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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmemes2018-05-24 10:10 pm
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TEST DRIVE 004

Hello and welcome to the fourth 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 Keystone Reef, a water-influenced Fissure to the northeast of the station. It is home to numerous fish and coral species, as well as a very interesting magical effect...

OPTION ONE: FINNY FUN

Under the water is where you woke up, and under the water is where you might be stuck for a while. The magic is lodged in you and has changed your form -- maybe a little, maybe a lot. Perhaps you only have gills, but you may also have a full set of changes, fins and no feet to speak of. Don't panic, you'll surely be fine if you just keep swimming...

Aside from the strange changes, it's a pretty cool place to be. If you've ever dreamed about scuba diving on a coral reef, the place that you've found yourself is perfect for that (minus the needing to scuba part). Curious fish swim up and then dart away into rock crevices, coral growths, and even down to bury themselves in the layer of sand at the bottom. The water is also fairly shallow, allowing you to surface if you so desire.

Even the sharks are friendly and just want to have as much a look at you as you want to look at them. Don't harass the glowing eels tucked into cracks between the rocks, though, they bite and don't particularly let go.

OPTION TWO: WORLD'S SMALLEST JUNGLE

This must certainly be an oceanside jungle - in spite of the humidity, the smell of salt on the air is strong. Brilliant greens and the occasional bright flowers, accompanied by island birdsong... It could be a nice place to spend an afternoon. There's not even that many bugs that want to drink your blood (though bugs in general are, well, quite plentiful).

Eventually, though, however far you go, you'll reach the beach and be met with the expanse of the ocean - blue, uncaring, and real big. While one side of the little island thankfully has land visible in the distance, the outer side just overlooks a near-endless expanse of blue. If you're a very good swimmer, you could probably make your way to land past the rocks of the reef itself... Otherwise, though, you might be just a bit stuck on your jungle island paradise.

At least until someone brings a boat.

OPTION THREE: SHIPWRECK

Both above and below the waterline are the remains of ships crashed upon the rocks, just waiting to be explored. Even though it has clearly been an incredibly long time, the chunks of wood and metal are still in fairly good condition, and the chance of finding something nice tucked in with them among the rocks is surely tempting to anyone with an adventurous spirit.

The wrecks beneath the waves also grow coral and seaweed, and provide havens for larger fish, dragon eels, and sharks. Those along the rocks above the waterline, on the other hand, provide a home for seabirds of all varieties. Most notable is the hulking shell of a shipping craft in the distance, looking very much modern if ruined by some centuries of exposure...

For right now, though, you'd best contend with the flotsam a bit closer to you, and the wildlife that might not take too kindly to your exploring. Below the waterline, the dragon eels found in a few places don't take kindly to being disturbed; above, you might run afoul of some overprotective seabirds protecting their nests. Maybe even an invisible seagull (normal sized) - how ridiculous would that be?
nojohnyouare: Victorious with a kendo stick. (through the crowd i was crying out)

shipwreck

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-27 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
!

[Someone with a swordfish horn and tail swims over and starts to dig through the rubble, searching for the animal.]

Where?
coagmentatio: drank beer from a wine bottle, danced on a van, chased a llama, and fell from a fence (fantastic night)

[personal profile] coagmentatio 2018-05-27 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ HE WILL THROW A GODDAMN ROCK AT YOU IN THE NEXT SEVERAL SECONDS, IF YOU DON'T INTRODUCE YOURSELF BACK, MERFAIL. ]
nojohnyouare: Looking out a window. ('cause it's so easy)

2

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-05-27 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Mai raises the plastic sword she's been carrying. She narrows her eyes and watches carefully.]

Something invisible. But small.
skylalc: (✧ (8))

[personal profile] skylalc 2018-05-27 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lal'C has never given up on seeing Nono again, but she's spent some time already hurting from the loss. It takes her a moment. She knows better than anyone what Nono is capable of. Why doubt that she's been able to defy space and time again?

Once Nono is within arm's reach, Lal'C puts one hand on her shoulder and pulls her close. She sets her forehead softly down against Nono's shoulder and shuts her eyes. The touch feels like it should. Lal'C's grip tightens some, and there's a lump in her throat. ]


You… always just do what you want. You recklessly saved Earth. You disappeared.
foolishjustice: (I cannot let it stand.)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-05-27 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be there in a few minutes. Try not to cause any more accidents until then.
have_hat_will_travel: (Wat)

[personal profile] have_hat_will_travel 2018-05-27 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
... L-let's... Get him to the surface?

Except he's able to talk just fine? And I didn't just misgender someone, right?
have_hat_will_travel: (Scared)

[personal profile] have_hat_will_travel 2018-05-27 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
I SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING!

[Pidonus' solution for the moment is to drop into the water, then swim in Nono's direction, surfacing only when, hopefully, the birds are out of range.

