memepatheias | Test Drive: May

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Test Drive: May

— TEST DRIVE: MAY —

Welcome to

empatheias' test drive meme. This test drive is to help interested players test their characters in the game's environment. We've included a few prompts that incorporate specific elements of the game, though you'll find all of them have a lot of leeway for players to get as creative as necessary. Before diving in, here are a few things we'd like to remind everyone about the game in general:

Date reminders. Reserves open 24th of April and Applications (Canon | OC) open a week later on May 1st. Apps will only be open for four days!
OC Reminder! Just a quick reminder that original characters are allowed. Those interested can also use the test drive. OCs do not need to be reserved.
Emotions are key! Empatheias' premise focuses on how anyone's emotions can affect their environment, be it big or small. While not every emotion will cause a reaction, significant ones definitely will. How much effect a character will have will ultimately be up to you, the player. Also, while we're giving a lot of leeway for the test drive, keep in mind that there will be some limits in the actual game.
Everyone has an amulet. All characters have a unique amulet that is specialized for them. It will contain all of their emotion drops and it serves as the network device. Remember, communication is telepathic. Otherwise, it works basically the same.
Assume the character is already in the game. Because "OMG WHERE AM I IS THIS REAL LIFE" threads aren't going to be very helpful in this test drive! Plus, those are going to happen in-game, anyway. So to make things easier, just assume that they've been around at least a week or so. Still learning the ropes, but not a complete "first day" experience.
First or third person allowed. Your threads can be in either first or third, but we'd advise being flexible about it. Remember, these threads can also be used in your application for samples! Reminder: We only require one sample and it can be done in either format. We have also made a change to our sample requirements, so look over the Applications page!
Transfer to in-game. If accepted, you can assume threads made on the Test Drive happen in-game if the scenario can reasonably fit. For new characters, these threads do not count for activity check. However, these can be supplementary threads for players already in-game.
For your threads, put the Character Name and the Canon in the subject line to help readily identify them. You're also welcome to use more than one prompt for respondents to choose from. If you have any questions or want to brush up on the game information, refer to the Game Information entry. Otherwise, tag around and have fun!
For any concerns or questions, head over to this top level.

Now with that out of the way, here are some prompts you guys can work from!

PROMPTS

• PROMPT A: How about giving the emotions a try?

• PROMPT B: Refer to the Task Board and choose a task your character may be interested in taking up. For this prompt, you could have your character ask for help, already be in the middle of the job, or react to it in some way. Perhaps they were an unfortunate victim or want to create a job countering an existing one. You could even have a prompt making a job request. Creating jobs for the purpose of the test drive is absolutely doable.

• PROMPT C: How about giving the amulets a go? Start a telepathic conversation and see how it works. Remember, the amulets are sending out the owner's thoughts so might want to be careful about how the stream of consciousness goes...

• PROMPT D: Perhaps one may have heard that Verens used to be a floating island, and it was! When the island then ended up on the surface, creatures which explorers have called "Dinosaurs" (quotation marks included) were discovered inhabiting the plains and the mountains in a far off area. It's time to go back to the jurassic world for a very important mission: gather as many Amaranthus Rubus, red pearl-shaped fruits that heal any and all wounds on one's skin. The hospital needs it! As such, one needs to prepare.

Explorers do not wish to harm the "Dinosaurs", as they are afraid the "Dinosaurs" would go extinct should any danger be placed unto them. This means that one's option when encountering volatile and aggressive "Dinosaurs" is to run away. A fun run is now being held in Verens a few days prior to the trip to the "Dinosaur" plains, where 50 sylvs and a t-shirt that says "I successfully ran away from a 'Dinosaur'!". The colour of the shirt is random, though, but there are as many as the colours of the rainbow. Maybe trade with somebody else who's finished the run if you don't like yellow so much.

• PROMPT E: Once the preparations have been made, it's time to set forth into the land of the “Dinosaurs”. As you enter their domain, it may be difficult to resist the temptation to interact with these rare and unusual creatures, and some of the “dinosaurs” are indeed tranquil and herbivorous. Go ahead and feed the long-necks leafy branches and if you're feeling daring, climb up on their backs for a ride! However, many of the “dinosaurs” are quite a bit more dangerous, and they are very territorial. If you cross paths with the a pack of raptors, prepare to run, fight, or distract. All explorers have been supplied with strips of alluring jerky to placate the beasts. Who knows, you might even make a friend! Be careful not to lose and hand, though.

The Amaranthus Rubus is thickest near the home of the most terrifying “dinosaur” of all, the "Tyrannosaur", and if you are daring enough to approach the lair of this creature to reap the fruits, you may not even have the chance to run away before the creature corners you, roars, and...wiggles his sad, little arms. It seems poor old "Tyrannosaur" just wants some kind of tool to extend his reach! Help him out and he will let you go. Or refuse, and he'll eat you. Sounds reasonable, right?

• PROMPT F: It seems like the land of the "Dinosaurs" isn't so bad after all! Perhaps "Dinosaurs" and man can co-exist, but for that to happen, much research will have to be made regarding a "Dinosaur"'s way of life. Now aboard the ship to head back to the city, researchers are talking about another excursion in the future that's solely for researching on "Dinosaurs" - various species, what they eat, their excrement, and the like.

