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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 wouldn't say that she's batting her eyelashes. but she might be.
which gets a quizzical look. what? does she get to burn things again?]
It is. [she concedes, then smiles] The Terrans have a saying: when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Soooo... [casts Wall of Fire and smiles (and let's pretend it's an actual wall. which lasts longer than 8 seconds)] What do you have in mind?
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[The zombies are just kinda sticking their hands in the wall and catching on fire. At least it's stalled them.]
I ended up here after I ate some inspiring ice cream? And it's- it's a painting from my memories, unless you're seeing something else. Something to do with the Force, with the Jedi?
[With him?]
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[she gives them a 'seriously? seriously.' look]
This is nothing I've seen and the Maker knows Thirteen likes to root around in our memories and brains, looking for stray trauma to fall out. So, the Force, the Jedi...I know a little about both. But not enough to make an educated guess.
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[None of this was necessarily traumatic for him, though. It wasn't even a real memory, only pieces of ideas thrown together.
He runs a hand through his hair and sighs, finally taking a moment to be frustrated with all this.]
... I wish Sabine was here. She'd know what all this art's supposed to mean.
(CW: terrorism, corpse of family member)
[thank you, Thirteen, she just looooooved reliving the Conclave explosion, escaping the Fade, being arrested, and finding the corpse of her sister over and over again.
it's okay! it's okay to be frustrated!]
Well, she's not. [as gently, yet matter-of-factly as possible] So we need to figure this out for ourselves. What does it say to you?
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Something about tradition? About... what's been lost. Those who came before.
[He feels like he belongs here about as much as the zombies, though.]
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Maybe the zombies are reminiscent of ghosts of the past? Those who couldn't be saved.
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[What about the temple? He hadn't been in a Jedi temple in years.
Who knows what else is in there?
I know what's in there. The past.]
Let them through.
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[and her expression turned mildly doubtful before shrugging and lowering the Wall of Fire]
Sure thing. Now here's hoping that brains aren't tonight's main entree.
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[The zombies pour through, but they ignore Lila and Ezra now that they're not fighting back. Instead they continue to take over the castle, tearing it apart as they do.
He lets out a sigh of relief.]
... glad that actually worked.
[Yeah, he was just going to allow them both to be eaten by zombies. But that doesn't matter, as the world around them begins to dissolve and return to normal.]
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[and she watches, eyes wide as the zombies stampede on their merry ways past them]
...huh. Didn't think that would actually work.
[and now she's thinking of Josie's lectures about how not every problem needed to be solved by setting it on fire]
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[He laughs, as they find themselves back at the ice cream stand, both of them holding dollhouses.]
We were fighting so hard to protect what's already gone. That's, uh, what I realized.
[His dollhouse has an Ezra nuimo inside it, holding a little blue lightsaber. He doesn't yet take anything, just marveling at the cuteness of it all.]
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[and she releases a tiny squee! when she's holding hers, examining it top to bottom as fast as she can] What is this? It's so cute!
Ahhh. Very wise! And a trap I bet a lot of other people might not see coming.
[hers has the Encore Schematic staff being held by a little Lila doll and her eyes light up] Is that a baby version of my staff? [she sets the dollhouse down on a nearby high stump and pulls the doll out with her remaining hand] It is a baby version of my--woah! [and now it's a full-sized version of the staff that she's quick to get a better grip on] Yes! Day. Made!
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[He sets his dollhouse on the ground near hers, picking out his little doll and touching the toy lightsaber gently. Which then turns into a real lightsaber, luckily not ignited. Ezra grabs the hilt quickly, before it hits the ground.]
Looks like you were right about the stabby stuff. In case we ever do need to kill a bunch of zombies.
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[she grins when it becomes a lightsaber. as much as Thirteen was annoying, sometimes she had good tricks, like this one. and she's so keeping the little doll version of her]
Oh, yeah. [she lifts the staff up slightly, better to show the pointy end] Sometimes Thirteen does not mess around. And that's not even counting the times when we have our minds played with, making us do stuff.
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[Minds being played with. Sure, he plays with minds sometimes, but that's different! And sometimes not different. The feeling of being able to control someone like that, it's still...
Right, food.]
You wanna lead the way? I mean, assuming you wanted to go now. I- do you want to go now? We don't have to.
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sure, she could candy-coat the news, but what would be the use of that? and if Ezra is anything like...baby Ezra, he'd appreciate the truth more than a polite lie.
and yes! food! and wine! at least for her!]
I will! And I do. I wouldn't have offered if I didn't and don't.
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[and he gestures for her to lead! And they start walking towards the tavern!]
I could probably eat an entire bantha after all that. How do you accidentally start leading a military anyways?
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[she points ahead as she begins to walk]
I don't know what a bantha is, but I'm sure it's tasty. They have all kinds of foods at the pub, maybe they have bantha? And it's a long story, started with me being in the exact wrong place at the perfect time. I was twenty, I was a kid, I hadn't been out of Ostwick's Circle of Magi in ten years. Making things up as I went. Luckily for me, I have good instincts.