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TEST DRIVE: April
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 March 25th and Applications (Canon | OC) open a week later on April 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. These threads do not count toward AC.
Now with that out of the way, here are some prompts you guys can work from!
• 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: The Verens Emergency Response Teams are running drills to make sure that the Verens populace, natives and Otherworlders alike, are prepared for any and all emergencies. This means large scale obstruction of public areas, traffic delays, businesses closing their doors temporarily in the name of professional cooperation... and, best of all, Otherworlder participation!
• Prompt E: Despite the rain and everybody coming down with colds during the month, everyone in Verens is still doing their best to get ready for next month's Flower Festival. And Otherworlders are definitely expected to help with prep work. After all, it's everyone's festival, so everyone should help make it the best it can be! So here's a few ways to help!
• Prompt F: With Verens trading with more and more cities out there, some shopkeepers have gotten an idea to try and increase sales by encouraging both citizens and Otherworlders to shop local by promoting a tour of various business in the merchant district! Though the crystal has been a little negative, they're still hoping the tour goes off without a hitch! After all, it's too late to postpone it.
• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include blueberries and/or buckets.
• 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: The Verens Emergency Response Teams are running drills to make sure that the Verens populace, natives and Otherworlders alike, are prepared for any and all emergencies. This means large scale obstruction of public areas, traffic delays, businesses closing their doors temporarily in the name of professional cooperation... and, best of all, Otherworlder participation!
- Alpha Lava: If you asked Team Alpha, they would say they drew the short straw. They are in charge of the volcanic eruption preparedness drill! This includes cordoning off sections of the merchant’s square and residential district to conduct the following tasks: evacuation drills, where random houses are the "willing participant" of loudspeaker announcements telling them they have thirty seconds to escape their homes before they die; dunamis training exercises, to determine who would be most able to hold back or freeze incoming pools of lava; and, most helpful, the role of victim mannequin. Posing still as a statue for several minutes at a time to simulate being encrusted by molten lava is a thankless job, but someone has to do it.
- Epsilon Epidemic: Team Epsilon's emergency preparedness drill is outbreak of a deadly disease! For this simulation, they will be rounding up helpful Otherworlder volunteers and distributing signs for them to wear around their necks. Following that, instructions are varied. Perhaps some people end up in quarantine, informed that Team Epsilon will shoot to kill anyone who escaped. Perhaps some people are under strict instruction to act out their sign to the best of their ability, and will be penalised if they don't! (What's the penalty? It's quarantine, or no gift bag, or both.) Perhaps they are simply dead and have to lie in the street all day. Yes, that's very boring. No, they don't have a choice. At the end of the simulation, all participants are given a gift bag filled with handmade cookies (courtesy of Team Epsilon's very own multi-talented Agent N) and gift certificate for a spa day for two. Most importantly: have fun!
- Gamma Grandstanding: Team Gamma ended up with the newest preparation drill. Its official title is "People With Indeterminate Motives" (PWIM for short) to keep from throwing a wrench in the Briarlan trade deal and offending sensibilities, but make no mistake: it is about knowing exactly what to do if pirates invade Verens and conduct a hostile takeover. Some Otherworlders will be placed specifically in local business - restaurants, independently owned shops, even the zoo - and trained how to protect them from PWIM. Some businesses will be targeted; others will be ignored entirely (hope you brought a deck of cards!). Other Otherworlders will be asked to play the pirates - sorry, PWIM - themselves, complete with lame costumes (eyepatches, fancy hats, fake parrots to sit on a shoulder, itchy peglegs) for the sake of immersion. Arr! Aye, avast!
• Prompt E: Despite the rain and everybody coming down with colds during the month, everyone in Verens is still doing their best to get ready for next month's Flower Festival. And Otherworlders are definitely expected to help with prep work. After all, it's everyone's festival, so everyone should help make it the best it can be! So here's a few ways to help!
- Sign Me Up: The Festival needs signs! Lots of signs. And lots of signs need lots of painters! Or one incredibly overworked painter, but in this case, they've decided to go the teamwork route, pairing up Otherworlders and having them make signs advertising various games at the festival! Sounds easy, right? But with emotion based paints in play, be careful. Too much negativity between partners and the wording will change, the paint could run, go too far in the other directions and the signs will be practically glowing, but possibly lead to claims of false advertising!
