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

[ultimatums]

[ raylan shuffles a little closer, brow furrowed, scanning over the drawings with interest. he chews on his lip for a moment, wanting to take the book and flick through it, but feeling somehow like that's an invasion of privacy. for all he knows the other pages could be his damn diary. dear diary, today i met a very handsome cowboy at the bar and i wanted to make out with him soooo bad! ha ha. raylan purses his lips. ]

Take it you couldn't get the thing open? [ he figures if nate had been able to, he would've, and raylan wouldn't be talking to him right now, because he'd be on the other side of the door. ]

[nonscriptum]

[ Nate gives him a look that assumes the question was rhetorical. He'd tried, but the general store isn't exactly flush with crowbars and the door itself is old heartwood, the kind of dense material that isn't easy to chop through even if he'd wanted to. ]

I'm pretty sure it's locked from the other side.

[ If it's not some kind of mechanism that needs solving. He huffs a sigh through his nose, handing the book over to Raylan and leaning back on his hands. ]

So...a dead end, for now.

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Begs the question: who locked it?

[ he accepts the book a little numbly, looking down at it with his brow puckered into a frown. the more this develops, the stupider he feels for ever having thought that dying would be some kind of peace. he'd like to lie down and not have to think about anything for a long while, but on top of all his old worries about a world he no longer occupies – boyd, loretta, winona, the bennetts – which won't go away even though he has no real reason to be thinking about them any more, he now has to deal with a locked trapdoor and how much he's starting to miss the sun.

curious, he flips a few pages back in the book. ] You draw everyone you meet or just the interesting ones?

[nonscriptum]

And why?

[ He mumbles in response, worrying his lip with his teeth. Frowning slightly at a whorl in the half-timbering of the walls Nate has to wonder - if the door was intended to keep something in, the lock would be accessible. Clearly its purpose is to keep them out, which only makes him more determined to pry it open.

He is seconds away from voicing this thought when Raylan speaks again and Nate is forced to turn with unprecedented slowness, catching sight of the more recent pages. Kyna and Wash are there, as well as the guy in the uniform who looks a lot younger than he really is, but the one with the distinctive hat is pretty obvious. ]

Uh. Force of habit? [ His expression tears somewhere between sheepish smile and guilty grimace. ] Is...that okay?

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[ toot! ]