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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.
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[personal profile] reforgeries 2018-12-08 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
You said it suspects this fragment is in another world. What will you do if it is? Searching this world would be pointless in that case, unless it turned up something with which we could access other worlds ourselves. Such a thing would probably have to be just as powerful as the entity in question, correct? I hardly think that sort of ability common.
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-12-08 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Not common, no, but...not impossible, either. I technically have an ability that I could use to travel to different worlds, but it would weaken me to the point that I might not be able to do it again for decades. Assuming it works properly at all...my interdimensional phone app hasn't been working right since I got here.

If it is right about its missing piece being in a different world, our focus would have to turn more toward finding a way to narrow that down. Searching the entire multiverse by hand is an impossible task, even with free travel between worlds. But we do have reason to think that the Fissures are...somehow close to it.
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[personal profile] reforgeries 2018-12-08 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose that would follow, if it's the cause of these Fissures.

Would you mind explaining what an 'interdimensional phone app' is?
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-12-09 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
It's a program on my phone that lets me send texts and calls to other worlds. Or, it would, if something wasn't stopping the signal.

[He has magic cell phone reception, from the thing in the place that one time.]
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[personal profile] reforgeries 2018-12-09 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
If this is the only world you've encountered such blockage, I'd assume this entity of yours is the cause. Interference from its efforts to locate what's missing, perhaps.
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[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-12-09 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'd considered that, myself. It could also be a result of the Fissures, since they scramble the different levels of reality. Put simply...it's like the world is a series of radio stations, but the Fissures compress everything inside them so that it's all trying to play on a single frequency. Even stabilized, they're not completely gone, so it might still be enough to interfere with reception.
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[personal profile] reforgeries 2018-12-09 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Understood. In that case, I'm not sure how something like me can retain its composition in one of these areas of scrambled, uncontrolled magic, as I am constructed almost entirely of magical energy myself. Not that it matters much; it's simply idle wondering.