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TEST DRIVE: FEBRUARY

— TEST DRIVE: FEBRUARY—


Welcome to [community profile] 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 Wednesday, January 25 and Applications (Canon | OC) open Wednesday, January 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: Over two years ago, the ill fated Red String of Fate toy made its debut. At the time it seemed like a solid idea, but as it turned out… it didn’t exactly work as advertised. People found themselves tied together with entirely incompatible people instead of the proclaimed “emotionally compatible” and to top it off, personal, influential and private telepathic communication came out drenched in sap and overly lovey-dovey overtones. It was, without a doubt, one of the company’s least successful product launches ever. And you would think that they would have learned. However, they decided to try again, and… well. It wasn’t exactly all that well thought out the second time around. But third time’s the charm, right? Wrong. Even if this time, it’s in the form of rings that will draw two people together in a “matched pair” rather than a string.

  1. There’s not really anything wrong with believing in true love, but trying to formulate a product that can detect someone’s ideal mate is innately flawed. Which only means that no matter how many times the product is adjusted, it’s just not going to work. Those who wind up with the product shoved onto their fingers (by a sales rep or through actually purchasing the product) will find themselves, once again, pulled by an unseen force to the nearest person they are “compatible with”. Same height, same hair color, whatever. It’s not exactly discriminatory. …Unfortunately as poor a match as they may be, the two cannot be separated until they share a meaningful embrace. So settle in, you might be together for a while.

  2. In certain pairs, normal conversation is often unintentionally made amorous, simply from inflection in voice, or perhaps a heightened affectionate emotion. Or, on the flip side, anger and aggression is increased ten fold, but it’s kind of 50-50 as to what effect will take place, all dependant on which hand they wear the ring. Left, romance, Right? Anger.


• Prompt E: The inexplicably cavernous sewers of Verens are no place for a sane individual, but here you are anyway—dropped there by some horrible emotional shift that made an entire section of street vanish and then reappear above your heads as if nothing had happened. You and the poor fool you’ve been dumped down here with need to find your way to the access tunnels and climb out, or perhaps go the other way and swim out through the Lake Niras outflow. Or just smash your way out, if you’re feeling destructive. But your own emotions will work against you, as you struggle against the terrible scent, the darkness, and the entirely-justified questioning of why your life has taken this horrible turn.

  1. There’s something odd about the way the water and sewage is sloshing around your ankles, almost as if it’s rising. But wait, that can’t possibly be a pair of eyes you see under the oil slick surface… could it? You’ve heard rumors about all sorts of beasties down here but surely your mind is just playing tricks on you.

  2. Remember that part about emotions turning against you? Maybe you’ve been trapped down here way too long with someone who’s just not living up to your expectations, or you’ve got something else on your minds—but the smell around you certainly seems to be growing thicker, the scent growing harder and harder to ignore. The water and grossness at your feet also seems to be growing thicker almost as though it’s curing like cement. The cause? Negative emotions. But are they yours or the person you’re stuck here with? Perhaps you should work through those post haste…

  3. Escape! You’ve made it out, but not without a great amount of effort on both you and your partner’s parts. Did you manage to find a way out through the access tunnels? Or perhaps you really did travel through all that much to the Lake Niras outflow… whatever it is, You’re certainly stinky, and possibly tired and cranky too.


• Prompt F: Some bandits went and stole another airship, only this time the Enforcers are prepared with a few of their own. Join in for some intense air battles. Just don't make the ship explode—they'd like it back in one piece please. Unless you're actually on the bandit team, in which case you probably want to blow up the Enforcer ship.

  1. What's an airship fight without some on deck action? Either the bandits are swinging over to the ship you're on, or maybe you're swinging over there. Whatever the case, it's a full on brawl. Just watch out—those bandits are well-armed with some interesting firearms and weapons. If hit, one of the following emotions will start to take over your senses: unquestionable rage, debilitating fear and panic, and sleepiness. Needless to say, these effects will hinder one's ability to fight.