She has an orca tail now.]


... Those things are crazy, and that's just the beginning...
have_hat_will_travel: (Huh)

[personal profile] have_hat_will_travel 2018-05-27 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Pidonus moves in, but stops just before placing a gloved hand against the wound, as if awaiting the okay to touch before she does so. Then, she makes it explicit:]

I need to touch the wound to heal it. Is that okay?

[Boundaries are a smart thing to stick to when you're trying to play nice. Giving people the chance to set them, moreso.]
have_hat_will_travel: (Tired)

[personal profile] have_hat_will_travel 2018-05-27 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this place kinda... Sucks like that, to say the least. The logistics of such a planar instability are... Kind of insane.

Never mind the magics when you get here. Or the fact that different worlds have different technology levels and rules about how magic works, yet somehow everything works.

We're trying to make the best of it, though. Powered station, we have some stuff for entertainment... Still want to get a lute, though.

And, of course, we're working on fixing the situation enough to get home.
nonono7: (eh)

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-05-27 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nono pauses then. It... hasn't been long since she disappeared, to Nono. But who knew how things worked when you disappear outside of space and time, right? Nono could be dumb, but things clicked into place here pretty quickly.

Nono puts an arm around Lal'C's back and gives her a pat. It feels nice, but she's focused on Lal'C at the moment.

Her expression is a warm smile when she speaks. ]
I did. [ She doesn't apologize. She doesn't... regret doing it. She did what a hero should, what Nono-Riri would, what Lal'C would. ]

But you didn't give up, right? So we're together again.
sorcerer_rebooted: (SPIDER)

Manuel Menendez | OC

[personal profile] sorcerer_rebooted 2018-05-27 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
1.

[He'd known there'd be challenges going into this place. Like pretty much every dimension, if he wanted to use magic he'd have to start from scratch, and if he wanted to do science it'd require the money which he could really only access with, uh, magic. Those were normal. Less normal were the indications that the dimension served as a sort of Venus Fly Trap: Getting in would be easy, but getting out would be extremely difficult to say the least. Potentially impossible.

He went anyway. As you do. Mostly because, as far as he was concerned, dimensions like this existed for a reason.

Turns out his scan didn't pick up everything. Like the fact that he'd end up landing in water on entry. He sputters a bit, trying to make it to the surface, before realizing the OTHER thing he hadn't picked up on, which was what he could only assume was ambient levels of wild magic. He couldn't think of any other explanation why he was suddenly a really big, uh.

Fish.

Manny works like a wizard most of the time - well, a "magicist" as he tends to call himself, what with his application of scientific physics to magic and his observation that a lot of wizards tend to be jerks. However, technically speaking he knows he's a sorcerer, one particularly sensitive to the ways magic functions from dimension to dimension. Which means he tends to absorb magic.

Which is why he's pretty much ALL fish and not sorta fish. Brain notwithstanding, anyway.]


Good start. Yeah.

3.

[He's managed to brute force things after about an hour of concentration, and now he's... MARGINALLY less fishy. Which is to say he's at least got his fins to function a little more like arms, which he decides is about as good as he's going to get for now based on how much effort that took. Hopefully at some point the ambient magic passes so he can start studying it in earnest.

Instead, he's studying what appears to be a shipwreck. An old one from what he can tell, and sizable. If nothing else, he can perhaps start getting a sense of the tech level here, maybe do a little exploring, find some loot, smack some mons --

...he's gone to way too many places where dungeon crawling was a regular way to make a quick buck.

Shaking his head, he maneuvers a little deeper in. He's so focused on a particular metallic formation that he just barely manages to avoid the snapping jaws of possibly the biggest damn eel he's ever seen. He's now frantically getting away, trying to avoid mental images of animated movies with these exact scenarios, because that's REALLY not going to help his situation right now. Crap.]
makejapangreat: (neutral)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-27 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[He winces a little.] ... right.

[He ends the call, then, and looks to the man glaring at him.] Aiden, was it? I'm Masoyoshi Shido, and I'm normally a human. Hence the... ineptitude with a tail.
nonono7: (when i'm dreamin')

3.

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-05-27 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a turbulence in the water as something zips past Manny. By the time he turns, there's already a girl with vaguely glowing orange hair, eel in hand, swinging it like a chain or like somebody does in one of those animated movies, and *tosses* it.

It's gone. It's very, very gone.

The girl turns to the, uh. Fish. ]
Are you all right, Mr. Fish? [ Despite being human in appearance, she seems to not have any problems being here and also speaking. But that's probably not the weirdest thing Manny's seen. ]
coagmentatio: in the kitchen with a knife (i'm gonna go stand naked)

[personal profile] coagmentatio 2018-05-27 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well that's one hell of a name... It reminds him of a lot of the names he heard in that school. And he'd say it's nice to meet the guy, for the sake of the hint of politeness he learned in that place, but-- ]

Okay. Masayoshi, it is. [ hi guess who never learned about Japanese name formalities ] That makes two of you, so far, who have said that.

