TEST DRIVE MEME ( 014 )

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Test Drive Meme #14

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 August 17th, and Applications on August 24th!

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.

One Magic Night
The waves are aglow. That might not be the first thing you notice when you wake, but it will probably draw your attention at some point: the way the sea foam glistens with an effervescent light as it rinses the beach in a crystalline, deep blue shimmer. Further out, lurid explosions of color ripple soundlessly beneath the waves - an underwater fireworks show. The atmosphere is peaceful, a blissed-out calm to suit the lazy lap of the surf-spray against the sand. Maybe turning around will shed a little more light on the situation. What this is, in fact, is the echo of a celebration that was held on Ensō back in June. Torches and campfires crackle with a merry, companionable blaze, and there is food and drink in abundance - including some of the alcoholic persuasion, for those of you who are over the age of twenty-one.

There is, naturally, all sorts to do in a celebration like this. Friendly sparring matches have sprung up along the shoreline; beach cushions and blankets decorate the party site; coconut shells laden with bioluminscent body paint can be dipped into at will, if you fancy shining like a glowstick throughout the artificial night.

Just because you've got no idea how you got here doesn't mean you can't enjoy a good party while it lasts, right?

Growing Pains
The island you've ended up on today is very, very beautiful, particularly if you're a botanist: it's covered in flowers of all sorts. They grow in rich clumps, seemingly at odds with any sense of convention. Here, you can find common dandelions flowering alongside tropical strelitzias, snowdrops spangled beside water lilies. No matter the impossibility of it, despite the discrepancies of seasons and temperatures in which these specimens should be blooming, you'll find that nearly every species can be found represented, flowering in tandem. It's gorgeous. Breathtaking, even.

There's only one problem.

That problem being that the flowers are growing out of you as well. As might be obvious, this is not exactly a pleasant sensation. There is, in fact, a full list of rather painful symptoms that has been very well-documented of late. All you have to worry about in particular, however, is what has caused these flowers to take root in you in the first place:

Lies.

Is there something you need to get off your chest? Some confession that's aching to be made? Some guilt or regret that you've repressed, that's been dragging you down for years?

Then you'd better get to it. Those flowers aren't leaving unless you spill. And if you'd rather not, well...they're more than happy to fertilize the earth with what's left of you.

Hoo Ha Ha
Stop us if you've heard this one: you and some stranger wake up on a boat. There are no landmasses in sight, and nothing as far as the eye can see but lapping waves and a peaceful, periwinkle, cloudless sky. It's good weather for sailing. Perfect, in fact. There's even a tight breeze that might helpfully guide you along.

The punchline, of course, is the fact that you're surrounded by sharks. Sorry, did we say sharks? We meant tigersharks, of the most literal sort possible. Part fish and part feline, these dual-headed beasts are summarily more naturally carnivorous and more aggressive than your bog standard tigers or sharks. They're wickedly fast in the water, and just as lethal on land.

And they're currently trying to climb aboard; armed with four sharp-clawed legs, they're more than capable of doing exactly that unless you can fend them off.

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Weiss Schnee | RWBY

[dustprincess]

One Magic Night
[Someone clearly isn't enjoying the celebration. Weiss doesn't understand why the glowing body paint was a thing, and couldn't find anyone who would spar with her. It was all getting increasingly frustrating. So she stands at the beach, arms crossed, staring at the water.]

Is it supposed to be glowing like this?

Growing Pains
[Weiss was panicking. Internally at least. On the outside she just looks very irritated as she pulls flowers off of her arms and hisses in pain. Cutting them had the same effect, her rapier laying on the ground beside her with destroyed blossoms scattered around it.]

What is going on!

[And why does she keep coughing up petals?]

one magic night

[campnope]

Nope, it's radioactive. [There's an obnoxious ten year old scowling at her, hands shoved into the pocket of his hoodie.] Better get away before you turn into a horrible mutant.

[dustprincess]

[A blink as she looks at this kid.] Radioactive? And what's that supposed to mean?

[campnope]

[....how is he even supposed to explain this, and does he care enough to really try.]

Let's just go with "really poisonous."

[dustprincess]

If it's so poisonous, then why are people painting themselves with the glowing paint that's clearly made from things in the water? Unless they all have a deathwish.

[campnope]

[He shrugs.] Probably it's getting them high or something. You'd be amazed how much poison people consume for fun.

[dustprincess]

That... [Sounds really dumb. Why would people intentionally do that?

And then she remembers alcohol.]

If they're adults, they can do whatever they want. I'm not going to join them.

[campnope]

[This is funnier than it has any reason to be. Max smirks.]

Good thinking. Course, that means you'll probably be the one person sober enough to clean up by the end.

[dustprincess]

No thank you. If they're dumb enough to do those kinds of things, they can clean up after themselves after they're sober. I'm not a maid.

growing pains

[ladytakamaki]

Hey--be careful!

