folkooc | May 2022 Test Drive Meme

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May 2022 Test Drive Meme

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.

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DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

[ His eyes open slowly and kaneki looks around. Not a moment ago, he was but light falling from the sky, and although that all felt like a dream, it's something Kaneki wonders if it wasn't real. it can't be, right? But he isn't panicking, at least not yet, and after a couple of seconds looking around, finally the half-ghoul snaps out of it. His eyes go wide and he suddenly stands, breathing heavily and around at the flower field, he seems to realize there is someone he should find.

Who?
Hide? Touka-chan? ~~Mother...?~~

No, it doesn't matter, he needs to figure out what is going on, and immediately kaneki is on the move. The thorns hinder him and eventually they actually manage to cut skin, which is a big surprise to kaneki; as a half-ghoul, his skin would be too tough to be cut by normal means. So what even is that? The confusion doesn't end there, however, because that yearning is still there and kaneki still doesn't know who he is looking for.

Among the flowers, he notices someone and suddenly he rushes towards them, his hand managing to capture their wrist gently. Whoever it is, Kaneki stares, confused but relieved to finally see someone ]

OUT OF THE WOODS

[ Once he is finally out of that flower field, kaneki stares at all the festivities for a Long While. Mostly because he sees cat people and he now knows he is dreaming for sure. This is all probably just one crazy dream and he will eventually wake up. Hopefully?

After exploring for a little while - and refusing any food given to him because it's not the kind of food he'd eat (not because it was made by cats! Simply because kaneki can not consume anything like that, really) - kaneki finds himself being told by a friendly feline that he should pick a partner and dance.

he tries to refuse, naturally, since he is a wallflower and never really danced before, but the cat is insistent and eventually pushes Kaneki against the person closest to him and who also doesn't have someone to dance with. naturally this means the half-ghoul unharmoniously bumps against them and quickly gasps, bowing his head ] I'm sorry, I didn't mean to! [ the cat is gone, though, thus Kaneki can't even blame it for this ]

LONG STORY SHORT

[ Kaneki is now Kenderella!

Actually, it's Cinderella but he is wearing a dress and he can't argue, even if he did try - the Fox simply didn't care and vanished. So now he is in a house, on his knees, washing the floor with a big sigh and cheeks red because he is still wearing a dress. Does that mean he has to marry the Prince Charming? This all sounds very ridiculous and something he really doesn't feel like doing.

At some stage, he stops cleaning the floor to sit down besides a bucket of water and a dirty rag, and drops his head in his hands ] ... I just want to go home.

[ what is he even doing? Why? The Fox makes no sense to him, and this story? It also makes no sense. he is not a pretty girl with crystal shoes! ]

DAYLIGHT

[ Ether he manages to finish the story he was stuck on or not, it doesn't matter, because kaneki is still wearing the dress and he is so embarrassed about it. The trunks were a godsend (a fox send?) and he is ready to grab everything he needs to change.

However, something does come along. A leather and somewhat creepy mask, that Kaneki observes for a second. ]

... Hopefully I won't need it here. [ and hopefully no one will notice this kid, dressed like a princess, staring at a leather mask. because that sure would be embarrassing and very hard to explain ]

NETWORK ; un : samsa

How do we know if we are close to our full potential? What is our full potential?
Something like that sounds incredibly vague.

WILDCARD / OOC

[ Kaneki's general info/first impressions can be found here! And do you have anything else in mind? or maybe want kaneki somewhere else? These prompts don't work? Super cool if you make up your own! Or you can always contact me through PM or over vilani (feel free to add me)! ]

Edited 2022-05-06 19:50 (UTC)

(Hello, yes, Dirk Strider is here, and he's queer, and he's technically a Prince. Charming? Debatable. Hot? Absolutely. Completely willing to play along with whatever the actual fuck is going on? Maybe. There's some broad's glass shoe in his hand and he doesn't really even like girls so he's kind of just miffed about existing. He's a little more pissed about some existential void shit going on in his life, so he's floating over some wheat field that probably is supposed to be romantic to the atmosphere but he's just not vibing.

Wait. He should probably have some gorgeous steed? What the fuck. Princes in these stories always got beautiful horses? He wanted a horse. He has never even seen a horse in real life.)

This is fucking cheap. (He whips the glass shoe at the ground and it shatters. Take that, heteronormative nightmare hellscape--- aw fuck. Another one just pops into existence and plops back into his hand.)

Goddamn it. (He's going to make a fur coat outta that fox...Nah, he wouldn't, but he's thinking strongly about it by the time he comes across the house. Because he knows the story, he skips the entrance, cuts around back to where it looks dirtiest, and knocks ~~Aggressively~~ on the door.)

[ kaneki actually doesn't move from his spot when he hears the knock because supposedly he has two evil sisters and an evil step-mother who'd be the ones coming to the door and fan over the prince and the shoe.

But they never come. kaneki can hear them, for sure, but they actually don't come and he realizes he has to be the one to greet whoever is at the door. With a small resigned sigh, he gets up from his place and eventually opens the door to meet...

Prince Charming?

There is a long pause because prince charming has shades. Kaneki tilts his head for a second, wondering if this would be a NPC of sorts and perhaps he could just get away with trying the shoe and then skip everything else, but-

No, this is not a character at all, is it? This is another person just like him. And realizing the situation - that he is wearing a dress - kaneki's face turns bright red ] S-sorry! Uhm-- are you---?? [ "are you a normal person who got sucked into this as well"? But what is even "normal" at this stage? Kaneki has no idea how to ask things correctly ]

Prince Charming? [ nailed it ]

(There is an equally long pause on Dirk's end. Despite his shades covering his eyes, he's still somehow openly staring at this guy. And it is a guy. He might have one of those soft, pretty faces, but it's still distinctly Boy. Then he looks down, down...and slowly back up.

Okay, so. This isn't actually annoying as he anticipated. He raises a hand to rest it against the door frame and twirls the glass shoe gracefully around his finger.)

For you, baby, I can be as charming as you want me to be.

(Dirk. NO!.)

You must be Cinderella. (He hopes anyway. He's assuming by the shitty dress and figuring that he was thrust into the kitchen area as a servant or whatever. Dirk actually wasn't all that familiar with the details of the story. He just knew the basics, okay.)

[ oh my god.

This is ridiculous.

kaneki is red up to his ears, and for a second he drops his head because he realizes he just can't crawl away, dig a hole, and hide there forever. This is really happening and this person is staring at him ]

I... yes. [ but actually, no ] Kaneki, actually. Uhm-- did the Fox bring you here too? [ he wants to make sure he is not about to talk to some character without an actual existence, although Dirk certainly doesn't seem that way ]

Ken Kaneki / Tokyo Ghoul / Familiar

kenderella kardashian

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Death by a thousand cuts

gasp arima!

out of the woods

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daylight

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OUT OF THE WOODS

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network

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