The trip back to Verens is a little long. Perhaps you're just resting in one of the rooms when there's an explosive sound that can be heard. Oh no! It looks like the engine's running out of steam! Luckily, there's a steam generator in the ship, but steam can only be made through cooperation, anger, and sadness. The entire ship needs your help to get back to the city safely, and if you have to hold someone's hand, slap them, and yell at them to get them to manifest their emotions tangibly, then do so!

• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include swords and/or stones.

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Prompt A

[Red is back, and there may be some that remember him, but he certainly isn't the same bright-eyed eleven-year-old he'd been during his last stay here. He's older now, though not as old as his expression might suggest. It's the same as it always has been - flat - but there's something a bit somber about it now.

[It seems to Red that it rains an awful lot around here. Really, there's just a little rain cloud following him around, keeping everything cold, damp. He can be seen wandering around with an umbrella overhead, and a little gray cloud right above that, pouring down rain over him. It's a gloomy look overall, though he doesn't really notice - someone else just might, though. Who is this kid and...is he okay?]

Prompt C - Voice

[Telepathy has always been an...interesting concept to Red. The ability to communicate without actually having to speak? Sign him up. Now that he actually has the chance to use it, though, he finds himself just as tongue-tied. It takes a long time for him to even get a couple of words out, and once he does, he doesn't even realize that what he's thinking is actually being broadcast - because, well...]

This can't really work...right?

Prompt D

[Red did, in fact, successfully run away from a "Dinosaur", but it was only due to the fact that he had first pissed off the dinosaur by throwing a Pokéball at it. Still, he gets a t-shirt.

[But, say...is that a red one you have? Red's is blue, which isn't really his thing, so he decides to approach you with a sturdy point in your shirt's direction. He holds up his own, an offering. Wanna trade?]

[Why he decided to try his luck asking Blue? Well, probably because he's just as eager to get rid of the shirt in his hands, clenched angrily in the fabric. Is that fabric... smoking a little? He might be setting it on fire with his touch, oops.]

[Since Red showed up, it's been constant and bitter avoidance with Blue, rather than the aggressive bullying of years past. Even so, whenever they're forced into close-quarters the jibes resurface, as aloof as ever, hardened by the years of lost contact and festering resentment- even if what lies beneath them has changed, considerably, to something far less hateful.]

[But he doesn't seem to be willing to show that any time soon.]

Tch, what makes you think I'm gonna do any favors for you, loser? [Blue mocks, a cruel smirk curving the corner of his mouth. If Red's mood was a constant raincloud, it was Blue that added the thunder, the air rumbling over them. He levels a look at the shirt in Red's hands, before turning his nose up, adding in disgust]

It's not even green!

Edited (I talk 2 much) 2019-04-19 00:36 (UTC)

I don’t want it if he’s going to burn it...

[Red’s still trying to get a handle on this whole telepathy thing. The thought is so centered on Blue that it broadcasts without him realizing.

[What did make him think that Blue would want to trade, anyway? A frown turns down his lips, but he looks more impatient than spurned. Such jabs might have bothered him more when he was eleven - now it’s just obnoxious.]

It’s red.

[Come on, dude, just give him the stupid shirt.]

[Hearing Red's voice was ....strange, for a multitude of reasons after this long, and he's still not quite used to it. But his expression sours even further, then turns up into a deeper smirk.] Burnt is just good enough for you, actually. [He holds the fist-gripped shirt up in hand, more of the acrid smoke starting to rise.] Heh, just like you get smoked on the battlefield!

[in what universe]

[An exaggerated eyeroll follows Red's actual words, but the put-on ignorance was so familiar to Blue that he didn't rise to it. This clown, he'd always pretended like this...] You really think you're funny, huh? Idiot. I'm not interested in that lame shirt.

...So you ran away, huh? So lame. Figures.

[Red’s brow furrows. Is Blue not literally holding the exact same “I successfully ran away from a ‘Dinosaur’” shirt...? What, did he steal it off of someone or something? He points to the shirt in Blue’s hand, then drags his finger across the saying on his own shirt.]

You ran too.

Shut up! I didn't run, I just let 'em off easy without catching them. They can't be tamed, anyway.

[Blue's cheeks puff out, a snarl on his face. That stupid Red, thinks he's knows everything best...] And it's not like they printed any other shirts. Otherwise, yours would say 'I almost became a dinosaur snack' or something like that, heh heh! So how about it, [Blue tugs out his Pokédex, flashing it tauntingly.] How many did you record, huh? I've already got all the kinds they have here!

[Of course he would. Blue was always one step ahead of Red. Red likes to tell himself that that doesn't really bother him - slow and steady really had been proven to win the race, after all - but there is always that little aching in his pride when Blue waves it in front of his face like this.

[Still, he hands over his Pokédex and its meager amount of Dinosaur records. He has nothing to be ashamed of!]

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gimme the D

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This totally isn’t a metaphor for anything right

no u!!

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