empatheias_ooc | TEST DRIVE: October

— TEST DRIVE: OCTOBER —

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 Sunday, September 24 and Applications (Canon | OC) open a week later on October 1st. Apps will only be open for four days!
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!
Transfer to in-game. If accepted, you can assume threads made on the Test Drive happen in-game if the scenario can reasonably fit. These threads do not count toward AC.

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: With the crystal having been mysteriously stolen, the weather has been nothing but uncooperative, lately. Actually, uncooperative is an understatement. Just yesterday, it was raining frogs! Now, well…

In the Sky with Diamonds. You might be walking in the streets or in the safe confines of a building when it begins to hail. It's not just any ordinary hail. Instead of ice falling from the sky, it's little beads and pieces of… you guessed it: diamonds! Some are actually fake, but there are some that are genuine. Only the experienced eye will be able to tell. The catch is, it only rains diamonds for ten seconds. And in this short span of time, people have gone berserk over the stone. Looks like some are eager to sell what they've collected, while some are fighting over what "should be theirs". Are you one of those people opportunistic enough to make money out of this, or are you doing something else of your own?
One in a Melon. The crazy weather has not only been affecting the people living in Empatheias, but also the flora and fauna. The fruit stands everywhere have been selling all kinds of hybrid fruit, ranging from melons the size of a building to blue grapes that taste like chocolate! The latter sounds oddly delicious, truth be told. The vendors are all for giving free samples to anybody who passes by, too. In fact, there's one fruit stand that seems to be selling really well. Investigate, and you'll be given a slice of pineapple! Take a bite, and it tastes like Hawaiian pizza. Is this heaven or hell?

• Prompt E: It's safer to stay indoors given the strange weather, but you can't help but go out in the streets and explore! You're in a new world, after all. There is so much to see! Of course, when it begins to rain cats and dogs (either literally or figuratively), you look for a place to hide. Somehow, you've managed to enter a building that's dark, only lit by a flame in the middle of the room. There are a lot of hooded men and women surrounding the flame.

Welcome! When they notice someone else enter, they all look at the door's direction. "Ah! It seems we have a new arrival. Welcome to the Ortheias. You are now in a world where your magic can change the emotions of people. What is your name?"

It looks like you've entered the headquarters of some roleplaying cult. Try and leave, and they will explain to you that nobody can leave. Nobody even knows why they're here. And then someone will casually whisper to you these exact words: "As an OOC Note, we will all leave in an hour and half from now." Do you create a character, or do you play as yourself?
Getting Acclimated. With everyone in the room doing their own thing and "gathering relationships", as they so put it, you've been left to your own devices. Do you talk to other people who might be stuck here for an hour and half, or do you practice your "Emanis"? It seems that this fictional world they've created lets each person manipulate the other person's emotions by casting spells. A short display of fire can make someone angry, or making flowers appear out of nowhere might make the other person happy. Of course, these are all fake and the cult just narrates their usage of magic without actually displaying it.
An Event! Towards the end of the roleplaying session, the "roleplay moderator" announces an event! One of the guardians of Ortheias, the Durathei of fire and ice, Seesonne, has attacked the city of Snerev! A part of the city is now burning, while the other half is encased in ice! What would you do in this situation? People are panicking, so you must stop them from worrying too much!

• Prompt F: While Halloween does not exist in this world, Otherworlders have been present long enough for the natives to slightly change their calendar. For the month of Empta (October), they wish to make sure the Otherworlders are feeling at home by celebrating Halloween! They know nothing about it, but they are going to try and replicate the feeling!

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo. For the rest of Exi (September), farmers are asking Otherworlders to help them harvest pumpkins. Thanks to the strange weather recently, these pumpkins have grown to be the size of a car. They're rather big! What's more, they've also grown legs and can run! It appears they don't want to be caught, but anyone who gives chase will be able to get them to stop easily. Just chop off its legs! And to make it inanimate, one has to carve a face on it.
What's Your Favourite Scary Story? To prepare for what's to come next month, the natives are asking Otherworlders to go to the Welcome Centre every weekend for a meeting of sorts. One will be able to find refreshments and snacks there, and there are a lot of people listening to speakers who rotate every so often. It seems these speakers are talking about their favourite scary stories. Perhaps you're one of the listeners, or you're speaking and sharing yours! Things are beginning to be spooky, though, that's for sure.
It Leaves a Good Taste in Your Mouth. Children are selling cookies door-to-door, and the only type of cookies they're selling are maple leaf cookies. It's only 10 sylvs a box, and taking just one bite will send one to heaven! It's so delicious that it might make anyone who eats it react in a strange way (the video is just an example, not the exact reaction). Spectate at how people react to these maple leaf cookies, or be the one that gathers a lot of attention!

• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include cat ears and/or nail polish.

