▶ 004. TEST DRIVE & SIMULATION #4

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TEST DRIVE & SIMULATION #4

CONTENT WARNINGS: forced partial nudity, dead bodies

▶ 001. ARRIVAL / CAFETERIA.

It happens in the blink of an eye -- a dash of time. You're taken from where you were. What you were doing.. it isn't important anymore, and slowly, you give up to desire your normal life. When you awake, figures are looking down on you from a surgical table.

"Yeah, this one will do; let's take them to the rest," That's all you see before losing consciousness again, only to wake up in a pod with many others.

"Your questions will be answered soon enough as I'm sure you will have many," a female, robotic voice says.

Just then, your pod opens in a dim corridor with many others. Your new life is about to begin... whether you like it or not.

The pods drain their stasis fluid which wakens each Outsider. When Outsiders emerge from their pod in only their undergarments which have been supplied to them and head to a locker room in the medical bay, to find a towel to dry off with, a set of gray loungewear to wear as LILITH makes the final decision in organizing the Outsider to their rightful teams. If a character has any accessibility needs, they will be found here. It's about then they will feel a sharp pain at the back of their eyes, almost like there’s a foreign body lodged on the inside of their head. This pain will subside quickly as their body adapts to the changes, but there will always be a sensation of something being not quite right. That their bodies have been changed forever. They would be correct in thinking that. In the pod, all Outsiders have been surgically fitted with ocular and brain implants that will enable them to communicate with LILITH and the rest of the crew, and feed them the information they require. Almost like a computer screen has been loaded into their brains, they will see a loading screen as the implant completes its download. A questionnaire will then pop up, waiting for their answer. A voice, robotic and feminine, will also read along in their brain for them.

█ █ █ LOADING COMPLETE … BEGIN ORIENTATION …

Name:
Username:
Civilian Identity:
Age:
Species:
Origin:

What is your fantasy?

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The system will give Outsiders one chance to provide a truthful answer and choose their username and civilian identity. Should they refuse to cooperate, the implant will download the answer directly from their brain (and give them a username or civilian name against their will). This questionnaire will then be posted on the network for all to view and reply to. Almost like an ice-breaker, if you will. LILITH wants all their newest recruits to learn about each other!

Outsiders will receive a quick brief about their situation: They will be told that the year is 2278, and they have been taken to Neo Tokyo, one of the last bastions of mankind in a world terrorized by various Kaiju and monsters. Only a third of the population remains, and LILITH has gathered talented people from other dimensions here as a last ditch effort to save humanity. Outsiders are free to continue asking LILITH questions through their implant, but there’s no guarantee they will provide them with a straight answer …

Outsiders will also notice an implant in their dominant wrist. This implant has a barcode in it that will enable them to purchase goods from the local stores in Neo Tokyo. They will receive a starting balance of 10,000 KRYPTOS (about USD 66), which is barely enough for a few good meals, groceries and supplies. They can view their current balance through a hologram window projected by their ocular implant.

Once they leave the medical bay, they’ll be able to grab a quick meal in the cafeteria and mingle with the other Outsiders just waking up. Today’s menu is creamy crab onigiri & ginger salad, all packed neatly in a food ration tray.

That familiar, robotic voice is heard again:

"Greetings, my name is SYNTHIA and I will be taking care of you today while the rest of the crew is busy handling a recent issue. Worry not, my children. You are in safe hands."

▶ 002. CLEAN UP THE LAND OF DREAMS.

After nearly a month of investigation and monitoring everyone’s health, Tokyo Disney is finally cleared. Outsiders will be sent back to Tokyo Disneyland to resume their work. LILITH will order them to go collect the rotting remains of the Yamadenki and any bodies that were left behind from the battle.

When they return, they will find the park is still left in ruin from the battle and the air smells horrible. They will have to sift through the rubble for the remains of Yamadenki, rift mutated corpses, hybrids, and fallen scientists and mercenaries. It’s dirty work but someone has to do it. Luckily, LILITH has provided a sanitation suit that some Outsiders may remember. There are only a few in various colors, and those who reject the sanitation suit will be provided with gloves and encouraged to activate their plugsuit instead. After they’ve removed the bodies, they will be told to help clean up the park. The park has always been a popular place for teenagers to sneak off to and while they can keep the area closed off for the safety of the majority, there’s no way to keep out the most dedicated troublemakers. Some of the rides have some residual charge in their engines and can be ridden.. maybe test drive them for a spin? Nobody has to know you're doing it, right?

