( TDM | #6 )

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TDMs can be used for anyone interested in the game and/or testing out a new muse.

Test Drive samples are encouraged to be used for your application sample, though they are NOT a requirement.

Feel free to use one prompt, multiple prompts or make up your own!

These threads can be considered game canon upon game opening if you so choose.

Telepathy and magic can be used at any point in time on the TDM, from Prompt A to your wildcard prompt. A specific prompt exists, however, that makes sure all characters have an equal chance to use this mechanic within the TDM. You're encouraged to have characters use telepathy and their magic accidentally or even purposefully on any TDM prompt.

If you aren't set on your character's power yet or want to try out a few, you're still able to use the test drive. Maybe your character is a late bloomer and hasn't fully unlocked their intuitive drive yet. In the case of multiple powers, only prompts that contain the power you choose for your application will count as potential game canon threads.

While only one character can be apped or reserved during a cycle, feel free to post with more than one character if you like! This is for those who are uncertain of their first choice or who would like to try out different characters within the setting.

IMPORTANT: This world is low-frequency. No canon powers or abilities are allowed! Also check out the setting information for more info about what the hub island looks like and what can be found there.

ou blink and that's all it takes. At first, the picture doesn't come in clear, like you're waiting for a screen to fully load -- more aptly, it's like you're waiting for a camera to focus so you can find image clarity. Before you happened to rapidly close your eyes and open them, your life was normal...well, normal for you, anyway. Fighting an alien, making a quesadilla, dying. And then that blurry picture suddenly takes over. There's a lot to take in here -- you feel weird, your surroundings are weird. Everything is just weird. For starters, there's that new piece of jewelery inserted in the space above your chest. That certainly wasn't there before you opened your eyes. A ▢ THus hub island is getting pretty chilly, which means the forest that contains the large, dinner-plate sized spiders is very still and quiet. No spiders are out and about to jump your characters -- but they are underground, lying in wait. Sometimes the best way for characters to get accustomed to their magic is to trigger their fight or flight response. One wrong step in the forest and they'll find their foot through a spider's brushy trapdoor or putting a little too much pressure on it for their liking. Are you ready to see what your character is made of? B ▢ The recent surge of rain has caused a few marshy areas, be it in the forest or a hilly landscape. Some swampy ground is more aggravating than treacherous, but the opposite is also true. Your character is strolling along, trying to find their way and all of a sudden SCHLUMP! Their leg is sunk into the ground up to their nether regions. Struggle, and the rest of them might fall in too...! C ▢ While your character is trying to figure out where the fuck they are, they may come across something scuttling about through the forest. Don't panic -- it's simply a scanner pod doing its due diligence and scouting for resources...oh! And it just happened upon something interesting: your character! This scanner robot is curious to investigate and record your data. Is your character going to trust them to do their job, or will they be suspicious of this looming machine?

Here's the part where they finally locate something of use: the base camp. The murky, weathered location is a little distressed, and resource gathering is making coven members sparse. However, that doesn't mean helpful answers aren't only a step away. D ▢ One thing of note is that as they get closer to the base camp, characters will feel more and more of that strong, telepathic surge. Qri's caravan is sitting in the middle of the open area, which may explain the stronger magical signals. Traveling closer to this object, in particular, will cause that unfamiliar pang of intuition to feel that much stronger -- which also explains why their own thoughts are being broadcast recklessly to everyone else on the island. E ▢ Speaking of Qri's caravan, the floating "vehicle" currently has its trap door, hammerspace portal open. It's quite large and inviting, honestly. Want to get closer to Qri? Or maybe just take shelter from the few sprinkles that are still falling from the sky? Crawl on in! Just be warned: the door will close right behind your character, and that thing gets claustrophobic after a while. F ▢ Finally, since Brie is aware that a new world is approaching, she's gotten a little more weapon-obsessed. There are an assortment of weapons just laying all over the place, from swords to spears, from slingshots to...god, what even is that thing your character has never seen before. Whether they're curious about something and like to touch things that don't belong to them or Brie is trying to outfit them with a weapon that works for them, your character is now weaponized. What do??? G ▢ Wildcard prompt. Go nuts and utilize your own creativity within the setting. This can mean striking out on your own or utilizing a certain location in a different way. The world is your oyster!

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[tepidity]

[ nisaka's expression only flattens. the faint tension in his shoulders doesn't go away. ]

You realize how incredibly creepy that sounds, right?

[ maybe he should be a little more concerned, tbh. but there's so many weird things happening, he feels like he barely has a chance to process it all. ]

If this thing's what you're interested in, feel free to take it off my hands. [ now it's his turn to gesture towards the pod, which continues to hover silently over his shoulder. ] It's done nothing but follow me around all day. Maybe it'll have more fun with you.

[cloak]

[Apparently someone here has never been on a stealth mission before. Not that Roxas himself has, not in the strictest sense of things, but he remembers such missions as though they were his own.

Such is the way of having all of his original's memories]

If it's following you around, there must be a reason for it.

[Apocalypse followed Add around to help and look after him, so maybe this thing, whatever it is, is the same way. It makes enough sense to him at least]

Hasn't been hostile, so maybe it's supposed to help.

[tepidity]

[ the fact that roxas would refer to it as a mission in the first place is creepy enough, okay... what's your deal, buddy. ]

Help with what? [ there is a touch of impatience in nisaka's otherwise blank tone. ] Isn't that what the powers we were given are for?

[cloak]

[And those missions were generally about harvesting hearts, but fortunately Roxas isn't about to recount his original's early exploits]

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't depend on something like that.

