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TEST DRIVE: NOVEMBER
Welcome to
empatheias' test drive meme. This test drive is to help interested players test their characters in the game's environment. We've included a few prompts that incorporate specific elements of the game, though you'll find all of them have a lot of leeway for players to get as creative as necessary. Before diving in, here are a few things we'd like to remind everyone about the game in general:- Date reminders. Reserves open Tuesday, October 25 and Applications (Canon | OC) open Tuesday, November 1st.
- OC Reminder! Just a quick reminder that original characters are allowed. Those interested can also use the test drive. OCs do not need to be reserved.
- Emotions are key! Empatheias' premise focuses on how anyone's emotions can affect their environment, be it big or small. While not every emotion will cause a reaction, significant ones definitely will. How much effect a character will have will ultimately be up to you, the player. Also, while we're giving a lot of leeway for the test drive, keep in mind that there will be some limits in the actual game.
- Everyone has an amulet. All characters have a unique amulet that is specialized for them. It will contain all of their emotion drops and it serves as the network device. Remember, communication is telepathic. Otherwise, it works basically the same.
- Assume the character is already in the game. Because "OMG WHERE AM I IS THIS REAL LIFE" threads aren't going to be very helpful in this test drive! Plus those are going to happen in-game, anyway. So to make things easier, just assume that they've been around at least a week or so. Still learning the ropes, but not a complete "first day" experience.
- First or third person allowed. Your threads can be in either first or third, but we'd advise being flexible about it. Remember, these threads can also be used in your application for samples! Reminder: We only require one sample and it can be done in either format. We have also made a change to our sample requirements, so look over the Applications page!
Now with that out of the way, here are some prompts you guys can work from!
• Prompt A: How about giving the emotions a try?
• Prompt B: Refer to the Task Board and choose a task your character may be interested in taking up. For this prompt, you could have your character ask for help, already be in the middle of the job, or react to it in some way. Perhaps they were an unfortunate victim or want to create a job countering an existing one. You could even have a prompt making a job request. Creating jobs for the purpose of the test drive is absolutely doable.
• Prompt C: How about giving the amulets a go? Start a telepathic conversation and see how it works. Remember, the amulets are sending out the owner's thoughts so might want to be careful about how the stream of consciousness goes...
• Prompt D: The Boreas Harvest Festival is fast approaching, and the farmers are trying hard to work through the bleak weather conditions to get their crops in before they go bad from all the apathy. All hands on deck—but there may be too many unwanted hands roaming around.
• Prompt E: Aiada, the Arehtei of appreciation and jealousy, has sent a personal request for those who are interested. There is a small island just beneath Empatheias that she has been cultivating over the many centuries. She wishes to contribute to the Harvest Festival with some seeds and spores. However, the recent atmosphere has also reached down there, and now it's all a mess! Giant mushrooms replaced the trees and there's slime and mold everywhere. The cure? Aside from getting a lot of heavy duty cleaners and pushing it off, appreciation will go a long way to help.
• Prompt F: Various parties are interested in the emotion shards scattered all over Thera. But this time around, the focus is on the medical laboratory as the equipment and potential research there is also of interest. For three days those who volunteer are sent back to try and gather as much as possible—but of course this won't be easy.
• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include feathers and/or confetti.
• Prompt B: Refer to the Task Board and choose a task your character may be interested in taking up. For this prompt, you could have your character ask for help, already be in the middle of the job, or react to it in some way. Perhaps they were an unfortunate victim or want to create a job countering an existing one. You could even have a prompt making a job request. Creating jobs for the purpose of the test drive is absolutely doable.
• Prompt C: How about giving the amulets a go? Start a telepathic conversation and see how it works. Remember, the amulets are sending out the owner's thoughts so might want to be careful about how the stream of consciousness goes...
• Prompt D: The Boreas Harvest Festival is fast approaching, and the farmers are trying hard to work through the bleak weather conditions to get their crops in before they go bad from all the apathy. All hands on deck—but there may be too many unwanted hands roaming around.
