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Test Drive Meme #3


Test Drive Meme #3
LOGS | NETWORK | OOC | MEMES | NAVIGATION



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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knowsvinewhip: (Coming out of my cage)

[personal profile] knowsvinewhip 2023-06-23 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
At this point, I think the only way to tell would be to ... purchase one.

[That smile has frozen in place. It's not a smile anymore. It's like a grimace. As if just mentioning the idea of buying what looks like a body part is putting him off.]

[Though, maybe they don't need to. It does look to be just glass after all.]


Or break in, perhaps?
wayofthehousekeeper: (At the tips of my feet.)

[personal profile] wayofthehousekeeper 2023-06-23 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well. That's a familiar reaction. ]

... Do you want a paper bag?

[ To you know... delicately extract the foreign substance. ]
underworldpunk: (How things *could* be-)

[personal profile] underworldpunk 2023-06-23 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well, one real common example is that majority of people won't sell parts back home; computer or any sort of mechanical part. We've got money and they won't sell even then. [So?

They resort to stealing, given how essential to life the parts they bothered to try and buy were in the first place.]


I can show you, or I think the phone may have a map app that I can help you with to get directions from it. [Think, mostly because she hadn't looked at it much. She liked exploring herself after all-] You'll get an allowance for a few months here, long enough to give time to find a job here. There's also the Guilds, and quests that pay as well.

[Gotta earn.]

I've got a cat that decided to stick with me when I found her during one of my walks, been calling her Janie. Makes the apartment seem a lot less empty.
rottencactus: (76)

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-23 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Iggy understands! But that is not a surprise anymore. It seems they are on a similar wavelength and he is pleased and a little bashful at being understood.]

Yes, I think so, too. Where I am from ...we are just one unit trying to claw ourselves up from the very bottom and ...we must stand out in order to survive in our industry. It is not a kind one, unfortunately.

[But that is a whole other can of worms.]

Ah, thank you...!

[And he will do that once they are up on her floor. It only takes him a second to survey it, though its a little trickier getting to the ceiling from outside the elevator, but he manages. Once he's done that, though, he drops back down to the floor and pulls out a notebook and jots down some notes.]

[Normal Mayoi things. He will be happy to follow her to her place after that, though. Iggy is so patient with her weird new friend...]
Edited 2023-06-23 06:49 (UTC)
underworldpunk: (And this is it!)

[personal profile] underworldpunk 2023-06-23 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[That smile, and sheer warmth, kept well in her tone; how soft the lights of her eyes still glowed. Music was special, and could hold so much meaning -even different meanings for different people!- that was reason behind why she believed it could be at least one key to helping humans and omnics understand each other better.

A wonderful thing to bond over, reach across the forced divide.]


Some are definitely not as kind as they look from the outside. Think that as long as you've got each others backs? You'll all hopefully go far, more so with that passion you have.

[Couldn't miss it in how Mayoi spoke, after all.]

Hey, anytime I'm around and you gotta check this sort of stuff out.

[And she did wait once they got there, keeping an eye out- and keeping the elevator right where it was to help make finding where it connected easier.

Iggy did walk them to her apartment, unlocking the door. Kept it rather simple, and given that it was Nightwake the furnishings were rather modern- but her record player was on a low table, a pair of headphones beside it. Records kept carefully on the shelf-like underside of the same table that fit them neatly.

There was, of course, touches of colors here and there by way of framed posters of a few local bands and things created by artists in a few different distracts. Frames 'thrifted' more or less.

Then there was a cat, black as a void, curled up and sleeping on one of the couch cushions.]


And this is where I've been staying, don't mind miss Janie Jones over there. She's pretty chill, which has been nice when it comes to any sort of roomie covered in fur.

