( 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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Comments

[glyphic]

It makes sense. It only happened when I leaned on it for a second, and it looks like - what, supplies? So it's some sort of anti-theft semblance or something.

[ why is this the family member she is stuck with where are her teammates ]

Just not a very discerning one. If you'll excuse me!

[ ............TUG. tug tug tug TUG okay come the fuck on she seriously didn't want any of your crap, caravan, ease up?? ]

A1

[ensorcel]

[ camilla would love to help this poor man out, but she needs to tease him first. she has to, it's her sworn duty. ]

Naughty naughty. Didn't anyone ever tell you not to touch what isn't yours? Now look what you've done.

[eventuallea]

That's right. [ He chuckles lowly. ] I'd say that's a promise kept.

[ So obviously, he'd meant what he said. Both in that instance, and in that if he could see Roxas again, he'd be happy.

Actually, Axel now realizes what an understatement that was. If he had a heart, he's pretty sure it'd be filled to the brim for just setting eyes on him again, knowing he's remembered. Memorized, even. After all, the last time he saw Roxas...

Well. Maybe it's best not to think on that now. He takes a couple steps closer in return, further closing the gap between them. ]

So, what's the catch?

[ Is one of them going to fade away in the next second? Is this a goodbye? Is he dreaming? ]

c

[catchon]

[ aaand katsuhira gets whisked away by some random woman. huh, this is a running gag at this point.

at her explanation and sweet apology, he can only stare at her while twirling a lock of his hair round his finger. he's just as lost here, don't mind him. ]

It's fine. [ so deadpan ] They seem to be nice people, though. Despite the scaliness.

[ why point out the scales, though... ]

[shadowsthedawn]

[And it's not like Riku wouldn't deserve it. Aside from their fight, there's also the time that Riku ran off with all of Roxas and his friend's munny. He had reasons but still. Roxas doesn't owe him anything. A fact that he's more then aware of.]

I didn't feel like I was being pulled towards it. More like as soon as my body touched the caravan it just...stuck. My bets on magic.

[sluggard]

[He shrugs. Well, all right, why not? Not like he can see any openings to get the hell away.]

Python. Nice to meet you, I guess.

And they're... [He frowns and glances over at the Palai. What'd they call themselves again?] Lizard people.

[arttoenchant]

[He listens intently, if nothing else a good and patient audience to perform for.]

Hoh! And the child, did he grow into so fine a man as was foretold?

[This is giving him so many ideas, she described so many interesting characters and side stories???]

[bulletbiter]

[ Julius seems to be reading a book with a plethora of illustrations on plants. The tome is handled carefully, each page spread open without damaging the binding and weighed down with the edge of another book. He has a pad of paper for notes, wittten in a neat, sharp handwriting. Mostly English, with copied sketches of the kelp from the books.

He doesn't seem to notice her at all. Or if he has, he chooses to respect her distance. After a while he rises to replace the book on its shelf, and it's all very normal - until he returns to his desk and promptly doubles over in a coughing fit. However, it's quickly repressed - his frown never directed at her, only at himself. ]

My apologies.

[ If he's disturbed her. He glances at his palm - no blood, so it's not so bad. ]

[drunkle]

You could try asking for help, you know, break the Schnee mold as it were.

[ As fun as this is, it's not like he can just leave the kid trapped like this either. ]

[needmetoo]

You were asleep for a really long time. I guess... I was worried. Nobody would really explain.

[Instead she just got a lot of brushings-off and instructions to keep doing her missions. Like that was the only thing that mattered.]

Did you see the shells I left for you?

[bulletbiter]

[ If there's any relief in Akira's presence, it's shown not on Julius' expression but only his eyes. The tension dims in them, but not by much. ]

Yes. Are you one of them?

[ Can he leave this conversation now? Please?? ]

[shadowsthedawn]

Take pictures? So it's a camera?

[One piece of technology he does know of. But he's not sure how someone would make out their picture very well on such a tiny screen.]

What are all the buttons for then?

[Doesn't a camera just need one?]

Does it need to be plugged in?

[billionboy]

[ Haha, look at that asshole over there. Oh wait, that's my asshole friend!

He was honestly surprised to see someone stuck against one of the caravan doors as he walked by. Okuyasu stared in confusion for all of a few seconds before he threw his body forward in surprise. ]

Josuke!? [ Already, he is head in his direction to try to help him. He didn't know anything about this level of defense that the caravan had. Maybe he should have paid a little attention to that at all. ]

What are you doing here? Why are you stuck like this? [ Two questions that he asks as he wraps his arms around Josuke's middle to start to try to pull him off the caravan door. ]

[glyphic]

[ NO

except she does stop tugging. weiss schnee back at her entrance to the academy would not have given in, but weiss schnee now has spent semesters with ruby and yang and blake, and she has solidified her ideas of what she wants the schnee mold to be. her father was not the first to bear her name and he will not be the last.

so. act in a manner befitting what the name needs to mean. right. breathe. ]

Will you help me, please?

[ alternately send her ruby or yang oh my god ]

[sluggard]

[Awww, come on. He totally wasn't stealing!

He sighs again.]

Oh no. [He doesn't even bother to try to sound sincere. He gets stuck and now this lady's making fun of him for it? What a hassle.]

You think you could send the guards to arrest me instead then? Or you gonna leave me stuck here?

[shadowsthedawn]

Yeah, they sure seem happy even as they leave themselves wide open to attack and the possible slaughter of their own.

