folkooc | August 2022 Test Drive Meme

AUGUST 2022 TDM

INTRODUCTION

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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.

[ Prompt One ★ Prompt Two]

Summer Is Over

Content Warnings: snakes, cultists, optional violence.

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.

Plaid Shirt Days and Nights

Content Warnings: Optional themes of identity and school trauma.

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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1. Saved by the Bell

[This certainly was unexpected. Here she was, in the middle of the school, as she stared up the rope and then back at the gym teacher. Smiling to herself, she gave a quick peace sign to her "classmates".]

Don't worry, I got this. This will be a piece of cake! Just you wait...!

[After all, she considered herself a fairly active girl and she wasn't going to put her father to shame by not climbing up that rope! And yet, the moment she decided to climb said rope? Was it just her imagination or did it seem endless no matter how far she got up?

Come and help her out?]

2. Scavenger Hunt

[Looking at her partner and then back at the piece of paper, all the following items weren't so bad. If anything, most of them seemed like things she already did back in her world. That being said, she tried her best to flash a genuine smile to her partner before raising an eyebrow at the picture taken.]

No, I think I could do a little better. [She said before attempting another smile and then giving a slight frown.]

I don't know, what do you think? Does it seem "genuine" enough?

3. IMakeover Makeover

[It seemed that Kaede is walked right in time for back to school season! The moment she stepped into a store, her eyes immediately widen at all the various clothing items! Granted, she might not have any money to buy a lot of things but she couldn't help it!

Walking over toward a certain section, she quickly pointed to said egirl style of clothing.]

Do you think that will look good on me?

4. Wildcard

[Surprise me...!]

[Vex'ahlia looks at the girl and shakes her head.]

Why don't you try taking a picture of me? You look like you're forcing yourself. And while it's not fun to be forced to do something, I can tell you that the spirits here do know if one is faking a smile or not.

[In return, Kaede looked briefly at the camera and then back at the older woman. With a frown, she raised an eyebrow at her.]

Really? Then what about you? Wouldn't it be the same if you were trying to force a smile?

[Vex gives her a smile that has no trace of anything but pure happiness.]

Darling, I don't have to force a smile. I am a fairly happy person here, even with all of the strange events that Thirteen is responsible for.

[With that, the girl raised an eyebrow before crossing her arms. She just met her and yet, she has no idea how honest she was being.]

If you say so? It would be a shame if you were forcing one when you really don't.

[...]

Happy or not?

[Oh, an adorable little cynic. Just like Vex herself at that... No, she was a bit older before she got cynical.]

Like I said, I don't have to. My brother and lover are both here, as is one of my best friends and my bear companion. Plus, I've made friends and opened up my own business.

[Vex is as happy as she's going to be for a while. Here, there's no threat of the Raven Queen or Pelor or even the million other things they have to worry about on Exandria. Thirteen is a walk in the park, compared to the rest.]

It's like being on vacation and not having to worry about my brother being a complete idiot.

[Being the responsible twin is hard, Kaede. It's so hard.]

August 2022 Test Drive Meme

Kaede Kaburagi | Tiger and Bunny | Undecided

Have a VEX! (Scavenger Hunt, btw)

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Sorry about my speed, it's been a weird week

If anything, I should be the one to apologize!

Not at all!