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TDM 011: I PUT A SMELL ON YOU
| TDM 011: I PUT A SMELL ON YOU |
00. Arrival You come out of the water, the Nameless Island's own inherent energy drawing people in. It's like being suspended between realities and abruptly pushed from behind through a rift in dimensions. It may make you sick, or that might be the motion of the ocean, lifting you to the surface 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. If you don’t manage to get away from them quickly enough, they may even usher you toward the Laid Bare Spa, where new arrivals will be offered free massages, a sauna, hairstyling, and their clothing may come up permanently missing. But you will be given a complimentary towel to leave with if needed! Feel free to explore the Island, though there isn’t much to see beyond what arrivals before you have helped to rebuild. Most of the buildings are abandoned and in dire need of repair, and beyond the city lingers a thick fog that obscures much of the wilderness from view. Wander too far into this fog, and you will find yourself mysteriously looping back to where you began, your memories of what you were doing and how you got there erased. With that in mind, it may be wise to stake your claim on a place to live in the now, whether a rundown apartment in the City, a tent on the beach, a bed in the barracks, or your own space at the House of Worship. Your inventory will be found a day later, wrapped up haphazardly and delivered to each person's makeshift home. I. SEASON OF EGGCELLENCE As the wintery weather has shifted to warmer breezes and the snow has given way to grass and baby blooms, Islanders will find the robots in a flurry as yet another holiday takes hold. The Festival of Renewal, to welcome in the season of new life and awakenings of all those that have slept the winter months away. Spring has come and so has the time where life flourishes on the Nameless Island. Islanders will see decorations set up all over the city signifying the change in seasons (much of which happens to be elaborately decorated eggs...lots and lots of eggs) and robots will gladly ask them of any lively changes they see sprouting up around the Island, from flowers, to baby animals, to animals in the act of making baby animals...there will be quite a bit of that going on for them to catch sight of. Islanders will be encouraged to start their own gardens if they wish, with various booths set up around the city’s center offering free seeds for different plants ready to be sewn into the soil. Each booth will have full grown versions of the flowers and plants they are offering on display. You might even recognize some of them from your own worlds. But other booths will focus on different aspects of Life and Renewal, including booths of artwork painstakingly made in vibrant expression by the robots themselves of animals in the act of enthusiastic copulation! Oh, wait...that isn’t artwork of a deer or sheep. That might just be artwork of you engaging in enthusiastic copulation...and who is that other person in the image with you? Have you met them before? It might just be one of your fellow Islanders or someone you recognize from home. Robots are selling this artwork as first come first serve, but they might make more than one copy… Those aren’t the only booths either, as other booths will offer free swag of flavored lubes, edible underwear, as well as genitalia-shaped gummies! And then there are the gourmet chocolates being sold at the Steaming Carafe cafe in honor of the festival! Ask nicely and they’ll give you a free sample, but be warned the chocolate does have mild aphrodisiac properties, but a couple hours waiting or an Auspicious Act won’t take care of. II. CHOCOLATE CURRENCY The robots are also offering credits to anyone who might help them in managing the dozens of Rainbow Rabbits taking the city by storm, colorful animals that can be seen hopping and dashing through the city and the surrounding woods in a flash. Spots of color might catch your attention from the corner of your eye and you turn to see no rabbit there, but follow that and you might find an abandoned nest of leaves, twigs, or grass filled to the brim with colorful, shiny eggs of any design. These eggs happen to look just like the hundreds of egg decorations you’ve seen all over the city... Ask any robot and you’ll be informed that the decorations are made from the shells of these eggs after they’ve been collected and carefully broken open to remove the chocolate inside. That’s right. Chocolate eggs. Just where do you think they got the chocolate for those treats at the cafe? Carefully collect as many eggs as you can without breaking them, and turn them in to the café for your credits. But what robots may forget to warn you about is that if you eat the chocolate straight from the egg, without it being processed first, it will not only taste delicious, but the potent aphrodisiac will be far more extreme and far more addictive. You might not be able to go a day without needing to eat more of it and achieve some carnal release. The more you eat, the shorter the timespan before you are overtaken by the unending craving. An endless cycle of heightened arousal and desire that can only be eased by orgasm...but that orgasm will be powerful, possibly the best one you’ve ever had in your life. Easy to see why they warn you about chocolate being so addictive… Only completing an Auspicious Act or the healing waters in the Bathhouse will remove this effect. Until next time. III. SPRING IS IN THE AIR (AMONG