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April | Test Drive Meme

Jikan Test Drive Meme
MinimizeYou've seen this before. The thought strikes suddenly, during whatever it is you were doing. Having an important conversation? Running away from home? Dying in the midst of a fierce battle? Where ever you are, one things is true: you're certain this isn't the first time you've lived through this. But upon realizing this, that's when it happens. Like someone hitting rewind on the VCR, you're back where you were ten minutes ago. And it happens again. And again. And again--

Until finally, something is different. A door stands in front of you. Will you go through it? Nothing else seems to be working, so this might be your only chance.



Upon opening the door and heading inside, a strange feeling overwhelms you. It's comforting and warm, like being enveloped in a soft, heavy blanket. You hear a voice murmuring in your ear, but it's unintelligible.

And in the next moment, you've appeared in a laboratory, surrounded by the unfamiliar yet worried faces of people in lab coats, speaking in a foreign language that doesn't sound so foreign to you anymore.

Nanjikan Research Laboratory

There isn't much time to process what's happening before characters are ushered out of the arrival room. They're passed between a medical and a psychiatric team, checking them for injuries and psychological trauma. Their every need is met: food is offered, injuries are tended to, and questions are answered. "You're in the Eastern Kingdom of Nippon on a planet called Gaia," they explain. "You were brought here because you became aware of the timeloop... we'll explain everything."

Orientation Nanjikan Research Lab, Tokyo
Everyone is brought to a large auditorium, where dozens of other people looking similarly out of place are seated around them. The scientists and doctors from before file on stage, thoroughly explaining the situation. What they experienced back home was a timeloop. While the loops in their home worlds are smaller and likely to resolve on their own, the fact that such a small amount of time is being repeated is what makes them so dangerous for those who become aware of it. And they've been working around the clock in collaboration with the neighboring Western Kingdom, checking adjacent universes for others who've become aware. While the technical explanations may go over the heads of most, that's not the reason they were all brought together like this.


"In order to bring you here, we used the very same magic responsible for freeing our world... Kizuna."


And they continue to explain: their own world was trapped in a year long loop for decades, if not longer. Through the use of an ancient form of bonding magic, they bound their world to the present flow of time, allowing it to progress past the timeloop. Or at least, that's how they thought it worked. In truth, Kizuna is very powerful reality-warping magic. And thanks to the powerful bond all refugees now share with the country of Nippon, the magic surrounding them will only continue to evolve.

Until they find the means of resuming the flow of time back in your home world, the refugees will just have to make due with this one. But not to worry, because Nippon is fully committed to taking care of everyone!

A Place to Call Home Tokyo, Kanto
Once orientation is over, characters will be allowed to choose housing in both Kyoto and Tokyo, enabling them the means of easily living between both Kingdoms if they please. These housing options will be fully paid for by the government of Nippon, with the NRL and MRU providing a stipend for food expenses in Tokyo and Kyoto respectively.

In lieu of providing transportation, all refugees will be granted an unlimited rail pass that they can use to travel all across Nippon! Thankfully, express routes connecting Tokyo and Kyoto will be running at all times of day, allowing refugees to freely travel between the Eastern and Western Kingdoms as they please. While this TDM and its prompts are focused on the Eastern Kingdom, you are welcome to have your character arrive in the Western Kingdom instead.

For those bound for Nihonbashi, be careful not to board the train too late at night. Because on Friday nights, the Loop Line's final train of the night is a party train! Every train car is set up with its own theme and decor, with this week featuring the return of the ever popular sexy maid cafe in the rear of the car! Dress up in a surprisingly demure maid outfit (this is 1921) and take customer orders, or have a seat and peruse the menu. Aside from a small bar, there's no actual food service or exchange of currency going on here, so it's all in good fun! The train will loop endlessly past the same station until sunrise, so hopefully they weren't planning on an early night's sleep.

In Little Edo, a Great Nippon Salamander has been spotted wandering the streets in search of clean water. While this may not seem like a big deal, these creatures range in size from that of a large dog to that of a large house. To subdue the creature, the local hunting clan, the Hanzaki, are searching for volunteers to help coax the salamander back out into the swamplands of the Tokyo Outskirts. While the safest method is to lead it using a hose or another source of water, those looking to get the job done quickly may instead choose to fight the creature, causing it to flee in whichever direction they point it in. Careful, they move faster than you think!

Over in Yoshiwara, the Tokyo branch of the refugee-owned nightclub, Club Hexxx, has finally opened its doors! Enjoy a dark and spooky atmosphere while listening to the latest jazz hits. And best of all, refugees will be offered a free glass of Club Hexxx's signature drink: Kinklist, a coffee-flavored drink that turns white after one sip, and causing the drinker's deepest sexual desire to appear written on their cheek in black ink. The text will remain until they finish the rest of the drink.


