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♥ October 2019 TEST DRIVE MEME
October (Lasohm) Test Drive Meme
Premise ♥ Setting ♥ Rules ♥ FAQ ♥ Mod Contact
Havenwell is normally a beautiful city - all tall spires and pure white stone glistening with gold against a blue sky. Now, it's still quite lovely, but it's marred. The wall that surrounds the city has a large glimmering hole broken through the stone and the buildings are missing bits and pieces here and there. The city is still reeling from the aftermath of its siege when a new set of souls are drawn to its shore. Good luck, new arrivals; and please excuse all the dust.
❥ PROMPT I: Buddy System
With all the changes and the fear of a secondary attack lingering, the natives are a lot more protective of their newest arrivals. When new characters begin to appear at the temples, they receive the welcome speech, get their communicators and the simple map of the city, and a warning to stay away from the walls. Then they get taken to the front of the temple by a helpful robotic priest. Rather than turn the newcomers loose right away, they pull someone seemingly at random off the street and push the two people together with a cheerful, "It's dangerous to go alone, so please show our newest resident around. Please be buddies!" They wait until they're certain the pair is going to be moving off together before going back inside.
They try to place a new arrival with one of those who previously arrived, but who can keep track of all that, right? Characters may find themselves thrown together with an actual veteran or with another new arrival who only came here a day or even just an hour before them! Good luck helping each other out, offworlders, and don't lose your buddy!
They try to place a new arrival with one of those who previously arrived, but who can keep track of all that, right? Characters may find themselves thrown together with an actual veteran or with another new arrival who only came here a day or even just an hour before them! Good luck helping each other out, offworlders, and don't lose your buddy!
❥ PROMPT II: The Havenwell Archives
Lasohm is another month that belongs to Ohma and after such a vicious attack, a small group of citizens decide that it might be great for the offworlders to help with something important to the feline god. These citizens are marked with a sash with the sign of a quill on it, a decidedly antique symbol considering how technologically advanced the people are. They hand out fliers to any who will take them, offering a small amount of Dora in compensation to any who will help the Havenwell Archives repair, catalogue, and restore any books damaged by the attack.
The Archives is a large building in the south and its doors, which have been sealed shut until now, are slightly ajar, allowing people entry. Head to the Archives and you'll be greeted by one of a handful of robotic citizens, all wearing that quill-emblazoned sash, and directed to a small room where you and other offworlders are put to the task of reassembling history texts that have fallen into disrepair or reviewing work that earlier offworlders completed, fixing any glitches that might occur in the text. Most of the writing is illegible, but it seems that these books are important to the Archives for more than just the information contained within. As you work, you might notice that talking and sharing information about yourself or engaging in physical contact near these books with the other people in your room makes the text on your pages a little more legible, a little easier to read and understand, and easier to fix.
The Archives is a large building in the south and its doors, which have been sealed shut until now, are slightly ajar, allowing people entry. Head to the Archives and you'll be greeted by one of a handful of robotic citizens, all wearing that quill-emblazoned sash, and directed to a small room where you and other offworlders are put to the task of reassembling history texts that have fallen into disrepair or reviewing work that earlier offworlders completed, fixing any glitches that might occur in the text. Most of the writing is illegible, but it seems that these books are important to the Archives for more than just the information contained within. As you work, you might notice that talking and sharing information about yourself or engaging in physical contact near these books with the other people in your room makes the text on your pages a little more legible, a little easier to read and understand, and easier to fix.
❥ PROMPT III: Virtual Research
After the attack, every part of the city is on repair duty and the means the Entertainment District as well. As new arrivals wander the city, they might be called into one of the numerous Virtual Reality cafes. These cafes vary in layout, but most have areas for the natives to plug directly into the machines and other areas which have older looking virtual reality helmets that allow flesh bodied people experience the games. For those who need assistance with their sensory inputs, basic options like audio descriptions of visual scenes, enhanced audio and descriptive speech, closed captions, and crude mobility chairs are available. A handful of cafes have other options like direct visual or audio cortex stimulation to simulate vision or hearing, or suspension tanks to allow simulated movement, but these are currently unavailable due to damage.
