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May 2022 Test Drive Meme
MAY 2022 TDM
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Folkmore's monthly 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. You can choose to have your TDM thread be your introduction thread upon acceptance or start fresh. Each TDM will provide a scenario for how characters arrive in-game that particular month.
Playing 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.
Current players are allowed to have in-game characters react to TDMs via the Network or make a log with the prompts. Current players are always encouraged to tag new people on the TDM!
TDM threads can be used for spoon spending at any time by characters accepted into the game.
Content Warnings: Possible insanity via cuts by thorns. Temporary nullification of abilities.
DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS
OUT OF THE WOODS
DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS
The world comes into focus in one sharp, overwhelming rush. You are laying on the ground surrounded by staggering walls of flowers of all types and colors. Their sweet scent fills the air and the sky above is clear, blue, beautiful, and endless. It would be easy to be lulled into a quiet nap in such a peaceful place. You can even hear a soft, disembodied voice singing songs from some unknown place all around you. After some time, this siren song creates an intense yearning that will eventually bring you to your feet and pull you forward. You are filled with the urge to find someone important. You may know who or you might just have some aimless, faceless person at the forefront of your mind.
All you know is that when you finally find them, you'll know. Is it love? Is it a friend you have always needed? The perfect enemy? Only time will tell, but for now, you must find them. The flower maze is dense and for now, it doesn't seem like flying out and above them is an option. If you try, you just wind up vaulted back into the maze. Nope! This trial is about using other means of exploration. Maybe you can destroy the flowers, but you will find that this flower field is apparently endless. If you get cut by thorns along the way, you will become increasingly hectic about finding this mystery person. Some have been thrown into insane desperation just looking for their People among the flowers.
But once you finally find them, you're both filled with relief and the flowers around you blossom wider. You can then treat the flower maze like a solvable puzzle and get your way out of it. However, some people spend a bit more time in the maze since once you do find your person or people, you will be stricken with the urge to talk to them, to "open up" about your yearning to find them...even if you've never met them before!
OUT OF THE WOODS
Just outside of the flower maze is a little festival set up just on the edge of Willow and partway into Epiphany! Little stalls of food and drinks have been set up - and we mean little! The good folk who set up these stalls are magical cats standing upright and wearing clothes like little people! All the stalls are cat-sized and so are the dishes and food - which means most of the people walking through will likely be quite a bit bigger! That's okay, the cat folk seem happy to serve you bigger or multiple helpings of their yummy soups and bread. None of them seem able to really communicate with the new arrivals, but that's okay, their cute meows are fun to listen to anyway.
The music is a bit more pronounced here and a handful of cat couples are dancing around. Don't be surprised if they encourage you to join in the dancing! Maybe you didn't actually find someone in the flower maze - if not, the cat folk will encourage you to dance with another new arrival to get to know them! Because apparently dancing with someone you don't know is a good formal introduction? Ah well. Sometimes it's just the idea that counts.
There will also be some supplies to help patch people up who have gotten a lot of cuts from the flower maze. Some of the bouts of insanity are probably still going a bit hectic, so you might want to lay down in the recovery area until you feel a bit more stable. Talking to people apparently helps with the stability, so maybe strike up a conversation with a fellow newbie?
Content Warnings: Optional selective amensia and/or altered sense of self, possible monster/creature violence, temporary enchantments, forced relocations.
LONG STORY SHORT
DAYLIGHT
LONG STORY SHORT
You're in a very unusual, specific outfit and in a place you might have seen once or twice in a storybook or in the imagination of your childhood. For some, you might pick up on what's happening immediately. For others, you might be so immersed in the role that you don't realize it - but you're featuring in a classic fairy tale. Maybe it's Sleeping Beauty or Little Red Riding Hood or Tale of the White Snake or The Mirror of Matsuyama. Either way, you're the main character or the main antagonist and it looks like you're going to have to play out the story with whoever you're stuck with!
The other person in the trial can either match up to the other side of the story or just arrive as themselves and have to play along. Trying to just abandon the trial is quite literally impossible! You're stuck in the weird woods or high tower and trying to "leave" just results in you going in repeated cycles until you wind up where you started. You have a role to fill and you might as well get used to playing roles in Folkmore! It's time to understand how these trials work. What lesson are you supposed to take away?
If you're grumbling about it or are left confused, don't worry! Thirteen will appear to those struggling and explain the situation: "You need to play out the story! C'mon. Everyone knows this story...Right? Well, whatever, it's obvious! If you play your part, I promise I'll give you something you want." Can you really trust a fox though? Especially the fox who brought you here? She laughs before you can really pester her for more information and vanishes in a burst of red dust. Foxes really are mischievous, aren't they...At least most fairy tales are incredibly short, basic, and straightforward so most people should be able to figure it out!
In theory.
DAYLIGHT
At least the Fox wasn't lying. When you complete the task of the story, the fairy tale world will melt into one of the settings in Folkmore and you will be brought back into the current reality. You will be left in the weird clothes, but fear not! A mystery trunk has appeared in front of you and whoever you completed the trial with. Inside the trunk, you will find some of your canon clothes and a few canon items. Nearby, there will be some weapons sticking out of the ground: basic swords, guns, shields, etc. These items might not be enchanted, but at least you have something to work with!
