( 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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Hakuno Kishinami | Fate/Extra CCC

[sealeted]

c. if found please return to

[All things considered, Hakuno is still a bit frazzled and out of sorts after her brush with deletion. Waking up in a brand new world is entirely within her expectations, sure, but waking up alone? No, that makes no sense. After everything, after the fighting and oaths and glorious exit from the Moon Cell itself, it seems totally anathema that Gilgamesh is nowhere to be found.

So, naturally, her first discussion with the natives ends up being an effort to find her wayward Servant.]

...no, you'd definitely know him if you saw him. He's taller than me, with red eyes and yellow hair. Probably wearing a lot of gold? Possibly cackling to himself or insulting people. You couldn't miss him.


f. baby-sat

[Her second contact with the natives is much less Gilgamesh-centric. All things considered, this isn't a terrible situation. She's not being dissolved into the sea of imaginary numbers, for starters, and wherever Gilgamesh is, he undoubtedly is keeping himself amused and in some manner of luxury. All things considered, cute lizard babies are a huge step up from murderous programs and other NPCs trying to muddle through.

Hakuno is half-buried in a pile of eager little kids, several different efforts to clamber up over her are coinciding and sabotaging one another. She laughs softly and wobbles, trying not to collapse under them all.]


g. fresh lizardcat video memes

...hm.

[Compared to the Moon Cell, this library is a little less straightforward and... well, foreign, obviously. The processing power doesn't have anything on the Grail, true, but Hakuno has settled down at a station to surf the video archives.

She tugs at a stray lock of hair, humming faintly along with some sort of traditional folk song.]

I wonder, what sort of instruments are those?

G.

[guerrilla]

Your guess is as good as mine. I never paid much attention to those musical types.

[He had more important stuff to do.]

[sealeted]

Well, th—

[She starts talking before she turns her head, but her voice cuts out just as soon her eyes and ears register how familiar this person is. Once the realization dawns, she rounds on him, fingers curling in his cloak as her eyes rake over him.]

Archer?

[Goodness. It's as if she's seen a ghost.]

[guerrilla]

Hey, little lady. It's been a while.

[But also please give him some space? Maybe? He cranes his head back a little, though he doesn't do anything to dislodge her hands from his cloak just yet.]

Glad to see you made it out in one piece. You're welcome, by the way.

[Yep, it's definitely that asshole of an Archer from the Moon Cell.]

[sealeted]

[She does let go of him, but she bounces on her toes in muted excitement when he confirms that it really is him. No other Servant she knows has quite that level of snide goodwill.]

It is you! I thought... I mean, I'm really glad and really grateful, definitely. But I don't understand how you're here.

[Remember that heroic last stand, Robin? Remember making her kill you to preserve your ability to be 'you'?]

g

[probablynoteren]

... I'm not sure. I haven't seen those before.

[From the station next to her, where he's been perusing some electronic 3D maps of the city and poking curiously as well at the multimedia archives (albeit in a bit more of a haphazard way than Hakuno is), Lenka tilts his head at her screen. The music is distracting, a background noise he isn't so much used to having.

Unnecessary noise didn't used to be much of a thing, back home, and the hub had been quieter despite the coven crowd but everything is so loud here.]

I don't think we had any instruments that played underwater.

[sealeted]

[She leans in, chin in her hand and lightly bobbing to the slow, trilling beat.

The Moon Cell hadn't truly been underwater, even if it had felt that way at times, so sound had usually been crystal clear unless corruption was involved.]

The bow looks almost like a bubble wand.

[probablynoteren]

A bubble wand...?

[Now that he looks, any moving parts on the strange lizard instruments are letting off a steady stream of bubbles. Everything is slow and stately in terms of movement, but the sound is...

Lenka runs a few quick searches on his terminal. It's hard to know what to look for; he's used to there being much less information, and much less media variety. But...]

So it's called bubble pop. [...] I think.

[sealeted]

Really? Hm... I think I saw that there was a game called that too. Maybe... it's different in writing? Or... the song is about the game?

[How weird. But hey, that's to be expected with a totally new culture, right?]

c

[unvictory]

Hm...

[It sounds familiar, but...could it be?]

