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Test Drive Meme #3


Test Drive Meme #3
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Arrival



Part 1


You arrive in an unknown space, dressed in white clothes (player choice what kind of clothes, as long as they cover everything). Whatever was happening to you before no longer happens. It's like everything was put on a pause and you were transferred away from the situation without you realizing it happened.

The space that you find yourself in is one of these four options:

An empty landscape filled with snow and ice, almost like a blank canvas.
A field with cherry blossom trees and spring flowers.
A sunny beach near an ocean that seems never ending.
A quiet forest with falling autumn leaves.

All of the spaces seem to continue endlessly. No matter where or how far you walk it almost seems like you're not moving at all. There are no animals here - just those who happened to wake up there at the same time, in the same place. Everyone is wearing the same kind of plain, white clothes.

Despite the possible rollercoaster of emotions you might be feeling, the place somehow feels familiar. Like somehow you belong there.

And it looks like you're not alone.


Part 2


After half an hour has passed the surroundings change as everyone is teleported into a room with all the other new arrivals, no matter what space they woke up in. It's a large place with plenty of seats to sit in and beverages to enjoy. Medical attention is offered to those who need it and the doctors here are very prepared for any challenging situations.

Here, in this room, everyone gets an answer to where they are and why. A hologram of a man appears at the center of the room, waiting to be heard. He brings a message on behalf of the leaders of Ellipsa.


The Message [ Click to Expand ]

Hello, my name is Olwen. I'm one of the leaders of Ellipsa as it currently is. I'm also one of the four who summoned you here.

Our world is in trouble and we need your help. I apologize for tearing you away from your world and forcing you to come here but I hope you understand. The magic we used doesn't let us ask in advance, nor does it let us choose who we bring here.

This world is composed of four Seasonal Segments. All of them represent one of the seasons. They were the places we used to get our resources from, but now they're dangerous places no one should go into unless they have the power to fight back. All of them have their own sets of powerful monsters and natural catastrophes.

We used to have plenty of people here who could control the powers of the four Seasons. We called them Seasonal Power Holders. Unfortunately, due to a tragedy you can read about later, we lost almost all of them. Now only four of us remain and the world is in chaos. We have done our best to protect the world, but we need more power holders to do that.

That's where you come in.

All of you have been assigned to one of the seasons. Whatever space you were in just now is what season you represent. You will learn different skills based on the season and those skills are going to help you save this world.

These powers don't interfere with your own natural powers. They use a new energy that has formed inside of you. It's harmless to your health, but it's vital to your seasonal powers. Your own powers should still work, even if the dark energy outside the city might interfere with them.

Unfortunately bringing you here wasn't as simple as it sounds. We couldn't do anything about how to keep you anchored to this world other than making a simple spell that helps with it. That is, you need to touch someone else who is not from this world ideally at least once a day. It will help you stay in control of your powers and boost your magical energy. If you don't, the consequences aren't very good. But as long as you hold someone's hand or give someone a handshake, you should be fine.

That's all I have to say about the situation. The staff of the Research Center will give you more information about housing and other necessary things. I will, however, promise that you will be sent home once the situation becomes better. That's the least we can do.


The hologram can be viewed in private in a separate room later, should someone wish to look at it again. For now, the staff of the Research Center hands everyone their new smartphones with their small flower lucky charms (the flower is anything the player decides). They're also told that the building next door is where everyone can find a room assigned to them with some of their belongings there and possibly even any animal companions. Those concerned about their mount-sizes companions are welcomed to the stables downstairs to see if their friends are there. The mounts are allowed to stay there until you find a place more suitable for them.

In the Arrival's hall there are also several stands with information pamphlets.

First type of stand is for the local Guilds and about the benefits or joining one.

Second type of stands is for the Welcoming Committee that aim to show otherworlders what the world is like and help guide people in the beginning of the journey and helps in getting settled into the new world. They even have people to help if you're unfamiliar with the new phones.

Third type of the stands is for The In Touch Support Group that is led by the Otherwordly Ambassador, Kamisato Ayato. The pamphlets have contact information for businesses looking to help Otherworlders. They also focus more on the lore of the World and what they have discovered so far, as well as a guide on what to think about when preparing to venture out to the Segments.

