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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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She laughs softly. In a way that's decidedly not at him. And she shakes her head.]
If the point of Folkmore is for all of us to reach our truest potential, it stands to reason that we need to at least try to do everything.
Even if we're not so good at it.
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[Probably not how true potential works, he realizes, torn on whether it means he should keep trying and be an amazing painter or if being a painter has nothing to do with his potential at all. Does potential contain everything?]
I'm Ezra, by the way. Also, there's not any paint in my hair, is there?
[Maybe that's why she was looking at him?]
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[All right, so it must be a Steve-type of situation. Ariadne wonders if he knows or not. She needs to handle it gently.
It would all be much easier if she were still lying. But she made a promise to herself. It's time to live an honest life.]
...Ezra Bridger?
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[Maybe he should've gone with Jabba. Not given out his name so easily.]
Didn't really think tales of Lothal would reach all the way out here, if I'm being honest.
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No. No. We've met before. Sort of.
[He doesn't know! Of all the people in the multiverse, why would it fall to her to explain? She can barely explain it to herself, sometimes. And she's nowhere near as educated or worldly as the people of Ezra's world. Obi-Wan's world. All of them. Their world.
Well, she'll have to make the best of it.]
Or, rather, a version of you and I have met before.
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[Another path? A different possibility? Or him from an earlier or later point in his path? Any of those would make some amount of sense, at least as much as these things can make sense.]
Hopefully he made a good impression?
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But Ezra's always been a good man. She should have known better.]
Yes. Very good. I'm quite fond of him.
Of everyone I've met from your universe.
[Even if half of them always confuse her with Padmé.]
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[Is this the proper response?]
Although I'd be a little more cautious than that. Not everyone from my galaxy is good. Like uh... if you see someone dressed like this, probably not a good idea to go up and try and befriend them. Unless it's me. Or... another me.
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[Not that Ariadne ever judges someone by their clothing. Still, she understands what a uniform can mean. She's got her own evil Empire back home, after all.
She decides to get up and move a little closer, heading toward an open seat beside him. Not too close; she doesn't want him to feel uncomfortable. But not far away.
Before sitting, she pauses offering him a little curtsy that makes her rope-like braid swing over her shoulder.]
My name is Ariadne. But you can call me "Airy." Everyone does.
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[He watches her curtsy and then gives a sorta bow of his head.]
Airy. Nice to meet you. Again. Sorry if this is weird, but would you mind telling me a little about other me? Just so I'm not caught off guard again.
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Everything is a little weird here. You get used to it. A little. Although there can be some fun surprises.
[Some very, very fun surprises.]
But the other you? He's...about my age, I think? Not much more than twenty. Doesn't have your beard.
[And then she hesitates.]
He's...not standoffish, exactly. But I always get the sense that he's been very...careful around me. I'm not sure what it is. He's perfectly nice, kind, respectful. There's just something...
[Thirty-six languages and she struggles to find the right word.]
Nervous about him, I guess.
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[He's not sure what he is anymore, or right now for that matter. He'd already been catching up on his galaxy's timeline, adding more to that is a lot.]
It might be his age. He's- I've been through a lot. Especially back then.
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[She's not judging. In fact, she's downright sympathetic.
Not everyone sees Folkmore as a gift, the way Ariadne does. And she's not in the business of trying to change hearts. At least, not that way.
So she just smiles and shrugs at this Ezra.]
I certainly hope I don't make you nervous. I don't think I'm all that scary.
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[It's possible they haven't, depending on when and where they were each pulled from. He wouldn't describe himself as nervous necessarily, but it makes sense he might be in this situation. Especially if it's so soon after Kanan's death and the liberation of Lothal.]
I don't think you're scary! I was just wondering how I seemed different, I guess. Mostly the beard though, huh?
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[There's a glint of mischief in her eyes.]
I guess I'll just have to get to know you better, to see what else is different.
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[Unless he decides to shave everyday and keep his boyish good looks!]
And I'll have to actually get to know you. And stop talking about myself so much. Have you been here long?
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Not a complaint. Just astonishing.]
A little over a year. I like it here very much. Which can sometimes put me at odds with some of the other Star Children.
That's what they call us: Star Children. It's kind of pretty, don't you think?
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[But jokes aside, he did catch what she said before that.]
Everyone else wants to get home, right? And you don't?
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Some other me is living the life she's meant to live there.
Probably a very bleak life. There's a siege that's getting worse by the day. I wouldn't abandon my post. But knowing that that other me is there has allowed me to...feel better about liking it here.
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[He's not trying to guilt trip her, only curious. Would her other self be excited for her? Jealous? With all the talk of other selves, he can't help but wonder. It's easier than thinking what his will think of him.]
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She takes a moment to mull it over, giving it proper thought.]
I think she'd be glad for me. I know, if I were back home and someone told me that another me was living in a place like this, I'd be happy. It's good to feel like there are perfect possible futures out there.
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That's good. It makes sense then that you wouldn't want to leave. I think... even knowing there's a version of me continuing what I need to do, I want to be the one to see it through.
[And he's sure the one back home is glad he's there and not here.]
But I've only just arrived. It'll take some time to accept the change, since it is a pretty big one.
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It didn't have right away, for me. It took time. And it took faith.
[She makes a vague gesture around the room.]
In Thirteen. And the other people here. Mostly the other people.
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[She shrugs, suddenly fiercely interested in her fingertips.
Ariadne loves her home. Fiercely. And all the people in it. She sees the best in those people. But some of that best is merely potential, at this point. Far too many of them have been taught to hate when they should be taught to love.]