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TDM #10
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The Lobby.
- When you open your eyes, there is quite a lot of beige to take in. The unassuming walls of the room you've found yourself in are barren save for a single motivational poster directly in your line of sight. An illuminated sign above an open door on the far wall reads 'lobby exit.'
"Welcome," chimes a polite, synthesized voice. "I'm happy you're here." A moment later comes the clarity of the situation: you have died and so has the world you came from. "This is Amani, your new reality," continues The Peacekeeper. "Everything will be fine."
At least you aren't the only one here, you'll soon find out, as others who are just as confused and concerned as you are mingling on the main hub's first floor. Hopefully, you find a familiar face among the crowd. If not, that's all right. You'll get to know quite a few people very well soon enough.
- If you're one of the unlucky few whose death required a bit more intensive re-coding to maintain stability in the simulation, you'll instead awaken on a bed in the infirmary. Everything is strikingly white save for the occasional string of vines with lavender growing in bursts to help keep people calm. Whether or not it works seems to be on a case-by-case basis.
While there is active medical staff, the voice of The Peacekeeper is also there to explain the situation in a more delicate manner to these individuals. It's already stressful enough having to have gone through such a violent death, after all!
If characters want more questions answered, they'll need to speak to The Peacekeeper directly. But first, it will encourage socialization in the main hub and hopefully, you'll find someone you recognize to make taking things in a little easier.
- "Happy spring, inhabitants! This has always been my favorite season. Granted, I've only seen it once before." The point still stands. "Everything is waking up again, including the fae... Do mind their tricks! This year, they seem to have a flair for fashion and especially strange top hats."
Almost as soon as it's said, a fairy might pop one onto your head. It comes with an entire ensemble, too, in the form of a playboy bunny suit. The tall ears that sprout from the might seem like just decoration... until you try to take it off. Pulling off the hat will reveal that the ears are actually a more permanent fixture for the time being to your scalp.
Oh, and it comes with a fluffy tail too! Adorable.
WHAT
The tenth Amani TDM!
WHEN
March 22nd, 2023
KINKS OF THE MONTH
★ Oviposition
★ Predator/Prey
★ Bloodplay
★ Monsterfucking
★ Predicament Bondage
★ Predator/Prey
★ Bloodplay
★ Monsterfucking
★ Predicament Bondage
WHAT'S YOUR DTF STATUS?
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.
TIME FOR TEA
As Spring begins to bloom across the simulation, so do more variety of flora. Thanks to the influence of inhabitants present and past, more and more life is being breathed into this little simulated world. It makes for things to be a little more homey... And a lot of these new plants also make for excellent tea!
Fancy ceramic sets can be found scattered throughout the simulation. They'll always be full and piping hot no matter how much a character drinks.
Each tea will have its own special effects. They'll be properly labeled with a cute tag that on the front reads "Drink me!" and on the backside says exactly what it does. Of course, depending on where the tea set was placed it's very possible the tag may be missed or simply overlooked.
Either way, they all taste great!
Each tea will have its own special effects. They'll be properly labeled with a cute tag that on the front reads "Drink me!" and on the backside says exactly what it does. Of course, depending on where the tea set was placed it's very possible the tag may be missed or simply overlooked.
Either way, they all taste great!
- ★ Mushroom Tea » Things are about to get trippy. Inhabitants will experience hallucinations that turn the world topsy turvy. Are you seeing double? No, there's actually two of you and you're just seeing through both their eyes. Woah.
★ Pu-erh Tea » This tea will stop you right in your tracks. No, literally- Anyone that drinks this will become paralyzed from the neck down. The only thing that seems to bring back sensation is a peaceful touch.
★ Assam Tea » This tea makes you feel fancy. In fact, you just want to show off to any and everyone around. Even usually meek or shy characters will suddenly burst out of their shells and have newfound confidence after sipping this tea.
★ Roobios Tea » Is it just you or do your clothes suddenly feel... itchy? It's not your clothes, actually, it's just everything. This tea causes an itch that can't be scratched. At least, not by your hands. Someone else's though... That's another story! And if it feels a little too good? Don't worry about it.
ALL THAT GLITCHES IS GOLD
Characters that wander away from the main hub might find themselves walking through fields of clovers before long. It will spur on a sense of free-spirited fun that lends itself to one wanting to frolic and play. A good game of chase seems like a great idea right about now...
Why not? Considering everything that being in Amani means, your schedule is likely pretty free. Any inhabitants gifted a hat from the fae will want to be the ones to runaway. Anyone else will feel driven to catch them.
But how? Easy, with some golden rope! This enchanted thread will wrap around any runaway rabbits with ease. The only way to get out will be to tell the truth. If they lie instead, they'll only become even more tangled up.
For those that are especially tricky though and escape the rope, it will then morph into golden chains. These are heavier, sturdier, and... sexier? That's right, this time to get loose one must speak a sexual truth. Whether it be a fantasy or long-kept secret is up to them, but there's no escaping this time unless the fess up.
Though hopefully, you aren't late for a very important date since some of these patches of greenery are glitched. Time ends up a bit... Jeremy Bearimy in them, so to speak, and what feels like minutes might actually be days. Oops!
Just follow the golden brick road- Er, sorry, wrong theme. Follow the golden rope or chain and speak the truth to each other to get loose. Eventually, you'll step back out into the simulation proper and the glitch will correct itself.
Why not? Considering everything that being in Amani means, your schedule is likely pretty free. Any inhabitants gifted a hat from the fae will want to be the ones to runaway. Anyone else will feel driven to catch them.
But how? Easy, with some golden rope! This enchanted thread will wrap around any runaway rabbits with ease. The only way to get out will be to tell the truth. If they lie instead, they'll only become even more tangled up.
