June Test Drive Meme

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Test Drive Meme #2 New Locations ▲ Scenarios ▼ Comments Welcome to Tabula Rasa's Test Drive Meme! This meme will be structured the same as an event or intro mingle so you can get a feel for how the game will be after it opens. Anyone is welcome to use this meme whether you plan to apply or not, and we will not be policing what characters or canons choose to play on here. Use it as you'd like and have fun!

Please note that none of the locations and changes described below will be included in the game when it opens. To help create an accurate impression of the game, we have included several imprints suggested by prospective players from the TDM Imprints Submissions. These prompts and locations are only for the TDM. A new arrangement of imprints will be picked when the game opens, which will likely look completely different from the TDM. Please keep this in mind when applying to the game in the future.

As this is our second TDM, you can find more detailed descriptions of the TDM-only locations on TDM #1. Feel free to use prompts from the previous TDM as well if you missed out on it!

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New Location: The Fendt Hope Library
Across from the USJ dome stands an enormous six-floor castle. The entrance boasts a large open room decorated with hanging bird cages, colorful teddy bears of varying sizes, and books. Many, many books, filling shelves that line every wall of the room. Traveling further within, there are hundreds of rooms and hallways arranged almost like a hotel, except every room is its own miniature library. Each room has the same layout, including a desk with a lamp, a round table with chairs in the center, a ladder, and rows of shelves on every wall. Teddy bears have been placed around each room, some of them sitting in chairs or on top of shelves and stacks of books. Many of the rooms feature large square windows with gold curtains drawn.

On the first floor near the entrance is a small tavern-like area with a bar, also surrounded by bookshelves on all sides. There are several wooden tables with chairs for guests to sit, though teddy bears have been placed in some of the seats. A large person-sized bear is seated behind the bar. The only shelf that isn't full of books is instead filled with old wine bottles.

There is a staircase that goes down to the basement, where more hallways and library rooms can be found. The basement rooms are much dingier with gray stone walls and no windows, though otherwise look the same as the other library rooms. Notably, the doors in the basement rooms can only be locked from the outside.

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Scenario A: Think Positive!
The world has been filled with many things - animals, plants, people, objects... and among those objects, something has stood out. Objects that demand a greater purpose, to be filled with energy that they cannot themselves create. They have not gone unnoticed, and so, too, does the world notice. Machines are more complex than blocks of metal and plastic. Lights are more than wire and glass. What is it that breathes the life into them that people have come to expect?

Finally, the answer has become clear. Anger, disappointment, frustration: these are all feelings that have been poured into these lifeless objects. Energy, such as electricity, must surely come from those emotions.

That isn't to say making electricity is a simple task, or one that can be so easily controlled. A strong emotion can be quite shocking, but that strength must be maintained to power something for more than a few seconds. But you don't want to be electrocuting everyone you come into contact with, either, so with a bit of coordination, a group of people will have much better luck than one person by themselves.

A crowd in the Heavenly Blanc is enough to make the lights flicker, and you might even be able to get the jukebox going. The music sounds a bit strange, with titles and lyrics that almost seem jumbled together from several different songs, but a tune is still a tune. The lighthouse arcade is especially lively, machines buzzing and blaring with noise the moment anyone steps in, though you'll need a friend or two to play along if you want it to get the game to start. The games, too, seem like a bit of a jumbled mess - or maybe Initial DANCE Taikoaster Versus is just ahead of its time.

Most electronics will now function, provided they have the energy source to do so. More advanced functions may not work correctly, such as long-distance connections. The more complex the device, the more emotional power you'll need to use it.

Scenario B: Take A Look, It's In A Book
With the addition of a another library, books have become an important feature to the world's landscape. Words that were once a jumbled mess have been reformed, arranged into something that can now be understood. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of content to fill every book in the world - most of them are identical copies of the same few books, though there may be slight variations between copies.

Geography contains an accurate map of the known world, including detailed descriptions and sketches of important landmarks and buildings. Any observations that people have made thus far have been noted here, including a few direct quotes. It also describes some of the flora and fauna, though it doesn't go into much detail beyond where they can be found. Each copy has a chapter at the end titled "The Rest Of The World" containing hundreds of blank pages.

