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TDM 016 & 4th WALL EVENT: NO WALLS BETWEEN US
| TDM 016 & 4th WALL EVENT: NO WALLS BETWEEN US |
00. An Arrival and a Broken Wall?! You should be coming 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 should be greeted by robots who welcome them with towels and bracelet devices. The A5 card already loaded up, and if you don’t manage to get away from them quickly enough, they should 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 should be given a complimentary towel to leave with if needed! Should. That’s how things are for newbies - and maybe today, some newbies will arrive the usual way. Others might be surprised to hear that there is another "you"... already here! If and when you finally meet this other "you," there's simply no way to agree on who the so-called real version is. Your histories may be the same or they may be wildly divergent, but those little differences don't change the fact that you are who you say you are. Some islanders might even find themselves running into a much older or younger version of themselves. Duplicates and doppelgangers, you say? People who look and sound familiar but are just a little bit off? What strange anomalies have washed up from the ocean! On the other hand, maybe you’re not new here at all, or so you think. You’ve definitely been on this Island for months already. You can't exactly remember what you were doing here before, but you have the modest home and personal effects to prove that you existed. You’ve always been someone who greets new arrivals at the shore. You know very well how things work on the island, and how many of the buildings are abandoned and in dire need of repair. You know that 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. You know all of this. You’ve already claimed 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. You’re a veteran at this by now. Aren’t you? I. A WHOLE NEW YOU The fog has thickened off the shores of the Island and in the areas that have still been obscured. So thick that it looks not unlike the heavy clouds of the recent storm. But late into the night and early into the morning, the fog seems to encroach on the Nameless City even more, blinding and catching Islanders traveling through in areas normally free of its effects. Anyone who gets caught in the especially heavy mist might find themselves suffering from more than just the usual amnesia. The fog no longer only takes memories, but can also alter your memories... and you. You may forget your time on the Island. You may forget your life before. But you’ll remember something else. You’ll remember a life entirely different as if you lived it yourself: you are a merperson who has always lived here, in the waters around the Island. Those grand underwater cities look like ancient ruins to others, but to you? You still see them as beautiful and palatial as the day they were built. You are a Native whose memories are fuzzy, but you certainly remember living your entire life here in great happiness and luxury. And once you step out of the mist, you might even find yourself physically changed to match what you recall, with fins or tentacles and gills to allow you breathe beneath the waves. You might be completely transformed, or just enough to make life underwater as easy as it's ever been. Someone else attempting to free you of these delusions will find that the more they try to force you to remember your true life, the more real and convincing your undersea life begins to feel. You must embrace this new (old?) life, embrace this new you in all ways and live it to its fullest. Completing Auspicious Acts will help bring out glimpses, hints, flashes of memory and recognition that perhaps this is not who you once were, and allow you to return to your former self. But the longer you take to embrace this, the harder it might be to let go. Some of these changes could become permanent. II. LET XXX BE YOUR GUIDE Things have been strange, not just for the people of the Island, but the robots as well. The typically welcoming robots that offer their assistance in guiding new arrivals or encouraging Islanders to visit the various locations seem to be scarce. There are fewer of them running around the entertainment district and other establishments. To ensure that new arrivals continue to have a pleasant Island experience, robots will be recruiting Islanders as mentors and guides: mentor guides, if you will! Volunteers will lead other Islanders around the Island as a means of helping them become better acquainted with the locations available here for your fun and entertainment, and they will be rewarded with credits for their hard work. Guides and sightseers alike could be someone fresh and new to the Island, someone who insists they’ve been here for years, or even someone that a robot randomly dragged off the street. Mentor guides will all receive a very form-fitting and revealing uniform - no two are the same! - and, of course, a glossy paper map of all of the available sights