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June 2023 Test Drive Meme
June 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 and work like "mini-events". For new players and characters, you can choose to have your TDM thread be your introduction thread upon acceptance or start fresh. Current players are allowed to have in-game characters react to TDMs via the Network or make a Log with the prompts they want to participate in.
TDM threads can be used for spoon spending at any time by characters accepted into the game.
Playing and interacting with the 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.
🦊 New Star Children meet the Fox still in their worlds, and she brings them into the new realm of Folkmore. As you follow her, your body begins to change and new characteristics emerge. These may stay for a while, or perhaps they will hide away after. And during all of this, the Fox explains to you where you will be going: to Folkmore.
and then... you fall like a shooting star, falling to the land in a burst of starlight.
🦊 Experienced Star Children are already familiar with this time of the month. There are shooting stars all across the sky, and some fall to the land, which means the Fox has brought new arrivals. These newly arrived Star Children will face some tests, but Thirteen wants the more seasoned residents to participate as well.
Perhaps you follow the falling stars on your own, or perhaps the Fox simply teleports you there, but it appears you too will be part of this.
Content Warnings: Alternate Universe, Memory alteration/altered sense of self, Exhibition
If This Was a Movie
If This Was a Movie
You forget everything the fox told you on your way over. You forget your own history. You remember a completely new one, one that matches whatever story you're now in. It could be a story from your world—a folk tale, a novel, a movie, a telenovella—or one you've never heard of. Whatever it is, this is your life now. Your memories match as though you've lived here your whole life. The tone may match your world, or it may drastically differ.Big Red Button
And you're not alone.
Whatever scene you're in features at least one other Star Child in the same situation you are. They might also be a new arrival, or they may be someone Thirteen has plucked up out of Folkmore and brought here to join you. Whether you've known each other your whole previous life or never met before, you know each other as the people in the story—whatever relationship that is. You don't remember being placed here. It's your life! It always has been.
The two (or more) of you pick up at whatever point in the story it is. Perhaps it'll go the same way as the original story. Perhaps not. You still are you—memories redacted—after all. This story is yours to write together!
The outfits, the setting, the NPCs (played by Spirits going along with things), etc. all perfectly match the story and adapt with you as you create your own retelling.
As it turns out, you aren't only in an entertainment, you are an entertainment. Across Folkmore, large screens showing these stories appear: in every school, in public squares, before a large meadow, in the middle of the desert, you name it. It's also streaming on everyone's relics. Everyone has the chance to see your story play out.
That's not all, Star Children are your key out of the story and into Folkmore itself. Along with these screens, there are big red buttons. Digitally, a big red button appears on people's relics when they watch these stories. It's pretty simple. Someone presses the big red button and you're free! The reason doesn't matter—boredom, pity, recognition, the irresistibility of buttons. These are the only way out, so when you get out is completely up to your fellow Star Children.
Once the button is pushed, an invisible wall between your story and Folkmore falls away. With it, you regain all your memories from home and from the walk to Folkmore with the fox. All you have to do is step out of the story and into the school of Baba Yaga. The school of magic. Thirteen isn't there personally, but you may feel her spirit around you. Baba Yaga—Thirteen—is the school itself.
A small chest is also there as soon as you leave the story containing an item from your homeworld. This may even be a weapon or magical item.
Small bat spirits have a couple stations set up within the school near where Star Children exit their stories. If you're injured or need to rest, they are ready to help treat you or provide you as many pillows and blankets as you wish. If you're hungry or thirsty, the other station has food and drink for all. Steaming tea, freshly baked bread, and all sorts of warm comforting foods. You'd be forgiven for thinking it might be autumn. They want you to be at your best when you leave Baba Yaga and enter the rest of Folkmore via Exile.
Content Warnings: Optional mind/body split, Possible invasion of privacy, Possible monster/creature violence
Eyes Open
Eyes Open
When you leave Baba Yaga, you're somewhere in Exile. Not even the Spirits or experienced Star Children can tell you where exactly you are. The school walks around on its chicken legs. Unless someone leaves at the same time as you, you'll start in different places. You'll have to find your own way out.Cowboy Like Me
If you have been exiled before, you'll have an easier time navigating the land. It'll help guide you toward where you want to go. If you have never been exiled before, you'll have a harder time navigating this section of Folkmore. The trees may try to push you back. Perhaps nothing happens, exactly, but the aura is one that doesn't want you. Regardless, there's enough fog that it's difficult to see where you're going. Attention certainly seems to be on you. Are the trees watching? Is the water listening? Those are simply stories Spirits share to scare new Star Children isn't it?
