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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[tombom]

It's Bellamy.

And it's fine. I think mine is too since it sent out this stupid virtual flower to someone earlier without my permission 🍆

[ A flower - that's what the other guy he was talking to mistook the aubergine for and Bellamy figured was right. Clary might want to correct him... ]

[biscuity]

[ God help her, Clary's brain briefly flashes to what it would sound like to moan that name. Thanks, robots, for even putting the idea in her head... ]

That definitely isn't a flower.
It's an eggplant. And usually, it's used to suggest certain... male body parts.
If you get what I mean.

[tombom]

[ Keep thinking about it and it might become a reality, Clary...

He's not the type to feel embarrassed about his mistake and opts for rolling his eyes at the stupidity of it all instead. ]

I understand. Thanks for putting me right.

You sound familiar with these pictures. So people send them instead of just saying what they want?

1/2

[biscuity]

[ Don't make promises you don't intend to keep, Bellamy. ]

Not everyone, but yeah, it's a fairly common practice.
Sometimes the pictures actually mean what they are, too, the eggplant just got the short end of the stick.

[biscuity]

[ A few moments later, realizing she never told him her name, she sends a second text. ]

Oh, and I'm Clary, by the way.
Figured it'd only fair if you know my name as well.

[tombom]

Poor eggplant. Codes can be useful but one for the purpose of getting laid? Not my style.

[ Sheesh, this guy needs to lighten up, right? Possibly he's spent too long in serious leader mode to know how to switch it off. ]

I'm sure the Augur would approve of us knowing each other's names for all the moaning it wants us to do.

[biscuity]

I'm actually a little surprised we're not all sporting name tags for that exact reason.

[ Of course, that would eliminate the possibility of anonymous sex with a stranger, so... ]

This whole sex bingo thing is really weird, don't you think?
At the very least, it puts a completely different spin on the idea of bingo night.

[tombom]

I'll have to take your word for it. Never played it. Or heard of it. But I sure as hell find it weird.

[biscuity]

You've seriously never played Bingo? Even in grade school?

[ She distinctly remembers playing it as a "studying technique" but really was just all about the candy prizes. ]

[tombom]

I think our school experiences might be different. Mine was in space.

Are you from Earth?

[biscuity]

Whoa, really?
That is so cool.

[ Simon would geek out over that so hard if he were here. ]

I am, yeah. New York specifically, if that means anything to you.

[ Which is a round-about way of asking if he's familiar with any details of Earth. ]

[tombom]

Why do you think it's cool? [ He's curious to know an outsider's perspective. ]

I've read about it. The city that never slept... You're really from there? It doesn't exist anymore. Not where I'm from.

[biscuity]

Space travel isn't even accessible for regular people back home.
The idea of actually LIVING out there? We're not even close to that.
And I guess I just like the idea of being completely surrounded by stars.

[ Honestly, it'd be a cool trip to take, but Clary isn't sure she'd like to live up there permanently, were she given the option. ]

I am. New Yorker, born and bred. I even consider bagels to be one of the most important food groups.

[ It's a joke, one he probably won't get... ]

Do you know what happened to it?

[tombom]

Surrounded by stars all the time? Not as romantic as you think.

Two words: nuclear apocalypse.

[biscuity]

Maybe it's just the novelty of it that makes it appealing.

[ Just like she would imagine someone living in space being super excited about the idea of living on Earth - or another planet - instead. ]

I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not.

[tombom]

Probably. The norm for me is special for you and vice versa.

It just occurred to me that maybe I've lost my mind since that would make more sense than me talking to someone from a city that was destroyed almost a hundred years ago. But then I'd have to accept my mind came up with this place. [ And he'd rather not consider himself that disturbed. ]

[biscuity]

[ It's a possibility, but why would his mind make up someone who thinks they're their own person who also could've lost their mind? Because Clary certainly feels like she, too, could be crazy. ]

How do you explain the existence of the bingo cards if you don't even know what the game is?

[tombom]

Fair point.

You sound too smart for my brain to come up with.

[biscuity]

Thanks, I think.

[ She can't quite tell if that's a compliment. ]

I have to admit, though, the whole being kidnapped and multiple different universes?
Not really any more comforting than either us going insane.

[tombom]

[ It's meant to be a compliment. ]

It's not, but think of this as a temporary situation. We'll get through it and before you know it, we'll be out of here.

[ Ever the optimist. ]

[biscuity]

It'll probably take a city-wide orgy for them to let us all go.

[ She's partly joking, but considering some of the things on her card? She wouldn't be surprised. ]

[tombom]

[ That gets a snort out of him. ]

There's a first time for everything, I guess. I've been with two people at once, why not twenty?

[ He's joking, too. Partly. If he has to fuck his way out of here... Well, better to fuck than kill people. ]

[biscuity]

[ Clary's a little impressed, honestly. ]

I think I'd need to ease into that, but you knock yourself out.
I'm sure the robots will approve.

[tombom]

[ So were the girls, he imagines, since it happened more than once. ]

Easing into an orgy or a threesome? Or both?

Screw the robots. Not literally.

[biscuity]

How lame is it if I say both?