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crystalclods2016-02-02 09:41 pm
wearethecrystalmods) wrote in crystalclods2016-02-02 09:41 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME
Hello and welcome to the COSMOGRAPHIA TEST DRIVE MEME! This is a place where you can get a feel for your character(s) in the game's setting! A couple quick points before we get down to business:
☆ Please take a look at our Premise, World Information, and our FAQ to get a feel for the rules and setting. This is great if you want to see what the game is about before jumping in!
☆ Test Drive threads are certainly allowed to be used for samples for your application, should you choose to submit one!
SAMPLE SCENARIOS:
A: By whatever means, you've tumbled through a hole into a cavernous temple. Gems suspended in bubbles float about the ceiling, and a large Heartlike gem looms before you. Touching it, whether out of curiosity or frustration, will give you some basic information, but then again, there's no guarantee you're just going to walk up to a giant weird thing in the middle of a giant weird room and touch it, right? Why not take a look around and see for yourself what kind of place this is? Perhaps you'll run into someone in the same predicament as you, or perhaps you'll run into someone who can help explain why there's a weird rock now affixed to your body?
B: It's Thursday in Waverly Bay, and that can mean only one thing: the weekly Farmer's Market is here again! Stalls not only from farmers on the outskirts of town but from crafty residents with interesting homemade items to sell, and businesses looking to attract the Market's crowd are all here! Are you shopping for a good deal on vegetables for dinner? Or perhaps you're getting a feel for the residents, having recently arrived? Or, perhaps, are you an industrious gem who's looking to set up shop? Either way, you're bound to run into somebody in this bustling, busy place.
C: Uh-oh! Looks like you've run into a monster! Apparently, from what little you've heard, you can shapeshift into things and pull a weapon from your gem, and you have some sort of special power, but maybe you don't know what it is yet, or you're still not used to using it? Guess you're going to have to learn on the job. Don't leave your fellow gems hanging if you see them fighting one of these little guys either! You're going to need each other to take 'em down!
☆ Please take a look at our Premise, World Information, and our FAQ to get a feel for the rules and setting. This is great if you want to see what the game is about before jumping in!
☆ Test Drive threads are certainly allowed to be used for samples for your application, should you choose to submit one!
SAMPLE SCENARIOS:
A: By whatever means, you've tumbled through a hole into a cavernous temple. Gems suspended in bubbles float about the ceiling, and a large Heartlike gem looms before you. Touching it, whether out of curiosity or frustration, will give you some basic information, but then again, there's no guarantee you're just going to walk up to a giant weird thing in the middle of a giant weird room and touch it, right? Why not take a look around and see for yourself what kind of place this is? Perhaps you'll run into someone in the same predicament as you, or perhaps you'll run into someone who can help explain why there's a weird rock now affixed to your body?
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B: It's Thursday in Waverly Bay, and that can mean only one thing: the weekly Farmer's Market is here again! Stalls not only from farmers on the outskirts of town but from crafty residents with interesting homemade items to sell, and businesses looking to attract the Market's crowd are all here! Are you shopping for a good deal on vegetables for dinner? Or perhaps you're getting a feel for the residents, having recently arrived? Or, perhaps, are you an industrious gem who's looking to set up shop? Either way, you're bound to run into somebody in this bustling, busy place.
C: Uh-oh! Looks like you've run into a monster! Apparently, from what little you've heard, you can shapeshift into things and pull a weapon from your gem, and you have some sort of special power, but maybe you don't know what it is yet, or you're still not used to using it? Guess you're going to have to learn on the job. Don't leave your fellow gems hanging if you see them fighting one of these little guys either! You're going to need each other to take 'em down!
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Hopefully it's nothing that'll like. Kill Rhys. Too many things have tried that, lately.]
Uh, yeah. Sorry about that, but, well.
[He shrugs, trying his best to give Lev his trademark "I am a Trustworthy person and everything is going according to Plan" smile, but it...kind of fails. He's not really that confident, here.]
These things happen! [They don't.] I'm sure there's somebody here who could give us some answers. [He's not.] It looks like a place that's...that's pretty important.
[It does.]
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It feels holy. Um.
[ Lev laughs, embarrassed. But it does feel holy. He can't articulate why. ]
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[It's not something Rhys has a lot of actual experience with. His knowledge of religion is poor at best, but he's trawled through enough conspiracy theory websites in college to be able to roll with this.]
I can see why you'd think something like that. It's definitely pretty...other-wordly.
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A temple, yes. Or the house of a god. Or ... or ... some sort of place where ... where one receives messages. There's a word for that, I think.
[ He frowns. ]
I used to know the word but I forgot it. Damn.
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Hey, don't worry about it. It could be all of the above, but I don't know where we're going to find the answers.
[It doesn't look like a vault, anyways.
He glances down, eyes catching on the gem on Lev's chest. His hand goes up to his neck, to touch the rock he knows it's there. He has no idea what it is, what it looks like, but he knows it's there like he knows he's wearing socks. Not uncomfortable, but present.
He frowns.]
I think these new implants might have something to do with whatever this place is, though.
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Implants? Oh--
[ His own hand flutters up to the carnelian gem embedded in his chest. He taps a fingernail against it and then winces. The sensation is too weird to want to repeat. He settles for resting his fingers on the surface of the gem. ]
This thing. The ... the rock. Um. I think so too. But I've yet to approach the ... the altar? The ... difference engine?
[ He indicates, with a jerk of his pointy chin, the Heart at the centre of the temple. ]
It seems important. But important things are dangerous, too. Um. Also, I wasn't sure if I'm allowed touch it and there's nobody around to ask.
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[He lowers his hand slowly, before crossing his arms in front of himself.
He doesn't trust the Heart - it seems almost too ominous. Glowing, mysterious objects? It's almost kind of laughable.]
Well, it's a big, glowing...thing in the middle of a place we have no idea how we got to. It might not kill you if you touch it, but I don't know if it wouldn't do anything just as bad. Whoever runs this place [And surely there's someone who is. There has to be, right?] should probably work on putting up some labels. Like, "hey, this thing will pull out your insides if you touch it!" or, you know, a basic "do not touch" would work.
Any sort of guidance, at all.
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I think we're supposed to know what to do, here. Instinctively, maybe. Whoever ... whoever runs this place needs to be, um. Less charitable about people's instincts, I think.
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That's assuming that whoever runs this place has good intentions. [Which, weirdly, Rhys assumes they do. Maybe things won't end up terribly?]
If this place isn't supposed to be evil and spooky they could put signs out for that, too. Or redecorate.