[Iggy wasn't sure she could fully call the void cat a pet. Companion of the furry variety all the same.]
dreamsofwings: (13)

tw amputation/gore

[personal profile] dreamsofwings 2023-06-23 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Even Eren with his atrocious morals isn't very keen on buying a severed foot. For a moment he has the too visceral memory of severed limbs -- his own, actually, bloody and horrible. He knows the feel of them growing back.

He shakes himself out of that nightmare. No thanks.
]

No way am I paying. So...smash it? Tip it over?

[ He's all in for some property damage though! ]
wayofthehousekeeper: (My body must have gone mad.)

[personal profile] wayofthehousekeeper 2023-06-23 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Thoma is a good boy who is about to get bullied into something and he's not even aware of it. Yet. ]

Over three months now- Eh, updated? On what?

[ Darn his helpful nature getting him trapped in this situation. ]
rottencactus: (58)

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-23 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes, this is very true, and it's very heartening to hear such words, even as far from home as he is. A terrifying but gentle little feeling. He'll find his way back home to them, he'll make sure of it. If he doesn't, he may as well wither away here into nothingness.]

Yes ...they mean the world to me. The first people to ever reach their hand out to me in the darkness.

[Ah, but here we are. Mayoi peers around curiously, though he stands very straight and his arms are tucked in close so he does not take up any space as he looks around. What a nice place! Things are where they belong and there is a bit of decoration here and there, yes its very lovely.]

[His eyes are drawn to the little void cat, of course. Cute...]


Your home is very nice, Iggy-san. I-is Janie Jones-san accepting of ...of head pets...?
underworldpunk: (Bright sun-shiny day)

[personal profile] underworldpunk 2023-06-23 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
Then there's even more reason all of you will make it, no matter the rough spots and major bumps you may come across.

[She believed it, too. Friends and those willing to reach out were worth so much, and would even fight to remain at your side when they had you. Iggy found that one out herself, even when she'd felt hopeless after so much confusion and hurt that built into anger for no where else to go.

The door was closed after him, making her way inside herself.

Janie brrrpt'd and stretched out at the sound of them, a good and long stretch, as two glowing starlight-like eyes opened.]


Thanks, Mayoi! Been slowly collecting things here and there to bring some color in- and she is. Sweet girl enjoys them a lot, and I've found she is friendly- aren't you Miss Jones?

[Another trilling sound in answer, pulling herself up to sit on a pillow right on the arm of the couch.]

The eye-glow thing there is natural, by the way- all the void cats are like that, so I was told. [Just in case it worried him.]
faezel: (🌼 136)

[personal profile] faezel 2023-06-23 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
sorry if this is somewhere and I missed it! can the pokémon that people adopt on this TDM eventually evolve?
faezel: (🌼 132)

[personal profile] faezel 2023-06-23 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
awesome! thank you for this helpful information, mods! excited to apply this info going forward!
likeiron: kick to the nuts. (Life is a repeated endless kick)

[personal profile] likeiron 2023-06-23 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Goes without saying.

( everyone should look forward to meeting Nina Ironfist.

Anyway, she will show up eventually; a small, muscular woman with fiery red hair and a look of minute disgust on her face while she trudged through the underground bit of the mall. Upon seeing the fountain, her eyes drifted to Oengus. The fuck. )


...You the one that needed help?
Edited 2023-06-23 14:41 (UTC)
starrailed: <user name=michrure> (pic#16506732)

[personal profile] starrailed 2023-06-23 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Bro. He nods. Yes please, get him a paper bag... He doesn't want to upchuck all over the place...!!!]
fishfearme: (look down)

[personal profile] fishfearme 2023-06-23 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I do, but I should warn you: it's a deceitful machine. It's designed to fail more often than not, and Fizz was won only through unyielding stubbornness... and... many tickets.

