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TDM: JUNE

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SCENARIO ONE

You wake up on the beach thoroughly drenched, with your mouth full of sand. The salt water is making all the cuts and scrapes on your skin sting and the sand isn't helping. The air is slightly humid, ruining any feeling of refreshment you might have gotten from your dip in the ocean.

There are lights in the distance, but the unfriendly scent of gunpowder fills the air. If you're lucky, you're alone. If not - you might find yourself staring up into a pair of monstrous eyes or down the barrel of a local's shotgun.

SCENARIO TWO

So you've just arrived, and already some of the natives are trying to get on your good side with offers of food, shelter and other luxuries in return for hoping you don't eat them. They even have some helpful pamphlets to share with you. "How To Deal With Changes", "Alternatives to Human Flesh", "What to Expect When You're Expecting (to turn into a monster)" are all on the more informative end of the scale. There's even some detailing certain monsters, and the changes they go through. Some of these seem to have been passed down from one monster to the next.

Among these however, are some... not so helpful ones. "Bunnyipyips And You", "Axe Thief Axehounds," and "So you're becoming a Fur Bearing Trout" among others. Sometimes they have marks on them from previous readers saying they're lies, or pointing out good "jokes."

Then there are the people who aren't happy to see you at all. Glares and silent, judging stares if you're lucky, torches and pitchforks attempting to drive you out of the town if you're not. You may need a friend to help you.

SCENARIO THREE

"Seek us out," the voice whispers in your head, and before you have time to question it you've found yourself in someplace entirely alien.

Maybe it's the Fog God's ghostly town of Dyster, where exultant followers dance around bonfires and sing their praises to the skies above. Maybe it's the Fourth God's arcade, with small robots wheeling about amidst the lights and colors of old pinball machines.

Only one thing is certain: you are not alone, in this sacred place.

SCENARIO FOUR

The time has come and you've found yourself becoming a monster. Is the change instant, or gradual? Are you familiar enough with monsters to know what's happening, or is it a complete shock? Feel free to pick any monster type for this prompt, but note that you may not get the same one in game.

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Annie isn't at work today instead, she is out taking in the town. She had already heard from someone that there was someone new in town. Okay? Was she supposed to welcome them? Maybe she should just in case some of the natives try helping.

She keeps the small bag with some needed purchases she had made close to her side while she casually strolls around looking for whatever path the newest person to town may have taken.

Oh. Well, isn't he dramatic? Annie smiles to herself before she makes an effort at making her presence known. "Hey? You alright there?"

Oh. He is tall and prickly looking. She had better be careful as she is still mostly human. "I see the welcoming committee tried saying hello."

It's very much a no freaking duh based on the pamphlets in his hands. "Those aren't really accurate at all. Sorry about that."

Seto ignored the first question, given it was in his honest opinion a question where the answer ought to be obvious to anyone with a set of working eyes and given the girl obviously had those...

"Yes. I'm not sure if I prefer the shotgun or their overzealous attempt to fawn over me." Yes, sarcasm. He has that in spades currently and it's an excellent go to since he's still trying to get his bearings over this and he's sure as hell not going to admit to the confusion and disquiet he's feeling currently despite his best efforts to stamp both down.

At her comment about pamphlets, he gives vent to a rather disgusted sigh. He had a feeling they'd be useless but he had rather hoped there might be something in them which would shed some light on his current situation. Inasmuch as he hated to admit ignorance currently, he did need answers, and currently the best source seemed to be the girl before him. She wasn't looking at him as if she wanted to gut him and she wasn't begging to give him things as the so called 'welcoming committee' had been, so it was an improvement in that regard at least.

"If you know how inaccurate they are, can you fill me in on just what the hell is going on?"

"Shotgun?" Annie looks a bit flummoxed by that. Who the hell pulls a gun on someone? How barbaric to greet new people like that. Boy, will she be letting it be known that she disapproves of that so much.

