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February 2023 Test Drive Meme
FEBRUARY 2023 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: extreme weather
the time is near
in from the snow
the time is near
The earth is awakening.
You are aware of this fact before consciousness truly returns. One minute you were a falling star but as your body reforms you can sense the freshness of spring just around the corner. In your minds eye you can see circling birds in the sky, feel the first warm breeze of the season, and hear icicles melting into crystal puddles.
But something isn't right.
The moment you are truly awake you find yourself in what could generously be described as a shack built in the snowy wasteland of Wintermute. You and another Star Child are at least being kept warm by an electric heater, but there really isn't much in the way of amenities otherwise. More disturbingly, the entire shack has a deeply oppressive aura to it, encouraging the pair of you to leave as soon as you can.
But where can you possibly go?
Stepping outside reveals the answer, as parked not far from the shed is a dogsled, complete with warm winter gear to protect you from the cold.
The dogs themselves are the real marvels; not flesh and blood, the sled dogs are in fact automatons. The winter sun reflects off of their silver and copper bodies and the steady tick of their inner workings breaks the chilly silence. Each dog has a key sticking out of its back, turning slowly.
The oppressive sense you felt in the shack continues to grow. Your thoughts begin to turn negative: sad, paranoid, fearful. It is quite unbearable... until your eye falls on a delicate splash of purple against the snow.
Close to the dogsled, a single crocus pokes out of the ground.
The very sight of it calms you down. Picking it will make you feel happy, and you will find yourself blurting out the first pleasant memory that comes to mind.
The robodogs bark, delighted, encouraging you to climb aboard the sled and look for more of those flowers!
Every crocus you collect will make you feel positive emotions and the urge to share good personal moments with your companion. The more you find, the happier you will be... and you might get quite close to a total stranger as a result as well!
in from the snow
While you are out and about, you'll want to keep an eye on your team of dogs - they can and will lose power after a point. Your job as a good dog driver is to keep them wound up! Yes, you'll have to stop and physically wind the dogs back up when they lose steam.
You are likely to discover weapons jutting up from the snow. These are all unenchanted items, basic swords, guns, shields, etc., but the second you pull them from the snow the weather will take a turn for the worse. You may even be subject to a sudden avalanche! Hopefully you got the dogs wound up enough that they can get you out of there without any damage!
Eventually the dogs will choose to take you to Akhlut Station in Wintermute where you can catch the train somewhere a little warmer.
Content Warnings: Fungus, spores, live burial, mental confusion and hallucinations.
putting roots in my dreamland
coast is clear
putting roots in my dreamland
Willow is definitely warmer than Wintermute. The tail end of winter means that while much of the farmland is still blanketed in snow, the more wooded areas have large clear patches beneath the conifers. The ground here is damp and rich smelling. Poking out of the soil are tiny white mushrooms. These fungi glisten wetly, strangely compelling in their little rings of earth. You just want to take a closer look... maybe have a seat under the conifers and listen to the snow melt...
The mushrooms enchant anyone who gets close to them into simply staying put. They cloud the mind, leaving you in a dimly pleasant haze, while your body sinks slowly into the earth. The longer you stay, the more you sink - maybe a passerby can come and pull you out! If you don't wind up suffocated by dirt you will find that your head clears on its own once night falls. You will probably still need a hand pulling yourself out of the ground, but at least now you know what's going on.
The woods at night are not still - there are mice and owls and the usual nocturnal critters. There is also something else, something that moves slowly beneath the trees checking the mushroom traps. About eight feet tall, this lanky creature resembles a human skeleton held together by muscles and tendons of moss and fungus. Its head is a huge mushroom cap, underneath from which glitter a pair of bright blue eyes. If it finds any unfortunates stuck in the traps without anyone to help them, it will push their heads beneath the soil and hold them there until they die.
The sight of this creature inspires feelings of disorientation and hopelessness. These feelings are lessened when you are in close physical proximity with another Star Child, so it is to your advantage to stick together. The mushroom creature's objective remains the same: to feed the living earth with your body.
The creature is not particularly tough - its flesh is soft and gives way easily. You can defeat it easily with weapons or even your fists provided you can get close enough without succumbing to the disorientation and hopeless feelings. Oh, and you may not want to hit it on the head...
The mushroom cap, when struck, showers spores everywhere. These spores burn if they land on your skin, and if they get in your eyes they cause vivid hallucinations of ghostly figures reaching for you, trying to immobilize you. These hallucinations are so real that it is likely you will act as if they are real, standing still as if you are restrained.
If you defeat the mushroom creature, it will dissolve into the ground and leave in its place a wooden chest. Inside each of you will find some canon clothes and/or an item from your homeworlds.
coast is clear
Not far from the forest treeline, a bonfire burns merrily in the center of a circle of light green tents. The tents are kept warm by portable heaters, with some containing food and drink, and others offering small packs of seeds as gifts. These seeds are for common earth flowers and vegetables. One of the tents provides first aid supplies, in case you got roughed up fighting a giant mushroom or something.
The tents are staffed by squirrels and chipmunks. Just plain old ordinary squirrels and chipmunks. They don't speak - only chitter and occasionally screech - but they will help as best as their tiny paws allow.
This is a good time to recover, and also to talk to any other Star Children you may see.
