( TDM | #3 )

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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.

Prompts A and B take place on the island above Aimintas, so in-game characters can only utilize these prompts if they know how to get here or you can handwave how they would get there. It's not that deep.

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... One point of implant is a sandy beach, next to an ocean shore. This may not be that abnormal to you, but there is a point of interest -- there is a huge, pulsating cube that lies inland, covering most of the island. There's about a mile stretch of land surrounding the cube's sides that is forested and sandy, but that's it. There is the ocean, though the tide is very choppy. Characters may be able to swim across...or can they? A ▢ Want to take a dip in the ocean? If you're so inclined, be careful -- the currents are strong and can quickly suck your character under if you aren't careful enough. There ARE boats on the shore, and you can also utilize these as a means of escape. Your character will just have to hope there's someone around to help them if they land in trouble! B ▢ Some other characters may be checking out the island, so there's a chance your characters aren't alone on this mysterious island! If you ask them where you are, your character can take a magical journey to their real destination. Hope they aren't afraid of water travel.

The more fortunate potential coven members -- or those who made it from the island to Aimintas -- are located in the marketplace. There they'll be introduced to the Palai, their strange cultures and attitudes, as well as renewed excitement at the new members. There's getting to be so many coven members that they won't immediately recognize new additions from the old guard, but they're hospitable creatures anyway. C ▢ The Palai have recently become interested in weaponry, especially weapons powered by Elto energy magic. There are still Palai youth who haven't learned their lesson from the coven celebration, running around and shooting characters with magical slingshots in an effort to be mischevious. The newer development, though, is that the older Palai are also trying to get in on practicing using weaponry. Because they aren't totally sure who are new coven members and who has been here for a while, a Palai might challenge you to a duel. Will you take this as a threat, or the friendly scrimmage that it's intended to be? D ▢ The Eltos are being utilized more and more for technological advancements, and while the Palai have failed at flying machines, they are trying to work on other, newer forms of transportation. They're still in the early stages of development, and they're looking to create transportation modes outside of the objects young Elto magic in an effort to have fun and play. However, this requires some experimentation. Characters may find that certain items they touch immediately become motile, from pens that lunge forward and propel their holder through the air, to rugs that become magic carpets once they're stepped on. To everyone else: watch out! E ▢ Despite the recent death of some Palai, the Palai "mating season" is beginning soon -- while their mating season syncs up with their past life as wild creatures, this is more so like a two week long Valentine's Day for their species. Palai are very much invested in family and relationships, and they haven't let go of pushing this belief onto coven members. While their ideal family unit is three beings, they're willing to take baby steps. Your character has suddenly been grabbed and sat next to another character and the questions begin. The Palai matchmaker begins with this one: "What do you look for in an ideal partner?"

The land of Aimintas recently experienced some salty rainfall -- actually that's still going on for some reason. When will it stop? Nobody knows. Because their resources may be limited while new harvesting methods are implemented, the Palai have to limit their use of vegetables, fruits and grains as the ones currently planted may be too damaged by salt water to be used. This has caused some changes to the Aimintas marketplace, reflecting the food rationing. F ▢ The smart Palai have actually been saving up some of those dead fish that were falling out of the sky. Don't worry, they've been properly iced. The food being sold around the marketplace will focus on this fish, though they do need some characters to help prep the fish, including removing the scales and deboning the fish. Is your character good with a knife? G ▢ Alternatively, Palai chefs have been experimenting with a complete line of fish delicacies. From fish sandwiches to fish brownies, your character will likely be asked to try a nasty ass fish something or other. Unless they're into that kind of thing, it's going to be hard to swallow -- but the Palai hope your character likes their new foods! 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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Travis Touchdown | No More Heroes

[crownless_king]

B ▢

You know what goes great with falling? Suddenly (and not at all painfully) lying on your back, looking up at a sky devoid of buildings and hearing a fucking ocean. He doesn't even know what to think, he just lies there for a good ten, maybe twenty minutes. When he does move, it's slow and sluggish. Pulling to his feet, brushing himself off, glancing around, and after taking some time to process it all, responding in measure sense.

"WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT THE FUCK?! THE FUCK IS THIS, THE FUCK IS THAT, THE FUCK'S THE OCEAN DOING HERE, WHERE'S THE FUCKING ROAD, WHERE'S THE FUCKING CITY, WHAT THE-" Yeah.