OTHER THINGS) Walking the booths during the festival, you might be lured in by a scent in the air. Something soft, or strong, or bitter, or sweet...a scent so familiar that you can’t help but seek out where it came from. The scent will lead you right to one of the booths where robots have bottles and bottles of perfume and cologne lined up. Perfumes they will explain are made entirely unique to each person. That scent that caught your attention? That’s your scent. And now you have to have it. The robots will even give it to you for free. It’s a special tradition of the festival for Islanders to wear their scent and see who else might just be attracted to it. But that scent isn’t just to attract others to you, it’s to show them you’re ready to mate to whoever happens to be lured in by it. The scent will draw out your animal instincts and theirs, pushing them to stake their claim on you. They’ll want to make you theirs and theirs alone and all you will be able to think about is mating with them and being owned by them. And if you’re attracted to their scent in turn? Well, you might feel the need to turn the tables and own them instead. N A V I G A T I O N |
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"There are... oh, well over a hundred of us who have washed up just like you." Not gonna pretend math is her strong suit.
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"How long have you been here?"
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"I've been here for about two months. I think people have been arriving for nearly a year now?"
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He was curious about them, mostly so he could figure out if he could swipe one for study and potentially hacking. He always enjoyed robotics, although not as much as rockets. How did one get a pet robot around here?
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He hummed a bit, at her explanation. That wasn't terribly helpful for robot knowledge. That was alright, he could work with that, he just needed to catch his own robot. For science.
"Hm?" He made a sound in askance. "What about what happens here?"
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"W-well, as they'd explain to you... um, so apparently in this world, at least, there's a source of life energy called eros." He might know enough to know what she's working towards. "This world was on the brink of death, and they need a lot of it." Her blush fading, she got more comfortable as she hit a rhythm. Still, the final detail needed to be dropped.
"...but it's released by... sexual activity... and they didn't have anyone left to do that here. So they've been... somehow bringing people from other worlds to this one, to... do that."
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To say Senku was skeptical was an understatement. He did pick up on her path from 'eros' being the mythology nerd that he was, but he just stared at her like she was spinning some tale.
Reproduction had been in his biology books since he was seven, it wasn't enough to make him blush alone.
"How exactly does that work?" He asked. "What possible benefit could people having sex give to the world at large, aside from you know, an increased population?"
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"But it's either working, or else the Augur, the computer... person... in charge is going to a lot of trouble to fool us."
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"Hm. That's a fair point that it would beg the question as to why one would need to encourage people to have sex if not for some purpose, but you don't know how it works?" That was curious, and concerning, what if something bad was supposed to happen?
This was a strange, strange place.
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She seemed like the kind of person who might be trusting of what she heard.
"Also, I would be concerned about how this biological change happened. I couldn't say how it would affect you not here, in that case." He frowned, considering. "It's possibly the kind of thing you could investigate."
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"I... suppose, when I go home, I could try to get pregnant, but that might be reckless." It sounded like a bad plan?
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"Far safer options rather than bringing a child into the world for the sake of proving a theory." Senku was willing to do a lot of things, but that wasn't one of them.
"I'm not sure what those things would have to do with anything we as people here are doing. The laws of nature tend not to bend to man."
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"I'm not sure how your humanity or not entirety of that matters." He said, considering it a bit. "Or how this robot works. I will need to investigate further."
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"I don't know much about these things, but I'm sure someone else has looked into it by now too." Another smarty-pants like you, Senku.
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He wasn't going to apologize for being a smarty-pants.
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How else did one plot an escape without casing the joint first?
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Senku had been willing to wander off, but maybe he should keep someone at his side if he was going to get murdered by some wild beast.
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He wasn't exactly expecting unknown wildlife. It was a bit beyond his imagination.