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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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knowsvinewhip: (but she's touching his chest)

[personal profile] knowsvinewhip 2023-07-10 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Hover... cars...?

[Given everyone's reaction to Jeep in his other form, cars aren't exactly the most common thing in their world. Trying to picture one that hovered sort of broke his brain a little. For the moment.]

Yes, that - that is one weight off my mind, certainly. [Where the others were, if they were managing without him, if his absence was even noticed... those didn't go away as easily. They probably wouldn't for quite some time. If ever.]

[You don't spend years looking after people without worrying over them constantly.]


Thank you. I'll certainly have to look into those options... healing does require a degree of physical contact, after all. Easy enough to kill the birds with a single stone, ahah.
localdeliveryboy: (awkward)

[personal profile] localdeliveryboy 2023-07-10 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ It was descriptive enough and he has a very wild imagination, and all he understands is that he not only doesn't want to eat it; he doesn't want it anywhere near him. ]

Ink, you say?

[ He reeled back a bit when she lifted the plate, again a product of his over active imagination, as if expecting something to come out and grab him. ]

Uhhh, right. Another question then, torch - and apologies again if this comes of a bit rude or annoying, it-it's not my intention - ummmm - is there anything that's a bit more....reasonable? I don't have that much money on me. I just arrived I guess, would be the term for this kind of situation.
Edited 2023-07-10 07:29 (UTC)
mistsplitter: (077)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-07-10 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
You may have it, if you like. I don't mind.

[ She wasn't going to charge him for anything! Food is food— it's important, and Ayaka would be more than happy to treat someone to a meal if they absolutely need it.

She does bow her head though, seeing as maybe he just isn't interested in takoyaki! That's fine. But she does look around at first. A bunch of stalls have cheap food. It's the restaurants where they'd have to enter and sit down that cost a bit more. ]


Donuts, perhaps? Though those may not be too filling. . .
localdeliveryboy: (idle/doubting)

[personal profile] localdeliveryboy 2023-07-10 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Never has doughy balls looked so questionable. ]

Ummm, thanks but I'd hate to deprive you of what's yours, hun.

[ Also just no to octopi. ]

I-. Actually, I was looking at that place.

[ He said gesturing to a standing katsudon stall. ]

But they were eating with sticks and they looked like they're serving real vegetables, so I don't exactly trust the price. You know, like home some places don't put the real price then when it's time to pay, you have to hand over your mum, aunt, and little brother just to cover the bill? I figured I'd be better finding something more my speed.

[ The he looks at the donut stall she mentioned. ]

Donuts though...I have to admit, not excatly crazy for sweets but...beggars can't be choosers I suppose....
mistsplitter: (🌸 watch)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-07-10 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ Katsudon? Ah! That's not too expensive. Though Ayaka lives in a completely different world, where she bothers not too much with what comes out of her wallet. ]

Perhaps that may be a better choice. It's warm, and will likely satisfy your hunger. And you needn't pay with your family to be able to eat their food. I'm sure it's not that expensive.

[ She's the one who takes the lead now, approaching the katsudon stall with a small smile on her face so she can order a serving for this stranger! ]
localdeliveryboy: (shock)

[personal profile] localdeliveryboy 2023-07-10 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
Whot? Eh? Hang on a minute!

[ He's confused and kind of panicked, more ways than one. Maybe it's his stomach doing the thinking now but the closer they got to the stall the more his eyes and nose started to really take in the sight and scents. The mind however was racing as he also realized - ]

Oh good gods....That's real meat, isn't it? Like, not pigeon or sythesized, that's authentic cuts of meat. I've only ever seen that stuff...maybe twice in my entire life....

[ His eyes grow wide while the stall owner squints at him as if he were completely out of his mind as he prepared the order of another patron, who also rose from their phone to give him a strange glance.

As for him, his head was already doing the mental gymnastics of how much he'd have to work to get something like that while his stomach grumbled a little. ]
mistsplitter: (pic#16069898)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-07-10 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
It should be authentic pork...

[ It is katsudon, after all! The lady behind the counter confirms it too. Once the previous order is done, she gets started on Ayaka's! ]

If I may ask, [ she begins, her focus on the man with her rather than the food being prepared now. ] What sort of food are you used to eating, where you are from?

[ That'd help her figure out more suggestions! She likes food, okay. ]
localdeliveryboy: (idle3)

[personal profile] localdeliveryboy 2023-07-10 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ He watched as the bowl was prepared and while he had no idea what in the world was put into it, save the egg, he's found himself surprisingly eager. ]

Hmmm? Oh uhhh, well I'm from Loweland City, Caliburn tower, Avalon.

