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TEST DRIVE MEME ( 006 )

Test Drive Meme #6
Hello, and welcome to LifeAftr! We’re pleased that you’re expressing an interest in the game. Here, you can test the waters, gauge how your character may fare in the world of LifeAftr, and even gain some in-game incentives, if you so choose.

Remember that Reserves will open on December 17th! Due to the holiday season, Applications will be opening on December 26th, with an app period shifted to end on January 2nd instead of the usual timeframe!

Two important notes:
1. LifeAftr's test drives take place on the island of Mu, which exists apart from the real world and possesses a dream-like quality that characters are innately aware of from the moment they appear on its shores. No need to panic or fret. Dreams are odd things, after all - and anything can happen in them. Why would anyone question where their mind chooses to wander in its sleep?

2. Due to the nature of Mu, threads in our test drive can not only be accepted as thread samples in your application, but can be accepted as game canon as well. In fact, certain choices your character makes in Mu have the potential to bear in-game consequences, largely in the form of test drive reward items.

United We Stand
This particular month, Mu has seen fit to recreate the strange, dichotomous island of Monsun. Most of the information regarding this peculiar land can be found in the informational post linked, but as a quick rundown: Monsun's western side is a hot wasteland of a desert prone of disasters and mishaps, but will affect your character's emotional and psychological state in a positive sense, while its eastern side is a verdant forest filled with endless resources...as well as a tendency to bring out the absolute worst of your character.

The western region blazes with a vengeance, the imaginary sun roasting overhead. The psychological effects of this area of island will shine far more kindly upon you than the sun does; your character's best qualities have been brought to light, and the longer they remain here, the more profound those qualities will become.

This is probably a good thing, too. Because those cactus plants on the horizon seem to be moving closer...and closer...

In fact, they aren't really plants at all.
Those who squint may find themselves thinking of another, cuter version of sentient cacti found on other worlds, but the mutual relation to a certain desert plant is where the similarities come to an end. Walking cacti are silent predators who prefer to slowly approach their prey, avoiding being noticed by their targets until it is too late.

Luckily, these creatures do not rely on projectiles to attack. Rather, their needle thin spikes can extend up to one foot out of their bodies in a fast, powerful motion - more than enough to puncture flesh and muscle. If you've ever wanted to try death by acupuncture, these are your kind of monster... but if not, a sharp weapon or fire will certainly help whittle down their numbers.

Regardless, all of your best qualities will come to light quickly in a fight, whether it be courage, diplomacy, compassion, earnest hope, or whatever other positive traits you might bear. Such is Monsun's boon to you.

Divided We Fall
The east, on the other hand, is the polar opposite to that desert wasteland. The sun shines evenly through the thick spread of deciduous canopies, which shade you from the worst of that unforgiving heat. The verdant greenery is perfectly temperate and even tranquil.

A pity that you'll soon find your worst qualities manifesting at a rather rapid rate. The proper Monsun generally gives you a twenty-four hour window before your most despicable traits start to flourish, but Mu, it seems, has sped up the clock significantly.

Scattered across the rich landscape, a herd of deer can be found prancing eagerly about, seemingly oblivious to their potentiality as a food source. In fact, they hardly seem to react to the approach of foreign entities at all. They're quite placid, and content to sit idly back until attacked - at which point they'll do little more than flee at a brisk pace.
What an ideal set of circumstances, truly. But should anyone else impose upon your peace, you'd better hope they don't mind encountering you at your absolute worst.

Don't Fear the Succ
You wake on a boat. It's a very nice boat, make no mistake, weatherbeaten and worn as it may seem, but it's still a boat, and you're still surrounded with lapping waves, as far as the eye can see. Or as far as the eye can sea.

Still, no reason not to make the best of this, right? Just sit back, relax, and let the wind take you wherever it may. You hardly need to eat or sleep in the regular sense in dreams, and this might be a good deal more picturesque than many of the dreams you're probably used to. All told, this is really quite a nice diversion -

Hold on. Did something just bump up against the hull?

Yes, in fact. Something did. Something with long, long, reaching tentacles that will soon snake over the deck to try and grasp your vessel in a death grip much like that of a boa constrictor: designed to crush and destroy.

It seems you've run afoul of that legendary creature of the depths; the one that every sailor most fears.

A kraken.
Hope you're not averse to a little hentai.

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raygunner: (hopeless)

[personal profile] raygunner 2017-12-17 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Thank you, Yusuke, for that excellent observation. The kraken is very not dead and it's still rarin' too go. Akechi suppresses the urge to bite out a comment, and sends a Megido at the thing. ]

No, but it seems anything but ice works well enough. I don't suppose you'd be averse to using a more physical attack, Kitagawa-kun.
effinlame: (8)

[personal profile] effinlame 2017-12-17 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[He knows he's being goaded, but his head is a buzzing nest of wasps and it's too hard to think. To remember that Akechi took their entire team to beat before.

He just needed to shut him up. So he bellows, lowering his head and charging again, going for a tackle this time]
demonpuppy: and will continue to do so with zero responsibility and consequences (i have learned nothing from everything)

D cuz I DO WHAT I WANT

[personal profile] demonpuppy 2017-12-17 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Chip has, for the most part, accepted that they're stuck in this place. It's going to be ages before they can get home, if they ever do, and even if they do they kind of doubt they'll ever see any familiar faces again.

