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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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rottencactus: (14)

Mayoi Ayase | Ensemble Stars!! | (New!) | Winter

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-17 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Arrival | CW: Panic attack]

[It was ...a weirdly calming feeling looking out into that frigid expanse. He was certain that he was in some kind of dream, which is why he isn't immediately freaking out. Not even seeing a person here or there in the distance set him off, though he kept his distance.]

[When instead he is transported to the next location, and given the message, that is when things start to sink in. He is not longer in awe of that dreamy, cold, yet beautiful place, he is now facing the increasingly horrifying reality that he's been displaced. He's been displaced against his will, and he's being given grandiose expectations. By the time the man stops speaking, Mayoi can already feel a crushing weight on his chest as he tries to sort it all out.]

[No, none of this can be right. Why would any entity or power that be see fit to drag him in? He's useless? In every sense of the word? Powers? What is this absolute nonsense. And he's being expected to help? To save a world? Oh, he wants to throw up, he can't do this, he can't handle these kinds of expectations. He's worthless and they've got the wrong guy. And now, of course, there is this business about having to touch other people...? He's going to die here. He'll shrivel up and die alone in some corner where no one will find him, just like some filthy bug. He will disappear! He will-]

[Oh. Oh, he can't breathe. He's having a panic attack.]


H-Hiie....H-help...help meeee...!

[Seemingly out of nowhere, this purple haired teenager has started gasping for air, clutching his chest and now he is sinking to his knees while he tries to pull himself together. It's not working very well, however and all he manages to do is making himself more upset, choking out sobs while trying to get air back into his lungs. Perhaps someone can help him out...? At least before he soaks everyone in the room with water.]


[Outside| Anywhere]

[He's ...doing better! He's adjusting. He's coming to terms with this place and he found a little apartment to hole up in, assessed the building for hiding places, and decided to take a look around.]

[He steps outside, like really steps outside for the first time, and the first thing he does is look to the skies as a particularly large airship flies over. To say his jaw drops in the most unbecoming way is an understatement. Mayoi is a reader, and he knows what an airship is. He's even seen them, technically, in a VR setting, but there is something unmistakably breath-taking about seeing it for real, and he's caught staring up in stunned silence as it passes over.]


Oh...

[He's like. Crying. It's incredible. What the hell is this place???]


[Underground Party.]

[He's ...a little in awe of this underground place, too. Of course he found it without meaning to. A place full of secret entrances is not so hidden from someone who is accustomed to looking for such things. Ah, his family would find such a thing fascinating, he's sure. Perhaps when he returns he can...]

[He can't get hung up on thinking about that. Best to start getting a lay of the land so he can understand his situation. Like with the ES building, he'd like to know every inch of where he's meant to inhabit, no matter how big or small.]

[By the end of the day, Mayoi has spent his already extremely small social battery, but he's done a lot of shopping. Nothing exciting, as he is certain his funds will dry up fast if he isn't careful. This is nothing new to him, he remembers the vice grip of a budget he had when ALKALOID was still in debt. He's gotten himself just some necessities and a few things to keep his hands busy. Hobbies are a necessity, thanks.]

[He passes the vending machine with the pokeballs and it practically calls to him.]


Where ...have I seen something like this before...?

[Oh well, let's put a coin in and see what he gets.]

[Ooc: feel free to wildcard me, too!! You can also hit me up at [plurk.com profile] takatorabatta for any plotting!]
roundandaround: Dancing in the music room. (super hype)

outside

[personal profile] roundandaround 2023-06-17 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! Isn't it so cool?

[A girl carrying a bag from a pet shop stops and bounces on her heels to watch the airship go by.]

The flying bus is fun too! Sometimes I go ride it even when I don't have anywhere to go, just to watch the city.
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[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-17 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeek!

[Sorry, he's a jumpy one. He jolts, taking two steps back from the girl. Ah, people are scary! Being approached is scary! Look how bright she looks, it's going to hurt his eyes to keep looking at her--]

F-Flying bus...? Are there really such things...?
roundandaround: Shameless smile. (smile smile smile)

[personal profile] roundandaround 2023-06-17 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! It's lots of fun!

