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phantasmods) wrote in 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.
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.
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[He doesn't sound doubtful, he's just restating the information presented to be sure he understands what she's telling him. It's... hardly the strangest thing he's heard of in the past few months. Still it takes a moment for him to determine ways that the Foundation might already be involved in this.]
Is there an organization running this research facility? People that these android work for?
And is this a version of Earth or another world entirely?
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[... Well.]
It's another world entirely. I can say that much for sure.
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[That is... definitely some unfortunate news, isn't it? He nods, understanding what she means when she trails off. Of course she doesn't want to say it. She's not a soldier any more than Ren is. She's probably not used to things like this.]
Has anyone in the group recognized this world?
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[He's expecting this to be like 20-25 people.]
How many are we talking? And how many of you are civilians?
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[There's so many. It's why she mostly keeps track of who she considers her main circle at this point...]
There's a lot of civilians here--or what might pass for 'em at least, but with at least some form of fighting ability. There are definitely at least a couple military types here, though, as far as I'm aware.
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And only a couple military types?
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Sync-san definitely is, but he's really the only one I've talked to at any length about that sort of thing...
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Next of kin...
Maybe it was better no one had thought of such a thing here. His hand lifts habitually to rest over the dog tags tucked into his shirt.]
I see... That's a lot of people to keep track of.
[He'd had Lenka and Mitsuru's help, at least.]
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[AKIRA]
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H-how long have you people been here?!
[He's going to end up play archivist all over again, isn't he?]
Not that those aren't good rules but... that's it!?
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[Sorry Akira you're not Ren but he's disappointed in you. Which is so unfair but honestly, how can you find patterns if you don't have accurate records?]
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[Look, she's not in charge here, she figures the people who've been around longer have it locked down better than she would. Not to mention her friends run her ragged enough.]
We have someone staying on top of keeping track of things like food and medical supplies at least...
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[He's a little neurotic about this sort of thing, can you tell? Especially for someone so young. But it was the only useful thing he could do for the Hunter camp for so long.]
I'll have to see if I can help with that. At least until I can get back.
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[She smiles sheepishly.]
And, hey, it'll be something to fill the hours, right? Because you're looking at a lot of free time now...
[That was honestly the most jarring thing about coming here for her. Of course, when your first experience in this world is getting turned into a mermaid, you learn to say "this may as well happen" about the strange stuff really quickly...]
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I've been figuring out what to fill the free time with for weeks now. At least there's things to do here.
[As opposed to when he was dead, didn't need to sleep, and had nothing to do but sit around slowly going out of his mind.]
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Yeah, at least there's that. I think I've been studying more since I came here than I did back home.
[That comment is punctuated with a snort.]
There's group sparring sessions that happen pretty regularly, too, if that's something you'd be interested in.
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[He perks up, clearly interested but then...]
I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. You did say most of you were civilians.
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[It's said with a wink.]
Just because some of us aren't soldiers or anything doesn't mean we don't have some combat ability to throw around. For example... here, I don't need the Metaverse to use my Personas.
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Ahem]
There's a difference between being able to fight and having such deeply ingrained muscle memory that you might not be able to stop yourself from going too far, though.
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Still, it's no good if you can't keep your skills sharp. Maybe try with someone who'd be able to handle it and stop you? Though, that's not an easy thing to gauge either...
[Es...pecially without something like Third Eye. She's kind of used to that by now...]
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[Ichigo, for example, could stop him dead in his tracks.]
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[So, at least there's that.
... Though, something finally occurs to her.]
... There's a stabilized area not too far from here. It should, uh, fix whatever effect the Fissure's having on you.
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Oh Sweet Shiva, please?