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( TDM | #2 )



  • 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!

  • glyphic: (WELL ❄ if we're being serious)

    weiss schnee ❄ rwby

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-23 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
    i. this is not graceful
    a. stuck
    [ she only was reaching out to balance herself? against the caravan? and now she is stuck. holy shit why this.

    however weiss is not asking for help so much as she just keeps tugging because clearly that will get her somewhere here. maybe if she just grips her own wrist to pull back? ]


    b. medic, please
    [ alternately, weiss tugs her hand back with a little gasp, clutching it to her chest. ]

    Ow! You - [ okay she nearly goes to kick the fucking caravan again but. thinks better of it immediately because apparently it is making people get stuck to it and does she really want to go through that again?

    she settles for glaring at it. yeah, you show it, weiss. ]
    ii. or option 2 i do what i want
    a. who the fuck are you people tho
    [ weiss listens to the palai speak with as much patience as she can muster, but. what the hell. what the heeeeeeeeell is going on here? she looks - okay she doesn't look that composed, although she looks as though she is trying to look composed, which is maybe the same thing. ]

    I told you, I don't know what coven you're talking about -

    b. that sounds terribad
    [ listening to them means hearing about the whole evil merpeople in the sky-ocean angle, however. despite herself, weiss is sympathetic, or at least frowning and looking upwards with serious uncertainty. ]

    That's terrible, though - but you don't seem to have any defenses...if it happens every month, why haven't you set up, I don't know, something?

    c. a semblance of magic
    [ weiss hasn't the slightest idea what her "magic" is just yet, but she is perfectly capable of using her semblance. pressed to demonstrate her magic by the palai, she finally relents, and draws her sword. ]

    All right, just stand back, please! [ and then drives the tip of the fencing rapier into the ground. a glyph appears beneath her feet, and ice sprouts up around her in a half-circle, an instant wall.

    NOW LEAVE HER ALONE ABOUT MAGIC, GOD. ]
    iii. research????
    [ thank god a LIBRARY, with computers!!! and other technology. weiss immediately makes herself at home, although her happy expression at finding the place fades into a look of irritation as she realizes she can't read the language at all. rude, to be honest?

    still, she flips through book after book, scrutinizing the pictures, and will even check out the aimintas internet...and then the visual media stations once she realizes she can at least listen to things and have them translated.

    is there a closing time? probably. she doesn't seem inclined to stick to it, though, and waves off any palai who try to get her to leave. ]


    I've only got a few more files to go, honestly.

    [ she said the same thing like half an hour ago? ]
    iv. actual magic
    a. light as air
    [ weiss probably actually did try that giddy energy drink, but for the sake of actually tdming her emotionally accurate and not hyped up on sugar, this happens after she's coming down from whatever the heck the aliens put in that.

    still, she's a little bouncier than usual, pleased with herself as an after effect of the drink, and...

    well, actually, a little bouncier than usual all around? the skip in her step takes her higher and higher until she doesn't quite come down, although she doesn't seem to notice she's literally kind of floating around.

    unfortunately, you might find that you suddenly weigh less, too. better bring it to her attention before you both drift into an awning or something ridiculous. ]


    b. heavy as stone
    [ alternately, as she tries to figure out her sudden ability to change the weight of Whatever The Fuck in a given area, you might suddenly find that whatever you were holding just now suddenly weighs, like, five hundred pounds for a few seconds or something unfortunate.

    OOPS.

    as soon as you probably, like, drop that or whatever (sorry if you broke something? uh) there's an immediate: ]


    Sorry! [ oh god why is there non-glyph stuff to contend with now. she does actually seem genuinely apologetic, if mildly horrified. ] That wasn't on purpose, I swear.
    drunkle: (q (51))

    i-a

    [personal profile] drunkle 2017-07-23 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
    [ what... is "ice queen" winter's kid sister doing here.... and is she seriously pretending that she has her predicament under control?! ]

    You shouldn't touch that, ice princess.

    [ He says that now, knowingly being unhelpful. ]
    glyphic: (GLARE ❄ fuck u)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-23 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
    [ THANKS, RUBY'S UNCLE SHE GUESSES???? THAT'S SUPER HELPFUL AT THIS JUNCTURE!!!! ]

    I'm trying not to! [ tug. TUG. tug. ] I didn't even mean to, I wasn't trying to take anything.

    [ you try blinking into existence and keeping your balance - wait this is ruby and yang's weird uncle, he probably did that. ]
    drunkle: (25)

    [personal profile] drunkle 2017-07-23 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
    Who said anything about trying to take things? Didn't you know that the more you shout about being innocent, the more guilty you actually look?

    [ And no, he didn't do this to her, but he wishes he could because it's a tad hilarious watching a Schnee struggle. ]
    glyphic: (ARMS ❄ crossed)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-23 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
    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?? ]
    drunkle: (108)

    [personal profile] drunkle 2017-07-23 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
    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. ]

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    shadowsthedawn: (large)

    ii-b;

    [personal profile] shadowsthedawn 2017-07-23 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
    [Riku happens to overhear the conversation and casually inserts himself into it. He's already heard a few stories about the Uvis and had a similar question himself, one that he answered himself by looking around.]

    They don't seem to have much here to defend themselves with. Their weapons are mostly knives and clubs, things that can easily be made but are not the most effective. Why they don't use their technology to make better weapons is something you'll have to ask them.
    glyphic: (CALM ❄ watching)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-23 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
    [ hello fellow silverish haired person what up ]

    They don't seem to let monthly attacks get them down in the least...at least, they all seem so happy. But they don't even have, I don't know, Hunters! Not that I can tell, anyway. I suppose it's a cultural difference, but that's too many lives lost that shouldn't have to be.
    shadowsthedawn: (riku2)

    [personal profile] shadowsthedawn 2017-07-23 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
    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.]
    glyphic: (GAZE ❄ steady)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-23 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
    Well...whatever the case, we're just going to have to help them, then!

