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

[thepunshow]

Yeah, today could have been a whole lot worse. [ if ilia won't bring up her collar, yang won't bring up hers. she'd rather forget the entire thing ever happened. ] On the bright side, not only are there a lot of us, you'll have the coolest part of team RWBY for company! That's gotta count for something, right?

Mom is... [ yang glances at the floor for a second, expression unreadable. people mentioning summer in such a casual way will take some getting used to. she looks back to ilia, smile soft around the edges. ] Yeah. She's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. You couldn't ask for someone better to welcome you to--wherever we are.

[chamilia]

[As someone who thinks Summer is just a typical mom who aged well and is not someone who should be dead, Ilia doesn't think much of mentioning her. Had she known she would have been more...tactful. She chuckles a bit, petting the chocobo again before pulling again.]

Gonna leave your sister out of the cool part of the team?

[thepunshow]

Hey, I said "coolest"! [ yang laughs, loud and carefree, as she smooths out the feathers on drei's side. ] It's not Ruby isn't cool, but I'm her big sister. I'm obviously the cooler one and Blake is...well, she's Blake.

[ and that's that on that. ]

[chamilia]

[Ilia smiles because she imagines this is how strong siblings relationships must be. She doesn't have any of her own and Fennec and Corsac were very not normal. And Yang definitely wasn't wrong about Blake...]

Sounds like there's too much cool in one team. How did that even happen?

[thepunshow]

[ although her face takes on a somber expression, yang's eyes are alight with mischief. she sighs, shaking her head in affected sadness. ]

Freak accident. They say the night before all four of us arrived at Beacon, lighting struck the CCT tower, scrambling calls from each of the kingdoms with warnings we shouldn't be allowed on the same team. And now--well, here we are.

[ beacon, the CCT tower for vale...they may as well be part of a fairy tale now. yang doesn't let herself dwell on those topics for long, choosing to shoot ilia another friendly smile. ]

But enough about us! How've you been? Other than being sent to some planet in outer space, anyway.