( 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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[bulletbiter]

[ No one can help. That's just how it is. It was not a matter of a wound, but a matter of a fundamental rejection - that of his Aragami form and his human mind, two things wrestling for control of one body. And if he were to let it go, the unthinkable would happen. ]

No, it's fine. [ It's not Lenka's fault. Even Sakaki wouldn't be able to do anything. ] Don't worry about it. It can't be cured.

[ Just let him tank it by himself, it's fine. ]

[girasole]

[Caesar quite sensibly thinks that Julius is as appalled as he is at the fact that apparently they've been around long enough they act as merchandising opportunities, and takes the opportunity to attempt to - key word being attempt - steer Julius away from it. Takes the side closest to the dakis over yonder, inclines his head away from that mess-]

Signore, I imagine it's to commemorate our arrival by...

[...] I'm really not sure. It's better we leave.

[rootandbranch]

[Geir looks around at the buildings and the narrow street, then back at his own bulk, rather ruefully.]

If I'm expected to be the hiding place, and not the hider, that just might work. C'mon, kids!

[spreads his wings as much as he can in the circumstances, making sheltering tents of them; between his coils and the wings, it actually isn't hard to find a place where someone much bigger than the small Palai could hide.]

Hide and seek! Find a spot on or under Uncle Geir where no one can see you!

[trustcoon]

I'm saaaaved~!

[pochi's free! free as a bird! the tiny tanuki wriggles happily in his grasp!...and then realizes he's not exactly landing back on the ground.]

...............You're stuck!!!

[inspiteful]

I suppose so.

Ah, I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Gracious Skylark.

[sealeted]

Hakuno Kishinami. It's a pleasure to meet you.

[It's surprising, how excited she feels to meet someone, without the cloying dread that she might have to fight them.]

[fistsofchange]

"I didn't think sorcerers need special hats or sticks. But someone told me that all of us are from different worlds."

Might as well just make sure this girls understood where she was coming from. "In mine, we used to have things like phones and internets, but then there was a big war and now none of it works anymore. Too many nuclear bombs and emps. No one is sure what an emp is but apparently they killed most of the old machines."

She actually pronounced it "emp" rather than "ee-em-pee."

[yancat]

[ They are not on a wild goose chase. Please. It is a dignified walk towards a goal shrouded in mystery!

Jumin answers without missing a beat. ]

Korea. It's 2015 and the world is perfectly fine. I believe we should all carry an optimistic mindset towards all our endeavors. [ Because the Aragami are obviously the creation of Lenka's overactive imagination. ] People were so fond of post-apocalyptic novels a few years ago... Frankly, I still can't fathom why.

[yancat]

[ Jumin's expression remains serious and level. ]

He summoned three of them from the sky. [ And trust him, that's not the only thing he struggled to believe. ] If I wanted to tell you a joke, I'd have said I had the power to drive.

[yancat]

[ Of course the book is about ocean life, but Jumin definitely hasn't seen that creature before. It's a little worrying that Pochi has. ]

Is that a creature where you're from?

[itemer]

....Oh. Oh. That explained some things.

It made Ember feel a bit like a jerk, too.

"I see..."

She paused for a moment. "It's EMP by the way. Electro-Magnetic Pulse." But not bad enough to not correct the other girl.

[fistsofchange]

"Ah." She somehow felt like she was being made fun of and learning forbidden knowledge of the ancients at the same time, and wasn't sure how she felt about that.

"So the war never happened in your world?"

I THINK SO? except at Chaldea where everyone remembers everything. why.

[storyseller]

[She bows her head.]

I see. Mine was also an unusual circumstance, but not one of a Holy Grail War. We were all summoned to assist Chaldea in maintaining the correct timeline of human history.

[storyseller]

[Glad to be substitute TV.

Her eyes flicker towards him, a slight movement when she is mostly hidden by her veil. She recognizes that something has occurred, some thought that refers to something that she doesn't know.]

It is the role of the storyteller not only to entertain but, if possible, to enable others to find truths they had not considered. Or so it was in my home.

My thought... is that leadership encourages the amplification of certain traits. Those who are greedy have the power to feed their greed, and so make it more ravenous. Those who are selfless have the position to offer themselves to others, and so wear themselves to nothing. The distrustful are given endless opportunity to be betrayed, and the shrewd may hone their skills at the highest level. Whether it is a trait that grows stronger in its use or one that is weakened by every occurrence, the position of a ruler is one that enables greatness for good or for ill.

So it is that a leader requires restraint and self-control, and of such a variety that these tendencies grow stronger with use and do not weaken and fail.

[probablynoteren]

[... He's bad at dignified walks! At least make it a power walk!!

