tabularasa_memes | August Test Drive Meme

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Scenario A: Bite Here, Bite Now
"Food" is still a loose concept, as anything one can take fit in their mouth and swallow is considered close enough to count. While people can differentiate between things that should and shouldn't be eaten, the wildlife does not hold such views. Though at first they seemed to prefer whatever objects people deemed edible, they’ve now begun to experiment with some interesting alternatives.

Rocks, dirt, glass, tree trunks, corners of buildings, beach trash, chair legs, books, clothing, jewellery, prized possessions, the kitchen sink - there doesn't seem to be anything an animal won't try to eat at least once, and bite marks are quickly becoming a common sight in the most bizarre of places. You may even head home and find one of the red toothless dragons hanging off of a doorknob, trying its best. If an animal can get to it and fit its mouth around it, chances are it will try to eat it.

While the creatures can be coaxed and trained off of these behaviors, it's no small feat. And along the way, they might even find something else more appetizing than what you're trying to offer them. If you lose something important, hopefully it’ll still be intact when you finally fish it back out of them.

Scenario B: Blowing Hot and Cold
Random snowstorms are still a common sight, carried by powerful winds from the peak of Mount Silver to the furthest reaches of the known world. The snow never seems to stay on the ground for long, but it brings with it a frigid chill that could drive anyone back to the relative safety of indoors. A storm can last seconds or hours - not that it's easy to tell the difference - so it can be quite troublesome if you're not prepared for it.

Recently, a new type of "weather" has emerged. Fire has many uses, and it can be made quite easily by anyone... perhaps a little too easily. Most of the time, a strong breeze will blow out a growing flame, but occasionally something different will happen: the wind itself will catch on fire, carrying those flames far and wide in the blink of an eye. Within moments any place can be turned into a raging wildfire, blindingly bright and hellishly warm.

The flames will burn themselves out eventually, leaving everything coated in soot, but unharmed. It’s a good thing that fire doesn’t actually hurt yet or everyone might be in trouble! That may not be a comfort for everyone, though, especially if you're stuck cleaning up the mess. Sometimes it might take a little too long for the fire to die down on its own, too. If the wind won't do it, water is the way to go.

Scenario C: Long Distance
Distance and sound are not mutually exclusive just yet, and they both seem to be a bit out of whack at the moment. No matter how much you walk toward another person, you can't seem to close the distance between the two of you, as if you're on some sort of invisible treadmill. When you speak, however, it sounds like whoever you're speaking to is standing right beside you. Distance doesn't seem to be an issue if you're looking to converse.

However, this means you can hear others who are even farther away just as clearly. Someone on the beach might be able to hear another muttering to him or herself as they scale Mount Silver. Like dialing a random phone number, you now have to speak to a mysterious voice to figure out who it belongs to. Hopefully you weren't just muttering a deep, dark secret.

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[Damien, nearby, glances over when Noct yells at whoever just so happens to be in the path of the fire tornado. he hums, distantly amused, and then, on a whim, calls back:] It won't actually hurt them.

[which he learned from personal experience, because some people (namely him), couldn't get away from something like that fast enough]

[Noct glances over at Damien as he speaks and then back at the other, obviously not quite believing it. When they seem none the worse for wear by contact with it, though, he rocks back on his heels.]

Okay, that's... I was thinking this place was weird, but that's something else.

[Has he mentioned he's pretty sure this is all a dream he's having? Because he just gets more sure about it all the time.]

It hasn't figured out fire, yet. There's heat, but ... [he shrugs. for better or worse, this place really doesn't understand how fire's supposed to work. probably for better, all things considered]

[either way, though] I take it you're new? [because if he wasn't, he'd know all that]

[That really doesn't explain anything, and he just frowns at him a little dumbly.]

What is there about fire to figure out? I mean, since, like... cavemen got struck by lightning or whatever.

[He nods.]

Yeah, I... got here or woke up here or whatever a while ago.

[Damien hums, reaching up to thumb at his goatee as he tries to figure out how to explain. after a beat, he drops his hand, offers:] Think of it like a video game. [he does. simulation theory is one of his go-tos] The programmers just haven't added in the mechanics for fire, yet.

[it's a little more complicated than that, but]

[That... actually explains a lot, and his frown clears a little.]

So we're in a video game. [He pauses.] You know, I've been pretty sure this is all just some really weird dream I'm having. I don't know what would be more weird.

[Considering what happened to him at home before he woke up at here....]

It's one of the theories floating around. [he pauses, a wry smile tugging at the corners of his mouth] If this were a dream, I don't think I'd still be in pain all the fucking time. [and he's just going to drum his fingers against the brace, where it starts on his thigh]

[Noct follows Damien's hand down to the brace - and then cringes.]

Oh, yeah, that sucks.

[He frowns.]

Unless it's, like... some kind of collective dream, and that's just a thing for you, so it worked its way in.

[He has no idea.]

[the wry smile doesn't fade]

And now you sound like that boy.

[Ren, he means. his prevailing theory (and probably Damien's second choice, if he had to pick one), is that this is all based on their cognition and how they perceive things. so, by that logic, his leg is still fucked because he believes it should be, because this has been his reality for the last year. what he wouldn't give to be able to unlearn that, for lack of a better way of putting that, to be whole again]

[but at any rate, after a beat and on a breath out, he clarifies:] That this is some sort of shared experience is another theory floating around.

[Noct raises an eyebrow at him.]

What boy?

[His expression lightens again as Damien clarifies.]

I mean, it makes as much sense as anything else.

His name's Ren.

[a beat]

He works at that coffee shop, in -- [well, he'd say 'in town', but there's really not much of a town. it's just Heavenly Blanc, out that way, and the fucking mountain. he makes a face, before he corrects himself] -- out by the base of the mountain.

Oh.

[A beat of his own.]

I just got here. I still have no idea where anything is.

[Maybe a little obviously, considering he didn't know about the fire not actually being a thing he needed to be worried about.]

[Noct already mentioned that, but yeah, that would have made it obvious. either way, for all Damien knew, new or not, Noct had still found some of the landmarks on his own. guess not]

[he shrugs, then] I could show you were it is. It's something of a hub. [or at least it is for him, because it's one of the few social places he can actually get to]

[Yeah, not so much. He's really just been wandering around, trying and mostly failing to get his bearings or find anything familiar.]

Yeah, I'd, uh. Thanks.

[He would appreciate a tour, is what he's trying to say.]

It's this way, then.

[and he's just going to start towards the bar, every step limping. ask him about it at your own peril, Noct]

[Noct isn't the kind of asshole to comment on it - especially not when he can see the brace clearly enough, and especially not when he has his own issues that crop up.]

[That said, he's just going to fall in behind Damien, following him.]

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