( 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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[probablynoteren]

... What? That's not what I--

[There are robots here?! They haven't quite hit the point of advanced A.I. where he comes from, having veered off the rails onto the route of bioweapons, but that's neither here nor there -- Jumin's suggestion is totally out of left field and Lenka ends up just staring at him for a moment.

And then gives him a critical look.

And okay honestly, he's a lineface, he's not the best person to go to for an evaluation on how robotic you are. The pot calling the kettle black, except quite literally, because talking appliances. I've lost control of this narration. The point is, he wouldn't be surprised if he were suddenly working with robots either. Not that much, anyway.]

I mean, it's okay if you're a robot. [taking things literally....] We don't have just humans. Just not, uh.

[He waves at whatever the Palai are. He hasn't seen someone amphibian on their side so far...?!]

u3u

[yancat]

[His eyebrow quirks ever so slightly, because he obviously didn't mean he was robotic nor take offense to it, Seven just takes his jokes a dissertation too far and—well, it doesn't matter either way. The point is he's human. That's all that matters.]

Ah, yes. Ours as well.

[Evolution hasn't been this kind to their amphibians yet.]

So all humans must be part of the coven; none are obviously native here. Do you know magic, then?

[probablynoteren]

Not here, no...

[Lenka quirks an eyebrow back, still low-key trying to figure out why Jumin is considered a robot back home. Look, he doesn't know him well enough except for the fact that he's well-dressed and well-spoken and oddly put together for someone who's just been dumped directly into an underwater beach community. Hmm.

At any rate, 'human' isn't always the best identifier (the hub itself is a separate matter), but here it's something. The best thing is, everyone else is much shorter than they are, so it's easier to find fellow coven members in the crowd regardless.

(Come to think of it, it's surprising that the houses are so big.)]

I don't really know magic. I just have it, since I'm here. [a considering pause] They gave it to me, I guess.

[He still doesn't really get the minutiae of what's wanted from them, to be frank.]

[yancat]

[I guess they'll be here quirking eyebrows at each other forever. Though you'd think his unusual calmness would already clue Lenka in...]

The coven, you mean? [Sounds fake, but after getting dumped in the middle of Frog Central, he's not so sure.] What sort of magic?

[probablynoteren]

[Calmness is only robotic if you're a little shit, and Lenka is only a little shit sometimes, when it's been earned. In the meantime, the Palai Lenka was talking to a few moments ago had deferred to Jumin once he spoke up -- but is now impatiently tugging at Lenka's scarf again. He's starting to get the feeling that the scarf was a bad choice if only because it provides too many handholds.

Anyway.

Lenka looks between the Palai and Jumin, gives a little sigh, and then a small wave. Have a refrigerator, guys. It just sort of plops into the street without fanfare.]

That. That's what the coven gave me.

[Meantime, the Palai is so excited about the fridge that it starts rummaging around for food to eat, never mind that it's refrigerated. So at least the matter of the restaurant is settled (maybe); the problem is that more Palai start to crowd around, only to start a scuffle over the fridge. Whoops.]

[yancat]

...

The power to summon household appliances.

[He was. He was expecting something more Harry Potter, but okay. This refrigerator might give them problems in the next two minutes, though. No blood should be shed over a fridge that fell from the sky.]

Can you make it disappear?

[probablynoteren]

Not appliances... just refrigerators.

[That is never not going to sound stupid, so mostly he just sounds resigned by now.

Lenka shakes his head when the Palai start a slapfight over a slab of cheese and wades in to try and separate what is turning into cheese appreciation factions. Honestly, these are really overexcitable lizards but at least they're small enough that he can more or less pick them up by the scruff.

Instead of making the fridge disappear, though, he summons a second and then a third one in the hopes that it'll distract the Palai from their sudden territorial needs. Welcome to Frog Central, where refrigerators are part of the local wildlife.]

I can make them disappear, but for now...

[For now, the Palai have somehow unearthed a pipe and top hat from one of the fridges and they are losing their minds. There is now a bizarrely well-dressed Palai whapping their friends with a pipe about the size of its head. Great.]

[yancat]

[ Lenka, why.

Jumin has so many questions. However, he knows when he shouldn't press further. He has a feeling this boy doesn't have the answer to half of them, anyway. For now, their escape. While the Palai are occupied, he adjusts his cuffs. He has absolutely no idea how a top hat and a pipe ended up in those refrigerators, but if it'll help them lose the crowd, then he'll suspend his disbelief for now. ]

Good call.

[ Soon, he'll have to train himself to take it as reality...

