uhmani | TDM #7

If the main hub and its features don't appeal to you, that's perfectly fine. This is the perfect time to configure your Digitized Technical Friend or your DTF status. A DTF is similar to a dæmon from His Dark Materials in that it is connected to and a reflection of a character's soul. These DTFs take shape accordingly and are projections similar to the NPCs. Think of them as your own personal Clippy except less annoying. Hopefully.

Once that's set-up, there are other locations of the main hub to investigate! You can visit the training grounds, music lounge, library, and onsen. Also, feel free to leave an offering for the resident deity of sleep (Hypnos) at his shrine! You can even visit The Peacekeeper themselves on the second floor. They're always happy to have visitors! They're also conveniently where you might place a complaint about that status of the main hub and its amenities. Even if you do complain, The Peacekeeper will encourage others to set off and find their own place to live out in the simulation.

Granted, the housing market in the afterlife isn't exactly robust. It doesn't help that every place you find has a leaky roof or broken window. No, unfortunately that will need to be fixed the peaceful way. If you'd like more lighting or even cozier clothes, simulation inhabitants are reminded that 'peaceful interactions' are very important!

It might be a good idea to stick close to someone you know, for now, since even the smallest amounts of intimacy might see subtle changes occurring where they're staying. Perhaps that broken window is now fixed, the grime and dust seem a little less, or the floor doesn't creak quite as loud.

Larger changes, however, will only come after demonstrating the more powerful peaceful interactions. If you want new hardwood floors or a fresh coat of paint on the walls, you're going to have to demonstrate how well you 'get along' with others against them first.

A FOUL WIND BLOWS

For the last couple of weeks, The Peaceekeeper has been relatively quiet save for the mandatory greeting of newcomers. In fact, it doesn't even make the usual announcement that it has before to alert inhabitants of the sudden shift in weather. Blue skies and sunshine gradually begin to darken over. The wind picks up to a frightening gale that will see people likely needing to strap things down and fasten their shutters tight.

However, it's not anything physical that inhabitants will likely end up losing. The forceful rain, wind, and ensuing storm will instead strip away their inhibitions if they're unlucky enough to be caught in it.

What was holding you back, anyway? It's hard to remember or seems so suddenly trivial. It's not an issue anymore. that's for sure! Whether this is about something intimate, secrets kept, or things you know you shouldn't say for any number of reasons don't matter. Self-consciousness and doubt feel like a thing of the past and you're free to chase whatever whims you want!

Hopefully, you won't regret it when the effects wear off in a few day's time.

CLEAN-UP CREW

Although not everyone may be in the mood to buckle down and get to work after the storm blows through, the mess it leaves behind is literal as well as metaphorical. Time to get cleaning! The Peacekeeper has graciously provided a whole host of tools to assist inhabitants in clearing the debris littering the beach and floating in the ocean, including...

Inflatable Rafts

Skimmer Nets

Brushes

GET LAID

Liquid-Air Impulse Device

JUST KEEP SWIMMING

All your hard work hasn't gone unnoticed!

The mermaids that live beneath the waves of Taasunni Beach are extremely grateful that the inhabitants have taken the time and effort to clean up their home. To show their gratitude, they've decided to let everyone experience the beauty of the once-again pristine ocean for themselves!

Upon request, one of the mermaids lounging in the shallows will kiss inhabitants to fill them with magic. This gift will transform them into merfolk themselves for about 6 hours, allowing them to breathe underwater, swim swiftly, and explore or play in the depths to their hearts' content.

Those who indulge in this, especially repeatedly, may find themselves feeling unusually buoyant and free--as though a weight has lifted from their shoulders, and their troubles are simply washing away on the tide.

SEXY STAMP CARD

If you're wondering about these 'peaceful interactions' that keep being mentioned or what the kinks of the month are for... Here's your answer! Upon arrival, all characters will receive a digital copy of their very own sexy stamp card.