on the Island. The pictures are big and detailed, and cute sex toy icons point out various key sights such as the recreation center, the bath house, and the library. There are even suggestions for which Auspicious Acts are the best for each location! Strangely, none of the maps list the same suggestions, so each map encourages its own unique experience. Mentees will also find that their mentor’s voice is very appealing. So appealing that just listening to them speak is enough to get you feeling some kind of way. The more they talk, the more of a reaction you have. Your body begins to burn or itch and it’s very hard to pay attention to their words when thoughts about all the things you could be doing to them instead keep coming to your mind. The only way to relieve these thoughts might be to make your mentor stop talking altogether, or follow through with some of those helpful map suggestions. Maybe you need them to mentor you in more ways than one? III. SITCHES GET GLITCHES You’re walking down the road, or in your own home, or visiting a friend and suddenly something happens out of the corner of your eye. There’s a soft pfzzzzzzt and the feel of static on the skin. You turn and realize that the wall is suddenly gone. Or, maybe the glass in a store window disappeared. Perhaps someone’s clothes just vanished off of them in the middle of the street, or the chair you were sitting in at the cafe suddenly poofs right from under you. It’s as if the world around them is malfunctioning - little glitches that can last for seconds, hours, or even days before returning to normal on their own. Nothing that could seriously harm someone, but enough to be quite inconvenient. At least completing an Auspicious Act in the affected area or with the affected person seems to put it to rights immediately. Unfortunately, this doesn’t stop these glitches from happening again. You may be concerned, and the robots understand, but if asked they will insist it’s just the world adjusting as the Augur welcomes so many new people! Nothing to be worried about, obviously. It will take time for fluctuating energy levels to adjust, that’s all. Some robots might even say it’s the perfect time to enjoy having so few barriers between you. Embrace the open nature of the Island and share yourself and your home with others. Walls are only meant for keeping out what you could be letting in! OOC Notes:Enjoy a mini Fourth Wall event, Islanders! As such, this test drive meme is open for anyone to create top levels, not just prospective players. Current player characters, characters you want to play in the setting but can't app full-time, drive-by castmates, duplicates, canon AUs, characters that normally would not be allowed such as fandom AUs and genderswaps (not including characters under 15), formerly dropped characters, etc. are all encouraged to come in and play! As all other test drive memes, this one will be game canon. Characters who fourth wall but do not app will disappear after a few days to a week, along with their home (if applicable) and all of their possessions. Please label your top levels as to whether you are test driving [TDM] or fourth walling [4W]. (Of course, you are allowed to change your mind! But our rules regarding appable characters will still apply.) Since auspicious acts are an integral part of this event, potential and current players can swap one Auspicious Act on their card for one of their choosing, if needed for any of the prompts. As usual, prospective players can use an Act and swap it onto their card if they choose to app into the game. If you have any questions, please ask them below. N A V I G A T I O N |
Shang Qinghua | Scum Villain's Self-Saving System [4W]
[ Shang Qinghua arrives on the shore with all the dignity of a half-drowned cultivator dragging himself out of the water, clothed in robes that are very much not designed for swimming. He spends a few seconds coughing towards the ground, not entirely certain if he's about to lose his afternoon snack to the sand underneath him.
Wait... sand?
He lifts his head and looks around.
... Where is this? Where is this?! This isn't Cang Qiong Mountain! In fact he's pretty sure this isn't anywhere in Proud Immortal Demon Way at all! He never came up with a beach or a river bank that looks like this! Where is he now?! He still looks likes Shang Qinghua, so it's not that the System sent him home... ]
Aiyah, what's going on now...?
[ System, someone, please explain! ]
Receiving a Helping Hand
[ If he isn't rescued from the robots in time, Shang Qinghua can instead be found at the spa, having been escorted and not having any better option but to follow. (From a safe distance. Just to be sure they aren't going to attack.) Once there it doesn't take very long before he suddenly bursts out of the massage room, trying to throw on his still wet and sandy robes as quickly as he can, his face bright red. ]
I-I don't think that's what a massage is supposed to be like! Actually, I'm quite certain it's wrong! Who programmed you to do such a thing?!