- Special Delivery Flower Festivals need lots of flowers, and people to transport those flowers! And thanks to handy tech exchange with Briarlan, this year there's some fancy containment units for transporting them. They're really just crates with some fancy looking meters attached, meant to open up when they reach the festival grounds. Unfortunately, these new inventions probably could've used some additional testing and are prone to opening randomly sending flowers all over the place! Try and collect as many as possible and bring them back to the grounds, the festival organizers would appreciate it.
- Flower Round Up! Or maybe painting signs and boxing flowers aren't your thing, so how about...corralling them? With all the good vibes in the air, it seems some of the flower arrangements have literally pulled up roots and are running around the festival. And you can't have a flower festival without flowers, so do your best to try and get them back where they belong before they run off to start some sort of flower civilization in the woods*.
*They probably will not form a flower civilization in the woods, but you never know.
• Prompt F: With Verens trading with more and more cities out there, some shopkeepers have gotten an idea to try and increase sales by encouraging both citizens and Otherworlders to shop local by promoting a tour of various business in the merchant district! Though the crystal has been a little negative, they're still hoping the tour goes off without a hitch! After all, it's too late to postpone it.
- On the Clock: The first stop is Click, Clack, Clock, a clock shop that offers delivery to anywhere on the island! Unfortunately, due to the poor weather, all of the delivery staff are out with colds, so they're looking for volunteers! And yes, you're on this walking tour, but don't be surprised if you're handed a bicycle and a clock and sent on your way to deliver a clock. Hopefully they remembered to tell you where to go before shoving you out the door.
- Shine On: Assuming you haven't been conscripted into the clock store's delivery force, the next stop is at Verens' very own Restoration Works, an establishment for restoring old antiques and making them look good as new. They've set up an interactive demo for everybody, so partner up and practice using your emotions to bring some shine back to some dull scraps of metal! Sorry guys, they're not going to let you work on anything really valuable during the tour, but if you show some promise, maybe they’ll hire you on in the future!
- Polg-Oh No: Finally, the tour will end with a nice relaxing meal at the Sweethearts Cafe. Or it was intended to be relaxing, anyway (who would've thought the antique store would be the calmest part of the tour?), but it seems no place is safe from the Polgo plague. Better keep an eye on your plates, otherwise the second you’re distracted, the small kitten-sized blue bugs might scurry up the table and try and run off with your food!
Even if you’re paying attention, they might give it a shot anyways. So be on your guard and ready to give chase if it happens!
• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include blueberries and/or buckets.
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!
Khamu'wo Zhwan | FFXIV OC
[It's been a few weeks since his arrival, and while the world itself isn't far too different than the one he's come from—to some extent it follows similar rules, and has a similar look, at least—he's still trying to get a hold of the emotions thing. He's always been one to keep his emotions in check, trying to appear far more like a stone-cold statue based entirely around logic, than the less collected members of his Free Company (that is to say basically all of them); however this place did its job tattling on how he truly feels.
It's a vexing situation at best, and he finds himself contemplating it far more than he'd like. Particularly when it broadcasts it in less than subtle ways than the ever so slight flick of his blue lion's tail, or how his ears are half a degree lower than normal. Nay, instead this place so chooses to let flowers wilt as he passes, the ground below him chipping away as if the world's smallest man has an equally small chisel, and the pavement is to bear his greatest creation yet.
Of course, these never go unnoticed by Khamu'wo, which just makes matters worse, and subsequently the surrounding projections return in kind. This day so happens to be a particularly burdening day—surprising as that may be, what with his usual stressors no where to be see in this foreign land. However, his private feelings were his cross to bear, and his alone, so this crossed a line not many dared before.
Once he reaches the middle of Verens market, and likewise the threshold of his patience—overhangs seemingly wrinkle in an unnatural way, surrounding benches seem to warp as he draws nearer—he stops. Running his hands through his hair, looking as though he might pull out a large chunk of it, he lets out a sound of unbridled agitation.]
Thaliak, preserve! How do I MAKE THESE UNRULY PROJECTIONS STOP!?
[Of course, he's not asking anyone in particular, but you know, he's not exactly going to turn away people willing to share some advice on the matter.]