That face though, that's walking through the same stretch of dry, hot sand they are?

That's definitely familiar. They only met her the one time, and only briefly, but she'd left one heck of an impression on them.

"Erika?"

And more important than that...she's family.
doodlebuginette: (pic#)

Re: Fear that Succ?

[personal profile] doodlebuginette 2017-12-17 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Well... that's good to know. Thank you!

[As much as she loved learning new things, she wasn't entirely sure that this was the right time for a biology lesson? Then again, such knowledge was useful to have.]

Oh my goodness! Be careful!

[With that pointless outburst out of the way, she's already back to trying to hunt down a makeshift weapon. She's not entirely sure how useful she can be just yet, but she has a feeling her new companion will need help. And she doesn't want to stand around doing nothing.]
priforprince: (fingertips)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-12-17 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
My unconscious generated this brute...

[ Turning away to talk to herself, Hibiki places two fingers on the bridge of her nose. It's unclear whether she's sincerely trying to ward off a headache or if she just needs to pose. ] I hope I don't remember this dream.
priforprince: ([g] eyecatch)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-12-17 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A soft smile, though accompanied by a few hard blinks. Getting. Warmer in here. But the role must be maintained. ] You're blossoming even more beautifully.
priforprince: (astounding)

oh deer

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-12-17 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
A surprisingly excellent design.

[ No deer scaring. Just maybe a Yusuke scaring.

Seeing as Hibiki just came up from behind him and didn't see fit to talk till she was right here. ]
greatcleavage: (talky man)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-12-17 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, he'd offered the warning and all he could do at this point was trust she could identify her own limits and compensate for them in good time... or, failing that, prepare to catch her before she could hit the deck from that height. He couldn't really blame her -- suddenly adjusting to new limits like that solely on the say-so of a man fighting with a sword was a bit much to ask, really.

"If you happen to sense where the next one is coming from through all that, try to give me a heads-up!"
greatcleavage: (confused)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-12-17 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[In part, Roy had offered it to demonstrate that he is in control of the situation and there's no need for panic.]

[Now whether or not that's true is unclear, but at the very least he want to encourage a measured response.]


Out of curiosity, if I said 'take shelter, I'll handle this', would you listen?

[He expects the answer is no, but he has to ask.]
greatcleavage: (talky man)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-12-17 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Fairly so, as I expect you'd have come across that caution before now. [SOMEONE would have said something. Wouldn't they?] You're new to a surface environment, especially a desert, then?
greatcleavage: (talky man)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-12-17 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, sort of. [Roy shifts his knapsack off his back, letting it thump heavily to the sand. Right on top is a slab of walking cactus, which he tugs out.] Walking cactus is a good source of fluid as well as nutrition, and fairly portable.
raygunner: (the last goodbye)

[personal profile] raygunner 2017-12-17 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This time, Akechi sidesteps him. He puts a fair bit of distance between Sakamoto and him, an instinctively his hand reaches for his useless gun.

Behind him, Loki appears. ]


Do you really want to do this, Sakamoto? You're easily overpowered if I choose to unleash one of Loki's attacks on you.
covertizer: (27)

[personal profile] covertizer 2017-12-17 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Good, Ryuji. Akira nods, and gives his friend's shoulder a heavy, but reassuring pat. ]

Tap out if you have to. I'd rather you didn't get eaten by a Kraken - and that decision would stand whether you had knees of steel or not.

[ There's some rumbling under the water again - enough that he's flipping his knives back into his hands, ready to stab out with them at a moment's notice. ]
alittleditty: (pic#11848621)

finally back in the land of internet, sorry for the slowness orz

[personal profile] alittleditty 2017-12-18 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Wait, that was her name, and wait, that was a voice she knew! Her head jerks up and... okay. The environment's tendencies mix with how her heart is still racing and how much she wants to leap for joy at seeing someone else she knows - especially another Scion - here.]

Alexandre- No I'm not! You frightened me senseless! And I've been worried sick!

goodcopsadcop: (laughs nervously what the fuck)

A...

[personal profile] goodcopsadcop 2017-12-18 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
He sure does see it.

He sees it and it sets off alarm bells. Not, you know, real ones. Something closer to metaphysical ones. That there's something wrong here. Something wrong about those shapes.

So it's a good thing the woman is armed. There's a few usable rocks around but none of his usual weapons and -- wait. If he looks at her again... she looks really familiar.

"I am," he says, finally, and averts his eyes back to the plant shapes. "You don't happen to have a spare gun on you?"
priwen: (i am the sea)

no worries!

[personal profile] priwen 2017-12-18 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ A part of him recognizes that Tataru is more worked up than usual, his mind attributing it to hidden danger. Yet in this environment, the instinct of caution seems to have been thrown to the wind - adventurers take risks, after all. Even stupid ones. ]

I'm sorry. I thought there could be beasts in this place. Do you know where we are?