[ He's staring at the water as he asks: ]

Is it a curse, then?
blackestwitch: (let me talk at you)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-05-27 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
All Fissures can pull people and things in, so that would be suppressed. And my guess is that if somebody were to drop in here untransformed, the Fissure wouldn't be able to give them a tail.

It's not... useful, really, here and now in this Fissure. And hard to test beyond a feeling that it worked.
shikosuki: (Who brings nunchucks to a funeral?)

[personal profile] shikosuki 2018-05-27 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Choromatsu stiffens when he sees someone else coming closer. Now that he's positive he's not in Ryslig, it's left him a lot more tense dealing with all these strangers, who might not be monsters. He almost wishes he could hide his luminescence somehow, but with so many spots it's useless. Yet even knowing that, and knowing this isn't someone from Ryslig, he still finds himself instinctively covering a mark on his chest. ]

...No, I'm not. I'm a--

[ He pauses and looks down at his tail... fuck, what are these called out of Japan again... ]

...Jinbei?

[ Nice try ]
plentyfriendly: (phi$ df periphery)

[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2018-05-27 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Invisible? Great.

[The most obviously sarcastic "great".]

I'm not sure what I can do about that.
makejapangreat: (neutral)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-05-27 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Something like that. A curse that only affects a certain region. Leaving that region will allow us to revert to our original forms, presumably.

["""Presumably""", as in, he got tired of having a tail exactly 1 minute after he gained one, and really hopes that his legs will be coming back, thanks?]
founderinglight: ([hold])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-05-27 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Looks like some kind of shark, but I don't think I can be any more specific than that.

[The man shrugs a little and turns the light hovering over his hand a bit closer to white.]

I don't know, I'm not aware of any sharks with spots like that on Eos at all, though I'm admittedly hardly an expert. Are you alright?
coagmentatio: like it was a bad thing (the cop said "drunk and disorderly")

[personal profile] coagmentatio 2018-05-27 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ He quirks a brow. ]

Not really.

[ There are no mirrors around, as far as he's seen, so he is able to conveniently not count himself, here! But it's not an outright no, because of technicalities. ]

But I can tell them you're looking for them, if I do see them. What are their names and what do they look like?
coagmentatio: (how did you steal an entire pie?)

[personal profile] coagmentatio 2018-05-27 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ For a guy who doesn't like. Most house pets, he can't help giving a soft and amused smirk at this sight. ]

... Neat trick.

[ Hi, he quietly made his way over to watch. How many of you are there? ]

Are you another who's normally human?
coagmentatio: and when they said they didn't make those you tried to call 911 (u tried to order a magarita mcflurry)

[personal profile] coagmentatio 2018-05-27 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ If he doesn't look remotely worried, it's because he's... not. He's used to being randomly attacked for various reasons. Life is fun on his home planet... He quietly adjusts the bag on his shoulder, no hostility appearing in his demeanor. ]

... Fair enough. I haven't been awake long enough to really look around, but I'm not surprised.

[ He sighs quietly. ]

You're actually the first person I've seen since I woke up.
coagmentatio: for 10 minutes waiting for it to turn green (i just sat at a stop sign)

[personal profile] coagmentatio 2018-05-27 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
I have a feeling that's a pretty handy skill to have around here.

[ Maybe some of that will rub off on him........ eventually. ]

I'm Aiden.

[ He could say it was entirely for the sake of a joke? But guess who sucks at outright lying... ]

And a school happens to be the last place I remember...
skylalc: (✧ (9))

[personal profile] skylalc 2018-05-27 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ It hasn't been too too long for Lal'C, but it's partly the way Nono disappeared – willingly sacrificing herself to save the known universe. Lal'C feels guilty almost instantly for bringing it up, because it's true: if not Nono, then she would have gave her own life for the same reason.

Yet summing up the facts is emotionally easier for Lal'C than admitting straight up how much she's missed Nono, despite everything. The tightness in her throat extends down to her chest. ]


Who'd give up on you? Stupid.

[ The insult is directed more at Lal'C herself, but there's a calm and even warm acceptance in the way she says it. ]

It's… not my fault that this feels like a dream. I mean, look where we are.
meowna: Made by @marshwiggle on Plurk (His manner is vague and aloof)

[personal profile] meowna 2018-05-27 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hm?

[There are A Lot Of Them, Aiden. Morgana turns to peer at him, ears pricked forward curiously, fins fluttering to keep him more or less in one place.]

Oh--thanks! I'm..... well..... I'm supposed to be a human. But these days, I'm stuck with some kind of cat-thing's body. And when I came here, I got some kind of weird fish tail? I know, it's confusing.