( TDM | #2 )

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IMPORTANT: This TDM takes place on the current world the coven is part of. Please read the linked Google Doc about the world AND be aware that the world is high-frequency, meaning canon magic and powers can be used.

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.

WORLD ONE: AIMINTAS

You 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... Some of you might open your eyes to find yourself wandering around a sandy area, outside of a large stone house. There's a large glimmering caravan floating around outside, which might intrigue you. There's also a lot of supplies, food, clothing...all just laying around outside. It's worth investigating, right? A ▢ Your character has found themselves arriving right outside the coven's new digs in Aimintas, and there's a lot of confusing stuff to look at. Th ocean in the sky, that floating caravan...your character probably can't get to that ocean, so they may want to examine the caravan. If they touch it, they'll immediately regret that decision -- the caravan has its own defense mechanism, and you can pick one or the other: - A1: Once your character touches the caravan, they can't remove their appendage from it. Kick it? Their foot is stuck. Touch it? Their hand is stuck. Lick it? Their tongue is stuck. They'll remain like this for 15 minutes without magical intervention. - A2: Your character's hand doesn't stay for long, but the caravan holds onto that hand for five seconds while giving your character a pretty excruciating burn. Medic! B ▢ Maybe they're smart and they don't touch the caravan. Let's go through all of this cool stuff on the ground! It might be sort of obvious that it belongs to someone -- a lot of someone's -- but your character is thirsty, confused...maybe there's some water or answers in this pile. And maybe there's also someone who catches your character going through their shit.

Other new potential coven members will find themselves in a completely different part of town. These lucky individuals will have suddenly appeared in the marketplace area of Aimintas, surrounded by walking lizard beings that suddenly turn and take an immediate interest in this stranger. C ▢ The Palai are very interested in the new coven members, and a new humanoid person -- or anyone that doesn't look like them -- will immediately catch their attention. They'll immediately find your character worth of their undivided attention, talking to them about coven-related things...pretty confusing right? If you need help with the short lizard folk, maybe someone will eventually arrive to help you out. On the other hand, you might learn something interesting talking to them. A friend might join in either way! D ▢ Once you break free of the Palai, you'll find that this marketplace is pretty interesting. It's a mixture of primitive and semi-modern technology...or is it totally unfamiliar to you? Never seen a cellphone before? Unfamiliar with the concept of women wearing pants? There's certainly something to see that'll interest your character here. E ▢ Finally, you might be hungry and thirsty after suddenly appearing. The Palai are masters of making food, including a new concoction of theirs that they're trying out in honor of all the new people. It's a sort of bottled fruit juice that has been energized by the Eltos. It's essentially the first Aimintas Red Bull, except on acid. The drink immediately makes anyone who drinks it extremely giddy, hyper and they may potentially hallucinate. It doesn't seem to bother the Palai's biology, but everyone else...oops!

The setting found in Aimintas is pretty expansive, so you have a lot of room to wander around. Here are a few things that might catch your eye if you're really committed to wandering around. F ▢ A house near the marketplace is incredibly special to the Palai people. Characters who wander near here will find a group of Palai who are even more excited about their new visitors: baby Palai. Some are still in eggs and kept inside, but the juvenile Palai are about two feet tall, rowdy and want to play with these new, bipedal creatures. Some of them still crawl around on all fours and are more lizard-like than others. Hope you're good with kids! G ▢ The Palai have constructed a large library in the middle of town. If you wander in here, you'll find a myriad of books in a strange language. The Palai are a rather visual people, though, so many include pictures and illustrations. They also have a collection of computers here that connect to the Aimintas internet, as well as visual media stations that can play videos -- though they're really just powered tablets that play video files. Time to get a little taste of the Palai culture. H ▢ 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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[sealeted]

[She leans in, chin in her hand and lightly bobbing to the slow, trilling beat.

The Moon Cell hadn't truly been underwater, even if it had felt that way at times, so sound had usually been crystal clear unless corruption was involved.]

The bow looks almost like a bubble wand.

[sealeted]

Oh, so you've met him.

[...ah, but wait, this is a fairly pretty woman, if a bit too large in the chest for his specific tastes. Hakuno grimaces.]

Should I be apologizing for that?

[unvictory]

No, no, it's alright. I understand how he behaves, but Chaldea's filled to the brim with servants. He's never paid me much mind.

[Just like Hakuno thought. Not his type.]

I don't think he's here, though. If he were you'd have heard him before you saw him.

[eternai]

[............ A LAST-BOSS KOUHAI ALWAYS BUMBLES THROUGH, NO MATTER THE TWISTS THROWN AT HER!

Which is to say! There is absolutely no way! She's going to back down! Even if her self-preservation protocols are warning her that this may not be the wisest move!

Truthfully, she can't help herself. This is merely a part of her character. Sadism comes naturally to her and is something she doesn't need to overact. Regardless of her target, BB would still speak with open impudence if she deemed it necessary.