Sexy Stamp Card

Issued by: The Peacekeeper

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Completing peaceful interactions (i.e. kinks) will reward characters with stamps that they can turn in for re-gains and many other things! While the example one here is the standard issued card by The Peacekeeper, players are more than welcome to customize it how they see fit. Have fun with it! NOTES

★ The effects of all the influences can, as always, be as heavy or light as you'd like! It can be chalked up to differences in resistance, non-humanity or not, etc. etc.

★ Please thank Love Bug Infy for helping out with this TDM!

★ Make sure to dunk your questions/feedback in the thread below!

★ The locations page is undergoing a revamp! While originally I wanted to have it done in time for this test drive meme, that didn't quite happen. But it is coming soon, I promise!

★ Due to moderator error meaning we are over the player limit already and repeated requests, the player cap has been increased to 50. We are currently at 47/50 slots taken! Anyone wishing to claim a character must have an invite and follow the proper rules in place to be accepted into the community.

★ Also in light of that announcement and since I totally forgot the monthly meme due to being sick... Why not check out the ATP/EMP Meme now up? See who others want to try out, enable your friends! Fun all around!

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Even though Night Sky looked very different than the image Keyleth's memories pulled up, she was still able to connect them as the same person. Maybe it was the sticks in her hair?

"Hi there!" She beamed and waved cheerfully, tilted her head as she studied Night Sky's new coloring and decided that pink would look good with her hair. With a touch of druid crafting, she coaxed a vibrant pink zinnia to grow from the ground. "You ended up here too, huh? You'd think we were on some kind of list!"

Definitely the sticks. For all she knew, they were the exact same ones that had been in there before.

Night Sky chuckled and took a seat in front of her; criss-cross applesauce and definitely flashing some vag. "I wouldn't be surprised. The 'these people will fuck for our entertainment' list? There's at least two more of us, too."

"Oh wow, really?" That was crazy, but also, all the more proof that it was entirely possible that these powerful beings traded information with each other. Made total sense to Keyleth, anyway. She plucked the flower she'd just grown from he ground and reached up to weave it carefully into Night Sky's hair. "You look different! Are you...hm." She studied her quietly for a moment, a tiny crease between her brows. "Are you...an archfey now?"

Probably. Night Sky didn't pretend to understand how otherworldly beings worked, even now. She scooted closer and tilted her head so Keyleth could work the flower into her hair, not even flinching if her fingers caught on a knot of green. "A Sidhe." She said, "A mortal turned fae by an Archfae, actually. I've been serving the Green Knight for, uh, a few centuries? I honestly lost track of time." She shrugged. "Been a while since I was in a fuck realm."

"Oh, wow." Keyleth wondered if something similar would've happened to Vex, if she'd agreed to Saundor's terms instead of telling him to go fuck himself. Not that she was comparing the Green Knight to the gross, nasty tree man. "Well, you look great for being a few centuries in! It's only been, mmm...thirty or so years for me."

Once the flower was nestled into Night Sky's hair, Keyleth beamed a smile and fussed with the hair around her shoulders, fluffing it so it fell nicely. "What were you doing for the Green Knight? He's not, um. Evil, or anything, is he? I mean I don't judge or anything! I'm just, you know. Curious what you've been up to!"

"Thanks. I'm not horrifically sick anymore, so that probably helps." Even back in the Feywilds, no longer suffering from consumption, she looked thin and a little sickly, more pale than she should have been. Now she actually had weight on her, and an unnatural glow to her skin. "Can't say you look bad either." Not that she ever did. But you know.

Night Sky seemed content to just let her do whatever, laughing softly at her series of questions. "No, he's actually one of the good ones. He used to be a human, a long long time ago, and he's since, uh, moved up to Archfae, protecting a part of the forest of dreams called the Everwood. I'm one of the guardians, and I mostly just hang around and watch for Beastmen that cause trouble." She smiled. "What about you?"

"Oh, well that sounds really cool!" Maybe all archfey weren't either gross and evil or weird and...still at least a little bit evil? Whatever Artagan had been, he'd still choked Vax to death, and that was fucked.

