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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!
kariya matou | fate/zero
[How Kariya has been roped into advertising for a local restaurant is anyone's guess. He's pretty sure all he did was stop in for something to eat, and then one too many nice old ladies fussed over his shabby look (rude, this hoodie is only several years old) and his offhand remark that a job to do would be good, you know, stay occupied-- and now.
Here he is, standing outside on the street wearing a goddamned sandwich board advertising the little place he just had lunch in. Well. He's had worse jobs in his life.
He's not the best advertiser, though, being as he is an out of the way kind of guy. A beacon of enthusiasm he is not, although he manages to work himself up to at least trying to get the attention of passerby instead of just standing there after a little while. The sign itself seems to get more vibrant and enticing the more he gets into it, although it's slow going.
At least until his board is jostled while he's still literally wearing it, and he hears the telltale sound of a pen scratching against its back. He twists around in time to startle the two local kids trying to deface his ad into running off, and he makes a decent chase for all of a yard or so, before--mm. No. No running. Never mind.
He sighs and looks at whoever's passing by.] Hey. Can you tell me what it says back there? I promise this isn't a business scheme.
[it's a shitkids scheme... why children]
C
[Kariya has dealt with stranger things than telepathy, so taking to the amulets is surprisingly easy for him. He doesn't do much, necessarily - such is the life of a weird loner - but he's quick to adapt to the things they can do and what exactly he can broadcast himself. Since he also does little else in the way of, uh, hobbies, he also has a lot of time to sit around thinking about less practical uses of the amulet's abilities.
Like this one. Anyone who chooses to tune into this particular broadcast will be met with a series of three images, all of which seem to be a local city square in the late afternoon. The first is just the square, people and all, with no apparent focus but its clutter. The second appears to have focused more on a few buildings with people coming and going, and the third is the same square, but with emphasis on the skyline and the sky itself.
what could it all mean
Kariya's thought comes just after the images, and it's very simple:] Which one?
[He can't afford even an old-fashioned camera, okay. This is improvising.]
B
Just what it says? [walking around to see said back!!! and]
Kick me and get three free lunch coupons... [...ah] There's a drawing underneath that too.
[the universal shitkids graffiti]
no subject
[Or: Kariya sighs and stops trying to see over his own shoulder, because ah... He has no reason not to believe it now says something stupid on his back, so what if he just shuffles a bit to put his back to the crowd--good. Great work. Maybe, he will not be docked a couple coins for victimizing the sign.
With a sheepish smile, like kids will be kids,] Something tells me I don't want to ask what the drawing is.
Thanks anyway. You didn't see where they went, did you?
no subject
I didn't, but there's no need to worry! I'm sure I can find them for you. [empahtically!! just the fact that Kariya isn't zooming off screeching with anger himself is enough to ping all of Juri's sympathies!!!] They won't be too far off. Pranksters always stick around to see how their tricks turn out.
[so that they can put kariya on vines probably... Anyway, Juri starts backing away, waving at Kariya as if to say 'don't move, sandwich man']
I'll be back right away, sir! [she's gonna do it... SHE'S GONNA FIND THOSE NPCS]
B
Leo can't help but feel a tinge of sympathy towards the poor sap. Even his job at home delivery pizzas is a major step up from wearing a sandwich board. ]
I think you're better off not knowing. Maybe I can rub it off. Hold still.
no subject
Still, it's with only a little embarrassment about his sandwich situation that he shuffles enough for the back of the sign to be better accessed. Be gentle, he probably gets docked for damages.]
That bad, huh? Hell of a first day.
let's c again
[But she sounds bored and like she doesn't really care.]
Always gotta go for the sky. Get one with an airship in it next time, though. Maybe some kids pointing up at it, if you can convince some to pose for you.
always c
You think so? I can see that.
[The sky bit, he means... sort of. A pause.] Wish I knew what the local kids' bribe of choice was.
[watch it be some abstract thing like Happiness]
no subject
I mean, I'd say candy, but that's probably not the kind of behavior I should be encouraging.
no subject
No, I don't think so. [....] Money?
[IS THAT WORSE]
no subject
How many sylvs do you think a pose per picture is worth? You probably need to sign some sorta permission slip for that, too. Like, with their parents.
no subject
For a kid? Five, maybe?
no subject
[Poor dumb kids.]
So, like, this some kinda hobby, or are you looking to sell stuff, or...?
no subject
I-- like photography. [And by way of explanation for that, in case he needs one (????),] I used to travel a lot. It's a habit now.
no subject
[The explanation wasn't needed, but it's definitely appreciated and something she latches onto more.]
What kinda travel?
C!
[This particular broadcast is more interesting than most, though. Very little talk, mostly dependent on visuals. He takes a minute to examine the three images before responding in "voice" alone.]
The third. It has sense of serenity the other two lack.