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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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So here she is, flopping down into the chair next to him and pushing her glasses up her nose as they'd slide down from the movement. Kara in street clothes hanging out with her friend Barry.]
Don't we have people who come up with names for us?
[She picks up his discarded beer mug and sniffs it, her nose instantly wrinkling at the smell alone.]
You actually tried that? You're brave.
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And here I thought you were the Brave and I was the Bolt.
[Thank god Kara can take his nonsense.]
I would pay all [He takes out his wallet and flicks through its contents.] twenty four dollars to have Cisco here to name these. I mean, who names their beer Blood Ribbon?
[For real, his is the saddest frown at Kara as he pours himself a drink.
Save his taste buds.]
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I figured we could switch it up every now and then. I mean, you can be pretty brave when you wanna be.
[Can anyone take his nonsense?]
Twenty-four dollars? Wow, you are a rich man, Barry Allen. If only American money worked on a planet without an America, I bet your friend would be all over that offer.
[She leans forward to peer at the name.] Seriously? They actually named it that?
[Kara makes a grabby hand gesture towards the glass he just poured.]
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This [Yes, this green paper.] will be exactly what gets better tasting drinks when one of us gets home. [He puts half next to Kara drink coaster.] Promise.
[He breathes in and nods, the instantly regrets breathing in.]
Oh man. Yeah. All you.
[All too happy to slide that over.]
Please, no super puking a hole in the wall. I don't think they'll pay us if that happens.
[His chest is quietly bouncing from the contained chuckle.]
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Or it could be spent on something better than drinks. Maybe food. Spending it on food would absolutely not be a waste.
[Because alcohol doesn't affect her either so they might as well spend it on food.
With the drink now in front of her, she sniffs this one too and Kara's face definitely makes an "ew gross" expression. Still, Kara soldiers on and takes a big deep swig.]
Don't worry, stomach of steel. There will be no puking no matter how many bad - and that was bad - drinks I have.
[Pushes the half-empty glass away.] Mark that one as a 'heck no'.
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Food would be- [Son of a biscuit!] Food!
[Barry whips out half a protein bar from his pocket and looks at Kara.]
I'm going to have a problem when this is gone. I need around eight thousand calories a day or I go hypoglycemic.
[As soon as the new bottle of licorice beer is on the table, Barry's eyes are done reading in about the same instant. Of course there's no nutritional content label.]
Beer has to have a lot of calories, right?
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Right, you said that once.
[That is definitely a protein bar though and it's a problem that Barry is running out. Kara is not a doctor or even a chef, she doesn't know how to make those kind of bars that he needs.]
Dark chocolate! Eat lots of chocolate And we are on another world so maybe they have some kind of food that has a lot. We could always ask around about it too.
[She watches as he grabs for the beer, obviously disappointed in what he finds there.]
I don't know. Maybe. There are all those commercials about light beer that has less calories playing on tv.
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His entire face is a frown of disgust and his eyes beg Kara for help as he drinks. Why is he doing this to himself?
Glug, glug.]
PFFFTFAH! [Breathing never felt so good, nor has the floor ever been so sprayed.] Dark Diamond shouldn't be a flavor.
[He barely croaks that out and marks a red X on the label, shoving the last half of his calorie bar in his mouth. It will hopefully get rid of the flavor.]
What are you doing tomorrow? I think I need to go bakery hunting.
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When he's finished, she pats him heartedly on the back in hopes that he doesn't choke. She's also extremely glad that she was not in the way of that spray.]
You're going to get kicked out if you keep that up.
[It's okay, Barry. Kara is not going to let you go hungry even if she has to fly to every single restuarant and bakery on the island.]
I think you need more than bakery hunting, you need to go bakery hopping. Followed up by a pizza parade.
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That sounds like something I can sink my teeth into. Maybe I can try to re-create those Cisco bars. [He is so going call them that when he gets back to earth.] Caloric compression can't be as hard as dimension jumping or time traveling.
[He takes a sweeping look to make sure it's clear and he cleans up his floor mess within the blink of an eye.]
Or enduring this.
[Yup. Next bottle time already.]
Can they legally pay us to be voluntarily tortured?
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Then we have a plan, the bakery hopping starts at 9am, Allen. I'm not really the science-y type but I can cook so I'll help out anyway I can. [Kara thinks that's what they're called to start with so...] If it turns out we suck at this, I will not hesitate to ask around for help.
[While Barry is cleaning up, Kara keeps an eye and ear out to make sure no one witnesses the miraculously "self-cleaning" floor.]
Pretty sure they can. At least it isn't as bad as us paying them to try their potentially horrible flavors of whatever new thing they come out with. Like tomato ketchup chips.
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[He folds his half of the twenty four dollars to tuck away.]
I think this is going to be a first. Being somewhere on time.
[Mainly because what else has he to do here? No job, no STAR Labs or family.
Ugh. That thought deserves serving himself a full glass of-]
Crimson River? That's not right.
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[She watches him pour that glass and then takes it from him. Her turn.]
How can you not be on time? No wait, forget I asked that. I've shown up plenty late. If you don't show up by 9:15, I'll send out the search party. Or is that too long to wait?
[There is always something to do. Maybe he'll find some people fighting or something on his way to the bakery.
Kara lifts the glass that she's stolen from Barry and downs it in one go. Her eyes squeeze shut.] Ugh, that was sour.
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[His bottom lips tries to reach the other side of his face at seeing Kara's taste test reaction.]
Yeeeeah, that's definitely another doozy.
[Red X on the bottle and he requests a pitcher of water. Given it's only been a brief time, it's never struck Barry just how alike they are right now.]
It's weird, isn't it? Being Supergirl, being Flash, without the people that even make what we do possible.
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[She sticks her tongue out at the taste as if that will get rid of it but it doesn't really.]
Why can't they have anything good to taste?
[Leans back in the chair, fingers curling around the glass gently.]
Yeah, I tried to do the whole "solo" thing once. Didn't really work out for me. Being here without them, being Supergirl without them doesn't seem right.
[But then she looks over at him and smiles, leaning until her shoulder nudges him.]
But we're not completely alone, at least. We've still got one team-up going for us.
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Team Speed? [He laughs at the nudge.] Sorry. I'm not the best name making guy, am I?
[As soon as the pitcher's on the table is when Barry's already filling up both their glasses to the brim at neck break speed.]
Ugh, I tried that too. Another one of Barry Allen's Not So Brilliant ideas.
To not having to go solo. [Toasting with ice water. Either of their Earths are correct to label them dorks.]
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That is literally the worst team name I have ever heard. [Considering she's not all about speed.] How about until one of our friends gives us a name we just go with Super Flash? Unless you want it to be Flash Girl?
[Yeah no that's an even worse name but that's kind of the point.]
Do I even want to know how many of those you've had? [Barry has been superheroing longer than Kara.]
To not having to go solo. [Kara lifts her glass and clinks it against his.]
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[All he can do is shake his head no (two too many) and gulp down the water. Thank god it washes away the aftertaste.
Licorice and alcohol should never have teamed up.]
You know, if there's no other superheroes here, then it'd be Just Us.
[Yup. Justice. He's going there.]