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TEST DRIVE: JANUARY
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 Friday, December 25th and Applications (Canon | OC) open Friday, January 1st.
- OC Reminder! Just a quick reminder that original characters are currently 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: A new card game is sweeping through the streets of Verens: "Magica Ex Arehtei." Players take on the role of an Otherworlder and form battle decks out of minions, monsters, dunamis, and even the Arehtei themselves. It’s insanely complicated in its details, but this hasn’t stopped a seller from handing you a starter deck and all but pushing you into a chair to face an opponent… who may have just been conscripted themselves.
• Prompt E: After a long period of quiet (something about ‘emotional and physical harm to Empatheias’ and ‘manufacturing plush weapons without a Class E(X) license’), toy manufacturers have flooded merchant stalls and storefronts with a new offering, the hyper-cute stuffed Thras. No negative emotions, they promise! Plush Thras is so full of bravery, he’ll inspire anyone who holds him to new heights of courage and valor!
Naturally, magiscience has gone too far, and picking up the doll instills you with vigor, energy, and fearlessness past the point of recklessness.
• Prompt F: Thundersnow! A phenomenon in which a snowstorm is accompanied by lightning and thunder, and not a terribly uncommon one in Empatheias. But today’s thundersnow is more like an apocablizzard -- lighting lashes through the sky and lances down to catch buildings and trees with its fury, all hidden behind whirling sheets of billowing snowflakes that have blanketed the city in a foot of snow with no sign of stopping.
The outside is cold, windy, miserable, and potentially dangerous. Are you trapped in a building you didn’t expect to be in? Or perhaps you’ve joined up with an emergency emotion squad, trying to impose calm or cheer on the raging storm?
• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include lumps of coal or moose.
• 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: A new card game is sweeping through the streets of Verens: "Magica Ex Arehtei." Players take on the role of an Otherworlder and form battle decks out of minions, monsters, dunamis, and even the Arehtei themselves. It’s insanely complicated in its details, but this hasn’t stopped a seller from handing you a starter deck and all but pushing you into a chair to face an opponent… who may have just been conscripted themselves.
• Prompt E: After a long period of quiet (something about ‘emotional and physical harm to Empatheias’ and ‘manufacturing plush weapons without a Class E(X) license’), toy manufacturers have flooded merchant stalls and storefronts with a new offering, the hyper-cute stuffed Thras. No negative emotions, they promise! Plush Thras is so full of bravery, he’ll inspire anyone who holds him to new heights of courage and valor!
Naturally, magiscience has gone too far, and picking up the doll instills you with vigor, energy, and fearlessness past the point of recklessness.
• Prompt F: Thundersnow! A phenomenon in which a snowstorm is accompanied by lightning and thunder, and not a terribly uncommon one in Empatheias. But today’s thundersnow is more like an apocablizzard -- lighting lashes through the sky and lances down to catch buildings and trees with its fury, all hidden behind whirling sheets of billowing snowflakes that have blanketed the city in a foot of snow with no sign of stopping.
The outside is cold, windy, miserable, and potentially dangerous. Are you trapped in a building you didn’t expect to be in? Or perhaps you’ve joined up with an emergency emotion squad, trying to impose calm or cheer on the raging storm?
• Prompt G: Make your own! It could include lumps of coal or moose.
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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Despite how unimpressed he was with the paper and its silly drawing, he kind of wants to be impressed by this volleyball thing. So--]
That's just a ball. [DISAPPOINTMENT...] I'm not very sporty, exactly.
[But he waves his hands like, go on, go on.]
I'm ready, I suppose. Do I have to do something?
( 1 / 2 )
you watch it, buster ]
( 2 /2 )
Hey, you'll never get anywhere like that!
[ he gestures, one hand still holding the ball. ]
Just listen up and watch closely! [ OKAY, SO . . . ] —We got this net, right? It's what's gonna separate the teams. We got the service that goes [ he makes the movement, briefly tossing the ball into the air-- ] wham! To pass it to the other side first!
[ he starts looking very proud here, grin spreading and eyes gleaming with a fire— it almost looked like there was a scene playing in his head, and now, he jabs his thumb into his chest, to gesture to himself. ] The ball can't touch the ground. That's where I come in if I'm out there! I'm the libero— We make sure the team can count on us and keep their lifeline [ --the ball, where he gives a lighter toss, and bounces the ball against his arm-- ] still in the game. So I get in there and go— pah!! [ said while in this position. ] Defend!!
Then you get the ball back in the air. The setters go 'cha [ this movement ] and the spikers come in all [ he gives a jump and spikes the ball down. ] boom! Like that. [ he beams as he goes back to get the ball, and while he can't attack— straightening up! ] Attack and get a point! Then the blockers jump in and go fwoosh t'try and knock it back!
[ then, he tosses the ball to emil! ]
That's volleyball!
[ he looks . . . terribly proud of himself to have explained everything. "explained", haha. ]
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He's expecting rules, not one a one-man demonstration. It becomes clear within a few seconds that he's not sure he's equipped to follow this by the look on his face, which becomes one of deep concentration as he tries to suss out some kind of meaning from the--the sound effects, and from playing every position at once?? How many positions are there? There's a net and teams, he has that, and there are points? And there are at least... at least...
some number of people on a team???? Oh god, spare him.]
That's quite a lot of-- [There's a ball coming his way, he makes a noise of surprise--
--annnnd he drops it.
It's all he can do to just look down at it glumly.]
Mm, yes, alright. I suppose I've lost a point already.
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he steps back though, examines emil, looks him up and down . . . until he's putting his hands on his waist, ball in the middle of one of his arms. not too tall ( probably taller than noya, though ), a little buff . . . hmm-! ]
—You look like a setter.
[ said very matter-of-factly! ]
How's your toss?
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He makes a face - what the hell is a setter - and glances down at the ball, briefly. Ah-]
You mean, can I throw? Of course I can do that.
[He might have some misconceptions about how hard a throw a "toss" is supposed to be, but listen, if this were shot put he'd be very good at it...]