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August 2022 Test Drive Meme
AUGUST 2022 TDM
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Folkmore's monthly Test Drive Meme! Please feel free to test drive any and all characters regardless of your intent to apply or whether you have an invite or not.
All TDMs are game canon. You can choose to have your TDM thread be your introduction thread upon acceptance or start fresh. Each TDM will provide a scenario for how characters arrive in-game that particular month.
Playing TDMs will allow characters to immediately obtain canon items from homes especially weapons or other things they may have had on their person when they were pulled from their worlds! There will always be a prompt that provides some sort of "reward" to characters who complete certain tasks.
Current players are allowed to have in-game characters react to TDMs via the Network or make a log with the prompts. Current players are always encouraged to tag new people on the TDM!
TDM threads can be used for spoon spending at any time by characters accepted into the game.
Content Warnings: snakes, cultists, optional violence.
FALLING DOWN LIKE PIECES INTO PLACE
FALLING DOWN LIKE PIECES INTO PLACE
A breeze with the crisp smell of dying leaves caresses you awake. You sit up to find yourself in the middle of an apple orchard, rows spreading out in all directions. Mouth watering apples hang from the branches, and nobody will stop you from taking one. You can wander the orchard as long as you like, but eventually you will find yourself emerging into the front yard of a little farm. There’s a red barn with perfect white trim set far back, and to one side of the yard is a kiosk modeled to match the barn. This is staffed by a woman who sure looks a lot like the fox that brought you here.
On the side of the kiosk are advertised a few different items: pumpkin spice lattes, hot apple cider, cold alcoholic apple cider, and hot chocolate. The cider, you will be informed, is made on site. (But you have to be of legal age to be given that hard cider!)
There are two other things advertised: APPLE PICKING and a SCAVENGER HUNT.
“You need a buddy for those, though,” the woman running the kiosk will tell you. “Lucky for you there’s plenty of people you can pair up with.”
If you elect to try the scavenger hunt, you and your partner will be handed a piece of paper. On it reads the following:
TAKE A PICTURE OF THE FOLLOWING ON YOUR RELIC! :)
- YOU HOLDING HANDS WHILE YOU GO DOWN A PATH
- FEET WITH AUTUMN LEAVES
- SOMETHING YOU THINK IS TRULY BEAUTIFUL
- A GENUINE SMILE
“When you’re done, bring it back here and show me,” the woman instructs you. “You’ll get a prize if you do.”
It’s an easy enough list, right? Although you have to follow the instructions - you really DO have to find something you genuinely think is beautiful, and that smile can’t be forced! Those might require opening up to your partner a little bit!
If you succeed in the scavenger hunt, you will be gifted with an item from home.
Now, what if you decided to go apple picking?
You will be given a bucket. “Be careful to only pick apples from the trees in the rows,” the kiosk woman tells you with a secret smile. “You don’t want to bother the old trees off the path.”
Yeah. That sure sounds like a challenge, doesn’t it?
If you do stick to the orchard proper, you will be able to pick your fill of apples. All of them are crisp and sweet and delicious. But at some point you will see the other trees.
They’re both huge and old, standing on two sloping hills just past the orchard rows. One of them has apples red as blood, and the other apples gold as the sun. In the shade of these trees are weapons sticking half out of the earth, as if they were carelessly buried many years ago.
If you pick one of the red apples, you will find that you are suddenly besieged with huge snakes. They are as big as anacondas and an inky black that absorbs the light, with eyes the same red as the apples. They aren’t poisonous, but they bite and they crush, so you’ll have to fight them off at least long enough to run like hell!
If you pick the golden apples, a crowd of people will silently begin appearing from the orchard. They are all wearing animal masks… and they are all holding hand scythes. Uh oh. You’ll have to fight them off in order to escape! If you don’t manage that, well, in some places it’s traditional to have a big ol’ sacrificial bonfire…
All the weapons below the trees are non-enchanted items, but you may keep them.
Content Warnings: Optional themes of identity and school trauma.
IMAKEOVER MAKEOVER
SAVED BY THE BELL
IMAKEOVER MAKEOVER
Thirteen believes passionately in education. There are, after all, five academies in Folkmore all catering to different types of learning. While these academies are open year round, it becomes apparent if you walk through any of the districts housing shops that back to school is definitely a thing.
A new school year represents a chance to learn more about the world, and about yourself.
