( 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!

GAME NAVIGATION

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D!!

[sealeted]

[No traces of an artificial presence can be detected until now. Hakuno turns a corner, drinking in the sights of this strange new world as she pokes and prods around in hopes of finding her wayward Servant.

If she were paying attention, Hakuno would have glimpsed that long, flashy purple hair and booked it the other way as fast as she could.

Alas, Hakuno was not paying attention, and ends up crashing into a familiar, soft, sweetly-scented figure.]

[claiomhsolais]

The founder of a line, huh?

[Oh no, he's planted some dangerous ideas in her head.]

I like the sound of that! Just you wait, the greatest witches of all time will be from the Kagari family!

[yancat]

Oh, yes. Several.

One, the suns seem to be able to penetrate the deep ocean above. Does that mean we would burn above the surface? Nothing to worry about now, but it's very disconcerting.

Two, the paintings I saw at the local museum were off by five degrees. I didn't have a ruler with me at the moment, but it slightly disturbed me. I've informed the staff so that they may address this matter immediately.

Three, apparently cats don't exist in this world. This makes me sad.

Four, those who aren't the Palai are part of this "coven" who appears to be abducting people and giving them "magic" for whatever reason. Yesterday, I never even considered the possibility of magic's existence.

... Hm. That list was more negative than I intended.

<3!!!

[sealeted]

Yeah. Yeah, um... lizard-babies.

[She carefully stands, a few of the little ones hanging off her loose clothes.]\

Really, they're just being... curious. And playful.

[sealeted]

...please, don't thank me. Not for that.

[Him being at peace is one thing. But being grateful...

It's a bitter pill to swallow.]

[claiomhsolais]

First thing, that's not all I can do! It's just one spell!

[That spell might be her specialty these days, but she's still not a one trick pony!]

But other people, huh... I've never really tried it? We never talked about in school either. A classmate used the spell to make herself look like a boy, but that's a bit different, isn't it?

b

[passionfist]

[BB's attempt at fulfilling her sadism quota is interrupted in the middle of her last boss kouhai type speech, as not only did Passionlip get herself stuck to the caravan with both hands, her attempt at dislodging it has her carrying it above her head.

But it's hard to balance giant robot hands and an entire caravan on a tiny frame like hers. Even if she's unreasonably strong, gravity is a cruel master.]

L-look out!!

[The caravan falls back, along with her hands, and the last warning BB gets beside lip trying to warn her is the massive shadow it casts over her from above, all before it smashes into the ground with a loud enough crash for everyone around them to hear.

After the dust settles, she's stuck on her back with her giant hands stuck to the caravan still, but now behind her. Totally immobile.]

[sealeted]

Well, a lot of cats don't like water. Maybe they do exist, just away from this society?

[Hopefully that... makes him less sad...]

Oh, you've never had magic before?

[teratias]

[Oh no.

Oh no, that's the exact kind of attitude he hates. Waver grits his teeth to not snap at the attitude.]

That's only if you're from my world though. Which you're not.

[passionfist]

O-oh...

[Her hands just drop right to her sides, hitting the ground. While the impact does shake the ground around them and definitely does some damage to the floor, Hakuno and the lizard babies will live to see another day.]

It's been so long, I...I wanted to show off, but I just messed up.

[teratias]

I think they don't have many of this, if this is how they react.

[Well...okay. Waver tilts his head a little, then nods.]

If you're sure.

[guerrilla]

Too late. It's what the old man would want me to do, too...not that I really care what he would've wanted. But you probably do, right?

[Yes, excellent. His tsundere attitude toward Blackmore is flawless.]

So if you won't accept it from me, accept it from him.

[claiomhsolais]

I think it's still pretty true in my world too. All those families had to start somewhere, right?

[She doesn't want to think about how last names and families came about and history junk. Just her own line of amazing witches.]

That'll show all those girls at school! Who cares if I'm from a non-magic family? A hundred years from now, that won't even matter!

[sealeted]

[Hakuno heaves a sigh of relief. Crisis averted. ...though, that still leaves some damage control to be done. Her stomach twists guiltily at the dejected figure she cuts.

Carefully, hesitantly, with the little lizard clinging to her shoulder staring all the while, Hakuno reaches up and gently pats Lip's head twice.]

It was an honest mistake. Um, but... thank you, for being so concerned for me. I appreciate it.

[teratias]

Yeah. People forget that.

[There's a little pang of sympathy there, and fuck it, Waver's entire body language softens. He's a stubborn idiot, but this girl is in the same situation as him, but has just.

She's determined in a different way. It'd be something Iskandar would praise, doubtlessly.]

Being the first is always hard.

[sealeted]

...ahh, that's cheating, Archer. I can't refuse, if you put it that way.

[She already resolved to shoulder what she's taken from the other Masters, you know?]

Still, the offer's on the table. No strings attached.

[passionfist]

[Yeah, but she cheers up pretty quickly at the head pats, so it's all good apparently.]

I-it's fine! After all, there's no reason to be down at a time like this because...you're here! And so am I!

Because you see, I took your advice and transformed...!

[She lifts her hands again, clenching them into fists determinedly.]

You probably didn't even recognise the modest and friendly alterego model passionlip, version 2.0!

[sealeted]

......no, I'm pretty sure I'll always recognize you, no matter what.

[She cuts a pretty eye-catching figure, in multiple ways.]

[yancat]

[She gets a tiny blue heart for that. Thank you, tiny protag.]

... That would make sense. But magic does not. As far as I know, magic is mere fantasy and superstition. Phenomena that can easily be explained by science.

[passionfist]

...you couldn't even play along with me...

Senpai is crueler than I remember...

[boohoo, boohoo]

[sealeted]

[How very dare you. She is a perfectly average 160cm, good sir.]

Ah, well... I mean, magical technology created me in the first place, so I've got a different perspective, I suppose.

[sealeted]

...? I don't think I've said anything wrong, though. Beauties like you stand out in a crowd much more than I do.

[And that's without even accounting for the arms.]

[passionfist]

Ah...

[It catches her off guard, that much is obvious, but her fists lower a little in irritation.]

D-don't think you can charm me...I'm still mad at you.

[Even if "mad" is apparently "huffy child", from her expression.]

But I'll overlook it because...because us meeting again is what they call a one in a lifetime chance, isn't it?

[sealeted]

[She didn't even do anything? Wow???]

Probably, yeah. I mean... I wasn't even sure I'd survive leaving the Moon Cell, and I've already met a few people I last saw being deleted. I'm... really glad.

[guerrilla]

Cheating's the only thing I'm good at, after all!

[He'd cheated to kill her and then cheated to help her, and they do say things come in threes.]

...Don't worry, I'm not gonna let you see me die again. It'd be so embarrassing I might never come back again.

[wow this mood is heavy let's destroy it with some terrible humor]