[She doesn't seem perturbed by the scare reaction, just gives a friendly smile.]

You're new, right? My name's Aimoto Rinku! What about you?
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[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-17 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh no, she's so friendly. He's going to die.]

I-I, u-um. M-My name is ...is Ayase M-Mayoi...

[Ah, so, this is someone who has been here some time already...?]

I-I am new ...How ...I-I'm sorry for being impudent but- how long have you...?

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outside

[personal profile] vintagehardmedia 2023-06-17 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool, right?

[The tall nerd, slim and reedy as a rush of cattails, offered both a friendly smile and a small pack oh tissues to the teary-eyed, befuddled teenager. They had been taking photos of the views in the park, and the scenery had been equal parts fantastical and comfortingly familiar.]

It's just an airship. Nothing too crazy, and nothing to cry about. You doing ok, kid?
Edited 2023-06-17 22:43 (UTC)
rottencactus: <user name =__7__HR site =Twitter.com> (85)

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-17 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[In all fairness, Mayoi is an easily moved guy, and reacts with intensity to many things. What he will not say is that a lot of that is because he grew up in the darkness of the underground. The sky, even normally when not filled with fantastical machines, means a lot to him.]

N-Nothing too crazy...

[That feels so absurd, but it seems like this might have to be his new normal. How overwhelming...]

N-No. I feel like I'm going to faint if something else outrageous happens to me. How did it end up like this...? Uuu...
vintagehardmedia: (bashful)

[personal profile] vintagehardmedia 2023-06-18 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Uh, well....

[Athena pressed their lips into a line, eyes darting uneasily towards the trio of small but brightly colored drones that had drawn themselves closer to the crying, whining kid. Hopefully a small cloud of floating camera bots painted in the neon hues of sticky arcades and bedecked in ribbons and record shop stickers wouldn't spook him. But, just in case--

Mayoi would find himself with a vibrantly floral button up shirt dropped over his head and a lanky arm wrapped around his shoulders.]


Things are gonna be weird, kid. But, that's okay. Just let your auntie-uncle Athena take care of the hard stuff until we can find you somewhere safe to go.
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[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-18 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Eh? Eh? M-My auntie-uncle??

[Oomph! He now has a shirt on him. It does kind of work like calming a bird, though. And the contact? Actually makes him feel better? Weird. He deflates a little.]

…If you know of a safe place …I-I um. I am in your hands…

[Otherwise he is at a loss and he does not like being alone in this strange place.]

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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?
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[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.]
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[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????]
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[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.
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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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mayoooiiii baby!!! (arrival)

[personal profile] sickandtired 2023-06-18 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Vero hates this. He hates everything about this. Being unceremoniously dumped into a strange world? Being expected to just save said strange world despite knowing nothing about it and having no attachment to it?? What a humongous burden! You can't just ask that of people you've kidnapped!

With all those thoughts swirling around in his head, Vero's having his minor anxiety attack. The exception is that, instead of crumpling in on himself, he's been focusing all that anxiety into trying to see if he can find a way back home by stepping into shadows or slapping shadows cast on walls like a weirdo.

Until he spots Mayoi. Then, oh no. Oh no, he knows exactly what's happening and his heart aches for this stranger instantly.

He takes careful steps in front of the teenager.]
Hey. [And then slowly lowers himself to Mayoi's level, so he hopefully won't scare him too much.]

Hey. Hey, it's okay. How can I help?
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he is just a creecher doing his best

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-18 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[It's easier to handle anxiety when someone else is having Bigger Anxiety near you. In Mayoi's case, he's practically wheezing trying to remember how to breathe, but like with the last time this happened to him, he's too upset at himself for not being able to stop that he's setting himself off even worse.]

..C-Can't... can't breathe...

[Someone is speaking to him, though. He doesn't know who, the voice isn't familiar, and that is a little scary, but someone is here and he thinks maybe ...if he tries to focus on their voice he can pull himself back out again. He could be wrong, last time he just cried himself unconscious!!]