[His words are bitter. He doesn't understand how the Palai can just sit by and watch their own be killed. His home world of Destiny Island is pacifistic as well, but they don't have a group swooping down and killing villagers every month. These people aren't in a situation where they can neglect the need for basic survival skills. Including fighting.]

iv-b

[windeity]

[Weiss could you maybe not? Because John had a laptop in his hand and suddenly it's heavy as fuck and he finds himself plummeting straight for the ground. He's struggling to lift it up, but in the end he rotates and lands on the ground on his back rather hard, laptop knocking the wind out of him.

It suddenly doesn't weigh an obscene amount but he's left wheezing and clutching the computer, rolling his neck to stare at her and glare lightly.]

Happens to the best of us, but a little warning next time would be nice.

[pomaid]

[When u wanna laugh at a loser but that's your loser....]

Okuyasu, is that you?!

[He's sure he recognises the voice, but since he can't move his head to be certain, he'd better make sure before doing anything stupid!]

Watch out man, don't touch it or you're gonna end up like me!

[storyseller]

If that is what you wish, I will tell the story of Kadru, the Mother of the naga.

It is related, O child, that Kadru and Vinata were sisters, who were wed to the same husband, Kashyapa. Both Kadru and Vinata attended to his comforts and offered him what joys they would. In gratitude, Kashyapa offered each wife a boon, for whatever wish they pleased. Kadru asked for a thousand naga sons, who would be valiant and strong, and shed fear as their skins. Yet her elder sister Vinata was provoked by this request, and so she asked for just two sons, who would be more valiant and bright than Kadru's children. Kashyapa granted each their blessings, and soon both became pregnant with the sons they had asked for.

After a long pregnancy, wherein they suffered many pains, Kadru gave birth to a thousand eggs and Vinata to two eggs. Kadru took great care of her eggs, and made for them incubators of beautiful pots filled with hot water. These eggs were cherished and cared for for many years, and half a millennia passed by, until at last the eggs hatched, and all her sons were brought into the world. Of these thousand serpent sons, the most prominent ones were Shesha, Vasuki and Takshaka. All the serpents in this world are the descendants of Kadru's sons, and so she is known as the mother of serpents.

Yet Vinata was jealous, for her sons had not yet hatched. Hasty of her younger sister's success, she broke open one of the eggs, revealing to the world a half-formed son. This son was enraged by this act and so punished his mother for her careless greed with a curse: Vinata would be the slave to Kadru for five hundred years till the son from her second egg was born. This first son left, becoming the the charioteer and herald for the sun god and the creator of the red sky at dawn, so he bore the name Aruna. Yet Vinata was enslaved to her younger sister, and toiled for yet another half-millennia under her sister, whose snake sons grew strong. At last, one thousand years since his egg was lain, Vinata's second son was born, in the form of a huge bird of immense power. He was named Garuda, and is the source of many of his own tales.

[actus]

Yeah.

[ he tosses the local a quick glance, meeting their gaze briefly before akira looks back to the stranger. ]

I was actually sent to look for you. [ lies. ] We uh ... missed your presence. [ total lies. but it seems to placate the palai. ]

[billionboy]

Yeah! It's me!

[ Why is he so stuck to the caravan?! What is this!? ]

It's all right! I've been hanging out in it for awhile! Well, a few days! It's kind of nuts but well, I'll explain that all later when we get ya unstuck!

c

[windeity]

[It doesn't take long for John to gently push past some of the Palai, patting the lizard-people on the head as he approaches and ignoring that some of them seem to be looking at him in awe, too. Given Flynn's hesitance he can't help but offer a grin.]

The coven is just a fancy word for people like us that are traveling together. We just got here a few days ago, too.

[ensorcel]

[ now that the situation is over and done with, camilla can say she almost feels bad for startling the boy; she can't help it, he doesn't look much older than her brother leo. maybe that's why she snatched him in the first place? for now, she lets him keep his space and offers him an apologetic, albeit pleased, smile. ]

That they are. As nice it can be, too much attention can stress a girl out. I just hope your little admirers aren't upset with me for stealing you away so suddenly.

[ her smile brightens, hair swaying as she gives her head a disarming tilt. ]

If they come after you again, you're more than welcome to grab onto me next time.

[glyphic]

I would have if I'd known it was going to happen! [ wait, no. don't whine or foist off responsibility, even if you genuinely haven't a clue how you did whatever you did. weiss squares her shoulders, though her posture is already exquisite. ] I will learn what I did to do that and...not. Here.

[ she could like try to help him up with gravity powers but those are untested and it occurs to her that someone may not want her to use glyphs on them after she accidentally smashed them, so "here" is followed by a simple outstretched hand. ]

You have my most sincere apologies. [ sound a little less stiff, girl. ]

[storyseller]

[It isn't a question she expects. Caster recognizes royal blood when it is before her, yet this is not the dictate of one who is a 'sovereign.' It does not awaken her terror of kings.

Yet the girl speaks of storytelling in private. Caster's mind returns to a room it has never left: a sumptuous bedroom, with softest sheets and many pillows. A place to rest one's head—a room where one's head was always on the line, and threatened.

A story is no more safe in privacy than in public. Perhaps, even, that is a more dangerous place. But Caster is too frightened to defy even this, if it is a request. She does not want to die.]

This group... seems to wish for stories told in the manner of those oral tellers who offer tales in coffee houses and public squares. If, however, you desire a story told in privacy, then I will oblige.

[She does not meet the girl's eyes.

She doesn't want to die.]