For those that are especially tricky though and escape the rope, it will then morph into golden chains. These are heavier, sturdier, and... sexier? That's right, this time to get loose one must speak a sexual truth. Whether it be a fantasy or long-kept secret is up to them, but there's no escaping this time unless the fess up.
Though hopefully, you aren't late for a very important date since some of these patches of greenery are glitched. Time ends up a bit... Jeremy Bearimy in them, so to speak, and what feels like minutes might actually be days. Oops!
Just follow the golden brick road- Er, sorry, wrong theme. Follow the golden rope or chain and speak the truth to each other to get loose. Eventually, you'll step back out into the simulation proper and the glitch will correct itself.
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.
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
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!
★ 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.
★ Make sure to dunk your questions/feedback in the thread below!
★ As mentioned before, this TDM will span March and April! While the events are canonical, they can be happening anytime in that timeframe.
★ And while there will be an event in April, anyone is welcome to hop into (haha, see what I did there) our current event if they'd rather!
★ We are currently at 31/40 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!
NAVIGATION
II
It is a rather poor depiction of any so-called afterlife by my measure. As such, I still find myself hard pressed to believe the claims and I have been here for several moons now. It is more akin to a gaol of a salacious persuasion, than any true afterlife.
I am Emet-Selch of the Convocation of Fourteen, though at present we are a touch understaffed. Nevertheless, I shall be glad to answer your questions.
[After all, this technically is part of his job at the Hall, offering guidance to those who need it...]
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Well met, Emet-Selch. I am Dimitrius Hysvear though in life many simply called me Dimitri. You have my thanks for sparing me your time. I am inclined to guess, as you said you have been here for several moons, that there is no way for me to simply... see myself to the exit and get on with my eternal sleep?
As such, has anyone here ascertained what purpose this veritable humiliation-box serves beyond torture?
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If we could only be so lucky as to simply leave and indulge in our well-earned rest, but fate has ever been unkind in mine experience.
From what they have allowed us to gathered, they are attempting to save what worlds remain, or at least those worlds they're allowing us to have access to. Through our efforts—both erotic and otherwise—have we proven capable of halting one star's end, and now we work to aid in its continued sustainability.
We, I say, but I suppose that is not entirely accurate. Some hope to continue to assist in its betterment, but not all. Such is the way of people divided without a unifying purpose. Or unifying pragmatism and sense, really.
However, I am not wont to believe such a noble purpose behind our gaoler's motives, I would say that the crux of our situation has not yet been laid fully bare. As such, torture may very well be part of it, we certainly have not disproven that possibility.
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Mercies... so we are to save a star through means of fornication.
So a portion of the population here is content to faff about in blissful idiocy, marvelous.
Well, you can count on my assistance in the furthering of either escape or otherwise, whatever will expedite this miserable experience.
Another, more personal question, if you would spare me a moment more. Would you have happen to have seen a large, Black Dragon here? Goes by the name of Akkelion, or a young girl named Lily?
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It would seem so, absurd as it is, it certainly works. I could hazard a guess as to why that might be the case, but it would be little more than a theory based upon mine own knowledge on matters of the soul and the intersection of life energies, such as aether and dynamis, though the latter I am scant an expert on. Only a rudimentary understanding, since it is a rather esoteric field of research, one that I had been denied proper study due to various reasons, but I digress.
Indeed some few are quite glad to stay birds within a cage, frolicking and fornicating to their hearts' content, and while I might have chosen to certainly make use of what tools and methods are available to me, I have little interest in staying in this gilded cage of debauchery forever. Yours will be welcomed assistance and company besides, given that we are of the selfsame mind.
As for the matter of your question, I fear I have not in either case. Close companions of yours, I wager?
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However, you are by far the most tolerable person I have met thus far, I will say as much.
Aye, disappointing but not surprising. I thank you for answering it all the same. Indeed,
they would be my family. At the very least, I can take heart knowing that they were spared this indignity.
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While I would not name myself an egotist, I feel it fair to confess I am not surprised given a large number of the populace here. Most I choose not to keep as personal company for they are less than tolerable for even the brief moments I find myself among their number.
You have my sincere condolences. It is never easy to be separated from one's family, but that they would be spared the humiliation of this humorless jest of an existence, well, beggars cannot be choosers.
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I cannot imagine the patience it must take.
Indeed, and there is no need, I have been apart from them thousands of years, what is a little more?
I digress. Tell me the time and place and I shall be there in agreeance with your schedule.
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Idly he muses on whether or not this is meant to contain them, over that which has otherwise been presented to surmise their wardens' designs. A gaol for fate's chosen sufferers, wouldn't that be poetic?
Though, "font of clownery" is rather apt for this circus of a simulation, and that gets an unseen smirk out of him.]
Why, I certainly have this afternoon free, simply by chance, though if you wish to hold off on such a lesson to properly gather your bearings first I would not blame you. It is much to take in, and even more to find your own dwelling.
Mayhap we can simply meet, commiserate on our absurd and piteous role we've been casted in against our will, I could assist you with getting properly acquainted with the city, Makmur. Or perhaps we could speak on matters strikingly similar beyond that which is within this gaol. I know all too well the burden you speak of, the separation from kin by millennia uncounted.
That is, of course, if such an offer would not be an imposition. It helps, sometimes, to find those who understand such woes, such burdens and their weight.
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It seems you and I would have much to speak on and much to do. I am amicable to any, but mayhaps a drink and a walk out of doors would soothe my agitated nerves best.
No imposition at all. I alone have shouldered my fate, it is... strange yet interesting that we should meet. How similar we appear to be at first glance, indeed. I am not opposed to conversing on it. It has been long since I've had a friendly ear lent.