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

[defendure]

[ Look...Katsuki can try to kiss him again if he really wants, Izuku is just being a shy maiden about it, as you do. ]

I-I don't think it looks bad or anything, Kacchan...

[blondshell]

(He's contemplating it for logistics.

He whips his head down to gape at Izuku. His new ears flicker. He leans down to be eye-level with Izuku.)

Do you seriously think-- (There's probably some sort of threat coming but then there's a bit of a breeze and...

He's...

Really distracted almost immediately. His nose wiggles a bit as he sniffs at the air. It's an entirely new world. He can smell the nearby plant life, the wood from the trunks, the slight musk of Izuku's sweat, whatever Izuku used to wash his clothes with, his hair, and something else that was -- sweet. He sniffs some more, tipping his head up. His ears are fully perked and his tail stands out a bit in intrigue.

Don't mind him. He's just unlocking his canine qualities now.)

[defendure]

Um...Kacchan? [ No, he is minding Katsuki, mostly because he doesn't know what's happening or what's going on. Izuku gives him a puzzled look, shifting his weight to his other foot. His own "changes" are more subtle and will be a bit slower...though the fangs are there, he just hasn't totally noticed them. They'll get sharper at certain points than others...Katsuki can learn that later. ]

[blondshell]

Huh? (He finally stops sniffing around when Izuku calls his name. Only it doesn't last too long because...mm...hm? Hm???

He's in Izuku's personal space again, just. Sniffing a bit too close to Izuku's face but like, hold on. What's that spicy- oh shit. That's him. He can smell himself on Izuku.

Wow. Okay. He snaps back out of Izuku's space. That sure is a new thing that he's not going to think about forever at all.)

I can smell things differently now.

[defendure]

[ Izuku leans back a little, more in shock than not wanting Katsuki there? He's just. What's going on. Katsuki usually doesn't get up in his face in a non-violent way, what does he do with this! ]

W-what do you mean...?

[blondshell]

What do you think I fucking mean?! I mean, I smell things differently!

(He's not even angry?? Why's he gotta be so dramatic and loud. Okay, he takes a deep breath. Mostly to smell everything again.)

I can smell everything around us. I can smell everything on you. Like your stupid body wash and whatever crappy, cheap detergent you use for your clothes and even - (He points to Izuku's mouth.) Where I was.

[defendure]

[ Izuku claps his hand over his mouth like an idiot. Also, excuse you, he uses the same brand of detergent his mom always got!! It's one of those rain-scented ones. Clean air. ]

[blondshell]

(It's a very nice smell. It's just, you know, Katsuki is an asshole.

He's turning around and promptly squatting down to dig through his trunk.)

I better not have a dog dick now. (Katsuki you don't need to say that out loud.)

[defendure]

I'm not checking that for you!

[ But look if he has a knot would that be the worst thing? ]

[blondshell]

Who the hell said I wanted you to?!

(He's gonna murder you for even implying that?!

But also no, not at all.)

[defendure]

[ Also: next time Katsuki bites him HE'S BITING BACK...but right now Izuku is just flustered, all over the place. ]

I-I I don't know, you were just -

[blondshell]

(That will likely be sooner than later.)

JUST WHAT?!

[defendure]

Y-you were the one trying to get me to kiss you earlier!

[ At least they can say the word now. ]

[blondshell]

(Oh....


Wow. So Izuku wants to die today. Katsuki's head sloooowly turns around and the look he's giving Izuku is downright murderous.)

I'll give you one chance to take that back. If you don't, I'm not responsible for how I murder you.

[defendure]

[ Oh so suddenly he's in a horror-genre game? I see how it is. ]

I-I'm not wrong!! [ BRING ON THE DEATH PENALTY. ]

i had to go upload this icon specifically for this scene

[blondshell]

(Okay. That's how it's gonna be. Katsuki walks over to Izuku and promptly just...picks him up. Under the arms. Just holds him in the air because now he really is relishing in how much bigger he is.)

What are your last words?

it's a fantastic one

[defendure]

[ Oh my god Kacchan. His last words are slapping his hands on Katsuki's arms for leverage and sort of swinging back to kick forward and slam Katsuki in the chest with his feet? Like a bunny rabbit. ]

[blondshell]

OI?! (That does the trick in getting Katsuki to let go of him. But now he's pissed.)

You little shit! (And his hands start to pop off small explosions.)

[defendure]

[ Well, Izuku drops to his feet neatly. Ha! ]

You're the one who started it!! [ >[ ]

[blondshell]

Don't go around saying weird shit! I only wanted to kiss you to see if I'd get rid of this fucking tail!

(DON'T OVERTHINK IT, DEKU!!!)

[defendure]

W-well we're already out of the fairy tale!

[ ...He thinks. ]

[blondshell]

You don't know that! If we really are, then what the fuck's going on with my body?!

[defendure]

M-maybe it's just part of this place? [ Look he's just nervous about kissing HUMAN KACCHAN. On PURPOSE. ]

[blondshell]

Yeah, and if we kissed, we could figure out if it had any impact on me or not! It did before! Shitty nerd. Fucking figuring I'd ask you to look at my dick...You pervert.

(As if Izuku hasn't seen his dick before in the baths but whatever.)

[defendure]

W-well I never thought you'd ask me to kiss you either! [ Okay now how do they stop saying the word... ]