TDM 001

[erkumods]

TDM 001: TFLU

( 1 ) After leaving the teleportation chamber, you are gently coaxed out of the hospital and encouraged to find a place to stay. Maybe you've had time to check out your A5 app. Maybe you're just settling in. It's cloudy, overcast, cold -- you'll want to seek out someplace warm. Also, your device is beeping. A lot. The tech on the island works, it just doesn't work right. You can't seem to send a message to the correct person. It's time for... Texts From Last Universe ( 2 ) What's this? Your bingo card has just been beamed to a stranger's inbox...?! ( sample A5 cards -- NSFW, may contain triggering content, please feel free to use/ignore as you see fit) ( 3 ) And now you're receiving messages from other users that they don't remember sending: Nice shirt. It would look better on my floor. 10/10 would ride it into the sunset. This user thinks you're attractive. u up? 🍆 ( 4 ) Once you figure out that the robots have been hacking your devices, it's no easy feat to track one down and demand they stop. "So The Augur wills!" they wail in a monotone. "So it is done!" Any attempt to actually contact The Augur and get back into the hospital will be met with beefy robot bodyguards, who suggest taking a gentler approach to fix your devices. If you know what they mean. Wink. (This is your overt kink prompt. Please label any threads accordingly.) Note: All prompts are optional. The theme for this TDM is "malfunctioning devices." They can be fixed by indulging in the squares on your cards. For the sake of the TDM, you can use one of the pre-generated examples or a wildcard from the kink list. This can be used as a free bingo square completion once you have been accepted into the game. Players are welcome to wildcard their own TDM prompts; we only ask that you try to stick to the theme. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● N A V I G A T I O N

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poe dameron ● star wars ● duplicity crau

[withinreach]

𝗍𝖾𝗑𝗍𝗌 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝗅𝖺𝗌𝗍 𝗎𝗇𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌𝖾

[ Even though the last thing on Poe's mind right now is taking the not so subtle suggestions from his new device, or the robots that he's been running into, texts from him are floating around out there. They're a lot like ones he would send, if he was in the mood but he definitely didn't write these, and they could end up absolutely anywhere. Well, it's one way to break the ice, isn't it? ]

1. Actually some of skills are useful in the bedroom too, if you know what I mean. I'm good with my hands.

2. I'm not the kind of guy who turns down a challenge. What have you got?

3. [ or maybe you got a kink bingo card from him rather than an unsolicited text ]

𝖺 𝗐𝗁𝗈𝗅𝖾 𝗇𝖾𝗐 𝗐𝗈𝗋𝗅𝖽?

[ As far as Poe can tell the place that they've all been dropped into has a bad part of town and a worse part of town. Some of the buildings around them are crumbling, so unstable that it looks like a stiff breeze could make them collapse, but some of the others look more salvageable. Those are the ones he's focusing on, looking for something that would work as an impromptu base of sorts while he tries to sort all of this out. Out under the stars and the moonlight it's not too difficult to navigate, but inside the buildings it tends to be dark, at least until he can find some kind of rudimentary but functional lighting. He does have a light of his own, which he's sweeping around in front of him, and BB-8's helping with the brightest beams that he can muster.

Anyone in the general vicinity would be able to overhear their conversation. It's all beeps and ponderous warbling from the droid, but Poe clearly understands exactly what every one of those noises mean. ]

Yeah, I know, I don't like it either but this might be our best bet for now until we can — wait.

[ He just heard something, he's almost certain. Another recent arrival? ]

I thought you already scanned for life forms. [ Ignoring BB-8's immediate protest for now, something about interference on his scans, Poe shines his light around the corner, trying to pinpoint exactly who - or what- he's dealing with here. He's not reaching for his blaster yet. ] Hey, don't shoot, we're just looking around.

𝖺 𝗐𝗂𝗅𝖽𝖼𝖺𝗋𝖽 𝖺𝗉𝗉𝖾𝖺𝗋𝗌!

[ Feel free to toss something else my way! texts, action prompts, whatever floats ya boat! ]

shining shimmering splendid? | hope this is okay!