  2. Can you fly or are you okay with climbing up the full height of your airship? Then grab a few sleep and apathy grenades and throw them at the bandits. Just be careful not to accidentally hit your allies. Otherwise they will be the ones feeling sleepy and want to give up. Also watch out for flying nets and bullets. Those bandits will definitely try to bring you down.

  3. While the enforcers are trying to maintain the integrity of the stolen ship, the bandits feel no such need to hold back and are freely unloading their weapons onto the Enforcer's ships, forcing them to defend themselves. Other than decapacitating the bandit behind the weapon, it's also possible to overload it with intense emotions. Explode it with rage or clog it with happy, loving flowers.


• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include bubblegum and/or toadstools.


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!
cordials: (⊱⊰ smile ⇒ looking for a change)

[personal profile] cordials 2017-01-22 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ okay so... cordelia isn't really sure how to respond to that. do people even whistle nowadays without being inordinately annoying on purpose? or hum? ]

Pretty sure the people I work with wouldn't want me to whistle. Or hum. Or do anything musical-ly, even. Yeah, they're boring like that.

[ also because she can't carry a tune to save her life, but pffft details. ]
Edited 2017-01-22 11:52 (UTC)
kataktitis: (4)

hey, i'm voicetesting so we're in this together

[personal profile] kataktitis 2017-01-22 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Because, boy! It fetches a good amount of spoils, and we can teach him a lesson or two.

[It's no heated battle or anything like that, but what he really means is...is...]

HAHAHAHA!!! It will be fun!
kataktitis: (1)

[personal profile] kataktitis 2017-01-22 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[He looks confident enough that her NEGATIVE NANCY opinion about him conquering this land doesn't even phase him! He understands. Doubt is simply a healthy part of life.

No matter; he will still escort this beautiful lady through his future city.]


Then it is decided!

[His sword is suddenly unsheathed from the hilt at his side, slicing through the air upwards as he summons his Gordius Wheel. The air kicks up, harshly tearing at Rider's cloak as the sky tears apart and a chariot with two enormous bulls come galloping down to land on the ground. Lightning flashes, the source of it being the bulls pulling the vehicle. But all stops as soon as they stop moving.]

Come! Our transportation has arrived.

[could you of been a little less over the top with the Rider could you of been]
kataktitis: (4)

[personal profile] kataktitis 2017-01-22 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, a curative! It seems you have stumped me.

[And doesn't seem bothered by that in the least.]

Perhaps I've found a new use for this world you speak of then. Never could I have imagined such a place existing. I must see it.

[Lowkey asking to be taken there please Barriss please]
kataktitis: (14)

[personal profile] kataktitis 2017-01-22 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[He scratches the side of his chin a few times. My. She was serious. Though as serious as she is, he still doesn't understand why, but...]

So I suppose I am not the only one who has addressed you as "little girl" then.

[Because that's what that means Rider?????]
flicked: (❖ sittin' in the back seat)

You resurrected my Waver muse, what have you done

[personal profile] flicked 2017-01-22 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Waver groans. Who is he kidding, he should be used to this. He throws up his hands.]

Only you would want to have fun while catching a panty thief.
circumstellar: (pic#10980034)

G

[personal profile] circumstellar 2017-01-22 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh... okay?

[ Hei is pretty unassuming the vast majority of the time, when he's out and about. A bookstore is the last possible place he'd expected to be called out, even so innocently, a couple of books in hand; one is about the history of this place, and one is something he thinks Yin might like, some kind of romance thing. ]

What is it?
kataktitis: (13)

i've done a beautiful thing

[personal profile] kataktitis 2017-01-22 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[He ignores Waver's complaining. That is just the boy's way. He'll grow out of it in time, Rider's sure.]

It says here they steal when no one is around. I think it best to observe and see what exactly it is that draws the thief out of hiding so we can formulate a plan of attack.

[Yes, that is certainly the best thing to do, he thinks.]
flicked: (❖ tickin' on and on‚ everybody's rushin')

NGL if - IF - I have the time, I am considering him as a third character

[personal profile] flicked 2017-01-22 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, if only Rider knew.