Furthermore, LILITH is interested in what remains of the secret labs. Most of the computer hardware and records have already been confiscated but considering how they’ve had almost a whole month to rest, they should be fit and ready to do some heavy lifting, surely. Most notably, LILITH will task the Outsiders with moving and transporting heavy machinery such as the electric generators, refrigerators, freezers, incubators, water distillers, and all sorts of fancy equipment. They will have to find a way to drag all of this out of the tunnels, up to the surface, and to the transport vehicles waiting to take them back to LILITH. If they look around, they may find a few golf carts in the tunnels but whether or not they have keys or even work is to be determined.

Observant Outsiders will spot some men in suits appraising the park and nodding their heads. Could there be plans for a revival of Tokyo Disneyland?

▶ 003. DATAPORTAL TESTING.

Following the clean up efforts at Disney, things begin to happen at LILITH. The engineering department gets to work and it isn’t long until they announce they’ve finally managed to get some of the dataportals running. It seems the Yamadenki remains had some special properties that they could use to stabilize and power the right technology. This is excellent news or LILITH and the administrators get to work communicating with other organizations around the world.

In the meantime, these dataportals need to be tested and Outsiders will be asked to volunteer. Should they agree, the engineers and technicians will explain that they’re going to try a short-distance test first. They still have access to their old base in Kyoto. It was abandoned years ago after a particularly devastating kaiju attack. While they were able to secure most items of importance in their evacuation, it wouldn’t hurt to go back and do another sweep for things that may have been left behind like medical supplies, tools, technology, and food/drink supplies.

Characters will be able to travel back and forth between Kyoto and Tokyo while they test the portals. There are some known effects of portal jumping but whether they start to take effect on the first jump or after a certain amount depends on the person. Symptoms include nausea, headaches, dizziness, and a loss of spatial awareness so they may get into people’s spaces, bump into things, miss targets, or get lost easily.

▶ 004. KYOTO & KAIJU.

Outsiders will be transported to the Old Kyoto Base with a small team of operatives. In terms of structure, the Kyoto Base looks similar to that of Neo Tokyo, with the remnants of a training ground, research labs and dormitories free to explore. Once upon a time, this base was filled with LILITH personnel. What had happened to them, along with all the other residents of Kyoto, is anyone’s guess.

With some work, they’ll be able to kickstart the emergency generators which will be enough to provide the power needed to search parts of the base. Characters can also leave the base and explore what remains of Kyoto. The streets are empty and the city has been abandoned since the attack. The Imperial Palace is still standing, albeit in decrepit conditions from years of neglect, and the once picturesque, historical streets now sit in ruin. Keep searching, and you will see the scars left behind from the attack - monstrous claw marks against a building wall, and forgotten human remains.

With the lack of human interference, Kyoto has become overrun with wild animals such as macaques, deer, foxes and tanuki. A herd of boar-like Kaiju have also taken their place at the top of the ecosystem. This Kaiju, the Yama-Kujira, is of special interest to LILITH.


█ █ █ MONSTER DEBRIEF SHEET
NAME: Yama-Kujira
HEIGHT: 10 meters (adult), 2 meters (infant)
WEIGHT: 200 kg (adult), 60kg (infant)
CLASS: Piglets are harmless, Adults are a moderate threat
LOCATION: Kyoto, Japan
ABILITIES: The adult Yama-Kujira compensate for their terrible eyesight with a vicious attitude. They will charge at everything and everyone at the slightest disturbance, be it the sound of footsteps or even a bird flapping its wings. They have a keen sense of smell and hearing, and sharp tusks that they use to maul their prey. Fiercely territorial, especially near to their nests. Hates loud noises and the colour red. In groups, they have the ability to cause a minor earthquake by stomping into the ground. The Yama-Kujira piglets, on the other hand, are blind, harmless, docile and do not have tusks. May charge ineffectively to practice their skills and are strong enough to knock a person over. They enjoy fruit, nuts and milk.
WEAKNESS: They are virtually blind and rely on their smell/hearing, so taking those senses out will disorientate them. Otherwise weak to being flipped over and has a soft underbelly. Getting their tusks trapped in something will temporarily immobilize them as well.
EXTRA NOTES: Eats primarily vegetation and local wildlife but the adults will kill anything that moves.

█ █ █ MISSION OBJECTIVE:
✖ Eliminate all adult Yama-Kujira within the area.
✖ Lure in and capture infants to surrender to LILITH.
✖ Bring back Yama-Kujira specimens, alive or dead.
✖ Scavenge for useful technology or supplies from around Kyoto and the Kyoto base.

