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TEST DRIVE MEME #4
TEST DRIVE MEME #4
Hello and welcome to the In the Night test drive meme for September! Thanks for your interest in our game! Reserves open on September 20, and applications open on September 22.
While you're here...
- Take a look at our rules and faq pages to familiarize yourself with the game.
- Note that we have a reserve cap of 20, and a (current) application cap of 13 apps this month for new players, as the game has a player cap of 60. An accurate count of current players will always be available on the taken page.
- 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.
- 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
GATHER YE ROSEBUDS WHILE YE MAY
With a cloud of mourning having weighed heavy on Beacon over the last month, the Lighthouse Keeper has decided to try and rally the community with a game: a selfie scavenger hunt! With the promise of (secret) prizes for those who play along, she's provided a list of 25 different items to track down and take a picture with. And, of course, all submissions will be public for others to view and comment upon. A town forum, Instagram-style. How fun! Feel like teaming up? Finding a companion to go searching with could make the task go by faster, as there's nothing saying that you can't both submit the same pictures so long as you take them together. And what's a proper game without company?
This prompt is a mini version of this month's Gather Up event.
IT'S RAININ' SIDEWAYS
Overall, the weather has been mild lately. Since Autumn hit, the standard has been overcast darkness blotting the stars and little wind. The rumble of thunder sounds just before the downpour begins, as if a switch has been flipped up in the clouds. If you're in the Invincible, the houses in the village, or any of the other solid establishments, it isn't anything to worry about, really. Mostly, it just means hunkering down until the storm passes. However...it seems that someone opted to build themselves a structure in the square that's proven not to be able to withstand these harsher elements. Whether you're the unfortunate sap in the tent or you're merely a bystander, one way or another, you notice its roof cave in, the beams placed to support it buckling inward and trapping the inhabitant inside. It's not enough to crush someone, but it'll surely be difficult to gather oneself as the wind and the rain bears down without mercy. Call for help and maybe someone will hear you, or be the good Samaritan that runs to their aid.
network prompts
I CAN'T *PBBT* UNDERSTAND *PBBT* YOUR ACCENT
Something's wrong. The things that you type and the things that you speak are transforming themselves upon being posted to the network. Or maybe that's not quite accurate, because everything in your posts are certainly your own words...it's just that indiscernible static has descended upon the page and crept into your audio, blocking out pieces of your statements--just enough to change the overall meaning of what you were originally saying. Efforts to clarify don't seem to be improving the situation, and it's hard to say if there's any way of fixing this. Maybe it's a comfort that the problem isn't isolated on your end; after all, that effectively takes the issue out of your hands to solve. Or maybe it's just the opposite. Maybe knowing that the network is experiencing widespread failures, however mild, fills you with a sense of dread and unease. One thing's clear, at least: you'll need a bit of luck to get your point across for the time being.
THE TITLE EQUIVALENT FOR WHEN YOUR GRANDMA COMMENTS ON YOUR UNRELATED FB STATUS AS IF SHE'S WRITING YOU A PERSONAL LETTER
Sometime in the recent past you had a problem. Maybe it was a dire emergency advertised to the community at large, maybe you became overwhelmed with stress and needed the ear of a close friend, or maybe it was just something embarrassing you were sharing in confidence. Unfortunately, regardless of what the message was, it looks like it disappeared the moment you hit send, as if it had been eaten by the network itself. It's been long enough now that you've brushed it off; you've been able to solve your problem one way or another and moved on. That's when it appears, unprompted, on the network for all to see, regardless of how private it was meant to be. Well, now you might have a bit of explaining to do.
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Elizabeth | Bioshock Infinite
[ Someone was kind enough to show her how the camera worked -- she knows cameras, but they're great big blocky things in her time -- and gotten her set on the right path for this game. Currently she's working on the "footprints in the woods" one and she's lingering at the edge of forest, obviously conflicted about entering it. The things that she's heard of that linger in there... ]
I suppose photographing one's own footprints would be cheating...
B. Tent Blowdown
[ Elizabeth isn't sure why someone would choose to pitch a tent in the square when there's perfectly serviceable lodging available to them, but to each their own, personal freedom and all that. But when the downpour starts, she's looking out the window and sees the structure collapse, and she isn't the type of person to just watch. Hurrying out into the hallways of the Invincible, she might approach anyone in her path with a request for aid. ]
They're out there in this terrible weather, we have to help them!
[ Whether she gets her requested assistance or not, she'll be out in the driving rain, soaked to the bone and wiping the water from her eyes while attempting to lift the collapsed structure beam. ]
D. Network Shenanigans | un: @ elizabeth
I know it hurts right now, but you have to believe that it's for the best.