- Scarecrows. The scarecrows that have been set up as a festive reminder of the time of year have unfortunately come under the influence of some errant strong emotions from the farm hands that work in the fields. Unfortunately that includes trying to ward off anyone who enters the fields with pitchforks and is one of them carrying a torch? Maybe if they can be convinced that you are trustworthy they will calm down.
- Invading rabbits. There are ton of rabbits ravaging the carrot patches. They're easily frightened, but some are more tenacious than others. Beware of the white rabbit with red eyes.
- Save the crops! Several batches are already starting to spoil! The only thing that can save them is dumping as much positive emotions into them. Joy of good food, hope for a bountiful meal, love of eating—whatever will work. Just be careful. Too much and those things might grow and explode…
• Prompt E: Aiada, the Arehtei of appreciation and jealousy, has sent a personal request for those who are interested. There is a small island just beneath Empatheias that she has been cultivating over the many centuries. She wishes to contribute to the Harvest Festival with some seeds and spores. However, the recent atmosphere has also reached down there, and now it's all a mess! Giant mushrooms replaced the trees and there's slime and mold everywhere. The cure? Aside from getting a lot of heavy duty cleaners and pushing it off, appreciation will go a long way to help.
- Goop brigade. Grab that bucket and shovel and clear the goop out! Just be careful not to have too much get on you—jealousy might take over.
- Appreciation balls. To help hasten the effort, Aiada has given several tubs filled with light, green orbs. Once channeled with enough appreciation, they can be used as mini-grenades to help explode and wash the area with more positive energy. Those caught in the blast won't be harmed. If anything, they'll just be very thankful.
- Watch the ledges. Careful, it's a fairly small island and the goop and slime has made things slick. If you fall… That's not a good way to go, let's just say that.
• Prompt F: Various parties are interested in the emotion shards scattered all over Thera. But this time around, the focus is on the medical laboratory as the equipment and potential research there is also of interest. For three days those who volunteer are sent back to try and gather as much as possible—but of course this won't be easy.
- Skeletal Scientists. The remains of the scientists who once worked in these rooms are still lurking, ready to protect their work. Fortunately they're relatively weak nerds, so not too difficult to dispatch. Just be careful.
- Flying equipment. The various medical equipment has also taken life, scalpels and needles flying everywhere and stethoscopes ready to strangle.
- Questionable liquid. Most of the easy shards have already been taken, leaving the more difficult to retrieve ones left. In particular they're found in strange, dark pink liquid. It's mostly harmless—except that upon contact intense waves of grief and suffering will course through. The longer the exposure, the worse it is. So hopefully a bucket full of it doesn't fall on you…
• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include feathers and/or confetti.
For your threads, put the Character Name and the Canon in the subject line to help readily identify them. You're also welcome to use more than one prompt for respondents to choose from. If you have any questions or want to brush up on the game information, refer to the Game Information entry. Otherwise, tag around and have fun!
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Even so, the seeds had to come from somewhere too, and the gardening supplies-
[He stops right with her staring at the turnip place. Turnt- Up Turnips... He doesn't even know what to say to that, thankfully the flowers next door catch his attention next. The air around Keith does about the same. His expression holds some faint relief and he heads towards the door looking at all the flowers.]
I didn't really get a good look at her flowers before they were erm- [Toast.] What did she call them?
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[She's a little sheepish right now. Despite her best efforts, some of the more commonplace knowledge that is so highly evident to pretty much anyone outside of nobility is a little lost on her. Frankly she's never planted a single thing in her life... besides potted flowers. She didn't exactly have to track down supplies for those however.]
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[That name rolls off her tongue fairly easily though.]
I've never heard of them before myself. I don't really know much about flowers though.
[Considering how tightly packed this flower shop is though, they're bound to have it... right?]
