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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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You look decent enough in your Shepherd's garb so there's a future for you yet. [ Another tease, but it's okay Sorey- stick with dark colors, it's a good plan. ] Anyways, now you know who you're aligned with. It's too bad we have no information on them though.
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Gee, I'm so inspired by your confidence. [He grins, but, yeah, let's get back on track!] Well, Peromei can't be bad if they're partly hope, right? And despair by itself isn't a volatile emotion like anger for the most part. Maybe there are shrines or ruins we can take a look at to see if we can get anything from them?
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No, so over all, 'this "God" [ as they're so described as sometimes ] can't be an entirely bad person.' ...That's what you want to say, right? [ he knows you too well, Sorey. but, it's a good point. ] You're right, despair is nothing like anger- anger often is the cause to bad decisions and not thinking straight.
[ He knows how many times that could have happened if anger was given in rather than recomposing himself. ] Hmm.. If the each of them were actually once prayed to and given blessings, I can't imagine them not having shrines of their own.
A shrine of the "Arehtei" would be plausible too. [ Unfortunately.. he turns his attention to the flashing of lightning and flurry of white snow against the windows. ] That will have to wait for another day, however.
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He grins up at Mikleo.]
Nothing gets passed you. [There's affection when he says that.] Good thing you usually have a handle on it, right? Although, I wonder if there are emotions that fall under multiple Arehtei. Like...compassion might fall under 'sorrow' and 'love.'
[Sorey glances outside as well and lightly scratches his cheek.]
Yeah...we can wait another day. Probably when all the snow's gone or we're out of the blizzard season.
[Whichever comes first!]
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[ But wouldn't that be interesting all the same. He really would like to know more about the way this world works. Mikleo glances back to the book, flickering over lines of text with a thoughtful hum. ]
I would like to explore just as soon as you would but I'd rather not get snowed in with weather like this. I think traps are enough of a risk as it is.
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Sorey is more than inclined to learn more about how this world works, especially with Mikleo here. It's too interesting and different from their own world not to! Still, his friend makes a valid point.]
That's true enough. Well, we can use this time to gather as much context as we can get! Even if it's only a little bit, it's better than nothing.
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Afraid anything I've learned is only through people not from here. [ He could have eavesdropped but... he didn't learn anything useful, after all it isn't like they didn't encourage listening on gossip and chatter around town back in Glenwood. But he hasn't learned much... minor things, mostly. Like a shop down the road going on sale today, etc. ]
Let's see about taking some books back to our place.
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[That's a little saddening, but at least Sosyne-aligned humans can see him. It's certainly better than how it is at home. Still....]
Really? That's odd. You'd think that the natives would know more than anyone here. Well, that is, if anyone's tried asking them before now. [Then again, if this world's history was lost to these people at some point, it'd make sense that the natives wouldn't know. Maybe something happened to make that knowledge lost.]
Sure! Just point them out to me this time before grabbing one that looks interesting, okay?