An optimistic mindset towards all our...? Lenka just keeps staring, unsure as to why Jumin sounds like he's either lecturing or giving some kind of speech. (As far as he understands how speeches go, anyway.) Most of the people in his life have been either sparing or very direct with their words -- no one had the time or attention for more.]

Um... Aragami appeared in the 2050s. [so timeline-wise it would make sense why fewer people know of them; but he's also vaguely started to grasp the fact that it's not just time that's funny here] But I guess it would be hard to imagine, even with novels.

[He can sort of understand. It was (is) hard imagining the world without them.]

[wingfic]

Have you?

[probablynoteren]

Oh.

[It's just a single breath of sound as he digests that, unhappily, because it hits a little close to home. That explains Julius' stubbornness, a little (as if he has room to talk about stubbornness whatsoever) -- and while it doesn't sit well with him, he'd be a hypocrite and a half to criticize it.

Then again, despite his ability to accept the ridiculous and the terrible, Lenka's very bad at giving up.]

It can't be cured at home. [he's speaking slowly, sounding out the words and not seemingly speaking to anyone in particular] But we're here. Aimintas is different. The places they want us to go are different.

[He tilts his head back up at Julius.]

We're different.

[Power-wise, but also possiblities-wise. It's more of a suggestion than any attempt at convincing. It's something he's still trying to grasp, himself.]

[bulletbiter]

[ Of course they're different. Julius detects not much out of the ordinary from Lenka, though he's since lost other God Eaters to compare him with. He's still human. Sane. Whole. On the other hand, Julius is very sure he's gone way further beyond a salvageable point. ]

It's fine.

[ Even as his body remembers the spider marks on his skin and the burning pain that accompanies it. ]

Just leave it be.

[inspiteful]

Are you new to this coven business too?

[ It's okay Hakuno this is what regular socialisation is like. ]

C

[inspiteful]

[ Skylark is busy trying to talk with the Palai, by which I mean he's mostly being buried in overenthusiastic questions about a variety of topics that he can't really give answers for. He a little relieved to have someone cut in since he has a way out now. ]

I -- yes, I am.

[ He suppose that's what happened to him? Hes trying to understand this whole coven business. ]

[probablynoteren]

[There isn't a great deal out of the ordinary about Lenka, from a God Eater's point of view as of this time -- his armlet is largely in working order even if's pretty much a glorified bracelet here, his Oracle cells are relatively stable, the lack of bias factor makes him uneasy but them's the breaks of magic. Or something. In short:

✓ God Eater
? Human
✓ Sane
?? Whole

He takes a breath, automatically adjusts his bag on his shoulder as he starts to move out from the shade of the building they've taken refuge under -- getting back on the road, now that they've had a breather and probably Julius won't keel over. Lenka gives him a nod to indicate that they should get going, and that he won't pursue any further.

He won't forget, though.

They move through the city in silence, getting closer and closer to the center. There's still a lot of food for thought just in the short time since their meeting; finally, though, Lenka indicates the larger buildings looming in the distance.]

The city center. We're not far from it.

[The octagon is useful as a landmark because it's so easy to spot. On the streets, they're starting to pass more Palai milling about and market stalls. They're also getting stared at in fascination, as always.]

yes, haha. everyone remembers everyone in f/go

[goodlistener]

What? You... "all" were summoned...? [that's sort of noteworthy. she should probably ask about it.] I'm sorry. Just how many Servants...?

[possibly it depends on her masters' quartz supplies]

H1

[holy_smoly]

"...Ah, yes. Congratulations."

Sanaki had had a weird day already. She certainly wasn't expecting a stranger standing on a wall to call out to her as she walked past, but she spared herself the indignity of looking overly surprised when she glanced upwards.

However, she didn't like craning her neck this far to talk to someone. Granted, most people were taller than her, but this was ridiculous.

"I'm sure that's some sort of new ability and you're enjoying it quite a bit, but did it occur to you that it could be impolite to address someone while literally looking down on them?"

[fistsofchange]

"Oh. Sorry, I didn't think of that. From where I'm standing we're at about the same height."

She walked down the wall until they were at about the same height from BOTH points of view. She was still too excited about having magic powers to want to step back onto the ground, though. "Better?"

A1

[allconsumed]

[Velvet isn't much of a helper, so she watches Ember struggle from a doesn't-feel-like-getting-involved-in-this length of distance. Even if she was feeling more charitable, what could she even do? She's brand new to all of this, too, and messing with some weird magic she doesn't understand seems… stupid.

Still, it's a bit fascinating to watch. Once the second goes arm in, Velvet rolls her eyes and decides to stiffly approach, almost like she's being forced to intervene. Even if she can't figure out how to help, at least she can get a better look at what's going on?

Once she's right there, Velvet puts a hand on her hip, eyes flicking between Ember and the sticky surface.]

I guess there's always amputation.