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♥ June 2019 Test Drive Meme
June Test Drive Meme
♥ Premise ♥ Setting ♥ Rules ♥ FAQ ♥ Mod Contact ♥ Full Navigation ♥
❥ PROMPT I: Welcome to Havenwell!
Hello! Welcome! You're the first living, breathing, people here in a long time. Everyone is very excited to meet you. You met the robot when you woke up, right? The one that said you've been brought by the gods to save their world? They're a little more reserved, but you might meet some who aren't.
Once you've had the gist of the situation explained to you, been assigned your tablet, and given a map that circles where the free housing is, you're free to wander the walled city. As you go, any number of robotic citizens approach you in a mixture of excitement and curiosity. Would you like a tour? Do you need help finding your new home? How about a different map? A coupon for a local shop? A hand to hold? There's no end of helpful voices and hands.
Some of the helpful voices and hands are a little too helpful, however, and you might find yourself fending off curious robotic researchers. They ask you questions about how you came to the world, request samples of hair or nail clippings, ask for...autographs? Handshakes?? A hug???
They also seem determined to shove new arrivals together to see how they interact with one another, so you might find yourself pushed together with a stranger and asked to talk while robots look on, nod, and take notes until said robot researchers are satisfied with whatever data they're collecting.
❥ PROMPT II: Ainea's Street Fair
In celebration of the new arrivals, the temple priests of Ainea have revived an old tradition and set up a lovely little festival by way of welcome. There are tents and games covering the streets with (prerecorded) music trying to liven up the atmosphere playing out over speakers hidden everywhere. Some games are recognizable like corn-hole, ring-toss, or knock the bottle over games. There's even a dunk tank set up on one corner, although there's a dummy on the seat instead. Someone is welcome to volunteer though and a promise of Dora as payment might just be enough to entice some people to take a turn.
There are plenty of other games as well! And most, if not all, have plenty of cheesy and cute prizes to win. Small wooden mice figures, little wooden beaded bracelets painted in different colors, weirdly colorful and stretchy sticky toy hands that you can flip around and stick to things. The big prize seems to be a large plush pink and purple panda mouse stuffed animal.
You can also find food and drinks aplenty, you don't want to go the day without anything right? Right.
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Or maybe you do. You'll find all the food tastes off. Some foods are spicy instead of sweet, some are completely bland. Soda's are flat and coffee is fizzy. Aellyn's residents have gone without for so long, they've unfortunately forgotten a few key details about food and drink. They won't say no to help if you decide to try fixing a few things.
❥ PROMPT III: A Night-time Delight
At night, the festival kicks into high gear with the main event. All around the temple grounds and festival stalls are small metallic round platforms big enough for two people to stand. They have railings around them for people to hold onto but are otherwise fairly nondescript slightly raised round discs scattered here and there. Temple priests encourage passersby to step into the platforms with a friend and as the sky darkens, it's clear why.
Fireworks spring into being in the sky over occupied platforms, brilliant colors and intricate designs explode to the sound of applause from the natives. Characters will find that they can create fireworks in the same colors as their god alignment. Adherents to Ainea create shining pink and purple sparks, while Rawna devotees create shimmering iridescent silver. Those aligned with Diacht create brilliant white and red, and those of Ohma make sparkling blue and gold. The designs seem to vary from pair to pair, with those who share more positive interactions on the platform capable of creating far more intricate designs. By entering the platform with someone of a different alignment, the priests explain you can use colors of both gods in your displays.
And the ones with the most beautiful or moving fireworks might find that they have a few extra Dora in their wallets when they step off the platform.
❥ PROMPT IV: Virtual Reality
With Aellyn's technological advancements, VR entertainment took a drastic step ahead of what most people might be used to. Before their conversion to robots, VR was the height of entertainment and after, it became the only way for many residents to relive their flesh-bodied days.
