empatheias_ooc | TEST DRIVE: NOVEMBER

— 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!

PROMPTS

• 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.

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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[ the only reason why he's here is because they told him he'd be here. giorno has been watching the rest of his fights with distaste because to him, there is no enjoyment in watching them. there was no way Dio was going to lose. he had walked into the ring with the intention of becoming its champion and that's exactly how he intends to leave. giorno had only come to observe if only because there is always a chance that someone will bring him to his knees. it's a testament as to how vicious he can be that he certainly doesn't mind watching if the opportunity will present itself despite, of course, worrying if it does happen. (after all, he doubts that he could stop himself if something does. such is the nature of the thing, and it's complicated enough of an emotion that he does what he can to push the reality of it to the back of his mind.)

when the crowd claps and roars, giorno politely claps, as well. there's another call for bets, but giorno's saving his money. at the end of the games, he lingers, eyes sharp in the darkness as he watches him.

there are so many things that he'd like to tell him, all competing in his mind, but he bites his tongue. ]

Good show, as always.

[It would be impossible for Dio to miss Giorno's presence in the audience. That doesn't mean he particularly reacts to it, of course. Dio never feels as though he needs to prove himself to be anything to anyone, let alone would he ever feel the particular need to prove or appease his son. But he's keenly aware that Giorno is present and can hear his quiet, polite clapping without once having to take a moment to particularly glance in his direction amid the crowd.]

[It's only once he's been approached and Giorno speaks that he spares him a glance. One corner of Dio's mouth pulls itself up into a smile as he hums in quiet amusement.]

And yet you didn't appear to be enjoying yourself.

[ giorno shakes his head. ] You were never in trouble. What else is new.

[ indeed, dio didn't even look like he'd been in the ring. he might've been a guest or a judge for all anyone knows - just some random nobody with a pretty face and a scary form - but that was always the mistake people have where dio was concerned.

he leans against the sponsor's ads wrapped all over, ankles crossed, slipping his hands inside his pockets. ] There are less troublesome ways of exercising, you know.

Perhaps, [Dio concedes,] but those often result in death or maiming at the very least.

[Never mind that they don't pay and don't provide Dio with the same taste of nostalgia, but he'll never admit to dependence on a form of income and certainly never to any true sense of sentimentality.]

So, which would you prefer I do?

A world of opportunities, and you're asking me what there is to do.

I'm merely pointing out that unnecessary violence shouldn't be made into entertainment. [ steel in his voice, that self-righteousness leaking out of his words; he certainly didn't get that from dio's side of things. no, that one comes from another source, malignant in his blood, reaching beyond death. giorno carries that birthmark, after all, for better or worse. ] With one as powerful as you, it's hardly a balanced fight at all.

If you need any help, you can always ask. [ money. assistance. everything else. he is loathe to offer this, simply because he knows dio would probably refuse it, and anyway, far be it from his father to accept offers of charity even if it's from his son, and - there are other reasons - but he says it out anyway, for dio to decide whether he'd reject it or accept it. ]

[Dio scoffs at first, clearly ready with a remark at his son's holier than thou attitude regarding violence, which he finds amusing enough to maintain courtesy and patience to avoid interrupting. But his amusement doesn't last long; at the assertion that he might need help (and that is what Dio hears; he hears not the if), his expression darkens.]

You needn't concern yourself.

[ rather tersely; ] If only.

[ he knows of his father's pride. he's never been at the other end of it but he's heard stories of it and how dangerous it can be. it's a point of injury that giorno has to resist from agitating the way fingers might explore a bruise. the point was to remind him that options exist and not to corner someone as dangerous as his father, in a world that has halted his ambitions. he doesn't think he can handle the after-effects if that were the case, but his hesitation has more to do with his complicated feelings over his father more than anything related to power or experience. it is an embarrassing feeling.

it is also his alone to experience. (he feels responsible for him now. he would surely laugh at him if he hears about that.)

giorno moves past him, scuffing his shoes across the grimy floor. his heels make clacking noises as he walks. ]

If you're done posturing - I'd really like to get out of here.

[ emphasizing the 'we'. as a compromise. ]

Edited 2016-11-03 06:34 (UTC)

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