( 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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[ Julius' original intention was to retreat to somewhere private before prying the wood from his body, to avoid alarming those around him. But it seems that if he were to do it, it might cause a fair deal of pain on top of what he has to deal with on a daily basis. ]

No... just give me a moment.

[ He presses control back into himself, willing the haze before his eyes to pass, and Lenka come back into focus. ]

I'm fine. Don't concern yourself with it.

[probablynoteren]

[Lenka opens his mouth to press the issue, closes it, and then shakes his head briefly to himself. He's still not sure what's going on with the plants, but if Julius has something else going on -- and he's absolutely not 100% here, it's easy to see from this distance -- then it's his duty to do something about it.

As a fellow God Eater, as a senior(?) coven member, and just as himself. So instead of using words, for the moment, he motions towards a less-crowded side of one of the buildings, half-hidden in a smaller side street. The facade is a little more ornamental than you'd expect -- it looks like the side of a store -- and there's enough room to sit.

Meantime, he's thinking.]

I don't think I can help. [half-apology, half-concession that even if he knew what was going on, his only power at the moment is kitchen appliances, and this is not likely to be fixed with an ice pack] But maybe Genette can. She's one of the hosts, for the coven. She has healing abilities.

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[ 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. ]

[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.]

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[ 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.

[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.]

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[ Silence is golden, as they so say. Julius slips into it easily, his attention half on the road and half on himself, the awareness of myriad cells dampened by force of will alone. He's held himself together so far, and he has no intention to change that anytime soon. ]

Is this the only city on this world?

[ The stares... he can take them. Not that he'd expect any different even back home. ]

[probablynoteren]

[Lenka, for his part, is starting to resign himself to the staring too -- certainly, he'd turned some heads at the Far East Branch just for being a New-Type, and then some more that were entirely Lindow's fault (it's oddly soothing, to start blaming his former captain for things as if he were around again) -- but lizard eyes are a little different.

The Palai seem pretty much harmless, but it still makes the hair on the back of his neck stand on end to have something nonhuman tracking him whether out of curiosity or not.

Possibly it's a good thing he hasn't scared up a real weapon yet. So to speak.]

Is there any world with just one city? [is his confused reaction to Julius' question; but Lenka indicates above their heads, at the floating shadow of the island] I don't know, but I think there's something up there. The Palai seem interested in the island.

[He hasn't yet figured out for what reason; but either way it makes no sense to have just one city, does it?]

[bulletbiter]

[ Frankly, the island even tops the Helix Tree. That's saying something. ]

I don't think I understand why we're here. Is there a mission?

[ So it's a much larger scale of world than he would have preferred. ]

[probablynoteren]

I... think we're supposed to be traveling for missions. But we haven't been given one.

[Despite living not far from water for his first fifteen years or so, Lenka doesn't know a whole lot about what's under or over it -- islands aren't even a thing when there are Aragami lurking in the depths and probably no sea creatures whatsoever. All of this is something else from his point of view.

More disconcerting still, he would have expected some direction by now, and there has been none. They've been given supplies and released on this strange world like driftwood.]

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[ That is... quite useless, really. Without a goal, it is difficult for Julius to conceive of a plan. ]

They should provide us with a task if it needs fulfilling.

[ Half-folding his arms while they walk. It's the second biggest gripe he has about this place. ]

[probablynoteren]

The task is... getting magic for Qri. The witch who brought us.

[Not that any of them have ever seen Qri, except possibly for their seniors in magical kidnapping. For all they know, Qri is a figment created to give them something to aim for -- but for the moment, Lenka isn't cynical enough yet to go that far.]

That's why we're here. But that's all we know.

[If they're expected to somehow make their own mission, it's going to be a bit of a challenge for those with only a rudimentary idea of magic (or none whatsoever).]

[bulletbiter]

I had thought magic was not real.

[ The dimensional transportation disproved that, but it didn't help that they lack a scientific framework to go about it, either. ]

That's quite vague a task.