TEST DRIVE MEME

[wearethecrystalmods]

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!

Comments

[spear_mint]

"Of course, seriously! Who's gonna hire a mercenary that lies about their age?"

Priss tracks him as he flies into the tree but doesn't do anything in particular to help. She's a little upset.

[keronardo]

"That's about as crazy as Shiroe being 90 years old," grumbled Leonardo, having learned the local tales of the Villain in Glasses.

Charging in, he gave the monster a enormous kick which knocked it into the air again. "Hit it hard!"

[spear_mint]

"Hyaaah!"

Driving her spear as hard as she can into the Turchicken's underside, the monster poofs, leaving behind a chunk of jasper crazed with thin fractures.

"...huh."

[keronardo]

Sheathing his swords, Leonardo examined the jasper gemstone. "Not worth much, with all of that damage. Also, I'd feel bad not bringing it back to heal."

Turning towards Priss, he removed his mask. "Want to do the honors and put it into a bubble? I'm not entirely certain how to do that."

Looking around, he frowned a little. "No gold, no items, no loot. Geez, I wasn't looking forward to finding work to get spending money."

[spear_mint]

"Maybe it's because this is a cutscene?"

[keronardo]

"Naw, it wouldn't be, not like this."

He exhaled a little, before frowning and folding his arms. "Geez. Just when I got used to being in Elder Tale, this happens. Now I gotta learn a bunch more rules."

[spear_mint]

"Elder Tale? I haven't heard of that game."

[keronardo]

"It's only the most popular MMORPG in the history of..." He stopped short, giving Priss a puzzled expression.

"You're not an Adventurer, right? You were yelling for the Devs but I don't recognize your class."

[spear_mint]

"Wha? I'm a Valkyrie. From Disgaea? You know, the SRPG?"

[keronardo]

"HUH?!" Oh shit this was bigger than he expected. He expected most of these people to be Adventurers of some kind but...

"So... that explains it huh... no wonder you were yelling at Dev teams and stuff." Disgaea was well known for its 4th wall breaking after all.

Folding his arms, he sighed. "Well since you're from a NIS game, think of Elder Tale as a much huger game with over a million players at the same time, and a world to match. I'm Leonardo, from the America server."

[spear_mint]

Brows furrowed, Priss leans forward juuuust enough to...sniff Leonardo.

"...huh."

Standing up a bit straighter, she gives him a wave.

"Welcome to the party, I guess?"

[keronardo]

That was weird, but he's technically seen weirder quirks from Kanami.

"I guess so."

Bringing up his friends list, he asked, "Mind if I add you to my friend list? I dunno how it works here but we can always try."

[spear_mint]

She's absolutely never going to explain what that was about. Never.

"Uh...okay, I guess?"

[keronardo]

Clicking on her name displayed, he dragged it to his friend list. Fortunately it took, and she was added under his contacts. "There, it worked. For a second there I thought it wasn't going to."

He was glad it didn't fizz out like a Person of the Land. This was why they had to keep within shouting distance of Erius, for the reason that they couldn't contact him via voice chat.

[spear_mint]

"Uhh, hold on, you need any items?"

Reaching behind her back, Priss pulls a vial of...red stuff...out of her gem.

"Here, you took a hit and there isn't a Netherworld Hospital, so drink this and get back on your feet."

This...this is what party members do, right??

[keronardo]

"Thanks."

Uncapping the vial, he took a chug -- and nearly choked. Despite his HP going back up to fill, he hacked and gagged. "Wha... is this...?"

[Chicken Blood] read the description and he made a really impressive face. "Oh god, I'm going to be sick, I should have known...!"

The sound of Leonardo being sick could be heard across the forest as he emptied the pizza he had into the bushes. "I...urk... forgot... bout that about your world... oh god gonna be sick again..."

[spear_mint]

?

???

"Is there something wrong with Chicken Blood?"

[keronardo]

"It... wheeze... isn't usually drunk straight by humans..."

Realizing he's going to have that taste in his mouth for at least a week, Leo resolved to be more cautious on items Priss gives him. "Well... at least my HP is back to full."

1/2

[spear_mint]

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"EHHHH!?!"

[spear_mint]

"YOU'RE A HUMAN?!"

[keronardo]

"Well yeah." He vaguely recalled that Humans were a rarity in Disgaea, but he himself had only played the first for a couple of hours.

"I didn't roll a beast-man class, I stuck with a human. I'm still an Adventurer though, a Player Character."

[spear_mint]

"Wait wait wait. Uh."

The party currently consists of: One Valkyrie, wise and experienced in the ways of battle, and...one Human, who is apparently some kind of furry?

When Priss thinks about it that way, it suddenly starts becoming obvious.

"Oh my Devil, am I the Protagonist?!"

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[keronardo]

"... HUH?"

Of all the weird, crazy...

"I... guess you are the protagonist? I mean, I don't see anyone else stepping up."

[spear_mint]

"Man, I thought just being a story character was enough, but I'm the protagonist, too? Hmm..."

She trails off and thinks for a few moments before continuing.

"No wonder I don't have any unique attacks! They must be plot-locked! C'mon, let's go do a violence and advance the story!"

[keronardo]

"Wait, what again?"

Well if she was so hot on it. And honestly, being a story character... was that because she was a Non-Player Character like Erius, or something else?

"Sure, why not. Lets go grinding. I could use the EXP."