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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmemes2018-12-07 12:25 am
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TEST DRIVE - BELLMARE MOUNTAINS

Hello and welcome to Phantasmal Rift's Test Drive Meme!

Test drive threads are assumed to be game canon for accepted characters unless otherwise noted, so don't feel like you'll have to introduce yourself a second time to everyone you meet! As an added bonus, participation in the test drive comes with the chance to earn up to two items of loot for your trouble! Characters who are accepted can earn one item for having a top level, and one for tagging out to someone else's top level! Your SWEET LOOT will be included with your acceptance notice.

Additionally, characters currently in game can earn themselves a piece of bonus loot for the dungeon by tagging people's top-levels on the test drive! Existing characters get their bonus loot along with the rest of their loot at the conclusion of the dungeon.

This test drive takes place in the Bellmare Mountain range, a chilly environment even when it's not locked in the dead of winter. Considering that November is just starting to bite - or is it, with the Fissure's time-displacement effect in place? - that makes for an extremely chilly reception for all of the new arrivals. If you're a person at risk of frostbite, you'd better hunker down in one of the scattered mountain cabins or find someone with extra snow gear, and quick.

Once you're a bit more warmed up, exploration of the area will reveal that it's largely abandoned, but there's still some evidence of past human habitation. Old chair lifts stand guard over untouched ski slopes, the remains of what was once a resort, and a handful of hiking paths twist back and forth through the mountain forests, the snow melting off them due to the magical crystals in the gravel that lines the paths.

LET IT SNOW

Chances are that, upon arriving, you find yourself outside in the snowfall. Hopefully you weren't from somewhere too terribly warm, but chances are that unless you were specifically in a cold environment before, you're going to be feeling the chill now. (Unless, of course, you're not human and don't get bothered by the cold. That happens.)

Fortunately, there are plenty of paths scattered around that are warm enough to keep the snow melted off of them - it shouldn't be that hard to stumble across one. The question then becomes, which way to shelter and civilization? You'll have to take a bit of a gamble, but it's almost certainly better than staying where you are and freezing.

LOCKED IN

How fortunate, then, that you were able to find shelter against the cold - at least for the time being. The wooden cabin is the exact opposite of luxury, but there's a bed and wood to make a fire in the fireplace, so you can't ask for terribly much else. Especially once night falls - or when the snow outside begins to fall in more than flurries - it's far better to be outside than in. Even if you can't figure out how to start the fire, the dimly glowing crystals that serve as fire starter will at least keep your hands warm.

Of course, with only a limited amount of shelter to go around in these mountain trails, it's fairly inevitable that you would have to share with someone... Hope they're friendly, otherwise this place is going to get awkward fast.

FROSTY THE - OH, MAN!

And if you're still running around outside, sooner or later you're almost certain to run into a deep patch of snow that rises up to meet you. These giant snowmen, ten feet tall and aggressive, stand up in response to anything that isn't the local wildlife approaching - and their goal is quite simple. Better watch out, because these guys are your own personal avalanche, seeking to bury you under themselves until either the cold or the weight saps the life out of you.

One's dangerous, but it's not uncommon to find them in groups of 3-5, either, which is where things start getting to be a problem. Luckily, it's possible to melt them down to nothing, or just blast them apart with pure force - the scattered snow won't rise again, at least not any time soon.
maru_kyutie: (This is fine.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-07 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
So, uh, just what is this place? It doesn't feel like the TV World, and I'm pretty sure I've been here longer than an hour.
fullmoonfool: (Watching)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-07 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Minako looks a tad confused at "TV World" but decides not to ask for now, shaking the confusion off mentally and smiling again]