You get the picture. Someone help him out.


D ▢

"Huh. Getting some serious Disney vibes right now..." Travis, since managing to arrive in Froggy Town with the help of, apparently, people like himself? (Yeah he ditched them, he ain't into no cult shit), had been steadily acclimating to the fact that he was now in some sort of a fantasy, perhaps a final one. But the longer he looked around and appreciated things, the more he felt the quirks gave it a hearty, kingdomy sort of feeling.

His most recent find? A bunch of awesome looking carpets in a stall manned...frogged?...by a yellow pair.

"I bet this feels like kashmir or some classy-" Two froggy faces lit up as Travis' hand reached out, and soon the assassin was blasting into the air, screaming away, "-SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii"

It faded for a moment. Before returning, suddenly and far quickly. "iiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIII-" Thankfully, a collection of crates down the street broke his fall. The shattering and crashing of innocent boxes underneath the weight of an idiot silencing him for a spell, before he weakly finished.

"...it."

F ▢

He wanted some normalcy. Travis Touchdown wanted normalcy. For maybe just a second. It didn't matter. Something that wasn't fucking islands in the sky, carpets possessed by the devil, and magic in general. That's when he saw the sign. "HELP WANTED". And Travis, master of killing and of odd jobs, signed up.

Travis had never done anything with fish before. But much like learning how to clean garbage in space, he learned fast. Then he immediately started to put all effort into S-Ranking it and making the most money.

That might explain the small crowd the assassin had amassed, as he seemingly did the work of three people, all while whistling a certain tune.

i'm going action, deal w it!!!! B.

[snipers]

[ you know, seeing someone completely crash-land into some not-all-that-soft sand really has a way of kicking the "hero's instinct" into high gear. add into the fact that she's a healer by skill and yukari knows she can't just let this person suffer and probably die from internal bleeding, so of course she goes running over to where they are.

she barely reaches him before he launches into his tirade, so she'll come to a stop...

... and wait.


and wait.







aaaaand wait. ]

... I guess you're fine.

[crownless_king]

[Fun fact: He didn't actually hear her. No he was kind of flailing around and waving his hands at just about everything. There he goes, hunching over like he's about to flip onto his back. There he goes, throwing his head and back, well, back like he's about to flop onto the ground. Swearing about this, swearing about that, swearing about interrupting his sweet ass video game's climax, swearing about-

Oh. Someone's looking at him.






Let's just stare back]

[snipers]

Oh, you're done now?

[ she rests a hand on her hip, her bow and quiver slung across her frame. ]

I came over here 'cause I saw you fall, but you don't seem like you're hurt at all.

[crownless_king]

[Straightening up now, thank you very much. And coughing awkwardly into his gloved fist. Before slowly realizing the weight of her observation and turning back to where he landed. Yup...no impact make at all. And he was definitely falling.]

Huh.

[Turning back to her now, shrugging rather animatedly]

Yeah, guess I'm peachy. 'Cepts for, you know, all of everything the fuck else.

[snipers]

[ ... did this guy go to school or anything? sheesh, find some other words to use. ]

Well, don't look at me for answers. I just got here, too.

[ buuuuut she's not gonna hang around with this guy since he's okay and not, you know, dying, so. ]

There's a city down below, so I think that's where everyone else is.

[crownless_king]

[...does wrestling school count?]

Below...the ocean?

[Welp, he's looking at you like you're a weird one now, Yukari]

You sure you're alright? You didn't hit your head or anything?

[snipers]

[ omg she's rolling her eyes, even though her back is to travis. she hopes he can feel it because she is doing it as hard as she can. ]

Haven't you ever heard of mermaids? Atlantis?

[crownless_king]

[Oooooooooookay. He's gonna start backing up slowly. Just a little. Cause you is kinda crazy]

Right. Of course. Silly me.

[Look, he's done fighting, okay? At least until he gets a nap, a drink, maybe a happy ending. And fighting some crazy chick with a bow and arrow and a hero complex? yeah...]

Well, don't let me keep you. I'm sure everybody's waiting, right?