"Me? Well. I've just been taking care of things at Zephrah. It's mostly not very interesting...oh, my mom came home! And we were attacked by smoky shadow assassins. Other than that--pretty mundane day-to-day stuff." Keyleth stretched her legs out, absently tapping the toes of her boots together. "This is kind of a nice break. Like a vacation!" Weird as that sounded, but it was true. The Feywilds had been, as well, possibly even more so because she'd had Vax. "Are you just living out here, in the forest? Gosh, I guess I have to start another garden, huh."

Night Sky would have been content to just stay dead, but when you're called upon by what was essentially a god, you just kind of roll with it.

She had little context for what Keyleth told her, but assumed all of those were good things — minus the smoky shadow assassins, obviously. "You should." She would hang out there, too! "I don't really like the city, even if there aren't that many people. Plus I'm pretty sure a bunch of people think I'm just some ethereal fae living in the woods and if they make me angry I'll curse them or something. It's a little funny."

Keyleth burst into giggles, her bright green eyes practically sparkling with mirth. "It's really funny," she insisted with a grin. "Like, it's hilarious. Oh, man. I wanna help. Let's just make people think the woods are haunted by dryads. Or, oh! I could go Minxie and be your tiger companion!" Listen her life's been pretty mundane and full of important responsibilities. She's in the mood to be reckless and stupid.

Oh worm? Night Sky was about of the same mind. Centuries spent in the forest, obligated to protect it and unable to leave unless actively pursuing a threat? Yeah, she could get behind some stupid and reckless shit. "Sexy dryads that demand sacrifices." The sacrifice was sex, if not obvious. "Although you turning into a tiger sounds equally as amusing. Why not both? Keep people on their toes. How many dryads are there? How many tigers? We just don't know."

Keyleth burst into giggles, then waved her hands and bounced a bit. "Oh, wait wait! Hang on!" She squinted and used a bit of alter self to change her ass-length red hair into ass-length green hair, turn her fair freckled skin a bit more golden and her eyes a more vivid green. "Eh?" She leaned back on her hands and wiggled her eyebrows. "What do you think? Enough to confuse people? I guess I could wear less clothes, too." She liked her turquoise dress, but she could fashion something out of leaves and vines!

Night Sky watched the transformation, blinked, and then burst out laughing. "Oh yeah, especially the humans who just think all fae and elves are name stealing, curse loving weirdos. They won't be able to tell the difference." She assured with a sagely nod of her head. "As for clothes - it probably won't make a difference. But I'm not going to complain if you decide to get naked either." Wink.

Keyleth crinkled her nose cutesy, a bit blushy and shy, though not nearly as much as she would've been once upon a time. "I can't even remember the last time I was naked with someone," she admitted with a sigh. "Everyone in Zephrah, you know, by this point, I either watched then grow up, or I've watched them grow old. And I've stayed the same. I knew it would be like that, but knowing and experiencing, is. A little different, you know?"

Night Sky's expression shifted into something softer. "I can imagine." She had never had that problem, mostly because she had been on the other side of it back when she was just a Sylvan elf with a deadly illness and no time to live. And when she was revived, she didn't even have anyone left to watch grow older while she stayed the same. She just was, and the world changed where she could not see it. "You don't have to worry about that here, I don't think. And maybe you needed this 'vacation'. All of that must take a toll on you."

"It's okay," Keyleth assured her quickly, because complaining about, well, anything, was the last thing she wanted to do. Like, ever. "It's been a pretty peaceful existence, for the most part. Other than the assassins that one time." It was just a very different existence than the one she'd hoped for, but. She'd managed to live a lot of life with Vax in those five years they'd had in the Feywilds. And she was grateful for it, grateful for Zephrah's peace and prosperity. She looped her arm lightly through Night Sky's and gave her a quick squeeze of a hug, tipping her head down to her shoulder--at a careful angle, so the antlers didn't get in the way. "And it's really nice to see an old friend."

