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→ Holds and applications are always open. Holds are required for all applications.

→ Choose one of the scenarios below or make up your own. Feel free to try multiple scenarios.

→ Write LOGS or NETWORK prompts, or both.

→ THERE ARE ONLY THREE RULES FOR THE TDM:

1. It has to take place in the 6I universe.
2. It cannot be the character's arrival into the game.
3. Please only test new characters who do not have a version in the game. Our cast list is here.

→ TDM threads cannot be used to meet AC, but if the character is accepted into the game and both players agree, you may keep the CR.

→ Character want ads are here.

Prompts

1. SNOW BLIND - It's snowing, a lot, and pristine landscape though it might create, it also brings plenty of problems, especially when you live in an Edwardian-style village with a serious lack of snow shovels. It's currently blizzard conditions and visibility is nil — Maybe you gave in and ducked into the nearest house for temporary shelter, and discover someone else had the same idea (or just lives there, oops). Maybe you're stubborn enough to still be out in it, struggling against the wind and snow. Or maybe you've tromped into the South Village Inn like a human popsicle, and are just hoping you don't lose any fingers before you make it to the fireplace.


2. JUMPED-UP - Winter's here, which means it's the perfect time for an expedition to warmer, southern climes. You've joined a group following the river all the way down to the far southern beach, for fun and for science. On this latest break in your journey, you've spotted a large, jewel-colored feather and picked it up, maybe as a specimen to bring back or just a feather for your cap. Turns out it's an archaeopteryx feather, and you're now, well... let's call it a little gravity-challenged. Not a bad benefit once you figure out how to control it.


3. COLD CALL - The snow has slacked off, leaving behind a winter wonderland. Sure, there's plenty to do, but after being cooped up inside for days, most people won't blame you for a morale-booster — That is, unless your way of starting a snowball fight is to pop up and throw them at unsuspecting passers-by. Making a snow man or snow angels might come with a little less retribution, but you do you.


4. WILDCARD - Choose your own adventure. Maybe play powers roulette.

Network

All characters are fitted with a smart watch-like device on their left wrist, which they can use to send text and video messages to other villagers.

- Text and/or video, any length
- Display names may be changed by characters on the fly, but anyone can tap to see someone's real full name

Please list your CHARACTER NAME, CANON & PROMPT in your SUBJECT LINE.

Comments

snow blind

[enterprisingheart]

[There are a lot of things Picard has come to expect, over the course of his stay in the village. He can't say that he likes all of them, but they are, at least, no longer out of the ordinary. Nor, for that matter, is he particularly surprised to find someone knocking at his door - he's well aware that the current snowstorm has been worsening, and far better that someone take shelter where they can rather than push on and risk becoming lost.

That said, he's absolutely not expecting who he finds on the other side of the door, and there's a blink of surprise.]

Data?

[Still, the surprise fades into a smile before long, and he steps back from the door a bit, as if to gesture Data inside.]

By all means, feel free to come in. You're always welcome here.

[There is, after all, very little of the structure of the Enterprise, here; no ready room to serve as his own private space. Plus he can't deny that he has missed Data, just as he's missed the Enterprise herself.]

Would I be correct to assume that you've just recently arrived?

[humandroid]

Captain.

[ He could call this a pleasant surprise. Two heads, as the old colloquialism goes, are better than one. He could very easily call it unfortunate. A missing officer is a concern; a missing captain even more so. It's a surprise nonetheless.

His neural pathways have been anticipating and then lacking a great deal of familiar input in this place. Data chooses to believe that, even if only temporarily, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

He takes his requisite moment to process, adjust, then he's stepping over the threshold with no great ceremony. ]

You are correct, Sir. I have been present for less than three standard days. Would I be correct to assume in turn that your own arrival was not recent?

[enterprisingheart]

[It's definitely not a situation Picard would have chosen to be in, had he the option. Not that he doesn't doubt that the rest of the crew would manage well enough in his absence (providing none of the Admiralty came looking for him specifically) it still doesn't change the fact that the Enterprise is now missing enough of her officers to be concerning, if not necessarily a problem as far as day-to-day life might be concerned. Still, that particular topic is one that can be addressed later, he figures. Right now there more relevant questions at hand.]

You would indeed. As counted by the calendar in use here, I've spent more than a year in this village.

[Not for lack of desire to find a way out, mind. But all his efforts thus far have simply proven that doing so is far easier said than done/]

[humandroid]

[ Ah. Certainly not the ideal response. Nor is it the most expected. More to process, more to adapt around. Data's features light up, figuratively speaking, in that way they do when faced with something new and not immediately threatening.

Curiosity is a driving force. Vital, in many respects, to any problem-solving procedure. And so first and foremost, he offers the following: ]

Intriguing. [ It merited saying. ] To my recollection, sir, you had not been reported missing at all at the time of my-- abduction.

[ That's the only conclusion he's been able to draw. Abduction. If one isn't asked and hasn't agreed to go. ]

What was the last known stardate while you were still aboard the Enterprise? We may be experiencing a temporal anomaly.

[ Unless the calendar in use here, the length of days themselves, drastically differs from their own standard, a temporal anomaly would certainly seem to be the case. He hasn't yet detected any differences so stark. ]

[enterprisingheart]

["Not ideal" would be putting it mildly, as far as Picard himself is concerned. He might have learned to... tolerate life in the village, yes. But that doesn't mean that there aren't still any of a number of concerns either, ones that he's as of yet been unable to find direct answers to.

But he's willing to be patient, and with any luck, Data's presence will help provide another perspective on the issue currently facing them.]

Nor had Beverly as of mine. And yet, she reported having been here for some time prior to my own arrival.

[Which definitely suggests that there's some sort of temporal anomaly involved, although how the effect is being created (if, indeed, it is something that's being artificially created) is still a mystery.]

As of my unexpected departure from the Enterprise, the stardate was 50893.5. May I ask what the stardate was as of your own departure?