TEST DRIVE MEME #1

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TEST DRIVE MEME #1

Hello and welcome to the In the Night test drive meme for June! Thanks for your interest in our game! Reserves open on June 20, and applications open on June 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/application cap of 20 apps per month (this has been waived for the first month!).
  
• 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.
  
• Though threads can become canon, they cannot count toward 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

YOU'RE DEAD, JIM

You haven't been in Beacon long when you find yourself in Bonfire Square, staring into the flames and thinking about how you ended up here. Maybe it was an accident, a sudden freak thing that you never saw coming until you woke up on the ferry, or maybe it's a miracle you made it as long as you did. Maybe death was a relief. Maybe it was just your time. Whatever the case, you can't help but reflect on your final moments as you linger in the firelight.

But however you died, it's behind you now, and you're here, stuck in this little town with just a few buildings and a smattering of other people. You're going to be here a while, so you may as well get to know your neighbors, but... Would it be cathartic to commiserate about your deaths? Or is your time better spent stocking up at the general store? Then again, you've got plenty of time, so why not catch a drink or two (or three) at the Invincible? Pretend you're unaffected by your death, and, well. Fake it 'til you make it, perhaps.

Point is, you have options. You're dead, you died, and this is your "life" now. Better get used to it.

AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES

Currently, there's only one place to live (technically speaking) in Beacon: the Invincible, a tavern and inn located in Bonfire Square. Luckily, the place has working amenities (minus light), and the forest spirits don't charge anything for your stay. Unfortunately, it seems there may not be enough rooms for everyone. Guess you'll have to get cozy!

Maybe you'll try to pick a roommate from around town or in the bar downstairs, or maybe you'll just walk into the first room you see and choose that way. Want a room all to yourself? Get ready to fend off any potential intruders. And the fun doesn't end there.

The Invincible's rooms aren't all created equal. Some may have had their furniture stolen or become a dumping ground for unwanted pieces, resulting in a single bed, five dressers, and other equally distressing situations. Will someone sleep on the floor? Will you nail two beds together to form bunk beds? Maybe you just want to make this room into something more like home— potentially to your roommate's chagrin. Whatever you decide, this is where you're staying for now, so you might as well get comfortable.

network prompts

HACKER VOICE: I'M IN

In order to use the network, you have to register a username. Er, at least, that's how it's supposed to work. For some reason, new users have recently been able to bypass that requirement, allowing them to post anonymously. Time to troll strangers on the magical internet!

Eventually though, you'll need a username in order to use the tablet's other functions, like the direct messaging system. So hey, why not take advantage of the ability to source opinions, and workshop your potential usernames on the network? Share ideas, get feedback, steal ideas, critique others, and figure out what you want everyone to call you.

TURN ON YOUR LOCATION

When you wake up, you're in the woods. An iron shackle complete with a chain leashes you to a tree, and the only light you have is your lantern. You've never seen this area of the woods before. You certainly didn't go to sleep here.

Hm.

But, all is not lost. You find your phone in your pocket, as well as a scrap of paper covered back to front in cryptic scribbles. Are these clues to your location? They must be. You also spot a key dangling from a branch, though it's hanging from a tree you'll never be able to reach from here. Perhaps someone on the network will be able to lend you a hand...

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Comments

[powersouls]

Oh.

[She can't help but think of what was done to Cloud and Zack, and so she finds herself warming to Wash automatically.
Most of the soldiers she's met didn't seem to care about ethics or morals, but apparently this one does.]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry. My name is Tifa.

[hardwearing]

[ Wash shrugs off the apology uncomfortably -- it was his fault for saying too much in the first place, and the rampant war crimes and corruption in UNSC funded projects are common knowledge in his world. He's not saying anything she couldn't have heard on the news, even about him.

That doesn't make it any easier to talk about, though, so if she's not going to pry he takes the out immediately. ]

I'm Washington. My friends call me Wash.

[powersouls]

[She nods at that, biting her lip.]

Where are you from?

[hardwearing]

[ There's a good chance they've never heard of each other's home worlds -- Wash has been through this before -- but at least it's a safe topic. He shifts his weight again, lantern clanking softly against his armored leg. ]

An outer colony planet called Minab. It's more likely you've heard of the human homeworld, Earth?

[powersouls]

[NOPE. Tifa shakes her head.]

I've never heard of either. Your world has colonies in space?

[hardwearing]

[ Yup, par for the course. Wash nods in response, like he's used to this conversation. ]

For a few hundred years now, yeah, just within our own galaxy. What about yours?

[powersouls]

No. We didn't even get our first shuttle to launch until recently.

[hardwearing]

I hope that works out.

[ ...that came out more ominous than he intended. Uh. Quick, ask her something else! ]

What was the shuttle for?

[powersouls]

At first, they were just trying to see if they could get off planet. Later on it was repurposed for... other things.

[Helpfully vague, Tifa.]

[hardwearing]

[ That's how it starts, Wash thinks, but very deliberately doesn't say. He's slipped up enough already, the last thing he should do is make a dead woman worry about the future of her world when she won't be there to see or help with it. He just nods, a little awkwardly, and doesn't ask what the other things were. ]

So uh. I guess I should get back to looking for somewhere to stay. It was nice to meet you, Tifa.

[powersouls]

[Tifa nods, and she's about to just let him leave, but at the last second she speaks up again.]

I'm sorry if I was... rude earlier. You didn't deserve that.

[hardwearing]

[ Wash does a visible double take at her apology, looking at Tifa like she's sprouted a second head for a moment before he smiles faintly. ]

You call that rude? It's fine -- none of us have any reason to trust each other.