[Not after a year in Monad, where his own powers didn't work the way they ought to have. This is far from the first time he's wound up in a strange world with his code modified, but that doesn't mean he trusts the situation any further than he can throw it]

There's no way to be sure about how reliable it is.

[tepidity]

[ there is a careless way to nisaka's shrug when he responds, hands coming up to slip into his pants pocket. ]

I wasn't really planning on it, [ he admits. nisaka and trust do not often go hand-in-hand as it is... ] I just didn't see the reason for there to be two contingencies.

[ he tips his head towards the pod again. ]

Honestly? This thing seems more like a pervert's toy than a helping hand.

[cloak]

[Roxas spares the pod another glance, a slight tip of his head once more choreographed by his hood]

A what...?

[The puzzlement is plain even in his flat tone. The longer he looks at it, the less sense he can make of what was just said. But then for all the brutality of his short existence, he'd be hard-pressed to know what perverted even looks like.

He lifts a hand and waits, and when the pod drifts closer, he pats the top of its casing, which seems to go over well. Apocalypse liked things like this too so it makes enough sense to him]

Doesn't seem that way to me.

[tepidity]

[ ah, the pod has shifted its focus. nisaka takes the opportunity to half-step away, though he doesn't fully leave the conversation just yet... he's not that rude. ]

Lucky you.

[ don't trust cute, unsuspecting things that just follow you around with no explanation, roxas. perverted people can get pretty creative.

in any case— ]

Well, it seems to be more interested in you now. If you don't mind it, have fun. Though I wouldn't change in front of it, just in case.

[ he'll lift a hand in a wave then, turning fully to mosey on his face...




except the wave just draws the pod's attention again, drifting over towards him curiously.

he scowls a little. ]

Now you're just being petty... [ why yes, he's talking to the pod now. ]

[cloak]

Change?

[Another puzzling thing to echo dubiously. He can't really alter his data now, he's rather sure, what with being rendered tangible again. Or had his state simply persisted since the last world he'd found himself in?

Well, no matter]

Maybe it just wanted your attention all along.

[Seems legitimate enough to him]

[tepidity]

[ nisaka's expression smooths out, though it doesn't necessarily soften. ]

Can't imagine why. I'm not exactly thrilling company.

[ spoken in a very matter-of-fact sort of tone than self-deprecating. ]

[cloak]

[Roxas weighs the thought for a moment]

Depends on who you ask, doesn't it?

[He doesn't consider himself engaging, either, but there were those who had disagreed]

[tepidity]

[ nisaka's eyes slide back towards the cloaked figure, a single brow arching. ]

What if I ask you?

[ putting people in an awkward position like this is how you make friends, right. ]

[cloak]

[This isn't so awkward. Not that Roxas can pick up on that sort of thing too well.

He folds his arms, mulling it over]

You don't seem boring to me.

[A fine pronouncement]

[tepidity]

[ there is a moment of silence on nisaka's end, then he leans back with a faint smirk. ]

You don't seem like the type to lie, so thanks.

[ nisaka isn't really sure how he can tell, considering the guy is entirely shrouded, but... there it is. ]

[cloak]

[He's not wrong there]

There'd be no point to lying about it.

[Roxas doesn't mince words.

At the same time he can be terribly cryptic when he wants to be. Great communicator, this one]

So I guess that thing agrees.

[tepidity]

[ well, nisaka can appreciate that kind of brutal honesty. he subscribes to it himself, perhaps most often to himself. ]

I guess you both have pretty low standards, then.

[ heh heh... he's smiling, which obviously means he's just teasing okay. ]

[cloak]

[Is it humor or is he serious? Roxas debates with himself on this point.

Wry humor is certainly something he's inclined toward, but...]

Weird way to talk about yourself, isn't it?

[Says the guy who calls himself a thing, but he's data]

[tepidity]

Is it?

[ he doesn't sound overly concerned about it, lifting another shoulder in an idle shrug. ]

I'm just being honest.

[cloak]

I guess how I see myself is something people have disagreed with too.

[And so he can only shrug in turn]

But there are people I wouldn't deal with.

[Just for the record]

[tepidity]

Good to know.

[ up in the air how long that lasts with him...

anyway, he's kind of lingering, that pod still hovering just over his shoulder. it seems to be watching the both of them now. ]

Can I ask you something?

[cloak]

[There comes, once again, the curious tilt of Roxas' hooded head.

Fortunately on this day, the other boy is spared from being informed he just asked something as it stands]

Don't see why you couldn't.

[tepidity]

[ truthfully, roxas is given more consideration than most; more often than not, nisaka would just ask, propriety be damned.

but roxas sort of said he was nice company, so nisaka figures he owes him at least that much. ]

Do you think you're ugly or something?

[ ... ]

[cloak]

[There follows a moment of heavy silence during which Roxas doesn't move, but for a twitch of his fingers.

It's not the first time he's been asked about his face, and it seems unlikely to be the last. At least, by now, he knows why Nisaka would ask]

...It's complicated.

[tepidity]

[ nisaka figured as much. it seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to for something simple. ]

Because it's okay if you do, [ he continues lightly. ] Lots of people aren't happy with their looks. Sometimes for all their life.

[cloak]

[Maybe if he states it plainly—]

My face is something twice-borrowed. So I can't really even call it mine to start with.

[Well, plain for him, anyway. Confusing for most]

I've never thought anything else about it.

[tepidity]

...Like a triplet?