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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.
(Male) Robin | Fire Emblem Awakening AU
[After a bit of an... adventure through some odd caverns--ones that he absolutely has to tell Miriel about at the next opportunity--he's found himself on a beach. With... meowing seagulls. Okay. That sure is a thing.
(Another thing to tell Miriel about later, he supposes.)
They're daring little suckers, too, as Robin's finding out. He wasn't able to chase down the bird to retrieve his belongings before the gull took them up to the cliff, but... Well, cliffs aren't that intimidating. So anyone passing by may find a coat discarded on the ground, with its owner very determinedly scaling the cliffs up to the gull's roosts.
Or, maybe, they'll be passing by and hear someone from above--]
Hey, did those birds grab anything from you too? I can look while I'm up here!
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[During the day, Robin's been wandering about the beach, occasionally picking up scale fragments that catch his eye.
By the time night falls though, he's seated himself on a rock, watching both the ocean and the serpents. It's a sight he wishes he could share with his friends back home, but...
... He's so lost in thought, it'd be incredibly easy to sneak up on him right about now. Startle the poor sap?]
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Oh, not from me, no. I'm way too careful with my equipment to get any of it stolen like that.
[So Robin, how are you with flying girls, because Aya is definitely taking candid photos of the struggle here.]
It sounds like you weren't so prepared, though. What are you after?
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In all fairness, I wasn't expecting them to be quite so daring. One grabbed a pouch with some medicine I'd been carrying!
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[The flying part at least is partially explained by "she's got wings", which are black and feathery crow-ish wings.]
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[It shouldn't take him too much longer for him to reach the roost at this rate...]
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It doesn't look like the weight is stopping them from trying, actually, but it also looks like they're too stupid to realize it's not going to work.
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[He chuckles and with that he makes it up to the roost! He grabs the pouch that he recognizes as his and slowly starts maneuvering his way back down.]
I'll be a little more careful from here on out... And maybe attach this bag to my belt better.
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3 bc sneaking up on people is his jam
[Kurama is very capable of sneaking up on people who are paying full attention, to be honest. His footsteps are quiet by habit and long training. So the voice comes out of nowhere from behind him.
The redhead is smiling lightly, the expression subtly amused but overall friendly.]
excellent
I've never seen anything like them before... Though that seems to be a theme for the day, I've noticed. [It's punctuated with a soft snort. He looks back to the serpents again, tilting his head.]
They look like they can get pretty big, though, I'm not certain how practical one would be to keep.
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It's something of the theme for this place as a whole, to be honest. Landsharks, androids, and glowing serpents, oh my...
[Kurama settles on another rock nearby, reaching down to pick up a few of the shed scales that litter the beach.]
They'd certainly be outdoor pets, granted. Though the real trouble is that we can't really be sure what any of these odd creatures are supposed to eat.
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[But more importantly...]
It makes me wish my friends were here to see this. [If the timing had been better, it'd be perfect, even.
He nods at the comment about not knowing what the serpents eat, humming thoughtfully.]
Ideally, that's nothing some observation won't fix, provided one's able to see them doing so... Personally, I think I'll stick with what I know, in terms of taking care of animals.
[Which... means horses, pegasi, and wyverns, but. You know.]
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Yes... I think many of us wish the same. It's difficult, being separated from most or all of the people you care about. [It's quiet and a little sad. He has two of the people he loves with him here, but his friends, his mother... Kurama misses them painfully.
At least discussion of animals is lighthearted.]
Most of the animals we've encountered here have been at least slightly different from anything any of us are accustomed to. Though it's hard to say how much of that is normal and how much is things that have been twisted by the break in reality.
[Hey, normal is something different for every world.]
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[He nods.] My sister arrived as well, but... Well, the timing of this place was rather poor too.
[He gives an annoyed huff.]
Slightly different... what, like a carnivorous pegasus? ... Actually, that's kind of a terrifying thought.
[He's already got enough horror stories about equines, he doesn't need to add actual flesh-eating ones to that list.]
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[That is a very empathetic sigh.] Ah. You, as well? We had some rather important world-saving tasks ahead of us when my boyfriends and I found ourselves here.
Slightly horrible, yes. Not something that's on the list as of yet, thankfully. But hermit crabs large enough to use broken bottles as shells, sharks that can swim through the ground, and seagulls that meow.
[One of these things is much more dangerous than the others.]
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3 sup bro
She lands a moderate distance away from Robin, gesturing for Catria to wait there. With all the stealth her time as a Thief taught her, she sneaks up behind him... and silently places her hands on his shoulders.]
sup sis, also 1/2
Completely oblivious to anyone's presence behind him until...]
wait, I lied, 2/3
GYAHHH--
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By the gods, sister!
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Ahahahahaha!
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I am not! All I did was touch you! Lissa would have dumped glitter-sand over you or something.
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Looking out to the sea, she says nothing more, and soon lapses into the same sort of contemplative silence that had taken Robin before, her smile turning softer, almost nostalgic.]
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