![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
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.
no subject
Me? No. I'm not like one of those kids they have to smuggle, so they don't know they're Force sensitive.
[Except she clearly is, but she can't imagine leaving her parents now. And certainly a princess of Aldaraan can't be Force sensitive.]
no subject
[He remembers rescuing the kids from the Inquisitors, had that been going on when he and Leia were this young? No one had ever come for him, and his parents were taken because of their broadcasts, not his connection to the Force.
He stops again, in front of another archway.]
Think you could help me again?
[He holds out his free hand, and indicates for her to do the same.]
Now imagine you're pulling all the rocks down, as easy as taking something off a shelf. And breathe.
no subject
Maybe it's just this place. The fox being tricky. There aren't any more Jedis, I thought, and Obi-Wan would have known. I think?
[It's not that she doubts herself. She's just never made anything float before. Sure, sometimes even she will feel something, know something about someone, and she trusts that feeling inside of her more than anything, but that's how she does things. Not by exploding things.
But he seems so convinced. And what if she really is? Will that mean she won't live with her parents any more on Alderaan? She can't think about that now though. It could still just be the fox. So she inhales deeply, finding some courage inside of her, and she stretches her hand out just like he does.
A slow exhale, and she can picture just what he says. She imagines the rocks in the archway like a books on a shelf. She's reaching, feeling the space between them all, and then suddenly she's grabbing and yanking as hard as she can in the Force, like she can just collapse the archway like he said.]
no subject
[It's interesting though that Leia knows Master Kenobi. Had he been involved before hiding himself on Tatooine? It's a few years too late to think about if he could've convinced Obi-Wan to join the Rebellion, but seeing a younger Leia makes it difficult to keep his mind off the past.
Right. The past. Ancient temple. Crumbling archways.
It does collapse, and he can feel her power alongside his. Ezra grins,]
That was great! Thanks! And you know, you don't have to be a Jedi unless you want to. There's lots of different ways to help too.
no subject
[She looks up at him hopeful. Maybe it's a good sign for all those children the Rebels are helping. Maybe it's a good sign for her.
They stand in the ruins of the archway for a moment, and she stares down at it. She helped to do that. She felt it, like he said, and now she can't really just shrug this away as the fox, right? It's just not a good sign, she thinks.]
It's-- it's not that I don't want to be a Jedi. Jedi are amazing. [At least Obi-Wan is.] But-- but... [She sighs, because she hasn't told anyone this. She levels him a look, because she really is scared, and she doesn't want to be.]
When the fox found me, I was about to be tortured by an Inquisitor, because she knows that I have the information on the Path. And I don't... I don't want to have to be like those other kids, too. I don't want to leave my mom and dad again. I don't want to have to leave Alderaan again. But they'll take me, won't they? Again. [This time not for bait either.]
no subject
[As curious and as worried as he might be about all the things she's mentioned, they're hardly important now.]
When I trained to be a Jedi, I got to be with my family everyday. And they helped me with my training too. Well, "helped" might not be the right word. Chopper, he's a droid, he used to intentionally sabotage my practice. I'd try and lift a rock, he'd secretly hold it down. Thought it was really funny to see me frustrated too. He didn't think it was quite as funny when I got strong enough to lift him up along with the rock.
[Ezra laughs, smiling and hoping she'll smile too]
Your family's nicer than that, right? Pretty much anyone's gotta be nicer than Chopper.
no subject
So she huffs a little and listens to him speak about his own experience. It doesn't sound quite what she was expecting, but his story about the droid makes her laugh a little. It distracts her from what she's feeling, the sort of overwhelming emotions that are coming at her at all of this.]
I don't know if they can. My mother is queen of Alderaan. And my father is a Senator. I don't even think they know I can do this. [Although being Anakin's child, someone should have had suspicions.]
no subject
[He didn't really start noticing he was different until they were gone, and even then, he had just thought he was lucky. But she doesn't need to know about his parents being dead, at least not in this moment.]
But the Force is more than being a Jedi. More than all this, [he says, gesturing to the walls around them] and more than rocks and fighting. No matter what, it's your choice if you want to learn more. But I still want you to know you'll never have to give up your family, or who you are. Those are the things that make you strong. I know because well, you saved me.
[Ezra grins, and as he does so, the painting begins to melt away into reality. No more Jedi temple, no more zombies. No more worrying over if he'll be able to reestablish the Order or if he'll be a good teacher. At least for now. When he and Leia are finally back at the fair, they'll find two dollhouses sitting next to them.]
no subject
[She just thinks she's some child with some information. Information about Force sensitive children. That's some irony right there.]
Maybe if I learn here it will be different? Then I won't have to be taken like the other kids. I'll have to ask my friends here.
[And then everything seems to be fading, and Leia is looking around, even more perplexed. She's still learning about this place, too.]
Well that was strange.