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TDM #15
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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 might be 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.
WHAT
The fifteenth Amani TDM!
WHEN
May 22nd, 2024 (and until the next TDM!)
KINKS OF THE MONTH
★ Suspension
★ Cockwarming
★ Edging
★ Felching
★ Knotting
★ Cockwarming
★ Edging
★ Felching
★ Knotting
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 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 new inhabitants 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 nearly 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 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.
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 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 new inhabitants 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 nearly 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 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.
THE SEXY COMPENDIUM
Upon arrival to Amani, new inhabitants will be notified almost immediately of the sexy compendium that's uploaded to their DTF! This compendium lists all of the flora, fauna, unique geography, and miscellaneous items in Amani that might be worth looking at.
This database will update with seasonal highlights or places and items that might follow a theme! For example, the current theme is 'M' for May which means mushrooms,mermaids, and more!
While established inhabitants already know about all these things, it can't hurt to be reminded of what this simulated afterlife has to offer!
This database will update with seasonal highlights or places and items that might follow a theme! For example, the current theme is 'M' for May which means mushrooms,mermaids, and more!
While established inhabitants already know about all these things, it can't hurt to be reminded of what this simulated afterlife has to offer!
- ★ Mushroom Madness » Due to a combination of heightened humidity and rising temperatures, the fungi of the simulation are thriving. There are walking mushrooms - some even bigger than a person! - roaming about now.
And although usually a more rare occurrence, now found just about everywhere in the grasslands are a type of mushroom called changelings that typically grows in rings formations formally called 'fairy rings'. It's spores are able to physically alter both living and non-living things. Changes usually aren't immediate after stepping through a ring. Usually. Due to the current (albeit temporary) strange behavior, anyone that steps into a ring will immediately change their species.
Transformations are to closely-similar things: Humans to elves, animals to other animals, etc. In Amani, the longer you are transformed the more characters will find themselves with a slowly building insatiable lust. To reverse the transformation, usually all you need to do is wash the spores off and wait, but here there is the additional requirement: intimacy.
★ Thunderwyrms » Summer storms have been rolling through Amani lately and that means inhabitants new and old need to be on the lookout for one of the more deadly creatures of the simulation. Massive monstrous solitary worms that sleep and travel deep underground, thunderwyrms literally eat through the earth and are only drawn to the surface during storms. When they erupt from the earth, they are capable of massive destruction and then vanish without a trace. A thunderwyrm then spends its time underground digesting everything it devoured and increasing its size.
★ Mermaids » Near the coral reef in the ocean's shallows, there often swims a mermaid or two. While they were discovered to be linked mentally, they are a collective versus a hiveminded species though their leader Legion does have the ability to watch through their eyes. A kiss from a mermaid grants one a temporary aquatic adjustment of their own and ability to breathe beneath water temporarily. Though they have the instinct to drown anyone that endangers the reef, prove you mean no harm and they'll leave you be. Unless you venture into the waters at night. During the darkest hours, a separate species of mermaid swims dangerously around the reef. Although it looks like a beautiful maiden from above the waves, below her tail opens up to have a giant maw that catches fish to eat. You would be quite the treat!
★ (Docile) Daggerquills » Brightly colored bird boasting extremely tough tail feathers. Its pretty plumage is a familiar sight to the folks of it's homeland, Eos, who hunt the bird for sport. Daggerquill down is often sewn into the lining of coats and blankets for added warmth. Farmers in the region even use daggerquill droppings to rejuvenate infertile soil. It's tail feathers are sharp enough to be used as simple weapons. Attempting to battle these 8' long birds without a form of ranged weaponry is highly discouraged. ...Even if they are tasty.
Lately, an increase in population of these birds has been noted as well as a personality shift among some of them. There are quite a number of them that appear more docile than usual and would be perfect to perch nearby for a photo opportunity. So long as you don’t mean them any harm, they’ll be content to hang out and be part of your #afterlifeselfie collection.
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!
★ Feel free to check out the sexy compendium and also use whatever is listed there as you like! What's mentioned on the TDM are just suggestions and not only what's available! We want interested players to be able to make their own fun with what Amani has to offer and not feel limited to just the prompts provided here.
★ We are currently at 21/40 slots taken! Anyone wishing to claim a character must have an invite from someone currently in the game and follow the proper rules in place to be accepted into the community!
NAVIGATION
II.
Not for the worse or better, just changed. So has she. ]
It's a good thing fish are bothered by sound and not looks, [ she teases, giving a light smile up at the man where she now stands not too far away from his side. Despite the heat usually meaning she wore less than more, she's got on a pink, frilled short-sleeved blouse and long white skirt on. Her hair is tied by vines up in a messy bun with a couple of curls falling out to frame her face. ] And a good thing I'm not bothered by either! Penny for your thoughts, maybe? If not, that's fine too.
I know it's a lot when you first get here. Sometimes you just need the quiet.
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Still for as aware as he is of everything around him none of it makes sense and seeing a woman dressed in something so light and casual is jarring in its own right. How could anyone wear something so fragile in such a dark world, when every hand was needed to desperately try to keep the power running, food growing, the barriers around the city intact. His own clothes had been run into ruin until he'd finally had to surrender the jacket he'd kept and repaired and had refitted for decades. The heavy materials of the Kingsglaive uniform eventually replacing it. Now even that was damaged, probably beyond repair, but he had nothing else to replace it so he continued to wear it, even with one sleeve missing, the left shoulder frayed and singed and that arm in a sling to keep his shoulder stabilized.]
