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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 |
Cassius | Granblue Fantasy
[There are no solid answers to the questions that arise in his head and these machines aren’t very helpful either. Cassius has a feeling they must be malfunctioning. And a simple, soft piece of fabric is not enough to remedy the uncomfortable wetness of his clothes and armor.]
My body needs at least twenty of these to become even remotely dry. [He wraps the single towel he has now around his waist.] The wetness of my clothes have significantly slowed down my movements and is causing the temperature of my body to drop. The lower it becomes, the less my body will be able to function properly. [Yet, the robots do not seem to be the listening kind. In fact, even before Cassius can overload their circuits with even more questions, they usher him towards another building called The Laid Bare Spa.
Even though there is a slightest hint of curiosity about this spa he decides that it’s completely illogical to seek out relaxation at a point like this. So he turns away, wet clothes and all and goes out to do some exploring.]
Throw in a Towel?
[While others are doing their work Cassius is the one who fusses with his toga. It’s too long and not at all suitable for the tasks given to him.]
Hmm… [He can be caught hiking the fabric up and making knots to prevent it from dragging over te floor. Anyone who approaches him is greeted with an analysis over why all of this is illogical and beyond rationality.]
…I do not particularly dislike the work that has to be done, after all, the credits earned will make it able to purchase food… [And oh, how he would like to get some ramen. And how he would like it to see his friends.] …yet this costume is ill-fitted and restraints my movements. It is completely illogical to ask of us to work wearing this. [Cassius silences briefly so he can roll up the back of his toga and tuck it away. And no, he isn’t really bothered by all the nudity that surrounds him. It hasn’t escaped him that this particular island focuses a lot on sex but then again, it seems to be quite a wasteland, it is very logical to promote reproduction.]
Bare naked Amusement Tour
[Well, these are new. Oh, and those are new as well. It seems that this is the place where this entire reproduction campaign reaches a certain height but in the face of all these food stalls it does not really matter.
Of course, the most logic course of action would be finding a way back to the Grancypher but at times Cassius does not mind to dip his toe in all that is irrational and outside the box. He has noticed that such things are rather fun and fun is definitely a part of the new life he has envisioned for himself.
So all the credits he earned cleaning at the Laid Bare Spa are spent on food and a ride on the ferris wheel (alas, he isn’t dressed in less). And maybe it is because of the fact that the food he has been eating seems to have a certain intoxicating effect that it is much easier to win this sort of phallic shaped contraption after participating in sort of shooting game.]
Hmm…fascinating… [Cassius takes his time to admire the pink toy he has won and the package that comes with it. He wonders if it would truly be a logical addition to his possessions, though. And he also wonders what it means that it has ‘three different speeds’. It doesn’t seem like an object that could have speeds. It seems rather solid in shape.
So yeah, there’s definitely a weird pale man from the Moon standing in the middle of a path admiring the vibrator he just won.]
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But no, no... No.
She is faced with something so mortifying she can't be sure she isn't dreaming it.
Is that Cassius?
Is Cassius HERE?
Is he on this sex pervert island for real?
Is he holding a pink plastic dick in the middle of the walkway?
It's all of her will not to leave her body and escape this mortal coil. She charges over and tries to rip it out of his hands.]
C-CASSIUS? When did you get here ? Why didn't you message me? What is this, where'd you get it? Did someone give this thing to you?!
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Hm?
[Right before she wants to grab the fantastic prize he has won he turns away, keeping it out of her reach. Despite that he smiles.]
I think this is a good moment to tell you that it is good to see you. [A pause.] It is good to see you too, Beatrix. [Then he cocks his head a little to the left while he lowers his arm, eyes flashing between the prize he has won and Beatrix' face.] Does this object offend you? Shouldn't it be in my possession? It resembles the male reproductive organ, yet the color is too bright.
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This place is hell. Total hell! She can already see the questions he's going to ask flashing before her. She would be shocked if he knows anything about... anything. And especially not about a vibrator. Even her knowledge is pretty limited!
This is too much. She presses against his shoulder and laments her height disadvantage as she stretches her arm out, trying in vain to nab it again. ]
It's good to see you too, but... but--
[ She settles down some when he lowers his arms, red from her nose to her ears and frowning at him. ]
I know, I know what it looks like! And that's why you shouldn't just, like, hold it up for everyone to see. I can't tell you what you can and can't have as far as... something like that goes, you're an adult, but that's -- er, it's offensive, like you said. Put it away somewhere!
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How is this offensive? [Cassius moves to point out a nearby stall selling inflatable things shaped like penises. And oh, there's that other stall over there selling penises on a stick. In fact, there are a lot of phallic shapes in this park. Being offended by them is truly illogical.] Is it merely its shape? Or what it represents? [Hold on. He has a thought here.] Hmm...very fascinating. [Cassius has never truly gotten a chance to overthink the matter of reproduction. He has always been a soldier, nothing else, really.]