█ █ █ ATTACHED PHOTO:

▶ 005. MAID DAY.

While Outsiders test out the portal technology and the engineers make adjustments to make traveling more stable, the administrators will announce they’ve touched base with other organizations around the world and have begun to process travel documents for everyone.

In the meantime, they will have to help do paperwork which includes repeatedly confirming details like their birthdays, hair color, age, blood types, and so on. They will have to fill out multiple forms again and again for administration, insurance, and passport reasons, as well as reasons that just don’t make sense. The paperwork is endless and it’s a lot to keep track of but everything is due on May 10th. To make matters worse, there is the longest line at the immigration office that does not seem to be moving at all. For some reason, paperwork submission needs to be done in person, even with all the advances in technology.

On the day of the deadline, something bizarre happens. Those with style upgrades should be familiar with LILITH’s state-of-the-art clothing-changing technology. On May 10th, nanobots will engulf some Outsiders and overwrite their clothing, forcing them into a maid outfit (or butler outfit, depending on player preference). Seok Dang’s back from his suspension (is that why he’s been so quiet and nobody has seen him around base?), and he was given the task to encourage all the Outsiders to finish their paperwork.

“I’m back, baby! Daddy’s hoooome!! Did you like the frills? Enjoying them? Everyone say ‘thank you Seokdang-oppaaaaa!’. The Captain says you gotta do your paperwork, and some lazy bastards haven’t turned theirs in yet. Unless you wanna be in that cute lacy skirt forever, let’s encourage everyone to do their homework, okay? Well, if you guys decide to just stay like this forever, I ain’t complaining. It’s pretty easy on the eyes. Next time, maybe I'll put you hot kittens in some tight leather. Who knows!”

Outsiders will find themselves dressed in maid costumes until everyone has completed their paperwork, so LILITH is heavily encouraging you to persuade your friends! Once everyone has submitted their paperwork, they’ll be able to uninstall the maid upgrade… but they can keep it as a gift! Those who would like to opt-out can simply have their clothing not be effected, and this prank works with those who have a style upgrade or are in their LILITH given attire (plugsuit or loungewear.)

▶ 006. AFTERWORD.

Welcome to our fourth TDM! All TDM threads are game canon; characters who don't app will be glitched out of this world. As TDM will act as the event, existing characters are heavily encouraged to participate. We encourage this format for top levels: CHARACTER | CANON | CURRENT / NEW CHARACTER. '

There are currently 16 available player slots. New players are welcome to use this TDM to get samples for when APPLICATIONS open.

None of the prompts suit your fancy? Feel free to check out our main base and locations page and make up your own prompts!

Use the code provided in the ARRIVAL prompt if you'd like to participate in the ice breaker and place it in your top level along with your other prompts. Anything such as civilian name or username can be marked as UNDECIDED if you're unsure of what you'd like your character to have for now. Though it says 'Orientation', existing characters can still participate in the ice-breaker.

Please note that all tags in this log will count for 2 reward points each and will count towards May AC.

TDM #4 BREAKDOWN/RECAP (CLICK TO EXPAND)

1. ARRIVAL PROMPT: Newcomers arrive with ocular and brain implants and told a breakdown of the premise with an icebreaker orientation to fill out. Their first cafeteria meal is crab onigiri & ginger salad. Newcomers are placed in gray loungewear while they are being sorted into teams.

2. TOKYO DISNEYLAND CLEAN UP: Outsiders are sent back to Tokyo Disney to gather resources from the Yamadenki attack. Outsiders may wear a sanitation suit or use gloves. Some rides have residual energy should anyone want to try and take them for a spin.

3. DATAPORTAL TESTING: Resources gained from the Yamadenki creature have supplied LILITH with enough energy to use the dataportal to teleport outsiders to a former base location in Kyoto. Using the dataportal may give Outsiders limited side effects.

4. KYOTO & KAIJU: In lieu of a Simulation in Seok Dang's absence, Outsiders who teleport to Kyoto will be given the task to fight and clear out the Yama-Kujira, a boar like creature.

5. MAID DAY: Outsiders must fill out repetitive paperwork, which foreshadows travel in the future, and threatening not to will result in a forced maid outfit, courtesy of Seok Dang and his return.

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maki zen'in | jjk | new player

[grade4]

MAKI ZEN'IN

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Username: Maki
Civilian Identity: Mai
Age: 16
Species: Human
Origin: Japan, Earth

What is your fantasy?