[snipers]

[ he can follow or not, but she's not going to fight getting him to come with her. if anything, yukari's feeling fairly anxious about everything and she needs to find a way back home as soon as possible.

there was. a thing she was supposed to do. she looks like she's decked out for a final jrpg boss fight because, well, she was. ]

Look, I heard people talking about a "coven" down there, and if they're acting like it's no big deal, then it's prolly no big deal. But if I'm gonna find answers I gotta follow every lead I've got.

[crownless_king]

[She's not the only one feeling a little anxious. I mean look at her? Looking like she's geared for some sort big number, talking about covens, mermaids, fucking Atlantis. There were like, two major possibilities here.

One: He just landed himself the protagonist gig in one of those "another world" type deals. Which hey, cool, let's find a mascot character and get the merch rolling.

Or two: She was some sort of crazy cultist or cult leader and was going to sacrifice him to the ocean gods or some crazy ass shit like that]

Hey, don't take this the wrong way or nothing, okay? I've been through some serious shit so, I just gotta know. Are you batshit crazy?

[snipers]

[ immediately, she stops walking, arms falling at her sides. her whole body seems to heave in a sigh. ]

...

[ yukari turns around to face him, looking entirely unimpressed with his question. in fact, that's it, that's her reply. a hard, unimpressed stare.

before she finally makes a disgusted noise and starts walking again. ]

[crownless_king]

[He waits until she turns away, before rubbing the back of his head. It still could be either, he really didn't know how to read that.

It's his turn to sigh as he slumps forward, patting his holsters and feeling his weapons of choice, before taking off after her]

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT, HOLD UP ALREADY! I'm coming too...

D

[transcutation]

As the wooden shards fall from a hastily erected wall of earth, the barricade crumbles to reveal an elaborately dressed little girl giving him an incredulous look. The kind of look that was both annoyed, put upon and unbelieving that someone was this dumb... wait, no it wasn't that kind of look at all? There's no way such a cute girl would make such an expression, especially when she runs up to him with an adorably concerned look on her face.

"Oh no! Are you all right?" Her voice even sounds like it's made of sugar.

[crownless_king]

A hand reached up and pushed off a sizable chunk of wood from his face, a formerly muffled groan now coming out unhindered as she shifted and stirred from his rough landing. For a moment, he was pretty sure he had caught a pretty sour look from at least one person. But when he blinked away the stars and dizziness and looked again?

Well all he could see is diabetes in human form. Like holy shit, how sweet could you look and sound? The otaku in him? Well he couldn't bare to seem down and out from something as slight as...falling dozens of feet onto a bunch of crates.

"Heeeey pretty girl. I am A-OK, no lie..." He groaned out, already trying to pull himself up and out of his splintery bed.

[transcutation]

Inner cringing aside, she managed to keep looking wholly worried for his well being, breathing a sigh of relief as he pulled himself out of the wreckage - looking appropriately concerned while also not offering him a hand up at all. Not that she'd have been much help anyway with her height.

"Are you sure? That was an awful big crash! Cagliostro was soooo surprised!" She was playing this up for all she was worth.

[crownless_king]

Pulled himself out was a bit of stretch yet. He was taking a bit to get up, seeming more like a guy that had just been through a real ringer of a bar fight. He was wobbly, reaching out to the wall to keep himself guided and upright.

And every time he caught a glimpse of her, his heart melted and he had the biggest, dumbest smile on his face. It was probably the concussion talking. He had to have one from that, right?

"Cag...Cagli...Caglio...Cag-chan don't need to worry about me! I'm big, I'm strong!" Travis said, giving up on the name proper for now. He probably should have, because that sounded way dumber the more he mulled it over. "As long as there's a cute smile near me, I'll never falter!"

...he was definitely pretty sure about that concussion now.

[transcutation]

Sure, she was the cutest girl in all the sky, or wherever this was, but it was a little weird to see someone so obviously fawning over her... and somehow manage to find the least cute way to shorten her name possible. She wasn't sure how much longer she'd keep this up but no point in flooring him before he was even standing.

"Aww, well that's a relief! Then you should be just fine as long as Cagliostro is around," she beamed at him, giving a little wink that almost seemed to sparkle. "But what happened to you, Mister...?"

[crownless_king]

"You know, I probably could be like...mostly unconscious, babbling random shit in reality, and this is all some concussed fantasy I'm currently playing out, but fuck it. A+ my brain." He mumbled to himself, stepping out from the pile a little bit on shaky legs. It wasn't the highest he had fallen from, or the hardest he had been hit. Not by a long shot.

