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TEST DRIVE 002
Hello, and welcome to the second test drive for Phantasmal Rift!
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 is based in the Fissure nearest to the Station, same as last time! But this time you're coming at the shoreline from a bit of a different angle...
If you really want, though, you can reuse prompts from the first test drive! In particular, there's still landsharks around the new area of beach. Otherwise, here's three new prompts!
OPTION ONE: OCEAN BREEZE
The cavern you find yourself in smells of the sea... And looks like it, too. Large crystal formations, usually in blue or a light yellow-green, glow along the walls and ceiling of the cavern, providing more than enough light to see by. The whole place is damp and a little chilly, and occasional pools of water rise and fall with gentle waves - some outside tide flowing in through underground passages.
More chilling, though, is the wind that flows through the caves, never ever quite going still but varying wildly in intensity. In fact, characters will discover that they have some control over the intensity of the wind - or perhaps some lack of control, depending on their exact response to waking up in an unexpected place. Strong emotions of any sort make the wind stronger in turn; while calm leaves the wind gentle, panic will send it whipping around corners and drive already-distressed characters to take whatever shelter they can, lest they get blown into some cavern wall.
Other than the wind and the crystals, the caverns seem mostly normal for a place that's clearly underwater at least part of the time. The lower reaches of the caverns are full of barnacles, mussels, and other shellfish that await the rising of the tide for their survival, as well as the occasional crab (some of them surprisingly large, up to about the same of a man's head), and bits of seaweed catch on rocky corners.
OPTION TWO: SAY NYA
What's that sound? Is it... a cat?
... No, it's not. It's a meowing seagull, for some reason.
Except for their strange vocalizations (all feline in nature), the seagulls found outside around the cliffs and beaches are all reasonably normal. (Specifically, anyone familiar with the Gulf Coast on Earth will find that they look much like Laughing Gulls in their black-headed plumage.) They're normal-sized and not at all afraid of people...
In fact, they're so unafraid of people, that they'll come right up close to you and nick your stuff! And not just food, mind. Anything they can carry that isn't attached is fair game to be taken and winged up the cliffs to their roosts. Magpies have nothing on these guys.
Good luck chasing them down for whatever it is they've taken, or climbing up the cliffs to get it back. It belongs to the seacats now.
OPTION THREE: ALL THAT GLITTERS
This gravel beach is absolutely splendid in the sunlight, looking like someone shattered a thousand stained glass windows and left the wreckage to sparkle. Protected from the worst of the waves by some rocky outcrops in the distance, the water here is gentle and doesn't disturb the beach much.
Luckily, the glitter does not, in fact, come from glass. Close examination will reveal that the gravel of the beach contains an impressive number of fragments of some kind of hard scale - about a third, if one's going by volume. They vary in size from a large thumb-nail down to nothing, and most transparent in every color imaginable. They're quite hard, and more likely to break into fragments than they are to be ground down by the sand.
But what is it that these scales come from? The answer can be found only at night, when the sun's light disappears. Then, large reptilian-looking creatures - somewhere between snakes and fish - make their way out of the crannies hidden in the rocks around and across from the small beach. In many different colors, they glow beneath the waves, some internal light filtered through their skin and scales to make each appear a different color.
The serpents aren't violent, at least for now, but given that the largest of them is at least twenty feet long... Perhaps it's best not to hassle them.
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 is based in the Fissure nearest to the Station, same as last time! But this time you're coming at the shoreline from a bit of a different angle...
If you really want, though, you can reuse prompts from the first test drive! In particular, there's still landsharks around the new area of beach. Otherwise, here's three new prompts!
OPTION ONE: OCEAN BREEZE
The cavern you find yourself in smells of the sea... And looks like it, too. Large crystal formations, usually in blue or a light yellow-green, glow along the walls and ceiling of the cavern, providing more than enough light to see by. The whole place is damp and a little chilly, and occasional pools of water rise and fall with gentle waves - some outside tide flowing in through underground passages.
More chilling, though, is the wind that flows through the caves, never ever quite going still but varying wildly in intensity. In fact, characters will discover that they have some control over the intensity of the wind - or perhaps some lack of control, depending on their exact response to waking up in an unexpected place. Strong emotions of any sort make the wind stronger in turn; while calm leaves the wind gentle, panic will send it whipping around corners and drive already-distressed characters to take whatever shelter they can, lest they get blown into some cavern wall.
Other than the wind and the crystals, the caverns seem mostly normal for a place that's clearly underwater at least part of the time. The lower reaches of the caverns are full of barnacles, mussels, and other shellfish that await the rising of the tide for their survival, as well as the occasional crab (some of them surprisingly large, up to about the same of a man's head), and bits of seaweed catch on rocky corners.
OPTION TWO: SAY NYA
What's that sound? Is it... a cat?
... No, it's not. It's a meowing seagull, for some reason.
Except for their strange vocalizations (all feline in nature), the seagulls found outside around the cliffs and beaches are all reasonably normal. (Specifically, anyone familiar with the Gulf Coast on Earth will find that they look much like Laughing Gulls in their black-headed plumage.) They're normal-sized and not at all afraid of people...
In fact, they're so unafraid of people, that they'll come right up close to you and nick your stuff! And not just food, mind. Anything they can carry that isn't attached is fair game to be taken and winged up the cliffs to their roosts. Magpies have nothing on these guys.