Unlimited junk food

credit

hey, I didn't answer that!

Clean Up

[ There was a time she wanted to go to Tokyo Disney. She was little and glanced at pictures in some magazine she flipped through while on an errand, but of course there was never any real chance of going. Typical that she finally gets to go but it's a complete wreck. Ah well.

The sanitation suit is only rejected because it's hard to move in. She can be seen lifting corpses, even the most mutated and bloated, with ease for disposal. Her face scrunches then slowly relaxes as she gets accustomed to the smell, thick and repugnant with her advanced senses. However, more impressive is how she later carries equipment from the labs on her own. She settles it on her shoulder, grips with both hands, and takes her time walking it from the tunnels to the vehicles.

And if there's equipment too big for her to carry alone, she'll look at the nearest person and jab toward it with her thumb: ]

I can lift the back if you go in front.

Kyoto Kaiju

[ Dealing with the adult Yama-Kujira kaiju is easy enough. Maki lets them charge her, body crouched and low, and grabs them by the tusks when they enter her striking range. They engage in a standoff then, an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object, waiting for them to lose momentum so she can flip them onto their back. Then she kills it with a sword swing at the belly.

But the children... they're helpless without their parents to guard them. They're half as big as the adults and don't seem to care for her presence. It's pitiful and sad. Which begs the question-- ]

What do they want to do with the young ones?

text; @CURSE

[gimu]

junk food. what kind? what constitutes as ‘junk’?

[grade4]

anything that's unhealthy. chips, candy, bubble tea.

Kyoto Kaiju

[saudadist]

[ "Nothing good," is what she wants to say. That or "something to do with bacon," but such thoughts are a bit too macabre when facing down the piglets before them. She didn't think she'd feel bad about seeing them without their folks, considering the latter were so life-threatening, but now? Yeah, now she just feels bad. ]

Probably best if I don't say what I'm thinking.

[grade4]

[ To that, Maki shrugs ]

Just say it.

[ She's thinking about experimentation or the beasts being torn apart for study. None of it is very pretty. ]

Kyoto Kaiju

[fourmeansdeath]

[ On his part, Albert has been providing covering fire at range, the percussive noise of the shots distressing the kaiju almost more than the actual gunshots. With the boar dispatched, the older man hops down from his perch to get a closer look at the "piglets". ]

...Contain 'em, I suppose. These critters don't belong here any more than we do, you know.

[ In casual tones, as if this isn't something he's had looming in his mind since being spirited off into this place: ]

Why, do you think LILITH has other plans for 'em?

[grade4]

[ He has a point, but LILITH has chosen to put them to work in their displacement. Should she really spare any thought to the Kaiju and what fate awaits them? Monsters are monsters, like how curses are curses. Get rid of them and move on with your day. ]

If they want us to round them up instead of killing them, then there's a reason for that. What happens when they're contained is the question.

[ Honestly, she would rather kill them. At least then she knows they're dead. ]

cleanup

[elfsufficient]

[ There's something peculiar about the sight of a young woman in a purple sanitation suit with an old, weathered and crooked wooden staff levitating large equipment with magic, but is it more or less peculiar than the sight of an even younger woman carrying them on her shoulders like they're nothing more than sacks of potatoes?

What a strange place full of equally strange people... ]

I can try to make it a little lighter for you to carry, if you'd like.

[grade4]

[ Ugh... the sanitation suit looks so big and silly. She's glad she isn't wearing it, even if it carries risk. Her body can heal faster and better than a typical person though. ]

Can you? I won't say no if that's possible.

[ Whatever gets the job faster... Maki doesn't like relying on others, but everyone has a role to play. ]

@luckystrike

[sanctus_dei]

The junk food answer is probably way more achievable and honest than most of these other answers that I've read. So many people here wishing for world peace. Dull.

[grade4]

humans will always fight over something. and it'd be nice to have all the snacks I want without paying for them.

@Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight

[blastedass]

get used to it; they can rip out your thoughts and post them whenever they want.

[grade4]

[ ...what a username...

is that what all these implants I woke up with are for? because that's bullshit.

Clean Up

[blastedass]

[He's pretty sure a lot of people are disappointed with their "first time" going to Tokyo Disney. Mostly because a lot of people seem to come from Japan in their world. Or at least know of it from their Earth. But considering the state of this world and Neo Tokyo, would anyone who's been here more than a few weeks think the version in this world was anything but a wreck?

