TDM 014: A DAY AT THE FAIR

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TDM 014: A DAY AT THE FAIR

00. Arrival You come out of the water, the Nameless Island's own inherent energy drawing people in. It's like being suspended between realities and abruptly pushed from behind through a rift in dimensions. It may make you sick, or that might be the motion of the ocean, lifting you to the surface and carrying you to shore. Waterlogged and covered in sand, new arrivals will be greeted by robots who welcome them with towels and bracelet devices. The A5 card is already loaded up. If you don’t manage to get away from them quickly enough, they may even usher you toward the Laid Bare Spa, where new arrivals will be offered free massages, a sauna, hairstyling, and their clothing may come up permanently missing. But you will be given a complimentary towel to leave with if needed! Feel free to explore the Island, though there isn’t much to see beyond what arrivals before you have helped to rebuild. Most of the buildings are abandoned and in dire need of repair, and beyond the city lingers a thick fog that obscures much of the wilderness from view. Wander too far into this fog, and you will find yourself mysteriously looping back to where you began, your memories of what you were doing and how you got there erased. With that in mind, it may be wise to stake your claim on a place to live in the now, whether a rundown apartment in the City, a tent on the beach, a bed in the barracks, or your own space at the House of Worship. Your inventory will be found a day later, wrapped up haphazardly and delivered to each person's makeshift home. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● I. HAY FEVER A new mode of transportation has made an appearance! From one end of the fairgrounds to the other, and even sometimes off the beaten path and into the wilds, robot-horse-drawn hay wagons shake, rattle, and roll. And, of course, what are hay wagons great for? Anyone fancy a roll in the hay? Anyone who is taking a hay ride will see their A5 card flash - and they will be given the option to trade one square for the vehicles square. (New players engaging in this prompt can call it a freebie.) But beware! The wagons roll at all hours of the day and night. At night, the spooks come out to play! Rides will be "haunted" by frightful spooks played by machines and your local Islanders. The 'bots will hire anyone interested to don their favorite slasher costume or ghostly garb. After all, everyone knows that fear and adrenaline are related to attraction, right? Just another thoughtful service provided by your generous benefactors. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● II. Acute Beef Poisoning How about an eating contest? Multiple competitions are held throughout the fair: hot dogs, hot dogs, pies -- just use your imagination! Of course, there's always the chance that you've been recruited to be "eaten"... So sit back and enjoy the ride. For those of you with an exhibitionist streak, all contests are held in front of an audience. Be careful, ye who eat here, because the pies in particular have been known to have the following effects (with a two-hour duration): Meat - A simple aphro pie; a character finds themselves craving a very different kind of meat. Apple - Temporary amnesia befalls those who've tried the apple pie. The effects can be as great as forgetting your entire identity or as minor as forgetting what you've had for breakfast. Cherry - Look upon the very face of innocence! All guile falls away from this character, making it impossible for them to lie. Strawberry - The compulsion to follow orders may be strong sometimes, but the strawberry pie comes with the compulsion to give orders instead. Blueberry - Oh no! You're looking a bit... off-color? The blueberry pie turns a character's skin blue for the next two hours. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● III. BRODEO Last but not least, try the mechanical contraptions of various sizes - equipped with equipment of various sizes as well! The objective of this game is to last as long as you can. Thirteen Hand Sam is the smallest of the mechanical horses. It has no attachments, but instead vibrates until the rider orgasms. Mechanic Mike is the second mechanical horse. With a modest six-inch dildo, it bucks its rider around until orgasm. For those who like a real challenge, the mechanical bull -- the Bonine -- is a two-person contraption that straps each rider in with their own dildo. They sit face-to-face on the thrashing machine, within touching range, able to encourage each other to come (and to lose) more quickly. Ride like you've never ridden before, or comfort someone in the aftermath of a job well done. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● N A V I G A T I O N

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[passedthroughfire]

"Oh, no, no, I've been here a little bit now." She's lost count. She lost a lot of time being sad, anyway. "But I washed up, same as you did. Um, sorry to ask this, but what's the last thing you remember?" She needs to know. For research purposes. She had a whole little speech prepared, in the event that someone she knew washed up, but...it's gone now. "Okay. So...um, that isn't really important, to the like. Well, okay. This island is, um, it's...well...okay, maybe someone else can explain it better, but it's powered by...um...well, they call it Auspicious Acts." She makes air quotes. "It's sex. Certain...stuff gets you points on your card on your phone and you can trade it in for your stuff from home, I guess?

There are lots of us here. Well. Not lots. Well...yeah, actually." She starts listing. "Me, Vax, Percy, Vex, Shaun. And some people from Wildemount!! Can you believe it? Wildemount! It's so cool. There's Caleb--I can't wait for you to meet Caleb, oh...Essek, Jester--you'll like her, she's a Cleric, too--Caduceus, he's ALSO a Cleric but he's a druid at heart, I swear it--Fjord...I think that's it. Um, we all have a house, if you want to--I'll take you up there, c'mon."

[trickfoot]

"The last thing I remember?" She's a bit confused, but she continues. "We were at Dalen's Closet for the wedding? And, like always, bad guys shows up, things got weird?"

If you can call Vex dying again and then finally killing Sylas Briarwood weird. "Well, I guess it's just another normal day for us, right?"

Pike stops drying off the Plate of the Dawnfather to listen fully, frowning that there's so many of them here, not to mention others from Exandria. There's still Grog and Scanlan back home - a blessing, she thinks, because a place powered by sex would have Scanlan thrusting his cock lightning at everything that moved. "I'd love to meet them all, of course! Lead on."

[passedthroughfire]

Keyleth's face lights up. "I told Essek! something extra weird was happening there! we're all from some point during the wedding, except Percy, which is an anomaly." he has his own section in her conspiracy book. "isn't that weird?"

She holds out her arms to help carry the armor, leading Pike toward the Neinhaus. "I'm actually happy to see you. This place is...well, it's kind of bad, and there's been a lot of things to get used to, but it's so good to see someone you love, you know?"

[trickfoot]

"That must be super awkward for Vex..."

Pike hands Keyleth her two bracers while she takes the main plate, because of course she's a monstah. "I'm honestly glad I'm not alone! I mean, it would have been fine, knowing that all of you were home safe, but it's better that there's a lot of us here. Not that I don't worry about Grog and Scanlan..." The trouble the two of them could get into without someone to supervise them? Pike doesn't want to think about it.

"Sarenrae answered my prayers," she continues, teaching out to squeeze her friend's hand. "I'm glad it was you that found me."

[passedthroughfire]

"I think...well...I mean. it's awkward anyway for other reasons, but I think that they like, figured it out, and they're still in love and going to be happy." she says this with a firmness that suggests she's going to make this happen if they don't. "Also, don't worry about them! A version of you might still be there--Essek and I are trying to figure that out--and even if you're not, they're taking care of each other, okay?" She gives Pike a reassuring pat on the shoulder, and then has to blink back tears, reaching for her hand. "I'm glad it was me, too," she says quietly. "I think I needed it as much as you did."

[trickfoot]

She'll help you, Keeks. The two of them are so stubborn that someone has to shove them in the right direction.

"Right, of course. But that's what has me worried." She laughs lightly, imagining coming home to the house in Westruun in chaos. It would be on brand. It would only be worse if the house had collapsed around them because of the chaos. No mending spell would even come close to fixing it. "No tears okay? We'll figure things out. I'm sure that between all of us we can figure something out."

They've dealt with worse, right?