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[bu773rfly]

This is an open post for people whoopsing themselves into the Digital World and going on adventures with some iteration of Erika and Wormmon while they're there.

Circumstance deets to mix and match as you desire:


-> Version of Erika. There are two options here; the one I'm most interested in playing at the moment of posting this is the one I talked about in this plurk, wherein the events of CSHM specifically don't happen but everything else in Erika's life does; around the time CSHM would have happened, she dies and wakes up in the Digital World, then meets Wormmon and goes about enjoying her new life.

The second option is the actual end of canon, where Erika is Hudiemon (who I've decided can partition into Erika and Wormmon because nyeh), with all the various things that that comes along with. I'm less interested in this overall because she's a distinctly different character, and since she has her shit so much together there's less to explore on my end, but if a more straightforward mentor-student dynamic is what you're after - or if you want something with preexisting CR dealing with Erika just being a Digimon now and that's how it is - it could be fun.

There are actually three options, I lied, the third is a wildcard for shit like...jamjar to Digital World. Jamjar Erika getting absorbed into Hudiemon? Eater Erika???? There are lots of possibilities. Life is god damn weird sometimes.


-> Where your character comes from. Digimon indulges in multiverses, so they can come straight from their own.....or they can come from a CS AU (so basically modern life but EDEN exists)......or some mashup of the two, or from a jamjar, or literally whatever. As you might have guessed, going to the Digital World tends to involve weird shit happening with computers. Sometimes that weird shit is as inexplicable as "a portal literally manifested on my computer" and sometimes it's weird VR hijinks that leave you in a coma and sometimes it's weird dire science mishaps and ETCETERA


-> Specific geographical locations. If you're familiar with Digimon you know the kind of stuff you can do. If you're not familiar with Digimon: places in the Digital World tend to look like fantasy wildernesses with weird inorganic bits baked into the scenery, or structures of human origin that built themselves and have never been inhabited by humans and thus are kind of Weird. Here are some examples and also some more examples. Digimon live both in the wild, where they can be very monstrous and dangerous, and in villages, which can be extremely rustic or actually fairly developed.

By default I'm assuming Erika and Wormmon are hanging out in a jungle-y area like this but if you have a better idea I am all ears.


-> Digimon friend. Sleuthverse doesn't do the like, chosen child partners assigned by fate to save the world thing, but there is kind of this sense that Digimon and humans click well together and some inexorable whim of the universe nudges friends together and it's very poetic and shit. If you think it'd be cool or there's something to explore there, and if you don't mind juggling two characters, go for it. Here's an index of smol Digimans because the wikis are hahahahahahahahaha


-> The presence of some greater threat. If you want some drama mixed in with your wilderness survival SoL between Getting Here and Going Home, there is always vampires, which historically cause most of the dramatic horseshit the Digital World goes through. Or demon lords, or weird eldritch shit. Maybe Eaters? If you want something to fight but you don't know what, I can rec something. If you just need something to run from, any big toothy Digimon can do that without being evil, they do hunt each other and eat people and shit sometimes.


-> DESTINY?! If your character would really just not fucking deal well with being punted into isekai bullshit, in Sleuthverse they'd be likely to attract the attention of Mirei, who is like, the Igor/Velvet Room Attendant of the Digimon games multiverse, and whose purpose is to 1) show up and go hmmmm how fascinating and talk cryptically about fate whenever weird nonsense happens, 2) offer hospitality and important powers and things to the people who have to deal with the weird nonsense. Have her dispense advice, give directions, let them stay a night in the DigiLab, etc. She's accompanied by her partners Angewomon and LadyDevimon, who sometimes take the form of a white cat and a black cat.