Does it serve as a replacement?
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She groans miserably, covering her face with her hands as Cassius starts making note of all the fake cocks they are surrounded by in this amusement park that should have never seen the light of day.
This is cruel. She needs another soak in the hot springs, consequences be damned. ]
All of it, Cassius! All of it! Just because this place is weird, don't start thinking it's normal to just wave that kind of thing about.
[ She's going to pass out her face is so red. ]
Aaaah GOSH, yes! Basically! Basically, that's what it is... it's a sex toy, Cassius. You use it for that. That's why it's weird to have it out in the open to normal people!
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They seem common here. It could be part of their culture. These beings seem to have a strong wish to survive. And to survive is to procreate and prosper. I will keep it in the open for now.
[Plastic dong stays where it is, Beatrix. Yet, the question remains what he is going to do with a bright pink replacement-penis. It does not seem relevant to him, he has one of his own after all.]
It seems the chance to be exposed to phallic objects is rather big here. [He glances at Beatrix and notices how flustered she is by all this.] My advice is to get used to them [But he is not done, oh no.] Can you tell me where I can find the 'speeds' on this sex toy? [He points at the package wrapped around it, and more specifically, those promised 3 sorts of speeds.]
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At least this is better than dealing with the Eustace Awareness she has, but only marginally. ]
That's because it's weird, here... so many things are sex-oriented, it's totally strange. It's like a pervert's playground because of what they want us to... do. Y'know?
[ Actually, does he know? Clearly, he gets the procreation aspect of it. That's a dangerous amount of information for Cassius if that's all it is. Too many gaps for him to fill in with his 'logic'. She almost huffs at his 'advice' before the next question hits her. She makes a face, morbidly curious but full of dread. ]
... Why do you want to know?
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If it is something you do not want to do, you do not do it. I believe that is what Fossildwellers mean when they speak about 'having a choice'. [To Cassius himself all of this merely is something that does not apply to him. He has made his own choices, burned certain bridges and is planning to stick with that.]
Hmm...I fail to see the connection between a replacement penis and speed. Penises are not quite known for speed. [At least, his own isn't going anywhere or anything.] Is it something that is required when it comes to impregnating a female?
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She's torn between wanting to cry and wanting to laugh at his question. He, of course, has confused what kind of 'speed' it means. The image of this little pink vibrator zooming around a race track does not escape her imagination, but it's definitely in there, regrettably.
Beatrix shakes her head. ]
It's not like an airship, Cassius. It... vibrates. So, um, the faster the speed, the faster it vibrates... see? [ How does she summon Eustace here to take her place in this moment. She feels like a guy should be explaining this instead of her!! But, here she is, feeling responsible for him again. The more he knows, the less trouble he'll get into. ] And no, it's got nothing to do with that. Like, it's not like an actual penis vibrates, it just... er... y'know... um...
[ She cannot spit it out. She can only hide her face as if she can hide from her own words here. ]
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Hmm. [He nods slowly. There is no reason to question her answer, yet why does this thing vibrate? Do Fossildwellers prefer penises to vibrate? Or...hold on, it seems she is already answering a big part of his question. Yet not everything.]
I understand your answer about how its speed correlates with the vibrations it can make. Still, since a penis is unable to vibrate I wonder why this replacement toy does. [He pauses briefly just so he can look around once more.]
I do not know.
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She's dealt with much worse than being a sex ed teacher in her life, so she should buck up!
This is mortifying though, absolutely! Can her reputation handle this? And what if he blabs and someone gets the wrong impression about her! She's an adult! Of course she knows about these things at this point, but she's never been able to wrangle her own embarrassment. ]
It's -- n-not everyone has sex for procreation, y'know, Cassius. It's, um... ugh, how do I put this? It's so weird to talk about, why do you have to-- no, no it's not your fault, anyway.
Um, y'know! It, er... it... it feels good, I guess. That's the best way to put it? I guess...
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When she is done stammering he blinks.]
Is that it? [Now he still doesn't know why the pink replacement penis vibrates but it is also lost to him why she finds it difficult to express something she enjoys. For Fossildwellers it isn't difficult to enjoy something and express that.] Your response is illogical to me. [That's the best way to put it, really.]
Do you use this to enhance that what feels good about it? Is that why it vibrates?
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[ This is becoming more and more the worst thing she's ever had to talk about. Can't she go back to teaching him about food or how to avoid getting stung by jellyfish at the beach?