The VR cafes are still around and heavily trafficked by the residents, and with all of you here now, they've been refurbished to allow the new arrivals to partake! The old headsets haven't advanced with the people (robots don't need VR headsets after all), but they're all still functioning and in good shape, freshly cleaned and touched up. There are all sorts of games available from strategy to action, rpg's and sims. Would you like to go on a grand adventure? Or maybe you'd like to build a farm? Or an amusement park? Are multiplayer games more your speed?
There's no limit to what you can do with the VR systems. Hook up, find a partner, and enjoy a game or two together! You'll notice the image quality isn't great, but if you hold hands with your game partner, there's a sudden clarity that comes in short bursts. Weird, huh?
This month's breakout hit is...!! A petting....zoo...? Well, the natives sure seem to be into it as they plug in by the droves to pet imaginary giant rainbow-colored sheep or floating fluffy cotton candy looking jellyfish creatures with tentacles that give a pleasant buzz rather than a venomous sting. All the animals featured are differently sized than their earth counterparts and strangely colored to boot. Is that a toy poodle sized pink horse with wool instead of fine hair? What about that yellow and brown mouse that's almost 5 feet tall? It's a good thing it's all a simulation, because some of the animals look freaky - like the gaseous ball of soft blue light with the cutest eyes and really long fangs. Thankfully, the animals are all very peaceful and love attention. That freaky gas cloud? It smells like fresh baked cookies and nuzzles people like a cat. In fact, every animal here is sweet - unless you happen to pet the dog-sized chickens the wrong way. Anyone unlucky enough to make them mad will find themselves swarmed by dozens of fat fluffy multicolored birds.
❥ PROMPT V: Cuddle Weather
When you arrived, Havenwell seemed to have fair weather every day. The summer-like breeze and sunny skies were perfect for going out to explore the city and get to know your new environment.
But today, seemingly at random all over city, the blue skies turn gray and rain or snow starts pelting down. The balmy temperature plummets in these pockets of poor weather and the citizens of Havenwell quickly desert the streets affected. Shops and homes close up, warding off the damp which can mess their gears and here or there, robots can be seen retracting arms into their torso casing or deploying built-in umbrellas over their heads as they leave.
If you've found yourself in one of these bad weather pockets, you better seek shelter! The storm isn't bad enough to hurt, but it certainly isn't pleasant to go from summer to the dead of winter so quickly. Maybe you're lucky enough to find an abandoned antique umbrella big enough for two on the side of the road, or can take refuge on some closed shop's porch for a bit. Wherever you end up, you probably aren't alone in trying to stay dry so be nice and share the (admittedly meager) wealth of body heat and dry space. It shouldn't last long, but you're definitely stuck until it passes.
❥ PROMPT VI: Wildcard
Have fun however you like with the setting! Or make a network post. Havenwell is your oyster.
If you have a question, feel free to post it below under the Question thread and a mod will get back to you ASAP. Our first reservation round begins on June 29, 2019 at 10:00PM EST and our first application round will run from July 2, 2019 to July 9, 2019 from 10:00PM EST to 10:00PM EST.
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[He looks around at the interested robots with a frown.]
That's ... kinda sad, don't you think?
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Yes. I think it is very sad. So we must help them, any way we can. Or...I must, I should not speak for you! It isn't right.
[Her smile is both apologetic and encouraging, because Alastirra would only be too happy for Prompto's help, if he chose to offer it.]
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[He grins up at her. He's always been a helper, eager to please. A large chunk of his time spent back home was on helping other people.]
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Other than showing them...'how it's done'? I am not sure what else to do. Though I am game for that if you are!
[By which she mostly means hugging, really! Alastirra's not given to innuendo. Much.]
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Still, he blushes.]
Heh. Yeah... Seems like a weird way to save a world, but at least it's not violent!
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I am not...discomfiting you, am I? [She noticed the blush, and being around humans for as long as she has, she does know what it means.]
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Oh, no! It's fine! [It's the pale skin. He can light up like a beacon.] Just, never really been affectionate with total strangers. [High fives and stuff, sure, but the hugs and butt slaps - those were for friends.]