Once you get your smartphone and necessary information, you're urged to go out and find your apartment. After that whatever you want to do is up to you.

Part 3


The building next door is where everyone can find their new apartments. As you enter, you're told by a friendly native that for the first two months you can live anywhere rent-free and five meals a day are paid for you. After that they get a monthly payment that helps with some of their living expenses, but otherwise they have to have a job to support themselves.

All of the apartments are comfortable, two bedroom apartments with all necessary utilities. They are also completely soundproof. Sometimes the magic system, however, does glitch and you might find yourself rooming with a stranger. This is not the intention and the staff will immediately prepare you your own room if you ask them. But maybe having a roommate isn't all that bad?





Party in the Underground




Part 1


The center of Nightwake never sleeps and there's always something happening, but today there's a lot of excitement in the air all around the center and every district! Locals and those who want to help them (for 100 Moon Coins or a gift card of their choosing), are walking to everyone to offer colorful fliers along with free vending machine tokens. There's also colorful advertisement on billboards and posters everywhere around the city advertising all sorts of things like items, clothes, drinks and more.

Local businesses, stores and restaurants are also going pretty crazy with their celebrations of anyone walking in being their 50th, 100th or whatever customer of the day and the prize among other things are gift cards and more free vending machine tokens but they aren't even for that same shop or restaurant? They also offer people to spin all kinds of different prize wheels, spin roulettes, buying a certain amount of things from them, and taking part in eating and drinking competitions for a surprise prize. Someone even put these surprise prizes into the Gacha Restaurant's randomizer, so for a week, you can choose it as a total surprise there too. (The surprises can be even more vending machine tokens and silly things like cute keychains or a 5-in-1 avocado tool as some examples.)

You can't find any of these shops, restaurants and other places, that they are advertising, in the whole city. The locals, posters and billboards will tell you where you can find them. There's a new entrance in every district, where locals welcome everyone to the grand opening of the Underground Mall!

Some may even drop into a sudden hole in the ground on their way and fall (or slide) somewhere far away. Don't worry, there will be very soft and huge pillows for landing in your destination.


Part 2


The Underground Mall's upper floors give the vibe of a joyous mall with several restaurants and shops you won't see on the surface. The mall is definitely a must visit place for those who appreciate different fashion and exciting food choices. The party from the surface continues down here with various sales around the area. A good day for shopping!

For those who like games, there's a futuristic VR Arcade for you! This Arcade focuses on games that are played with VR goggles on. Even your regular DDR machine will now take you to dance in different environments and feel like you're dancing for your life or for an actual audience.

There are all sorts of vending machines lined up in their own, huge corner. You can find the usual ones with all sorts of different snacks, food and drinks, but there are also some with cake, cookies, mayonnaise, cream, flowers, engagement rings and other less usual but normal things. Nothing here is randomized, unless you choose the random option from the machine, otherwise you get exactly what you want. So pick your favorites or try something new, that sounds more or less good! You can find a machine that turns moon coins on your phone into vending machine tokens (or you can pay straight with your phone).

And, yes, you can find vending machines full of snacks and drinks all around the area too.

Then there's also an area for ufo catchers with all kinds of prizes like pokemon plushies and lots of other plushies, items themed to different season, plushies and other items themed to any fauna and flora from all around Ellipsa, puzzles, food themed items etc etc.

Moving inside the mall is done by escalators and elevators, but there are also regular stairs for those who prefer them.

The fastest way of traveling from floor to floor in the mall is by quick teleport nodes. You choose a floor you want to go to from the list of choices, much like an elevator and then you're transported into that floor's node within seconds. Unfortunately, they're still working out on the bugs in the system, so you may end up in the wrong place - including places that aren't on the list of choices.

Part 3


There's also a Poké Ball Vending Machine, so anyone who recognizes poké balls may have some idea what they could get here. The vending machine somehow has enough balls for everyone in Ellipsa but everyone can only buy one ball! The balls don't have names in them and no one can see through them, so even those, who know Pokémon will NOT know what they'll be getting from this vending machine as it is entirely randomized!