D; for disease
[Khamu'wo loves drills. Honestly, they're important, as is all preparation! Especially when it's something around the idea of a pandemic! He's a scholar after all, and they are chirurgeons for the ill, those who would lead the wounded and weary from running astray into the land of the dead. So, while others might not be having much fun, Khamu'wo is having a blast, and is in fact acting more like he's part of the group leading this operation, than simply someone being put through the drill.
Of course, he's being sure not to touch anyone, what with the sign he was given! Can't go breaking the rules now! So, whether you might be someone weirded out by his unusual cheeriness of being put through this disease drill, or someone he is directing where to go based on the sign given to you—he kinda sticks out like a sore thumb among all the aggravated faces.]
Come, come! You there—the deceased—if you were truly dead, do you think you would be standing around gawping? Lay on the floor as instructed. Surely yours is the most simple of roles—
[He turns to the next person, ears perked, tail just barely swishing at the tip.]
Wait! What are you attempting to achieve? If you are burdened with a cough, doubtless you know better than to go within a group of asymptomatic people! Go on, go! Ere you kill us all with your nonchalance.
Twelve forefend! Were this not merely a simulation, we would be doomed ere long.
[And maybe the cat ears and tails don't help blend him into the crowd either, but they probably seem somewhat mundane compared to how he's acting, directing, but seeming rather cheerfully annoyed with it all. What a weirdo.]
A
Well, there's never a dull moment. And now this odd-looking man is disturbing one of her rare times to relax. May feels her body go tense in the chair she's sitting in, and at the same time, the metal spindles on the back of her chair begin to twist, taking on a gnarled appearance. She sighs and glances over.]
I don't think you really can. You can try calming down, though.
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Pray, forgive that outburst. Little am I prone to such uncouth behavior, but I find these telegraphed emotions absolutely dreadful.
[He can't come across as nearly cool, calm, and collected as normal, annoyance merely bubbling beneath the surface...]
Though, I do suppose calming down would be a start.
[He says that, but his blurriness hasn't died down any.]
D
Said miqo’te reels on him, poised to shout another bout of instructions, no doubt, and Arthur raises his hands immediately. ]
Save your breath. I am but a bystander to this ridiculousness.
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Aye, and like all bystanders, you too would become part of this pandemic ere long. Come, play your part, 'tis for the benefit of all we know well what must be done—should we be ravaged by disease and death.
[One should not sound so happy saying those words, honestly. But as he speaks, he's absolutely glowing—literally.]
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Is it a part of your affliction that you should be glowing so?
[ He knows very well what it is that has him glowing, but Arthur is not above changing the subject to get out of ridiculous dramatizations. ]
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What—?
[He takes a moment to look at himself, only just noticing how illuminated he is. Perhaps ordinarily he'd be annoyed by this worlds tendency to broadcast these private feelings, but it seems to be bringing him attention... which is of course something he'd like, what with his penchant for directing!]
Initially, nay, but I can use this if it affords me the attention necessary to make the unruly heed mine instructions.
[Of course he says this with a pointed stare. He means you, buddy.]
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[ You will have to physically drag him from this spot!! ]
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[The moment it clicks is absolutely apparent on his features, green eyes snap to the Hyur's face as they scan his features, before looking him over.]
Forgive me, but you are from Eorzea?
[It's fortunate he changed course, otherwise he would not oppose dragging this stubborn man by the ear if he must!
Except he wouldn't actually, because that would be against the protocal he's been given, but do know that in his heart of hearts there would be an ear pulling!!]
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[ Strange that hyur should be so prevalent across all worlds, but that is one of many mysteries he's encountered here. ]
D
At least watching Khamu'wo was entertaining in his own bossy way. He seemed to be having fun from what Ikar could tell.]
We aren't sick for real, so what's it matter?
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What's it matter? What's it matter?
[Khamu'wo crosses the distance with unsettling speed, and he raises a hand as if he might grab Ikar by the ear—but he remembers at the last moment he's highly contagious, and instead chooses to use that finger to point at Ikar in the way a mother would towards a naughty child.]
It matters because we should take advantage of our health to learn what to do in the unfortunate, and may I remind you, likely, event that an epidemic may occur! If you have yourself trained well enough, while you're in the actual situation, you will spend less time dawdling, and actually doing what needs to be done!
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I doubt it's as likely as you think. How often have you heard of people gettin' this lair- [A quick glance down to his sign.] laryngitis thing? Also it doesn't matter if everyone else is still goin' to dawdle.