Jumin takes the lead, walking past the commotion before any of the Palai can follow them. He assumes Lenka's following. ]

What do I call you?

[probablynoteren]

Thanks... I'm still figuring out the uses for this power.

[It's a bit wry. There are the obvious uses for the ability to suddenly make refrigerators appear, of course, but when you're traveling through space on some kind of island and then expected to make nice with lizard people under the sea... you have to come up with less obvious uses.

Ergo, distracting your confusing and neverending fanclub when the entire city is your fanclub.

Lenka keeps up with Jumin, trotting at his heels and covering their retreat (mostly he's just looking back to check that the Palai aren't hurting themselves or creating a public safety hazard, you wouldn't think a few fridges would be that bad but they're also about three times the size of the average inhabitant?!).]

Lenka. Utsugi Lenka. I haven't seen you before, so you must be one of the new ones.

[yancat]

[ The Palai are LARPing. Jumin thinks they'll be fine. ]

Han Jumin. So this isn't the first time the coven has abducted others, I take it?

[That explains why Lenka isn't as clueless. The creativity with the fridges, but he supposes one naturally learns to adapt to what they are given.]

[probablynoteren]

[What has his life come to that he's facilitating improvised amphibian LARPing under the ocean with kitchen appliances. He has experience with exactly one of those things.

Soon enough, they're out of sight and so are Lenka's refrigerators. He'll have to remember to banish them at some point; he might forget, but the magic won't.]

... No. We weren't the first, either, about-- a month ago. The ones before us are in charge.

[yancat]

[Whatever he's doing, he should probably keep doing it. Jumin's just glad none have tried to ruin his suit.]

And their objective? Whatever it is, I'm certain it's illegal.

[probablynoteren]

Uh... I guess?

[... Their objective(s) is so absurd and outside his realm of experience (like, even more so than amphibians and LARPing) that trying to quantify it with law hadn't occurred to him.]

They want us to help feed a space witch, or something.

[Where does that fall on the lawful scale???]

[yancat]

[Neutral to Chaotic Evil, probably.

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

[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.]

[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.

[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...?

[yancat]

[ They've figured out the plot of Spellbind, everyone go home.

They're interdimensional travellers. This might be more serious than he could ever fathom. Maybe he should have read one of Luciel's fantasy novels for fun... ]

To the charging station.

[ Hm. It sounds less urgent when he puts it that way. ]

I left my charger.

[ Better. ]

[probablynoteren]

There are charging stations?

[He doesn't remember seeing one, but then again he hadn't been looking, and wouldn't know what to look for, anyway. For all he knows, the Palai have figured out how to extract electricity from glowing fish. No, it's crazier than that. Interdimensional travel essentially means his life isn't going to get any less weird.

Sometimes you just have to accept that.]

What are you trying to charge?

[yancat]

My phone. It's running out of battery. I'm aware that it might not be compatible with the technology of this world, but I'd like to experiment. I hear the charging stations are... unique.

[ They walk at a steady pace as Jumin searches the shopping district for a stall or a sign. ]

Where are you from, Lenka?

[probablynoteren]

What do you know about the charging stations...?

[He's not sure why charging the phone is a priority here -- he feels like it might be a bit much to hope to phone home from under an ocean, but what does he know. He's never actually owned a cell phone. Lenka would try to keep an eye out here, but he needs more information, first.

That, and he's stalling a little bit while he tries to think of how to describe where he came from. He only knows a minimal amount about where everyone else came from, as well, but he's gathered that they can be very different.

Well, he could just hit the basics.]

... I'm from Earth, 2071. Japan. [considering all the timetravel and teleporting shenanigans, that might be the safest bet] After the world was destroyed by Aragami.

[Basics! He sounds thoughtful, but also like he's describing a situation that happened to someone else entirely.]

[yancat]

[ Jumin gives him a Look. ]

That they charge electronics.

[ Which is to say, not much. His phone might not be too important at the moment, but knowing where the nearest charging stations are could come in handy. Jumin is starting to suspect he'll be here for a while. ]

Are you trying to be funny? People say I have an awful sense of humor, but I like to think otherwise.

[probablynoteren]

[... Okay, so they're wandering blindly with no idea of what they're looking for. Jumin is a new arrival, sure, and he's dressed to the nines and looks vaguely competent, sure -- but Lenka's starting to think he might have to steer him a little more. Or at least do his best not to get dragged all over the city on a wild goose chase for a phone.

Anyway, for the time being he'll just stare back evenly at the Look, a bit nonplussed.]

I'm not trying to be funny. [but judging by the reaction, this might be a losing battle here] ... Where are you from?

[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.

[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.]