Are you ready to get your first Pokémon? What about being ready to see how you two get along? Everyone, who plays this vending machine, gets either a Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu, Eevee, Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Snivy, Tepig, Oshawott, Chespin, Fennekin, Froakie, Rowlet, Litten, Poplio, Grookey, Scorbunny, Sobble, Spirigatito, Fuecoco or Quaxly.

(And yes, ICly it is entirely randomized but OOCly you can decide which one you want your character to get... Of course you can rng the result too. More about Pokémon guidelines in the OOC Tips of this TDM.)






Welcome to Our Dark Side




The third part of the TDM is under this details cut as it has Content Warnings, including Cursed things, Organized Crime, Illegal Activities, Monster Forms/Body Horror, Attempted Murder, Experimenting on People

The Third Part of the TDM [ Click to Expand ]
Part 1

The lowest levels of the mall are only accessible by random quick teleport nodes around the mall (if you know you know is the motto with these). You can run into them on accident (they're usually hidden, but with so much traffic, the hiding place becomes visible) and they sometimes immediately just teleport people without any warning. The arrival can be in various places. A random shady hallway, in the middle of the floor, in a shady establishment and so on.

Anything that seems shady can be found from these floors. Even the local diners here are very weird and likely have illegal things on the menu. Clothing stores sell all kinds of clothes fit for thieves and assassins and the amount of weapons shops here is twice the amount than on the surface. Rumor has it there are also people trying to summon the devil somewhere around here, but that's still just a rumor.

One of the teleport node locations can take you to the front of a cursed vending machine corner. At first they look like ordinary vending machines, but upon closer inspection one may notice they are anything but ordinary.

The food vending machines are full of different "eatable" bugs with half-hearted warnings that they may or may not be poisonous (they didn't really check before putting them in the packaging), Mystery Food boxes (includes some very suspicious foods that don't look edible, but are actually alright in taste? But may contain some side effects like growing mushrooms out of your hair if you eat the mushroom ones), ones that is labeled Energy Drinks but all of them look more like creepy potions (they provide energy but at the cost of poisoning someone for 24 hours) and hyper realistic cakes that look like various body parts (the cake part is intentionally written in small print).

Other vending machines have various shark eggs (hatching them will provide a magical shark with little hands and legs that invades the first watery surface it finds and bites whoever comes too close - it does not belong as a pet, but one may try to tame one), Mystery Boxes (with anything from highly cursed jewelry to books that suck your soul if written into) and Cheat Slips (it's said these slips will let you master a skill immediately, but all it does is cause one's powers to go berserk for 2 hours).




Part 2


The lowest levels are also a place for a large Casino. While they do exist on the surface, this one is a little different.

The Casino (named just that, "The Casino") is divided into four different sections; All of them are dominated by an organized crime group. This is the only area of the underground they work together in peace and sometimes come to relax. They don't cause trouble for each other here, but they definitely can try to cause trouble for everyone who is visiting the place.

Losing in this Casino can mean being taken to the back rooms by whichever group's area you ended up losing in. They will offer to let you go if you can pay off your debt you made in the Casino, but they have other options of compensation.

Name: Diamonds
Game Area: Card Games (Poker, Black Jack, Craps)
Compensation: They will send characters on a criminal quest to either steal or sabotage something or even smuggle a (cursed) item into important places.

Name: Spades
Game Area: Roulette
Compensation: They will attempt to kill the character that lost in the quietness of the backrooms.

Name: Clubs
Game Area: Pool, Darts
Compensation: They will just make characters clean their casino area.

Name: Hearts
Game Area: Slot Games
Compensation: They will drag characters into experiments in a different facility.

You may also end up taken to the back rooms for getting caught cheating, although it may also end up in a congratulatory meeting for an impressive sleight of hand instead or an invitation to join one of the groups. How would you feel about a life of crime?




Part 3


Those caught in Hearts Group's Experiments will be subjected to series of tests. Mostly they're to check the characters' physical condition before proceeding. Once the tests are concluded, the character will be given a medicine (either via shot or a pill). This medicine will not show any signs of working for a while and characters are let go afterwards.

The same medicine can, however, later be consumed by anyone else in various foods and drinks (free samples, some restaurants, even some grocery store items), even in the higher levels of the Mall. The experiments were the final test before distributing the medicine secretly to the public. So your character may accidentally end up getting the medicine in other ways.

