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TEST DRIVE 003
Hello, and welcome to the third 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 takes place in the Fissure known as Amesta Forest - a forest filled with silver mist and shrouded in eternal twilight, where your dreams become real! For a certain limited definition of real. This is significantly less awesome than it sounds. On the bright side, anyone within the mists will find themselves with no need to sleep, as though trapped in the same spring evening as the rest of the forest.
OPTION ONE: DREAM A LITTLE DREAM
This first option might happen to you just about anywhere. From the swirls of silver mist comes a shape - or perhaps more than one shape? Who knows, it's your dream -
Well, probably. It could also be someone else's.
Those who stay too long in any one part of the mist will find their subconscious minds influencing it into shapes - the exact sort of things that appear in their dreams. As with their real dreams, the details are sometimes strange - too much detail, or not enough, depending on where your focus is. The character who 'created' the dream specter will instantly understand what it's supposed to be, but other viewers might have some difficulty with it.
Fortunately for those of you prone to violent nightmares, these dream figures are incapable of doing harm - any blows struck by them simply leave behind the dampness of walking through thick mist. A hard enough blow will similarly disperse them - or, in most cases, you can simply move quickly and leave them behind.
OPTION TWO: THE MOVEMENTS OF THE TREES
A forest filled with mist is honestly a kind of spooky place, isn't it?
Well, it's about to get spookier, when you notice that there's a tree... somewhere there wasn't a tree, before. Or maybe it's that you were looking around and realized that a tree wasn't there here there was one before, instead leaving behind only a round, torn-up patch of earth from where the roots were buried.
Either way, there's only one conclusion to be drawn - the trees are moving.
Those who pay close attention will soon realize that it's only one kind of tree that moves - an absolutely unfamiliar kind, with mist-silver bark and thin, almost translucent leaves in large handlike shapes. They aren't very tall, and their branches split low to the ground, the structure something like a less crooked Japanese maple. The Wanderwoods seem prone to following specific people, usually only moving when out of sight, though you might catch them shuffling along if you have quick reflexes for looking over your shoulder.
What do they want? Well, nothing, really. They're just attracted to sapient beings and, especially, the way the mist forms into their dreams. So while they won't do anything in particular to the characters themselves, anyone with a dream-form hanging around them might find that manifestation suddenly papered in thin, grabbing leaves... and swallowed up.
OPTION THREE: WHAT NOW IS FOUND?
Not all of the forest is trapped in eternal spring. One part of it is held in exactly the opposite - a brilliantly colored autumn morning, just before dawn, with the trees overhead colored in brilliant reds and oranges. Leaves drift down in a slow breeze, and pile up in random places among the trees (which never seem to run out of leaves to drop), and silver pools of water gather at the bases of the trees and in any other depressions, their surfaces perfectly still mirrors.
The mist is quite a bit thinner here, too, which allows you to see... What is that familiar shape in the distance, between the trees?
While dream manifestations are uncommon in the region of Fall's Heart, it's not only dreams that manifest here. Instead, characters will see the figures of those they've lost - instantly recognizable, but unreachable and nearly impossible to catch, running through the trees heedless of how you call after them. It's impossible to catch up to them by mundane means, and those who use supernatural means to do so -
- will find that, at their touch, the vision crumbles into silvery mist-water, forming another of those perfect, reflective pools at their feet.
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 Fissure known as Amesta Forest - a forest filled with silver mist and shrouded in eternal twilight, where your dreams become real! For a certain limited definition of real. This is significantly less awesome than it sounds. On the bright side, anyone within the mists will find themselves with no need to sleep, as though trapped in the same spring evening as the rest of the forest.
OPTION ONE: DREAM A LITTLE DREAM
This first option might happen to you just about anywhere. From the swirls of silver mist comes a shape - or perhaps more than one shape? Who knows, it's your dream -
Well, probably. It could also be someone else's.
Those who stay too long in any one part of the mist will find their subconscious minds influencing it into shapes - the exact sort of things that appear in their dreams. As with their real dreams, the details are sometimes strange - too much detail, or not enough, depending on where your focus is. The character who 'created' the dream specter will instantly understand what it's supposed to be, but other viewers might have some difficulty with it.
Fortunately for those of you prone to violent nightmares, these dream figures are incapable of doing harm - any blows struck by them simply leave behind the dampness of walking through thick mist. A hard enough blow will similarly disperse them - or, in most cases, you can simply move quickly and leave them behind.
OPTION TWO: THE MOVEMENTS OF THE TREES
A forest filled with mist is honestly a kind of spooky place, isn't it?
Well, it's about to get spookier, when you notice that there's a tree... somewhere there wasn't a tree, before. Or maybe it's that you were looking around and realized that a tree wasn't there here there was one before, instead leaving behind only a round, torn-up patch of earth from where the roots were buried.
Either way, there's only one conclusion to be drawn - the trees are moving.
Those who pay close attention will soon realize that it's only one kind of tree that moves - an absolutely unfamiliar kind, with mist-silver bark and thin, almost translucent leaves in large handlike shapes. They aren't very tall, and their branches split low to the ground, the structure something like a less crooked Japanese maple. The Wanderwoods seem prone to following specific people, usually only moving when out of sight, though you might catch them shuffling along if you have quick reflexes for looking over your shoulder.
What do they want? Well, nothing, really. They're just attracted to sapient beings and, especially, the way the mist forms into their dreams. So while they won't do anything in particular to the characters themselves, anyone with a dream-form hanging around them might find that manifestation suddenly papered in thin, grabbing leaves... and swallowed up.