NRL Time Refugee Support Network
Once they've received their housing assignment, all refugees will be given small handheld devices called magi-tech communicators, or magi-comms for short. They're heavier than a conventional smartphone would be, but far sturdier, and powered by the ambient magic that flows through the city. Now available with limited sepia-tone color, and video cameras! They don't need to be charged, but they won't work outside of cities at all. Upon booting it up, they'll find a message linking them to a special channel for refugees.

#nrl_time_refugee_support - online
Inbox
Text
Audio
nrl_support: Hello time refugees!
nrl_support: Welcome to your channel!
nrl_support: This is your exclusive contact channel hub for everyone who's been brought to Nippon.
nrl_support: Neat, huh?
nrl_support: Why don't you try out the new video feature?
scienz_rulz_1899: hey didja hear?
scienz_rulz_1899: there's some new tech coming out later this month
scienz_rulz_1899: something real special
scienz_rulz_1899: hope you aren't afraid of heights www :)
scienz_rulz_1899: anyway
scienz_rulz_1899: for all the new folks trickling in this month, the name's tomoko
scienz_rulz_1899: lets be friends! :)


Use the following code for your top-level if you'd like! This is how network communication will look for characters in the game until more advanced magi-tech comms become available for characters.


Springtime Flowers

With the changing of the seasons, the cherry blossoms have finally bloomed, painting the landscape with dashes of pink and white on nearly every corner. Not even the busy citizens of Tokyo can resist stopping to smell the flowers, or even enjoying picnics underneath them!

And those looking for the best place to view the flowers need look no further than Little Edo, a suburb in south Tokyo that borders the vast wetlands that separate Tokyo from Yokohama. And between the lush parks, interesting shrines, and mysterious ruins, there's no shortage of things for those settling in to explore!

A Very Special Festival Kanayama Shrine, Tokyo Outskirts
While most residents are celebrating the spring season under the cherry blossoms, a different sort of celebration is taking place at the Kanayama Shrine, located just south of Tokyo on a tall, narrow hilltop that juts out of the flooded landscape. Once more, it's time for the annual Kanamara Matsuri, and all refugees will find themselves invited to the little island to see the festivities. And what sort of festival is it, you may ask?

Why, it's the Festival of the Steel Phallus! According to legend, there was once a plague of a type of ayakashi that was known to live in the genitals of humans, whose vicious bite caused the birthrate of a certain city to drop down to zero. To combat this, an afflicted young woman asked a blacksmith to forge a steel phallus in order to break the ayakashi's teeth, freeing her of the curse. It's said the original phallus remains enshrined in the innermost chambers-- and in honor of this most venerated dildo, a festival is held every spring to celebrate sexuality and fertility, all leading up to a procession in which a giant steel phallus is paraded around the island.

(And no, I didn't make this one up.)

Refugees visiting the shrine will find no shortage of phallic-shaped foods and merchandise. Outside of the wide array of oddly shaped dildos to choose from, in terms of food, there are stalls selling lollipops, popsicles, sausages, grilled squid, octopus balls, cream-filled dick waffles-- but there's more at work here than a simple theme. Those who choose the popsicles will find themselves with a temporary oral fixation, causing an urge to have something between their lips at all times. Now, is this a naughty trick, or merely a marketing ploy to sell more popsicles? It's hard to say.

But the real treat is inside the shrine itself, where a single dildo stands tall among gilded offerings and flowers. The inner chamber is only ever put on display once a year, and for good reason. Anyone whose eyes fall upon the majestic phallus will become overwhelmed with a desire to fill or be filled - which might just be why viewings are done in groups of two or more, with the outer doors of the shrine closed behind them for privacy. There's a nice pile of pillows and no shortage of lubricating oils available, so why not get into the spirit of the season with a friend or two?

Flowers of Evil Little Edo, Tokyo
Festivals aside, many people are coming out to Little Edo to enjoy the array of cherry blossom trees for Hanami, or flower watching parties. Of these, the refugees will find themselves invited to a special gathering, taking place under the shade of a massive cherry blossom tree that was planted in their honor the year before. And yet despite it's young age, it's the largest tree around, continually growing since the initial growth spurt when it was planted. Although most understand that it was likely Kizuna that caused its sudden growth, locals have begun treating it as something sacred, leaving offerings and making prayers beneath its branches.

