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TDM018: TRICKS AND TREATS

TDM018: TRICKS AND TREATS


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Proceed . . .? Y/N

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Your eyes blink open to the blinding glare of overhead lights and the sight of a pair of glassy mechanical eyes boring into your own. The face above yours moves like liquid mercury, forming an approximation of a figure that you recognize and trust implicitly: a friend, a loved one, a caretaker. Perhaps even a god or a goddess. From its lips fall the patterns of a language that is strange and robotic, and yet familiar to you:

Everything is fine.

Welcome to the
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Darkness overtakes you once again.



I. Arrival





When you awake, you find you have washed up on the otherworldly pink sands of an impossibly beautiful beach, the tropical scenery spoiled only slightly by your seasickness. New arrivals, waterlogged and covered in sand, 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, all is available for your use. Stake your claim on a place to live in the now, whether an apartment in the City, a shack on the beach, or a bigger space at the House of Worship with friends. Your inventory will be found a day later, wrapped up haphazardly and delivered to each arrival's home.


II. Spooky Scavenger Hunt





Even with the Nameless Island reborn and open to your every whim, the robots still like to provide stimulating opportunities for people to get to know one another and earn some credits. But instead of the manual labor typical of the previous situation, they have engineered a scavenger hunt in honor of the Island's new autumn scenery!

Islanders will find themselves pulled off the street, from inside establishments, and even from outside their own homes and paired with a partner. Their bracelets will be scanned and they will both find identical messages in their inboxes detailed they have 24 hours to find 10 randomized items on their list provided. Do so and bring them back (or take a picture if they are too big) to the Scavenger Station and they’ll receive a hefty reward of credits! Bonus Credits if they can show proof or pictures of the items being put to use before they turn them in. The robots certainly encourage the full scavenger hunt experience.

The items can be found anywhere in the City. Sometimes in likely places and other times in a place you might not even consider (on other Islanders, for example?), although each team’s list will provide clues of where to look.



… and more! (Feel free to get creative! Items can range from silly to outright explicit.)


III. Two Moon Film Festival





In order to promote the various community college classes available at the Library for Islander enrichment, the resident robots have cooked up a very special opportunity for Islanders to show off the new skills they have been practicing in their Amateur Porn classes to the growing Erku community: the Two Moon Film Festival! Everyone on the island, both new and old, gets a ticket for the festival itself. In the meantime, there are openings for pairs and groups to participate in creating the entries that will be showcased at said festival.

Up for a creative challenge? Found yourself involuntarily signed up and unable to back out? One way or another, many Islanders are now entered into the film-making contest. New arrivals are encouraged to buddy up with Islanders who attended the classes, but anyone is welcome and encouraged to shoot their shot!

Each duo or group that participates is to meet at the Library at sundown for their assignments: a genre, a line of dialogue, a character type or name, and a prop, all of which are randomized and different per group. You now have until sundown two days from now to create a short movie that incorporates at least three of the four items. Everything they need, from equipment to props and costumes, will be provided. Engaging and interactive VR sets can be programmed by helpful robots, and catering is available to help keep the crews properly fueled up. The punch and pie provided have the added effect of inspiring great bursts of creativity (and for a lucky few, horniness) in those who consume them.

Following the deadline, all finished entries will debut on the big screen at Two Moon Film Festival, hosted by the Full Moon(ty) Theater. Chat up other contestants and the viewers before and afterward, laugh at the cringeworthy moments and bad acting, and aim for winning the Audience's Choice Award!

All entrants to the contest earn one small reward of their choosing, while the winners of the contest will each receive one free BINGO-level request from the Augur!



[ OOC: Shout out of thanks to [personal profile] zunge for this prompt! ]





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Load Simulation . . .? Y/N



READY: Simulation 1.1 Tenebrae Town




Your consciousness comes to you in the midst of a dense autumn forest. You haven't been asleep. You stand there, fully clothed, but perhaps not in your usual attire - perhaps you're wearing a belted tunic with trousers and leather boots to protect you from the cold ground, or a long and modest dress with an apron and a hood, hand-sewn in natural fabrics. The chill in the air and even the smell of the dirt and the trees are not like those of the Island. This place feels old, a strange energy crackling in the air. Some may recognize it as a very ancient magic.

In the distance, colorful lights dance between the trees. Approach closely enough and they look like fairies, but they are always just out of your reach. Are they leading you somewhere? No - if you follow them, as they seem to bid you, they will only lead you deeper into danger: a snarling wolf, a sudden drop into a craggy ravine. They are mischievous, sometimes cruel little things.

