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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!
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Still, he could sympathize. Did their Saiyan genetics even allow them to get things like fevers? He sure couldn't remember a time he ever even had one. Or... any sort of sickness, really.
But he did know what a fever should consist of, at least!
The pros of being a nerd.]Well, a fever's usually the result of your body's internal temperature shifting while it's fighting off an infection. So... Try looking like you're sweating even though you feel chilly? Dehydration and loss of appetite are pretty common too. Oh, and irritability too. [That last one should come naturally to you, Trunks. Just channel your father.]
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Also, ouch, Gohan. That hit too close to home.]
Wonderful, we're doing great so far.
[Grumbling. See, look, he's got it down!]
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[He remains oblivious to the fact that Trunks' irritation may be more than a little genuine.]
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But he'd rather not wake up 30 minutes later due to a combination of post-traumatic stress and nerves, so.]
Thanks for the encouragement.
[A few minutes of semi-companionable silence while Trunks just rests his eyes honest pass.]
Did they tell you when we'd be done with this?
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No clue. I think someone's supposed to eventually relieve me from "guard duty".
[Guard duty sucked. Gohan was pretty good at being able to stay still most of the time, but this was awful. He wasn't getting stronger, he wasn't actually learning anything... What was the point, then!
But an idea hits him.]
You know, I do have the keys...
[Sure, they could just bend the bars instead, but Gohan doesn't want to cause that kind of destruction.]
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I mean, it would be a disaster preparedness exercise. What if someone defects and lets the prisoners...I mean, the quarantined populace...out?
[Contributing to the delinquency of a technically-still-a-minor, Trunks, for shame, you are the adult here. Technically. Time travel throws weird things into the mix.]
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Exactly. [He's already placing that key in the keyhole.] And what if a particularly dangerous quarantined person made his escape... [A click, the lock being released...] And someone had to chase after him.
[He's saying this is their chance to escape this stupid exercise.]
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I mean, I really could get out of here whenever I wanted, you're just avoiding property damage.
[He smiles--tired, but genuine--and walks out before floating up into the air.
Except the sign. That's staying firmly on the ground where he dropped it.]
Come on, I'm going to spread horrible diseases everywhere.
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Still, what's done is done, the lock is released, the door is open, and Trunks is free. Gohan drops his "weapon" to the ground, leaving it neatly on the ground near the sign.]
Right. [Wait, he should sound at least vaguely serious about this.] Err, I mean... I'll have to chase after you and contain you.
[At least you're not actually a threat, Trunks. Or else you'd have Saiyaman chasing you.]
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Alright then. Catch me if you can!
[Just a heads up, he's gotten really good at hide and seek. Also running away.
Much to his frustration.He flies off as fast as he can.
(At least if you did put on that silly costume, he's too polite to give you shit about it.)]
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[Wait are we doing this?
We're actually doing this, aren't we?
Dammit Trunks. Why is it so hard for you people to respect the "no powers in the open" rule?! Ugh. He knew this would happen once it got to be more than just the kids.]
Fine, you asked for it, then!
[Fine, he'll play this game of tag with you, Trunks. He takes off into the air after Trunks, flying after him at max speed. And he's a lot faster than he was as a kid.]
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And it's hard for him to respect the 'no powers in the open' rule because he doesn't care. Oops.]
Less talking, more flying!
[He says as he's flipped around, flying upside down and facing Gohan, which seems thoroughly impractical.
He turns back over though and puts on a burst of speed, before suddenly turning left.]
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He deserved this.
But what he doesn't deserve is actually winning this little "game". Gohan darts after him, increasing his own speed as he unleashes some of his latent energy, quickly turning left and closing that gap between him and Trunks.]
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Again. This seems to be a theme in his life.
Instead of speeding up to compensate, Trunks cuts out completely and goes into freefall--then with a soft laugh he fires up again and zips off right, towards a clear area.]
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The moment he spots Trunks fly to the right, towards that clearing, he takes off again. But just chasing Trunks wasn't good enough. If he wanted to catch him, he had to outsmart him. And thankfully, Gohan knows the area a whole hell of a lot better than Trunks does.
Releasing more of his energy to increase his speed further, he keeps his high altitude, actually ascending higher into the sky, hoping to use the murky, gray skies to his advantage as cover as he flies high, trying to spot Trunks from the vantage point.]
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Gohan does indeed know the area better, but Trunks is really good at hiding his ki, and hiding in general. Once he lands, he darts into the tree line, then masks his energy so thoroughly that it'd be hard for anyone to sense where he was.
Your move, Gohan.]
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But there's nothing. For all he knows, Trunks might not even be here now. Did he dupe him? Did he end up outsmarted by Trunks instead? Dammit Trunks.
That's what you get for trying to outsmart a guy from your future, Gohan.But alright, Trunks. Two can play the no energy game. Landing on the ground, he masks his own energy signature and starts walking through the forest, looking carefully for Trunks. If you want to make this an old fashioned game of hide and seek, Gohan will play with you.]
Heh... Hope you thought about where "base" is, Trunks.
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Literally life and death.He hasn't flown away again at least, because he needs to use energy for that. So, he's definitely still around.
Somewhere.
The woods aren't that dense so he'd get found eventually, but he can draw it out for a surprisingly long time before dropping out of the branches of a large tree.]
Surprise.
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When Trunks does finally make his appearance, Gohan stares at him for a brief second. And then...]
Tag.
[He taps him, right in the center of the chest.]
You're it.
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...it's like that, is it?
[They're just fitting all the ridiculous games into one day?]
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Unless you'd rather do something else?
[His frame of reference with this stuff is a pair of children who collectively have the attention span of a goldfish.]
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Unless you count the androids trying to tag them but let's not, that was not fun and games.]Well, I don't have anything else to do. Even if I had any plans they got cancelled by the whole getting dragged into a locked cell thing.
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[Gohan you should probably be fleeing from the guy you just tagged right about now.]
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[Yeah, you probably should. I mean, it's not like Trunks is gonna call you out on this, but...
He will totally take advantage of your distraction to bolt past you at full speed and tag you on the elbow.]
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