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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.
Network: callsign L0N31Y
[That sounds that giant monster roaming around in the Vast domain with Simon.]
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Oh, my god... Where are you from?
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[Said quite matter-of-factly. This is the first human he's met that's reacted like this, Gus isn't sure how to take it.]
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[Is someone messing with him? Is that just what he called the fear domain he was trapped in? Is this... some entirely other world he should know about here?]
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Y'know what? Lemmie start over.
[Gus realizes he's being silly. Of course this guy doesn't know! It sounds like he's getting the wrong idea so Gus should not only explain the Demon Realm to him, he's gotta sell the Demon Realm to him! He puts on his best showman voice.]
I'm Augustus -"Gus" to my friends- master illusion witch from scenic Boiling Isles, located in the Demon Realm, a world parallel to the human realm! A world full of magic and mystery, demons and adventure!
[He's never had to talk up his home before. He pauses to gauge a reaction. Is this working?]
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Somewhat legitimate. A witch sounds like a nicer name to give an avatar.]
Okay... I'm Martin. Where exactly does your magic... come from?
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[Only one response to that.]
All witches have a bile sac attached to their heart that makes magical bile for spells! Except...I can't feel mine right now. B-but I'm sure it's fine!
[Totally not scaring him right now! Not at all! And even if it was, which it's totally absolutely and very most completely not, it's not the point right now!]
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You have a growth on your heart? That-that's unusual anatomy. And, uh... Gus, wasn't it? How old are you?
[Maybe he's just dealing with a kid playing pretend really hard to deal with the trauma.]
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[He prickles a little bit at the question for reasons he can't quite define.]
...12. But I'm advanced for my age! I'm already taking high school classes and everything!
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O-oh? Oh, yeah? That's really impressive! That must be why you know so much about, um... witches.
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Uh...I know a lot about witches because I am one? You're human, right? Wouldn't that mean you know something about human anatomy?
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[He'll play along with the child for now.]
That's too bad about your powers not working. Maybe it's too hot? Hah! So, um... you should probably find a grown-up soon. Where are you? N-n-not me. I'm not- I am a grown-up. Just. Not... I don't have any food or water or anything right now.