( 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

Comments

[sealeted]

Well, do we know for a fact they don't have bubble-driven aviation? Like, some sort of hot air balloon apparatus.

[Except, you know, not necessarily hot. Still, it's a cute mental picture all the same.]

[sealeted]

Well, not directly. The Servants fought. Masters just... lived or died, based on the match. We gathered information and trained up our Servants before the fights, but most of us never took up arms ourselves. ....well, except Julius. He killed a lot of Masters himself, mostly in the Preliminaries, but then again he was the Harweys' assassin back on Earth to begin with. I have plenty of deaths on my conscience, by virtue of being the last person standing, but I don't really have many Code Casts I could use in a straight fight. Or... combat skills to speak of, really.

[passionfist]

Yes...that's what I was getting at.

But I'm trying to be responsible too, senpai, so...so you don't have to treat me too kindly.

[Except surely if Hakuno had something To Say she'd say it anyway...it's just what she's like, really.]

[hassan]

["Look after me" she says...]

I will intervene on your behalf when I see fit.

[After all this is a loose agreement, not a binding contract, and despite BB's nerfs she's still a servant.

Which means he's going to be mostly useful as a prop. Stand next to death and and boast in the hopes everyone else doesn't realise he'd let her get beat up like...80%.]

c

[passionfist]

M-me?

[She isn't used to all of the attention, from both the Palai and this talking suit of armour...well, alright, that's a lie. She is used to attention, she's just shy, evidenced by her reaction and the way she pokes her fingers together nervously.

...which sounds normal, except for the fact that rather than two normal arms, she's got massive golden robot hands each roughly the size of the rest of her body, sporting five fingers that are closer to something like a set of massive blades. Despite their immense size though, she seems to swing them around and move her fingers like they're normally sized for her body.

After a moment of consideration, she walks over to a nearby tree and rips it out of the ground with one hand, like a normal girl picking a flower.]

Um...how about this?

[yancat]

Well, we'll figure it out. [He's not being laidback. Just practical. Again, he reminds him:] It's only been a day.

[And a very long one, he agrees. Before the silence settles, he opens another thing that's been on his mind.]

Are you old enough to be charging into battle with that, or is it a new trend?

[yancat]

[Neutral to Chaotic Evil, probably.

Jumin snaps,] And what good would that do for us?

[sealeted]

...? I don't think I'm being overly nice.

[Hakuno.]

Now that we're both free, it's not like there's anything particularly setting our goals against one another, you know?

[yancat]

[He closes his eyes and tries to imagine it. More than a hundred people dead by their own hands in a fight for a single wish. From a privileged perspective like his own, it's absurd. Barbaric. To force others to participate in a death game is beyond evil. But he supposes everyone fights for their desires, with Grail or without.]

War is cruel by nature.

[But to praise or berate her would do neither of them any favors. War doesn't take sides, only what it can. At least that's what Rika used to tell him.]

People are cruel, too. But I think it's a condition that's taught, and you are far from it.

[If he had any other thoughts on the matter, it wasn't his place to say. He simply adjusts his cuffs and moves on.]

Why don't we put those noncombative skills to work? I'm currently gathering information about this world and the coven, but navigating these crowds alone has proven... difficult. Perhaps I can help you find your Servant as well.

[trustcoon]

[the tanuki comes from a world full of death and lies and murder, you gotta learn to roll with the punches!]

I'm Pochi! It's nice to meet you, Jumin-sa-ah!

[it bows politely--and tumbles off the bookwall in the process. luckily it's not a very high wall...]

[yancat]

[...

Cute...

Before Jumin knows it, he's helping Pochi up and giving him the gentlest smile he's worn since he got here. It's pretty amazing that he can talk to this animal, now that he thinks about it. He should make the most out of this.]

It's nice to meet you, too, Pochi. You should be careful. Books aren't the strongest material, I'm afraid. I think they're somewhere between straws and sticks.

[probablynoteren]

[Go figure it would be three years. Lenka is quiet for a long moment.

... Okay, but still, why is time travel a thing.]

Three years after? That can happen?

[Lenka, why are you asking the newbie.]

... I guess you wouldn't know either. But you're from the future.

[Damn.]

[probablynoteren]

No, but I don't think I've seen anything in the sky since I've been here.

