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October & November 2023 Test Drive Meme
October - November 2023 TDM
Introduction
Welcome to Folkmore's bimonthly 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 also allowed to have in-game characters post to the TDM so long as they mark their top levels ‘Current Character.’
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: Potential nonconsensual physical changes
Tides doesn’t have a farmer’s market. However, it does have a regular artists’ fair. Spirits—and Star Children—can set up stalls to offer art they have already made or to make it right before people. On the spot commissions! It’s a great way to see a wide spread of the art available in Tides, on rare occasions even Jewelia’s own.
Within the artists’ fair is a makers’ square where everyone is invited to join an artist in learning to make some kind of art. It might be painting and wine. Lithography. Embroidery. You name it. Seriously, feel free to put a suggestion in the box of what Star Children would be interested in. The artists leading the space don’t all teach at Jewelia Academy. This could be the only chance to learn from them!
This time it’s making salt water taffy. Spirit Children can learn how to complete the process from start to finish with a bit of an arm workout. If they aren’t interested in or cannot handle the arm workout pulling the taffy, they can help a spirit wherever they’re interested. There is any flavor Spirit Children can imagine to flavor their taffy, even ones only found in their home worlds. Share a little culture!
Star Children may keep up to half of the taffy they make, but the rest will be offered to everyone coming through the makers’ square in the artists’ fair. Perhaps it’ll encourage other Star Children to make their own! Star Children, whether they make taffy or simply take free samples, will find that eating taffy can have an effect on them.
Eating taffy made by Legends will give Star Children color changing eyes that give away their mood, just like Legends. Eating taffy made by Myths will give Star Children horns, claws, or a tail that grows larger when they react more logically and less emotionally. Eating taffy made by Familiars will give Star Children animal features. These effects last from one-six hours.
Eating taffy made by Spirits has no effect at all!
Tides doesn’t have a farmer’s market. However, it does have a regular artists’ fair. Spirits—and Star Children—can set up stalls to offer art they have already made or to make it right before people. On the spot commissions! It’s a great way to see a wide spread of the art available in Tides, on rare occasions even Jewelia’s own.
Within the artists’ fair is a makers’ square where everyone is invited to join an artist in learning to make some kind of art. It might be painting and wine. Lithography. Embroidery. You name it. Seriously, feel free to put a suggestion in the box of what Star Children would be interested in. The artists leading the space don’t all teach at Jewelia Academy. This could be the only chance to learn from them!
This time it’s making salt water taffy. Spirit Children can learn how to complete the process from start to finish with a bit of an arm workout. If they aren’t interested in or cannot handle the arm workout pulling the taffy, they can help a spirit wherever they’re interested. There is any flavor Spirit Children can imagine to flavor their taffy, even ones only found in their home worlds. Share a little culture!
Star Children may keep up to half of the taffy they make, but the rest will be offered to everyone coming through the makers’ square in the artists’ fair. Perhaps it’ll encourage other Star Children to make their own! Star Children, whether they make taffy or simply take free samples, will find that eating taffy can have an effect on them.
Eating taffy made by Legends will give Star Children color changing eyes that give away their mood, just like Legends. Eating taffy made by Myths will give Star Children horns, claws, or a tail that grows larger when they react more logically and less emotionally. Eating taffy made by Familiars will give Star Children animal features. These effects last from one-six hours.
Eating taffy made by Spirits has no effect at all!
🦊 Star Children can attend an artists’ fair and make salt water taffy.
🦊 Eating salt water taffy made by Star Children will give temporary features of that kind of Star Child.
🦊 Eating salt water taffy made by Spirits has no effect.
🦊 Eating salt water taffy made by Star Children will give temporary features of that kind of Star Child.
🦊 Eating salt water taffy made by Spirits has no effect.
Content Warnings: Pocket universe, dungeon castle crawl, forced relocation
One of the many food carts in Tides serves homemade ice cream. The fox spirit serving it promises that it will provide a jolt of inspiration—even to Star Children who cannot eat. Even holding a cone or cup of the ice cream can jolt someone’s imagination, the fox says. It’s free as part of the welcome to Tides, but no one has to accept it, not even to hold. The fox spirit won’t cajole anyone, and Star Children can go along their way.