[....and also because Shez took pity on him and intervened before Byleth lost his temper and broke into the machine. Which, in retrospect, was probably a bit of an overreaction on his part. But over a hundred tickets, lost! Any normal man would've lost his temper!]
victorioso: Art by <user name="winemom" site="plurk.com"> (lmao what)

[personal profile] victorioso 2023-06-23 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a middling pause. A few times the (...) prompt appears, and then vanishes again, before eventually-]

negotiations have fallen through i have run out of canned goods
victorioso: Art by <user name="winemom" site="plurk.com"> (lmao what)

[personal profile] victorioso 2023-06-23 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
She's absolutely precious.

[Pokémon? So that's what the animals in the funny little balls were called? He tapped one clawed hand against his chin as the rowlet in his antlers fluffed up and then deflated slightly with a gentle oooo]

I don't think I saw that one being advertised in the device though... Are you well versed in ah... what did you call them, pokémon? Where did you find her?
victorioso: Art by <user name="winemom" site="plurk.com"> (Default)

[personal profile] victorioso 2023-06-23 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ears flicked forward, eyes on the screen, if nothing else he's a very attentive student as Otabek walks him through the process of turning on the device, scrolling through its apps, and activating the one that he needs to use.

Carefully, he takes it back when its handed to him, one long, clawed finger painstakingly typing out "beer" like a sixty five year old retiree.
]

Oh... well goodness how useful! ... Though perhaps for the sake of conversation I might still bother a few people for directions... How else am I to find drinking companions?

... Does the device find those as well?
victorioso: Art by <user name="winemom" site="plurk.com"> (lmao what)

[personal profile] victorioso 2023-06-23 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[No he is a big ol' whore, sorry, Hijikata. If he knew he was ruining a wholesome image... He wouldn't be sorry, he'd think it's hilarious.]

Ah, of course, here you are.

[Space is also made for the other man, the chunky pikachu doll picked up and moved aside to give Hijikata plenty of room to sit down. He even makes sure not to loom too closely over his shoulder, just to avoid having the antlers scrape up on him. No avoiding a petal or two from the apple blossoms getting on him though oh well.]

Wait, you can take... moving pictures with this?
victorioso: Art by <user name="winemom" site="plurk.com"> (lmao what)

[personal profile] victorioso 2023-06-23 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[He does appreciate the optimism, and for the sake of not dampening the mood further he latches on to that, brightening up at least a little.]

Perhaps, if nothing else he may grow to see me as not someone to be bitten. ... Maybe he'll stick to deeper water when he's older and more of a threat.

[Apps? Phone? The expression on his face turns somewhat vacant, the smile pleasantly confused as the words bounce around in his head for a moment. OH, she means-]

Is the device what you mean by phone? I'm... I am very sorry, I fear I don't know what an app is. Given the context I doubt it's slang for apples.
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[personal profile] victorioso 2023-06-23 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yep, he's glad he's seeing her! From the look on her face to the general look of her in fact! She looks delightful. He beams as she spots him, bearing a mouth full of sharp teeth as he does so.]

I am! And you were so quick to arrive as well, I am truly grateful. The baby is just within this fountain here.

[As evidenced by all the splashing and gwaaaaaaaa noises, of course, the little freak itself still out of sight inside the walls of the fountain.]

I've tried picking him up but I've only gotten bitten for my efforts.
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[personal profile] natsupiko 2023-06-23 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kazunari will find a use for all this. He will!!]

Not yet, but I'm not really a fighter. Back in Avalon - er, the other world I was in - I played support and helped refugees more than anything.
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[personal profile] sickandtired 2023-06-23 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I think???

[A second later, Vero sends a photo. It is, indeed, of a Sobble hanging off his side like a koala.]
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[personal profile] tripletrying 2023-06-23 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Not perfect, you say. Something tells me you and I may not be the only ones here, then.

[He tilts his head a bit, as if to say "go on".]
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[personal profile] tripletrying 2023-06-23 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rahk starts up his next play, deciding to try for an item that seems a little easier to get. He manages to get the claw hooked onto one of the loops around the box he needs to knock down...

Only for it to raise up like, a single inch before dropping down again.]


Really?