Good luck chasing them down for whatever it is they've taken, or climbing up the cliffs to get it back. It belongs to the seacats now.
OPTION THREE: ALL THAT GLITTERS
This gravel beach is absolutely splendid in the sunlight, looking like someone shattered a thousand stained glass windows and left the wreckage to sparkle. Protected from the worst of the waves by some rocky outcrops in the distance, the water here is gentle and doesn't disturb the beach much.
Luckily, the glitter does not, in fact, come from glass. Close examination will reveal that the gravel of the beach contains an impressive number of fragments of some kind of hard scale - about a third, if one's going by volume. They vary in size from a large thumb-nail down to nothing, and most transparent in every color imaginable. They're quite hard, and more likely to break into fragments than they are to be ground down by the sand.
But what is it that these scales come from? The answer can be found only at night, when the sun's light disappears. Then, large reptilian-looking creatures - somewhere between snakes and fish - make their way out of the crannies hidden in the rocks around and across from the small beach. In many different colors, they glow beneath the waves, some internal light filtered through their skin and scales to make each appear a different color.
The serpents aren't violent, at least for now, but given that the largest of them is at least twenty feet long... Perhaps it's best not to hassle them.
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A little. Thank you for showing me around and... everything else. I appreciate it.
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[He turns and starts along the beach, staying close to the cliffs.]
By the way, would you like something to drink?
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He blinks at the offer, since it's a bit out of nowhere, before timidly admitting,] I do like chai tea lattes. But college has made me learn to accept all coffee into my life.
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[With a flourish, he produces a mug of coffee from thin air. It's black with only a bit of sugar, but doesn't smell (or taste) bitter at all. In fact, if Julian accepts it, he'll notice that it's very smooth and flavorful, clearly blended by someone who knows coffee and brewed with care.]
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[Oh God that sounded stupid. That was a stupid thing to say. Immediately, he focuses on the drink, taking a sip in order to avoid digging himself in further. In his defense, many a college student would kill to be able to have this kind of power, or simply coffee this good.]
...this is infinitely better than most coffee I've had in my life. Thanks.
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[He conjures another cup for himself, taking a moment to enjoy the smell before he starts drinking.]
You should thank Akira as well when you meet him. This is the house blend of the cafe he works at, and based off of how he brews it.
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[Mmm. That smell would be a great cologne, if only someone could properly replicate it. He cradles his cup close, soothed by the presence of at least one thing warm and familiar.]
He does a good job, [he agrees, taking another sip.] And you do a good job recreating it.
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[That ability, if you ask him, is absolutely hideous.]
This power is imagination based, and I've had enough of it in the past that I don't think I'm likely to forget any of the details of its flavor any time soon.
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[Without powers, he could have a normal life. No fear of someone realizing what he was, no wondering if people would leave when they found out... it would have been a different life entirely.]
Are you able to make anything you remember clearly?
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[He pushes his mask up onto his forehead to get the beak out of the way of his next drink of his own coffee.]
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If you can't do this often, shouldn't you save it for someone important instead of wasting it on me?
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And I can do this three times every twenty minutes, so I'm not really worried about using it for people who don't need the special properties. Besides, I have a much more powerful healing ability, so all I really consider in my choice of when to use it is if the person I'm offering to will appreciate it.
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How many powers do you have? [It seemed like Goro had a neverending supply of them, at least to someone who had lived his whole life with a small, stable powerset.]
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[...Give him a moment, he needs to think about that.]
There's the Wildcard Persona user ability, each of my six Personas has a different set of up to eight magical or physical skills...I have two Psyches, which are psychic abilities that anyone can use if they have a Pin compatible with their Imagination...then there are the Composer abilities, such as Corvus Cantus, flight, energy blasts, and a few other things related to ghosts and managing the afterlife. Most of that last category doesn't work when I'm outside of my territory, though.
Ah, I suppose the Metaverse skills that carry over here also apply, though those are things anyone could learn if they trained themselves to think in the right way.
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So he tries to nod as if he understood that, expression blank as ever.]
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[Beware Julian, he sounds about ready to give a college thesis on these concepts.]
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[Apparently 'mrzsrde' needed more vowels, according to most people.]
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Besides, research can be fun if you find an interesting topic.
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And the confusing thing is, she didn't even want me. When someone same along and offered to adopt me, she was delighted. I don't... I don't understand it. I wish I did.
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Have you considered attempting to make contact yourself, now that she has no more control over your life?
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I have. My adopted parents don't want me to. I know it would be expensive to attempt, since I would have to go back to Serbia from the United States, and I might not be able to find him, but in spite of the long odds, I still want to try.
...does that sound stupid? [There's something vulnerable in his expression, if not to the degree that would be present in a human talking about something of the same caliber.] I miss him.
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[He shakes his head.]
I don't think it sounds strange at all. He's someone who cared for you enough to risk his life to get you back from someone who resented you. It seems only natural that you would want to at least make an attempt to find him.
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[Which is still morally wrong on some level. Julian doesn't think there's anything wrong with having multiple partners if they know about each other. He doesn't think he'll ever be in that situation, but if it makes others happy, then fine. Having a husband and also having a man on the side is not the same as that.]
...thanks. I don't really know what counts as natural or normal when all the circumstances are so unusual. It's not as if I can talk about this to many people, either.
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