What are the medicine? Monster Form activators. They will awaken a monster form inside a character that will trigger under one of the (player) selected conditions: strong emotional reaction, full moon, near death situation or bleeding.

The form can be returned from by calming down and focusing on their sense of self, but there's a chance to go berserk, making this difficult. If characters go berserk, their powers will be a lot stronger, but they won't know who's a friend and who's a foe. Their form may also be a lot scarier than it normally is. They will likely only want to cause destruction around them or want to feed on humans.



MonsterDescriptionPowers
AlraunePlant monsters with a humanoid shape. They may have changes as simple as flowers growing in their hair or have complex body modifications such as roots for legs and long vines as hands.Pollen with status effects like sleep/poison/paralysis, control over plants, poisonous kisses, etc
GargoyleMonstrous humanoid winged creatures with horns on their head and stony hides.Super strength, tough skin, flight
HarpyHuman-bird hybrids. Anything part can be replaced with bird bodyparts, although the most common configuration is arms turned to wings and legs into talons.Flight, sonic scream, hypnotizing voice, ability to whip up whirlwinds
KelpieAquatic horses with a man made of seaweed and algae, covered in a sticky fur that makes it nearly impossible to get off if one is to ride them. Some may get a fish tail when underwater, although when out of water they have legs like any horse.Water breathing, illusions
LichUndead humanoids, they may look skeletal or simply corpselike.Raising the dead (into zombies/skeletons), necrotic touch
ManticoreBeastlike creatures with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion or dragon. They vary greatly, some sporting horns on their heads, or resembling a Chimera or Sphinx.Super strength, flight if wings.
MinotaurAnimalistic monsters with the head of a bull and the body of a human, although some variations exist in which there are different animal heads. Some sport hooves and a tail in place of legs. Super strength, overall size, super defense.
TaurThis refers to any number of creatures with a humanoid upper body and a lower body that resembles a non-anthropomorphic animal in the same sort of style as a centaur. This category includes things like Arachne and Naga, and other variations of such monsters.Varies depending on animal the taur is based on
WerecreaturesMonstrous, bipedal animals, the transformation of which is often (but not always) triggered by the full moon. Common variants are wolves and bears, although they can be about any animal. The Pooka would be one of the variations in the werecreature category.Depends on the animal the form is based on, but usually super strong/fast etc



This effect can either be permanent or temporary, depending on how the players want it. Temporary can be up to just one transformation under the conditions or several.






OOC TIPS


- Ask your questions related to the TDM here.

- The TDM is available only to friends of the mods and their friends. If you want to play in the TDM, please leave a note here to inform us who invited you over. We will get to you as soon as possible.

- Test Drive is open for current characters to make a top level as well. New characters can add TDM (or "New" or anything else) on their subject line to indicate they're new!

- Current characters cannot access the starting area again to meet new arrivals. They can, however, be at the Research Center when the newbies are teleported in.

- The TDM is game canon so anything in the TDM can happen for your character(s) in the game as well.

- Remember to add Content Warnings wherever needed!

- Smut is not allowed on the TDM. You can play situations leading to it, but if the thread is turning into smut, please move it to a private space such a post in your character's journal, or a locked post in the game's log community if you decide to app!

- Pokémon Guidelines:
• Anything mindblowing crazy that the pokedex has to offer for any of the evolutions doesn't carry over to Seasons. They're closer to anime variants where people can get flamethrower at their face and live (we still do not recommend getting a flamethrower at face)
• Pokémon gain experience points much slower, even if they battle one another.
• You may be able to find a vending machine with weird stones mixed in for stone evolutions. Strange.
• All start at level 5.
• More Pokémon may appear later in the game but for now it's just the ones mentioned.
More on all the available Pokémon here!

- Check Locations: City to find more areas to explore inside the city. Every place in the districts are open. The Underground Mall has been added to the locations page at the very end of it.

- Similarly, Locations: Segments is useful for outdoors adventures. You can find monsters to encounter on Beastiary.

- Minor NPCs page has been updated with the criminal organizations.

- FAQ has information on characters' smartphones as well as general things about the world that might be handy.

- Feel free to check and use out Questboard for additional prompts.