At least a few hours later, long enough to have forgotten the offer or to get frustrated by the lack of promised inspiration, Star Children fall down down down into a painted, sculpted, sidewalk chalked, or otherwise artistically bent world. They are as artistically made as the rest of the world around them. They match it, as do their one to three companions who arrive with them. They may be friends or strangers. They are compatriots in this strange world.
Whether starting deep in the bowels or high in a tower, this artistic world is that of a castle. A unique castle to each Star Child host. Elements of its design, decor, and mechanisms tie back to a creative endeavor of the host. For the castle is a direct manifestation of whatever project the Star Child host experiences creative block around, whether that’s art or science or anything else. It’s baked into the design. Not only that, the castle is under attack! Dragons or monsters or knights, oh my! Whatever attacks, the very creative idea may crumble if it doesn’t get solved.
Star Children who ate the ice cream will have an easier time shoring up defenses, buying time to think, and even experiencing a breakthrough moment of inspiration. Any companions who ate the ice cream will have an easier time helping the host. Regardless, the only way out is a breakthrough or to see the idea fall to uninspired ruin. Which will it be?
When a group breaks through, they return to Tides with up to four nearly identical dollhouse castles. A miniature doll of one party member will be in each dollhouse. The doll will also have a miniature version of an item from home. Take it from one’s doll, and it becomes lifesize. It may even be a magical item or weapon.
One of the many food carts in Tides serves homemade ice cream. The fox spirit serving it promises that it will provide a jolt of inspiration—even to Star Children who cannot eat. Even holding a cone or cup of the ice cream can jolt someone’s imagination, the fox says. It’s free as part of the welcome to Tides, but no one has to accept it, not even to hold. The fox spirit won’t cajole anyone, and Star Children can go along their way.
At least a few hours later, long enough to have forgotten the offer or to get frustrated by the lack of promised inspiration, Star Children fall down down down into a painted, sculpted, sidewalk chalked, or otherwise artistically bent world. They are as artistically made as the rest of the world around them. They match it, as do their one to three companions who arrive with them. They may be friends or strangers. They are compatriots in this strange world.
Whether starting deep in the bowels or high in a tower, this artistic world is that of a castle. A unique castle to each Star Child host. Elements of its design, decor, and mechanisms tie back to a creative endeavor of the host. For the castle is a direct manifestation of whatever project the Star Child host experiences creative block around, whether that’s art or science or anything else. It’s baked into the design. Not only that, the castle is under attack! Dragons or monsters or knights, oh my! Whatever attacks, the very creative idea may crumble if it doesn’t get solved.
Star Children who ate the ice cream will have an easier time shoring up defenses, buying time to think, and even experiencing a breakthrough moment of inspiration. Any companions who ate the ice cream will have an easier time helping the host. Regardless, the only way out is a breakthrough or to see the idea fall to uninspired ruin. Which will it be?
When a group breaks through, they return to Tides with up to four nearly identical dollhouse castles. A miniature doll of one party member will be in each dollhouse. The doll will also have a miniature version of an item from home. Take it from one’s doll, and it becomes lifesize. It may even be a magical item or weapon.
🦊 Star Children will be offered homemade ice cream by a fox spirit.
🦊 Star Children will be transported into an artistic world set within a castle under attack.
🦊 1-3 other Star Children will join the host.
🦊 Escape by breaking through the host’s creative block.
🦊 Star Children whose groups break through will receive a personal item from home. It may even be a magical item or weapon.
🦊 Star Children will be transported into an artistic world set within a castle under attack.
🦊 1-3 other Star Children will join the host.
🦊 Escape by breaking through the host’s creative block.
🦊 Star Children whose groups break through will receive a personal item from home. It may even be a magical item or weapon.
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So naturally, Tony follows... Himself. His imposter. Whatever this was. Oh, please be his own Tiny Steve type of situation. That sounds great, he wants another one of him around. They can work together in the garage and rubber duck for each other when they're programming something difficult.