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meme-loving fuck of ateammate makes a crack at him it goes right over his head.][As for knowing anything about flowers he makes kind of an uncertain noise and shrugs.]
Yeah, me either.
[What a great mission for them to be on. But he repeats their name a few times and starts to look around. He could start with the green flowers, right? Surely they had labels.]
If you start on one end I'll start on the other.
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[It's not the largest shop despite being absolutely packed but there's a lot of greenery. Not much of it is flowers but it's enough to be distracting and the native manning the shop... well, maybe they're somewhere underneath all the flowers? Alice wonders briefly about that but sits the idea aside so she can poke through the collection of flora.
The first ones that have a 'green' tag on their pot turn out to be green geisha orchids. The next are green calla lilies. Alice's frown grows some and the environment dims around her accordingly.]
How did the flower get burned anyhow?
[Now she turns a questioning glance over to Keith, a brow raised.]
You weren't setting fires, were you.
[She sounds a little stern, lapsing somewhat into her authority figure sort of voice. It would be enough to have Warrant Officer Oreldo looking for a quick escape route.]
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[Some of the lights flicker with his frustration and the air around him warms.]
[He snaps out of it when she addresses him though. That tone startles him and he immediately looks defensive. He got plenty of that tone back at the Galaxy Garrison and look, there's a reason his discharge from there said "Disciplinary Issues".]
No!
[But he feels a very familiar surge in heat around him and he struggles to get it under control. There's too much burnable shit in this one room alone, it would be very bad to uh. Lose his temper here.]
[He doesn't answer her for a moment or two because he's actually trying to calm down.]
No, I got mad and they went up in flames. It's this place.
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You mean the way everything keeps changing according to your mood? It certainly is strange... and a little aggravating too.
[That's when it seems to hit her.]
So you have a temper then.
[Ah it makes sense now. And it also makes her somewhat sheepish.]
To be honest with you, I ended up coming into town because I couldn't help much with harvesting. I may have gotten a little too into fighting the creatures out in the fields...
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[He likes to think his outburst was justifiable at least.]
[But he pauses and looks away, more interested in one of the labels on a flower. It wasn't like he could deny he had a temper he just hated having it pointed out.]
[Though her words make him pauses and he glances back up. He snorts.]
Same. Turns out I'm not very good at calming down scarecrows.
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[Frankly she's no good at it either. She dove in all vim, vigor and sword to dispatch them and ended up building a small fire around her with her feelings. It had gotten rid of scarecrows and some of the harvest alike in the end.
By now she's checking more or less every plant she can. In the end she plucks out one label and the world around her lightens considerably. She's almost sparkling over here.]
Finally! I believe this might be it.
[The potted plant she holds up certainly is a shade of jade green. And the label seems correct to boot. Now that leaves one problem.]
... Is there an actual shop clerk anywhere in here?
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[The sparkling certainly gets his attention, though and he's heading over to her, eyebrows raised in curiosity.]
Oh huh, those ...sure look like something you would call jade green flowers.
[He looks relieved they found them all up until she brings that detail up.]
I haven't ...seen one.
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... You don't think it's one of these plants, do you?
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[Keith can't say he considered that.]
[He glances around the shop as if one of them might spring to life and he looks back at her.]
Wh- you think so?
[Maybe that's not all that strange? He, who's met aliens and traveled to other planets.]
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[Or even vaguely not-human. Everyone at home is most decidedly human and the thought of one of the plants being a person is...
At this Alice looks around a little tentatively. She's sort of been rustling through all of them looking for tags and now that she thinks one of them might be a person, she feels vaguely guilty for being so disrespectful.]
Sorry, I didn't realize... which one of you is in charge here?
[Yeah, she's apologizing to the plants. Of course, none of the plants are responding so it's largely unneeded. Particularly now that there's a native standing in the door, wearing an apron and holding a potted plant while peering at Alice in particular. At least the idea of apologizing to plants seems strange to everyone universally.]