Better yet, you don't necessarily have to complete the Long Story Short prompt to find these trunks either! They seem to be dotted around Folkmore and you might find them just by virtue of exploration! The trunks seem to mysteriously know who is opening them so you won't find someone else's stuff by accident, but you might have to fight over who gets the sword in the stone...
A word of caution to those who grab the weapons...You will immediately be tested on how good you are with them. As soon as you have pulled them out of the ground, the ground will begin trembling and a serpent-like creature will form out of the ground. If you're in Wintermute, you have a sizeable icy creature to deal with. If you're in Cruel Summer, meet the fire-breathing snakey nightmare that's going to try and roast you alive. Don't think Epiphany or Willow will have gentler creatures! They might be covered in moss or flowers but they will hit just as hard. You have to defeat the angry creature - or try running for your life. They are relatively easy to beat and people without powers can manage if they are highly skilled or...really lucky...Or if someone far more capable finds them! Good luck. As a pro-tip, maybe don't pull weird swords out of the ground in the future.
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[ He's more familiar with the Cinderella story from the movie than from hearing the story growing up. It wasn't a story that was told in the Forgotten Realms.
Henry gets down on one knee and starts opening up the mouth of the shoe, preparing to slip it over the boy's foot. ]
I used to put my beautiful boys' shoes on all the time when they were little! You can just hold onto my shoulder if you feel unsteady. I'm Henry Oak, by the way, I don't know if I introduced myself.
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I'm Izuku Midoriya! [ Henry is...not a Japanese name, so he flips the script accordingly. ] Um, and yeah, it is! I haven't seen it in ages, but that sounds like a good ending, doesn't it?
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[ He sure is meeting a lot of Japanese teenagers today... Henry is starting to wish he'd paid more attention when Glenn would speak Japanese to Odyssey-san. Though, they all seem to be able to understand each other well enough here. Maybe there's some kind of magical translation spell going on.
Pretty soon, Henry gets the sneaker slipped on and tied up, laces tied in a double knot so it won't slip off again. ]
There you go, all set! [ He sits back on his heels, looking around like he expects something to happen now that they've followed the script. ]
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Luckily those trunks nearby might fix that... ]
This is so weird... [ Even for someone used to Quirks. ]
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Hm... I guess we get to keep the outfits?
[ It's not exactly Henry's usual sense of style, but he isn't about to waste a perfectly good jacket and pair of pants. Putting the "reuse" into Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
Still, he's a little curious as to what might be in those trunks. He pushes himself to his feet with a quiet grunt and walks over, peering at one of them without touching it, lest he set off some kind of hidden trap. You never know when what looks like a trunk is going to actually be a mimic and bite your hand off! ]
Well, what do we have here?
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[ Izuku, unfamiliar with chest mimics, will go to open one of them. It comes open at his touch, and he peers inside... ]
Uh, looks like our luggage! Or mine, anyway.
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Oh no, wait—!
[ Nothing happens. It's fine. Henry breathes a sigh of relief. ]
Ah, I guess they're just normal chests...
[ He opens his, and retrieves the items inside. It's nothing much to look at. A fanny pack and a television remote control. Which Henry carefully stashes inside the fanny pack, before fastening it around his waist. ]
What've you got in there, anything good?
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[ So. Clothes. He appreciates the effort, magical trunk. ]
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[ Henry's assuming it's from some kind of Halloween party or— what was it the kids called it, when they dress up as their favorite characters and go to conventions? Oh, that's right. Cosplay! ]
What hero are you dressing up as, one of those X-Men?
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[ He holds up his costume for Henry to see. You know what it looks like so I'm not gonna link a picture. ]
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Henry smiles, thinking the green bunny suit is kind of cute. ]
Oh, so it's your original character! That's great! What's "Deku" does that mean something in Japanese?
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Haha...it actually means something like a "useless person", but, it has this "can do anything" sound if you think of another phrase. It's just something that has a lot of meaning to me personally!
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[ He's not sure how common it is for teenagers to dress up as their own made up superhero characters, but he thinks it's a neat idea. ]
What kind of superpowers does "Deku" have?
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[ Versatile stuff, he doesn't mention all of them. ]
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[ Henry definitely hasn't cottoned onto the fact that Deku is literally Izuku being a superhero and not playing pretend, nor the fact that they might have different definitions of the word "quirk." ]
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Oh, um, thank you! It's really just one Quirk, but it has...components.
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Components, eh? So this Deku is sort of like a swiss army knife superhero who can help in all sorts of situations! Like a jack-of-all-trades.
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[ Why is Henry talking about it like Deku isn't him... ]
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[ Completely blazing right through any hesitation or confusion on Izuku's end, YUP!! ]
What kind of places do you wear your Deku costume? Like, do you go to conventions? I think I heard about that as a place people wear hero costumes.
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[ ...Though he does attend conventions, he usually doesn't wear his hero gear for that. ]
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What, uh... What kind of training does Deku do?
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[ Is this poor young man the victim of bullying? Because Henry's pretty sure if any of his son's classmates started wearing their superhero cosplay to school, there would be a PTA meeting about it. Or rather, about the resulting bullying.
But then the rest of what Izuku says catches up with Henry. ]
Hang on... Did you say your friend tries to blow you up?!?
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[ Izuku WAS a victim of bullying but it sure wasn't for what Henry is picturing here. ]
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[ Excuse him while he starts freaking out. ]
Are you okay?? Is your friend okay?!?
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