[ He paused and then sighed as he shrugged. ]

Which I now realize don't actually mean much of anything around these parts, I suppose. But I usual stuff as any old layman. [ Once more, the idea of his "usual" being lost on everyone but him. ] Sythetic meats and veg, the odd pigeon now and then if I earn a bit extra for the month. I don't really - well, I didn't have the spare time back home to really go exploring the culinary world at my leisure.
moonstriking: (smile; and would you like a punch)

[personal profile] moonstriking 2023-07-10 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
If it's comfortable, isn't it enough for now?

[Judith will just finish picking out her clothes and taking it to the counter with her smartphone. How strange not to be carrying coins all the time]
mistsplitter: (pic#15858174)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-07-10 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's right. It doesn't mean anything, but Ayaka is polite and remains attentive. Curious, even. ]

Is actual meat rare, then?

[ Pigeons are probably common...

She can't imagine it at all. Meanwhile, the lady starts chopping up the pork cutlet to put into a bowl already filled with shredded lettuce. ]
localdeliveryboy: (idle2)

[personal profile] localdeliveryboy 2023-07-10 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ All too common when your home is high above the clouds. ]

Incredibly. A pound of the foodstuffs is enough to take care of bills for an entire month for a modest household.

[ There was something musical about the crunching as the lady prepared the meal, something that just strikes a chord with him in his soul. ]

Isn't that-

...

Actually, no. I don't reckon it's the same here, is it? [ He finally turns to her and leaned lightly against the counter. ] There's no synthetic meatstuffs here is there?

[ He might even wager that she has no idea what that might even look like, let alone taste. ]
mistsplitter: (pic#15858171)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-07-10 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ An entire month... That's insane, but it does give her more perspective. ]

I've tried the katsudon in this world before. I don't believe so?

[ Once again, she is clueless, but he's about to find out, himself! The lady's adding the sauce, then handing it over to Ayaka. By now, she's set down her plate of takoyaki so that she can scan her phone and pay for it, so she doesn't accept the serving. Rather, she gestures to the other person next to her. ]

This is for you.
localdeliveryboy: (idle3)

[personal profile] localdeliveryboy 2023-07-10 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm...In hindsight, I probably should have expected that'd be the case.

[ Nevermind being a new country, he's a new world. The very things that make up children's stories and fantasies of delusional teens, ideas that had never really crossed his mind. At least, not to this extent.

He watched as she took out her phone and get scanned, the thought only then occuring to him when she spoke and gestured to the hot meal. ]


Wha-?! Oh, bugger!

[ And now he's fumbling to get out his phone, though maybe too little too late for him to pay. ]

Ahhh...sorry, I meant to pay, honest. [ A few more taps on his phone and a quiet grumble to himself, something along the lines of 'I am a bloodt twit' before smiling sheepishly. ] Could I reimburse you for the cash miss...Oh bloody hell, I haven't even gotten your name!
Edited 2023-07-10 13:15 (UTC)
mistsplitter: (pic#16295400)

[personal profile] mistsplitter 2023-07-10 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Please don't worry about the payment. [ She holds up a hand, gesturing for him to stop. No need to fumble. ] You have only just arrived, haven't you? We all should help each other out.

[ It is true, though. She hadn't introduced herself, nor did she ask for his, either! It should fluster her on a normal day, but she's composed now. ]

My name is Kamisato Ayaka. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
mayoninofukucho: (LA - Okay then.)

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2023-07-10 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wow, just wow. So besides the usual (beating people up and, in cases of excessive winning streaks, probably outright offing them) they also conduct unethical experiments here?! Hijikata is so unimpressed right now. He can only assume that it's test runs of new drugs - that would be in line with all the other lawless shit.

He'll stay true to his word, though, and just chill behind his Aura shield with his pig while Nina tackles all three men. His eyes briefly meet those of the one in white.]


Shouldn't have come along, Doctor.

[These types can usually neither pack not take a punch, so really, he asked for what's coming to him.]
mayoninofukucho: (Again?)

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2023-07-10 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do you still want to keep it after seeing it in action?!

[If any little part of him had been so much as tentatively interested in keeping a shark that was sourced so dubiously, the display he just witnessed would have changed his mind!!]

I heard that mutants can live even in the most polluted waters, so it'll be fine here! Give it up!
mayoninofukucho: (Mission Complete)

[personal profile] mayoninofukucho 2023-07-10 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. It's the yellow-and-red one, over there behind the cotton candy one.