And should the refugees decide to take part as well, they may be surprised to find that whatever they wish for comes true. These wishes are rather limited, and some may only exist for a few minutes. But for those wishing to meet someone from home, the may be surprised to find that the person in question will appear beside them in Nippon... (See notes below for details!)

But while everyone else is enjoying the cherry blossoms, a certain park in Little Edo is drawing crowds for a different reason. After last year's outbreak of jubokko ayakashi, the cherry blossom trees in this area were permanently stained by the jubokko's red pollen, causing the pink petals to develop distinct red veins.

However, unlike the jubokko's pollen, these petals carry a very different effect. Anyone who stands under the shade of these trees will feel an irresistible urge to confess something. This can be something minor, like a strange food combination they are particularly fond of, or something major, such as the name of the last person they had sex with. This urge will linger even after leaving the flowers, until they've either confessed enough to appease the tree, or until the trees go bare when the blossoms fall.

Underwater Mysteries Tokyo Outskirts, Kanto
Those who are familiar with some version of Nippon may find the changed landscape to be rather confusing. Due to a massive time surge many decades ago, the entire region of Kanto was flooded, leaving many cities underwater or transformed into swamplands. As nature took over, the flooded region surrounding Tokyo came to be known the Tokyo Outskirts.

Ordinarily, exploring this area can be rather dangerous, given both the presence of dangerous Ayakashi and the unstable landscape that's peppered with the ruins of drowned cities. But this week, those looking for a little adventure can take part in special boat tours exploring the ruins and viewing the cherry trees from a unique vantage point.

Up to four people can fit in a single steamboat, which is preprogrammed to follow a path that will take passengers past the top of a large hill that's almost completely covered in cherry blossom trees, with the ruins of a few old buildings just barely visible beneath the overgrowth. But beauty aside, the real marvel is within the water itself, which is clear enough that one can look down and see roads, trees, and even entire buildings still mostly intact beneath the surface. You'd think the water just appeared one day, given that nothing seems to have been destroyed when the flood occurred.

But not every trip will go as smoothly as planned. Hidden beneath the pink petals that pepper the surface of the water, unlucky refugees may spot the long, long body of an Ikuchi, the sea serpent ayakashi. Thought to be the longest Ayakashi to exist in Nippon, these thick, snake-like creatures may take entire minutes just to pass under a boat. Spotting the body is simply distressing, and thankfully not of much concern. But should someone make eye contact with the third eye on top of its head, the Ikuchi will climb over the side of the boat and coil around it, attempting to drag it beneath the surface. And for the one who initially made eye contact, they'll find themselves affixed with a curse that temporarily makes it impossible to float in the water.

Thankfully, this ayakashi isn't interested in attacking those who fall overboard, and there's plenty of spots where the water is far more shallow. But those who fall in will have to wait until another tour comes by to ferry them back to shore.



OOC Notes
Welcome to Jikan's April TDM! The TDM is considered game canon, and also serves as the intro log! That said, whether you choose to carry threads over to the game or not is up to you!

• For this month only, please include in your top-level if you are a new player without an invite! Those seeking an invite can do so here!!

• CRAU characters may start regaining their CRAU memories one month after the TDM. However, vague feelings of familiarity are allowed between previous game CR! For more on this, please read the FAQ!

• You do not need to sign-up for housing! Choose whichever style you prefer. Roommates can be chosen by the characters or can be random. If you want to switch housing later, your character has the option of moving at the beginning of each month.

• Despite everything, Kanamaru Matsuri is considered an all-ages event!

• Wishes can be anything, from food items to items from home. All characters in the game will be allowed to redeem one item, magical or otherwise, from home using this prompt! However, for new character apping into the game, you have the option to have your character join the game by being wished into the setting. The wish can be anything from a direct plea to see a certain castmate again, or even just a wish for more friends that goes awry. These characters will still remember a time loop, but will not remember seeing a door, instead appearing in Tokyo after hearing the wishing-character's voice call to them. These characters will then be encouraged to visit the NRL for orientation, and will be offered an explanation that Kizuna saved them from the timeloop directly.

• While characters may attempt to fight the Ikuchi, it will not fight back, and cutting its body will cause it to grow another head and become another separate Ikuchi. This new head is also capable of cursing people, so it's probably best to leave it alone.


Please leave any questions about the TDM prompts in the thread below! General game questions can be directed to the FAQ!

Apps are always open!





pillowdiary: (013)

Nagiko Kiyohara | Fate/Grand Order | OTA

[personal profile] pillowdiary 2022-04-02 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
i - nihonbashi: party time

[It wasn't intentional that Nagiko board the final train at a friday night, but now... she immediately accepted a job before hearing any more details about the job because she got to wear a maid costume. Which meant that she's pretty much clueless on the sexy maid theme, but she got to wear a cute maid costume. That's all that matters, as she smiles brightly at a patron, approaching their table and handing them the menu.]

