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TEST DRIVE MEME #9
TEST DRIVE MEME #9
Hello and welcome to the In the Night test drive meme for March! 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 March 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 15 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 top-leveling is not limited to new characters! If current players wish to post a starter, 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).
- If you haven't already, please take a moment to look at our announcement regarding changes to the application cycle, which involves information concerning the 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
DANCING QUEEN (cw corpses)
When the ferry chugs up to the dock, its speakers are crackling with a happy song. What a fun way to bring in all the newcomers! Except... goodness, what's that terrible stench? The ferry docks and lowers its gangway as per usual, but the ship is quiet. No newcomers flock to the deck to disembark, and instead, the faint sound of buzzing flies can be heard over the breeze.
Boarding the ferry quickly reveals the source of the flies: decaying bodies, dozens of them, are littered throughout the ship. Some lie in bunks and could be asleep if it weren't for the rot, and others are strewn throughout the cargo hold and the deck. There are no lanterns among them, and there aren't any signs of fighting or struggle around the ship. Inspecting the bodies (if anyone seriously wants to do that) won't yield any definitive answers in terms of cause of death, but, oh. Though it's difficult to tell at first glance due to the decay, these bodies... They're residents of Beacon.
Maybe you find your friend or yourself or, oh, there's Rastus! And Robin! The gang's all here, albeit disgustingly—and Dancing Queen crackles over the speakers. Welcome, welcome!
—but before the ferry departs again, the corpses start to move. Moving about the ship, someone might first hear a sigh, or a sputter, or a little laugh, and maybe it could be brushed off as a trick of the mind until the bodies stand, hoisting themselves up with whatever limbs they have left, and drag themselves toward the deck. One by one, they slip clumsily over the railing and back into the lake, but not before they drop their disguises and slowly contort back into their usual forest spirit bodies (source).
Ugh. Frickin' spirits.
WELCOME TO OUR GAME: INTO THE DARK
In spite of the strange occurrences starting off the month, there's still work to be done in Beacon. Or perhaps it's precisely due to this that Rastus calls for the attention of anyone who will listen as they pass by his station at the bonfire. All but shoving a torch in your hand, he requests that you place it around one of the many locations that could use a source of light! A lot of new places have been discovered recently, after all.
In the event that you choose to choose to play with this prompt as game canon, please remember to report where you choose to place a torch on the item request page so the setting can be updated accordingly! For incoming players, this can be reported retroactively!
These efforts would be a great service to the community at large; Rastus reminds everyone that while the bonfire is a finite resource, it's still a resource that's meant to be utilized.
network prompts
IF YOU DIE IN THE GAME YOU DIE FOR REAL
Not long after the ferry shows up with, uh, no people and a whole lotta corpses (that turn out to be forest spirits playing a very uncool prank), Robin makes a post to the network!
Oh holy god uhhhh OK so no idea what's going on with the ferry this month, wow. Data from the portal is saying nobody new came through, so... nothing to worry about!!! Probably!! I really don't know anything more than you guys right now but I'm gonna get in touch with Dr. Solis. She'll have a better idea of what's going on than me. I'll get back to you all as soon as we figure out what's up.
In the meantime..........!!! I thought it might be fun to play some games to get our minds off stuff? How about hangman! Here's how to play if you don't know!
She attaches a little set of instructions for any characters not in the know. Fun stuff!
But, uh oh. If you get a letter wrong, you'll notice it's getting just a bit more difficult to breathe... Is the air particularly heavy today? Allergies, maybe? No, the feeling only gets worse as the game continues, each incorrect guess tightening an invisible noose around your neck.
The only way out is through, it seems, as nothing provides any relief save for winning a game. But what happens if you lose...?
(If asked, Robin also has no idea what's up with that. Heck! Maybe it's the lanterns acting up again? In any case, the weird hangman curse will resolve itself within a day or two.)
PARTICIPATION FOR CLOWNS
All at once, a notice arrives in everyone's inboxes. It appears to be some sort of strange attempt at a bingo card! It would, potentially, be a mystery as to who crafted this and, well, exactly what it's supposed to mean, were it not for the underlying message that accompanies it.