Regional Pokédex is a bestiary of all the creatures currently residing in the world. There are only 5 entries, with the rest of the book filled with the same image of a large question mark in a circle at the center of each page. Some of the copies of the book use different names for the same creatures, but the first four entries in each copy describes fireys, jellyrabbits, ghowls, and the Eiffel Tower in the style of short observational notes. The average height, weight, and footprint shape of each creature is also listed. The fifth entry has no title, but lists the average height, weight, and approximate footprint shape of every single person in the world as if they were a single species. The descriptions on this page are much more disjointed and contain wildly different information across copies, but all of the entries list observations and physical details of individuals that have arrived in the world.

Questions Vol.1 is a book of questions. Every question about the world that someone has voiced thus far has been listed somewhere in this book. Some questions are detailed and specific, while others are single word questions like "sleep?" There are no answers provided, but some of the pages have handwritten theories underneath that vary between copies. All of the theories match what people have discussed among themselves so far.

Drinks is a recipe book. It lists several recipes for simple drinks one can make with water, alcohol, coffee beans, and tea leaves. Nearly all of the recipes have an alcoholic variant, even when it doesn't make sense. Each recipe includes step by step instructions on how to prepare the ingredients without electricity. This book also details everything people have observed about the world's water supply and its relaxing properties.

Scenario C: Lucky Buns
Luck might seem a simple idea on the surface: if you have good luck, good things happen to you, and if you have bad luck then bad things happen. Where, however, does luck come from? Everyone has different ideas and different superstitions surrounding the concept. One such superstition is tied to rabbits, which is like a fluffy, tentacled creature that swims quietly through the air. A rabbit's luck is tied to its feet. However, touching this particular creature's feet tends to sting and hurt people. On that basis, then, touching the jellyrabbit's feet is clearly bad luck, and so anyone who has felt that sting will experience other forms of bad luck. Whether this comes in the form of trips, falls, getting lost or similar kinds of misfortune relies entirely upon what one's individual idea of bad luck is.

Conversely, touching other parts of the creature must be tied to good luck. Many people do quite like to pet soft and fluffy creatures, after all, so it's only natural that doing so would gift them with good luck. Perhaps they might find things more easily, meet people with similar interests, win games of chance more often, or find a $100 note in their back pocket - money might have no meaning here, but if this is what people consider 'good luck', then that is what will happen.

Once a streak of luck, good or bad, is triggered, it does not wear off on its own. It can only be replaced by luck of an opposing nature, or removed entirely by touching one of the other local creatures.

The creatures' tie to luck is not immediately apparent. Once people learn and understand, however, the information will soon find its way into a copy of the library's Regional Pokédex.

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Ren Amamiya | Persona 5 Royal | OTA

[forethinking]

1. Work?

(It's a quiet... Whatever time it is? Time is definitely one of the things he cannot comprehend in this place. That aside, there's not a soul in Heavenly Blanc as of now, so Ren takes the opportunity to organize the place for the next customer - if they can still be called that.

This place has quickly became of great importance to Ren, the resemblance of home drawing him to it each and every day. It's a sense of normalcy to pick up the apron from under the counter and help those who are looking for some comfort - be it in company, or in coffee.

He is cleaning the tables when the customer arrives, smiling and offering a gentle nod.)

Welcome!

2. Almost a party

(Ah, a crowd at Heavenly Blanc! This was uncommon and Ren is going hard - putting together coffee orders, as Tifa herself had already said there was no way he'd serve alcohol. Sounded good to him! He does what he can, taking orders and just overall being delighted by the electricity that makes the lights flicker. With the Drinks book open in front of him, Ren attempts each (seemingly) non-alcoholic beverage there is, leaving them lined-up on the counter for the brave ones.)

How is it? (He asks whoever took one for the team.)

3. A Series of Unlucky Events

(When Ren stretched his arms earlier, he definitely should have kept his eyes open. The sting in his arm is still uncomfortable under the blazer he is currently wearing, but he thinks little about it as he moves to explore the new building.

On the way, he had tripped several times, each time more painful and damaging than the other. When he finally stepped into the library - opening the gate with an accidental screeching sound from the wood that was too loud not to turn heads towards the entrance. So much for not calling attention?

Something was very, very wrong, he could tell, but the confirmation came when he tiptoes to reach for a book, when he slips and a mountain of knowledge fall upon him. Buried beneath all the books, he emerges and rubs his head for a second or two, processing the mess around him.

Not his lucky day at all.)

4. Wildcard

(Throw anything at me!!)

C

[zenryokubatankyu]

[ SCREEEEEEEE. That was the first cue someone else had entered, and he winces a bit, hearing the noise. Oof. That was painful. He barely glances up from the questions book, mockingly mumbling to himself one of the questions - 'Road work ahead?']