Yahoo! Welcome, welcome! What would like to have?

[Clueless as she is, she's in for a surprise if she had taken a look at the menu herself.]

ii - a very special festival

[Right after the sexy maid cafe, comes the dick festival. After she got a good laugh at what the festival's about, she wanted to experience it herself and is still giggling at all the phallic shaped food. Hell, she ended up buying one on pure impulse, a popsicle which she starts with licking it, then gradually wrapped her lips around it, sucking it for a bit. Only to then pull it out immediately after realizing how suggestive she looks doing it.]

Geh?! Isn't this way too embarrassing?

[Maybe she should've bought the more normal looking foods like the takoyaki.]

iii - festival: shrine

[Though all these sexually charged event has been making a great job of keeping her face red, Nagiko is mighty curious about seeing the so-called Majestic Phallus. So in the effort to satiate her curiosity, she visits the shrine and boy, did the phallus not disappoint. Nagiko can't help but speechless at the sight of the large steel dildo, her head's filling with lewd thoughts and a strange feeling that could be describe as hunger for... something. Forcing herself to tear her eyes away from the steel phallus, she turns around and finds that the doors behind them are closed. Oh.]

Uh... I think we're trapped? What do?

iv - wildcard

[complete newb here! HMU @ [plurk.com profile] Sharkbyte if you wanna plot something out! permission & kinklist]
brilliantdiamond: (★029)

ii!

[personal profile] brilliantdiamond 2022-04-02 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
There really isn't a non-embarrassing way to eat this, is there?

[Meanwhile, Aether is in the same boat as her, having purchased his own dicksicle right before her -- and now wondering how on earth he's supposed to eat this without looking obscene. Is that the appeal?? But they're letting anyone buy these??]

At least, aside from just... biting it?
pillowdiary: (003)

[personal profile] pillowdiary 2022-04-03 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[She looks at Aether, then her dicksicle, back to Aether, and then to her dicksicle. equipping a serious expression. Yes, she is actually considering the idea because that's probably the least obscene way to eat this.

With no hesitation whatsoever, she takes a big chomp of the head first, and then another, and another--]


ARGH!!! MY HEAD!

[Andy the third bite, she's instantly hit with that sharp cold pain in her brain.]
brilliantdiamond: (✧094)

[personal profile] brilliantdiamond 2022-04-05 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
[At least it's not obscene, but the imagery of just biting it really isn't much better??]

[Nor are the side effects of doing so, apparently. He's trying not to laugh, really!]


Ahh, did you get brain freeze? Maybe eating it faster wasn't much better...
pillowdiary: (Default)

[personal profile] pillowdiary 2022-04-17 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[All the men cringe at the sight. With the top part completely obliterated, it's only the bottom half left.]

... At least this thing pretty delicious! [...] Somehow, saying that too sounds kinda wrong.

[She laughs awkwardly, then shifts her eyes to Aether's popsicle.]

Are you gonna eat yours? You should try biting it! It's fun! ["Fun", like suffer a brain freeze sort of fun.]
brilliantdiamond: (✧040)

[personal profile] brilliantdiamond 2022-04-18 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[He laughs awkwardly in turn -- it really is impossible to not be lewd in some way when it comes to these things, huh.]

I think you and I have a different idea of fun...

[But he's also not going to just lick it in front of someone?? So, with little other choice, he opts to bite it too--]

[And then cheats by snapping his fingers at his side to command some Hi magic, forcing the temperature of his mouth to stay hot. As a result, the bite seems more like his lips melted part of it off than like he actually broke it with his teeth.]

[Which naturally means he has found the magical cure for brain breeze.]


...oh, that's not too bad. It's pretty good, too!
pillowdiary: (003)

[personal profile] pillowdiary 2022-04-29 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Wha- Hey, that's cheating!

[She didn't get to use magic to melt the dicksicle (ignoring the fact that she doesn't know a heating magic, let alone any magic spell herself) and suffer biting through the cold delicacy. She pouts at Aether, though that pout quickly disappears after hearing his remark. She's actually not upset that Aether "cheated".]

Yea, if you ignore the, uh... look, it's actually pretty good! Makes me want another honestly- [She then licks the ball part of the dicksicle.]
brilliantdiamond: (✦003)

[personal profile] brilliantdiamond 2022-04-30 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't remember there being any rules!