Other Iron Man stops short, and Tony bumps into his shoulder. ] Beatrix Potter? That's the best one you got? Really?
[ Okay, usually he's got a better quip on hand than that, so clearly this was an imposter. ] You must be 'Iron Man' right?
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Good grief. They’ve got everything here but the tent!
[ And of course, this unshaven, uncouth elderly gentleman knows of him. He preens a bit, standing straighter, making the effort to deepen his tinny voice half an octave. ]
Why, yes, that’s right! Now, [ and dear heavens, he can’t believe he’s petitioning a demonic delusion for this information, but ] -would you be so kind as to tell me what’s going on here?
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[ But okay, fine, right answer the question. ] Either way, you're here to reach your potential. I don't know what that means any better than you do, and I've been here nearly a year.
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[ and then crosses his arms, straightening out his back, because who is a man, delusion or not, like this to judge him on his potential? ] Perhaps you wouldn’t have been stuck so long if you’d talked a little more sense.
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I get it, you wanna see the suit, you want the proof. So, okay, fine. [ He presses the glowing triangle attached to his hoodie, and the nanomachine Sailor Moon style transformation sequence begins. Tony stands there in his Mark L a moment later. ] See? I am Iron Man. The real Iron Man. [ He 'helpfully' clarifies. ]
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[ The surprise of it has him stumbling backwards ] That’s a fine trick you’ve got there!
[ And goodness he knows he should be reserving his limited energy supply for the combat looming on the horizon but impressive gimmicks be damned, he wasn’t about to let some pinko pawn sully his good name.
So, into the air he goes, hovering a few feet above his impersonator, arms crossed ] But make no mistake, pal: there’s one Iron Man out there, and it’s not you.
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Tony joins his doppelgänger in the air a second later, hovering a few feet away from him. Just having a normal, average, midair conversation, nothing to see here. ]
Lookin' like there's at least two. [ A beat. ] Actually, technically? I've made 85 of 'em.
[ And then Tony gets distracted from their weird pissing contest with genuine curiosity: ] What's your count up to, Tony Two? [ Because, obviously, this was a weird multiversal version of himself. ]
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[ The shock isn’t enough to throw him off though, and in a moment his hands are up in a menacing maneuver meant to threaten his seemingly similar counterpart, emitting a warbling warning charge ] I don’t know what game you’re playing or what you hope to accomplish with it, but I’ve had just about enough of this.
[ And in all honesty, Tony would be far from the first to draw in a fight, but he doesn’t take too kindly to kidnapping, and even less to impersonation and corporate espionage. Maybe it’s not the reds, maybe it’s a competitor, but whoever it is, they’ve got a handle on his tech and they’re having a go at his secret identity, and he’s not going to just stand by and let that happen! ]
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Are your repulser beams set to stun?
Is your Rhodey a Vulcan? Is Pepper green?
Wait, wait, I can think of some more, give me a sec. [ He is actually just going to continue laughing. What a lousy rip off this guy's suit was! It made sound effects. ]
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Tony lowers his hands, repulsors puttering out into silence. Well. As silent as those magnetically-powered jets would allow, while the two of them conversed in midair. ] Land sakes! I’m not about to fight a man who’s gone bananas!
[ wait ]
…Pepper. [ Slowly, Tony lowers himself back to the ground below them. ] Why do you know who Pepper is?
[ Because sure, the reds might be awful creative, they might know more than he even knows about himself and his relationship with his ‘boss’, but to the rest of the world, Virginia Potts has nothing to do with Iron Man. There’s certainly no love lost between them, they’d barely even be considered colleagues. ]
Start talking some sense or it’s going to go back to getting ugly.
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But, okay, he'll play ball and answer the damn question. ] Because I'm Tony Stark and it would be weird as hell to not know my own wife and the mother of my child. [ A beat. ] And as the Chairman of Stark Industries' board, it would be equally weird to not know my own CEO. [ Equally? Really? Are you quite sure about that? ]