By the skies, how does she explain this in a way that won't make her drop dead where she stands? ]
L-Listen, Cassius, it's not like I've really used one! Y'know! [ If she has, it doesn't matter. She will lie about it if she's stuck here in public discussing this. ] But, it's ... I guess... Ah, jeez! Yeah! I guess! That's the best way to put it. That's what it does.
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Yet, he can conclude that this pink vibrating replacement is not going to do anything for him. After all, he does not have places to put it in. At least, not the sort of places females have.]
If this object is meant to make you feel good I think it will be more useful when it is in your possession. [So he moves to offer her the vibrator.] Here. You may take it.
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And then he tips the vibrator her way.
And offers it to her.
And she puffs up like a true Hellcat with her voice going up an octave as she waves her hand frantically. ]
Nononono! I don't want it, Cassius, no... no! Just go give it back already, please!
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It is a mere vibrating pink penis. [The tone of his voice is neutral but there's a slightly exasperated undertone there.] You behave as if I am giving you something that threatens your life. [He sighs.] Very well, I will yield to your illogical emotional outburst and keep it for myself.
[He tucks the vibrator away and looks at Beatrix. Maybe it is a good idea to steer this conversation away from offensive phallic shapes and fake penises.]
How long have you been here?
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[ At least he's opted to keep it and tucks it out of view. She's exhausted already. She lets out a short sigh and frowns. ]
About a month now, I guess. I'm just glad you didn't come in the middle of a storm like I did. Are you okay, though? They didn't hurt you or anything, right?
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Hmmm...they are rather public about it here. [Once again he gestures at all the little stands signs that encourage to enter this area without clothes. And then there's this other thing.] The food I have purchased here is barely nutritious and the flavors are barely a surprise on my tongue. [Nowhere near that particular apple he once had. What a spectacular combination of sweetness and crunchiness that has been! Not even to mention ramen.]
I am fine. My body functions normally. I am without injuries. [Yet, he isn't entirely sure why he feels a little lightheaded.] Hm...are there other places worth visiting?
arrival;
Still, it's nothing Lucio can't fix, though he greets him first with a jaunty wave, small wings fluttering as he floats down from one of his usual haunts in the trees. ]
Greetings...Cassius, was it? It's a pleasure to formally meet you. I am one of the Captain's many crew members. You may call me Lucio.
[ He holds his hand out after, having grown accustomed to that casual manner of greeting since his arrival. Hopefully, the moondweller will not think him too strange and reject his friendliness. ]
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Yes. [Cassius nods, recognizing the other. He knows that the grumpiness of the Grandcypher's ill-tempered coffeemaker significantly grows when this man is around. A small, somewhat polite smile appears around his lips. He knows that gesture, a Fossildweller's kind of greeting.] This is where I say that it is good to meet you as well... [He shakes Lucio's hand shortly before letting go.] ...it is good to meet you. [He pauses briefly.] Maybe you can provide me with the information I need. [And boy, he needs quite some information at this point because he has a hunch that this isn't the Sky Realm anymore.]
Where am I?
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You have washed up on the shores of Erku, a land under the efficient guidance of a super-computer, the Augur. In order for the land to flourish once more, we have been instructed by the Augur and its over-affectionate robot army to fulfil a card detailing many curious acts of intimacy.
[ He activates his device to show Cassius. ]
I have yet to derive how cages and tickling are to be used to create pleasure, so I am afraid my knowledge can only guide you so far. I also do not know if there any punishments for complete abstinence.
[ The island has its own unique ways of getting what it wants, and aphrodisiacs are always waiting hidden in good food, in the water, in the trees, in the plants... he's not even sure what to properly warn Cassius of first. ]
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Fascinating? Absolutely! Completely illogical and without any proper explanation? Definitely! After a short moment of silence he finally speaks.
There is a lot to unpack here.]
I understand the certain encouragement to procreate. After all, for a land to flourish, life is needed. [His eyes narrow a little when he gazes at this 'card'.] A cage is indeed an illogical choice, yet, if the cage is large enough to fit two beings in it, it might be able to work. Needles, however.
[Finally he steps back a little.]
Is the Captain here as well?
[That would help a lot, actually.]
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I am afraid he did not accompany us on this venture. From our own world, only Beatrix, Eustace, and myself remain. You will find yourself well-accompanied once your paths cross.
[ Which is the best consolation he can provide. Cassius will never be alone in this world -unless the three of them were to suddenly leave. Hopefully, that won't be the case -or that they all leave together so no one is left to suffer the dregs of this island by themself. ]
And rest assured, procreation is only limited to allowing the land to grow and prosper. I have not seen any children come from such unions.
[ He's not even sure if Moondwellers are able to reproduce sexually, but he's just putting that out there in case it's a pressing concern. ]