OPTION THREE: WHAT NOW IS FOUND?
Not all of the forest is trapped in eternal spring. One part of it is held in exactly the opposite - a brilliantly colored autumn morning, just before dawn, with the trees overhead colored in brilliant reds and oranges. Leaves drift down in a slow breeze, and pile up in random places among the trees (which never seem to run out of leaves to drop), and silver pools of water gather at the bases of the trees and in any other depressions, their surfaces perfectly still mirrors.
The mist is quite a bit thinner here, too, which allows you to see... What is that familiar shape in the distance, between the trees?
While dream manifestations are uncommon in the region of Fall's Heart, it's not only dreams that manifest here. Instead, characters will see the figures of those they've lost - instantly recognizable, but unreachable and nearly impossible to catch, running through the trees heedless of how you call after them. It's impossible to catch up to them by mundane means, and those who use supernatural means to do so -
- will find that, at their touch, the vision crumbles into silvery mist-water, forming another of those perfect, reflective pools at their feet.
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What isn't wrong in here? [ She tries to turn it into a joke but it comes out sounding a touch more bitter than she'd aimed for. ] I thought being stuck out here in the cold was bad enough but...
[ She hugs her cardigan a little tighter around herself, as if for emphasis. ]
You've been seeing things too, haven't you? Or people, I guess I should say. People who aren't really here. I guess you were a little more spot on with Silent Hill than you thought.
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[Just like she always comes back to Ruu, the roots of Junpei's being can't be untangled from Akane's.]
But then, it seems I have fewer people to miss than most of us. [He rubs her arm with his human hand, as if to give some of his warmth to her.] Most of my people happen to be here in the flesh.
[Without conscious intent, Junpei slips out of his puffy blue vest and wraps it around Yuuri for her to slide her arms through.]
...You haven't found Church yet, have you?
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Not yet. I found Dad and I ran into Arianna and Heart but I haven't seen Church.
[ But that's still an unsettling number of them to all end up in this place, all at the same time. She lifts a hand to her mouth and starts nibbling on the skin around her nail. ]
... I thought I did, though. Just for a second. But um... it turned out to be someone else.
[ There. That's a natural enough way to ease into the topic. ]
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[Record scratch noise.]
Uh. Wait. You... mistook someone for Church? Not an illusion?
[Honey. He loves you. But Church is so loud, how can anyone make that mistake?]
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[ She looks appropriately embarrassed, at least. ]
It was when I was looking out for everyone. I thought I saw someone in the mist that looked like Dad and there was someone following him. And obviously, that'd be Church, wouldn't it?
[ And just like her joke from before, the smile she gives turns bitter. ]
But it definitely wasn't.
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[Well, Ignis is here, too, but Junpei doesn't know that.]
I met him, too, if we're talking about the same asshat.
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[ Because it's far too coincidental for them all to be here, together, for Yuuri to believe that it truly is completely random. It just doesn't sit quite right with her. ]
Did he try and play nice with you, too?
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[#MurderWorldProblems]
Uh, though the second time, he gave me some campfire meat and we talked about magic. So yeah, I guess you could say that.
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[ She says, not sounding as if she actually thinks that's terrible in the slightest. ]
I haven't seen him again since the first time, but it's not like I've been keeping an eye out for him. ...and come to think of it, he might be trying to stay out of my way. I wouldn't blame him.
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[Babe, he loves you.]
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[ She is absolutely unrepentant. ]
Or, well, I actually threw the sword at something he'd dreamed up here in the forest because I panicked and it almost hit him. But then I pointed one right at him a minute later so I'm saying it still counts.
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[He rubs her arm, because encouraging violence is just how we do here.]
Sounds like Heart gave him something to think about, too. And Dad actually hauled off and clocked him already, even though he told me he didn't want to start shit.
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[ Though she suspects there will probably be more opportunities to see Izunia Lucis Caelum get punched in the near future. ]
I'm surprised it didn't go further than a punch, though. But then again... it's probably smart to avoid picking a fight in a place like this until we know the rules.
[ Some of the sharpness leaves her smile, followed not too shortly after by the smile itself. She doesn't look worried – but she's definitely a little pensive. ]
Is he going to be okay, do you think? A big upheaval like this would be bad enough without Izunia around, too.
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[They're a family, but as Yuuri and Junpei form a stable dual orbit within that unit, so too Ardyn and Church.]
But he's got us, at least. And it does seem like Izunia wants to do anything he can to be helpful, so if something ends up hitting Dad badly, we can probably get him to back off or do something different or whatever. And we can definitely use him to keep Noctis and the blond kid off Dad's back.
[Practical reasons to keep Izunia alive #1 and #2.]
The situation still sucks ass, but Dad's strong, too. I think we'll manage.
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We'll just have to make sure that he knows we've got his back. If he needs it.
[ Not that they've ever failed to make that known to him before, but with where they're stuck and how things are shaping up, it certainly wouldn't hurt to re-inforce it. ]
How about you, though? Are you doing okay?
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Yeah, I'm fine. Haven't needed to sleep since we got here and I miss Ruu-chan, but as long as nothing's been slapped on my arm and no one's asking me to unlock doors with my brain, I'll be all right.
[It's care time now, Princess. Junpei skims his hand down Yuuri's arm, takes her hand, and kisses the knuckles.]
How're your feet doing, ojou-san? Need a minute to get off of them?
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She gives his hand a little squeeze. ]
They haven't had any more unfortunate encounters with something sharp, but giving them a rest probably wouldn't hurt.