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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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[ He cranes his neck back at the two they pinned to the ground. ]
These have weird limbs, for starters. The one Kikimora rides is more gnarly. And he just liked eating anything that moved.
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[ She doesn't sound critical, instead still curious. Toph may have a huge ego and a towering sense of self-confidence, but it's well-founded enough that she doesn't have a problem directing a conversation away from herself. Not to mention, she's specifically here to experience new things. ]
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[ He's been here a month and he still hasn't bothered to learn the name of the place. Despite definitely having been told a few times. ]
This place has weird stuff like this happen constantly. It's never anything that makes sense.
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You said this place looked like your castle, [ she points out. ] What's that about?
[ If there's any kind of accessible door, Toph is leading them unerringly toward it. And if there isn't, well, she can make one. ]
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[ He trudges after her as they head for some kind of portcullis area. ]
The general structure of "castle" is the same, but it's missing important things! Like the spike moat, for starters.
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[ That sounds pretty cool.
Toph marches up to a door set in the side of the portcullis. She pauses for just a moment to sense the metal in the handle and lock mechanism, and then reaches out and simply pulls the whole thing out of the threshold. ]
What should we be looking for up here?
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Hunter has to step back a pace as she literally PULLS THE DOOR OUT. This human might be a LITTLE terrifying actually. ]
I - uh - I'm not sure? More monsters, probably.
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Toph makes her way leading them up the tight spiral staircase revealed by the door, slowly ascending to the top of the wall. ]
Yeah, but what's the point? What are we doing here? Taking down those dragons was fun and all, but I'd like to go back to the real world now.
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[ And he would also like to go home, hopefully with some kind of reward. He trudges up with her and ...
As they go up, the walls are looking increasingly like those in the Emperor's Palace, at least on his side. Festooned with tapestries that dampen sound, gilded with gold-colored metal. Turns out Hunter's creative block is his uncle, even dead. ]
It's ... getting weirder.
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Don't tell me, those tapestries on the walls are a bunch of dead emperors, aren't they?
[ Toph is unimpressed but not uninterested, since it sounds relevant to Hunter's life. ]
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[ Though, the further in they go, the more of them seem to depict dead Golden Guards. That sight makes Hunter hesitate audibly - but he’d rather not open THAT can of worms today. ]
This place knows things about me.
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[ Toph slows her pace at that, listening more carefully as they make their way in. ]
What kinds of things? Any other weirdly personal artowrk?
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[ Rows and rows of them, with small variances in hairstyle or face structure, but generally the same face staring back at him. It creeps him out on a level he's not strictly comfortable with. ]
-- where's your weirdly personal artwork, huh?
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[ Sorry, was this not a can of worms you wanted to open? Toph has never met something she wasn't willing to poke at. ]
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They're the elite guardians of the emperor. I was the latest one before the emperor ... uh ...
[ Died on his watch? Yeah he's not going to say that out loud. ]
A-anyway, it's a long history!
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Uh-huh. How'd you go from being a guard to the emperor? I don't think that's what usually happens.
[ She's still leading them confidently through the corridors as they talk. ]
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His pace takes on a more shuffling sound as he reluctantly answers her. Shoulders hunched. ]
The emperor is my uncle. He didn't have anyone else to take over for him when he died.
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It's impossible for Toph to miss that change in posture, and her voice shifts to something more neutral and understanding. ] Something like that happened to a friend of mine. You couldn't get me to rule a country, but he's doing okay with it so far.
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R-really? Is he - uh - [ She already said he was doing okay with it, so he shouldn't ask how it's going. ] - how long has he been doing that?
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[ Toph smacks a closed fist into an open palm as if to punctuate what she'll do to Fire Nation rebels if she gets her hands on them. ]
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[ Totally different from what he's dealing with. Still ... that's a little hopeful, right? ]
Are you his bodyguard?
[ Since Hunter is still struggling with the concept of "friends" here. ]
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Me, bodyguard Zuko? No way! I'm his friend! Nobody gets to mess with Sparky but me.
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Wh - why are you messing with him if he's your friend?
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Toph stops short and punches him in the arm, not gently. ] It's how I show affection. Boy, do you need to get out more.