Shouldn't....shouldn't be here...
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he IS and i'm so proud of him

[personal profile] sickandtired 2023-06-18 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Right, okay. Vero tries to calm himself, too. He's only ever talked himself out of anxiety or panic attacks; he's never had to help anyone else through one (monsters don't really get those, imagine! what bliss!) but it should be about the same, right?]

Yeah... I understand, I shouldn't be here either. [He speaks gently, sympathetically.] But how about we focus on your breathing first?

I'll count to five, so you can focus on inhaling and exhaling each time, okay?

[And he'll start whenever Mayoi is ready.]
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honestly he's doing better than the last few tdms. he hasn't fainted yet

[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-18 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, so, he is not alone in this place. There are others. Okay.]

[The other brings up a breathing exorcise that is not unlike the one Hiiro taught him. It's familiarity strikes him enough that he's able to respond, nodding his head and pulling himself together just enough to be able to exhale, then inhale again with Vero's counts.]

[It takes several rounds of this, but eventually Mayoi is able to even out, and he seems to no longer be in danger of choking himself in terror. He feels overwhelmed and exhausted, but he no longer feels like his heart might tear itself free of his chest. His fingers tingle and his skin crawls, but he's fine now. Everything else will come with time.]


Hiiie...

[Ah, he has burdened a stranger with his pathetic existence. this will not do.]

see!!!! proud!!!

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Outside~

[personal profile] underworldpunk 2023-06-19 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh hey, dude- you okay?

[Came the slight mechanicalBritish-accented but very clear voice, softened up just a little bit, from a human-shaped and sized metal person.

The lights of her 'eyes' were carefully dimmed, and she did press some concern in there.]


Do you need to sit down somewhere with some water or something? You look overwhelmed, and then some.

[She could understand.]
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[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-19 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Eek!

[Ah, someone perceived him!! Terrible, terrible, why can't he just climb into the sewer like he deserves-]

[Scrubbing his face, turning to face the person talking to him, he starts with an apology:]


I-I sorry! Please don't mind someone like me I-I am--
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[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-19 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
E-EH?!

[LSKjfdls a robot!? He is sufficiently startled that he does not continue his panicked apologizing.]
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[personal profile] underworldpunk 2023-06-19 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Well

That was quick- and quite the turn. Iggy held her hands up, just in a slight show of- harmlessness? Even if that blue glow brightened up enough briefly the mohawk-like headpiece lit up right along with her eyes.]


Uh, hi?

[That little curling and uncurling of fingers as a sort of wave.]

I- oh. You must not at all be used to someone like me, huh.

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Arrival

[personal profile] badsunrising 2023-06-19 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ What the hell? He is so out of his league here. He doesn't even know this person. He should just walk away... But the sound of the desperation in the other's voice. It's too familiar. Flashes of broken glass, bandages and blood blink in front of him. A pair of frantic red eyes.

It spurs him into action before he can even decide what to do. His hand is on the person's shoulder. ]


Relax. Just try to breathe.
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[personal profile] rottencactus 2023-06-20 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[That hand on his shoulder is enough to ground him. It startles him first, and he reacts with a small jump, but something eases in him and he hears those spoken words. Try to breathe. Try to breathe...]

[Remember the exercise Hiiro taught you... when you stopped breathing before going on stage.]


Three... t-two ...o-one...

[It's a little rough, but he starts to count down from three over and over again.]
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sorry for the delay, lost my mojo

[personal profile] badsunrising 2023-07-01 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The jump makes him jerk back as if burned. Did he do something wrong already? He knew he shouldn't have gotten involved‐Those thoughts come to a sharp halt when he hears the man start to count.

He leans closer again, fingers twitching at his side. His voice is rough, uncertain. ]


Yeah... just like that. Three. Two. One.

[ His confidence slowly returns with every repetition, until the tone is almost a command. But not a harsh one. Just direct. Back in his element. Back in control. He can do this. ]