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

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[waswrongtoo]

[Yang's not the only one with tears brimming in her eyes. There's so much to say, so much to try to explain, so many apologies she feels like she has to make, that they all seem to be tangled up in Summer's throat.

All she can do is hug Yang back as tightly as her daughter's holding her, and whisper.]

Dust, look at you... You're so beautiful, so strong... Oh Yang, I only wish I could have seen it... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

[She hasn't poked into that particular wound since she arrived. Qrow and her had held off on acknowledging it, and it would be silly to discuss such matters with James. But Yang... no, she can't pretend she just saw her sunny little dragon yesterday and everything's fine.

No matter how much she might want to.]

[thepunshow]

Don't, [ yang immediately chokes out through her tears. ] Don't be sorry.

[ summer is a cornerstone of so many of yang's favorite memories. running out to meet her after a hunt, baking cookies with ruby in their kitchen, hearing 'goodnight, sunflower' as she drifted off to sleep after a bedtime story.

she wouldn't trade those years of her life for anything. if they're both here--impossibly, miraculously here--then yang wants to start off the first of their many new memories right. ]

You don't have to say sorry for anything.

[waswrongtoo]

[For a moment, she can't answer. Only cling to her daughter and think about how untrue that is... how many things there are that Yang deserves at least an explanation from her on.

She must know about Raven by now, for one thing. But that... she doesn't think she can be the one to bring it up. She doesn't know how Yang took it when she found out. It could be like a knife in the heart.

And right now, the last thing she can bear is the thought of causing her any more pain than she's feeling now.]

I love you, Yang. I love you so much...

[She said that before she left, she knows she must have... she always made sure to, just in case.

Yet it still feels like she has to say it now, for fear her precious child won't remember.]

And I'm so happy to see you, but so upset you're stuck here now...

[thepunshow]

[ like yang could ever forget. it's one of the few certainties yang has clung to when things have gotten hard, but hearing it from her for the first time in years makes her ache down to her bones. she wills herself to take calming breaths, shuddery as they may be, and answer in kind, ] Love you, too, Mom.

This might not be the best place, but...could be a lot worse. [ tears still stream down yang's face, but she pulls away to give summer a smile that's so similar to tai's that it's uncanny. ] At least we're stuck here together?

[waswrongtoo]

I would suffer much worse than this place for that.

[That smile... yes, it's so much like her father's, but that's not the only smile Summer's reminded of. Dust, she's grown so much, the resemblance is uncanny...

Not that she would ever, ever tell her. That would simply be cruel.]

Your uncle Qrow's here too. And James Ironwood from Atlas, I don't know if you've met him... apparently one of his people is here with us too, a man named Clover I haven't yet met. And a young woman named Ilia who claimed to know you... she said she'd heard you were here, but I hadn't really believed her, honestly.