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TDM 002
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( 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 |
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Who could ever fall in love with Char Aznable? Even just a memory, just a mirror image... surely it would be just as broken and just as sad.]
Palau's your home base, right?
[Best to focus on logical details, leave the rest behind. But Char won't forget it, that Angelo loves roses and loves his Captain.]
Let's focus on that first. Everything else can wait.
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[ surprised that char isn't insisting on something else more pragmatic. after all, there are certainly better ways of spending their first few credits. he expected char to put up more resistance, but then again, he was the same when he'd asked him about giving up the name.
not his captain. not at all. but .... certain exceptions can be made, and angelo's quietly learning. vicious little dog, new tricks. ]
It makes sense to secure housing first above all things. [ yes, that is most prudent.
he glances at char. the way he responded to that, more of surprise than excitement or anything else close, was because angelo knew the truth: he will not like palau, because his captain didn't like it either. but there wasn't anything else that tied him closer to home. and perhaps this is more for himself than his captain, really, but that's loyalty and that's that manic love that damned angelo the moment he didn't die in the streets back in side 3. fate is funny like that. he'll offer a silent apology later on.
angelo takes out his handkerchief to start wiping his hands with, and a brief glance at char tells him he's still clean, so -- no need to fuss over him for now. ]