Also? It’s a great time for a makeover!
Yes, step into any of the shops selling clothing and accessories anywhere in Folkmore and you will find yourself passionately invested in helping another person discover who it is they want to look like! Do they want to look cool and aloof? Warm and approachable? Are they an e-boy or a cottagcore witch? Punk or prep? You two can figure it out together!
As you shop together you will find it easier and easier to open up to one another, sharing who it is you want to be.
You’ll also be able to score a sweet outfit. Nice.
SAVED BY THE BELL
Wander into any school in Folkmore and you will find a handmade poster instructing all new students and faculty to report to the auditorium. Normal enough, one supposes… but the moment you enter the room you will find reality swims all around you and all of a sudden you’re stuck in a school nightmare!
You know the kind. You’re late for class, no matter how fast you run. You’re in gym class, trying to climb that goddamn rope. You’re getting your books dumped. You’re naked and giving a book report.
These could be memories, but it’s just as likely that they aren’t - you and another person are just trapped in this cliche together. Whichever one of you is in the audience role could maybe help the other one out? Get them some pants or something? Yeah.
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"I can take you to see him later, if you want. Let me just send him a text. Are you from New York, then?"
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He knows Stephen! Makes him a good guy in her book, then. Especially when Steve offers to take her to him.
"Sort of?" she asks. "Not exactly. I just--he's--"
What could she call him? America chews on another apple bite.
"How do you know him?"
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He shrugs. "Are you a mystical arts student?"
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When he outright asks if she's a student, she knows it means that Steve knows of Kamar-Taj.
"Knows of you? What do you mean?"
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He hasn't said that in a few years, not since he gave up the shield, but he feels like it might be necessary knowledge.
He also. Assumes. She knows who he is, if she's from Earth. Because he assumes she's from his Earth.
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America slows her chewing and looks at him, squinting her eyes as if trying to see it.
"Captain America? Really? Uh, I've been to an Earth where there was a Captain Carter? Are you kinda like her on your earth? Throw a shield and stuff?"
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He takes a breath because he thinks he has to explain this to her. "This world kinda works as a nexus, but there's lots of different Earths here that are almost the same, but not quite." He gives that a moment for her to come to terms with it.
"I guess on different worlds, either she or I get the serum and become Captain America or Captain Carter. I think your Dr. Strange might not be my Dr. Strange."
But it seems like he's at least aware of the concept of the multiverse, then.
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He looks too nice for her to interrupt him to let him know she's traveled through the multiverse ever since she was a child. As he explains, America is impressed at how quickly he's able to grasp the concept.
"Depends. Is your Dr. Strange sorcerer supreme?"
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And no, he missed the part of the MCU that turned into the Wong Cinematic Universe, so he doesn't know about all that yet.
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"Probably," she repeats.
Okay so maybe Stephen and Steve aren't as close here. She'll stick with him for a little bit for the time being.
"What about Wong? ...Wanda? What are they like in your universe?"
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Now he's confusing himself. "Wanda's a friend of mine." That's easier.
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Her face scrunches up. "I don't think I ever asked him what his first name was. I think it's just Wong. Haven't heard nytone refer to him as otherwise."
But then she swallows roughly when he says she's an Avenger. Her feet stop and she's rooted to the ground, apple clenched in hand, when he says she's a friend of his. Fear grips her heart - how can someone nice like Steve be friends with the Scarlet Witch?
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America looks down at the apple in her hand and throws it aside; could it be poison? She looks at him, wanting to trust him, but fearful he's in league with her.
"She's your friend? How could she be your friend?"
Maybe the Wanda in his universe doesn't have powers.
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"I don't know what she's like on yours, but I promise you, that's not the Wanda I know. She's kind, and caring."
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It's hard to believe that Wanda could be such a person.
"She's chased me through the multiverse to kill me," she says bluntly.
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"I'll ask the doc about it." He doesn't not believe America, but he still thinks it's some other Wanda.
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He looks so crestfallen that America shifts her weight uncomfortably from one foot to the other.
"Might just be that one Wanda from that one universe?" she offers.
After all, Wanda from that other universe had been just a house mom.
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Then he shakes his head. "I didn't even get your name. I'm Steve."
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"America Chavez," she replies.
Perhaps other Wandas wouldn't. She swallows thickly and offers her hand to him.
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