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TDM #1
TEST DRIVE MEME #1
Welcome to Glencola Reef's first Test Drive Meme! This is a place where anyone interested in applying a character - or just curious to see how their characters might interact with the setting and others in the game - can mingle with one another. General prompts are provided below for inspiration.
TDM GUIDELINES
- Please read the rules before posting to the TDM. These still apply here and will be enforced, up to and including deleting tags/toplevels and prebanning.
- Posts from a TDM are required to apply. At least three tags across any number of threads within a TDM, posted within the last 6 months, must be provided in every application.
- TDM threads can be used for AC. Note that new characters only need to check in for their first AC cycle, but established characters can use TDM tags for their AC.
- TDMs are not considered game canon by default. This is mostly for logistics reasons - due to how characters travel on the map, it's unlikely that non-network threads that take place here will actually happen in-game. However, I won't stop anyone from working out how to make parts of threads game canon if they really want to.
- New TDMs will be posted every three months. Keep checking back into the current TDM for new toplevels!
I. ARRIVAL
You awaken on a tropical island beach, soaking wet, powerless, and without any idea how you got here. Were you carrying something important, or wearing powerful armor? How unfortunate - it looks like only the most basic clothes, items in your pockets, and simple weapons managed to make the trip with you. Are you even physically the same as you remember? If you had superhuman abilities tied to your physiology, you might be stuck in a completely different body that lacks your usual senses. You might've been whisked away from a tense battle or a near-death experience and wake up delirious, or even injured.Thankfully, against overwhelming odds, you're not the only one to wake up on this particular stretch of beach. You and your companion have a lot of puzzling out to do.
II. NETWORK
Even if you weren't lucky enough to wake up near someone else, at least you've arrived with a military-grade radio transceiver gripped tightly in your hand (or mouth, or other vaguely opposable appendage of choice). The clunky walkie-talkie will start buzzing and crackling for every public message that starts coming your way. Answering them back is as easy as pressing the "talk" button on the side of the device and either speaking into the receiver, or using the keypad to type into the message box that appears on the screen, then pressing the button again to send. A list of ongoing conversations with responses that are less than 24 hours old can be found by scrolling through the menu, identified by the callsigns that are participating in them. It seems that you've been assigned a callsign, too - it shows up in the top right side of the screen, format AB123C. The letters and numbers picked are...probably random.
This is your easiest avenue to communicating, or coordinating with, or complaining at the other people stuck on this island; how you decide to use this tool is up to you.
III. EXPLORING
For a place that appears, by all signs, to be an equatorial island in the middle of a tropical ocean, the local environments are surprisingly diverse. Beaches range from idyllic white sand to storm-swept pebble crags to cliffs with waterfalls cascading off the edges; the interior forests can be thinned from sandy soil or dense jungles full of prickly underbrush and with towering canopies; and the central mountain peaks, perilous enough to climb on their own, terminate in ravines and sinkholes that are hidden by thick foliage until you already have one foot over the edge.The animals that make their homes here are equally as varied, and sometimes just as dangerous. The standard Earth fare of tropical fish swim right up to most shores, especially where reefs have grown, and a multitude of seafaring and jungle birds make their homes in ocean-facing cliffs and trees. Any one of these creatures would make for an easy snack. But you're not the only opportunistic hunters here; sharks prowl the waters, big cats stalk the jungles, and feral boars raid any camps that smell enticing. And that's just the stuff that looks like it came from modern Earth. Your improvised fishing rod might have captured a trilobite, or maybe that deer you were stalking has rounded on you with a set of alien mandibles full of sharp teeth. Or maybe, among the plants and animals completely foreign to you, you've stumbled across one that's strangely familiar to your home and no one else's.
There's a lot to figure out about this place. At least, in this instance, you aren't doing it alone.
Re: Ishigami Senku | Dr. STONE
"Depends on what you are looking for, stranger. I'm a farmer and hunter but I rely on old fashioned weapons. I am also a General and Commander from ancient Roman times. How do I know I can trust you with this information?"
no subject
I'm looking to not die, for starters. Tech level isn't important. Once we find the right materials, we can always strengthen swords and spears.
[ Not if we find materials. He doesn't bother with if. They'll find something. He believes in science enough; they'll find solutions to things like that. ]
I guess you don't know! We have to decide to trust one another. I'm not interested in lying to get ahead. I want everyone who ended up stranded here to survive, simple as that. And I wanna figure out the big questions: where is here, why are we here, who brought us here, and how'd they do it?
no subject
"I think we've found somewhat of a common goal so far. But I'm sure finding the right materials is more difficult than it looks with several others with the same goal. "
"I can't exactly answer most of those questions yet, but I can say I know how to make a fire and make a mini garden when the time is needed, I can also fight."
no subject
[ He's aware that he can't control how many people decide to be wild cards or lone wolves, but, details. ]
I know how to make crops grow lusher and faster. Hopefully we're not gonna be here that long, but...just in case. Like I said, just gotta find the right stuff. Which we will. There's an ocean and the trees and whatever's in the forest and beyond...we'll be all right. The fighting's the part I'm not so good at.
[ More like he needs someone to aim like a weapon since he can't fight for shit himself but why spell it out so neatly? ]
You got a name? General?
no subject
Also not expecting everyone to want to take help in stride either.
[He's been betrayed a few times by people he's known for years.]
It's the matter of finding supplies and keeping food plentiful and cooked. That is a useful skill to use. Nobody knows exactly how long we'll be here either.
[The General thinks for a short time and clicks the speaker box button again]
"Yes. My name is Maximus."
no subject
[ That's a possibility he's aware of, but it doesn't matter to him at the moment. ]
Everyone has strengths. Mine is science. I can ten billion percent guarantee we'll be able to survive with my knowledge. I've survived in the wilderness for a long time. Just goes easier with others who can do the heavy lifting parts.
[ He's not sure what he's expecting, but Maximus sure sounds like a Roman name. ]
I'm Senku. Nice to meet you. I wonder if there's a landmark we can find that makes face to face easier.