You'll never escape this forest by yourself. For as long as you are alone, the night is interminable - days long, it seems. Are you the determined sort, willing to choose a direction and continue walking no matter what, or will you give into despair of being hopelessly lost? With any luck, it won't take you long to find out that your only way out is with the help of someone else. Only by agreeing to work together will the dawn finally break, and your path into Tenebrae Town will become clear.

Should you refuse, or never cross paths with another Islander? Maybe the wolves will take you in.




OOC Notes:



To accommodate our smaller community and split-setting environment, TDMs going forward will be open to old and new players for top levels! Please state in your subject line whether you are a TDMing a new character, or top-leveling with a character currently in the game!

Voting for Audience Choice Awards for Prompt III will be held in November. Threads should be started by the time you submit your entries, but need not be finished in order to win! Entries will still be valid if they include characters who TDMed but did not apply to the game.

ALL participants in the contest may handwave one small Augur reward request equivalent to an incomplete thread reward.




N A V I G A T I O N

pacifismaggressive: (247)

[personal profile] pacifismaggressive 2021-11-14 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Y... [The fact Quatre owned dogs as a child means of course he knows this, but that doesn't change the fact that answering "Yes" right now feels like a very wrong thing to do.]

...You could say it's um...what you expect it to look like?

[He should not be this uncomfortable and yet he totally is.]
braidedwonder: (look in the mirror there go your hero)

[personal profile] braidedwonder 2021-11-16 03:17 am (UTC)(link)

Quat. [ Quatre is met with Duo’s very unamused stare, of course. He’s asking as a kid who’s only recently taken on a female dog for a companion, and what scant time he’s spent around possibly male dogs otherwise has been with Heero around and well.

He isn’t wondering about dog dick when Heero is around in spandex. So he points, rather vigorously, up at the dildo he’s spotted. ]


Is that what a dog dick looks like? You know damn well I wasn’t tryin’ to look when Ro was right there in spandex one of the few times I was around a dog.
pacifismaggressive: (230)

[personal profile] pacifismaggressive 2021-11-28 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Being asked to assess whether a dick accurately replicates a canine genitalia is so much. The fact only his ears are red is a feat. But they are on a mission so he does look it over and then turned his eyes away as if he was searching the other shelves.]

Accurate enough. ...Does it have an inflatable feature?

[For the knot that he doesn't want to think about.]
braidedwonder: (go down that road again)

[personal profile] braidedwonder 2021-11-28 03:16 am (UTC)(link)

An inflatable - [ Duo pauses, then, turning away from his inspection of said toy and back to Quatre as if he expects the blonde to break in to a laugh and make it into a joke.

His eyes narrow, for a moment, and then - ]


Why would it need an inflatable feature?
pacifismaggressive: (075)

[personal profile] pacifismaggressive 2021-11-30 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh his ears are burning so much, but he can't actually look at Duo right now.]

Well, many canine breeds, including dogs and wolves, have a...knot. On their penis. That inflates. For catching and holding during mating. To make sure the female gets pregnant. They can't be separated until it shrinks.

[He says it very quickly but also stumbles over it a bit. The fastest and choppiest thing he ever said.]
braidedwonder: (ready to take a life again)

[personal profile] braidedwonder 2021-12-01 01:25 am (UTC)(link)

Well... I guess that's one way of taking care of business.. [ Duo Maxwell : ever flippant in the face of everything and anything, notes it almost casually. With that established, though, and the information stored away for later, Duo scales a shelf or two to grab the high-up item, rolling it in his hands as he looks it over.

It's... interesting in shape, to say the least, but then Duo catches a particular part of the label. ]


Ah.. 'inflatable action!'. See? [ Duo flips the package, pointing out where it boasts about the feature, even highlighted in a yellow banner. ] So - one down!
pacifismaggressive: (Default)

[personal profile] pacifismaggressive 2021-12-02 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh good. Now we have 9 items to go.

[His ears are still bright red, but Quatre is practical if nothing else, so he walks to another rack, grabs a sinching-bag covered in stylized penises with very distinctive piercing. He holds out the bad to put the dildo in.]

We'll need something to carry everything in. I think they enjoyed the animal themes for our list as we need animal costume tails next.

[Butt plug tails, but costumes, he's going to focus on the costumes.]
braidedwonder: (go down that road again)

[personal profile] braidedwonder 2021-12-05 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)

[ Duo.. well. He wouldn't know shame if it slapped him in the face and named itself, and so he's just as Duo as ever as he drops the dildo into the offered sack, even taking a moment to examine the curious print. The piercing looks... painful, and after a moment he clucks his tongue. ]

Yeah.. I'm stinkin' to just my tongue. [ With that squared away, though - ]

Okay, but like... actually a tail? Or one we can find in a shop like this?