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TEST DRIVE MEME #8
TEST DRIVE MEME #8
Hello and welcome to the In the Night test drive meme for January! Thanks for your interest in our game! In an effort to streamline our application process and avoid future confusion between incoming and existing players, we will no longer have a reservation period. Applications open on January 22, and will be judged on a first-come, first-served basis.
While you're here...
- Take a look at our rules and faq pages to familiarize yourself with the game.
- Note that we have a (current) application cap of 16 apps this month for new players, as the game has a player cap of 70. 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!
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CAKE BY THE OCEAN
It's a brand new year, and with it, a brand new...you? Well, you are dead, but there's still plenty of ways that you can embrace the spirit of starting fresh, especially when it seems that the forest spirits have their own traditions that they're eager to share! If you've only just arrived, you may find yourself pelted with loaves of bread and accosted with noisemakers, or if you're a seasoned Beaconite, maybe you're wearily unsurprised to find strings of onions being placed around various doorways. Just another day in the afterlife. Best to go along with it, even if some of these practices seem to be somewhat chaotic. It's never a good idea to make the spirits mad, after all, and especially not when they're trying to show you...some sort of semblance of good will, you think. For the most miserable of souls, at least you can be comforted in the knowledge that it should all be over before the day is out.
This is a miniature version of the festivities present during this month's intro log!
I CAN'T FEEL MY FACE WHEN I'M WITH YOU
Winter has made its way to Beacon. It's fortunate that plenty of snow gear has been made available at the general store, so this is a great time for those with little-to-no experience with genuine snow to get out there and draw some angels or build forts for some playful snowball fights! At least...it is, at first. Linger too long and you'll find yourself caught in the middle of a raging blizzard that seems to have swept in out of nowhere. In an instant things seem to go from cold to freezing, and the need to get back inside where there's safety from the elements is pressing. Fortunately, you aren't alone. It might not be your usual residence, but more than one of you have tumbled into the same shelter, and will probably be stuck in there until the worst of the storm passes. No time to get to know each other like the present, right? Gotta break the ice somehow (haha).
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RUN BOY RUN
The changes in the weather isn't the only thing that residents old and new need to keep weary of. While a great many of the forest spirits remain generally friendly, traveling alone comes with its risks. There's always the possibility that you may encounter a creature that's less inclined to let you pass it by unscathed. And so it goes for you as you venture out into the trees with your lantern and torch in hand. Whatever reason you had for starting out alone, and whatever got you to this point, you've had to take shelter from a very, very displeased spirit. Maybe it has a body not meant for climbing, and you've scaled high up into a tree that it won't let you down from, or maybe you've taken shelter inside of a structure that it's too big to squeeze itself into. Whatever the case, it's clear that your pursuer isn't giving up the ghost (haha), and you'll need to contact someone for some form of help to get yourself out of this.
1000 FORMS OF FEAR
It's a normal day in Beacon...which means that something inconvenient at best and terrifying at worst must be just around the corner. Whether or not you're on edge about the relative calm, it doesn't seem that anything weird is happening...until you try and post to the network. No matter how many times you try, the message you intend to write erases itself. As if someone else has hacked into your tablet, a new message re-types itself in front of your eyes. One of your greatest fears or greatest regrets announces itself for all to see, and there's no getting rid of it. All attempts at getting rid of it are fruitless, and it doesn't seem that you can back out of the new post window now that you're here. Your only option now is to hit send. But, hey, your fellow residents are a pretty understanding lot. Maybe they won't hold whatever it is against you. Maybe you can explain it away. There's always lying, too, if you want to go that method of covering your tracks.
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jessica jones | mcu
[ Fresh off the death boat, Jess's first concern isn't the chilly weather. It's no worse than a bad winter in NYC, which itself is no worse than a barely-there winter in, she dunno, Montreal or something. It starts off easy to ignore. She stalks through the town, avoiding thrown bread and weird little dead deer-things that shove champagne(??) and paper in her face. It's rowdy around the giant bonfire and she can't imagine gleaning much useful information from folks in the throes of festivity there, so she chooses one of two directions and starts walking in it. It's the one that's a little less crowded and, unbeknownst to her, it leads to the village.
In a little under an hour, she's reached it. The snow began to bluster as she crossed the river and is now cutting into her cheeks and neck. Clearly, she went the wrong way, if she were looking for cold weather provisions. Between three options, she chooses the least pathetic one, which is waiting the blizzard out in the rec center instead of park or some random's house. If it goes on so long that starving or hypothermia becomes an issue, those cabins are close enough that she'll probably survive the trek to one. Probably. Possibly. ... 70/30.
Find her miserably slumped against the least cold wall with her lantern and tablet beside her, or find those two items abandoned while she's off in search of a lost and found bin. Those always have at least 3 funky-smelling coats in them, and she can't exactly stop you from helping her look. ]
#2 █ 𝐑𝐔𝐍 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋 𝐑𝐔𝐍 (𝑵𝑬𝑻𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑲)
[ New blood has no idea what to make of any of these spirits, so it may not be a particularly unpleasant one she's referring to when she asks ]
@jjones: What can I do to get these goddamn muppets to back off?
#3 █ 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 (𝑵𝑬𝑻𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑲)
@jjones: I'm the reason my entire family is dead.
@jjones: Thanks for that, hauntedass off-brand piece of shit
@jjones: Don't @ me
1000 tori amoses — @witch
[ blunt af. ]
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Lizzie Borden took an axe
Gave her mother 40 whacks
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i killed my twin brother.
[ —wait. did she mean to say that? hasn't she been working for months to hold that in a vice grip between her ribs?
but he keeps showing up here, haunting her just out of reach, a whisper in her ear or disappearing like a shadow into the forest...
wanda looks at the stranger's text and it begins to dawn on her what could be happening; her fingers freeze, dropping her tablet. ]
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I
Didn't
Ask
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her flingers flick in the direction of the glass keyboard. ]
looks like neither of us had to.
you just arrived, didn't you.
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Yeah.
You?
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save for the fact that we have no days.
[ if jjones didn't get the spiel on the ferry, they were going to get it eventually. ]
i'm wanda.
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Does this kind of thing happen a lot? [ That's the sort of information she would have appreciated getting prior to docking. Or stuck to the screen with duct tape. "Warning: Makes Facebook's privacy policy look downright cool and respectful." ]
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there are spirits all over this area. we are, for lack of a better word, haunted.
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both? neither? we have an angel from heaven here. a demon, too.
everyone is trapped, and there is a church to take shelter in.
but i don't know about religion making sense of where we are anymore.
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It figures death would be as big a letdown as life is. [ was. who cares. ]
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don't go in the forest unprepared.
you may lose some teeth. or other things that don't grow back.
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Has anyone managed to actually leave? Through the forest, on a boat, hot air balloon, whatever?
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10000 maniacs (@dana.scully)
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There's a bar in the afterlife right?
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Yeah. In the Invincible.
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How do people pay for things here anyway?
did you know burning man was around in the 1990s? i didn't.
[ lucky jess! ]
That festival in Nevada?
you're cute c:
aw you're making me blush c:
[ mulder had mentioned wanting to investigate a few times, especially when they were trying to check out area 51
and he'd gotten bodyswapped for a week but neither of them actually remember that or wait maybe she does now that she's dead, but no activity there had warranted an x-file investigation. ]no subject
[ Jess's primary concern is the spirit things, not the people. They seem to be keeping the shabang going, from what she can tell. To what end remains unseen. ]