[ He dims Aettir's flame, just in case (?) ]

[personal profile] scissorhood 2017-12-18 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
I know about the sun but I've never seen it. [He's got it in one.] That's right! Heh, must have been pretty obvious.

[personal profile] scissorhood 2017-12-18 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe we should get you to some shade...

[Wait. There is a person who needs help! She shakes off her dazed look and touches the mysterious person who saved her.] You look like you're roasting.
priforprince: ([g] spotlight)

[personal profile] priforprince 2017-12-18 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
My comfort is nothing compared to your safety.

[ Ah, how noble this person feels, to be sloughing off something they normally hold in such high esteem! What an exquisitely heightened feeling of calm lightens their heart despite these arid climes!

They reach out to touch Red on the arm....

And tip forward, blacking out. This outfit is, like, four layers of clothing. And gloves. And a hat. Most of which are black.

It was not designed for desert scenes. ]
greatcleavage: (talky man)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-12-18 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Reasonably so, especially since I'm familiar with the basic concept. [His world did indeed have its Underdark, full of darkness-loving creatures and even entire races of people who'd literally never seen the light of day.] But it raises a few certain problems -- for one, that survival out here in a desert environment is actually pretty perilous. I don't know how long you've been out here, but if you're becoming thirsty...
doodlebuginette: (Default)

[personal profile] doodlebuginette 2017-12-18 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[She supposed it would be wiser to sit back and let the (she was assuming??) experts deal with the situation. But that had never been her style.]

That depends on whether or not you're able to handle it yourself. I won't run off and hide and leave you here to deal with something you're not actually capable of dealing with.

If you need help, and I'm capable of doing so, wouldn't it be smarter to work together?
doodlebuginette: (Default)

Re: United We Stand

[personal profile] doodlebuginette 2017-12-18 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Spotting movement out of the corner of her eye, Marinette flinches slightly. It's only a few moments later, when Chara has come closer that she's able to relax a little. And then she's blinking at the little girl with the blade?]

R-right! I'll do that.

What are they? I mean... why are they like that?

[She was trying very hard not to ask if this little(?) girl was alone, because she didn't want to make assumptions, and she didn't know if doing so would upset her.]

I'm Marinette, by the way!
doodlebuginette: (Default)

Re: United

[personal profile] doodlebuginette 2017-12-18 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not... alarmed?

[At that point, she'd been assuming she was alone, so suddenly hearing a voice behind her was somewhat surprising.]

So you know what they are, then?

[Blinking, she turned to the source of the voice and arched a brow. Was he really sitting there sipping tea at a time like this? Where did he even get it? What was going on?]
greatcleavage: (talky man)

[personal profile] greatcleavage 2017-12-18 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Logically, that's a good question.

[The tentacle by now has snaked around Roy, trying to squeeze him. He responds by vigorously chopping at it, trying to get free before he's lifted off the deck entirely. Nonetheless, he seems perfectly calm about all this.]

I have certain ethical concerns about involving someone your apparent age in a potentially lethal combat -- would you let GO -- but I also recognize you might be more capable of fighting that I would expect based on my -- if this thing gives me a torso-sized hickey I am going to stab someone, probably the Storyteller -- own personal cultural expectations. The more legitimate question for me is whether or not pulling you in is likely to end in your death or serious harm without consideration for whether it ends in -- damn you, Power Attack, would you actually work for once?! -- my own, but since I have no actual authority over you and were I in your situation I personally wouldn't be comfortable just sheltering and watching, I recognize that you may choose to get involved regardless of my suggestion -- nrgh! [The tentacle at last manages to squeeze him enough to cut him off, even as he thrusts his sword practically through the thing.]
socialhacktivist: (pic#11945759)

Futaba Sakura | Persona 5

[personal profile] socialhacktivist 2017-12-18 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
united we stand.

[The unrelenting heat is familiar-- it calls back to memories both good and bad, all taking place within a short time of one another. But it's a positive feeling it evokes. One of strength and courage. It seems fitting for a dream her head would come up with. It even comes with game-like enemies. There's one, two... three headed this way now. But there's still time. So she pretends not to notice them. Let them come.

On her face is a triumphant grin.
]

Heh. Piece of cake.

[Futaba you've never been on the front lines a day in your life--]

Hey, you! Don't look now but we've got some company. Time to get ready to send them packing.

[Support may be her specialty but she's excited to give them a little hell herself.]

divided we fall.

[At first you might think it's the deer. Because there's something or someone there, but it won't approach-- in fact, it seems to be very much avoiding you on purpose and it's not nearly as quiet as the deer. It doesn't mean you any harm... but there's no reason for you to believe that. After all... call out to it all you want and it won't answer you. If you're lucky you might notice bright orange hair standing out vibrantly against the forest colors as it moves around.

She'd been fine until she came here. There are some feelings you want to drown out for the rest of your life. But the truth is, bits and pieces of them will always be there. Fear... hate... doubt...

Although that hate is directed at herself. Because of it, since coming here, she hasn't been able to feel like she can trust anyone or anything. If cornered, who knows what she'll do. Honestly, even she doesn't know. She just wants to go back to her room where she can shut it all out like she did before...
]

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