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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!

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Uh, yeah, I did... it was really weird, actually. I can't even remember why I got into it, to be honest.

[She doesn't actually notice right away either, still holding Adrien's hand as they talked.]

That's why...

[He looks past her, and nods his head once towards it.]

That gem over there is called the Heart Gem. Somehow, it's behind those holes in our world and drawing us here so we can help. Though, none of us know what it wants us to help it with.

[She turns to look in the direction he nodded, eyes widening at the large gem.]

Wow! That's amazing...! [She'd never seen anything like it. She takes a minute to marvel at the Heart Gem before turning back to him.]

So wait, that thing brought us all here?

[He nods.]

You would think it's strong enough to sort everything out if it can bring us here, but I guess it can't due to being stuck in this Temple. Then again, it's also turned us into gems, too, but that could be either to keep us from being physically limited, or-- Sorry, maybe I should have brought that up first...

[Everyone responses to becoming... not very human differently.]

[Wait, did she hear that right? Her eyes widen and she looks between him and the big crystal thing.]

Wait, wait... turned us into gems?? What are you talking about?!

Well, about that...

[He turns his right hand over, fingers curled in a way to make his gem appear circular as opposed to its actual paw-shape.]

This... is apparently who I am. Gems here are alive, and the Heart turned us into hybrids. I don't know how else to explain it, but if you touch the Heart, it will show you more of what this place is like.

W-What?? [Marinette stares down at his gem, stunned at the new addition to his palm. She points at it, then at him, then back and forth.]

Wait. You mean you're..? [He was... a rock now? She shakes her head.] But how is that even possible? I mean, I don't--

[She blinks a few times, before she jerks her hands back to look them over (she would have had a mild freak-out over the fact he had been holding her hand, but his information had really surprised her).]

There's nothing on my hands... [Though, her movements had shifted a few strands of hair, revealing a glint of light on her ear lobe that Adrien most definitely would be able to spot.]

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I don't get it entirely myself, but... I guess I'm part alien now. It isn't so bad; I'm still me.

[It's a little much. Yeah, he should've figured out a better way to explain this.]

[As she pulls away in search of her own gem, he blinks when a glint catches his attention. Cat reflexes? Partially. Raising his other hand, he gently touches it.]

Looks like yours is here. [That's an interesting location... and color. Huh.]

[Part alien? Did that mean they were all part alien or something? That was just weird...]

[She freezes as he reaches up, eyes wide as she watches his hand move to touch her ear lobe. A blush instantly creeps up on her face and for a moment she's stunned. Positively stunned because Adrien Agreste is touching her ear.]

O-Oh... [No, she isn't mentally prepared to handle this. Someone send help, she's going to die from either embarrassment or from the sheer fact that Adrien Agreste was touching her ear--]

[If he noticed, he doesn't say anything, examining her gem. It's red and black... and kind of looks like his own. It also reminded him of a certain partner he was still missing... Red and black made a surprisingly good color on Marinette now that he sees the gem there.]

[Pulling his hand away, he realizes that she hasn't said anything for a few minutes.]

Sorry. I know it's a lot to take it, but it's not that bad here.

[His words make her snap back to attention, and all at once she shakes her head, leaning back a bit and letting out a nervous giggle.]

N-No, it's alright! I mean, well, it is a lot to take in... but, well, I guess it could be worse?

[She fidgets nervously, reaching up and feeling that gem with her fingers. It was smooth, much like her earrings, but there was no stud or anything to remove it. It was embedded in her flesh, like Adrien's was in his palm.]

[Come to think of it, he's been oddly calm about all of this. She blinks up at him, brows furrowing a bit.]

Um... how did you find out about all this? I mean, did you just wake up hear as well?

... Yeah, it probably could be.

[He pockets his hands because he should keep his hands to himself. Still, someone from home - one of his friends even. He missed greeting Nino in the morning with a fist bump and almost missed Chloe hugging him - almost. She could stop jumping on him, that would be nice.]

[He blinks and immediately rubs the back of his neck. That... ah well...]

Well, I... I've actually been here for over two months.

T-Two months?!

[That is definitely a comical bulging of her eyes and dropping of her jaw. She openly gapes at him, shaking her head.]

B-But how?! That's impossible, I mean, I just saw you today at school!

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[At least he is prepared for that reaction.]

W-Well, I only disappear from a single point in time in our world that being here is entirely negligible...! [Adrien not helping.]

I mean...! This is another world; it's on its own time.

[Really not helping. She shakes her head, trying to rationalize out what he's saying.]

So... you're saying that this isn't just another world, but another time as well? Ugh, this sounds like one of Alya's comic books...

It kind of is. We can summon weapons from our gems to fight against monsters, and shape shift among other abilities.

Wait, seriously?? [That has Marinette blinking, feeling her ear again and rubbing that stone embedded in her lobe.] So it's like... we're made of magic now?

[...honestly considering she was a miraculous user for the better part of the school year, she's not completely surprised. Magic, man.]

Yeah! It's pretty cool, and the rooms we have here are great, too. They're connected to our gems, and we can change the interior however we want.

Really?

[That actually catches Marinette's interest, and for a minute her mind bursts with creativity. A room designed however she wanted?? Just like that? It really was magic... maybe this place had some charm to it.]

Really. I've changed my own room a few times just to see what would happen.

[End of that line of conversation.] We can head to your room now, but only if you're ready to go. [She hadn't touched the Heart yet and he considers that important.]

That does sound pretty amazing...

[His discussion of changing his room around at his own whims has her curious about what she could do with her own, but she pauses, excitement sobering a bit.]

U-Uh, as neat as that sounds, is there... any way for us to get back? I mean, what if my parents worry, or school, or...

[Or where Tikki went, or what about her Ladybug duties. But that was something she couldn't exactly blurt out loud.]

[It had been fun while it lasted. Slowly, he frowns and shakes his head.]

I don't know. That's something you will have to ask one of the other gems - one of the few who have been here longer and arrived the same way.

Oh...

[She trails, frowning as she looks down a bit. So he'd been here for two months, and hadn't been able to come home... even though she'd never noticed his absence. This place was truly weird, and being stuck here was intimidating.]

...but, uh, at least we're here together! [A beat, before she backpedals.] I-I mean not together, but um... it's good to have a friendly face, at least?

... Yeah... yeah, it is.

[He smiles at her.]

It's been different trying to meet people here... [Nino had been the one to initiate their first conversation at school after all.] Everyone here has been really nice so far.

That's good! I mean, it would kind of suck if you were stuck in a new place with nothing but jerks.

:D

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