( 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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Comments

[guerrilla]

Cu Chulainn and that smug red bastard are here, but neither of them had any idea who I am. I know I'm not all that memorable, but...well, I guess I don't mind being forgotten by other Servants. Makes things less work on my end.

[Being forgotten by Emiya is more of a blessing than anything, really.]

That shrieking newt Bathory used to be here too, but she disappeared a while ago. Do you know if she made it back okay?

[toblueskies]

[ wait, important question coming through. Robin said something funny, and it wasn't that jab about Elisabeth. ]



....which Cu Chulainn?

The one with the shaggier hair and green spear, the one with the robe and staff, or the other? [ somewhere, all of them groan. ]

[guerrilla]

The Lancer with the red spear. I'm pretty sure he was summoned here from a Holy Grail War...he mentioned being part of one, so I don't think he remembers Chaldea at all.

[Well, there's that, and he also said he doesn't remember Chaldea at all. Details.]

[toblueskies]

Th — [ congratulations. now Ritsuka is shocked, and it shows. ] That's impossible. Isn't it?

The only way that could be is if this, too, is a Singularity of some kind. But I don't sense anything that confirms it.

[guerrilla]

I don't really know a whole lot about how Singularities work, but I'm pretty sure this isn't one. One of the people here is a Master from a Holy Grail War I was part of.

[She's also the one he ended up contracting with, so that's not necessarily a bad thing, but Singularities are more about summoning Servants, not summoning Masters.]

...Well, there's that, and I've been here for what feels like months.

[toblueskies]

Something tells me this isn't just somewhere you disappear to when you're not out on the battlefield. [ which may be fairly often. oops. ]

I... didn't know that about you. [ or maybe Ritsuka did and forgot. it's entirely possible. she has a LOT to keep up with and new information coming in on a daily basis. a half-rate fill-in magus like her can only keep up with so much. it's exhausting. this is exhausting. ]

[guerrilla]

There's not really much to know. I lost in the second round, so I don't really have any stories about it.

[It's not a big deal, really - that's only to be expected of a Master-Servant team that didn't understand each other.]

You should meet her. You're kinda similar, and you could both use more friends. I haven't figured out how to get out of here, and neither has anyone else, so you might as well make the best of it until we can leave.

[She and Hakuno are similar in that they're both mediocre teenage magi in over their heads, but he's not going to say that out loud.]

[toblueskies]

I ... [ that's presenting her with an option she had never considered before. her first failed briefing aside, Ritsuka's never seen any Master or would-be Master that wasn't somehow just a warped Servant or — whatever the hell Leff actually was. another mystery for a different time.

Ritsuka hesitates. Robin is presenting the idea as if it's just a simple meeting, but is it? in a traditional Holy Grail War, isn't it "every Master/Servant team for themselves"? she wished she had more time to be lectured on it study, but that isn't going to happen now is it.

her defensiveness takes a different direction at first. ] I have plenty of friends. I have... you! And everyone else, too.