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acquirement: icon of kamisato ayato (Won't let my mind go there)

[personal profile] acquirement 2023-06-17 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, from what I understand everything continues as normal as though we haven't left at all. Granted we only have their word for it, but hopefully it will ease your worries a little.
victorioso: Art by <user name="winemom" site="plurk.com"> (UwU)

[personal profile] victorioso 2023-06-17 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
if you insist it is equal then i will only have to agree

[He wasn't kidding when he said he'd be easy to spot. Not once had he bothered to put the glamour back on, that is a nine foot tall, winged man with the most outlandishly long hair just peering over the side of a fountain, a rowlet dozing in the fairy's tree-like antlers. One long, sleek-furred black ear swivels back as he hears someone coming, and he turns to beam at her with a mouth full of sharp, bestial teeth.]

Ah, a net! You must be my mysterious correspondent? I really should have asked you what your name is first, I do apologize.
mayoninofukucho: (Huh.)

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2023-06-17 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hijikata fully trusts all of Clavell's pokémon, even the biggest and scariest ones, to be well-socialised, given the man's experience and care. As such he lets Houndoom and Litten get a good mutual close-up look (and sniff) of Tepig. When the rotom phone draws near as well he finally notices the eyes...]

Ah... your phone is alive?

[He's at the point where he just asks inane questions like this with relative confidence. Clavell will probably give him some crazy pokémon-related explanation that'll blow his mind (again).]
victorioso: Art by <user name="winemom" site="plurk.com"> (UwU)

[personal profile] victorioso 2023-06-17 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That still puts you a good head and shoulders ahead of me. I've been trying to grab the yellow one for.... Gracious I don't even remember when I started, if I'm to be honest with you.

[He politely stands to the side, though the machine would not be given the same grace: Oengus seems fascinated by the mechanism inside of the device, moving to the other side of it in order to watch as the claw descended and grasped at the same doll he'd been fussing with for ages now. He peers as the toy was lifted up, squinting as he tried to see just how it had settled in there in order to keep it from falling out again. Not that he could make heads or tails of it, the thing just looked like it was somehow no longer quite as hefty as it'd been moments prior.]

Huh. Well done! Though I've not a single idea how you managed it.

[All that careful attention paying he was doing for nothing, no lessons learned! Oh well, he reached the box to snag it, clearly still just as pleased regardless.]

Here, allow me to repay you for that.

[As he was already fishing out a few coins to hand back to Hijikata, careful to offer them in an open palm rather than between his fingers. It would have been too easy to scratch the man otherwise, better to just play it safe.]
quecheugy: (That is a curious matter)

[personal profile] quecheugy 2023-06-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Houndoom's tail gave that gentle swaying wag, and there may have been a little nose-to-nose boop of greeting for Tepid from him. Litten played just a little disinterest, but she still sniffed and a gentle paw out in offer for return.]

You could say that- in my world the pokémon known as Rotom are used within phones, happily living in them. It keeps the phone charged at all times, and Rotom is very helpful whenever by keeping the use mostly hands free.

They are free to leave if they wished to. [As proven with Turo's Rotom leaving his phone out of boredom some months ago.]

It is a technology developed within the last several years, and in another region I know it started with Rotoms being used with pokédex to better help trainers.
hynafiad: (011)

[personal profile] hynafiad 2023-06-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[oh, he's tall. She was expecting to run into someone human, not - well, it'd be rude to assume what he is. She doesn't bother to hide her surprise when he addresses her, but it's all the pleasant kind! She even seems to brighten a little more.

He does dwarf her, though. She's only a few inches over five feet, despite being an elf. But then again, she's used to being on the small side in her world]


Oh - no, I should have asked too, it's fine! I'm Nessa. [she holds out the net with a gloved hand] I hope this is big enough?
unequivocal: (26)

I do what I want (clothes?)

[personal profile] unequivocal 2023-06-18 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jagadai isn't a shopper but he does explore, and finding himself in another weird world has more than enough excuse to do so without feeling guilty about it. This is why he's even near the shop that Sae is currently perusing through, but it's not why he's currently trying to squeeze through tight pathways and people much, much shorter than him to approach the shockingly familiar figure. ]

Sae, Hello! You are here too! [ a statement, not a question. He grins, side stepping around another human who is just way too short, his tail tucking in close to himself as he tries to make himself as small as possible.

