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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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When the door opens, its rather like home. An unkempt bed, a work desk, a bookshelf, its about like a one-room apartment that's poorly cared for and poorly decorated. The younger man raised his eyebrows at Stan and shrugged, entering.]
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[Stan nods at the desk, because he's got a hang of this whole magic room thing. If this kid thinks the stuff he needs is gonna' be somewhere, Stan is sure that it will be.]
Well, since your place don't look like it's about to eat us, let's get this started already. Stan- Stanley Pines, what a pleasure, yadda yadda, all that crap. What was it you were wavin' about a minute ago? Somethin' about those big fancy gems in that room?
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I was trying to ask if you also came from the hole in the wall, but I presume you did. What is this, and can it be removed?
[He tapped the piece of jasper gently. Whatever this cosmetic change was, it couldn't mean much, right? He had stumbled in with it, it wasn't as if someone had sunk it into his actual flesh, right?]
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[Stan leans back against the wall next to the desk and that notebook sitting on it, crossing his arms over his chest and watching the kid tap at - well, at himself, sort of.]
It can, yeah, if you wanna' leave here in a pine box. Well, sort of, I think we probably go 'poof' just like all those monsters do, but-
[That won't help the kid understand any of this, will it?]
Look, if you wanna' get all hippy dippy woo woo with it, that stone is you.
[He shrugs and holds up a hand, wiggling his fingers as he shows off the long, rough pink and green stone sunk into his palm.]
All I know is, mine ain't comin' out, and the only way to kill us for good is to give this thing a good crack. Mess with it if you want, but don't blame me for what happens. What all did good old mama rock explain to you back in that gem room? Some people know more than others when they first get here.
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That this temple
[Yes, that's the word.}
Is... home.
[It took him several seconds to actually pick out the right word.]
That there would be others, and I've come into possession of some things I didn't have before. Very little, basically. But I can't be a rock, that's impossible.
[As impossible as teleporting into a strange place from a hole in a cliffside that calls his name. The more he writes, the more clearly unsure he is.]
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[He shakes his sleeves out first, one and then the other, then raises his eyebrows at the guy. Nothin' up my sleeves, kid. Then the rock on his palm shines white and Stan's other hand reaches for it, and pulls out a knuckle duster. He don't put it on, don't wanna' threaten the kid, but he does wave it around a little, showing it off.]
And this arm? I broke the crap outta' it a while back, got my elbow messed up real bad in this fight in the woods. By the next week, it was good as new. I only know what I heard but uh, what I heard is so long as that rock right there don't get messed up too bad, you're golden. You can survive pretty much anything. What sorta' stuff do you call 'impossible' back home? 'Cause back at my place, that's the sorta' word I use to impress suckers.
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That's amazing. I can do that too?
[He leans in, starting to grin in wonderment. Stan has just tapped the very real excitement of a scientist who has something brand new to study, even if it's not one of his certain fields.]
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Yeah!
[He only realizes after he says it that he doesn't know if that's true, but you know what? It's what the guy wants to hear, and Stan already said it, so he might as well go with it.]
Yeah, this superhero rocks from space bunk's got its upsides, huh? We can do all sorts of crap! I met a kid whose hands started catchin' on fire the first day here! Here, wanna' see?
[So Stan holds out his only weapon to the complete stranger, grinning expectantly. If you didn't know what it just came out of it'd be pretty normal, except for the color - green on one end, pink on the other, just like the stone he pulled it out of.]
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Did you say 'From space'?
[Superhero rocks was bad enough, being turned into a superhero rock was more, but tacking 'From space' on the end was just ridiculous.]
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[Stan takes the weapon back, holds his hand palm up and, with a grin and a waggle of his fingers, makes it disappear back into the magic space rock again. He's only pulled the thing out a couple times so far, and it's still cool.]
It's not like the space thing's really that weird compared to the rest of it, huh? Unless they don't got space aliens in your dimension.
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[He rubs his own gem as if it's something of a comfort, wondering how to extract a weapon of his own. Perhaps it's something spiritual?]
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[Virgil nodded, then realized he hadn't introduced himself. This American fellow had been too (debatably) kind and helpful not to give his name too. When the notebook was returned to Stanley's hands, the younger man offered a hand to shake.]
I'm Virgil Alexandrescu, thank you for all the information. There wouldn't happen to be other 'science types' here would there?
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Yeah, with a name like that I guess you didn't have any choice but to grow up into a huge nerd, huh? I don't, uh, I don't really get around much but yeah, there are a couple others around here. Why, you wanna' get 'em all together and start doin' experiments?
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I'd like to see what they know, and look into studying this condition we've been gifted. Test this invulnerability and 'poofing' concept, perhaps. Would you mind introducing me?
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[Stan takes a second to study the guy, thinking his question over. His first impression of, too good looking, too polite, probably an axe murderer wasn't too far off, and Stan ain't surprised to realize it. He's got a good feeling for people. It's just that with this kid it's experiments instead of axes. Scientists.]
You know what, yeah. I might know a guy. But you're gonna' keep that test subject bullhockey to yourself, alright? Do you think you can handle that? 'Cause if you experiment on Ford, I'm gonna' be poofin' you, got it?
[It's impossible to say that sorta' thing without a good poke to the other guy's chest. Here, Virgil, have a poke.]
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You've pegged me all wrong, Stanley. I just want someone to help me learn, no one's getting tested aside from a few mice- or whatever the space rock equivalent is. And hey, if I have to test something sentient, I'll try myself first.
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I'll hold you to that. And uh, you might not find many mice, at least not with the gem thing goin' on. There's a couple monsters around, though, if you can keep 'em from eatin' your face long enough to poke 'em with a couple needles be my guest. Look, I'll let you get settled in but once you are, find me somewhere, alright? I'll be around. Then I'll introduce you to Ford and you guys can nerd your little hearts out together. Sound good?
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That would be wonderful, I'll be looking for you in a bit. Thank you, for the help.
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[Stan moves toward the door, pointing a finger at the guy.]
I mean that. You can pay me.
[Then he turns the gesture into a lazy wave, and heads out, back to whatever he was doin' before. A whole lotta' not much. Well, that was a distraction for a good couple minutes.]