Anyway, Waver is too...well, in need of money to complain any further. May as well do this task with Rider instead of some stranger or by himself.]


Of course they'll only steal when no one is around! They don't want to get caught!

A-Anyway, it also says they've got hair like antennae. [Waver holds up two fingers.]
notafruit: (Keep your chin up)

[personal profile] notafruit 2017-01-22 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[While Tohru doesn't understand how it's possible, this much she can explain.]

When I suddenly came to here, some people showed me to a place called the welcome center. Strange things kept happening around me, too!

[It had really surprised her!]

It's like a type of magic that's tied to your emotions. So if you were excited or happy, the flowers might bloom. If you were angry, the area around you could become hot! It's the same with the clouds... [Because she must be scared and upset right now.]
Edited 2017-01-22 14:04 (UTC)
kataktitis: (3)

omg that would be wonderful if you did

[personal profile] kataktitis 2017-01-22 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
What a peculiar hairstyle indeed. Antennae, eh? That should make this far easier than I imagined!

[This job is going to be nothing, he's sure of it.]

They could have at least given us a challenge. What say you, boy? We find the highest vantage point to look for a man with the personage of an insect!
glaivekeeper: (Default)

[personal profile] glaivekeeper 2017-01-22 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[The fact that she cannot meet his gaze long could mean any number of things. Ravus has to mentally steady himself, push away the grief that had eaten away at him on Eos. She seems so much stronger than when they'd parted ways for what they had known would be the last time in Altissia. How or why, he has yet to discover, but he's grateful that she no longer seems to be suffering.

And yet that doesn't seem to be on her mind at all: she's still talking about the ring, something he'd almost forgotten in his shock. He can still feel its insistent tug commanding him to move, but he won't. Not yet.]


The ring matters little. [He'll figure out some way to get it off, but it doesn't seem to be actively harmful, at least not yet. Her presence, along with the calm she had been projecting, seems to have helped. To distract her attention from it, he gently rests his magitek hand over hers.] Are you well?
kenjirou: (4)

1/2

[personal profile] kenjirou 2017-01-22 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, what a cute dog? What a great interruption to his sad and feeble attempts of escaping some sort of Evil, Sticky Trap, and he immediately ceases them in order to stare at the oddly familiar poodle and reaches out to give pets. The barks are certainly recognizable too. It's almost like Kenjirou should be making another connection but he's getting really tired of acting like some improvisational yo-yo. ]

Hey! You look like a dog I know.

[ That voice though... ]
Edited 2017-01-22 14:22 (UTC)
kenjirou: (2)

2/2

[personal profile] kenjirou 2017-01-22 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
NO WAY! [ Suddenly, he's terribly self-conscious. So much so that he tries to escape with renewed vigor, hoping to not look like a huge dingus in front of the skater he looks up to so much? Frantically, he tugs at the negatively-charged gum with still no avail, and internally screaming like a lunatic the entire time doing so. ]

YUURI-KUN! [ Don't look at him, he's a salty and ashamed chicken nugget... ] I don't know. I stepped in gum and now I'm stuck. Please help me?!
glaivekeeper: (Default)

[personal profile] glaivekeeper 2017-01-22 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The rings contain some manner of power. [Which is the most important part that freaks him out. Not knowing what it does, exactly, or what it's capable of. Not that he'll explain himself to Aranea; she can think as she pleases.]

Supposedly, it is drawn to another ring to form a matched pair.
glaivekeeper: (Default)

[personal profile] glaivekeeper 2017-01-22 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Privately, he is grateful to hear of the lack of daemons here. Anything that relieves Lunafreya of her terrible burdens can only be a good thing. Outwardly, though, he makes no indication of it, although the air around him seems to react to his emotions and brightens a little.

None of that is the business of one of the prince's retainers, at any rate, so he continues as if he had not just let slip a stray emotion. He glances at Ignis.]


