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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[stripsearch]

It's just... ugh. [She screws up her face in an unhappy squint.] There's literally one boy matching that description who I'd want to be "delivered" to, and I haven't seen him here, so.

[Blah.

She's not sure if she wants Yu to be here or not, really. Not that she'll say that as she steps up, her fingers deftly working at the clasp, but not to any immediate success.] So, do you want to explain "huntress" first, or, uh. "Pussy Chaser"?

[thepunshow]

[ rise should have no problem noticing the immediate blush that spreads across yang's neck at the mention of her collar tag. can she just get swallowed up by the earth and stay there until she stops turning red every other minute?

when the sweet release of being buried doesn't occur, yang pushes forward with a smile, doing her best to stay still despite her natural inclination to move around as she talks. ]

Huntress is a title! It's a job back where I'm from. We travel, fight monsters, save people from those monsters, that kinda thing. You have to go to school and do lots of training to get your license, but my friends and I got ours a few months ago. [ finally earning her huntress license hadn't felt the big accomplishment yang thought it would be, but that is a completely different story for another time. ]

The, uh, other thing, [ she continues in a much less enthusiastic grumble, ] is just the robots being stupid.

[stripsearch]

[Oh, she doesn't miss it. How could she?

She's not going to point it out because wow, rude, but Rise is just going to file that away. Talking about an ex, maybe?

Geez these collars are rough.] Hey, I can sympathize with that. [A pause.] Um, if it helps, I promise I won't judge you for anything like that!

[But, a quick change of topic seems in order, so:] That sounds like a pretty exciting job to me... are monsters really that common where you come from? You make it sound like, I don't know, the monster police.

[thepunshow]

Ha, thanks. [ yang reaches up to rub the back of her neck on instinct then hastily stuffs it back in her jacket pocket. oops. ] It's not like I care that much, but the "chase" bit is...ugh. That's weird and creepy. You shouldn't be chasing after anyone if they aren't into it.

[ right, topic change. bless you, small new friend. ] Monster police is pretty close, actually, [ she says with a laugh. these collars are rough, but yang is much more at ease speaking on a subject she knows plenty about. ]

We have monsters called Grimm. Just a few of them can take out an entire village or city. [ or an academy or a kingdom.... ] So Hunters and Huntresses are hired to track them down before things can get out of hand.