I suuuuure hope it does.

[He drones to himself, before hearing CRASH. He looks up again, and...that poor kid. He hops up, looking down at him, a small smile on his face.]

Yo, bro...you 'kay?

[He extends a hand -need some help up?]

[forethinking]

(With few more purple spots and cuts to add to the collection he acquired on his way to the library, he turns his attention to the person in front of him.

He decides not to take the hand, what if he curses the other with the same string of bad luck? Instead, he tries to stand up and not step on any of the books under them - only to lose his balance and knock even more books off the shelves in his attempt to hold on to something.)

It's not my day, it's all.

[zenryokubatankyu]

[Oof. He winces as the guy tries to stumble his way up...only to go crashing down.]

Yeah, I'll say. Yeesh, man.

[He at least moves some of the books aside - maybe that'll help - before putting his hands into his hoodie pockets.]

Something happen to throw ya off your game?

[Weirdly enough, the voice this guy has could easily remind Ren of a certain guidance counselor, though the demeanor is far off, apart from being casual and seemingly easy to talk to.]

[forethinking]

(Stepping away, Ren puts a lot of distance from himself and the shelves before he starts to pick up the books, even calmer than he normally is. Rushing would probably make it worse???)

I'm not sure...

[zenryokubatankyu]

You're....not sure?

[He raises a brow.]

Well, that means some weird stuff has probably happened as of late, huh? Maybe there is a starting point. When did you start having this bad luck? Did a black cat cross your path, or walk under a ladder, or....?

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[theforgottenboy]

[Cole has been around the establishment a number of times, but aside from the occasional conversation with other "patrons"- never started by him- he often keeps to the edges, watching rather than speaking. He's not sure if he likes it here. Other people seem to, which means they tend to gather here, so it's easier watch and be ignored. But people can see him now too, and having that many eyes look up at him when they should be looking past him feels a little too... wrong.]

[But today it looks to be empty... aside from the boy cleaning a table who, of course, sees him. He goes still. It's still jarring to be seen and addressed so easily, much less welcomed.]

...Thank you.

[It's nice to know he's welcome to be here, at least.]

[forethinking]

The bartender is not around, but I can make you coffee if you'd like.

(The freezing doesn't go unnoticed, along with the awkwardness of the other as he came in. He doesn't pry, instead, he gestures to all the available places Cole could make himself at home.

He returns to his place behind the counter, checking Drinks once more. Hopefully there would be something of the other's liking.)

[theforgottenboy]

[Rather than sit anywhere he vaguely meanders about, not quite sticking to the walls so much now that he doesn't have to be careful to not get in anyone's way. He's not interested in coffee. He's not sure why anyone even drinks anything here, when they don't have to. Or is that still only him? Maybe that's something he should ask.]

Do you need to drink, or do you drink because you think you need to?

[forethinking]

(Wow! This man already comes with the hard questions. Calmly, Ren pours himself some coffee, not speck of rush within his actions.)

I know we don't need to. I drink because I like it.

[theforgottenboy]

[He faintly nods once, apparently accepting that answer. It makes sense.]

It helps to have something familiar, even if it's not needed. Is this place familiar to you too?

[He's seen him around here enough times as well as now, acting as if he works here even though no one he's found is from here.]

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[memorate]

[ By now, Cloud is already familiar with Tifa's co-worker, although just in name only. Perhaps out of his general awkwardness with kids, he hadn't exactly made an effort to engage with the boy. He wouldn't even know what to talk about, and there's a long list of things he doesn't want to talk about. You don't talk about your past with the military or terrorism with some young kid! Little does he know that Ren himself has quite a rap sheet.

Anyway, tonight's the night, it seems! With Tifa being busy elsewhere, it looks like Ren will have to serve Cloud today. Of course, Cloud expects a non-alcoholic beverage when he tries it, but he doesn't necessarily mind when he finds out it's the opposite. He kind of wanted something with a kick to it, but he also knows that Ren isn't allowed to serve such drinks. ]

It tastes like someone broke a rule.

[forethinking]

(He definitely had seen Cloud around, mostly when Tifa is bartending. They seem to know each other, so Ren finds no reason to meddle or throw himself in the middle of the conversation. Tifa, however, is not here, leaving Ren to steer the boat himself.

Shouldn't be a problem, he's used to working and dealing with patrons at this point, so here he is. When Cloud mentions breaking a rule, he perks up a little, tilting his head as he goes back in his memory - what rule has he broken this time? It tastes like so? Does he mean it's alcoholic?)

