May 2022 Test Drive Meme

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MAY 2022 TDM

INTRODUCTION

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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.

[ Prompt One ★ Prompt Two]

A PLACE IN THIS WORLD

Content Warnings: Possible insanity via cuts by thorns. Temporary nullification of abilities.

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?

ENCHANTED

Content Warnings: Optional selective amensia and/or altered sense of self, possible monster/creature violence, temporary enchantments, forced relocations.

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.

Comments

Out of the woods!

[villaintender]

I must say, I certainly wasn't expecting to see you here.

[ Kurogiri is well aware that he won't be getting a warm reception from Katsuki - but that doesn't seem to phase him at all, as he makes his presence known in the same polite manner as always.

He had considered taking this opportunity to kill the child, to get rid of a potential threat to Shigaraki Tomura's plans, but... ultimately, he decided against it. After all, Shigaraki might still judge him to be an important piece in the future, and Bakugou Katsuki, Kurogiri believes, is not so much of a threat that he needs to be eliminated. Not yet, at least.

But nonetheless - Kurogiri does not anticipate this being a particularly pleasant conversation. ]

It's been a while, Bakugou Katsuki.

[xploud]

[Oh, the facial journey Katsuki goes through for a brief moment there is wild - shock, confusion, discomfort, then settling for a restrained fury that causes his palms to smoke and crackle with small explosions that break through the cracks of his resolve. He wants nothing more than to light this fucker up, but it's the two first emotions that keep the latter two in check.

Kurogiri, the one with the warp quirk...he shouldn't be here. The pros had his captured months ago, didn't they? He was apprehended, captured, and locked up in the most secure prison known in Japan currently. There was no fucking way he could be here. That shitty Fox...what the hell is it, really? He assumed just some kind of weird sprit, a yokai if you will, but that seems like a little too little for what it's capable of.

Katsuki bares his teeth almost like an animal, but he hasn't attacked quite yet. But all of his muscles are coiled and tense, ready to spring at a second's notice. It actually has such an effect that the cats around him starts to disperse as well, slowly but very noticeably. They may not speak his language, but the boy's body cues alone speak volumes. If they want to remain safe, they need to clear out.]

Eat shit and choke.

[villaintender]

That's rather rude. I assure you, I have no intention of harming you right now, though I understand your... hostility.

[ Right now meaning that that might change in the future. ...But that aside, Kurogiri is surprised that Katsuki didn't attack him on sight, as much as he clearly wants to... perhaps the child has more self-control than Kurogiri first assumed? ]

I don't suppose you've seen any sign of Shigaraki Tomura? It is rather regrettable that I've found myself here alone...

[xploud]

[Yeah the 'right now' most certainly registers in Katsuki's head and his eyes narrow, fingers twitching as smoke starts to billow from his palms as he tries desperately to keep his temper in check. It's difficult as hell, because this piece of shit is an issue if he gets back in contact with the League. Taking him out and locking him up was a massive boon to the Hero team. Losing that edge against them, against All For One...

Katsuki clenches his jaw so tight is hurts, but then his face splits into a wild and terrible grin. Ohoho, so he's lost, huh? Of course, he just got out of fucking Tartarus, of course he doesn't know shit. Katsuki won't lie, but he won't be honest, either.]

Who fucking knows? Don't like to walk where shit gathers, if I can help it. Maybe he's belly-up in in a ditch somewhere... Been doing some extracurriculars myself, so I'm out of the loop. But you wouldn't know anything about that, haah?

[villaintender]

[ Kurogiri doesn't seem to be particularly bothered by Katsuki's provocations, though privately, he finds himself a little frustrated with how little he knows. He's not going to be any use to Shigaraki Tomura like this. But he quickly reminds himself that this is still a much better situation than being stuck in Tartarus, and there's likely to be something he can take advantage of... if he keeps control of the situation. ]

Indeed. That's why it's of the upmost importance that I return to him.

[ He pauses. Kurogiri... truth be told, has no idea how to hold a casual conversation with an enemy like Katsuki. The boy is so hostile that he doesn't know what to say next... ]

This place is quite something, is it not? If I were to guess, I'd say you're unable to return home as well. Aren't you?

[xploud]

[hmph...he isn't at all. What a pity. Katsuki would have loved to beat around this fucking smokeball for what happened in the past. He wants to know more, too, about how Kurogiri got out of Tartarus. There's a really itchy, sick feeling on his skin about that. If this lameass could, then what about--...

...Katsuki scowls hard at nothing for a moment, then looks up with a baffled and almost insulted expression on his face. Is he for real?! Making fucking small talk after all the shit the League has put him through?! Put everyone through. Taking out Kurogiri was the best thing to happen to them all, and there's no way in hell Katsuki is letting him slither back to Shigaraki.]

Haah? Those shitty portals of yours no good anymore? Guess there is a limit to them after all... [He snorts, smacking his palms on his knees as he stands up. He was getting tired of sitting anyway.] Tch!! N'here I was gonna knock your ass out and force you to take me back...fuck me, I guess.