A lot. [He repeats with a slow, careful nod, a note of disbelief in his tone. Icy eyes lift to the skylights overhead, squinting against the brilliant sunlight. She has no idea, really. Still he can hardly fault her for that, strange as it is to have someone approach him like this. Not just because he is a severe man and his expression conveys that, but because few would so brazenly walk up to The Immortal for small talk.
No, not few. No one. Even Monica would not dare.]
Not so much the quiet as... [Another glance up at the sky beyond.] the light.
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The light? [ she questions, tilting her head slightly before looking up. She closes her eyes and gives a hum at the gentle warmth of the sunlight. After a moment, she's beaming up at him again herself. ]
Well, there's plenty of it here so hopefully you get used to it! [ Literally and metaphorically, but they can focus on the literal for right now.
She almost makes a remark about getting used to her, too, since she's been here so long but... Well, after Seteth- Rosie knows her staying isn't as certain as before. Anyone can leave in a blink so best not to tempt fate by saying how she's one of the few remaining from the start. ] But if you ever need a break, I can dim the lights at my record shop for some relief. Rosie's Records, named by and after the owner: me!
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The offer to give him a place where it is darker while he adjusts to the light is a strange one, though he can appreciate the sentiment regardless of how little he would ever take her up on it. But hearing the type of shop she runs... His gaze turns to finally look fully at her for a long moment. His expression almost unnervingly neutral and intense.]
A music store. [Not exactly a question so much as a confirmation. How long ago was it that the last radio towers were lost? How long before that when it became imperative to keep them functioning just for the ability to communicate between outposts. He's sure it's been at least 6 years since he's heard anything other than the soft humming of some of the Galahdian glaives that survived so long into the Night or perhaps the odd occasion when Dave would dust off the old guitar that lived under the seat of his truck.]
It's... been a long time since I've heard any. [He bites down on a groan as he finally turns toward her though she may note the way the his jaw tightens and his eyes narrow ever so slightly against the pain he must be in. Holding out his uninjured hand he finally does the polite thing and introduces himself.] Rosie. Marshal Leonis.
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The stifled, pained groan doesn't escape her notice. Although she doesn't comment on it immediately, she will. Had he not been healed at the infirmary...? ]
Nice to meet you, Marshal! [ she chirps, meeting his hand with her much smaller one to shake. ] And, hey. If you need any healing, I'm happy to help. [ It's even been upgraded recently thanks to one of her boyfriends. ]
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[He's not sure there's any real enjoyment to be had these days. But perhaps, here, where Noctis is alive and well and the boys can be together and find some measure of peace from the Astral's games.... maybe here there could be. For them if nothing else.]
Hn- [He glances down at his shoulder, lips pressed into a thin line. Oh Rosie, you should have seen the state he was in when he got here. This is nothing.] It is fine.
[Is it though? No, not exactly, but it's as good as it's going to get with the limited assistance he's willing to let other people give him.]
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Okay, [ she answers, biting back the want to push. She's... trying to be better about that. Boundaries, and all. ] But if that changes, let me know! It'd only take a couple of minutes and you'd hopefully feel a lot better.
[ Calmer, too, since that's a fun new quirk of her healing she's yet to discover. ]
Otherwise, I've been here a while so I wouldn't mind showing you around.
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Still the offer of healing has him tilting his head at her after a moment, brow furrowing. Blonde, healing magic, floral name...]
I've been told there are people from many worlds here. You are not from Eos, are you?
[If people come from different times of course she could be from a point long before Lunafreya or even Sylva. Ardyn is here, after all, and for all Cor knows he could be from anywhere in a span of two millennia.]
If you want to walk while we talk, that's... fine.
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Sure, [ she says, to the walking and talking. She'll start to lead the way through the hub, familiar as someone who has been here a while would be. ]
I'm not, no. I've been there though! It's... a long story, but there was a 'glitch' here that let us temporarily visit other worlds. [ Strange and surreal, but enlightening. Seeing a side of Noctis she didn't get to here. Ardyn, too, though they didn't have any actual interaction with him. Didn't want to disrupt the timeline too much for her presence. ]
I'm the only one from my homeworld though so far. [ Probably for the best that way, she doesn't say. ]
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It is... not a happy place to visit. Not any longer.
[A pity she did not get to see it before the world collapsed into ruin. When Eos was still their shining star.
That she is alone from her world, lost without anyone to anchor her, is a terrible thing. He doesn't know what he'd have done here if the boys had not found him. But she seems to be doing well enough, for whatever it's worth.
All she gets is small grunt of acknowledgment for that, a slight nod. Never one to distribute sympathy readily and what else would he say to that?]
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Her murder was just a small blip. No need to get into all of that with him. ]
No? [ she questions. ] That's a shame. I mean, I kind of... knew things went south after a while but, like, I'm sorry they did. I know Noctis and folks are working to try and make it right though. That's why we're here, after all!
[ And so is she, but- In her own ways. Ones that no one else needs to know about. It's fine. ]