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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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"Hey! Beat it Foxy! The only one allowed to bite my man is me!" She says and shoos away the fox with a quick flick of gravity powers, it scampers away but not before growling at Wade one last time.
"You okay, sweetheart?" She asks as she helps him stand.
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He's standing, but it's very shaky and disturbingly crunchy as broken bones that have yet to knit together are grinding against one another. It's okay though, he's been through this before. Well, the healing part - not the acid trip part. Still, even the acid trip barely phases him because it's just a new layer of insanity.
"I think I prefer the breaks from reality that involve less children's book scenery. This kind of break puts me in a place where I don't feel like I belong..."
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Roxy glances around to see some of the townsfolk cats looking at them curiously but other than that they are leaving them to their business.
"Sorry you had such a rough landing, babe." She says, grimacing a little as Deadpool's body makes all sorts of crickles and and cracks as it heals itself. "I tried hanging onto you as best I could but that last bump was a doozy."
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He looks around again. The scenery still appears to be the same. This place is so weird. But then, it wasn't much weirder than where they'd come from. After all, creepy clowns and black friday zombies were pretty fucked up. Now, if there was a creepy cat clown...
"You tried to hang on? You knew I was following?" He looks surprised, though he shouldn't be. "I think it was a rough landing because I'm not supposed to be here. I wasn't invited by a mystical fox. I'm a party crasher." He pauses and wibbles a little. "I just had to know you stayed alive, that you didn't go back to where you died. And you are. You're alive."
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And she could also hear him, both of them yelling out in surprise as they were shuttled from one strange place to another.
"How are you feeling? Still need a moment to get everything in working order?" She asks, still holding onto him so he won't wibble and wobble and fall over.
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Wade looks down at his hand in hers. "You aren't dead," he reiterates, as if to himself, "You get to keep living. I was...I was really worried. You deserve to live a long time."
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It might be gross to anyone watching them, this means you chunky little exotic shorthair cat, seeing how Wade's body is still slowly regenerating and making some pretty icky noises as it does so but Roxy doesn't care and she leans in and kisses him firmly on the lips.
"I'd offer to kiss your whole body better but it's still kind of doing it's thing, so maybe let's do that later."
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And ground him in the moment she does as she kisses him. If his arms worked, he'd wrap them around her. Behind her, that exotic shorthair either vomits or just has a particularly gnarly hairball that chooses that exact moment to express itself. Or both. Honestly, cats are little vomit machines anyway, so Deadpool doesn't really take it personally. People think cats are graceful and poised and shit, but if you ever live with one you know that's not true at all. Really, they're lucky this one isn't licking its butt...oh wait there it goes. Guess the vomit needs a chaser.
"I will take that rain check. And for the record, my body always needs to be kissed better. Also and PS, if I end up joining this community, I promise I'll re-up my subscription to get more icons again. I know you must be getting tired of seeing this side of me."
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"I haven't had much time to wander around but there's some pretty spots over this way so how about I float you over and we can sit on the grass and you can relax?"
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Also, it was great having a girlfriend who could levitate you when your body was broken all over. That part was super helpful for him getting around at the moment. Walking was not a fun time when things were still healing.
"Yes please. I know you can't stay, but a happy ending that involves a happy ending during an pastoral picnic is...well, it's better than anything I've ever had before. It's the best. You're the best."
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"You're the best too you know." She says, glancing at him with a warm smile. "I've never had a boyfriend before who would so willingly dive into danger for me before."
She pauses and then turns on her side so she can look at his face, "Wade....how many girlfriends have you had?"
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He thinks for a moment at her question. "Well, I remember all versions of myself all the time so...a whole lot. I've even been married a few times. But nothing ever lasted very long and most ended very badly."
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"You were married? That's kind of wild....Can you remember if the weddings were really fun? Did you have them somewhere cool like Disney world or something?"
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Wade glances at her with a smirk. "And this other time, I married a Space Hippo. No ceremony there. That only lasted like a day or two."
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Roxy's eyebrows go up at the mention of the space hippo, "A space....Hippo. Huhn. Okay, that's not an answer I was expecting. I can't really beat that, all my ex-boyfriends have been human and assholes. Oooh although I had one decent guy who I dated in New York, he was a doctor. But....he got freaked out by my powers and broke up with me which was fine because he was kind of on the serious side and who needs that?"
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Wade's head tilts at that last one she mentioned. "Uh your are incredible how could he get freaked out? I mean. Weightless sex in the sky. AND. You can basically make your boobs perky all the time if you want. Zero gravity boobs. What's not to like? That guy was stupid."
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"You really love my zero gravity boobs huhn? And all our fun zero gravity sex?"
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He grins. "You know it. Honestly, I'm not sure why anyone with superpowers doesn't use those powers for sex instead of fighting. Sex is more fun! I mean, look at us, we can go all zero gravity AND I can last forever and ever. How is that not way better than getting ripped in half by the Juggernaut?"
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"And I guess some people don't use their powers for sex because it could get dangerous? Like if you teleported or something? That could get awkward. Or what if your power was to spit acid or some shit?"
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Hey, nothing wrong with a little magic dick syndrome, right? Right?
"Ooooh...yeah, I can't think of a good sexual use of acid spit. Unless..." He ponders. "Well, okay, so some mutants get really good at mastering their ability, right? Like, micromanaging good. And a lot of poisonous things are also used as medicines, or drugs, or whatever. So like, what if you could control the type of acid and the dosage until it became a sexual stimulant? AHA! I have solved your riddle. Viagra spit for the win."
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So of course she finds this statement extra sweet and she hugs Wade tightly.
"Huhn okay yeah, I guess if you were that good at your powers then it could be a thing." She says and then looks thoughtful, "My old mentor always used to get mad at me because I didn't work extra hard like that to understand my powers. He was always like 'but Roxy, gravity is one of the most powerful things on earth and blah blah blah.' I guess he was trying to motivate me but all it did was make me feel stupid."
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"Eh, sometimes it's hard work, but sometimes it's just time. Way I understand it, most mutants just kinda happen into their extra crazy super level two and three mutation powers randomly, like 'oh dang, I can do that!!'. And sometimes it's just different contexts. Like, hey, you might suddenly discover a new way of thinking about your powers just because we're using them so much during sex. You might be in a fight some day and have some Eureka moment like, whoa, if I can use gravity to manipulate blood flow to make my man harder, I can do the same thing to make this guy just pass out!"
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"I think people learn in different ways, so like, if anyone had ever told me that I could use my powers to manipulate blood flow to make guys last longer in bed you better believe I would have studied harder with my powers."
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Deadpool grins and gives her a little squeeze. "Stick with me, Foxy Roxy, and you'll be a master of your powers in no time without even realizing it. You'll also be the most well sexed woman on the planet."
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