All of these facilities are, unfortunately, under repair. The direct plug-in systems are easier for the robot natives to fix because they can do the most important part of it - testing - by themselves. But for the helmets and other interface systems, they need your help. Naturally, they'll pay you for the work, but they need the offworlders to play the available games and record any areas where they find glitches. Playing with a partner increases your chances of finding and fixing any issues, so feel free to log in for free for once and test any of the following games:
All of these facilities are, unfortunately, under repair. The direct plug-in systems are easier for the robot natives to fix because they can do the most important part of it - testing - by themselves. But for the helmets and other interface systems, they need your help. Naturally, they'll pay you for the work, but they need the offworlders to play the available games and record any areas where they find glitches. Playing with a partner increases your chances of finding and fixing any issues, so feel free to log in for free for once and test any of the following games:
- Big Bass Fishing The beautiful lake has blue-green waters surrounded by forest and rocky, reedy shores. You and your companion are on a small single-motor fishing boat and you have fishing gear - two poles in the water. As the game starts up a read-out announces the objective: Catch the largest fish before the time limit ends. What's the time limit? ...Well, that's your first glitch because it reads as static. Might as well start fishing though, right? It doesn't take long to catch a few regular sized fish, nothing too exciting, and then? You get the big one - it bows your fishing rod nearly in half as you reel it up. The fish leaps into the air and you realize this is your next glitch because the fish hangs there - the size of a minivan - and yells, "BIG. BASS. FISHING. ATTACK." The fish slaps its fins and tails at the boat and now you and your fishing companion better fight this fish or you'll end up in the lake or worse.
- A (un)Familiar Experience Jump into the life of the temple familiars and see life from their perspective! Choose the temple, any temple is fine, and be transformed into a fledgling rainbow dragon, a purple mouse, a white raven, or a blue feline. You're free to move about the virtual confines of the temples and, in fact, you can even interact with other familiars in their temples - who may be other players in this game. Play, climb, try to get your fledgling wings to fly, tumble about with the other mice, enjoy your simple life as an animal! --or you would if you weren't an insane size. Rather than being a small mouse, you're the size of a horse. That fledgling rainbow dragon? About the size of a fly. The building sizes are off, too - one might have door that's 30 feet tall, but a ceiling that's only 12. Everything else seems fine, but those sizes? Well, you better figure out how to get around that.
- Robot Crossing Logging in with another character will net you a little farm and a variety of games to choose from:
- Pick and harvest as many Aellyn vegetables and fruits as you can before the timer runs out! The more you pick, the better your score. Work together with your partner to clear the field in any way you can. Strangely, once you finish clearing a tree or a field row of their bounty, they seem to magically refill when you turn your back. Strangely, when the timer runs out? It flashes 00:00 and the game...doesn't? Stop? In fact, the fruits and vegetables just keep multiplying and multiplying and if you don't hurry up you might just get buried in them all!
- With a partner, use the giant slingshot to launch comically large fruits into a garden patch of other colored fruits. Match a line of 3 or more similarly shaped fruits to clear it from the field. The more fruits you can clear, the higher your score - aka welcome to Fruit Crush. Stack lines of 6 or more to get shining clear diamond fruits that clear the entire row and snag yourself some bonus points. Or they should, but whenever you clear away a matching set, the fruits explode, sending fruit bits and juice everywhere - most notably on you and your partner. Still, the game is going on and it looks like it won't stop until you finish, so good thing it's all a computer game, right? Sure feels real though - reeeeeeally sticky.
- You and your partner(s) are given a magical golden pumpkin and it's your job to grow it into the largest pumpkin possible. Why? There's a county fair of course and the largest pumpkin wins! But how do you grow this pumpkin? Well, for whatever reason? This pumpkin is already the size of a grizzly bear and it just won't stop growing! You and your partner better find a way to stop it from growing out of control or you might get (virtually) crushed! You could do a song and dance routine together to touch the pumpkin's soul to teach it moderation or calm its insane vegetable puberty. You could hold hands and share stories and entertain the pumpkin until it feels satisfied that it's grown enough. You could just hack and slash at it in an attempt to reduce its unwieldy bulk. The possibilities are endless and so is the pumpkin's growth, so you better hurry!
Have fun however you like with the setting! Make a network post, make up other prompts based on the general setting, go wild. Havenwell is your oyster.
This TDM is for the November application round. If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to the FAQ or to the Mod Question thread below. The reservation round begins on October 30, 2019 at 10:00PM EST and our applications will run from November 2, 2019 to November 9, 2019 from 10:00PM EST to 10:00PM EST.