    [ no one asked for help? and yet she is Decided. done deal. ]
    shadowsthedawn: (3)

    [personal profile] shadowsthedawn 2017-07-25 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
    How do we do that? Even if we defend them against the Uvis while we're here, they'll go back to being unguarded once we leave.

    [He's 100% in on this plan tho.]

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    windeity: (WIPEOUT ♫ shit man)

    iv-b

    [personal profile] windeity 2017-07-23 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
    [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.
    glyphic: (STARTLE ❄ oh noooooo)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-23 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
    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. ]
    windeity: (GRIN ♫ to the side)

    [personal profile] windeity 2017-07-23 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
    [Oh. A bristly girl, okay. He stays on the ground watching for a moment to get a read on her, his own expression calm if but a touch intrigued. However, there's a hand extended to him and before Weiss can really register it, the laptop seemingly disappears as he takes her hand and rises to his feet.]

    Thanks. [There's a grin and he immediately lets go after that, rubbing the back of his head from where he may have landed thanks to the laptop.] But don't worry too much. It's probably your new power, right? All of us have them now which is a little strange, but you'll learn to get better! ...well, probably.
    glyphic: (SMILE ❄ genuine)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-23 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
    [ WHAT WAS EVEN THAT SEMBLANCE but okay then. ]

    I suppose it must be. [ qrow PROBABLY eventually explained, or someone else did. ] I seem to be able to change the weight of things in a certain area?

    [ if she sounds uncertain that's because she is. not everyone gets strips of paper saying exactly what their powers are, SADLY...! ]
    windeity: (GRIN ♫ windsock)

    [personal profile] windeity 2017-07-23 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
    Either that or your power is trying to crush people which would be just as good, if not a little dangerous. [He's mostly teasing because he's curious and finds the power to be of interest.] But I think that's a safe bet. Does that mean you could maybe make things lighter, too? Usually our powers work in a couple of ways as long as you think of how to apply them.

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    burnblonde: (Bad Girls)

    iv-a

    [personal profile] burnblonde 2017-07-24 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
    [Yang takes her eyes off of Weiss for one second and suddenly the girl is off drinking who knows what substances. Okay, so it's not like Yang is the most responsible either, but she's a little more cautious about strange substances after the incidents with the crab meat.

    Even so...she hadn't quite expected that effect. Yang looks around, but doesn't see a glyph that could be doing this (not that she's sure there's a glyph Weiss knows that would do that anyway).
    ]

    Uh...Weiss? You feeling okay?
    glyphic: (AMUSED ❄ heck yeah)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-24 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
    Oh, Yang! I'm feeling great, why do you ask?? Have you had some of that, what was it - that very sweet juice?

    [ look at least she is Mostly down from it but she's still a lil smiley-er than usual. and a little floatier... ]
    burnblonde: (Bombshell Blonde)

    [personal profile] burnblonde 2017-07-27 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
    Because I don't think I've seen you this relaxed and cheerful since...actually no, I don't think I've ever seen you like this before.

    [Is this...is this what DRUNK Weiss is like? Because if so has YANG STRUCK GOLD. She is clearly amused by this, at least knowing that Weiss doesn't seem to be suffering any other changes. It's mostly just weird...but everything has been weird.]

    No, can't say I've tried any "juice" yet. Is that what this is?
    glyphic: (PLEASED ❄ you're cute)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-27 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ 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.
    burnblonde: (Bad Girls)

    [personal profile] burnblonde 2017-08-02 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
    [She smirks.]

    Well...I can't deny that I don't love a good umbrella drink. But one of us should probably keep her head.

    [Yang can pass on the fun for once--plus she isn't sure she wants to get so loopy as to miss out on the fun of happy fruit juice Weiss. It's just too perfect.]

    Maybe next time though.

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    rosehood: (ruby023)

    iv-a

    [personal profile] rosehood 2017-07-27 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
    [ ruby has had A Day. mostly a day in confusion because wow this sure is not mistral, but it's been a while so she's just accepted it for now. but she misses her friends. hopefully qrow and jaune and everyone are all right. they probably are, they can take care of themselves, and they're safely in mistral while she is... wherever she is?

    so she's not expecting to spot a familiar head of silver-white hair but IS REALLY GLAD TO? and is kind of running full tilt at weiss. ]


    WEEEEIIIIII-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    [ they're floating? THEY'RE FLOATING RATHER HIGH?

    good news is that ruby is not able to near-tackle weiss, bad news is where is the ground going ]
    glyphic: (STARTLE ❄ oh noooooo)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-27 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
    [ she knows that shout? it usually precedes her being nearly tackled? so even coming down from a juice high weiss looks around, which is enough to spot that ruby is floating, and realize her own feet are off the ground...

    OH NO ]


    Ruby! What are you doing?

    [ weiss you're doing it ]
    rosehood: (ruby052)

    [personal profile] rosehood 2017-07-29 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
    I'm not doing anything! Something must be messing with the... gravity?

    [ "something" because what the heck messes with gravity?? it sounds like a semblance someone could have but neither of them do so. what. ]

    We have to get back down!
    glyphic: (SWORD ❄ art)

    [personal profile] glyphic 2017-07-30 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
    Hold on, I'm thinking!

    [ look. LOOK. okay she reaches out her hands towards ruby. ]

    We need leverage. [ SO USING TEAMWORK... ]