aftr_ooc | TEST DRIVE MEME ( 014 )

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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You say that like I didn't know something was up with you...you--

[ she wants to sock him in the face so badly. it doesn't even register with her that sae had a palace, or that they let akechi into their group. she wants nothing more than to punch him for even daring to try and hurt akira.

but instead, she starts coughing up more petals. she keels over, daisy petals spilling from her lips before she looks up at akechi and glares daggers into him. ]

You're going to pay for this, Goro Akechi! And I'm gonna see to it once we're out of this goddamn place!

[ It's a legitimate threat. Akechi is very aware of how capable Ann Takamaki is, but the very idea of her making him pay...

He starts laughing. The carnations bloom in his chest and throat, and Akechi doubles over. He coughs violently, wetly, blood splattering onto the ground. But he keeps laughing, in between the coughs. ]

How can you make me pay if I'm already dead?

[ she'd pity him a lot more if she knew the truth. but right now, ann feels nothing but rage in her heart, because how dare he. how dare he do that to her leader, to any of them--

but what he says silences her for a moment, and she narrows her eyes more. ]

What are you saying?

I died, Takamaki. Do I need to repeat myself again?

[ .... but by some miracle, the flowers in his throat lessen. It becomes easier to breathe, and god, Akechi hates that talking to her is why he's getting better. ]

Killed by a cognitive version of myself. Pathetic, isn't it?

Don't give me that bullshit.

[ she's noticed that she's getting better, too. and she hates it just as much as akechi does. ]

You're here now, aren't you?

Bullshit? No, let me tell you what's bullshit, Panther.

[ He's getting angry again, and his hands are shaking. He curls them into fists. ]

This damn place brought me back here from the dead just so I could die again. I died in Masayoshi Shido's palace, because you idiots thought you could change his heart.

[ that makes her step closer. she wants to hurt him, tear him apart so damn badly. ]

Don't call me that. I don't want that from you of all people.

[ though--shido's palace... what? they--they managed to get there, did they? she takes in a deep breath, but then she realizes something. ]

How do I know you're telling the truth?

You don't, do you? You won't believe a thing I say.

[ And there's that twisted satisfaction again. Akechi spreads his hands, bloodied and broken from the petals and vines that have pushed out of his skin. ]

So what is it you want from me, Takamaki? Take whatever the fuck you want, I've lost everything anyway.

[ she has to hold back another cough, because like hell is she going to show anymore weakness in front of akechi. she starts to walk away, but doesn't take her eyes off of him. she's still glaring. ]

All I want is for this place to make you atone for everything you've done. But that's not happening, is it? You'll just sit and wait for this place to kill you again.

[ ... ] I'm done with you.

[ Akechi grits his teeth, and he chokes back another cough. ]

You have no idea.

[ And behind him, Loki appears, dark and imposing. ]

You really don't know what I've done, have you? All those mental shutdowns--those were me, all me! Kunikazu Okumura dying? That was me.

[ He laughs again, loud and unhinged. The flowers on his palms fall away. ]

Accusing me of sitting around and doing nothing is truly hilarious, coming from someone who sat around uselessly while people suffered around her. Like your friend Suzui.

[ and just like that, ann snaps.

she starts running for akechi, balling her hand into a fist, getting ready to knock him down and make sure he can't get up despite her illness--

but just like she did with kamoshida, she pulls herself back. she stops just short of his face, breathing heavily as she coughs up more petals than before. dammit. she hadn't meant to overexert herself, but-- ]

You don't know anything about what happened with Shiho! Don't talk like you know about her, because you don't know anything, Goro Akechi!

[ her hand is shaking. ]

[ And Akechi laughs again. The flowers are still rooted inside him, and he coughs blood and petals and lies. ]

I know everything I need to, Takamaki. I know you and your friends are pathetic, idealistic idiots who accepted me into their group knowing I'd betray them in the end.

And I know you'll die here, choking on your flowers.

Never.

[ she says it with venom before she stomps off to who knows where. she just needs to get away, and boy does she wish the other phantom thieves were here.

she needs to be anywhere away from where akechi is. ]

Edited 2018-08-17 12:02 (UTC)

TEST DRIVE MEME ( 014 )

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cw uhhhhh blood? emeto? ALSO P5 SPOILERS..

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STILL ON THE P5 SPOILER TRAIN

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

OH SAME

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