But hey, the cutest little thing outside of a Japanese anime was dotting over him and being adorable as fuck. Either he REALLY hit the jackpot, or his bell got rung like it hung in Big Ben.

"Me? Oh I was...grabbing the carpet and then zoom! Into the sky...then I came back down. You know, no big..." Wait a second. He reached under his coat, reaching around back and pulling out a decent sized chunk of wood, grimacing as he threw it into the pile behind him. "Deal for me! Onii-chan is made of tough stuff, you see!"

[transcutation]

"Teehee, are you saying Cagliostro's like a dream?" She wondered if she should alert the local authorities that this man apparently dreamed of little girls like her. Not that she could blame him, but crime's illegal fucko.

"Oh?" Her expression suddenly changes, nothing innocent at all about her amused look or the almost dark tone her voice takes on. "So some idiot actually invented a flying carpet? And you tried to ride it?"

[crownless_king]

"Frankly, I'm pulling more for a dream come true." He answered, thinking nothing of it. Leaning back, he a series of sharp snaps and cracks erupted from his back, seemingly as intended given the expression on his face. "They don't get much more moe without being 2D so...or freakishly dedicated to cosplay."

That said, while he might have missed the expression, he certainly heard the voice. Her blinked a few times, wondering if that was in his head, before turning around and fixing his gaze at the probably-on-a-few-posters beaming darling. "Yeah, exactly that. Except for two things. I didn't so much ride it as grab it, and I had no clue it was a magic carpet."

And that's when he pats his waist, hand resting on one of his weird looking mechanical objects. "So I'm gonna go over there, ask some questions, maybe take some heads. Nothing someone as precious as you needs to see."

[transcutation]

"So you're a fool, and a violent one at that," she said with a sneer - it was hard to believe this was even the same girl. She gives a shrug. "Well, I wouldn't mind observing your methods and seeing the piece of upholstery that got the better of you."

Her tone was arrogant and darkly amused - and if he had Japanese audio on, the way she switched from third-person to referring to herself as "Ore-sama" probably stuck out as a sore thumb too.

[crownless_king]

Alright, yup. Full stop. Cag-chan...wow, that really was a shitty "cutesy" name. Note to self, drawing board that shit. Anyways, she was kind of going all split personality on him right now. Enough to pause him out of his little thought of chopping off heads and making frogs dead. His hand lifted back from his hip, and instead came to his glasses. Lifting them up and glancing plainly at her. Leaning in, as if inspecting her for something. Like fleas, or an alien parasite, or studying her attire for cosplay purposes.

"uh..." Shades let go, promptly fall back into place on his face. He doesn't lean back any, however. "What just happened?"

[transcutation]

"Hm? Are you that concussed? Did you already forget what just told me?" she asked, glaring back up at him from her unimpressive height. She was still cute even with that kind of expression... but not as cute as when she suddenly went all wide-eyed and innocent, posing cutely with tongue sticking out one corner of her mouth as her voice lifted an octave and a half to the moe-idol levels it had been at before.

"Teehee, could it be that Cagliostro's brilliant cuteness made you forget all about what you were doing? Geez, you're such a silly!"

[crownless_king]

There was something really, really off putting about this little girl. One moment she was rather crass, the next she was out and out teasing, and the next she was back to being teeth rottingly, heart stealingly cute. He leaned back, stepped back, even turned away as he started to rack his brain.

"Cag-chan is cute, and adorable, and pure...but then what was that colder, meaner one. Is that Cag-chan's nefarious split personality, Hag-chan?" He started to tap the side of his head. "Is this the perfect quirky character? Fuck, I'm going to get totally overshadowed at this rate! I just meme, and abuse the forth wall, and kill like a mother fucker. How do I beat cute with a side of cold?"

Hastily, he muttered his analysis of the situation, seemingly holding a conversation with himself, before snapping his fingers, slamming a fist down into his other open palm, and nodding sharply twice.

"No! Moe is moe, and nothing changes! It's not me that's wrong, it's the concussion!" Glancing back, he pulled free one of his weird looking metal things and flipped it in hand. "Come on, I'm gonna go beat up a carpet!"