[revvedup]

[ in bb-8's defense, max is capable of making no noise at all if she doesn't want to. she does while approaching because based on what she'd heard, they're in the same situation she is - trying to find somewhere to hole up for the night while they try to process what's happened to them and figure out their next steps. it's a little too close to her training for comfort, but they're in enemy territory, or at least unfamiliar.

it's probably for the best he doesn't reach for his blaster; max is unarmed and not looking for a fight, but she's definitely on edge. both her hands are held up as she approaches, not too close, but close enough for him to see her a little better. ]

Yeah, so am I. [ her eyes focus on him and there's a brief flash of recognition when she sees his face, but she doesn't call him by name yet. who knows if he remembers where they'd been? ]

it's perfect also hello c:

[withinreach]

[ Poe's aware that walking around pointing a weapon at tense, possibly scared, possibly on edge fellow strandees would be a fairly poor way to get to know people, to say the least. So he stifles the flickers of paranoia that have settled in as he's been exploring this eerily abandoned town, especially when he's not met with hostility. He doesn't recognize the face staring back at him in the dim light, but it does sound like someone else in the same situation. Not one of those robots, not someone who was here before who probably would have some mixed feelings about all these strangers stomping around.

She's even going so far as to show him her empty hands, so he can do the same, though he's not putting the flashlight down he's spreading his arms out slightly, holding it loosely to show that it's the only thing he's brandishing, and even that's not pointed directly at her. He doesn't want to get off on the wrong foot here if he can avoid it. ]

Sorry, I guess I should have knocked?

[ BB-9's peering around Poe's legs, quiet for the moment, but something about the tilt of his head definitely looks curious. ]

hi! c: she knew him in another game.

[revvedup]

[ it doesn't take her long to realize that even if this is the same person she'd known in new amsterdam, he doesn't remember having been there, which is a little disappointing but hardly his fault. she lowers her hands once he makes a similar gesture, her eyes falling briefly to the droid peering at her from behind his legs before going back to his face. ]

On what door? [ it's sort of a joke, but not really, since the structures she's seen so far tend to look more ruins than buildings. ]

yay for awkward times ahead

[withinreach]

[ It might not be exactly comedy gold, but Poe exhales a huff of a laugh anyway, his expression acknowledging the point. She's got him there. It's just nice when his attempts at a similarly flippant tone are appreciated, rather than garnering blank stares. It's a start.

What else can a person do when they're thrown into an impossible situation? ]

I don't know about you, but we haven't found much of anything useful in any of these buildings yet. It seems like whoever lived here before must have just packed up and left a long time ago.

[ There's no signs of a struggle, not that he's seen. No scorch marks, no suspicious holes in the walls or stains, it's just like the people that were here vanished. Maybe kind of like how they appeared. It's hard to say. And the local robots aren't exactly helpful. Still, all things considered this could be a whole lot worse. He doesn't feel like he's in a thinly veiled prison, for one thing. Or a not-at-all veiled prison. No one's tried to stop him from going anywhere yet, aside from turning right back to the hospital that he unceremoniously ushered out of several hours ago. ]

can't wait!

[revvedup]

[ she doesn't exactly smile, but her mouth does curve slightly upward at the laughter - that hadn't been her intention, but it still feels good to hear someone else do it, even when she doesn't feel capable of it herself. ]

I haven't been looking that long, but that's about the conclusion I've come to, too.

[ she's noticed the same lack of struggle he has, along with a lack of concern for radiation or significant destruction - everything she's seen thus far appears to be in an advanced state of disrepair, but there's not a clear reason why. all she's heard is that they were brought here to help restore it. she's been doing her best not to think too hard about how they're meant to restore it. ]

[withinreach]

I wonder if they stripped these places down before we got here.

[ There's no way to know for sure. The robots haven't been giving up any answers, when he's been able to pin one down at all, and he has no way of prying anything out of them, even with BB-8's help. But he's too stubborn to give up too quickly, even if he's recognizing that figuring out exactly where they are and why they're here is probably going to be more of a long term project than something they're going to figure out in a day or two.

Which is just his kind of luck lately. ]

So where did they drag you in from?

