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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.
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.
The Shadowchild | Digger
[It takes Shadow a few minutes to realize that anything's happened, really. It had flitted on ahead to take a look while the other three trudged through the snow on Morrakgon. It'll go back and check on them in a few minutes.
But before long it realizes that it doesn't recognize its surroundings, in a way that goes beyond "wandering off to a new part of the mountain" into, somehow "this is a different mountain altogether." Which is worrying! The little demon stops for a moment, standing lightly on top of the deep snow as it considers, and then sighs and turns around to try and retrace its steps and figure out what's happened, where its friends are.]
Digger! Murai? Grim Eyes?
Frosty
[Well, the Shadowchild hasn't found its friends. It may have found other people. It has definitely found a strangely animate snowman.
There is absolutely nothing fearful in the little creature's manner as it stands looking up at the the rapidly approaching monster - Shadow's approximately the height of a small child and much more slenderly built, but it's not even trying to get out of the snowman's way. Instead, it folds its narrow hands behind its back, and cocks its head a little to one side.]
What are you? Can you talk?
gasps softly i love shadowchild / frosty
[This old man is, for whatever reason, riding on the back of a very large ghostly thing.]
You want a ride out?
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[The Shadowchild turns to look at the new arrival, hardly paying attention to the snowman that's still quickly closing in on it. Its eyes go even wider as it looks up at the man and his round purple mount.]
Hi! Who are you? What's your friend?
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My name's Michael. This is Jane Doe, she's a Haunter. Jane, Dark Pulse.
[Jane nods (with her entire body, as she is an enormous head mostly), and turns to fire a wave of some kind of shadowy energy at the approaching snow monster. Michael watches this rather calmly, continuing as the snow starts to spray.]
She's a type of ghost. Might've been a human at one point, might not, it's very unclear. What are you?
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Well, the people with the demon-killing swords are pretty sure I'm a demon. And I haven't found anything else that I am. So probably that?
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No way! Same species! Kind of, you're clearly not from the exact same universe as me...
[His sort aren't typically that curious about things. Michael laces his fingers together, resting his chin on them.]
Assuming you are one. How do you not know?
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Young. He turns that over in his head a little. It's been a long time since any of his own kind were that. But what else to make of this?]
Humans wouldn't be able to handle my normal form very well, so I'm inhabiting this body to interact with them. It's artificially created, doesn't share all the same internal structures, but it looks like them. That's mostly what counts. You...might be able to do it if we had another one? I'm not sure if we're exactly the same type of demon...
[The Haunter, having dealt with the snow monster, comes floating back over. She seems content to observe the conversation for the moment.]
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[Kinda gross, tbh. The little thing seems a bit let down, though. Michael isn't exactly the most empathetic person around, but at the very least that seems like something easily addressed.]
But hey, it's no big deal! A demon's a demon, right?
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[It perks up again, though. It's still not entirely sure, but this is a better lead than it's found yet, and anyway, Michael seems nice. Congratulations, Michael, you have successfully empathized.] Yeah! Maybe I can still learn. Most of what I know how to do I figured out on my own.
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Guess you'd have to, with no other demons around. What do you know how to do other than stretch out?
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[Michael gestures, with his three-dimensional human hand, at the dimension where all that stuff is. Which is to say that he waves a little nonsensically.]
Sounds bad for her.
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Murai said hers was because she got broken by a goddess. I don't think she liked it much.
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Oh. Gods. I've met one or two gods who were alright, but most of them suck. They definitely screw with humans like that.
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Let it snow
Uh, hi?
[ Says the girl bundled head to toe with a shovel on her back, who is looking at the Shadowchild like she has no idea what to make of it.
To be fair, that is the reaction of the Shadowchild to itself, but she doesn't know that.]
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Oh, hi! Have you seen my friends? I'm not sure where they went.
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[A lot of people seem to be, and Kurumi is pretty sure she'd remember... Yknow, anything else like this.
But blob appears to be a friend?]
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Still, at least that answer gives it somewhere to go with its next line of questioning.] Where is here?
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[Look the actual name isn't that important compared to - ]
But it's a different world from wherever you're... from, so.
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[She's still kind of sick, really.]
You might do better asking someone who's been around a little longer than me.
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I'll ask if I see some other people then.
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