TEST DRIVE MEME #4

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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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Comments

[pure_havoc]

[EXCUSE there's no reign of terror here, that was his father thanks. But the counter-attack is well executed. Nothing like stroking the ego a little to mollify him.]

That's what people from the future call a compliment, isn't it? I wish I could say so for certain. I faced down an eight-headed serpent monster, is that 'bad ass' enough?

[bakabakyura]

[Masaomi is catching onto this fast.]

Oh, that's definitely a compliment.

[He whistles appreciatively before slapping his new best friend on the back.]

Facing off against giant, venomous monsters? That's the stuff legends are made of! Tell me you got bit! Please tell me you were chomped in half by crazy fangs!

[pure_havoc]

[the slowest of slow head-turns to stare at him holy shit this breaks all his rules and yet what is he going to do, complain?

Well he does give Masaomi a touch of the stinkeye but...]

...if you must know, it shot a fireball at me. Given the burns on my clothing when I arrive here, that's my best guess. [although...] It did have very large fangs. Good guess.

[bakabakyura]

It spat fire. An eight-headed snake monster. That spat fire.

[Just. Gonna keep repeating this information because WOW.]

Screw steel. You have balls of titanium.

[pure_havoc]

[RUDE BUT...sure he'll take it]

Does that mean you have nothing even remotely like it where you come from?

[technically neither does he but details, details]

[bakabakyura]

We have a dark, seedy underbelly that'll swallow you whole if you don't pay attention.

[Hey, just because it's figurative doesn't mean it's not a monster. Masaomi snorts wryly, not meeting the emperor in the eye as he continues, nonchalant as can be.]

Not in the cool way though.

[pure_havoc]

Ah, but is that any different anywhere you go?

[even the capital of the Han Dynasty had its bandits and brothels, after all.]

As I discovered when I first arrived here, apparently we can't all die from noble yet ultimately fatal battles. But, as long as you don't have to admit to an utterly embarrassing death, it isn't so bad.

[mellowyellow]

I woke up on that boat alone, so I'd say I did pretty good.

[Hmph. He crosses his arms with a defiant pout. Getting shot by a member of his own gang is not embarrassing. It totally isn't. And one day, maybe he'll believe that.

At the very least, he didn't get Mikado or Anri killed.]