[ This isn't his first time being unceremoniously dropped off onto an alien planet. So he's taking it about as well as could be reasonably expected. ]

texts from last universe; kink bingo card edition

[covertness]

i love that they count cuddling as a kink here

[ a nice way of telling him that his card got sent out. incidentally also the truth. ]

[withinreach]

[ it probably says something that he's not even all that embarrased at this point ]

unless there's some trick to it that we just don't know?

[covertness]

i hope not
but i'm sure there's ways to ruin a good cuddle

[withinreach]

you can also turn it into something else if all participants have the same idea
maybe that's what they're talking about? or cuddling afterward?

[covertness]

there is that
but maybe they really just mean cuddling
that wouldn't be so terrible

[withinreach]

well sure, who doesn't like cuddling?
kind of awkward with a stranger, but there are worse ways to get to know someone

a whole new world

[aprilshadows]

[ well, what's waiting for poe behind the wall isn't really a gun, per se, but the only warning that poe will get is his light glinting off a knife that's suddenly brandished in his direction.

thankfully it's not enough to actually stab anything, but it sure is a close call. ]

......

[ but since poe isn't reaching for his blaster and what's shining in his face is clearly just a light, chikage blinks a couple of times before he

lowers his knife just a little bit.

just enough so that it's not an overt threatening motion. ]

Ah. Sorry about that. I thought I heard intruders and I wasn't entirely sure if you were hostile.

[withinreach]

[ Poe will take another step back just to instigate a little more space between them. He's not afraid, even when faced with a situation that could be dangerous, he's also just very committed to not being unnecessarily stabbed. There's definitely nothing much to fight over around here, as far as he can tell. Just bare rooms and the occasional piece of dusty, broken down furniture. ]

It's fine, I didn't know someone was already in here. Hard to tell with these places.

[ They all look unoccupied, at best. A lot of them apparently don't even have electricity, which isn't all that surprising given the state of things. But Poe's not looking for a place to stay right now, he's looking for whatever answers these places might have, since the robots aren't giving many up.

Without much luck, honestly. ]

Have you run into any hostiles around here?

[aprilshadows]

Not hurt, are you?

[ it's asked with a wry smile, especially in the first instance. thankfully, chikage will do the same, so there's a comfortable amount of space between them, and so that it's clearly visible when chikage flips the blade of his pocket knife back into the holder and then drops the whole thing back into the pocket of his jacket. ]

Thankfully, no. Mostly people who were looking for shelter before the weather turned.

What about you? ... Honestly, I would have thought there would be more bandits or that sort around the area since it looks like a prime location.

[ speaking from Experience, maybe. ]

[withinreach]

Me? I'm fine.

[ For some given value of 'fine,' but that's got nothing to do with any injuries he might have picked uo while poking around these places. He's just got a lot on his mind at the moment. A lot of questions without answers. It's not like that's anything unique though, they're all going through that to one degree or another. Even the people who have been through something like this before. ]

If there was anything out here worth stealing maybe, yeah, I'd expect that too. But as far as I can tell there isn't anything here in town, and nothing too close on the edge of the city, so maybe it's just too remote to be useful.

[ Yeah, he... might have some Experience there too. ]

Have you met anyone you recognize?

TLFU 2

[underachievement]

A fist that hits like a wrecking ball and issues with sobriety. How about you, hotshot?

[withinreach]

I think that was in reference to the cards, but fair enough
I've got a blaster and too much work to do to be stuck in a junkheap like this
but this might be better than the last one at least

[underachievement]

Those are on the card, just not in so many words.

This happen to you a lot?

[withinreach]

just a couple of times, but it feels like it's becoming a habit

what about you?

[underachievement]

Yes and no. The star trek shit is a novel touch.

You really buy that this isn't earth?

[withinreach]

I'm not convinced it isn't. But I'd probably be equally far from home either way.

So you've never met an alien before?

TEXTS FROM... last night?

[gossipkinesis]

fuck your hands, how's your mouth?

[withinreach]

[ well this is... one way to start a conversation ]

not to brag or anything, butI get a lot of positive feedback on that too