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erku mods ([personal profile] erkumods) wrote in [community profile] ercookies2021-12-19 12:20 pm
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TDM 020: FROSTED FLAKES

TDM 020: FROSTED FLAKES


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Augmentations
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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. Tropical Snow





The Augur hasn't forgotten your festive needs, Islanders!

Though the Island weather remains sunny and tropical, a powdery snow has begun to fall from blue skies, collecting into pristine piles overnight. Fortunately, unlike some other snowstorms Islanders might have experienced, this one won't freeze you. In fact, the temperature of the powder is perfectly pleasant, even though everything else about it is exactly as one might remember from white holidays past. It even sticks together nicely, making it absolutely perfect for snowballs, forts, and sculptures, and the 'bots encourage Islanders to enjoy this little treat from the Augur for the limited time that it will last. Even robots pelted by snowballs will chirp cheery encouragements.

It is, however, a little slippery… and a bit tacky. And sweet? Catching snowflakes on your tongue has never been so rewarding.



III. It Came From Above





In addition to the Island's traditional cherub dragon helpers, Islanders may notice a newcomer to the skies above: these zippy little drones, which flit about playfully and broadcast festive songs from Islander memories whilst they assist the dragonets in decorating the hospital and other public buildings in wintery colors and charming strings of lights. Make sure you mind your head, because the more mischievous of the drones have minds of their own when it comes to decorating sometimes! If you're looking a little dour, you might become the next surface wrapped up in lights and tinsel. Maybe even with someone else, for pleasant company of course!

Oh, and those mistletoe bots? They seem to pick targets at will, locking on and hovering overhead until their victim new friend gives someone a kiss. It's not unusual for a mistletoe bot to take a real shine to one Islander in particular, following them all day long.

If asked for assistance with a drone, Island robots will helpfully inform you that the drones make excellent pets! Just be sure to pick one that doesn't bite.


IV. Sticky Circumstances





The robots may have made a veeerryy slight miscalculation.

As time passes, the mysteriously room-temperature snow that blankets the Island begins to… well, melt. Except, it doesn't melt into water. What results instead from this well-meaning experiment is a slippery, sticky, sweet substance just like icing sugar… but everywhere. On the sidewalks, on the buildings, sliding in globs off the leaves of every palm tree. While it may taste good, and pests like ants are never a problem in paradise, it's quite a nuisance!

Robots will offer credits for assistance in clean-up, rewarding especially handsomely as the mess seems to gunk up their joints. With enough help from Islanders and drones, the mess could be cleaned up within the week! If an Islander would rather just enjoy their Island-wide slip and slide, however? The 'bots won't fault them.




N A V I G A T I O N

zunge: (tearing me apart like a new emotion)

[personal profile] zunge 2021-12-21 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Once it became clear that the blond "cowboy" would be steering his poor robot steed back his way, Noiz readied his feet so that he could move quickly and avoid a collision. Not for a second did he doubt the man would go for a person. Someone willing and able to do that to a robot here was someone to be wary of. It didn't matter that Noiz couldn't feel pain. Should violence come his way, he ought to be ready for it.

His bandaged hands pat at his pants pockets, fingers easily locating the tops so he could slide fingers in and go for his rough knuckles. You know, just in case. Now that his sense of touch everywhere else had been restored to the same level that he could feel with his tongue it's taken some getting used to the lack of dullness and smoothness everywhere. By the time Gunji was anywhere near close to Noiz again the pierced blond now has silver-toned metal covering his hands, held up in loosely balled fists. He's ready to move out of the way again if need be.

"It means you need to fuck the robot."
fooouuundyou: (👅 G u n j i 👅 Lick)

[personal profile] fooouuundyou 2021-12-22 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, the other blonde was right to assume Gunji would go for a person, he wouldn't even think twice about it normally. However, luckily, he was more than entertained with his robot steed, happy to ride it until it gave out or blew up and bucked him off. Still, when he saw the body language this other guy was displaying, his hidden blue eyes narrowed a little curiously. So, he's a fighter, is he? That might be fun~

Watching as fists were balled in a defensive way, Gunji used the strength in his thighs alone to hold onto the robot, freeing up his arms and hand. Fortunately for Noiz, the powers that be, thought it wise to confiscate Gunji's claws, otherwise this could have gone south pretty damn fast. Yet, just as he was readying himself to make a swipe of a clothesline for the guy, he only went and suggested that Gunji should fuck the robot?

"I-... Wha--? Kyaaah-haha! Fuck it?! How the fuck am I s'pose to fuck it huh?!" Amused at the suggestion, Gunji tugged on a slack panel of metal, exposing its wired and sparking insides. "You shoved ya dick in somethin' like that before?"
zunge: (exposing ourselves)

[personal profile] zunge 2021-12-27 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
While that near attempt at a clothesline never took place, Noiz could still that the blond seemed about ready to try and do something toward him. He danced a step and a half back to give himself more clearance, fists still loosely raised.

"Use your imagination to figure out how to fuck one." The words came out low and even as he declined to react defensive over Gunji's question about his hypothetical robofucking escapades. "Unless you have no brains to figure it out." His gaze flicked toward the metal panel that now exposed metal parts, though only for the briefest of moments. It seemed better to keep his eye locked on Gunji. He could be one of those unpredictable types.