[ Even if he's the author of one of the most shameless novels on Zhongdian, that doesn't mean he can't shame the person who programmed a robot to give random people a hand job!
(Did a man trying to redress himself in antiquated robes just admit that he knows what "programming" is? Don't worry about it, don't worry about it.) ]
In Need of Guide
[ When approached by someone in a guide uniform offering to help, Shang Qinghua will do what any reasonable person would do under the circumstances: turn bright red, cover his eyes, and then sneak peeks at the person talking to him anyway as he attempts to hold a conversation. ]
I, ah, appreciate the offer but, ah, your clothes are perhaps a little...
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Glorious Arrival
Welcome to hell.
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Hell? As in we're... dead?
[ When did that happen?! He doesn't remember dying! He doesn't remember even being close to dead! What's with that sort of a greeting, Cucumber Bro?! ]
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[ Idiot. ]
But no. Get a clue, what do you think? Of course this is just more hoping. There are others pulled from various worlds too.
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There's Gundam.
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What do I think? What am I supposed to think? One moment I'm nearly dozing off with my work and the next I'm drowning in a body of water! No fanfare, no electric outlets, no Bing-ge showing up to cut my head off my shoulders, nothing! Not even the System announcing...
... What do you mean, "there's Gundam"?
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[ Welcome to the isekai island cross over R18 fan fest! ]
There are a bunch of gundam in a hanger. Real gundam.
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Besides, can it really be called transmigration if we're still in the same bodies as before? Ah, never mind, never mind. Since you seem like you're such an expert, explain this place to me. [ Be the System in the System's stead!
And then he can geek out over the Gundam once he has his footing. ]
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[ All of the different comics, anime and books! Seriously! ]
Isekai?
Simple. It's an R-18 fanservice exposition.
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... That? Don't say something like that so casually! That's not the sort of thing to just say casually!! ]
... Cucumber Bro, I appreciate the explanation in simple terms, but those are very worrying terms and I request a bit more elaboration.
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[ What more do you want? What more can he say? It's exactly what it is! ]
What is there to elaborate on? This world is a set up for that sort of indulgent fantasy.
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[ Really when you kept it in that scope it was simple. ]
The only things in this world are robots that give you drugged food and try and encourage papapa everywhere. If you want anything, you have to papapa, want a house? Papapa, want decent food? Papapa. Electricity? Papapa.
There's a bingo card for kink and events to force it.
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[ A sprawling, epic, shameless work with a sprawling, epic, shameless fan base!
But that explanation has him looking over Shen Qingqiu with a critical eye. He is starting to make mental connections here. ]
So... I was right about "sex is currency"?
[ And that his dear friend seems to be doing well enough, and presumably that means he's paid for things here? ]
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More like a skinner box. Do the things get a reward.
He was doing OK, because he did what he did best, stuck to people doing better than him! ]
It's terrible.
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[ Does he sound like he's not taking it seriously? Surely that's just one's imagination. ]
And what was that you said about a bingo card and events?
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I suppose since you just washed up they have yet to give you your bracelet.
[ So, in a gesture of generosity, he showed his own. ]
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... And after a few seconds, he was still staring. Staring. S t a r i n g . ]
These marked ones. Those are ones you have done?
[ Aren't you supposed to be a stallion protagonist's only wife?! Is your sex drive really so low that this all you've done in... however long you've been here?
(How long has Cucumber been here, anyway?) ]
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In Need of Guide
That is the only bright side to being thrust into helping new residents while wearing a formfitting dress with an open back and a long slit up its leg, skirt cut short enough that it's a blessing her upper thighs aren't on full display when she walks. Having a man blush and refuse to look her in the eye while she's dressed like this...fully highlights the ridiculousness of this entire situation.
