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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

holeyjudgment: (Single-Minded)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-19 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That's worrying, but it's probably good to see her honesty instead of a false smile. ]

Some have, I think, been here for nearly a year. They say that time passes differently here, but I hope that's not just wishful thinking.
snipers: (➼ manga; 139.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-20 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, there's definitely no hiding the surprise on her features now; ] A whole year?!

[ oh my god?? oh my god. what the heck. how is that possible??

she's quiet for a moment before asking the pertinent question: ]


So ... I take it no one's found a way to get home, huh?
holeyjudgment: (Chosen)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-20 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
It seems that way. I'm pretty worried, but... there's not much to do for it.

[ Colette, certainly, can't really do anything. ]

No one's figured it out yet.
snipers: (➼ manga; 023.)

1/2

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-20 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ muttering: ] Great... That's just. Super.

[ uuhghghghgg ]
snipers: (➼ manga; 015.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-20 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ well, yukari just got here, and if nothing else she is extremely bullheaded (in more ways than one), so she'll give it a shot. there's absolutely nothing to convince her that she can succeed where others have failed other than sheer force of will but by god, she will hold onto that with both hands.

relalizing, belatedly, that she's been standing there in angry silence for a few moments, yukari turns her attention back to colette. this girl has been nothing but helpful, so yukari will pack her anger away and direct it toward something more deserving of her rage.

like... say.. this next question: ]


Hey, um. [ but her ears go red from embarrassment, and she feels heat slowly crawl up her neck to flush her face ] It's not... like this all the time, is it?

[ you know. pornographic. but yukari can't say that otherwise she'd die on the spot ]
holeyjudgment: (Little Pickpocket)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-20 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Eventually there will be enough brains and forces of will to figure this out! Colette will be on board for sure. Still... still.

This world is clearly not yet recovered. ]


Oh...

[ Colette blushes slightly, but it clearly doesn't get to her as hard as Yukari - not any more at least. ]

W-well... it's encouraged... really really often?
snipers: (➼ manga; 062.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-20 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh you gotta be kidding me!

[ oh crap that sure did echo in the empty chamber of the spa's interior, and yukari quickly covers her mouth... though it doesn't do much to hide the blush still clinging to her cheeks. ]
holeyjudgment: (Oblivious)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-20 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Colette shrinks away slightly at the volume - not that it's unexpected, but the downsides of superhuman senses... ]

Sorry. It's... supposed to somehow... help fix this world, in some way.
snipers: lost fanart credit, please PM! (➼ fanart; 04.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-20 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ yukari feels even worse seeing colette flinch like that, and though her usually unbridled emotions are boiling under the surface she tries her best not to shriek like that again. ]

And how's it supposed to do that, huh?! [ it's a tense whisper, leaning close to the other girl to make sure that no one can impose upon them. ] Does anyone have any proof?
holeyjudgment: (pic#14607862)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-20 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I've seen so many strange things that I can't completely disbelieve it... there's evidence of more and more functions being made available here over time. Even the sun didn't come out for months apparently.

[ Her whisper a little less subtle. ]

It's hard to find really sure proof, but it's a lot of trouble to lie to us if that's the case.
snipers: (➼ manga; 001.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-20 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the... sun?

oh boy.

that's kind of a lot, isn't it? yukari leans against a wall, crossing her arms and casting a suspicious eye at the robots, wanting to circumvent them telling her to Get Cleaning so she can ask more questions. ]


...What else should I know?
holeyjudgment: (Holy Judgment)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-21 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's a lot. It's really complicated. ]

Well... you'll be able to find food in a lot of different ways. Housing as well. There are some dangerous creatures if you wander out of the... town... area. Other than that it's quite safe.

You should... find people you trust to do sexual things with, if you can, though.
snipers: (➼ manga; 159.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-21 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ her cheeks go red again as her mind goes "hdsjfsdf". ]

Yeah, like that's gonna happen.
holeyjudgment: (Self-Control)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-22 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh... w-well I don't want to pretend to know you better than you know yourself, but... l-lots of people, um, say things like that and... well...

[ Cough cough. ]
snipers: (➼ manga; 023.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-22 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh that...

that makes a sick feeling twist in yukari's stomach. immediately she jumps to the worst possible conclusion because if this girl can't say it, it's gotta be Bad. ]


Are... Are you trying to say they force people into stuff?
holeyjudgment: (Single-Minded)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-24 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You... can't really avoid being influenced towards it, at least.

[ There's not much to be done about it, short of locking yourself in your room forever, and Colette knows it. ]
snipers: (➼ manga; 125.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-25 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ locking herself in her room and avoiding everyone sounds like the best plan where can she find a room to lock herself in??? ]

... [ now she's embarrassed and mad, but she refuses to let loose on this other girl who's only sin is being the one to tell yukari about all of this. ] ...Dammit.

[ a beat ]

Hey, does anyone know where this "Augur" thing I heard about is?
holeyjudgment: (Tiny Angel)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-27 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
...you probably shouldn't try fighting it on your own.

[ If it can alter reality around here you'll need an endgame party after going through a bunch of character development! ]
snipers: (➼ manga; 071.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-05-30 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ luckily yukari has just come from the moments before her final battle!! she's got this. ]

You wanna help?

[ is she serious???? ]
holeyjudgment: (Oblivious)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-05-31 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I... have a feeling it'll take more than two of us, as well.

[ But if Yukari marches off on her own, Colette will feel obligated to follow. ]
snipers: (➼ manga; 120.)

[personal profile] snipers 2021-06-02 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thankfully yukari is only semi-serious. she knows very well the necessary party members for taking on something that can manipulate the mind, body, and physical space around you. she's just also... very frustrated by this whole thing.

plus, she's not a leader. ]


Yeah, prolly.

[ but hey, if they ever construct that party... ]

This just sucks.
holeyjudgment: (Angelic Maiden)

[personal profile] holeyjudgment 2021-06-10 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ They need a few more people - and a leader. Colette might be less of one than Yukari. ]

It's... unfortunate.