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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmemes2018-08-30 11:52 pm
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TEST DRIVE 006

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 Telovia Mines, an extremely abandoned magical crystal mine and the town and infrastructure that one supported it. The tunnels are in reasonably good condition and would be reasonably navigable... Except for one thing.

ONE MINOR THING

The magical effects of the Fissure cause those within it to lose something when they arrive - for most people, it's a sense such as touch or hearing, but it's also possible to lose a more esoteric sense (such as your sense of balance or temperature, but NOT things like "sense of morals" or "sense of style"), the ability to speak, or the ability to recognize faces. As a general guideline, whatever characters lose should be non-supernatural in nature, and something they would have taken for granted as a part of their ability to function.

ODDS AND ENDS

Just because the mines are empty of people doesn't mean that they've gone still. While for the most part, the carts full of crystals remain in one place, the huge amount of magic has left more than a few of the miners' abandoned tools still going through their motions. Rusted pickaxes swing at the walls, and dead lanterns swing from the ceiling. Crystals occasionally free themselves from shards of rock to pile into bins, which then empty into already-overflowing mine carts.

As long as you leave them to their jobs, everything will be fine. If you try to stop the tools (and it is the tools themselves, for anyone who might be looking for ghosts) from doing their jobs, they'll chase you down until you leave their general vicinity.

Of course, the eternally working tools don't care much about the structural integrity of the mine tunnels...

THEY ALL PILE UP

...And so, inevitably, there are cave-ins.

Most of them are fairly minor, and you can see them (well, if you can see) enough to just work around them. Some of them are big enough that you're going to have to dig through them first, if you can.

And then there's the handful that block passages entirely. But don't panic! The tunnels are designed around the possibility of this happening - rather than coming to an end, the majority of them loop back around to the main arteries of the mine.

E... ventually...

But you and whoever is stuck with you on this side of the cave-in might be wandering for quite a while before you get there. Hopefully one of you still has a sense of direction, assuming either of you ever had one in the first place.
motherfucking_ghost: (a: zoom)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-09-02 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[M E

the fuck is a lion and lion junior doing with her what is her weird magical world ugh nevermind!!]
nocawsforconcern: (pic#12521251)

[personal profile] nocawsforconcern 2018-09-02 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Do you want me to use them on you? Okay, but I'm not sure what that would do...?
motherfucking_ghost: (sup)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-09-02 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Nodnod!]

fell thru timespace called fissure unstable areas of magic bs has weird side effects until stabilised
charterbound: (Change)

[personal profile] charterbound 2018-09-02 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Mogget flicks an ear and does what any self-respecting cat would do when lifted up like this.

He lifts a paw up and places it on Church's visor. Enjoy your view of toebeans]


Yes, I talk.
albeyer: (whoa!)

Farron Al-Beyer | Estrella Academy (original setting)

[personal profile] albeyer 2018-09-02 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Character blurb: a tall, teenager girl in modern clothes, but with a large, black, and honestly slightly ominous looking spear slung over her shoulder. It looks like it belongs in Final Fantasy. The girl herself looks of possibly middle eastern descent, and not out of place on modern Earth. ]

[ 1 - Miner Thing ]

[ Farron arrives at yet another intersection. She feels like she's been wandering these mines for hours... and probably has.

She pauses to examine a post at the intersection. There's a large gouge carved out of it. ]


Ah... I thought so. I've been past here. [ Is this the work of an enemy stand synchronic? Something Weird is going on regardless. She's been by here, and she has excellent sense - she wouldn't get turned around normally.

Straightening herself out the only thing about her that's straight, she peers down a new mine shaft. ]
All right. Let's try this one, then. [ ....It's the same one she just arrived from. Somebody save her from herself, and her lost sense of direction. ]


[ 2 - Piled Up ]

[ Farron doesn't even seem to be fazed by the collapsing tunnel. But when she sees that somebody else is here with her - somebody who, as far as Farron knows, might not be as able to save themselves from a cave-in, she springs into action. Her ominous looking spear is out, and moving in a flurry of black to simply tap the rocks as they come down.

And as each rock is tapped, it stops falling. Or, to be precise, it stops falling down, and starts falling up. And soon, the cave-in is stopped, as the rocks going up are preventing any more from coming down. ]


Whew! Talk about a close one, huh?
Edited 2018-09-02 00:13 (UTC)
unpunchman: (Jojo)

[personal profile] unpunchman 2018-09-02 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Josuke Higashikata. I'm a...I guess I'm just a high school student. That doesn't sound as fcool as einherjar.

What's an einherjar?
einherjarista: (Default)

[personal profile] einherjarista 2018-09-02 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ A deep, regretful sigh. ]

Okay, do you know what a Shinigami is? [ He's Japanese, right? So therefore, Shinigami.

Also, she literally doesn't even wait for an affirmation before continuing. ]
I'm one of those, basically.
motherfucking_ghost: (a: man my missions really suck)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-09-02 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
[He has been blessed by toebeans. Joyous day.

Slowly, he'll move to cradle Mogget in one arm, to leave the other free for needed gesturing. Or, for the moment, poking the bell. Collar makes it talk, like dogs and sci-fi collars from dumb movies and shows??]
unpunchman: (But go off I guess)

[personal profile] unpunchman 2018-09-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Are there countries in the sky? You're not a space alien are you?