[It is an interesting thing to imagine, though; since he doesn't have other points of reference here, he imagines the bubble soccer bubble writ large, with a tiny basket of tiny lizards hanging from it.

...

I mean, he's not entirely sure what it would be powered by down here, like that, but it's the principle of the thing. Tap-tap-tap, go his fingers on the keys of his terminal.]

But it looks like they've reached the ocean once. I think.

[There's actually a lot of argument about reaching the ocean. Like. A lot of argument. The-moon-landing-was-a-hoax type arguments included.]

[probablynoteren]

[There's a brief pause in Lenka's step as he blinks at Jumin's back where he's still catching up, a bit taken aback. But the reaction is probably normal, especially since they're not being attacked by boars or lost in the forest this time around.]

I'm not sure. Genette said it's bad for everyone, if Qri dies.

[So theoretically it would help them to help Qri, he's just not sure what the details are whatsoever. All this magic and interdimensional mystery is way beyond his pay scale.

So he's going with it, for now. He doesn't recognize anything or anyone else so far, anyway.]

[passionfist]

Of course...we're allies now, aren't we?

Hehe...[Lip raises her hand almost to her cheek, but not actually touching her cheek, since that'd be Bad.] Calling senpai an ally...what a wonderful feeling.

[guerrilla]

Yeah, there's probably no way anyone would pick a shifty guy like me when they could have a first-class view of your tits whenever they wanted.

[Robin knows better than anyone else how useless he is, and normally he knows when to quit.

Normally.

BB isn't his least favorite of the various Sakurafaces of the Moon Cell - that title goes to Meltlilith, of course. But he's not going to turn up a chance to give any of them hell.

Maybe he'd be a little nicer to Passionlip, though...maybe.]

So I guess it'd be bad if someone assassinated your Master then, huh?

[yancat]

[Jumin only hums. There's little stock he can put in the words of hungry witches that kidnap people.

Thank God none of them are named Hansel.]

We have no other choice, do we? I take it they haven't always been here, in Aimintas.

[sigfried]

[ Actually, now that he thinks about it, there's that small dragon that is always with the crew. So, perhaps it isn't too strange to be friendly with a dragon after all...

Siegfried silently watches Geir taking more of a liking to these small creatures for a moment. ]

Hm. Are you a fan of kids?

[probablynoteren]

[It's true, hungry witches that kidnap people, no matter what they're kidnapping them for -- those usually aren't good news. Actually, it might be even worse if Jumin knew that magical energy is what they're trying to feed her. They're being magically fattened up?!

Who knows.]

No. We were on an island, before, and then we were here. [mysterious as always; speaking of location, Lenka looks around them briefly; they're still in the shopping district, so keeping up a good pace is useful for outrunning Palai who may have noticed them, but...] So, where are we going...?

sorry for the delay :(

[parodeity]

You learn quick. But yeah, I kinda wanna learn what they're sayin'? Like, number one reason to take a foreign language: learn the lyrics to shit.

[ is...

is that really the number one reason, dave? ]

[glyphic]

[ we may Never Know. it is sure what happy fruit juice weiss is like...take pictures it will never happen again tbh.

as she speaks, her feet do hit the ground again though. so there is that. ]

It was this very - fruity juice! The Palai gave some to me, you should try some! It came with those little drink umbrellas.

[glyphic]

I wasn't going to! [ to either!!!!!!!!!! a pause. ] ...Thank you.

[ SEE SHE CAN BE GRACIOUS although it is galling. it's easier if she thinks of him as ruby's uncle and not. ruby's uncle who got into it with winter. there's a thin line here. but as promised (kind of???) she only pours a little bit on the wound, biting her lip as she does so, careful not to waste any.

she also doesn't drink any of it so. ]

so sorry for the delay! i ended up not tagging yesterday.

[glyphic]

I'm from Atlas - it's a continent on Remnant - and I am the - [ A PAUSE. ] secondborn daughter of the Schnee family.

[ she was about to say "heiress" but evil dad disinherited her. u know how that goes. :| ]

It's a very cold country, in the north. I've spent much of my recent time in Vale, which is warmer, where I was attending school to become a Huntress.

[glyphic]

We have to teach them to defend themselves, obviously. Unless we simply eliminate the threat for good.

[ UM ]

[glyphic]

They tell where you come from...more than that, if your family, for example, runs a company using the family name...isn't it important that the name mean something respectable and trustworthy?