[He already loves this mall. Who cares about the burger patties, engagement rings, baby wipes and fishing hooks, but a mayonnaise vending machine is truly useful!]

If you want something to put it on there's plenty of other stuff around.

["If", he says.]
mysophobic: (97 - heedful)

[personal profile] mysophobic 2023-07-10 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Shigeru smiles and waves him off. ] I've had a lot of help from the people here, so it's not so bad. Many people are...very understanding of my needs and my phobia. I don't know what I would have done without them here.

[ Have another warm smile. ] Different personalities, huh? So you're sort of used to being around others. But I guess in a setting like this it's a bit much, right? [ Still it's an interesting little thought. ]

That's right! You should come over to the house sometime! I'm sure everyone would love to meet you! But I'm getting ahead of myself! Only if you want to, of course. It's also really easy to meet people on this app called Cinder! You can meet lots of people there. But also there are the guilds that allow people to pick up different quests and stuff.

It all depends on what you want to do though!
unnecessaryflourishes: (that might be the very thing...)

[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2023-07-10 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[At least the water should be able to be put back into the fountain, once the shark is suitably relocated. Or simply removed. But the problem yet remains in that it will still need to be removed - something easier said than done, given how enthusiastically it's racing around the fountain.]

There are larger bodies of water present within the city and her environs. Though how many would take well to a shark of any size remains to be seen.

[Though better that than a fountain, at least.]
corpsewarblade: (The act begins)

[personal profile] corpsewarblade 2023-07-10 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
So what happens if idiots who already have werewolf curses volunteer to get experimented on in an attempt to make their were form even stronger?

Asking for Mukuro. She's the idiot.
corpsewarblade: (Battle ready)

Arcade

[personal profile] corpsewarblade 2023-07-10 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
...Not bad.

[Don't mind the freckled young woman in her late teens or early twenties, taking off her headset and glancing over from the next machine to study his play for a little bit. From the way he was holding that controller she guessed that, like her, he had experience with actual firearms. That or he played this sort of game a lot, perhaps.

Mukuro's own score was decent, but she too seems a little unsatisfied. It felt different enough to the real thing that it was throwing her off.]


Feels strange not getting the recoil you'd get from a real weapon, doesn't it?
Edited 2023-07-10 22:36 (UTC)
hometown: (thinker)

[personal profile] hometown 2023-07-10 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Reiner shakes his head in disbelief, watching the foot's "dissection." It really is a cake. What the fuck. ]

Why would anyone waste their talent on this? They could make cakes that look like anything!

[ Never mind the people who buy it. People hold bizarre interests no matter the world, it seems. But to waste such talent on making fake feet and hand cakes…

He shakes his head again. ]


This world just gets weirder and weirder.
snekeyes: (Thinking...)

I

[personal profile] snekeyes 2023-07-10 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, it was lucky that one person was getting along well with their new starter! Because Rider, well...was having less luck with her own.

The blindfolded woman had retrieved a Pokéball from the vending machine not too long ago, and let out the Snivy that had been inside almost by accident when she found the button on the front. Cue concern that she seemed to have called on a living creature! But well, despite her best efforts, it was now wandering around with little apparent interest in what its awkward Master was saying.]


I'll find you some better food, so please listen to me...

[Nope. Just turning it's nose up at the energy bar Rider had pulled out her pocket. She couldn't see it's expression of course, but the Pokémon seemed to be enjoying messing with her.]
corpsewarblade: (Huh?)

PokePals

[personal profile] corpsewarblade 2023-07-10 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? Yeah, I did-

[How she'd managed to get a creature out of a ball in a vending machine is a little beyond her, but Mukuro now had a smaller than average Rowlet hopping along behind her, fluttering it's little wings.]

...I don't really get how, but I guess the machine's got magic in it, or something.
snekeyes: (Neutral)

Underground Part 1

[personal profile] snekeyes 2023-07-10 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[The Tepig isn't the only one trying to look inconspicuous! A Snivy was apparently sniffing around as well, giving the other Pokémon a look over before turning its nose up at it with a smirk. It was clearly the stronger of the two, in its mind! Evidently, it had not considered type advantages!]

Would you please listen...stop racing ahead like that.

[And then came the smug Pokémon's rather awkward and inexperienced trainer, manifesting nearby with a small frown. Following her discussion with the network about monsters, she had come to poke around the Underground Mall herself.

Wait a second, she knew that voice- and was more than a little wary about what he was saying. A way to learn powers instantly sounded suspect!]


...Master?