And let's be real. A Grand Servant rendered stuck by a measly security spell? That's funny enough to comment upon. More importantly is the fact that a Grand Servant is here to begin with.]

But Hassan-san ❤ Seeing you like this feeds into my nurturing personality as a kouhai. To lend a helping hand while stepping on the person's face is like breathing to me, y'know? You're on a whole different level compared to most Servants, though. Just like me! So I wonder--

[She taps her pointer against her cheek now.]

--how'd you get here in the first place?

[eternai]

Say no more. If it's a demonstration Stranger-san wants--

[WHY IS SHE REACHING FOR HER BOOBS. WHY IS HER HAND GOING THROUGH HER BOOBS? THERE'S A PURPLE GLOW EMANATING FROM THEM? SHE'S TAKING OUT A GOLDEN CUP? WH]

--then it's a demonstration Stranger-san will get! This is the world premier of BB-chan's Special Medicine!

[hassan]

[It isn't something he can deny, really. Maybe in another time, another place, their respective roles may have pitted them against one another as equals. Regardless of how she behaves, and how distasteful he finds it, he can put his feelings aside - well, he has to, always - and acknowledge that much.

It doesn't mean he's happy about it though.]

I would imagine in a similar fashion to thine own, spirited away with little warning and no explanation to be found.

[He looks back to the caravan, pulling at it.

...of course he can't pull himself free, so the caravan actually pulls with his hand. It's even easier to move since it's floating.

But he's not about to leave with the whole thing glued to him.]

E

[eternai]

[um bitch FIRST OF ALL]

Uwah?!

[Even though BB presses her hands to her face... she doesn't sound very surprised at all. If anything, she's smiling?! But there's no trace of joy in it. If anything, that's the cold smile of a glacier about to crack.]

Strange! A fly seems to have buzzed into my vicinity.

[With a flick of her wrist, her pointer appears.]

But that's no problem. I've got just the trick for pesky insects!

[HEY PERCY I HOPE YOU ENJOY A POINTER SLAP TO THE FACE]

[storyseller]

[She recognizes his claim and comes to understand it. Different worlds. It makes perfect sense.

She does not look up except through the veil of her eyelashes. In doing so, she assess him, measure and calculates. Attempts to seek a path away from death.]

Yes. I am afraid... that you will kill me.

[sealeted]

Chaldea? Is that what this place is called?

[She thought it was 'Aimintas' but Chaldea could be a city or the name of some sort of housing location. Or perhaps, it's some territory within the Thron of Heroes, known only to the Spirits recorded there...?]

Ah. ...yes, I suppose so. He'll probably scold me when I do cross paths with him again, for 'wandering off' or something.

[eternai]

[That's not an answer she wants to hear, but it's a fact. That's fine. AIs were manufactured to organize and analyze such data. BB's smile doesn't waver, but the obnoxious energy surrounding her before is beginning to settle down. Such a mask was for her Senpai -- donning it for everyone around her is a tiring task. And since there's no sight of the Master, BB will act a little more seriously.

She may be an illogical creation, but even a broken clock gets the time right twice a day.]

I'd think a Grand Assassin would have more patience.

[Lying in wait for the perfect chance to strike and all. Though she isn't sure if those rules apply to Hassan. BB taps her pointer on the caravan.]

Don't worry! It'll go away for sure. Anyway, our situation is overall unusual. I'm beginning to think we've been transported to another solar system.

[Because... honestly. The lizard people? A big giveaway.]

That, or another singularity.

[storyseller]

[Cats are adorable, 10/10. Scheherazade's mana can't sustain the cat for too long, but she is now certain she shouldn't take the cat away from Jumin.]

I enjoy tales where cunning, wit, and good will are rewarded.

[drunkle]

Ugh.

[ That's a yes.

And he just reached for his flask, too, but he already feels like he needs to hand it to her while he rummages through the supplies. ]

Don't drink that - use it to disinfect the wound. ... Don't apply it generously either.

[ Finding booze isn't easy these days, so don't waste too much plz...!! ]

[unvictory]

Hm? Oh no, Chaldea is where I was before I came here.

But from the sound of it, I'd imagine you had a contract with him then?

[It sounds similar to back home, with their master in chaldea.]

[storyseller]

I cannot say with certainty.

[Her voice trembles a little. She is scared of being useless to BB. But she goes on, in consultation.]

It shows none of the magical hallmarks of being created, from what I can discern. Yet its premise is in the fantastical nature of of the unreal. It is a world that would be steeped in Mystery, yet which is not, because of the commonplace nature of its reality for those who live within it. The world within a sphere of water—the strange relics from a lost civilization—even the island that it seems float above. All these belong readily in the realm of fiction.

Yet the world below that we experience has much of the consistency of reality, altered only by its contact with what comes from above.

