it, he sees it, you silly old man. Shrodinger's cocktail. It exists but it also doesn't. ]

I'm afraid not.

[ Not as if Barnaby could try. He doesn't have much of a home to call to.

No one that lives there anyway. But he understands Kotetsu's concern immediately, not in regards to work, but his family. He raises a hand and settles it on Kotetsu's shoulder, expression softening. ]


They'll be fine, Kotetsu. Kaede's gotten rather big, hasn't she? She can take care of herself, and she has your mother and brother as well. It's to my understanding that the Kaburagi family is very strong-willed.
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[personal profile] tigerbeat 2020-09-03 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Having it confirmed again just cements it in further. What will Kaede do? What about his mom? If he disappears like this, will Kaede be mad at him again?

He's frustrated, but slaps on a smile instead.]


Ah, thanks, partner. You're right, you're right, but a papa can't help but worry! She's growing so fast, you know? It's hard to keep up if I'm away. I'll be totally behind again!
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[personal profile] mettle 2020-09-03 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Damn it, it's so hard to stay mad at Kotetsu when he's this endearing in father mode. He knows he has a terrible tendency to be a bit overbearing, because lord knows Barnaby's experienced it more times than he can count, and he can only imagine the degree in which his meddlesome attitude is applied to his own, only daughter. But he likes to see Kotetsu like this. Kind, nurturing, so eager to be at his daugther's side and be involved in her life, even with the obstacles laid before him with his job as a Hero.

He's a handful, but... he's a good father. Taking him away from that is an unforgivable choice. ]


We'll have to cooperate as hard as ever then so we can find a way to get you home. The sooner the better, yes?
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[personal profile] tigerbeat 2020-09-05 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's one of his charm points even if he doesn't know it. Maybe if Kaede favored him more, but he doesn't know how else to father.

He grins and at him and pats the hand on his shoulder amicably. Ah, he doesn't want to give away too much. Now more than ever, Bunny will just worry. ]


Ah, that's right. That's right. We'll be back in Stern Bild in no time, right?