The real problem here being, of course, that the librarian's apparent game is a bit, well, difficult to understand. Well, it's possible that it won't require any stringent rules. Ultimately, those who bring in a bingo card that has a row of marks in any particular fashion will receive a free gift compliment of the spirit as a way to promote the library. There might be some fabric missing where the shirt has been bitten into, but, hey, nobody's perfect.
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[That's a lot of information to intake. Getaway knows that Minimus is Ultra Magnus, something no one was allowed to share outside of the ship. The details match - Drift and Ratchet were first to be killed, and their bodies were found in the lower level hallways, exactly where the commotion first began. Little things add up. He doesn't recognize any of the names apart form Nightbeat. What did happened to him? His brief research mentioned he had died, but that wasn't apparently the case..]
I...feel fortunate that Rewind of all people lived, but statistically, this means that the quest was a complete failure. [Always the pessimist, this Minimus.] The crew now consists of yourself, Rewind, Nightbeat, and your new partners, and you are without a ship.
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Including Chromedome. Somehow Rewind himself wasn't erased by quantum nonsense, and he and our Chromedome reunited and continued their relationship.
[See? Happy ending.]
Through this all I haven't introduced myself have I?
I'm Getaway of the Corcapsia Incursion, Captain of the Lost Light. Have been since Rodimus and his little groupies were killed by Tyrest's hand back on Luna 1. Saved the universe though, good for them.
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[Is this how Rodimus' captaincy would have gone if he has survived the initial launch?]
Though - Why would Tyrest kill them? He had no basis on which to charge them the penalty of death. [This is the guy who gave Minimus everything he wanted in life! He's not some thoughtless killer!]
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He went on and on about how we constructed cold Cybertronians were all pre-destined for evil so he developed a killswitch to kill us all off in one go so that he could ascend to Cyberutopia and obtain eternal peace or whatever.
(If only he knew.)
Rodimus and his crew were only there because you were damaged during a battle with Overlord so your body did some kind of recall thing and you went straight back to Tyrest, and Rodimus and his friends followed.
Once you were all in the cell together, you, as Minimus, openly admitted to luring them all there because you were so tired and stressed out about Rodimus' "leadership" that you wanted to teach him a lesson.
[Not that Getaway was there to hear the conversation, but he heard about it afterwards and that's good enough.]
I'm sure you wouldn't have if you knew that Tyrest was going to kill them all. It's... not your fault. Really.
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Tyrest with a killswitch. It's almost impossible to believe.
No, it is highly unlikely this exact scenario transpired. Yes, he would encourage a poor captain to see someone that can talk sense into him, but how does Tyrest go from the greatest lawmaker to madman?]
How on Cybertron did that happen? He can't legally do such a thing, no, he can't install a killswitch in everyone when he works away from most Cybertronians.
And why did captaincy pass onto you and not I or Drift, the next in line for command? This doesn't add up.
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Never met Drift, actually. He took the entire blame for the whole Overlord thing, and was exiled from the ship. I met all of you in one of Tyrest's cells and helped everyone escape, since that's what I'm best at.
You though? Tyrest killed you personally after he fired you from being Ultra Magnus or however the hell that works.
And lastly! He spent SO much time doing his crazy rants to me while I was strapped to a table. Apparently he has the power to change laws as he sees fit? And his killswitch targetted only us constructed cold bots. Our sparks have a very unique signature that forged folks like you don't have.
Unfortunately, I don't have proof of any of this right now, do I? I guess it doesn't matter anymore. We're dead, after all.
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[He was locked in his cell the entire time. Drift did take the blame after Rodimus' burial, but how would that result in exile? The main difference between their apparent timelines is Rodimus' death, but he couldn't have been responsible for this. He was involved as well.]
Drift told us that Overlord was inside out ship months ago.
[And now Tyrest hates Minimus? After his efforts in the war and in captaining the Lost Light?]
Regardless of my belief in your retelling of events, I have yet to see any indication to cooperative behavior. Stealing fire and treating it as a toy is a offense to many residents.