( 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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[teratias]

[Waver had stored a few pieces of food away for later. There were, among other things here, raisin bread and that had seemed like something to cut up and then have on hand for a snack. Besides, it was a little extra fruit, and Waver hadn't seen too much of that back on the island hub.

When he returns to find someone going through his stuff, Waver stands bug eyed for about a second before starting to get angry.]

Hey, what the hell?!

[claiomhsolais]

[It doesn't even cross her mind that the reason he might be upset is that this is his bread... Nope, not at all. Because honestly? There are much bigger tragedies right now.]

I know, right? I mean, raisins are okay on their own, but why would you even put them in something else! They're just wrinkly grapes! I'm not gonna have a grape cookie!

[teratias]

That's my food you're going through!

[Waver immediately reclaims his bread by snatching it back, and the glare he offers is one that could wither flowers. Unfortunately for everyone, Waver is not good at being gracious about most things.]

Who the hell just wanders over to people's stuff and starts going through it?!

[claiomhsolais]

Oh? Well, you should've packed some better food then! Do you really like this stuff?

[Still not understanding his anger, Akko stands up proudly to introduce herself.]

Atsuko Kagari, at your service! But you can just call me Akko!

i am sorry for him i really am

[teratias]

[Waver gapes for a second. It is very rare for his bad temper to transmute into silence rather than more yelling, but well, this level of brazen deserves it.

He gets himself together after a minute, shoving his bread back in with the rest of his stuff.]

If you're going to go digging through other people's belongings, you do not get to criticize their taste in food! And seriously, how long were you digging through everyone's stuff?!

NO I'M SORRY FOR HER

[claiomhsolais]

[Akko just pouts because really? You didn't have to throw a temper tantrum! She's been perfectly polite, right? She introduced herself and everything...]

Geez, I was just making a suggestion... And I donno. I went through a few other things, but there wasn't any food so I didn't see the point in them.

I FEEL WORSE BC THIS NERD KNOWS ALL ABOUT MAGICIANS BEING JERKS

[teratias]

Seriously? You know that this is the kind of stuff you get arrested for, right?

[Does she not get that she's committing theft...?!]

little jerk academia

[claiomhsolais]

Huh? I don't think police would care too much about me stealing from people who supposedly kidnapped me. Unless... unless I fell off a leyline somewhere?

[She suddenly realizes that while she might have sort of solved her hunger, there's another issue here.]

Oh, right! Where am I?

p much

[teratias]

[Waver groans, rubbing the bridge of his nose.]

Also, it's just rude! How are you not getting people don't like when you take their stuff?!

[He throws both of his hands up, restraining the desire to scream to the heavens.]

The place is called Aimintas, the locals are called Palai. You've been brought into a coven of magic users, congratulations.

or fate/jerk

[claiomhsolais]

Well, what was I supposed to do? I was hungry! I didn't know where I was and... there was food! So I ate it!

[The rest of what he tells her takes a moment to sink in.]

Eh? A coven? No, that's... That can't be right. You see, I'm a student at Luna Nova Academy! I'm not really the type of witch who'd fit in with a coven either, hehe.

Both are entirely correct

[teratias]

Look around? Ask? Not just launch yourself into people's crap?

[Whatever Luna Nova is, he hasn't heard of it. But Waver does understand the whole being able to cast a spell but the idea of a coven being...weird.]

The witch in charge really doesn't care.

[claiomhsolais]

I looked around... I didn't see anyone to ask... so, I decided it was either eat this stuff or starve! I think that's pretty reasonable if you ask me!

[This whole situation is really weird, though... Do covens still exist? She probably slept during that part of magic history.]

Where is she? Cause I can't exactly stay here, sorry! I mean, if I'm gone from school too long they'll probably expel me...

[teratias]

How long did you wait? Two seconds?

[Probably two seconds. Waver bristles, especially at that time sensitive claim.]

Who's to say? You're not the only person that got pulled away from something time sensitive either.

[claiomhsolais]

That's not important!

[It was one second.]

Did you hear me? I said I might get expelled! And if I get expelled from Luna Nova, I'll never become a great witch like Shiny Chariot! It's not just time sensitive! It's my whole life on the line here!

[teratias]

Yes it is!

[He knew it.]

Look, for all any of us know, when we're done we get put right back where we were like no time passed at all. My life's actually on the line back home!

[Shit.

That's the first time Waver's even implied he's in the middle of something dangerous back home.]

[claiomhsolais]

You say that like mine isn't! But...

[Honestly, she doesn't care too much cause she figures he's exaggerating and she's saved the world before? No biggie.]

If that's the case... I won't get expelled, right?

[teratias]

Literally, okay?

[She's not gonna get that either, probably. Waver gives up, and reaches to pick up his messenger bag from the pile of stuff. He needs to get a few things out of it anyway. As he shuffles through, he continues to answer.]

No, you won't. Given that everyone gets magic here, you might go back a more experienced witch.

[claiomhsolais]

Wait, what? Everyone gets magic...? That's incredible!

[She should probably worry a little more about the logistics of that since magic has to come from somewhere, but? Who cares?]

Does that mean even someone like you has magic?

[teratias]

Hey! I was a mage before I even got here!

[That's it. He's done. Waver humphs, and slings his messenger bag over his shoulder.]

[claiomhsolais]

Hey, wait, really?!

[She's more surprised than anything, especially since she doesn't understand how it would be insulting.]

Or do you just mean you're from a magic family or something like that?

[teratias]

[In a second, all of the anger is gone from Waver and replaced with the proud idiot he always wanted to be viewed as at Clock Tower. No one will know, and Iskandar would want him to have more pride in his abilities anyway!]

Both!

[claiomhsolais]

But you're not a witch!

[Give her just a second to process all this...]

So... in your world, anyone can harness the potential to use magic?

[teratias]

No, I'm a mage. It's just a differ...wait, do only girls use magic back home?

[That'd....be interesting. But no matter, and all at once, Waver's overbearing pride comes toppling down. Damn, she had to ask the question about magic inheritance, huh?]

Not really. You have to be born with magic circuits, which let you use magecraft. [There's a lot of stuff worth leaving out for a basic explanation.]
Usually when you have kids with another mage, your offspring's more powerful. But you can at least improve the quality of your circuits in your own lifetime!

[Okay, that thesis got him in trouble, but who here would ever know that?]

[claiomhsolais]

[While he explains, she looks at him dumbfounded, almost as if he's speaking fish language except not because she can speak that now. Look, she's lucky enough she has a basic understanding of her own world's magic. Adding another one on top of that is asking way too much.]

I.. see... Yep, it all makes sense. What an interesting world you're from! But uh... yeah! Where I'm from, only witches can use magic, but there exists a potential in everyone. And there are magic families and stuff and they have stronger potentials or something? I'm from a non-magic family, but I'm still a pretty strong witch!

[teratias]

Hm. I follow. [And Waver does, since well, that's a pretty close alignment to most of back home.]

We'd call you a first generation mage back home. The founder of a line.