We're on another world, one that's a little broken. Reality is unstable, and it also tends to grab people and objects from other worlds and brings them here. That's how pretty much everyone but the androids arrived.
maru_kyutie: (No way.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-07 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Androids? Like Aigis-chan?
fullmoonfool: (Looking back)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-07 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You know Aigis-chan? [More surprise! And also a little homesick. She misses her friends] Ah, but sort of. These androids seem a little more advanced than Aigis-chan.
maru_kyutie: (This is fine.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-07 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, we met four years ago. The Shadow Operatives came to Inaba to find another Anti-Shadow unit that had been kidnapped, Labrys-chan.
fullmoonfool: (Thinking)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-07 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh...you must be in the future from me, then. Aigis-chan had only just joined SEES a little while ago.
maru_kyutie: (That's sad...)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-07 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Messing with time? Ugh.
fullmoonfool: (Thinking)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-07 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think that's it, necessarily. It's just kind of...a result. There's a being of some sort, that's a part of this world, that's broken. It's trying to find part of itself that's missing. I think we get pulled here kind of as a result of that. It just happens to pull people from different worlds, and different times in that world, as a result.
maru_kyutie: (This is fine.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
...Well, at least it's not doing it on purpose. I'm kind of sick of gods messing things up.
Edited 2018-12-08 00:00 (UTC)
fullmoonfool: (Looking back)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-08 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Gods? More than just Nyx...I guess the future must still have it's troubles. [She's quiet for a long moment]

Ah, but I'm being a little rude, aren't I? [Nope, not thinking on that stuff! Instead she smiles] My name's Minako. Minako Arisato.
maru_kyutie: (This is fine.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, lots more. Four at least.

Nice to meet you Minako-chan, I'm Rise Kujikawa.
Edited 2018-12-08 00:25 (UTC)
fullmoonfool: (Looking back)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-08 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
And I thought just Nyx was going to be bad. It sounds like there's a lot to do in the future.

It's nice to meet you too, Rise-san.
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[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, about that.]

It's a bit odd that I never met you before. I thought I'd met all the Shadow Operatives, even the auxiliary members.
fullmoonfool: (Thinking)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-08 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
You could be from Minato-san's version of the world. Minato Arisato. He's got blue hair. He and I are different world versions of one another, so you may be from his version instead of mine.

[That does seem odd though. Wouldn't the last name have pinged? Hm]
maru_kyutie: (This is fine.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
No, I never met a Minato either.
fullmoonfool: (Quiet)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-08 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
...huh. That's. Really strange. When we were dealing with the Dark Hour and by the sounds of it eventually Nyx, I was the leader of our battle team. If you haven't met me, or him...

[Something must happen. Something between now and the future. Byakko, forgotten until now, makes that coughing bark up at her and she kneels down to pick him up and stands up again]

...at least things went back to normal. That's the important thing.
maru_kyutie: (This is fine.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, the leader of the Shadow Operatives was Kirijo-san, with Aigis-chan as her second in command. They never even mentioned they used to have another leader, at least, not to me
fullmoonfool: (Happy)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-08 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Mitsuru-senpai was the leader of SEES, yeah. I think she only really let me lead the battles because I'm a Wildcard. She was really more suited to being a leader than I am.

[Small smile! She's fine]
maru_kyutie: (That's sad...)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Minako-chan? Don't. I've put on enough fake smiles to know one when I see it.
fullmoonfool: (Quiet)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-08 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Minako just looks down]

It's alright. You don't have to worry about me. It's just...a little worrying to hear, putting together what people know in the future to what was happening at the point before I arrived here. I'll be fine though.
maru_kyutie: (No way.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
...If that's what you say, I won't push.

...Hey, what's that feeling? I haven't sensed that since... That weird Elizabeth lady.
fullmoonfool: (???)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-08 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Hm? Elizabeth...oh, she's one of the Velvet Room's attendants, that's right. Theodore mentioned her. I'm not sure, what's it feel like?
maru_kyutie: (This is fine.)

[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
It feels... kind of like the Reaper. I remember that strange Persona she had: Thanatos.
fullmoonfool: (Thinking)

[personal profile] fullmoonfool 2018-12-08 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see. You're sensing one of my Personas. I have Thanatos with me. I wonder why she had him...
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[personal profile] maru_kyutie 2018-12-08 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't normally be able to sense a Persona you don't have equipped, but ever since that day, Himiko's had a little bit of Thanatos in her.

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