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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.
Bonus thing
Oh... Well. Good job, Nightingale. You've earned yourself a somber, irritated glare from one of the residents of the station. He's groaning in frustration.]
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[She seems... not entirely concerned.]
Time to test out a new power~
"Sorry to play the devil's advocate, but some of us had to put up with jerks making us kill eachother on top of interdimensional nonsense."
[Oh, right. Rantaro tried to fix his watch during the expedition and it backfired... In a good way. Sort of.]
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Or, by what he was saying.]
Yeah? No shit. That's just the dumbest attempt at a trap I've ever heard.
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"You too, huh?"
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No big deal. I'm just wondering who was stupid enough to set that sign up and think anyone would believe it.
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[Now that she puts it that way, though... He gets the point she's trying to make.]
"At least most of us here aren't murderous or anything. Trust me, I've been here a while."
[He'd say a month or so, but that last fissure really threw everyone off time wise.]
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Yeah? None of us were murderous, but that didn't really help when the ones in power said to play the game, or else we all died slowly.
[She looks at the sign. She hasn't even noticed the SHITlist yet, from the looks of it.]
And a lot of them tried to make us let our guards down. And a lot of them were completely fucking stupid. So... You'll have to forgive me if I don't buy that so easily.
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[He frowns... Should he tell her?]
"I honestly don't blame you... Luckily, the worst thing that could happen to you is if you're on an expedition to one of the fissures, and you can opt out of that if you want."
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[Her voice goes suddenly... very cold?]
If there's a chance my team shows up, I'm going to be there for them before anyone else.
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[He's nodding out of habit.]
"Okay... I get where you're coming from here. In that case, do you want me to help look for them the next time we're out in the fissures?"
[He doesn't want to scare her off, but after hearing that he's more eager to help find her friends.]
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For all I know, you could just be a game construct.
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And sometimes, their job is to guide us into making the worst possible decisions.
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"Sorry, you'll have to tell me what an Echo is... I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about."
[Fake people...? No, he's pretty sure he's not fake. Missing a few memories, yeah, but not fake.]
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[nightingale you're not helping.]
... Sorry. Maybe it doesn't concern you.
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[Blink, blink... He shakes his head.] "Well, no. I'm not involved in any of that... Shard business. Whatever it is. But I'm guessing you've been through a lot?"
[Completely, entirely understandable.]
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Souls shattered, world ended, play sick twisted 'games' to restore our soul and worlds. The usual shit in these places, you know?
[her sense of 'usual' is skewed.]
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Oh... Uh...
"Quick question, did this end of the world thing have to do with some so-called disease making people go insane? Or was this a different apocalypse scenario?"
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[She looks at him weirdly.]
No. Something called 'Reapers' unmade the whole world.
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"Yep, definitely different scenarios. I got dragged to a world that was being ravaged by some kind of virus... I forget the exact name, but folks called it the Hijacking because it literally made people do terrible things they otherwise wouldn't. Some administration thought the best way to research it was to kidnap a bunch of people and goad them into killing each other... I don't know if this has to do with Reapers or souls, but does that sound a bit familiar?"
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[She materializes a stack of papers in her hand.]
"Sabra la Tau". "Aather". "The gallery". "The library". "The jungle". Any of those places ring a bell?
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That's not important, he figures.]
"Only the library. Well, a library, I guess..." [He leans in a little, looking at those papers.] "Whatcha got there?"
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The one with the portraits?
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