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[And he carried on, but given that he wasn't exactly a huge man it wouldn't be too hard to keep up with his stride. He fairly blatantly wore his Niflheim armor still - he was rather proud of it - but said country didn't even exist in Somnus' time.
Still, if he was to speak to a new person it was time to gather information just as he always did.]
What world are you from?
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He was new to this world, and that meant another man's curiosity could prove beneficial and detrimental at once.]
The land of Eos.
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[There were a few from his world. Not nearly as many as seemed to be from some version of Earth, but enough that it wasn't strange to see someone from Eos.]
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Somnus. Yours?
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Research Chief Verstael Besithia of the Imperial Army.
[He paused, giving him his full attention for once.]
And your full name?
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[Though he already knew that, didn't he? The pause spoke louder than the rest of his words.
Discussion of their world wasn't Somnus' priority, however. Based on the direction of Verstael's steps, he resumed their march.]
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[No, nothing about his tone sounded shocked. This did mean he would need to question that boy who bore such a close resemblance to him, though. He'd known him as little more than a friend to Prompto.
When Somnus continued walking he carried on besides him with large strides.]
A pleasure to make your acquaintance. It's not often one has a meeting such as this. [A tendril of excitement weaved its way through his voice.] You, who founded the kingdom of Lucis and its royal line through fire and I, who will bring it to its smoldering end.
[Most people happily told others their familicidal, kingdom-conquering plans, right? He said it just as if he was excitedly telling Ardyn about what was in his latest laboratory pod, excitement overcoming him at this rare opportunity.]
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Your aspirations have no bearing in this city. Here, the archives demand your attention.
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Indeed they do. Though I have wondered if I have been shortsighted in my aspirations by not taking this city into account.
[Worldwide takeover had always been a thing, but why limit oneself to a single world? He really had been narrow in his vision. Almost as if he was making an excuse for his absentmindedness, he threw up a hand and leaned towards Somnus as he spoke in an unusually chirpy manner.]
I suppose anyone could be disconcerted when suddenly swept into another world.
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Such aspirations, wasted on a trifling ambition. This was where man would succumb to his shortcomings and ultimately fall short.]
Improvidence is the failing of mortals. The world matters not.
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[He honestly didn't mind a discussion challenging his views. If someone had a different perspective he welcomed it, but he would push back if he thought differently.]
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A fruitless discussion, in the end, so long as they talked about Eos. Somnus pressed onward.]
And what of this world, which requires no successors?
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[Even as he spoke about it, even as the words seemed to take into account how unfortunate the situation was, the tone remained light. He was in a good mood having made this new discovery.]
I would have to determine how viable it is, of course. We do not yet know much about the world outside of this city, beyond its apparent hostility. However, they possess magiteknology unlike our own.
His Radiance is a just and compassionate man. They could benefit from his rule. I know of the project they were working on in an attempt to find a cure, but they did not have what they needed to reverse the process. We might.
The city is reliant on a wall to keep it safe. [He glanced at Somnus with a pointed look and small smile.] No Wall stands forever. We identify the outside threat and neutralize it. And in exchange we acquire the knowledge they have. It would be... mutually beneficial.
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With such potential, perhaps he would be able to apply himself well here.]
Then it is time that we learned more. Study this world and seek to restore it first.
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[Perhaps in an act of unusual generosity considering he just admitted to his family-ending tendencies, he gave Somnus a very real warning.]
Don't allow yourself to be deceived by the pleasant front they display. From what little we've seen and discovered in our time here, it is likely there are horrors awaiting us and we must not be caught off-guard. There are some who would like to believe the city is as benign as it appears.
[Will. Though Verstael had positive thoughts for the boy. He would find out what was going on and stop it himself so Will would be protected.]
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What horrors lie in wait, other than those beyond the wall?
[Even if there was no definitive proof, there was something to be said for gathering perspective.]
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They were scientists at heart. I know better than perhaps anyone their ideas and reasoning, and I believe I understand how they were attempting to restore themselves to their former beings. They could not, because they would require samples they had long since lost.
Because they were unable to restore order, they found a way to bring us here.
[He glanced up at Somnus.]
Do you follow? We may be the samples they require.
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I am deceased. The gods of this world were able to restore my body as it once was.
[Which begged the question of why they couldn't do the same for their people.]
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[He raised a brow slightly.]
What date are you from?
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Time is irrelevant to the dead. Nor does it bear relevance here.
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What is it that you seek to understand?
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