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TDM 013: BARING IT ALL
| TDM 013: BARING IT ALL |
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. THROW IN A TOWEL? Erku's new arrivals may be encouraged to seek out the Laid Bare Massage & Spa for some specialized attention and relaxation, but they and long-time inhabitants will also be offered a chance to earn credits. Anyone interested in earning robot wages will be tasked with being the resident towel person! You’ll stand inside of the room while the patrons are receiving their massages, hot scrubs, or relaxing in one of the saunas holding towels for them should any be requested. Or you may be asked to help with the regular cleaning of the Spa, wiping down all of the tasteful nude statues to free them of the grime and filth (or… other things) that builds up over time. You might even be asked to help lovingly clean the murals of nude patrons (that is to say, fellow Islanders) all over the Spa. But this is a job that requires a very specific uniform. Robots will provide you with your very own chiton or toga. The chitons happen to be very short, not covering nearly as much as they reveal, but the togas might be entirely too long. They brush or drag along the floor and what with being barely held together with the thinnest and most fanciful of ropes, who knows how often they might be untucked? Take care, please, or else the robots might pull you into being the next model for their latest mural portrait instead. II. GRIN AND BARE IT Erku’s resident mental health professional, Dr. D. Love of Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Therapy Center, has taken a keen interest in ensuring that the relationships of you Islanders are progressing in a productive, healthy, and open-minded fashion. And to ensure this, he’s tasked his robot staff to pay close attention to anyone who looks like they are having trouble with relationships with other people on the Island. And after months of so few (none) clients, these robots are very motivated to seek out people in need of their therapeutic assistance! Arguing with a friend? Telling someone to stay out of your life? Being a hermit who refuses to come out of your apartment? Accidentally bump into each other on the street? Make a joke at your friend’s expense? Playfully punch someone in the shoulder? Walk by someone you don’t know and not tell them hello? Well clearly all of you need help in repairing whatever may be damaging your relationships! Before you know it, you’ve been bundled off by the robots right to Dr. D. Love’s office and sat down to talk it all out. The fact that you may not even know the other person the robots think you need to work your troubles out with doesn’t matter. Dr. D. Love is here to make sure everyone goes home happy and satisfied. You may have to play along with this confusing farcical situation, even making up wrongs and slights you claim you have done to one another before finally coming together in reconciliation. The more you deny there is anything wrong, the more the good Doctor will insist you need even more help than they first thought. They might even have to send you into one of their Privacy Rooms and work out your frustrations with each other with their wide array of therapeutic sexual devices and supplies. III. BARE NAKED AMUSEMENT TOUR The trolley is making its rounds as usual with announcements echoing from the loudspeakers that it’s Bare It All Week at Six Flagellants Amusement Park and to kick it off there will be a grand concert at the Loudinus Outdoor Amphitheater that lasts all week long! Not sure what that means? Well, come to the concert and enjoy hours and hours of music played by robots who seem to have taken their songs right from the pop rock crazes of old. Whose old? Who knows. The music may not be completely to your taste, but something about it may make you feel energized and overly dressed. You might even feel the need to strip down until you’re not wearing anything at all! But don’t worry, the robots performing on stage will give you new clothes to wear by throwing skimpy, sexy underwear and lingerie right at you! How did they know your size? Don’t ask questions, just give into the urge to put it on while you rock out until it’s time for the trolley to take everyone right to the gates of the amusement park! Anyone dressed in less for this week will receive free entry, rides, and food and might even receive special prizes at various booths of sex toys, candies that act as an aphrodisiac (meant for sharing of course), stuffed animals, or even a free sex doll! Those are super hard to win from the ring toss, so you should really take advantage and enjoy all the perks of baring yourself for everyone’s viewing pleasure. N A V I G A T I O N |
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He looks…different. Not just sans shirt but entirely different. No mustache for one. And younger looking. Her face flushed when he mentions how she isn’t distressed. She reaches up and tugs at her collar a little for comfort.
“Well. This place is mostly…nice. And Lan-zongzhu assured me that my presence won’t be missed back home.”
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He folded his arms across his chest, visibly struggled not to ask his next question, and then asked anyway: "I know a little about the future. A-Yao and Xichen have told me some, but I have only been through the first part of Sunshot. How much do you know of it?"
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She bows her head a little at that.
“It was successful. I helped a-Cheng and the others by nursing and looking after the wounded.”
Some nights she still had nightmares of it, remaining sect members that have died of their wounds, young men and women who were taken too soon.
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With another glance at the surrounding amusement park, he continues his...well, it likely feels a little like an interrogation, even though he's mostly just trying to be polite. Leaning one bare shoulder on the side of the game's booth, he asks, "When'd you get to the island?" On its heels, he adds, "And what are you doing here?"
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"Not too long ago."
The interrogation is good, familiar. She knows of how Nie Mingjue can be short and curt yet not mean any harm or ill will. She looks away to not notice his state of undress.
"I...was invited here and the music drew me in. But then...then people were getting swayed by the music." That's a polite way of putting things. Her hand reaches up as if to pull at her collar again but she holds onto her own hands steadfastly. "And they were...getting undressed so I left to see if, perhaps these games were...less salacious."
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Something she expects of the Nie sect leader. Her eyes widen almost comically when he mentions that the rest of the island would see more of her.
"Is that truly how it is here?" she asks, nervous.
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He's case in point and the look he gives her is very wry when he says 'modesty.' He is, after all, wandering around in just his pants with a sword on. To do so would be scandalous even if they were home, though it wasn't entirely unusual for his men to have seen him shirtless once or twice. Here? He honestly should not even be talking to Jiang-guniang.
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She follows the beckon and looks back at the booth. She swallows thickly. Oh, then that meant the candies weren't just candies.
"And those candies would...conspire to strip away all of that as well?" she asks. "How does anyone survive here, then?"
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Folding his arms across his chest, he continues, "As far as I can tell, if you keep to places without obvious danger, you'll survive just fine. All this place wants from us is—"
He shuts his mouth fast before he says something particularly offensive in front of a woman of refinement.
But he still has to actually finish the thought. Because he's not a coward, he goes with clinical: "Sex."
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“Sex,” she echoed weakly.
The candies hadn’t affected her, punch that he threw didn’t faze her. But the fact that it’s sex that makes this world go round makes her swallow thickly.
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He...does not do sympathy well and neither the topic of conversation nor his state of undress lends itself toward sympathetic pats on the shoulder—though he does reach out a hand as if to pat her before he stops himself and changes it to scratch at the back of his neck.
"So." He really didn't have anywhere else to go from there. It is taking all of his dignity not to succumb to the awkwardness any further than he already had. "I can do my best to protect you, but be careful what you consume. Or participate in."
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"I thank you for your offer, Chifeng Zun," she says.
Yanli hesitates before putting her hand on a bicep and smiling up at him.
"I am very fortunate to have one version of my friend here to look after me."
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"I'll do my best, then."
With that, he gestures at the rest of the festivities. "I can start by escorting you, if you would like?"
[OOC: We're nearing a good place to wrap up if you wanna spring for a new thread on this month's mingle/event/etc. :)]