-> Literally any specific character dynamic or scene things you really want to make happen. Ways characters meet, drama, cute shit, whatever

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for claire

[hackervanguard]

[The jungle - as Wormmon knows it, just "the jungle", which might have a more specific name for those who know of other jungles to compare it to, but most folks around here don't - can be a rough place. Out past the coast, supposedly, the reef is a very nice place to live, all tropical warmth and bright colors and corals clogging half-submerged buildings. But you sort of have to be able to breathe underwater to appreciate that. And up past the mountains, themselves a more elitist kind of rough place, full of Dragon-species and wandering warriors, the plains are said to be a much more sedate environment. You can kick back and relax there. But you have to have nice long legs and be willing to walk for days to weeks to get there, never mind passing through the mountains themselves...

...Well, you get what you get in life! Sometimes that's a jungle full of much bigger, and stronger, and less clumsy, and more irate bugs! You have to look on the bright side. Like...like strange creatures that appear out of nowhere, and who are very nice to you, even though sometimes they ask you to do dangerous things, because the dangerous things usually turn out well for both of you. Like the existence of Mountaintop Village, which is nice and cool despite the jungle humidity due to the altitude, and where most of the Digimon are young and friendly and only want to play, and where you can meet other Digimon to do things like trade fruit for tools...

...Cockatrimon still drives a hard bargain. He definitely remembers that time Wormmon knocked a shelf over, hmm. It's important to keep track of all your legs in his shop.

Mountaintop Village is nice, but if you're just another Digimon who's too old to be taken care of with the babies and too unskilled to run a shop or build things, it's a depressing place to sit around all day. Part of the day is just fine, though. Check out the overlook, rest your feet, catch up on the local gossip...

...Speaking of, is something going on around here? Everyone's acting a little energetic.]

for skarme

[bu773rfly]

[It....looks like a police station. From the outside. A police station half-buried in the jungle, a single shelter from the hell world of giant beetles outside.

Of course, that means it stops looking like a police station the instant you step inside. Aesthetically, it's still got that government-contracted look in its walls and floors and everything, with desks and cabinets and all that, but police stations don't generally have a big spiral staircase smack dab in the middle of their floor plan, plunging down through floor after basement floor. Also, the papers scattered busily across tables usually aren't printouts of recipes. (they do sound p appetizing though)

Police stations are generally occupied, not abandoned save for faint voices carrying on somewhere far below. If there's multiple, they're similar in tone; distinctly feminine, either way. Conversational stops and starts break up the sound.

One one hand: people. On the other hand: the further down you go, the weirder the place starts to look, less "police station" and more "ominous fantasy cave". Big blobby slime molds with (admittedly pretty) glowing circuit-board patterns are devouring desks at a glacial pace. The scattered papers have coalesced into paper-mache stalactites. Veins of coppery ore show behind faded, peeling walls.

Is the chance worth the spookiness?]

for jade

[bu773rfly]

[The junkyard is an expanse of several square miles littered with trash and detritus of every kind. Tin cans. Lawn mowers. Giant, shattered vases. Entire buildings, half-caved-in and left here to languish by the whims of the Digital World. Miniature mountains and valleys of garbage throwing artful silhouettes against the setting sun. Nobody brings the junk here - it coalesces like sand dunes, corrupted data tumbling on the wind until it pops into existence in the junkyard as something broken and forgotten. Or, sometimes, it comes here by accident, misses a pointer and gets swept up with the rest of the metaphysical sewage.

There's good business in gathering up the second kind, and sometimes even the first kind, if someone's looking for something in particular. There's a little hut in the north part of the junkyard where a pair of daring entrepreneurs live, and it's there that Hajime might come around to a conversation something like this:

"-but, you know, it's still pretty weird."

"It's still not a book! He only buys books. He ONLY buys books."

"Worth a try!"

"Worth a- no it's not."

"Yes it is!"

"You wanna drag it all the way up there? Let's just give it to, you know, her. It looks like her. That's - that's - I don't wanna get mixed up in this. It's weird."

"Yeah, and he likes weird stuff!"

"You can't sell something that talks!"

"Yeah we can!"

"You can't!"

"Look, just gotta-"

"-what, no, don't wake it up!"

"Hey. Hey. 'Scuse me."

Poke poke poke.

"Can we sell you to Wizarmon?"



And that's about how Hajime's day is going.]