[He laughs in turn, taking another heated bite. The only downside is it finishes way too quickly it's fine it happens to most guys at some point and after a third bite, it's pretty much gone.]

But these things are pretty addictive, huh. I wonder if another stall would have more flavors? I've seen them selling these all around the festival.
scarredhorns: (0////0)

I (Nyuu)

[personal profile] scarredhorns 2022-04-10 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nyuu had heard about the maid cafe in the party train before, but then she read in one of Lucy's messages that she (Lucy) had gotten stuck on one a few months ago. According to Lucy, it actually wasn't so bad and she even dressed up as a maid. Naturally, Nyuu wanted to check it out as well - as a customer, since she's not quite ready to put on a maid's dress yet.

She returns the smile with one of her own bright ones. Ah, the maids do look cute in their dresses! It makes her want to try one on, too. But not just yet. She needs to mentally prepare herself first, especially with what's on the menu. She cheeks turn as pink as her hair as she looks it over. She knew what she was getting into when she decided to get on the party train, but still...
]

I'll start with On The Lips, please.

[It sounds like something nice and easy to begin with. Of course, Nyuu assumes Nagiko is familiar with the menu's contents.]
pillowdiary: (006)

[personal profile] pillowdiary 2022-04-10 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
One On The Lips coming right up!

[She says with loud enthusiasm without thinking of the consequences, no sign of embarrassment whatsoever. But then, she's quiet for a beat, only now realizing that she has zero idea of what's even listed on the menu. She would think it's just a list of desserts and drinks.]

Eh? What kind of drink is that even? Bizarre name...
scarredhorns: (Lucy can blush too)

[personal profile] scarredhorns 2022-04-10 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nyuu's blush darkens. The maid doesn't know???]

Um, well, it's not a drink... [Because of kizuna, steam literally comes piping out of Nyuu's ears, much to her embarrassment.] H-Here.

[She can't explain it herself, so she passes the menu back to the maid while using her free hand to hide her face.]
pillowdiary: (011)

[personal profile] pillowdiary 2022-04-10 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You're literally steaming BTW.

[A+ observational skill. Though temporarily distracted by the steam piping out of her customer's ears, Nagiko takes the menu and reads it over. Her cheeks instantly turns red, and she reads it over once more before setting the menu back on the table.]

O-oh. Ahahahahaha.... So, that's why it's a sexy maid cafe. [Cough.] I mean, yea, I totally KNEW that it wasn't a drink. Just testing you. [Lies!]
scarredhorns: (Nyuu#embarrassed)

[personal profile] scarredhorns 2022-04-11 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Even Nyuu, innocent and gullible as she is, can see through this lie. She stops hiding her face.]

This is all supposed to be for fun in the end, so you don't have to do it if you don't want to.

[The people who run the party trains want everyone to have good, consensual fun, after all.]
pillowdiary: (006)

[personal profile] pillowdiary 2022-04-11 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... It's not like I DON'T want to. Since you're cute and all.

[Nagiko slides so very casually to sit next to Nyuu, however, there's no indication yet that she's going for a kiss. Just as she immediately lied, Nagiko figures to just drop the truth that she's clueless in the end.]

Just didn't expect the menu to be that, y'know. You would think the maid get up would be more sexier than this, right? Something a little more lewd.

[Not that she has any problem with her dress whatsoever. It is still a cute maid dress.]
scarredhorns: (Nyuu#embarrassed)

[personal profile] scarredhorns 2022-04-14 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[More steam puffs out of Nyuu's ears when Nagiko calls her cute. She tenses, but only because she's shy, not because she's disgusted. She doesn't move away either.

Nyuu clears her throat and twiddles her fingers as her hands rest on her lap.
]

I think the dresses are like that because of Nippon's time period, which seems similar to a past era in my world. Back then, "sexy outfits" weren't as revealing.

[According to the books she's read, at least.]

I still think the dresses are cute, though...

[She mumbles that last part more quietly.]
Edited 2022-04-14 06:09 (UTC)
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[personal profile] pillowdiary 2022-04-17 12:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Given the theme, she might've gotten some side eyes for the sudden closeness. Nagiko didn't think that far ahead and only acts how she normally acts.]

Uh-huh. So we're back in the Edo period or earlier where even showing a bit of thigh is a big no-no. Man, those times were the worse, huh.

[She should know as someone who is actually from the past, but embraced the modern world's fashion.]

Right? [In contrast to Nyuu's quiet mumble, Nagiko's loud.] Wearing this boosted my cuteness meter by a thousand! Don't think it does anything for my adult sex appeal. But my sex appeal is already off the chart anyway... I think.