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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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Given his reaction earlier, at least. It's possible he doesn't know the name of the planet, but still.
"Okay. So you're not part of this. Zombies probably part of this? Art, definitely. Inspiration, definitely."
He breathes out, as the sound of ragged footsteps draw nearer. They could keep fighting, but that hadn't done anything. Running hadn't helped either. Pulling down the archway would just be prolonging it all. What, then?
"... all of this, it isn't real. Not here, and not back home either. We can't protect what's already been destroyed. And we can't fight a battle that's already over."
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Then he quietly takes in the rest of his older self's musings, his shoulders slumping a little. "The Father, the Son, and the Daughter - the figures in the mural - according to Master Kenobi's...experiences. He said that they died during the Clone Wars." Although he shrugs, helplessly, to try to indicate even Obi-Wan has admitted he couldn't say what had been real or not, about that whole thing.
"We can't....preserve the past. Not in the sense of freezing it as it was. Or chasing ghosts." His gaze flicks up to meet the other Jedi's. "It's just us and Force."
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"We can't go back either."
That was what Palpatine had offered him, and he had refused it then and he would refuse it now even so.
The world around them begins to dissolve back into reality as zombies take the temple over. But it doesn't matter. The temple is gone, and they're together at the fair, two dollhouses in front of them.
"Ooookay. Sure."
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Then he huffs. "And yes, they usually have a similar sort of logic or...not as Jedi Trials."
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And yet he's already going through his dollhouse and holding the mini version of him. And it even has its own lightsaber! Too cute.
He looks back to his other self.
"Does this usually happen? Us, I mean. Should I be prepared to run into edgy dark side Ezra or?"
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He shakes himself out of the mini-fugue. "Um. Maybe? You're the first double of myself I've run into, although I know another guy - guys? - who are alternates of each other. But last year I lost of bunch of memories for a while, and people physically transforming into younger versions of themselves temporarily...uh. Happens. I got to meet Obi-Wan at, like, eight, once." He pauses. "Actually, I've met him at a lot of ages, at this point, but randomly eight for a few days was pretty jarring at the time."
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"Huh," he says, which seems like an appropriate response to all of this.
"It's kind of hard to imagine Master Kenobi ever being that young... wait, is he here?"
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"Uhhhh." He winces. "Obi-Wan Kenobi is here. 20 something. Technically still a padawan. Although he was moments after surviving his first encounter with Maul, and I know the Council Knighted him for that whole thing."
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This might as well happen! He can picture Obi-Wan as a 20-something only slightly easier than him as a child, but it's strange to think about the fact he's almost certainly older than him. What's next? Padawan Kanan?
"I'm still technically a padawan so I guess it works out. What's- why are you-?"
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"Why am I what?"
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"Jedi... robes."
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"I am a Jedi Knight living alongside other Jedi. In a community in which I want to openly present as a Jedi. Partly for...myself, as a way to embrace that part of my identity. But partly so - well, I hope - people know they can come to me for help."
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Yes, that's what he pulled from all of that. Let him consider the rest for a moment.
"Is there a Jedi Order here then? Are you building one?"
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"I dunno that automatically follows. And while I guess I could do a ceremony, I think you kinda have to decide if you're ready. I had, um. A little bit of a identity crisis and had to work through it. Wrote my own vows. Ones that weren't dependent on their being an Order. That was part of how I decided to deal with it."
He tilts his head thoughtfully. "There are right now...two Jedi Knights. A padawan. Someone about my age trying to decide what her path is, that I'm teaching a little. A ten year old Force Sensitive who may be need to decide what her path is, that I will help teach if needed. And you. That's a community. Not sure if that can be called an Order. Not sure that it isn't, either."
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Is Yoda even still alive in his timeline? Sabine didn't exactly share that sort of information with him.
"Still, I don't feel like a padawan either. I guess, whatever this community is, you could probably count me as one of the Jedi Knights too. If it is and isn't an order, makes sense to have someone who is and isn't knighted."
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"There's no one answer, I don't think. You can definitely feel you're ready when you're not. But if you're chill with the ambiguity, then - cool. Doesn't mean that has to be the perspective you stick to."
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He recites it with a smile, knowing that clearly, he's had some experiences.
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