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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 supposes it is.
But at the question, kaneki frowns for a moment there before he tries to smile ]
Well, the fox said something about us reaching our potential. That means there is a point to all of it, right?
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It sounds like a lot of effort. Doing things. Bettering yourself. Noooo. Noo. That's the opposite of what he's been doing for the past four years. He's just been letting his negative thoughts consume him, and, right now, he was at a fork in the road as far as where.. his life may drastically go.
Sunny makes a strangled noise. ]
..
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[ He's accepted there's no potential for him. Not after what he's done. ]
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And then closes again.
I'm sorry, what ]
P-pass? What do you mean? [ CAN YOU EVEN JUST. PASS??? ]
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[ SO HE THINKS HE CAN JUST… NOT DO IT. ]
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... Life always takes effort, though.
Not just this place, but generally, it's not something you can say no to.
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Is that a challenge?
[ BITCH, JUST WATCH HIM. ]
I bet I can do nothing more than you can.
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In order to grow and to live better, one has to put effort into it. Happiness has to be built, not just because you won't know what it is unless you look for it, but also because you have to built it yourself.
1/2
...
... ...
...
... ... ]
2/2
[ THIS GUY... ]
Sounds too hard.
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cw: suicide, death, self-harm, intrusive thoughts
After that, his father left. His mother became distant even if she made it sound like she was always there. He didn't know how much his friends had changed until spending just one day with Kel, but they all had changed too. Mari was the puzzle piece of their friend group and the person Sunny relied on the most.
Was it.. his fault, somehow? Those thoughts hit too close to the truth, so Omori did his best to distract Sunny from revealing that for his own safety. Go on adventures instead. Hang out with your colorful friends! Run away and escape. Be happy here and waste away into nothing there.
Of course it's not your fault. Things like this happen.
Everything is going to be okay.
But something wasn't right. Sunny knew he was running from the real truth and with only a few days left to resolve things, it had put a lot of stress on his mind to where he was seeing things more frequently. Hearing things. Feeling unrest and lonely. The steak knife in his dreams matched the ones on his kitchen counter. It was starting to look shinier and shinier. The more he handled it in his mind-- the more he abused himself with it in his mind-- the more tempting it was to practice those things in reality. It sometimes seemed like a good idea.
Was he happy? In his headspace, yes. That's why he craved to do nothing in reality. It was only in his headspace where he felt happiness.. so.. would it be lying if he said yes?
His expression is vacant, big, hollow yes nodding a few times in response. ]
Yes.
I'm happy.
[ Did Kaneki need to know he meant just in his mind and not in reality? A small detail he conveniently left out. ]
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It's very easy to just say "I'm happy" and believe in it and keep going like that, isn't it? So perhaps Kaneki is familiar with that sentiment because he does it far too often. Not because he has someone inside his head who tries to make his headspace a good fun place - Sunny, what the hell - but because he himself tries to pretend things aren't as bad as they really are and hopes it works better that way.
Sometimes it does.
Sometimes it doesn't.
Happiness can be difficult.
Kaneki smiles softly, offering his hand to Sunny again. He will squeeze the boy's hand gently and nods after ]
Well. I hope you can be happy in this place too. Even if you have to do things that feel like they are a bit hard. Because sometimes, things that are a bit difficult end up being fun anyway.
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[ He disagrees with that statement and takes Kaneki's hand. He's not that much younger than Kaneki, but being reclusive for four years has made him still have mannerisms of a 12 year old. He's always been tactile with people who mattered to him; it was a struggle being tactile with near strangers, but he was a little nervous. ]
You don't have to help me in any way.
[ He always felt like a burden. ]
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He nods softly ] I know.
But I would like to. [ only if Sunny is alright with that, of course ]