Suddenly, you may appear to be in another part of Folkmore! It could be anywhere. It could be a public area, a business, someone's home… Wherever it is, if you try to touch something, you realize you cannot. Instead you pass right through solid objects. You cannot open a door, but you can walk right through it. You may surprise someone with your sudden appearance, or perhaps you reach out to people you see for help. Perhaps you simply explore this new area where you were.
Take all the time you want. Hopefully nothing bad is happening back with your body still in Exile… On second thought, perhaps you don't want to spend too long away from your body. You can use your own skills or get help returning to your body or find yourself suddenly back in it. Time to take stock and maybe find your way back to the rest of Folkmore body included.
On your way through Exile, you may come across weapons sticking out of the ground. Swords, axes, shields, bows, guns… All manner of non-magical weapons. They're simply there, scattered here and there, free for the taking. It looks like someone had a bad time trying to get out of Exile. Whoever the weapons belonged to, they don't need them now.
A word of warning to those who grab the weapons, as soon as you do, one of the dangerous creatures in Exile will find you. These creatures don't only have sharp claws or fangs, poison or sharp senses, they are intelligent. You'll need not only the weapon(s) you grabbed but your wits to defeat them or the luck of someone else coming along to help you out.
Big Red Button- linking his folk ref since....he actually wears something else here lmfao
There was no pomp and circumstance with the end of his trial. There was no 'you did it,' not even a hollow one. At the very least, any trials prior involved some sense that he'd at least done something either for someone else or even himself. Leaving the Cruel Summer is a whole other story, and if this emptiness hadn't left him with enough presence of mind to try heeding the advice of those he talked to, he would have just gone right back home and curled up in his bed.
Instead, he went to Exile. To the School of Baba Yaga, the school recommended for Magic. ....If what he has can be called that.
His relic is a constant companion here. He can't tell where he is any more, and he can only barely make out the school by the time he trudges through the swamp with the thing in hand, useless map wiped off the screen. He squints through the haze and sighs in relief, making his way onward-
And then pauses, when flashing scenes on his Relic catch his eye.
This isn't what he had open before. This is something else. Like a show, or a movie. There's a new button there on top of that- great, red, taking up a good half of the console's lower screen with the kind of hue that screams don't touch. And yet.
And...Yet...
...
Emporio presses the button.
Hopefully he doesn't ruin his jacket falling backward over what happens next.]
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He goes from pick pocket, criminal, common thief, living on the streets back to Peter Parker. Its an abrupt shift that leaves him disoriented. His own time in Massachusetts as an ADI agent doesn't make matters any easier either.
He stumbles with others recently freed from the fake lives created for them. The superhero just holds his face in his hands, trying to get his thoughts together.
Unaware he's likely to physically crash into one of the people who freed him in the process.]
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[It must unfortunately be reported that Peter Parker has crashed directly into one of the people who freed him.
Emporio isn't sure what he expected pushing the button to be frank. Maybe something would fly out, sure. But not the person he was watching! WHY!]
Augh...eugh, there's so much mud here too... [Is the most he manages to groan from his back, before it clicks that there's someone there.]
Were you...actually in my Relic just now..?
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Peter flounders a little, trying to actually get his bearings. One minute he's there, now he's here? A nebulous here at that. He manages to roll off of Emporio, looking thrown off to say the very least.]
I- I dunno! Is a relic like a cursed artifact or something!?
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[He looks at it- the screens are now blank.] ...I was watching some kind of show, and a great big red button appeared on the bottom screen. ...You appeared after I pushed it.
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I'd ask how that works, but I dunno if there even is an answer. This isn't the ADI, is it-?
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[He'll even let Peter look it over! It's.........Basically a 3DS! Emporio however, is from before that model.
Adding to the issue, his only initial reply to Peter's question is to screw his face up with confusion.] ...No? ...I guess you must have just arrived here huh...
...This is...hm. ...You know, I actually don't know what the whole country is called? This region is called Exile though. There's supposed to be a school for magic somewhere here.
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He tries to wrap his head around this new information. Peter is starting to realize this is way outside the ADI's purview.
He drags a hand through his hair, suddenly feeling several shades more exhausted.]
Okay, so, school of magic, in a region called Exile.
So, this is definitely not even anywhere near America. Got it. Just a whole other new weird place.
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[Emporio nods, feeling just a little awkward as he steadies himself. As Peter speaks though, he finds himself raising his brows.] Uh....not anywhere close, no...
You're from America though? What state?
[how do you do, fellow american-]
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The question at least pulls Peter out of his thoughts.]
New York, I was from New York before all of this stuff happened.
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[...And...he's starting to think that maybe what he's seeing isn't just because Peter fell out of his Relic. Frowning, he watches the other for a second or so before asking something else.]
....You... ...were you in the middle of something, before coming here? ...Something important?