[ ann's not feeling well herself, but seeing weiss pulling the flowers makes her wince. that just seems painful, and she holds her hands out to try and stop her from continuing. ]

I don't know either, but I don't think that's a good idea...

[dustprincess]

I will not be careful! I don't want these things growing in me, and I'll rip it all out if it means they stop growing!

[Her fingers are being cut up by thorns, the various shades of rose petals being crushed as she pulls at them.]

Unless you have a better idea, I'm going to try and get rid of them the old fashioned way.

[ladytakamaki]

Well, yeah, I think I do have a better idea.

[ weiss. stop that. ann frowns as she keeps on picking, and she's tempted to reach out and grab her hands to stop her, but... ]

We should ask around and see if anyone knows what's going on. What if there're locals here or something?

[dustprincess]

And what would the locals know? This is probably some Grimm disease, and this isn't Remnant.

[This is starting to ruin her clothes... so maybe Weiss should stop.]

[ladytakamaki]

A cure? Probably?

[ ann can't take it anymore. she puts a hand over weiss'--sorry, you're a total stranger but she can't help it--and she frowns. ]

Stop picking at them, okay? You're just going to open up your wounds even more. C'mon, let's go see if we can talk to anyone.

[dustprincess]

[Weiss is a little startled at having a stranger grab her hands. But it's okay. No more picking. Even if she really wants to.]

.... fine. But if there is no cure, I'm going back to what I was doing. [She kneels down and picks up her rapier, putting it on her belt.] Let's go.

cw emeto

[ladytakamaki]

That's fair.

[ she gives weiss a little smile until she starts coughing again, flowers spilling out from her lips. she grimaces, groaning from the pain, but lets go of weiss' hands and follows her. ]

I'm Ann, by the way. Ann Takamaki.

cw emeto

[dustprincess]

[It always seems to be when someone else throws up, or in this case coughs up flowers, that it happens to whoever is with them. Weiss is racked with a cough out of disgust, glaring at the gold, black, and red petals in her hand. Yang, Blake, Ruby.... that's what the colors remind her of.]

W-Weiss Schnee.

[Ugh. Can these flowers stop? At least while they're exploring?]

[ladytakamaki]

Nice to meet you. I'm sorry the circumstances couldn't have been better.

[ she frowns, but she follows weiss. she makes it a good way across the shore before she starts coughing up more petals, too, letting daisy petals fall onto the sand that are covered in her own blood. ann frowns, brushing a hand through her hair. ]

I can't believe this...

[dustprincess]

If the circumstances were better, I'd be back home right now.

[Blood covered petals... Don't think Weiss didn't notice that.]

How come you're coughing up blood and I'm just coughing up petals? We both have the same disease, right?

One magic night

[tokenflavortownie]

[Even if Weiss wasn't enjoying the party the Jormun had thrown together for the land dwellers, Pyrrha was positively living for such good cheer again. The sighs, the smells, the sounds of people playing and singing and simply enjoying life rather than suffering through it. If this was a dream than she didn't want to wake up for a while.]

Actually, yes. You see, it's because of these little creatures called- Weiss?

[The voice was so chipper for a moment before cutting itself off. And if Weiss turns around to investigate, she'll see Pyrrha Nikos standing there, alive as can be and decorated with glowing stars and lines along her legs and arms. The look of shock on her face was priceless.]

[dustprincess]

[That voice makes Weiss tense up. It shouldn't be here. It shouldn't exist!

She hesitantly turns her head and-] Pyrrha...?

[She looks like she's seeing a ghost. A very painted and glowing ghost.]

[tokenflavortownie]

Weiss!

[It could've been anyone, but after so many months of near solitude in this world, seeing a member of team RWBY made her chest swell, especially a good person like Weiss.

She steps forward, forgoing any formal greeting in exchange for pulling the small heiress into a big hug.]

Oh, it's been so long since I've seen any of you!

[dustprincess]

[The shock at seeing Pyrrha alive is made worse by being hugged by the redhead. That's when Weiss notices the others hair was much shorter, too, and she just seems... different.]

H-How... [She pulls away enough to stare up at the other girl.] Pyrrha... how are you here? Alive?

[tokenflavortownie]

[She may look different, but it's still the same Pyrrha inside, and mostly outside. She's still strong enough to pick Weiss off her feet with this hug of hers.]

It's so great to see you again! [She just wants to nuzzle this girl she hasn't seen in months, but.... she probably owes her an explanation, doesn't she?]

How am I...? [Ah, she'll let Weiss down, slowly.] Hehe, well, that... is an awfully long story I'm afraid.

[dustprincess]

[Then Pyrrha will get an indignant squeak in reply as she's lifted up. This is not how you treat a former heiress!!!!

Weiss stumbles a little even put down slowly, smoothing out her dress and noting she's glowing now. Great.. this would take forever to wash out.] I don't care how long it takes, I just want to know how. Ruby swears she saw you...