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

CW: She-Ra S5 spoilers probably throughout.

[swordsense]

[Adora breathed in, then out, pulling the words out of herself. This is hard, because she's been confronted with a lot of feelings all at once and has never been particularly adept at dealing with those. She knew, she knew, that Glimmer would support her, and she also knew that Glimmer would have been in a much worse place if she had arrived alone.

Glimmer's presence also meant confronting a few things, like...frankly...the fact that they'd probably have to deal with her card as well as Adora's, or that Adora would have to double down on her card to get them both home. She didn't particularly mind, but it was something Glimmer was going to need to be made aware of, at least.]

...This place sucks. Totally sucks. But there's nice people that came her with me? Us, now.

[She smiles a little crookedly, trying to sound a bit more nonchalant about some of that. But she does have a bombshell to drop.]

Did you get one of those bracelets?

[glitterqueen]

[ On the one hand? Totally unfamiliar place that was far, FAR away from Etheria. On the other? Adora had a point in that at least the people here were nice as they could have ended up with some really nasty individuals here. ]

Better than people wanting to kill us, so I guess that's a plus, right?

[ She was doing her best to try and cope with this weird place in her own way. Though when attention was brought back to that, Glimmer raised a hand up with the bracelet on it and frowned a bit at the offensive little item in question. ]

If you mean one of these, then yeah. Stupid thing won't even come off. What's their deal anyway?

[ There was this awful thought that if Entrapta was here, she'd probably have found a way to remove the bracelet already. ]

[swordsense]

[Adora nods. She agrees, yes. It could be a lot worse. A whole lot worse, but she had yet to meet anyone really bad or anything. Mostly nice people, a couple of awkward people, but nobody who'd been mean or seemed unkind.]

Yeah. I do mean that thing.

[Adora holds up her own wrist, showing Glimmer the Auger device. It's identical, except maybe a couple of scuff marks.]

They're ways we can talk to other people on the island. And they have a...bingo card.

[Fretting her lip, Adora looks away. Okay, yeah this is harder than it sounds, but she's forcing her way through it. Figuring Glimmer's either not seen it, or saw it and ignored it in disgust.]

...Have you seen that thing yet? Everyone got one that I saw, and the robots will make things for us, if you manage to check off a bingo square.