The response to such wildlife would appear to rely on the services of hired hunters, much as in Lucis. Is there nothing more organised to protect civilians here?

[Surely an organised military force would be more effective than relying on mercenaries.]
gymnasty: (6)

c

[personal profile] gymnasty 2017-01-22 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Huh, a text rather than spoken words in her head. All right, Akane will take a crack at it. ]

turn what off?
Edited 2017-01-22 17:05 (UTC)
bewrightback: (is there something on my face)

[personal profile] bewrightback 2017-01-22 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Phoenix tries to wipe some of the sweat from his brow, accidentally getting some gunk on it at the same time. It feels like the muck is only becoming more rancid and gross...]

Really! [He sounds surprised to hear that, or mock-surprise rather, and he turns to glance towards his old frenemy.] I wonder who it could be... It doesn't sound like anyone I can see right now!
bewrightback: (let's make criminals look foolish)

[personal profile] bewrightback 2017-01-22 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[It is nice to actually talk to him, now that the incident all those years ago is just water under the bridge. Klavier's been an invaluable help to Apollo and Ema in some of their cases, so he knows that the's a trustworthy Gavin.]

Hey there, Prosecutor Gavin! Hm... They actually sound pretty cute! I imagine it would be too much to keep them as pets?
nabooangel: (Desert)

[personal profile] nabooangel 2017-01-22 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[To hear such a question, Padmé isn't sure of an answer. Sure there are a lot of things wrong. Being trapped in this place while a war was going on at home. A war she had tried hard to prevent and troubled her mind. But she reminds herself that she isn't home now, she is here and had to get control of her emotions.

She looks at the woman approaching, not really knowing who she is, but a welcoming presence is better than being choked by uncertain thoughts. She smiles trying to push the uncertainly away]


This place is quite peculiar.

[It's not exactly an answer but it is a start.]
failinglight: <user name=emiri> (Smiling)

[personal profile] failinglight 2017-01-22 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps one day you will.

[That sounds almost Jedi-like, and internally she squeaks in delight. Yay! Managing the cryptic conversation, like Master Unduli.]

But, first we have to get off this rock. And...find a way to separate, since taking off the ring isn't going to work.
failinglight: <user name=emiri> (Secrets)

[personal profile] failinglight 2017-01-22 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thank the Force for that. She's not sure she could handle someone wigging out about her being green again. Or much more wigging out at all.

Oh. Except wait, there's still some shouting going on.

Ugh. Okay. Barriss focuses her thoughts a little more, trying not to sense the fear rolling off of the stranger. That's hard for a Jedi, but can you blame her for trying? She silently guides Cordelia below deck, screaming or not. This stupid place and these stupid emotional triggers. It's enough to make her want to scream!

But since there's already screaming going on, she just fumes silently, dark clouds rolling in over her head.]


You're not going to die. I'm a healer, and you're not even all that badly hurt. Take your hand and put it over your mouth so I can concentrate enough to clear up your injury.
foxtastic: <user name="bittenbittern"> (6a)

[personal profile] foxtastic 2017-01-22 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ if only Kaden understood the shounen life... instead, he's staring awkwardly at Rider while he explains himself, his proposition causing Kaden's ears and tail to sink lower. and lower. and lower.

especially because something dawns on him and it's causing the tiniest of rain clouds to pop around his ears, like little grey smokey plumes around fox-ear volcanoes. ]


Well, I hate to disagree with you, especially hey're really nice and all. But don't you think the value the thief may be looking for is... well.

[ and now his cheeks are turning pink. ]

... whether they've been worn or not?

[ Kaden now feels a different kind of death and hopes it'll come to take him soon. ]
foxtastic: <user name="bittenbittern"> (8)

[personal profile] foxtastic 2017-01-22 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... what ]

Uh? You mean like, from my mouth?

[ AKANE??? ]

But... it's mine.

[ ?????????????? ]
gymnasty: (Default)

[personal profile] gymnasty 2017-01-22 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, once you're done with it, of course.

[ Because it's rude to take candy from a sparkly fox. ]