memesinthenight | 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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Night twists many thoughts, Lady Priestess. A darkness such as this may wish to ensnare us. [ a hall of light. he can envision it as fair as the house he dwelled in among the elves. fairer in her eye, as it is what she strove towards. ]

I expected to see friends, but my path led me here. There is further to go.

The night is dark and full of terrors. [ she hesitates – by now, she has realised quite thoroughly that none of those here seem to know or r'hllor and his teachings. ] It is like akin to a mockery of my faith here. We rely on fire, to protect us, to give us life and strength.

[ friends he has, then, this is good. and it is not the afterlife he pictured, and that is better. a relief, in its way. and that doesn't begin to touch the hope she can drink from the thought of this being a path, rather than a final destination. ] It is ever better to hear these thoughts from another's tongue. I, too, believe we have further to go, though I fear we may be trapped. May I ask your name?

Fire gives light, and from light comes hope. The darkness is great here, that it clouds your vision.

[ the night is dark and truly full of terrors. mordor's shadow had crept west towards the last free peoples of middle-earth. he can only put his faith in frodo. aragorn would have followed him to the end, but it was not to be. ]

I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn. [ only that now. no ranger or king. ] And you?

I am called Melisandre. [ is this how introductions are done, in his world? ] The only father I have known is the Lord of Light, R'hllor. [ not that she is a descendant, but she does not know her father, and truly, he must have been dead for... a long, long time. no, the closest she has come is the god whose flame burns inside them all. ]

Is there a darkness in your world? One like this, or any other?

Well-met, Lady Melisandre. [ he will not drop the title unless she insists. ]

Yes, there is darkness. The Lord of the Black Lands turns his eye towards the last free peoples of my world. He and his servants have been driven back, but it is the hour of truth. He will fall.

[ he may be dead, but his faith in frodo burns eternal. ]

[ she should correct him. she won't. perhaps later, when there is a rhythm to this world, a rhyme and a reason. instead she ends his phrase, or thinks she does. does, were they in her world. ] in the Light of the Lord.

[ feels hollow, now. ]

I pray he does. [ she closes her eyes, opens them to more mirth. ] The Other is marching on my lands, with his army of the dead, and the cold ones. My champion will stand against him, of this I can be sure. Have you done all you meant to do?

[ an enemy as deadly as sauron, if it is not even spoken of by name. mighty. terrible. ]

I did what I intended to do. [ he fought for frodo. ] There is yet more to be done, and it is beyond us.

It is not impossible to come back. I have seen it done.

[ The question isn't how long it would take in her world – not long at all, really – but how long it feels to the dead. It is starting to... be longer than ever she anticipated. ]

As have I. [ but they are not gandalf. it would not be wise to act on a grand scale. ]

I always figured I would be able to do it myself. As it turns out, I did not have the time.

[ wistful again, as if discussing pleasant weather, but she's staring into the flames again as she does. ]

There may be another reason. I cannot say.

[ he does not know where they go from here. only that while his heart beats there is yet hope. ]

[ oh, she is badly misunderstanding this one. ]

Are you calling me a sinner?

No, lady. Only that there is much hidden from us.

TEST DRIVE MEME #1

loving this btw.

so much same here! are you putting in your app this month?

next month! already got someone in the queue. ty tho ur cute.

listen i just want all ur tags! ALL OF THEM.

and you will have them. hope you get in!

ty ty! so much same!

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