tdm 15

[savmods]

test drive meme

Ingress travel can be disorienting, but there’s no need to worry! All side effects are temporary and lessen with each trip. Your body may experience several sensations at once: being pushed forward as if a hand is resting on your back, momentary and startling blindness, a gentle ringing in your head. You may have difficulty discerning whether it is hot or cold, but where you have been prodded is noticeably warmer than the rest of you. Some may suffer from dizziness while others are perfectly fine. You notice that the area you are in is filled with a soft cerulean light and feels slightly humid and dark despite the glow around you. Regardless of your current state, however, the stress of initial Ingress travel forces your body into unconsciousness.

Waking up is another story. Or maybe it isn’t.

You find yourself in a nondescript room; sometimes with others who have found themselves in the same situation, sometimes alone. A medical tech is always present to explain what’s happened before giving you some clothes, a TAB, and a guide that discusses things in further detail. This entire process also consists of a complete work-up of medical history and current health in order to obtain your signature—a specific frequency that will allow them to hone in on exactly where it is you’re from in order to get you back there.You spend your first week on the Ingress Complex while other accommodations and arrangements are made for you.

welcome to thisavrou

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the chitow ( cw: drugs )

One of the many creatures on Thisavrou, the Chitow do not tolerate any contact from Savrii or visitors. After many unsuccessful attempts at communication, a visitor skilled in linguistics learned that the Chitow speak to one another through a series of taps and drags of their fingers across the jewelry they wear around their necks. Studying the Chitow from afar, since they are violent when their homes are approached, the visitor deciphered their language and was able to approach and speak with them. During Thisavrou’s recent warmer weather, a group of pubescent Chitow (roughly twenty feet tall) approached the visitor and asked to be escorted through the EN-Line so that they may visit Kauto. Not long after their visit and return to Chioni, they extend an offer to all Savrii - each person may visit their outer village for a celebration honoring the Ingress energy. At this gathering, held once a month, Savrii can expect to find the following:

⋆ Initiation Ceremony - Colorful full body paint, usually on the naked form but the Chitow won’t press the issue if you’re not comfortable, is applied liberally. Hand crafted necklaces and bracelets are offered, and each person is given a fruity drink that results in glowing eyes and lips (duration is roughly two days).

⋆ Burial Ceremony - The Chitow take an item, something personal with a connection that is negative, and bury the item in the rich, warm dirt of Chioni. After each visitor digs a small trench, they place the item and their feet inside, covering it over. This practice is a way of letting go of the past - each person removes their feet, leaving the item behind when they are ready.

⋆ Smoking Ceremony - Fires are built as the Ingress energy dims, illuminating the village. The Chitow toss bundles of purple leaves into the flames, they crackle and spark, a citrusy scent filling the air. Some who inhale will experience an increased sense of calm, mild hallucinations, visions, and others will feel nothing.

⋆ The rest of the night is filled with dancing, drink, food, and music created from the wooden instruments the Chitow have carved.

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thiri

⋆ Not all worlds accessed are populated or even civilized. Marked as Exploration Class (EC), travel through the Ingress is relatively smooth aside from the eventual landing on the other side—some in dry sand and others in swampy marsh, depending on the location. The temperature of Thiri isn’t quite as stifling as the current climate of Chioni. However, there is a musty scent to the air, like the dust found on an old book, and the longer anyone is exposed to it, the sweeter it becomes. Nights are much cooler than the days, though it seems inadvisable to light fires for purposes not explained. For the safety of all travelers, fluorescents have been provided to everyone before arriving in case of overnight ventures.

⋆ Through the rubble and ruin of Thiri, precious gemstones can be found in multiple areas, especially in condemned buildings that (oddly) resemble temples. Whatever carvings and stone structures that are happened upon bear an untranslatable language, some of it eaten away by time and others washed smooth by rain. If taken from their resting place, particular colors eventually cause a disruption in personality. Red gemstones cause the holder to point out the most prominent structure in the sky and tell everyone about it. Blue gemstones cause the holder to end every sentence an interrogative inflection. Green gemstones cause the holder to only speak in movie quotes regardless of the whether or not they know what a movie is. Purple gemstones cause the holder to only be able to hear out of one ear OR see out of one eye. Pink gemstones cause the holder to snort whenever someone says their name. Clear gemstones cause the holder to address every inanimate object as if it were a person. All changes will eventually fade after several days; yet, if the stones are returned to their original resting place, the changes disappear immediately.

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Comments

[amplifyings]

That's how they keep their technical support in business, I think. Once their numbers get low, they add some new feature so that we'll be forced to call. It's job security. [ Blue grins a little mischievously, putting her TAB away into one of her pockets for later -- for some reason she has a sneaking suspicion that come that night she'll be confused about the device again.

Oh well, she'll cross that bridge when she gets to it. ]

Nice to meet you too, Archer. [ Inwardly, Blue's amused at the nonconventionality of both of their names. Outwardly, she shows nothing more than the slightest hint of a grin, her shoulders lifting in a shrug. ] I don't know, I reckon it's better than we meet this way, than by me making a complete ass of myself.

[vanta]

Sounds like a sham if I've ever seen one. [ And she's seen several.

Eventually, Archer's going to have to mention that her proper name is Archea, but she'll be damned if that doesn't sound even weirder than Archer. Still, a name's just a thing you decide to call yourself, right? No big deal. ]

Do you have an habit of making an ass of yourself? I wouldn't know just going by how this is going so far. There's always a second impression, though.

[ It's a very tame tease, but it's the best she can manage. ]