ercookies | TDM 002

TDM 002: IF FOUND PLEASE RETURN TO

( 1 ) Around mid-morning, a message from the Augur appears on bracelets all across the city. "New organisms discovered. Domestication in progress."

The wark of a chocobo rises up from the outskirts of the city. Several more join in, forming a charming chorus. And, strangely, this is when new arrivals begin to show up.

Beamed in one at a time, scanned en masse, they are processed just as the first wave was. There's one major difference: whereas the old guard was given their bracelets and ushered into the City, the new folks are also given... collars.

Buckled, snapped, or otherwise fastened around their necks, a variety of colorful collars with some rather unusual novelty pet tags. (These are just a few suggestions. The typical “If found, please return to ____” is also very much acceptable.)

"You are new organisms. Domestication in progress. Compatible Eros energy will complete domestication."

No matter how hard they try, characters cannot take the collars off by themselves. They need a partner's help - but not just anyone will do. It very well might be the first person they find, or it might take several tries.

The robots grow bolder as the day grows on, targeting characters who aren't new, as well.

"Y̶o̶u̴ ̸a̷r̸e̷ ̵o̵r̵g̶a̴n̷i̷s̶m̸s̶.̶ ̶D̷o̶m̴e̴s̶t̶i̶c̵a̸t̶i̸o̴n̸ ̷i̵n̸ ̴p̸r̶o̵g̷r̵e̷s̵s̷."

Their antics die down by nightfall, but for the next day or two, the occasional malfunctioning 'bot may accost someone in the street, so stay on your toes!

( 2 ) An abandoned racetrack lights up the night. That's right: place your bets, folks, because these birds are about to run around a track while robots sell synthetic, overpriced aphro-popcorn.

...Did you say priced?

That’s right! If you participated in the orgy earlier this month, you'll find you have a stash of credits accessible in your app.

You've fucked money back into the world, so why not waste it?

(Opportunities to earn credits will come up periodically and won't always be sexual in nature, so don't worry if your character wouldn't have any yet.)

And if you don't have credits to bet with, why not get creative?

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[ Wait, you can do that? How can one do that? He tries it himself, and anyone with magical ability or psychic powers could probably hear (and see) a zipper manifesting where his fingers are, as he tries to zip a portal in a nearby wall. Literally. There's a magical soul zipper involved.

He succeeds, but only manages to make one that's the size of his fist. ]

Well, that's not fair. [ He sighs, facing the woman. ] Does that take most of your abilities, or is that just a fraction of your power?

[ Because normally he'd have a dimensional zipper open by now. ]

[ Yes, she can most certainly do that. What does stop Yennefer in her tracks is the little magic show the ostentatiously ornamented young man with...segmented metal out of thin air? It wasn't the minor teleportation that caught her eye but the strange way the conjured metal worked.

Zipper, how do they work? ]

Most things aren't, but I'm not a cheap purse. You cannot just upend me and spill all my magic out. [ She answered, cooly. Also not strictly true but no sense is revealing a potential weakness to a perfect stranger. ]

[ Zippers work like magnets in a way that Bruno can't explain how, he just knows they work. Don't expect too much from him, he never finished grade school. ]

I'll take your word for it. [ He's also going to take that as haughty magic talk for yes, she can do more than magical portals. He zips the hole in the wall shut. ]

It does seem like a very convenient way to travel.

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