TDM 002

[erkumods]

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? ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● N A V I G A T I O N

Comments

[mutants]

Lot of 80s kids here huh?

[sutures]

Apparently. What other answers did you get to that question?

[mutants]

Just that one, basically.

[sutures]

What kind were you expecting?

[ powered people exist in her world (she's met at least two), but she hasn't heard that term to describe them. ]

[mutants]

Registration. Freedom.

Underground.

pretty dds2 is pre-cacw but who knows

[sutures]

I've heard rumors of registration but not the term mutant going along with it. We have people who are powered in my world, I'm guessing it's something similar?

more importantly who cares

[mutants]

Maybe. What kind of powers?

not me

[sutures]

[ there's a delay here as she determines what exactly to reveal (even if matt, jessica, and luke aren't here, she feels a duty to protect them), but then she figures talking about the avengers is probably pretty safe. hell, one of them just aired their dirty laundry all over the internet. ]

Enhanced strength, transforming into a near invulnerable creature, something that looked like telekinesis when I saw it on the news.

[mutants]

Yeah, something similar.

What's the term where you come from?

[sutures]

Depends on who you're talking about and to. I think enhanced is a popular one.

[mutants]

Wow. Sounds almost positive.

[sutures]

I take it 'mutant' has a way more negative connotation.

[ which was already evident by the term mutant, honestly. ]

Mind if I ask you what you can do?

[mutants]

[ it's easier to craft an offensive diminutive from that's for sure ]

Something that looks like telekinesis.

You're human, I take it?

[sutures]

Yeah. Seem to be living in a hotspot for the enhanced, though.

[mutants]

Where's that?

[sutures]

Hell's Kitchen. Manhattan, New York.

[ after a minute: ]

Earth, if that's a thing I need to specify.

[mutants]

Interesting.

Atlanta, for me. Both where I'm from and America's mutant hotspot on my Earth. [ yep, indeed weird to say. ]

[sutures]

[ weird to hear, too. ]

There wasn't an alien attack or something that made that location the hotspot, was there? [ her guess is not, since mutant implies a genetic mutation. ]

[mutants]

No, we're everywhere. That's just where the fight is.

[ the big symbolic one. every mutant and mutant organization has their own battles, too. to the point that a completely uninhabited island, possibly off the map, would be somewhat appealing if the process of teleporting to and from it were voluntary. ]

[sutures]

Pretty rude of these guys to pull you out of it.

[mutants]

Pretty stupid. There's a lot I have to get back to and not a lot I won't do to make it happen.

first i'm adding words now i'm forgetting html rip me

[sutures]

Even playing their kinky bingo game?

[ she's not judging. a lot of the stuff she's been on the fringes of has been pretty important, and she'd seen how the people involved had taken the idea of walking away from it. if there's an underground involved she's guessing the woman has protection to worry about in addition to fighting. ]

u drunk

[mutants]

That helps them. I don't see how it helps me.

i wish

[sutures]

Maybe we can use it as a bargaining chip? I don't help you unless you help me?

[ it's still uncomfortable to her. none of them asked to be here. ]