"Could be worse, I guess. Could have happened twice." The assassins, that is. Night Sky smiled and rested her hand on Keyleth's, squeezing her back and tipping her head to rest her cheek between the horned crown. If her wild hair got caught on the antlers than so be it. "It's nice to see you again, too. I feel like we didn't get to spend enough time together in the feywilds."

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"Yeah, honestly, I probably could've been more social." She'd been pretty solidly wrapped around Vax, spending as much of the free time she felt comfortable asking of him with him. Always so acutely aware it was all she would get. She didn't regret it, but in hindsight, maybe she could've tried a little harder, a little sooner, to expand her horizons and loosen her grip on their relationship. It was fine! It worked out. "But hey, we can spend lots of time together now! Maybe I'll design some more gardens." She wasn't sure if there was a need for something like the Lover's Garden, but surely everyone could enjoy some fresh druid grown produce, yes?

"I spent most of my time in the woods, so. I get it." She made a point to be social elsewhere because she hadn't had much of a chance prior to her death, so she tried to make the most of it. She still could have done more, since old habits usually drove her back into the forest. "I can probably help this time around. I don't really grow the plants, but I can manipulate them; talk to them. You know, all that weird shit fae do." Amongst other things. Night Sky chuckled. "Could be fun project to work on together."

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"Druids do some of the same weird stuff, so it's not weird to me," Keyleth giggled happily. "So long as you don't yell at them. There was this guy back in the Feywilds that said he was a good gardener, but his method was intimidation. He just shouted at them and told them to grow better. It was concerning. But yeah, I'd love to have some help." Vax had helped her last time, and the gardening gnomes. And Trinket had always been there to taste test the berries. She sighed softly, trying hard not to slip into melancholy.

"Uh. I feel like they'd try and kick my ass if I did." Night Sky laughed, "I'd be happy to help, it's not like I'm doing anything useful around here besides telling people not to be rude to the forest when they come poking around." And trolling them too, but that went without saying. "Oh, there's this whole thing with stamps here. Did you get that briefing? It's basically the same shit as favor. Fuck, get stuff. You know how it goes."

"Oh, yeah, basically how we all lived for almost five years," Keyleth replied with a soft giggle and a wave of her hand. "It's still weird! But it's fine, I'll manage." She'd managed just fine before! "Oh, wait, were you suggesting that's how we could work together? For the garden?" Are you flirting with her Night Sky?? Cause, you know, she's heckin down.

Yes, but she was also trying to get ahead of it so Keyleth didn't just run face first into horny town. Not that she didn't think she could handle it, of course. "Yeah, sort of. Also, I'd be happy to have sex with you even without the bonus of stamps." Just so they were clear.

"Oh, okay!" Keyleth shifted to sit up on her knees, carefully lifted her circlet off of her head to set it aside, then began stripping off her belt and her boots, clearly intending to just completely strip down. Cause, you know, she didn't specify when.

Night Sky blinked, staring stupidly for a few seconds while her brain processed what was happening. Well shit! Now was a perfect time to fuck, actually, right here in the calm of the storm. She chuckled and reached out, gently grasping at the front of her belt. "Hey. Let me help." Four hands were better than two. Not usually for stripping, but whatever, she could work her hands under her dress or untie anything that needed to be undone.

Keyleth was dressed pretty simply, in a turquoise dress, a few carefully arranged leather belts, and her circlet. Her mantle, the flowing river of autumn leaves, was absent, because she only wore it when she had official business to attend to and therefore wasn't wearing it when her presence was requested here. That she didn't wear any significant armor probably spoke of the level of power she wielded in the world, that she think she needed it and didn't fear an attack. Regardless--it certainly made it easier to get naked. She giggled softly as Night Sky leaned in to take over unbucking the belts and tugging aside the bits of her dress, her hands moving to gently frame the sides of Night Sky's face. "Is it okay if I kiss you?"

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