The King of Heroes?

[sealeted]

Oh, so you've met him.

[...ah, but wait, this is a fairly pretty woman, if a bit too large in the chest for his specific tastes. Hakuno grimaces.]

Should I be apologizing for that?

[unvictory]

No, no, it's alright. I understand how he behaves, but Chaldea's filled to the brim with servants. He's never paid me much mind.

[Just like Hakuno thought. Not his type.]

I don't think he's here, though. If he were you'd have heard him before you saw him.

[sealeted]

Chaldea? Is that what this place is called?

[She thought it was 'Aimintas' but Chaldea could be a city or the name of some sort of housing location. Or perhaps, it's some territory within the Thron of Heroes, known only to the Spirits recorded there...?]

Ah. ...yes, I suppose so. He'll probably scold me when I do cross paths with him again, for 'wandering off' or something.

c

[yancat]

Is he not at the coven?

[ The man is just as lost as her Servant is, but at least his suit is still in one pieces. Er, three. ]

I haven't seen the man, but if he is like you and I, he must be part of the coven. Is it normal to assume he'll be back at the stone house by sunset?

[sealeted]

[And at least it isn't leopard print. It's a nice, elegant suit. Hakuno approves.]

Well, we were together before I woke up here. Usually, he makes quite a commotion, so I'm sure I'll find him soon.

[yancat]

[ She has good taste. ]

I see. He sounds like a troublesome companion.

[ And Jumin would continue without any sense of tact, but the Palai are still gathered around them, listening to their conversation with awe and curiosity. Some begin to speak up to offer their help. Who is this golden, red-eyed creature these humans speak of? Is he dangerous? Should they look for him?

The Palai stare at Jumin, who stares back at Hakuno. Well? ]

[sealeted]

Yeah, he is. But, he makes up for it.

[Sometimes.]

Ah, well... I can't say he's harmless, and he's pretty egotistical, but he probably wouldn't be interested in just attacking people out of the blue. Maybe if they insulted him, but otherwise he's just...

[What's the word she's looking for...?]

Ostentatious, I suppose? His name is Gilgamesh.

f

[passionfist]

[She's done a great job of undergoing Character Development since she last saw Hakuno, and when she first sees her precious senpai, she'd really like to show off just how much she's grown as a person since they last met. Maybe Hakuno would even be...proud of her???

On the other hand, she catches sight of what is clearly Hakuno being accosted by tiny lizard people, and completely misreading the situation approaches with the telltale sound of blades scraping along the ground.]

H-hold still! I'll save you, Senpai...!!

[And up come the GIANT SWORD HANDS.

The shadow of both loom over Hakuno and her new friends with the threat of...whatever she plans on doing. To the credit of the palai, they just think this is super neat.]

!!!!!!!!!

[sealeted]

[OH SHIT.]

Ah! Ha! Hahah, no, no, careful, they're babies!

[...that's a bit mean to leave it like that, given this isn't a P U N I S H S T A R T situation, so she quickly follows up on it.]

You... you have to be extra careful with them, when they're this small. And. And make sure they have all the right support?

<3

[passionfist]

...babies?

[Her hands are now totally stationary. The shadow looms, but the blades have stopped moving.]

You mean...you aren't being attacked?

<3!!!

[sealeted]

Yeah. Yeah, um... lizard-babies.

[She carefully stands, a few of the little ones hanging off her loose clothes.]\

Really, they're just being... curious. And playful.

C

[inspiteful]

Sorry, I haven't seen him.

[ Though hearing the way Hakuno is describing this missing person makes Skylark wonder if it's maybe for the best if he isn't here. "Cackling to himself or insulting people' doesn't exactly fill Skylark with confidence. ]

He sounds like the type who'll end up getting found sooner or later, so if he's here you'll probably find him soon...?

[sealeted]

Yeah.

[Hakuno has to sigh, though.]

Still, I figure sooner is better than later, especially if he's looking for me.

[inspiteful]

I'm...guessing he's that kind of person, huh.

[The type that's difficult to deal with.]

[sealeted]

One of a kind, hopefully.

[What kind of fresh hell would multiple Gilgameshes be?]

So, other than him, has anything caught your interest around here?