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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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A favorite color? Not really. Omoikane always said yellow went with the gold in her eyes, but as she thinks about it, the computer picked most of what she wore out.
"Omoikane said I looked good in yellow, and Minato.... No she just wanted me to stop wearing uniforms. The few times they tried to get me to sing I was put in pale pink?"
She ponders a bit more at that, "My captain uniform is mostly black and white?"
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He pokes through the rack again, this time looking for something yellow or pink, and more importantly, incredibly cute.
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With that she shrugs a bit, "If it helps, I'm enjoying no one knowing who I am here."
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She shakes her head, "As for being unknown... Back home I'm either the Electric Fairy, or the Demon of Mars, depending on which side of the war you are in. I'd rather just be me."
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"Your world is Exandria then? Also, I have too many titles, each one is like a mask I have to wear."
She shakes her head at that.
"You know... You remind me a lot of my first ship's engineer. Maybe we should find you a tool belt and leather jacket too..."
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He won't let an opportunity to brag pass him by without taking advantage. Though no doubt the ship she's talking about and the one he's envisioning are very different...
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"To be fair, the Nadesico had an engineering team of 8 people. But there were also the Astevalus to maintain and they got used a lot. But the chief was.... Crazy. I mean the entire crew was picked because they were the best even if they had personality issues. But he was able to almost give life to his devices."
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"Did he build automatons by any chance? That was my specialty. If you need tips on bringing inventions to life, you're talking to the right man!"
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"He worked on robots with simple AIs. He didn't really have the money for anything more than that. Though he did embezzle a fortune to make a specialized Aestevalus. It probably advanced the technology 20 years even though it didn't work right. It was more a matter of it being expensive and horribly illegal work."
She shrugs a bit.
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"I had an automaton partner for some time, back home. Built him myself! He would do anything for me, and he chronicled tales of my adventures. A good, loyal soul, he was."
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"Omoikane is the AI that I grew up with and am linked to... But he's not here. I really hope he doesn't get upset. The Nadesico C has 4 Phase Transposition cannons."
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"My Doty was primarily a chronicler of my heroic exploits, but he was also excellent at protecting me with his fearsome fists. I'm seriously considering adding some kind of projectile cannon on the next model."
So Sorry about the delay, everyone in the house was sick
Yes, Ruri is pondering this guy stomping around in a 7 meter tall power suit that belches steam and has a giant sword. He looks like the type that probably would scream attack names too.
no worries at all! hope everyone's recovering well
It is slow, but thank you!
AI run power suits are probably a bit too dangerous for even the mad scientists involved in her birth, so it is probably a robot. Probably.
"And I'm not used to human sized AIs, but I think that is more that the research itself is kind of a grey area where I come from."
yw! i am glad!
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She shrugs, "That and most of them don't get on terribly well with humans. They grow up in environments that are too different."
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He would love to see it. It wouldn't fill the void of losing Doty - nothing really can - but it's reigniting the spark he'd been struggling with, that creative urge to build and build.