Whatever. Cleaning the underground area is much better than cleaning the surface with the rotting corpses and debris. The first time he spots the woman, he's momentarily paused at the sheer scarring on her body. She reminds him almost immediately of Dabi. Charred and burnt over the villain's figure, though without the garish purple wrinkled flesh. Something about her also reminds him vaguely of Toji and Megumi... but the latter never said anything about a sister. The next time he sees her, she's got a fucking tank on her shoulder like it's a duffel bag. Fuck.

But third time's the charm and Bakugo scowls at the sudden call. Instead, he gestures to a trailer that's currently hitched to the back of his car as he heads towards her to help lift it. Between the two of them, it shouldn't be a problem.]

Move it on there.

[grade4]

Sure.

[ She doesn't like being ordered around, but she's not going to clean up this whole park alone. Teamwork makes the dream work, or whatever the hell corny phrase Gojo used to holler back when he was her teacher. She can't believe she even remembers that. Her pace is brisk and still without urgency as she makes it over to the trailer. ]

Let's lift it on three. You count.

clean up o/ i'm so sorry

[gorb]

I don't think so.

( His voice comes from behind her, obscured in the shadow of the laboratory hallway. It hadn't been all that long ago since he tried beating this girl to death - a few days, at best, if his understanding is anything to go by. She's remarkably recovered for someone who he last saw in a pool of her own blood, but then again, Geto's also sporting an arm that Okkotsu Yuta cleanly removed so who is he to question anything? It would be wise to leave well enough alone, but unfortunately the longer he's here the more angry he becomes, the frustration baring his teeth in the dark.

He had been so close.

And now this, now nothing but having to keep forging forward in a life he didn't ask for. )

If it isn't the Zenin clan reject. ( Voice cold but lazy. ) Well, there's no accounting for taste.

lmao don't be, i love it

[grade4]

[ That ugly snide voice gets a sharp blink, then a proper cock of her head past the shoulder to confirm suspicions. Kenjaku... but then he speaks again and she's truly caught off guard. The same insult he cast her way when he approached the grounds of the Tokyo school, though without the bite.

No, no, that isn't it. The bite is still there, for however droll it may be, but it doesn't hurt. His words don't mean anything anymore. ]

Taste? [ She repeats the word, a little dumbly, then turns her body around proper. ] What, are you too weak to help a poor outcast like me?

@MONEY$HOT

[assassinsgreed]

<sub>[ It doesn’t surprise him that there’s some remnants of his old clan trickling in here, but there’s a huge piece of the puzzle that he is missing in regards to what is going on ten years in the future, and Maki is the missing piece from that.

He almost just scrolls past it, because he doesn’t care that his family is still breeding and breeding and expanding the clan, but this name rings a bell, only because he remembers girl names better than boy names, and that pink haired vessel said something about a girl named Maki.

Maybe he should poke her brain a bit before exposing his connection. Seems smart. ]</sub>

what’s stopping you from eating a bunch of junk food?

[grade4]

money, mostly. my health too. you can't just eat junk food all the time.

@ambrosia

[picky]

Is that not your real answer then?

[grade4]

[ ... ]

no, it is my real answer.

[ embarrassing! ]

@greatvalue

[newphew]

Wait, so you eat garbage?

[ literally......? ]

[grade4]

[ bruh. ]

yeah, you got me.

kyoto kaiju

[memors]

[ Situations like this keep cropping up, don't they? First the hybrids, creatures bred for the sake of experimentation handed over to LILITH to do god-knows-what, and now these young kaiju, which likely haven't learned enough from their parents to fend for themselves in the wild. If they do survive on their own, they'll only become nuisances in the long run. Death is the logical, even merciful end for them, and yet...

It doesn't sit well with him. Ironic, perhaps, but it's here that his learned human tendencies have proved...most difficult. ]

...We should kill them, too. Swiftly, I think. They shouldn't suffer.

[ In the end, they're just animals, following instinct. He draws his sword, but he glances to the girl, curious to see if she hesitates, too. ]

kyoto kaiju

[heroforall]

[Izuku's face scrunches up in a distaste that he can't conceal. He's never had a very good poker face. But in this case he feels a greater sense of unease.]

I don't know exactly what they want the young yama-kujira for. But I know that they've used kaiju we've fought in the path for experiments and...food. They were able to get the portals working thanks to the remains of kaiju we fought at Tokyo Disneyland.

That's probably why they want us to collect whatever specimen we can.