TEST DRIVE MEME ( 003 )

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Test Drive Meme #3

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 September 17th and that Applications will open on September 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.

Don't Go into the Light
Night has fallen, so to speak - or the appearance of night has - and with it has come a curious phenomenon. All throughout the land of Mu, the odd flickering light has started to lick at your periphery. It looks almost like someone bearing a torch or a lantern, and if you listen hard enough, if you really squint...it almost feels like it must be someone familiar, calling you to their aid. Maybe it's a loved one, or a friend. Maybe it's just someone who's liable to spark your curiosity, or for those who are particularly tender of heart, the crying of a child in need of help.

Either way, it's undeniable: someone out there needs you. And the only solution is to follow the light until you find them, because surely that must be the origin of that voice and that disturbance, right..? The phenomenon of ghost lights, of ignis fatuus, may or may not be familiar to those falling prey to the siren call of these mysterious, hovering lights. But their end purpose is very similar. They intend to lead you gently along, calling to you with memories of those you love or remember, until you reach an inevitable, potentially fatal roadblock.

The island of Mu enjoys mimicking the dangers and pitfalls of LifeAftr, and your journey is liable to end in a variety of equally unpleasant ways if someone does not see fit to stop you and pull you free from your trance. Perils such as quicksand, drowning, walking off the edges of cliffs, or simply being led directly into the nest of some great predator, are more than abundant.

Better hope that someone finds you before they do.

No Swiping!
Enjoying your time on Mu? Succeeded in amassing some meager resources, retrieving some food or supplies?

Not for long you haven't!

Mu has done its best to mimic a creature found on the mainland, complete with all its annoying, scavenging tendencies. Slypers are almost foxlike in appearance, orange-red with a white-tipped tail and a long, triangular snout, and are notorious thieves. Anything that isn't bolted to the floor has the potential to be snatched should you turn your back for a second, thus rendering all your hard-earned work in hunting and gathering utterly pointless when your food or water ends up in a slyper's belly instead of your own.

They're not easy to trap or snare by any means, but if you're fast enough, you might be able to keep your belongings from being the crowning achievement in a dirty little thief's den.

Which might be easier said than done. On Mu, slypers work in packs.

What the Cluck!?
Someone on the island embarked on some well-advised exploration, but discovered, in the process, something decidedly less pleasant than what they were no doubt hoping to discover. And now Mu has taken the example of its more reality-based counterpart, and elected for devise a threat of its own, modeled after the threat in question.

The trees will tremble and the ground will shake. And drawing ever closer approaches...the fustercluck.

Initially, one might mistake the fustercluck as a hillock of some kind. A moving hillock. With talons and wings and fins and claws and teeth protruding out of it? Come to think of it, it's not a hillock at all.
(While the Fustercluck doesn't look anything like this, we still thought this gif was both topically relevant and too good not to include.)
It instead appears to be a vaguely gelatinous mass of appropriated limbs and body parts, tangled and gelled together. Thick with moss, grass, and accumulated body parts, this creature functions more or less like a katamari: propelling itself along, devouring and appropriating any living thing unfortunate enough to cross its path. Once ensnared by its many clawing, grabbing appendages, it will reel you into itself until you're thoroughly embedded in the mass, organs dissolved and digested, leaving nothing more than a collection of limbs that it will then use to carry itself across the island.

There is no known manner with which to destroy this creature. Only the foolish will engage; everyone else should run.

Though of course, on Mu, you could always try fighting it...

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Comments

idk that's a pretty tall order

[escampist]

Oh, yeah. It's a great game. Throwing sticks at trees. That's what the kids are into these days. Who needs an Xbox when you've got all this wood lying around, right?

[The sarcasm couldn't be thicker if he coated his words with sarcasm syrup.]

I'm trying to catch some thieves.

impaler pls

[dontkillme]

What's an Xbox?

[The Underground's still running on VHS, guy. Asriel used trollface memes in 2015. He's a bit... behind the times, when pop culture is involved.]

...Never mind. You're being sarcastic, I know. Let me, um... let me ask a better question. What did the thieves take? Maybe I can help you find them, no pointy sticks necessary!

[escampist]

...So you're not just a furry, but a sheltered one. Figures.

[He's not even gonna question this.]

They took some food. And my knife. Which is weird, because what does a fox even need a fucking knife for?

[dontkillme]

What's a furry?

[Wait, no. The more questions he asks, the more he's just gonna get made fun of. Asriel scratches the back of his head, tries to move the conversation along.]

You, um, really like swear words, don't you? That's okay. Maybe the fox just took the knife because it was shiny. Do you have something else shiny? We could try and set a trap for them if we had the right bait!

[escampist]

...I refuse to answer that.

[Yes let's move far away from that topic.]

I like to express myself as clearly as possible, so yes. Yes, I do. [Plus swearing freaks out most adults and it's fucking hilarious.] Well, let me see. Hm. Looks like I'm all out of shiny jewelry and gold bars today. Must've left those in my other hoodie.

But a trap might not be such a bad idea.

[dontkillme]

[Well... Asriel does have something shiny. A heart-shaped locket hanging around his neck. But... that's not something that can ever be replaced. He's not - he's not entirely sure he wants to risk his most prized possession for someone who's just being kind of mean to him.

Flowey is selfish. Asriel isn't. He has to be good. He has to do the right thing. Maybe this kid is only being mean and sweary because he hasn't had a chance to warm up to Asriel yet. Maybe a kind act will be all it takes to become friends.]

Um. I... I have something that we could maybe use as bait. But... it's really, really important to me. So we have to make sure the trap won't fail, okay? I don't wanna lose it.