But Ming Yi is nothing if not an actor. Thickening her face, she doesn't let a ripple of emotion show as she coldly bluffs her way through this. ]
They're typical for the area. Look where you are. The summers on this island are hot; it's customary to dress lightly for the season.
[ All black bodycon dresses are "light". ]
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[ First the attempted handjob from a robot and now a woman wearing such a revealing outfit like it's nothing? He's starting to get an inkling for what sort of a place this is, and he really doesn't know how he feels about it!
Surely it can't be something like an overly-shameless world! Who would make such a thing?! No, that's a stupid question. More importantly to figure out, how did he, Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky, transmigrated into his character Shang Qinghua, wind up in this place that is neither the real world nor the book he wrote?!
... Would this woman have the answer to that? Does he ask?
Oh no, he's been staring at that slit for at least five seconds. Eyes elsewhere! ]
By the way, where is this place?
[ Easing into the question!
... "Elsewhere" apparently meant her breasts as the dress clings tight to them, which doesn't seem like a particularly better alternative for making this less... whatever it is right now. ]
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It's a nameless city on a nameless island, in the middle a nameless sea. [ She drolls out easily, and she starts walking, expecting to be followed. It's not a tour if they stand in place, and Ming Yi wants those credits. ] ...on a planet possibly called Erku.
There's no clearer answer than that.
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[ "Thorough"ly useless! How do you have the name of the planet but not the city, island, or ocean?!
It's been a while since he's been able to read proper novels, but the name "Erku" doesn't ring any bells. Which means it might not be any story he's familiar with? So what's he supposed to do?!
... Well, he's going to follow at least. Not just because her voice sounds very seductive (though it does; it's a very nice voice!) but also because it's probably better to let someone lead him around than wander blindly hoping to find whatever is important. Unless this is a trap? What are the chances this is a trap? Would he even be any worse off if it were? Her back is also very attractive! This view is somehow even more salacious! ]
Then, how did we arrive here? I must admit I don't remember very much before I found myself swimming to shore.
i came just to annoy for a moment. also, helping hand
Without greeting, with barely even a sign of recognition for the figure that bumped into him:]
Programmed?
[Indeed, that had to be the first thing he questioned.]
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[ Shang Qinghua's voice cracks and jumps a full octave as he realizes just who he's collided with. Suddenly his face is even more red as he scrambles to try to hide the fact that that robot handjob did in fact get him started! Why now, why must Mobei-Jun appear when he's trying to collect his dignity and get his airplane under control?! Why, sometimes it's even Mobei-Jun who--
--wait, oh no-- ]
That--ah--that's... [ fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck ] a turn of phrase, my king! Teaching them that such a thing is acceptable, and making it into what they do without being asked, as if it's the program for a show or other sort of display of skill...
[ Please buy this explanation. ]
More importantly, my king, your clothes! We can't have you walking around in wet clothes!
[ Never mind the state of his own clothes. Please, never mind the state of his own clothes. ]
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Perhaps he's just bothered because of Shang Qinghua's warmth. Appearing in another whole world aside, he wonders if the flimsy human is feeling ill from his own wet clothes.
However:]
Are there even any clothes to be worn here? Everything I've seen clings like another layer of skin.
[Not too different from someone he also knows, at times.]
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[ Are there? Surely there must be! What sort of a world would have a full spa complete with robot staff but no decent clothes?! ]
I would expect so, my king.
[ But won't they need to buy them? They almost certainly don't have any local currency! ]
And... if not, perhaps we might at least find a method of drying them? The sun's heat here is surely enough if we leave them out...
[ ... And yet, neither of them have a change of clothes?! Wouldn't this involve being naked?! He didn't think about that! Maybe he shouldn't have made that suggestion! No, he definitely shouldn't have made that suggestion when he's still partially erect!
He continues to fumble with his own clothes in an excuse for why he's still hiding the area around his crotch. ]
A-at any rate, this establishment isn't going to be useful! Let's search out a different one together!
[ Far away from the handjob-providing robots! ]