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TEST DRIVE MEME #2
TEST DRIVE MEME #2
Hello and welcome to the In the Night test drive meme for July! Thanks for your interest in our game! Reserves open on July 20, and applications open on July 22.
While you're here...
- Take a look at our rules and faq pages to familiarize yourself with the game.
- Note that, for this month, we have an application cap of 9 apps for new players, as we are raising the game cap to 60.
- Current players may app a second character this round if they wish, which will not count against the app cap of 9.
- TDM threads can become game canon if both players wish. If the situation isn't something that could happen in-game, you're free to chalk it up to some strange hallucination, a shared dream, or other mysterious circumstance.
- Note that this is not limited to new characters threading with characters already in-game. If current players wish to thread out the TDM prompts as canon events, they are welcome to do so. They are welcome to make posts in the main comms for TDM events as well. Please note, however, that actual plot clues or happenings will not occur in TDM prompts.
- TDM threads can count as network threads for AC.
- If you plan to apply, please keep in mind that we do require at least one sample thread on the application to be from our TDM (though it doesn't need to be the current TDM).
- You're welcome to use the provided prompts or come up with something on your own, but we do ask that all threads take place in our game's setting.
Thank you again, and we hope you'll choose to join us!
log prompts
HERE LIES PEPERONY AND CHEASE
It happens when no one is looking, when most of the town is asleep and the rest are inside. Dozens of shrines, altars, and other memorials appear seemingly out of nowhere, lined up in rows like a haphazard cemetery. Each one is covered in candles, and each bears an image or a name (or in some cases, both,) of a current resident of the town. The air around these monuments is solemn and reverent, and it instills in visitors an urge to pay respects.
Doing so, however, may have surprising results; it causes one to experience the death of the person whose grave they've honored.
Whether you resist the compulsion or give in willingly (or something in between), you'll also have to wrestle with the fact that a grave exists for you. Will you let your death be known, or try your best to keep it secret? Destroying it sure won't work, as it will return (along with a duplicate somewhere else in town). However you choose to deal with this, one thing is hard to ignore—this a tangible reminder of your death, and the fact that it's probably permanent.
This is a mini version of our July event, Graves.
WHAT'S WITH THIS SASSY... LOST CHILD?
There's something in the woods. You can hear it, faintly: the sounds of a living creature. What manner of creature, of course, is unclear. It may be safest not to venture out alone. Whether or not you travel forth with your companion willingly or not, as you tiptoe through the foliage, the sound grows louder. It becomes clear that something...something is crying. Get close enough, and the sobbing softens to fearful whimpering. But what is it that you've found?
The spirit would be easy to overlook of they weren't shivering in their hiding place where they cling to a tree. They're small, with the vague humanoid figure of a child, though their arms and legs taper into tangled roots. The hair on their head is nothing but leaves and moss, and the tears that stick to their cheeks shimmer like sap.
Get too close, and it cries out in fear, causing your head to spin in vertigo. It's clear that it'll be best to err on the side of caution, but decide to leave it to its own devices and you'll find yourself with a weeping tag-along. It looks like one way or another, you're going to have to deal with this.
network prompts
HEY, I JUST MET YOU
It happens when you're sleeping, or trying your best to relax, or simply staring off into space. Your tablet flickers to life of its own accord and begins to display some rather odd messages. They might be in the form of text, though the meaning is a bit muddled, to say the least, seeing as how they're nothing but strings of numbers. Or maybe you're especially unlucky and get the audio version, crackling out of your tablet's speakers.
Where are these messages coming from? Who's sending them, and how? And most importantly: why? Maybe it's a good idea to hop on the network and see if anyone else has any insight.
KHAJIIT HAS WARES IF YOU HAVE COIN
The general store is exactly what it sounds like: A general store. Its products are basic, standard, boring staples. Its stock works well enough for getting by on the day to day, but anything really worth having needs to be ordered from Rastus, and then you're stuck waiting until the next ferry shows up.
Or so you thought.
You're digging through the shelves one day when you find... it. Maybe it's the last bag of coffee beans. Maybe it's a multitool. Maybe it's a particular size of pants you know someone was looking for. Either way, it's useful, it's a great find, but not for you. These pants won't fit you, you've already got a multitool, and you quit the bean juice years ago.
But, hey, there's a good chance someone else in town does have something you could use. Whether you know someone's been asking around for what you've found or you just want to toss up an ad to the whole town, your best bet is taking to the network. Maybe someone's up for tradesies.
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creepy voice message
THEY MAY BE OUR SALVATION.
[ This is not a case of accidental capslock. K is Angry. ]
no subject
i will not let a plastic device whisper curses in my ear
i am getting rid of it as soon as i can
no subject
Whatever these messages are, they must have a source. Finding that source could prove helpful to us if we can find a way to harness their power source.
Yes, it could also be dangerous. But the messages are most certainly NOT a curse.
[ She doesn't believe in curses. Never mind she's dead. Death is real and apparently so are souls. Who knew. ...well, she did, kinda. Like that time she restored her friends when they got deleted from the biofield.
ANYWAY curses aren't real. ]
Or, tracing them can allow us to open doors back to where we all came from.
no subject
I can recognize whispers of evil and this
[has her feathers ruffled]
this is a menace
i don't want this plastic near me.
you can come and have it. do that tracing thing
[whether she'll help hunt the thing down or no- she's thinking about it.]
no subject
[ Before you chuck it in the water or something, grumble grumble. ]
no subject
[The pub is too noisy and too smelly for her]
and action
She's there promptly, wearing a dress one size to big for her, with a cardigan over it because she can't understand why all outfits don't come with pockets, she needs pockets. She's small and serious and glad to be by the bonfire, where her lantern is useless but atill a comfort. ]
Your device?
[ Greetings... you should start with greetings, K. ]
no subject
Her lantern is hooked on her belt, then additionally hidden by her feather coat. She pulls it closer even tighter when the other woman approaches. She points at the nearby tree trunk where she left it. Xayah herself was not far away from it (in case it becomes demon she has to fight) but not close either because what the fuck.]
Just toss it in the fire and be over with it.
no subject
K goes directly for the device, not even sparing the other woman a glance in the process. ]
No. I may be able to use it to increase the energy output on mine and get better data.
[ Now she looks up. ]
The device itself won't hurt you, you know.
no subject
One can't be too sure.
[They said humans wanted diplomacy and look where it got her.]
I have no idea what you are talking about. But if you can use it, help yourself.
[She'll just be on the safe distance over here.]
no subject
[ One small miscalculation based on overconfidence led to the near extinction of humanity, so... ]
I will. Thank you.
[ If it sounds a little stiff it's because K is still learning how to people. ]
As a courtesy, I'll let you know what I discover. It will probably be a few days at least.
[ Counting days in a town of endless night is an experience. ]