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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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"A big one." That's different. Somnus reels his line in to watch Noctis. Perhaps something off-place will finally emerge with this catch.]
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Noct glances from it, to his rod, and then back again. The fuck.]
Gonna call that one a glitch...
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"BIG. BASS. FISHING. ATTACK."
Somnus, who has never played a video game, is uncertain of what he's meant to be doing in the face of this strange glitch. For that matter, the natives had told them to look for glitches without instructions on how to fix any they might encounter. He turns his head toward Noctis without taking his eyes off of the enormous bass.]
What will you do?
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[This is weird, but he's never faced down against a fish that could defeat him before. He's not about to let it happen now.
He has no sword here, but he still has his rod, so with a quick lunge he lashes out at the fish, smacking it against the fins before they can get too close. Not the hardiest of weapons, but it's solid enough, and the fish lurches backwards so it must have hurt. It's... kind of a finesse weapon?]
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Unfortunately all that experience and instinct means his first impulse is to draw back and throw his fishing rod as hard as he can at the fish's squishy underbelly. To his credit, it does stab in enough to cause some injury, and the fish lets loose a bubbly, angry howl. What it doesn't do is pull Noct along with it.
There's an uncomfortable pause as Noctis stares down at his own outstretched hand. That's not how he imagined it going.]
...So, uh. Warping doesn't work in VR.
[That's... very good to know! But now he's unarmed, so he charges in to try and retrieve his rod.]
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There's only so much that he can do with a creature that large. Fortunately, Somnus is less ditzy than his descendant and able to realize his plan a little more efficiently. Noctis will not be taking a swim in the lake today.]
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Thankfully Somnus and his quick thinking means the fish is both bent over and distracted, which makes it easier for him to grab the rod and yank it free, pivoting on one foot and circling around to the other side. He lifts a foot and plants a solid kick against the fish's back fin, knocking it forward, which is once again helped by the pull of the line. Now it's off-balance and they have it flanked.]
That's better.
[Just... as planned??]
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Well, this is ideal. It puts them in position for a pincer attack, which Somnus doesn't hesitate to initiate. He breaks into a run.
Simply running over will lose them the tension in the line to keep the fish still. The fish's bold entrance has splashed water all over the dock's surface, however, and he drops to the floor to slide across quickly. As he closes the gap between himself and the fish, he aims the rod to pierce the latter's exposed belly.]
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Noctis isn't about to be outdone, or to waste the opportunity, so as Somnus lunges he spins around and slams the side of his own rod as hard as he can against the fish's back again, shoving it into the stab so the point goes even deeper. The giant fish flops in place for a long moment, impaled and trapped between the two of them, until it suddenly freezes, sporadically glitching out, and then vanishes from sight, replaced by a normal-sized fish bouncing desperately on the dock.
And then their points each go up by 1.]
...Weird glitch.
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Somnus climbs onto his feet. His point total is much lower than that of Noctis', but what matters is that they found and dealt with a glitch. He looks around for anything more that seems out of the ordinary.]
Is that all?
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I think so. Just gotta give a report and let them fix it.
[He calls up the menu, looking for the "end game" option. Much as he'd love to fish all afternoon, having to tussle with that giant over and over would break the flow and get annoying.]
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Following Noctis' example, they leave the virtual reality and return to the cafe in which they started. Somnus removes the helmet before bending an arm like he did upon entry into the game.
The whole point of this exercise was to help the natives. He doubts he'll ever play these simulations for himself.]
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He'll... work on the rest later. Somehow. For now, though-]
Thanks for the help.
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If you should need another for the restoration of this world, seek me out. I shall lend you my hand.
[In more ways than one, given the nature of Aellyn. With that, he turns away to depart.]
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....
WHAT A WEIRD GUY.]