( TDM #9 | FAUX 4TH WALL LOG )

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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. For this app round, you can utilize both a linked sample OR a written sample!

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 game-given 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.

IMPORTANT: This world is low-frequency. No canon powers or abilities are allowed! Also check out the setting information for more info about Shehui.

IMPORTANT: This TDM should be treated like a 4th wall of sorts. While the threads can be considered canon, it can be a character free for all -- you're allowed to toss in any character, duplicate or AU that you'd like for a surreal experience.

IMPORTANT AGAIN AND NEW: This is post, while an OOC TDM, does count as a log! Any threads on this post can be used as activity outside of AC bonus and considered game canon if you do so wish.

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. There's a lot to take in here -- you feel weird, your surroundings are weird. Everything is just weird. For starters, there's that new piece of jewelry inserted in the space above your chest. That certainly wasn't there before you opened your eyes. For some of you, the shock is a bit more sudden. You've packed up your belongings and you've been escorted through the city into a building similar to the one utilized during the jailbreak -- down a pothole-like door that's extremely similar to the other one you might have been familiar with during that same incident. There's a long tunnel with no windows that you travel through, slowly but surely. It's dimly lit, and you can see others in front of you -- don't worry about any repercussions for cutting in line. You eventually get to a closed door and your monitor escort opens the large turnstile for you, gesturing for you to continue onward. The walk won't be much longer, they reassure you, but they won't be traveling with you from here. After a fifteen minute walk, you'll reach another door, though this one is much more manageable when it comes to opening it on your own. Once you step through, things are certainly...different. A ▢ As soon as you step outside, a sort of blackness hits you. It's hard to describe -- it feels more like everything around you, even the people, become a void. The blackness is a concept, not a color. Then something comes into focus...it's something you recognize? Or maybe something that you're unfamiliar with altogether. There's a person there, or maybe you're alone for now. For a few minutes you're in a classroom, but then it's a clearing. This entire experience, no matter what it looks like, leaves a strange taste in your mouth...it's like the one you may have found in your mouth once you discovered that magic you were told about for the first time. That isn't to say these voids are endless. In reality, the space around you is tainted, but you still exist on this plane -- the outside of Shehui. Things feel very real, but once you force yourself to move outside of these spaces, you mind your shoes are firmly planted in grass that is inches long, potentially surrounded by other people with no idea what's going on; they too have just escaped their own little void. From here you can feel it near to you -- you can sense the magic that's seeping out of somewhere, and you can even see it if you squint. The air around it shimmers with a certain sparkle. It's, again, hard to accurately put into words. But you can see these voids once you really focus on them. However, you can't see the people who happen to be trapped inside. B ▢ Once you reach these safe havens of non-magic, raw and in its purest form, you'll find yourself in a reality that is somewhat...overgrown. There aren't any buildings outside of the giant dome structure of Shehui in the background, as far as you can see. There are trees and plains, grassy fields and the occasional oddly-colored deer. If you look hard enough, you can find a small pond here or there. Just watch out. Magic can leak into that water, and that means... C ▢ ...ingesting that contaminated substance carries that magic with you. Absorbing this magic directly into your body creates that void, except it's contained within you. Once you do, you carry around whatever you might see or hear with you. This might create a comical scenario, like you're ordering from an invisible pizza man. It may also trap you in something more sinister. This magic can use your mind against itself. Whatever is in that void, which can last for hours, is up to you...whether you can control it or not.

[ OOC: For this TDM, characters testing in can create their own scenarios and interact with characters in very bizarre and imaginative ways. Want your character to be the judge in a murder trial, roping in other characters as defendant and accuser? Or maybe you'd like to do something different with your character -- age them up, give them different powers? Anything can happen in these voids of concentrated magic, and that also means anyone can appear. Your creativity can create any situation you'd like to put your character in, and these situations can also pull in other characters. Everyone is there, after all! Characters can also take a break and do some minor exploration -- though more info will come out about the setting and potential in a later post, don't worry. For ingested magic, the character will be in a scenario like the one mentioned above, except it won't be a potentially public experience. For instance, your character can project a horrible experience into the void in Prompt A, but in Prompt C? That horrible experience would be stuck in their own mind...speaking on the negative end of the spectrum, anyway!

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[Um, a photography studio... was not exactly something Suzu expected to see on the other side of a door drifting in The Void. It's kind of a let down, to be honest. It'd be cool to end up in like, the Underworld or something awesome like that. Anything, really, but definitely not like this.