"Geezs. I'm glad you didn't get hurt too badly." She flicks some of her long hair back. Annie isn't going to fuss or fawn over him like some Mother Hen or fangirl. He appears to be a big boy, and besides that she has no idea who he is.

Although his eyes look familiar.

"Okay. So you woke up on a beach." Annie is doing the slow burn introduction.

"The same thing happened to me about a month ago along with some others. Apparently we've all been kidnapped. Which yeah, I know, no freaking duh. But according to what I've put together they believe that some kind of god they call the Fog God has been kidnapping people to this place. Outsiders slowly start to transform into monsters."

Annie looks at Seto carefully considering how to get him to believe her. There is no way. She hasn't started changing yet. "I haven't had anything happen just yet. I've been keeping an eye out for any weirdness."

Yes. He hadn't been hurt, however the same couldn't be said for the man who'd pointed the gun at him, given he'd taken the gun from him and while he hadn't made good on his actual threat, he had made it extremely clear that he hadn't appreciated the hostility by using the shotgun stock as a makeshift club up against the other man's skull seconds after claiming the weapon. He was silently regretting the fact he'd tossed the weapon before actually entering the town now, yet there had no way for him to know there was an actual need for it and he hadn't wanted to cause further hostility showing up armed with what would have been an obviously local firearm in the hands of a foreigner.

He listened the explanation, and the first part was all very well and obvious. The latter part however... it sounded suspiciously like bullshit to him, though it would explain the hostility he's encountered.

"By transform into monsters...you can't mean that literally." He's met plenty people who were outright monsters in human form in his life, hell, he was one of them for a time until a certain spirit had forced him into a coma. So the idea of people becoming figurative monsters isn't too hard to swallow...

Literal monsters however. That he was skeptical of and it definitely showed in his demeanor.

"Literal. I had to pick up a job to get by. My boss? Naga. Honest to God," Annie said seriously. "She's not from here either, but she's been here long enough that she opened two businesses just because she could pretty much."

Annie just looks him over quickly. His almost cyberpunk looking gear is going to stick out like a sore thumb. Not to mention the fact he is so damn tall. Annie tosses her hair again.

"Actually. She has welcome packets set up at Gan Eden. That's where I've been working. This whole place has a weird mishmash of how things work. Like on one hand you run into a sort of 1920s aesthetic," she motions to her outfit. Obviously she had been forced to adapt her manner of dress but there is still a faint edge of someone who doesn't belong here.

"I could.... take you there?" The offer is there if he wants to take it. Annie isn't about to drag him all over the place against his will. If she's going to lead him around it's going to be willing.

He's still skeptical, but she is offering to lead him to a place that might actually be more useful than this area. He has no reason to decline her offer The trip will let him mull over what she's given him so far in way of answers.

"Very well. Take me there."

If nothing else, he would learn about a second location and just what these welcome packets were.

Annie tucks the small parcel she was carrying under one arm to make sure she wouldn't drop it. She doesn't want to have to retrace her steps to go find it later.

"It's a bit of a walk. If you have any questions on the way I don't mind answering them as best I can."

She doesn't wait for him to respond. She just turns and starts walking. He is tall enough that it should be easy for him to match her speed. Damn, he is super tall. Annie is easily a foot or more shorter than him.

That is kind of annoying. Stupid tall people.

Edited 2020-06-28 04:19 (UTC)

Seto does catch up with her easily enough, though he doesn't immediately say anything to her as he adjusts his pace to match hers. He's mulling over what she's given him so far, as well as actually giving the pamphlets he still held an actual once over. Some of the titles were utter nonsense and idiotic and those got tossed away over his shoulder in silent disgust.

The few he kept, he ended up perusing in silence. It would seem according to these few, that the girl he was with was actually telling the truth in the matter of the monster issue.

When he did finally speak up some time into their walk, it was an unrelated question. "We skipped introductions back there, care to introduce yourself?"

If he was going to be stuck here for the time being, it would behoove him to work on building connections here.

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