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memesinthenight2019-06-14 11:39 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME #1
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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no subject
You didn't even realize you could die here.
Don't underestimate how much you'll probably need me to hold your hands.
So no, I don't know the secrets of the fucking universe, but I'd wager I'm still the smartest person on this godforsaken rock.
no subject
you're just fucking yourself over
did you even know plane shifting was a thing before you ended up here?
no subject
Tell me this, what year are you from?
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what's your point?
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At least the second one.
no subject
did you know plane shifting was a thing before you got here?
no subject
The technology was still in development, but the idea that it was possible was widely accepted.
no subject
plane shifting has always been a thing where i'm from but we don't use tech to do it
no subject
Anyway, back to my original point.
Assuming you're from one of the apparently many iterations of Earth, and your marking of time suggests as much, you and I are more removed in time from one another than you are from the goddamn crusades.
The things I learned as a four-year-old haven't even been invented yet for you.
It isn't presumption, it's math.
Civilizations advance at an exponential rate, and so too does their knowledge of the universe.
I know more than you because there is more for me to know.
I have yet to meet anyone further along in that regard, but if you know someone, feel free to point them out.
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you mean you're just making it harder for yourself so you can feel better by swinging your dick around
guess what genius?
you're still fucking trapped here like the rest of us
and i don't see you building a teleportation device to get us home or bring us back to life or whatever the hell is going on here
you're just whining on the network about people not having usernames like some forum mod in his mom's basement
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And I've also never heard the "if you're so smart why aren't you building us a way out of here" one. Not even once.
Listen, if you can point me in the direction of so much as a working particle accelerator in this backwards place, I'll get right to work.
Until then, why don't you get started using your magic to get us home?
Meanwhile I'll be over here letting you incompetent idiots ruin the network's functionality so that we no longer have a method of communication.
Sound like a plan?
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you can't build a particle accelerator with what we've got?
poor baby
guess you're not as smart as i thought and magic's looking better already
btw if you're the one who built the network and it broke because a couple extra people showed up that means it's shittier than like
myspace
no subject
Do you even know what a particle accelerator is?
Do you actually think before you type out words?
I didn't build the network, it was up when I got here.
It's incredibly archaic, and the fact that it works at all is a miracle.
no subject
i was exaggerating
do you not have social skills in the future?
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That isn't an excuse.
What is an excuse is backing out of a series of mutual insults by claiming it was only a joke.
no subject
and wait are you like
hate flirting with me?
btw i wasn't joking
i still think you're an asshole who isn't as smart as he says he is
no subject
Wishful thinking, maybe?
Sorry I didn't have my credentials on my person at the time of my death, but I was a bit too preoccupied to bother.
I won't dispute the first part of that sentence, but I assure you I can back my claims.