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August Test Drive Meme
Test Drive Meme #4Whether 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.
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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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So when she sees someone unfamiliar in trouble, she rushes over and bends down to scoop up the one that's pulling at his laces, laughing.]
Some of them are a little too determined.
[And then it tries to chomp down on one of her suspenders, but it catches her arm instead, and she drops it with a small yelp.]
Especially lately. [She waggles a finger at the bird while it clucks loudly at her before going for her shoelaces.] Be nice!
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I, uh... I noticed.
[He actually sounds amused, though he doesn't particularly look it.]
Somebody forget to feed them?
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[Tifa brushes herself off when she's freed herself of the chicken, and then goes to pick up the other that's still bothering him so she can move it away. Of course, it just goes right back towards him to continue with its pecking like his shoe is compact dirt and it smells a worm beneath it.]
Nothing, not even we needed to eat until now. [Bizarre, she knows.] It's finally starting to catch up, I guess. I come by to give them food sometimes, but I guess not even that's enough.
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Oh, hang on...
[He reaches into a pocket and comes up with a slightly squashed energy bar that he opens and breaks a piece off of, bending down to offer it to the chicken, who finally gives up on his boot. As it eats, he looks back up at Tifa.]
No one needed to eat? Like... no one got hungry or anything? Was there food before?
[He remains unsure that this isn't all just a dream.]
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Best to just leave them to fight it out...]
There's food, but we didn't feel hungry. Sometimes, I just ate out of boredom.
[When all you have is a bar-café fusion to sit in and wait for people to show, you run out of things to do.]
I know it sounds weird, but— [she pauses the thought when it's interrupted by a loud BA-CAWWW! from one of the chickens] it's like someone's flipped a switch and all the animals and people are trying to make up for all that lost time.
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I mean, sometimes I just ate out of boredom at home, too, so it's not that weird.
[He blinks down at the chickens, startling a little - and then looks back at her when they don't seem about to come at him again.]
So do you get thirsty?
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Oh, please! You've had plenty to eat!
[She bends down and picks up the aggressive one and holds onto it as tight as she can while the other gets its share of the bar. It struggles in her grasp, but Tifa is much bigger than it is, so she manages with minimal trouble before it finally calms down, besides the low threatening clucks it makes as it watches the other eat.
... Back to the conversation.]
We don't. Not like you normally would, but doesn't stop people from coming by the bar for a drink every now and again. I think it's become more of a comfort thing than anything else—something familiar, y'know?
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Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
[He pauses a beat.]
So do you work at the bar?
[He's assuming based on how she worded that, but he's also gathering information.]
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[To make things less complicated, she'll just keep it as simple as possible and nod her head.]
Part of the bar is mine, yeah. [That isn't less complicated, Tifa! She goes on to explain:] It fused with someone else's café from home... Figured since I was the only bartender around, I'd take up the reigns again.
[...]
Left it for a while though. I wanted to pursue some other things!
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It... fused? How does that work with a building?
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