Jinx | Arcane | Myth (voice testing so go easy on me!)
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He doesn't recognize Jinx immediately, in part because he's never seen the young woman up close and because she is the last person Jayce expects to find here. What Jayce sees is another of those plants monsters and someone who might be in trouble, so he retrieves the mercury hammer from the magic bag of holdings he's gotten recently and steps into the clearing, weapon in hand. When he looks at the creature, he feels a pang of despair like a slap to the face, and he's briefly disoriented.Β It's not enough to drop the hammer or to stop him from moving closer to the other Star Children to try and protect her. ]
Ey, are you hurt?Β These things had been showing up all over the place, you need to be careful with the head.
Changing this up hehe. Gonna make her Legend just to mess with her morality more!
[She doesn't look at who offered, otherwise she might have turned on him, or at least had the urge to. Maybe even run and let him deal with it. Regardless, seeing the guy whose face appears on all the blimps and coffee mugs, might have triggered her.
If not for that strange, annoying ping that tells her to help this guy in return. It reminds her of Powder and it's hard to just ignore like she usually does.
While she's dwelling on this, the creature extends a rooted arm, swinging it at her and catching her in the abdomen; sending her flying into a tree trunk.]
That's amazing, I love it!
Cursing under his breath, he steps forward to block the next blow. He swings the hammer and catches one of the monster's knees, breaking it in the process and making it stagger forward. The creatures extends a soil-stained hand and tries to grab the handle of the hammer, and the proximity is already making Jayce feel dizzy.Β
Perhaps if he keeps it busy long enough, Jinx will have time to find a weak spot and exploit it. ]
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Now they've successfully incapacitated it, but how do they kill it? She's feeling a little dizzy herself and staggers briefly before an idea comes to her. She calls out to the man who came to her aid.]
Hit the stupid thing in the chest!
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On it! [ Jayce barks back after Jinx has effectively neutralized the monster's other leg, his hands gripping the hammer's handle more firmly. The head moves like a blur as Jayce draws back his arms and then does the opposite motion. The hammer draws an arc in the air before hitting the monster square in the chest. It opens its mouth as if screaming in anger, but no sound comes out, Its body breaks and is tossed away, falling to the ground like a doll with its strings cut.
Some spores get released when it breaks down, the ones that fall on Jayce's arm and hand burn his skin, making him hiss. Luckily, the monster's mushroom cap is mostly intact, so it's not as bad as it could have been. ]
Damn, sorry this is a short thread, but I didn't think she'd hang around lol
Always double tap.
[Well, now that that's done, she wonders if he recognizes her. Should she let on that she knows who he is? Well, she's got no reason to hang around with him.
Jinx grins, then takes off into a sprint. She waves with a hand over her shoulder.]
Thanks but no thanks mister my face is on every blimp!
Haha, nah, it's cool. This is perfect actually.
What!?
[ Jayce is left speechless and more than a little worried. He briefly considers summoning his wings and going after Jinx, but she is unpredictable, and he's not prepared for what she might spring on him. Warning others seems like a wiser option, so heads toward the direction of the nearby tents. ]
Spring Breaks loose | B (easier for me to do prose <3)
"More of what?"
He had not been paying attention to what she was doing while she seemed to have a mental break of some sort.
It's all good! I match! Also changing her to Legend to mess with her morality more! Make Powder show
"You look like something the cat dragged in." She stops winding and moves over to him, pulling the flower from her pocket. "Here. It'll make you feel better. And we can look for more as a fun game! Like 'I spy'"
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It wasn't difficult to find another crocus. He picked it and since the girl was close by, he considered her.
"What is your name, then?"
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She moves to take the flower from him, blinking when he asks her name.
"It's Jinx. How 'bout you?"
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"It's Viktor."
There had been a Jinx that had stolen the HexTech crystal from the Progress Day celebration but Viktor wasn't sure if this would be the same person. It was just as likely this wasn't so he continued looking for the purple blossoms in the snow with her.
"Do you remember what you were doing before you came here?"
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That's an awful prying question, Jinx thinks and decides not to share the information.
She turns around in a sort of twirl, pointing the flower she just picked up at him, and playfully responds.
"That's a secret!"
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"Fair enough. Here is a better question; what would you rather be doing than looking for flowers in the snow?"
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"Why so many serious questions? I'm gonna get bored here. Let's just have some fun!"
It's a game finding these flowers. Besides, the flowers have something about them that make her feel good.
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"Alright. Then what sort of game do you suggest?"
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Normal circumstances happened to be the keyword here.
She'd been pretty pleased to be alone in the shack, seemingly completely unbothered by the oppressive nature of it. At least at first. The longer she spent in it, the more it began to bothered her in the back of her mind. Not that she wanted to acknowledge or admit that in the slightest.
Then someone else arrived. Just like that. Not too unexpected given the nature of this place. She looked up at the newcomer with a completely blank expression. Not even a single blink was given as the question was asked.
"Wednesday. You?"
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I'm Jinx! And this place gives me the heebe jeebees!
[She stands, her long blue braids falling behind her. Her hands go to her belt as she frantilly searches for any of her bombs, then looks around the room for Powpow. Nope. Nothing. Jinx pouts and turns her attention to the other girl.]
I'm getting out of here. You coming?