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

C - Of course this is what a good student worries about most

[ After getting a feel for the lay of the land Scorpius only had one thing on his mind, how much he missed his bestest and only friend Albus. Okay he also had a second thing on his mind that he felt was rather important and while he wasn't saying any of it out loud he still hadn't grasped the whole talisman thing yet and his neurotic thoughts were just being broadcast all over. ]

I should be in detention right now! As in right this very second, not that I want to be in fact I'd rather be anywhere but there, which I guess I am right now, but this is just going to get me into a bigger mess. I mean I already have detention for the rest of the year! What else could the Headmistress do?

...

I don't want to know what else she can do. She's probably very creative. Or she'll just extend detention into next year. Or make good on her promise of 'cancelling Christmas'. What does that even mean? Is she going to fly into my house and confiscate the presents, the tree, and the dinner?

No probably not. Which means detention next year as well. At least I'll have a lot of free study time! Yeah. Bright side! ...ugh.

F-1 - Didn't mean to do that...

[ Giant pumpkins running amock?! That's- okay actually that seems rather normal. It's not even a little weird to a teenage wizard. And it's something he feels he's more then capable of helping out with. Especially since there's already so many different sorts of magic users running about here, he has no qualms busting out the wand in public. ]

Wingardium Leviosa!

[ and with a swish of his wand a sprinting pumpkin lifts up, it's stubby legs flailing uselessly in the air. Oh! Oh good, he was afraid this wouldn't work! He's never used this charm on something so big.. bef-oh. Oh no... this is actually harder. He's levitated it too high and the flailing is actually a distraction now and uh...

Now the pumpkin in plummeting. And hitting the ground. Quite forcefully. And the orange explosion! Pumpkin gook and seeds the size of dinner plates everywhere. No one in the near vicinity has escaped the devastation, and while the pumpkin didn't score a direct hit on anyone... well a lot of people have been slimed. Scorpius included. He winces as he wipe some gunk off his face. And as his hand is also covered it really doesn't wipe so much as just move it around. ]

Well. Uh... I mean that's one way to settle them down!

[ He laughs nervously. Whelp. Looks like he's on a fast track to get everyone in this world hating him! ]

G - Wildcard!

[ Want something else? Just hit me up! ]

Uh...just so you know, you're kind of rambling

And you're kind of in my head?!

...This is an amulet thing isn't it.

[ He stares at the treacherous thing. Someone had informed him of it's telepathic abilities. He hadn't gotten around to playing with it quite yet though.

Betrayer. He thought which may or may not have also been projected. ]

My sincere apologies, rambling is kind of a bad habit of mine that I've been attempting to break however I was fairly certain I was in the comfort of my own mind... that apparently was not the case. So. Yeah. Sorry.

Yeah, it's the amulet. They...connect everyone to everyone else and if you're not careful, your thoughts project.

You just kind of have to think quieter. It takes a bit of getting used to

[One Kevin Regnard is out having a go at helping with the pumpkins today. Truthfully, this process is breaking his heart a little...on account of he has a mobile jack-o'-lantern monster from an incident a few years ago living at home in his greenhouse and she is his precious pumpkin princess, and so it's even more a shame that this batch isn't responding to any nice methods of discouragement. He can't exactly smuggle any of them home at this size, either, so as a swordsman and an Enforcer it's basically his duty to go about chopping the legs off of these things and he's been telling himself to think of the pies and it should be pretty easy to get this one now that it is flyi --

Wait.

Having been about to go for the vines, Kevin pauses in bafflement to watch the thing float, and is thus in prime striking range when it plummets. He manages to scurry back away from it and avoid the bulk of the worst, but this is going to make laundry a delight for sure when he gets home. He's just waving his sword a bit to free the blade of pumpkin gooze when he hears the nervous laughter just off to his right.]

...was that you, making it float like that?

[No doubt Scorpius is thrilled to have attracted the attention of a guy with a sword in his hand. On the plus side, what with all the purple in his hair and clothing, the orange actually looks quite fetching on him. In a loud kind of way.]

[ He turns and of course that long length of steal glinting dangerously in the light grabs his attention. Which is in the hand of what is clearly a victim of his attempt to 'help'. Oh excellent. He had to slime the person carrying the large pointy object. ]

Yes! Levitation charm. Usually it works a little better but we're half way to a really nice pie I think. Just need a crust and some nice spices.

[ He flicks a string of goo from his wand. ]

I umm... don't know any cleaning charms, so I'm sorry about all... [ He gestures wildly everywhere ] ...this. Oh but I know one for water summoning!

Oh, and you've a magic wand and all that. How terribly charming.

[He has a long length of dangerously glinting steel, yes, but for the moment the swordsman seems more nosy than anything else. Being slimed is irritating, to be sure, but he isn't having any horrifying emotional reactions or anything. Pulling a hankie out of some random pocket, he pauses to clean off the hilt of his sword, leaning over to peer curiously at the wand and following its movements while Scorpius flails.]

It wouldn't be cold water, would it? I've got one of a different sort, but it comes with ice bits and so on mixed in. Really unpleasant.

Edited (fucking html) 2017-09-28 15:17 (UTC)

TEST DRIVE: October

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