August Test Drive Meme

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Test Drive Meme #4 Welcome to Tabula Rasa's Test Drive Meme! Starting in September, secondary character apps will be open for current players and will remain open until further notice. New player apps will be opening in early September under a new queue system. We'll have more specific details for everyone on this soon!

Whether you plan to app or not, anyone is welcome to use this meme as a way to try out the setting, test out a character for future app cycles, or just for fun. You may also borrow ideas from this meme’s prompts for use in the main game.

Threads from the TDM may be used as samples on your application. TDM samples must be 2 threads with different characters, each with at least 5 comments from your character. You may include your top-level comment if it is a thread you started.

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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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Comments

[starshower]

Cherish it or not, there are people who have no choice but to call it home for now. Including you.

[She does fear it but does what she can to not let that show in her hardened expression. This world doesn't mean much to her and she and the others have no intention of staying here after they're given the choice to leave, but the people here have come to mean something to her, and many of them don't have what it takes to go up against someone like Sephiroth.

No one but her, Cloud, and Aerith. They have once before, haven't they?]

I suggest you make yourself comfortable. You're stuck here whether you like it or not, clueless and powerless.

[Yeah, she knows he's got nothing to fall back on but words right now. And where the hell's his sword?]

[sefirot]

One question. How long have you been here?

[He's not saying he believes her. She is correct about a few things, but he won't verify anything about himself personally -- powerless or not. If she is right about the world however, now that is concerning.

Being stuck like this is not very ...

Appealing.

But until he knows more he can do nothing but play along. If she's here then others from their world maybe as well and killing her will do nothing but anger Cloud if he's among them. While he'd enjoy nothing more than to see him writhe in agony over losing someone he cares about, that will also do nothing to aide his current situation.

So for now he'll play nice. Sorta.]

[starshower]

continuing here!