What do you mean?

(It couldn't be, could it? There was no alcohol within the ingredients.)

[memorate]

[ Cloud waits for an explanation, but instead is only met with confusion. Could the kid be feigning it just to get out of trouble? He taps at his glass, attempting to be more clear about what he meant. ]

You're not supposed to serve these. Tifa's nice, but I wouldn't try to bamboozle her if I were you.

[forethinking]

(Not in his plans to do such thing. He leaves from behind the counter to come closer to the patron, book in hands. He checks the drink, comparing the recipe with the contents in the cup.)

I put no alcohol in this.

[memorate]

[ If he was going to lie, it's not a very good lie... which makes Cloud more inclined to believe him. He already knows that the water tasted funny when he first tried it, so it wouldn't be a stretch to think other things taste differently, too. ]

You followed the instructions, right?

[ Maybe it was a human error, rather than something supernatural? Cloud takes another sip, to make sure he's not wrong, and it still tastes like alcohol to him... ]

It's alright, I won't tell Tifa. You should try making something else from the book.

[ It's time for Science. ]

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[bridge_princess]

AUGH!

[Books, books everywhere. An annoyed blonde head popped out from underneath the crush of them, still holding onto one of the ones she'd been reading. She had seen strange creatures around, nothing she recognized, but the thought of searching the library had dawned upon her.

By the time a certain someone had happened along, she'd remembered why this was Patchouli's thing and not hers. One hand gripped a 'regional pokedex' but at the moment she was puling out and knocking books off of him with... well, her look was usually annoyed.]

If it isn't the town busybody. You're supposed to read the books, not help us wear them or sleep under them, you know.

[forethinking]

(Oh, he did not expect to see her, specially when his confidence is tainted with the stream of bad luck that has been following him around... But she's being helpful, and he attempts to stand up, accidentally stepping on a book or two.)

I'm having a bad luck day.

(To say the very least.)

[bridge_princess]

Bad luck day, eh? Welcome to my existence for a day.

...

[Life was not a constant comparison contest of who sucked more, Parsee. Only, don't actually tell her that. She believed it was. A frown and she reached to help pull him out before holding up her book.]

How bad's bad luck, though? Getting buried in books... I'm wondering if there's an imp of some sort running around the library.

[forethinking]

(The several cuts and scratches on his face and showing skin should speak by themselves. There probably isn't an imp...)

I got stung and tripped my way over.

[bridge_princess]

Stung, you say. What by?

[She didn't exactly want to meet his current predicament, and he didn't look like he was poisoned, but she opened the book she had with her on the random, hopeless chance that this collection of idiotic looking monsters included whatever stung him.

Maybe it was a paralytic toxin?]

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[bachagain]

[ ah. at first there's a pause from the newcomer who's dropped by, as if not quite expecting to hear... anything. or, uh, at least not that?

well, it's okay. leo recovers easily enough, it seems, as he offers ren a smile and makes his way further into the building. ]

Kinda weird you're working in a situation like this! Or, mm... maybe not really.

[ he doesn't. mean it as an insult? just kind of like an observation, tactless as it is. ]

Anyway, thanks! Can I just take a seat anywhere?

[forethinking]

Maybe a little.

(Even if there were any insult to the words from the newcomer, Ren caught none of it! It probably is odd as a concept - they don't need to drink, to eat, there's no money involved and the whole new world thing they have going on could easily get someone questioning why on Earth is anyone working. Ren gives a warm, but short smiling before gesturing to the seats.)

Sure, make yourself at home. Anything I can get you?

(Ren does it to raise morale - so that people have a place to go to for some normalcy of sorts... And also, it is partly his home.)

[bachagain]

[ leo'll just take a seat wherever's closest, then! he's not picky. and he's... indeed making himself at home very quickly. maybe it's ren's welcoming attitude, or maybe leo's just the type of person to make himself comfortable anywhere... maybe a mix of both.

he glances at the mixed up menus on the wall, humming lightly as he thinks. then: ]

Surprise me! I get just coffee most of the time, but I dunno if I wanna get the same stuff I usually do in a new place, y'know?

[forethinking]

(Happy to see the other being comfortable, Ren takes his place behind the counter to prepare the upcoming order. Surprise him, right?

The man who came seemed upbeat and open, so perhaps a coffee blend that matches the personality he sees? Or maybe not.)

I can't make you anything with alcohol, unfortunately...