And, well, hearing someone gush over another person so... intensely... Um, did she interrupt something private? Actually, the more she was hearing, the more she was getting uncomfortable. Her face couldn't help but contort into a slightly disgusted cringe. Maybe she should just... leave---

Ack. Too late. He noticed her! He's huge (comparatively) and there's a scary look in his eyes!! STRANGER DANGER! No, wait, this goes beyond just stranger danger! It's a whole danger of another level! However, Suzu can't let him sense her fear! Not only because she's a rebellious Fallen Angel, but because her survival instincts are telling her to...!

She does her best to act like his oppressive aura is nothing to her, as she lets out a huff and shrugs dismissively.]

Haah? The hell if I know! I just followed a door here, not like it's any of your damn business. [Yes, good. Smooth delivery. Very 「Rock N Roll」. Keep it up, she's got this.] And likewise, a wingless 「Lucifer」 like myself doesn't care enough about your boyfriend or whatever to do anything to him, or know where he ran off to. Look, I don't even wanna be here, so I'm just gonna turn around and---

[Hold on. It's then that she notices the emblem on the scary guy's uniform. It's... very familiar... Likewise, as she much as she didn't wish it to be so, she also felt like she saw this guy somewhere before...

Like on billboards... Or on TV... Oh shit.]

... Wait, is this the other school? [Like, it couldn't be that easy to get home, is it?! But wait, if this was the other school, that means...! Suddenly, her terrible fury and aggression become very genuine.] Oi, creeper guy! Where the hell is this?!

[annoyings]

Haa? Who let an insolent little girl in here? I'll really send you straight to hell if you don't tell me where Yuu-kun went.

[ yeah, sena is absolutely going to use that downright oppressive aura to leer over this girl. seriously? the only girl that's supposed to be in this school is the producer, and even then...

but. the "other school" gives him pause, and he puts his hands on his hips. ] This is Yumenosaki, which you would know if you managed to sneak in. Tch~ that Emperor'll be less than happy when he learns someone broached security. Especially a little girl.

[ he sounded too happy about that?? ]

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[The oppressive aura and cold threats would normally affect Suzu and have her cowering in fear, but not today. There was one reason why she’s standing her ground, fully embracing her rebel persona even in the face of potential death(?): The chance to finally see that person again. She absolutely won’t let it slip by.

In response to the threats, she just places a hand over her eye patch in a defiant chuuni pose.]

… Hmph, seeing as you’re so happy ‘bout reporting this, I should’ve known you were just another mutt kissin’ up to authority. No surprise you can’t comprehend what I’m saying; alas, my words never reached beings of a higher order. Let me spell it out for you. [She says the next few sentences slowly, with exaggerated enunciation:] I don’t know where this “Yuu-kun” went. I don’t know who he is. I don’t even freakin’ care. Also, quit callin’ me “little girl.” I’m a third year, dammit.

[Never mind that at this time point she landed in, green Kimisaki uniforms equated to a second year. Trivial details not worth arguing over! There is something far greater at stake.]

Anyway, that’s not important. You. [She addresses him again, venomously, folding her arms across her chest and glaring daggers.] Have you seen a girl with brown hair and a pink cardigan around here? She goes to this school now, right? Hurry up and tell me!

[annoyings]

[ oooh, very scary. all of this is just annoying sena (of course it is) and the way she starts speaking slowly to him practically makes his haunches raise. god, he hates girls, they're so annoying and this one's no different! his scowl turns particularly thunderous, going from slightly annoyed to raining hellfire and brimstone in about a second. ]

[ his voice is nothing but mean, the lightness to it faked. of course he's seen the producer around, that girl sticks her nose into everything, even knights.

...though, for girls, she's not that bad. izumi isn't slobbering over her like the rest of yumenosaki, and, apparently, like this girl. another one? it just pisses him off. ] Why should I tell you that? Sounds like you're a stalker.

[ POT, KETTLE ] You've got some nerve talking to me like that. You wouldn't be the first person to dress up and sneak into the school... and you did it wearing the wrong uniform. Are you an id~iot?

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Oi, I don't wanna hear that kind of accusation comin' from you.

[Her response to being called a stalker is abrupt and blunt. Hypocritical, much?

Strangers are scary, guys more so, but anger and irritation is quickly replacing fear the more they speak. How long Suzu's obsession-fueled courage will last is anyone's guess, but at this rate she's ready to fight a rhinoceros if that means getting to see that person. Likewise, the atmosphere in this room is quickly becoming reminiscent of those paintings with a dragon and tiger fighting each other.]

Are you sure the idiot isn't you? What's wrong with dropping by to a nearby school to see an old friend, huh? I didn't even sneak in here, anyway. It's a waste of my time and breath to explain, so I ain't gonna. Also, seeing that you didn't outright say you don't know such a person, I'm guessing you have seen her. You better not be bullying her. I'll make sure you'll burn to death with the flames of hell if you do.