TEST DRIVE: JUNE

[simpathis]

— TEST DRIVE: JUNE —

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 Monday, May 25th and Applications open Monday, June 1st.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• IMPORTANT! We have 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? The following emotions will have more effect than usual: hope, despair, fear, and bravery.

• 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.

• 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 latest entry in the hot 'Forgefires' series is about to come out, and lines in front of bookstores are blocking the streets! How will you get to your destination when your path is full of frenzied cosplayers who don't dare move lest they lose their spot in line? You might want to be careful, too—some fans are getting into heated arguments about their favorite characters so things might start literally flying if left unchecked!

• Prompt E: Things have been getting a little gloomy lately, so a group of youths have designed the first ever Verens Rock-Paper-Scissors Tournament. Somehow you've won through the lower ranks, and are now a finalist. The state of the city is riding on you (or so they claim), so face your opponent and somehow manage to make this farce exciting enough to lift the moods of the spectators (mostly kids). Just be careful. If you do poorly, you might find a tomato or two thrown at you.

• Prompt F: Welcome to FEAR FACTOR! An exciting new brand of entertainment where contestants participate in various challenges that touch home to the most innate fears humans share. Lying in a pit of creepy crawlies; climb up high, precarious structures; go one-on-one with wild animals—can you handle it? Are you brave enough to go for the 1 million sylv prize? Or will fear cripple you and leave you with nothing!? Only one way to find out! Oh, and one more thing—your emotions will definitely effect everything, so if you're climbing up that rusty, half broken steel tower and it starts shaking, that's probably because you're scared out of your wits. Don't let it crumble!

• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include giant cheese wheels and/or bucket of nails.

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!

Comments

[luminoledgeable]

[Ema is about to go head into the store before the doorway is blocked again. Seriously, would serve those weirdos right if the door hits them when someone comes out of the store. But then once she's asked about her glasses, well her eyes just light up and that gloomy cloud is replaced with sparkles instead.]

They are special and let me see luminol reactions. I'd show you, but don't know if we'd get a reaction around here unless someone pushed someone else and they skinned a knee or something.

[spiritofjustice]

[... Figures he can't look away from those costumed weirdos for even a second. They're just too darn anxious about line-cutters. ...Eh, he'll deal with them later.]

Luminol reactions, huh? You know, I have a colleague back home who has a pair of glasses just like those! She swears by them! "In science we trust!" ...Or something like that.

[luminoledgeable]

[Of course Ema has no clue he's referring to her future self. She wouldn't believe the idea of people coming from different times because it's just so unscientific.]

She has very good taste then, if I do say so myself. Science is very important to a proper investigation!

[spiritofjustice]

[Bobby has no clue either. Or so it would seem, anyway.]

Ha ha ha, she says the same thing! Personally, I think justice is more important! Oh, the arguments we've had... So far, neither of us has produced enough evidence to support our claims with a hundred percent certainty, but I'll keep looking!

[luminoledgeable]

But that's easy! You can't have justice without science. A proper scientific investigation finds the evidence needed to bring a criminal to justice no matter what he may try to do to hide his crime. It also finds the details needed to use that evidence. What good is a fingerprint without an analysis of who it belongs to?

[And Ema sounds like she'd be all too happy to keep this line of debate if not interrupted or stopped.]

[spiritofjustice]

Ah, but it's our pursuit of justice that drives us to seek fingerprints in the first place! If we didn't believe in justice, we wouldn't bother to apply science to our investigations at all, therefore the might of justice is more powerful!

[Flawless logic. Flawless, he says!]

[luminoledgeable]

You also can't have justice without laws existing to require justice and you can't have justice without evidence to prove that the person was the criminal. Unless you are one of those people who will forge evidence to pin a crime on an innocent.

[spiritofjustice]

[Excuse you. Excuse you!]

No! Of course not! Forging evidence is the complete opposite of justice! I'm only saying that if justice drives us to find evidence- real evidence through science, justice is at the root of it all and science is just a helpful tool to get there.