Thus it is my assessment that this world has been shaped and altered by power beyond the understanding of those within it. Yet whether that is the hand of a Creator or of as-of-yet unknown peoples, I cannot say.

[hassan]

This is no singularity, nor is it Earth. That much I can say.

The World does not speak to me here.

[Of course, his contract with their Master changes things usually, but if he's disconnected from them and being brought elsewhere, he'd assume the forces that be would have something in mind for him, befitting his role.

But that isn't the case.]

Nor do our connections to Chaldea hold weight any longer.

[And that just how it be sometimes.]

[yancat]

[ Please don't take the cat away. He'll be sad. ]

I see. I am the same. A story of wit and virtue is far more interesting than those pertaining to matters of the heart. It builds character.

[ But those aren't his favorite. ]

Did you come here to look for something to your tastes? I can't understand any of these books, so I can't tell you if you're in the right place.

c

[yancat]

Is he not at the coven?

[ The man is just as lost as her Servant is, but at least his suit is still in one pieces. Er, three. ]

I haven't seen the man, but if he is like you and I, he must be part of the coven. Is it normal to assume he'll be back at the stone house by sunset?

[eternai]

[BB doesn't say anything at first. The smile is finally gone the moment he finishes speaking.

She is, at her core, a fanatical creature born of repressed love. A defective AI guided by broken rules but, more importantly, by a perceived "heart." Servants are reliant upon their Masters, but the degrees vary. BB-- well.

BB's very existence has always hinged on reckless obsession. She hadn't gained self-awareness of it until she's been granted the distance of "time" from her experiences. She knows what it's like to be consumed by desire for a singular person.

In short, she's undergone what many would call character development. But it doesn't mean her faults have vanished. BB is still intrinsically unhappy at the idea of being cut off from Chaldea -- and at the prospect of finding another Master.]

Stranded like trash in a vast and unknown sea.

[BB sighs.]

Seriously, this is no stage for us.

[SULK SULK]

[probablynoteren]

A bubble wand...?

[Now that he looks, any moving parts on the strange lizard instruments are letting off a steady stream of bubbles. Everything is slow and stately in terms of movement, but the sound is...

Lenka runs a few quick searches on his terminal. It's hard to know what to look for; he's used to there being much less information, and much less media variety. But...]

So it's called bubble pop. [...] I think.

[probablynoteren]

[What. What is happening to her chest, those don't look like trustworthy boobs, honestly. Lenka scoots back a bit before the caravan yanks on his hair again and he's forced to stop.]

Hang on. What kind of power is that?

[eternai]

[Not an "Earth" then. And not the Moon Cell. Regardless of differing timelines, there were typically anchors to indicate that this was the planet humanity originated from. A culture of magic-wielding lizards dominating the landscape certainly isn't one of them. It's a possibility that, quite simply, is "impossible" according to BB's databanks and the knowledge she's been given by the Throne.

Finally, the smile is gone. BB appears to be thinking.

This isn't a place in which either of them are familiar with. Which means the variables under their control isn't many -- if they exist at all. It frustrates the computational part of her, the part that enjoys data and the presence of some rules. It doesn't matter if BB is a rulebreaker at heart. Her irrationality allows her to be a rule-follower and a cheater with impudence.

(And it's that irrationality Scheherazade is right to be cautious of.)

At last, BB sighs.]

Geez, I hate humans, but I can't do my job properly if there aren't many around.

[Her job as a Servant, that is. And a bully.]

I guess I'm stuck with you, Ms. Mouse, until we find a way back.

[guerrilla]

Hey, little lady. It's been a while.

[But also please give him some space? Maybe? He cranes his head back a little, though he doesn't do anything to dislodge her hands from his cloak just yet.]

Glad to see you made it out in one piece. You're welcome, by the way.

[Yep, it's definitely that asshole of an Archer from the Moon Cell.]

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[yancat]

We've only been here for a day.

[ Jumin can't sit still. In a world so different from his own, there's so much he doesn't know. Talking amphibians? An ocean sky? Magic? It's a lot to process, God help him.

Even so, he remains composed. Nothing can be achieved with a calm mind. ]

But I must admit I'm impressed. Air pollution is next to nonexistent, and the Palai are courteous when they aren't eager to please. No, perhaps they're courteous precisely because of that.

[eternai]

Exposition is simply a bunch of hot air. That's your verdict, right? I understand! Airtime is a precious commodity these days ☆

So please!

[The closer she gets, the lower she dips the cup. He can see there's a suspicious glowing liquid inside of it...!]

Drink~ up~!

[IT LOOKS AS THOUGH SHE'S GOING TO POUR IT ON HIM?!?!?!?!?!?!]

[storyseller]

[She'd prefer if you weren't stuck with her, BB. Just fuck off ok?]

There seem to be evidence of their former existence, so perhaps....