It's hard, because he's huge.
]
mayoninofukucho: (Enjoy it while it lasts!)

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2023-06-18 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[He casually waves the offer off.]

No need! It's my treat.

[Yeah, this is almost creepy... anyone who knows Hijikata (especially the people he regularly butts heads with) might want to proclaim him a doppelgänger, all the more since there have been doppelgänger incidents recently). But he makes so much money from his job and all the quest, he can spare a few coins for a presumed newcomer. Speaking of which--]

Are you new to Ellipsa? It's a good time to arrive; for once there's no bad shit going down.

[He'll kick himself later when he realises that he spoke too soon.]
mayoninofukucho: (Smoke)

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2023-06-18 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Tepig issues a few happy grunts and snorts at the other pokémon. New friends!! Hijikata, meanwhile, is enthralled by the rotom phone and Clavell's explanation.]

But... if it lives in the phone, then it has to be made of data. Right? What does it look like?

[Whether Rotom deigns to leave the phone or just pulls up the relevant Pokédex page, he'll take either!]
tsunotaro: (m72)

[personal profile] tsunotaro 2023-06-18 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmmmmm...

This is still so much fear for Sebek. Malleus pauses, furrowing his brow in thought.]

Sebek... Are you afraid of me?

[He should be respectful, and Sebek is usually good about that, snapping into shape when Malleus expresses his distaste with his actions, but Sebek is shaking! That's. That seems like more than usual.]
syckophant: (b17)

Underground Party

[personal profile] syckophant 2023-06-18 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Eichi gets to be everywhere, eventually. That includes the underground mall full of shady spaces and strange vending machines.

He doesn't usually pay any mind to the people he passes by in these places, having grown used to seeing any number of strange people, but it's hard to pass up the opportunity when you see an old friend(or someone you stuck into an underdog group and put into crushing debt to try and squeeze a miracle out of them, which is practically the same thing to Eichi).

He approaches casually, like this was a standard day at the office and they were standard co-workers rather than a wall phantom and the heir of a zaibatsu meeting in an underground mall in an alternate world of some sort.]

Hello, Ayase-kun~♡

[Wave!]

This little birdy has fallen quite far from the nest, hm?
manastacks: (89)

[personal profile] manastacks 2023-06-18 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Where did I come from? I would think my mother's womb, same as you.

[ He is speaking to Theo right now... Right?

Quito doesn't care. He is being scritched so that's all that matters. ]
quecheugy: (And here we are once more)

[personal profile] quecheugy 2023-06-18 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Electricity, more so- Rotom is an Electric and Ghost type.

[He did move his hand in order to actually hold his Rotom Phone-]

If you wouldn't mind, dear- Just for a moment, and then you can go right back.

[There was what sounded like a tee-hee sort of giggle, and an electric buzz before the Rotom did slip out of the phone; a small pokémon, but that smile widened with a spin enough to give a good look before- popping right back into the phone, causing it to hover once more.

Far easier to spot the Rotom's face on the back of the phone once eyes opened again- and a smile still there.]


Rotom are quite interesting and playful pokémon, and helpful when they wish to be.
roundandaround: Intrigued. (huh?)

[personal profile] roundandaround 2023-06-18 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno, but I wanted to see! Everyone's doing their best, and it's a lot of fun, after all!
roundandaround: Confused. (eh?)

[personal profile] roundandaround 2023-06-18 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Uh... A couple months! But they said they'd send us back to when we left, like this whole time magic computer thing? So at least we don't have to worry, although it's still easy to be sad 'cause you miss home... Though this place is fun.
rottencactus: <user name =__7__HR site =Twitter.com> (121)

1/2

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-18 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Ayase-kun???? Ayase-kun???? Wait- who would be calling him Ayase-kun in a place like this??]

[Mayoi turns to face the one greeting him. And.]













[Oh.]
rottencactus: <user name =__7__HR site =Twitter.com> (125)

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-18 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
T-TENSHOUIN-SAN!?

[he??? MUST BE DEAD?? IS HE LOSING HIS MIND??? Is that really Tenshouin????]
keptonwaiting: (011)

[personal profile] keptonwaiting 2023-06-18 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
... Yeah? Why wouldn't I know you?