[Last time he met a space alien, Rohan's house almost burned down.]
motherfucking_ghost: (huff)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-09-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He's about to write out something else, hard, on her hand--

And then drops her hand in favor of taking off his helmet. He looks quite frustrated and points! to! his face! His very human, fleshy, fluffy face.]
nocawsforconcern: (Default)

[personal profile] nocawsforconcern 2018-09-02 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
... You're not Neutrino!

[YES, YOU GOT IT, FINALLY]
nocawsforconcern: (pic#12521247)

[personal profile] nocawsforconcern 2018-09-02 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Caw? I don't get it.

[she's confused now...]
charterbound: (Not your everyday cat)

[personal profile] charterbound 2018-09-02 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[The bell rings at the poke, the sound entirely Too Loud and almost scolding. Saraneth does not approve of this!

Mogget though? He chuckles. He doesn't know exactly what Church is thinking, but may as well comment on it]
The bell, and the collar, are simply a marker of my binding to my master.
dubiouslychthonic: (distracted)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-09-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, at least it seems to be the fissure effect and not massive physical shock or nerve damage that's dulling the pain. That's something, she supposes. Still...]

It doesn't look great. Do you mind if I use magic on you? I'm afraid I haven't picked up any actual magical healing yet, but I've got techniques that will let me determine the extent of the injury, and stabilize it for a while.
unpunchman: (Hmm)

[personal profile] unpunchman 2018-09-02 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Like a- [oh okay she's still talking.]

...I feel like I should be more suspicious about this but honestly that makes as much sense as anything else that's happened today.

Sure. You're a shinigami. Okay.
plentyfriendly: (phi$ ls self)

pile

[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2018-09-02 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
"This way's blocked off, too?"

Phi's been searching herself, even though mapping this network of tunnels out has been nearly impossible.
shatteredeclipse: (Heard you were talkin shit)

[personal profile] shatteredeclipse 2018-09-02 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
All right, here goes!

[ Luna closes her eyes - she can't see either way, but it's a habit when trying to focus. The rocks start here, and they're a bit looser over here, and...

After spending a while feeling out the topography of the cave-in, the whole tunnel starts to rumble. Piece by piece, it starts to pull itself upwards, back into the space where the ceiling used to be. ]


Can you hold any part of this up for a minute? This is bigger than I was expecting, and I don't know if I can keep it stable long enough to get across.
sangaroumancer: (say what)

[personal profile] sangaroumancer 2018-09-02 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
His ears pin back as he hears footsteps, and he gets ready to move away until he sees that she's moving towards him on purpose.

And also that she seems unable to talk? And the fact that surprises her makes him guess that's not usually the case.

Artuan cocks his head slightly at the pantomime. You can practically hear the gears turning in his head before he tentatively says, "Uh... I have no idea what's going on here." Swing and a miss.
thedarkheir: (unsure)

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[personal profile] thedarkheir 2018-09-02 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm more surprised they're not attacking us..." Soma trails off slowly, as he glances over at the pickaxe, that thing would do way more damage than a table. The odd girl put him on guard along with the rest of the poltergeist-like mining, but when he realizes she's not going to attack, he slowly relaxes, exhaling, but still he won't take his hand off the cave wall.

"This is going to sound awkward... do you remember where we came in from?" Not being about to even distinguish left from right is really going to be hell with navigating these mines.
sangaroumancer: (c'mon)

[personal profile] sangaroumancer 2018-09-02 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He grunts as he hefts off a decent-sized rock.]

Numb, huh? Wonder if this place has anything to do with it. I woke up and couldn't smell anything. I didn't even know that was possible.

[He's talking a little fast so that it matches the pace that he's pulling this rubble away. And he's making pretty good progress, too. Gotta love adrenaline!]
sangaroumancer: (is there something in my teeth)

[personal profile] sangaroumancer 2018-09-02 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Not my finest moment."

Still, he takes the hand, even if his kind of dwarfs Church's at the moment, and pulls himself up, shaking off the dust. And he's going to take a second to look over the armor because wow.

"Lucky. Thanks."

Don't have to worry about pebbles getting stuck in his footpads, anyway.
plentyfriendly: (phi$ cd d-team)

not minor

[personal profile] plentyfriendly 2018-09-02 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Phi is cautious but not especially hesitant. She can feel something different, too, but she isn't sure just what yet.

"Are you lost?"
shatteredeclipse: (Walk me through it from step 1)

[personal profile] shatteredeclipse 2018-09-02 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm using the..." She trails off for a second. What is she using, exactly? This place feels kind of off.

"...the Arche, I guess? Or whatever the energy field in the atmosphere is. If it isn't Arche, then I'm probably even more lost than I thought."
seekingsunrise: (Default)

[personal profile] seekingsunrise 2018-09-02 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Izunia keeps his light and Talcott makes no move to click off his flashlight. He turns one of the chairs to put the back to the wall before he sits down, angling himself outward to keep an eye on their surroundings, fingers anxiously toying with one of his knives.

"Half a chocolate shop?" That almost makes him laugh.

"You wouldn't happen to have... a bottle of Glacier in there, would you?" Pepsi is close but it's not really the same as Glacier Cola. He misses it, okay.
motherfucking_ghost: (let me explain you a thing)

[personal profile] motherfucking_ghost 2018-09-02 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[thank GOD, he nods, because no, he's not a robot, he is not a funky android, he's just a person. Church. Leo. Dear god please understand basic gestures at some point.]