( prompt i! )
[ daylight makes his observation in friendly jest, having just overheard her comments as he was originally jogging past by. the event has been a blast so far but day is starting to run into a wall, of sorts, for some of these propers that he still needs to tick off the list.
case in point: he's now in a desperate search to find somebody who could fill the prompt 'someone you've never spoken' to and it's been a bust so far and hey wait a second- ]
Do you want to help each other out? I still need to find someone I haven't spoken to before and I don't think we haven't met yet, miss!
[ so! the proposal: ] If you're cool with it, you can take my footprints and I can take a picture with you in return. [ he wiggles a boot for emphasis as he speaks, feeling kind of cheeky today. (and also wanting to show that he's a friendly face. honest!) ] Been meaning to break in my feet all day anyways!
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Well, I would have known. There has to be something on an honour system in place with this sort of game, after all!
[ But when he offers the exchange, she's quick to accept. Not only does it help her, but he seems friendly enough. She laughs a little bit at his boot wiggling. ]
I'd like that very much, thank you. And no, I don't believe we've spoken... my name is Elizabeth. It's nice to meet you.
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[ he then presents his hand out for her to shake if she's up for that. his smile is bright and cheerful and he seems sincere enough about the name(?) he had just given in return. ] You can call me 'Day' if you want. I know it's a lot easier for people to say.
And do you really think we're being watched, like, super closely? Because... [ he trails off, rubbing his neck sheepishly. ] ...I might have been asking for more help than I think I should be asking from the forest spirits, haha.
[ he wants them to participate in it! (also, he really needed help with the spiderweb because whoops to them being thorough in cleaning their surroundings for once. finding a web was pretty difficult.) ]
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Whichever you prefer! Day sounds fine.
[ at his question, she laughs a little ]
I might be taking things too seriously, so I'm sure we're fine, Day. You don't find the idea of the forest spirits to be... intimidating?
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at elizabeth's question of whether or not daylight finds the forest spirits intimidating, daylight is quick to shake his helm in response. ] Not at all. I mean- At the start? Yeah. I was definitely wary of them when I got here.
But- [ daylight pauses, taking the time to adjust his tablet's camera setting while he struggles to find his words. it's easy for him to blurt out the first thing that comes, immediate and honest. but it's a little bit harder to properly explain his immediate and honest answer. just a little. ] Most of them just want to live their lives, you know? They have quirks, they have interests, and, most importantly, they have feelings. The forest spirits aren't this unknowable and spooky monsters, you know?
They're just trying to live their lives and I like to think that means we work together with them-
[ don't say, 'you know?' day. use your other words. ]
-Right?
[ there he goes. ]
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Do they often want things from those of us in the town? Or do they mostly keep to themselves?
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... And the Postmaster General really likes pretty rocks. So if you ever want to get on their good side, give them that as a gift! [ daylight is trying to be helpful. ]
@elena
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I'm sorry, this wasn't meant for you.
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[ Which, to be fair, she doesn't exactly know a lot about digital networks. But it really seems like something that should be addressed if it's been going on for a while. ]
Still, I'm sorry to trouble you with it.
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[ Actually... yeah, that's kind of scary to think about. ]
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I don't recognize your user name, so I don't think we've spoken before? My name is Elizabeth.
I guess my own user name makes that obvious...
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Elena Gilbert. I've been here for a few weeks and live at the Invincible.
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[ She's not sure where she feels comfortable yet. While the idea of living with a roommate is on one hand exciting, she's still getting used to the whole concept of being around other people full time, and that might be too big of a step all at once. ]
You sound like you've settled in well here.
A;
[Hey, remember that time they found out the other was here? Wild, right? Big emotional confrontation and reunion and so on. Great thread. Definitely not what's happening here, though, as she stands nearby. Her lab isn't too far away, but the forest is the only decent place to get samples sometimes.]
It's a game, with, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the lowest possible stakes. Besides, as DeWitt would say--
[She straightens up, pointing her camera at their trailing footsteps and clicking pointedly,] --it's only cheating if you're caught and called on it. Hm?
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"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." Quoted by Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
And I don't believe Mr DeWitt is any kind of moral paragon to model oneself on.
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[It's as dry as Elizabeth's reply was impish, replies without teeth. Rosalind slips the device into her pocket, turning the whole of her attention onto her . . .
Whatever Elizabeth is to her. There's no one word that encompasses all of the facets of what they are to one another.]
He's something. Unfortunately, that something is sometimes both blunt and time-efficient, two things I value.
Now. Are you going to take the picture?
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I didn't expect you to be taking part in this kind of thing, since you seem so busy otherwise.
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[Besides: she's busy, but only because she wants to be. She isn't working on anything important, not like she could be. Wants to be. Needs to be.]
I do refuse, however, to smile in them. Some of the photos being passed around are ridiculous.
[Ros just take a fucking selfie like a normal person]
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[ The thought of the lab makes a small shiver pass down her shoulders, though. Seeing the cross-section of Monument Tower, seeing the true purpose behind it, still had her chilled. But she's determined to try and put it behind her. ]
Smiling seems like a small concession.