[... Did something happen, after that final climactic battle with Varian? Rapunzel had seemed fine - physically, at least. There was no missing the clear heartbreak eating at Rapunzel at Varian's rampage, and the attempt on so many lives. But while Rapunzel sometimes avoids talking about tough things, this is... different. Concerning.]

Hold on... you said heal me. Is your hair working again?
syckophant: (020)

[personal profile] syckophant 2023-06-18 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Ahhhh there it is. Eichi loves that reaction, putting forth no effort to calm Mayoi as he smiles back in that calm, detached way that he does.]

That's right! Fufufu~

Fancy meeting you here! What's that you've got there?

[Peeeering around Mayoi to look at the vending machine.]

Ohoho, that's a good one. I definitely recommend it.
rottencactus: (13)

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-18 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
O-Oh… I see…

[He feels like he is going crazy. Does this not sound crazy? Ah …if he does not adapt he will die of heart failure surely.]

[Give him a second to remember the breathing exercises Hiiro taught him. In, out, in, out…]


This u-um… please forgive me for asking useless questions, b-but. What is our purpose here, truly…? I feel …very out of sorts.
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[personal profile] roundandaround 2023-06-18 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
The guys who bring us always say it's so we can learn the magic they lost, and then we can beat the monsters that live outside the city, and then maybe they can get their magic back too, and that'll save the world? Something like that! I forget the whole thing. But it's cool! It's like something off anime, but real!
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[personal profile] lightningvolt 2023-06-18 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
He did— why don't you remember, Silver?! You're the one who woke me up! That human from Ramshackle was with us, too!

[ Now he looks panicked, and he's looking like he might cry again. ]

He doesn't seem to know of it here- but I don't know if he's pretending or not. I had to play along so I could find you... he put us into dreams, Silver. You were the one who tried to protect me and wake us up, but he attacked us and put us into a deeper slumber... we made it out somehow, but he could still be... still...


[ He curses under his breath. ]

Silver, you fool, you have to try and remember! Why would I make up something this horrible about Young Master?!
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[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-06-18 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Alright then. This will be my first time trying something like this, too.

[ She'll try it! It's more the machine that makes Ayaka curious, and not exactly its contents, so she doesn't quite know what to aim for. Looking down at the control panel, there's a joystick and some buttons, easy enough to figure out how to use it. ]

You were trying to win this one, weren't you?

[ She taps on the glass panel closest to the bear plush. It's what Ayaka will be aiming for when she begins to play! But she'll wait for Edelgard's acknowledgement to start. ]
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[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-18 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. This is definitely Tenshouin. No one quite inspires the desire to climb upwards and escape into the ceiling quite like the emperor himself. He feels like he actually has ice for blood right now. He can’t hide behind Tatsumi-saaaaaaaan, this is the wooooooorst.]

Huhiiiiii…

[What? He looks behind him at the vending machine, having completely forgotten what he’d been doing just moments before. Right …he has this little capsule in his hand. It’s kind of an odd one?]

I-Is that so…?

[Do you know what is funny about this entire situation besides literally everything? Mayoi has been aligned with a season whose powers are amplified by fear.]

[It is getting awfully humid around them.]

[ooc: just confirming. Eichi’s appearance matches the reference in his profile, right?]
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[personal profile] lightningvolt 2023-06-18 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ How can he lie to Malleus? Never once did he think he'd have to, but this is so difficult...


He has to try. What kind of a knight is he if he breaks under pressure?

How does he cover for this... he thinks of Lilia, of Silver- of his parents and siblings...


No, he has to try and keep it together. ]


It's just... the nightmare I had... it showed me horrible things, Young Master. About you. I couldn't protect you in it...

Even if... it wasn't real, I didn't like seeing it. Forgive me for my insolence. A bad dream it may have been, but to have the thought of failing you... any anger you aim at me is deserved.


[ While it's not proclaimed with the boisterousness he usually maintains, there's enough truth in his words that he manages to deliver it with the necessary gravitas.

He couldn't bring Malleus back in it- it's better than saying Malleus hurt him and Silver out of selfish reasons. ]