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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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It seems like the organic's intelligent- but probably can't speak for whatever reason otherwise it'd have made a sound now. But, can it understand?
Time to find out.]
Lo-st.
[...Gold star for effort maybe?]
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When she speaks, he's glad he can finally understand. Lost. Not surprising in the least.
He briefly considers leaving her to be, but there were people here he wouldn't want stumbling across her.
Resigning himself to the best course of action, he turns in place to face the way he came, and gives her a nod of his head, a flick of the tail. Follow me.]
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[Her mood buoyed and brightened, she nods, hands dropping to her side once again.
She'll follow where he leads easily enough. While she does consider dropping her armour, she decides against it, if only for a simple fact: Cyberganic skin is not armour (unless you're one of the 'lucky' few who got the Phase Sixer treatments) and for all the organic seems helpful-
She doesn't trust it.]
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He leads her the way he came, down the dark of the tunnel, to an opening that branches off into several more tunnels, and magical tools get to work.
He throws Vos a cautious look as he tries to find his bearings, and remember where exactly he came through himself.]
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But, if the tools are moving on their own without people, then. Maybe-] Outlier?
[Funnily enough that word's clear as day, even as she makes a gesture for 'around'.]
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Perhaps Vos meant it in some other way, but, knowing who she was...
It's obvious it means something to him, as he freezes in spot.]
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But none of it makes sense. It can't make sense. The more she thinks on it, the darker her expression gets until she pinches her nose with a growl.
Before pinning the 'wolf' with another Look, blue eyes harder than ice and twice as cold.] Tell me what's going on before I decide to skin you myself.
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Well- probably not.
He stares her down, hackles raised, positioning himself ready to move. He's a smaller target as a wolf, and far swifter. That would be more to his advantage than his larger, bulkier robot form.
If she wants to skin him- he wishes her the best of luck.]
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Thankfully, she doesn't fire. But Primus does she want to. It's an organic, but it understands her. It has to be of her species.] Fac-tion. Write?
[It's very much a demand- with some consideration given to the fact the wolf can't speak even though he understands.
If this is an Autobot... ]
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Carnivac maintains his stare at Vos as he paws the dirt. There's no way he'll look away for a moment.
Soon enough, he's written something, steady and clear:]
MAYHEM
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If her mask could emote, that would be the flattest stare ever. There's at least twelve different Decepticon squads going by that name alone, and a good three hundred with it in their handle on The Big Conversation.
But, on the other hand-
She cocks her head just a fraction.] Decepticon?
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But he wasn't about to go back on his ideals, and, should they make it back, the truth wouldn't stay buried.
He writes in the dirt again.]
X
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It's only the fact that he seems to know his way around that spares him. Just.
The question is more spat and with extreme distaste at that.] Autobot.
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He draws again, tense, but trying to maintain as calm an exterior as he can.]
X
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A really weird one, but-
It's good enough, for now. Though, it's almost a full minute before she relaxes her trigger finger slowly lowers the gun until the muzzle's pointed at the ground.] Lost.
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In fact, he feels emboldened to write something else in the dirt.]
Disarm.
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A point at the tools comes with the next usage of Neo-Cybex]. Outlier?
[Technically, she could make things easier by writing, but. This is not a report to-
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He shakes his head, and then writes in the dirt:]
Magic
[...yeah, he doesn't get it either.]
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Primus, she hopes this isn't the type that'll oxidize out her non-organic parts.] Is it dangerous?
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He tilts his head in a noncommittal gesture. There's not much room to elaborate in the dirt, so he just writes:]
Careful.
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No frag, genius. Last thing we need is to rust out, so let's get moving again.
[-And colourful, if unneeded commentary while tapping her foot and looking expectantly at the wolf, hands on hips. Then a slight headtilt- and a more dangerous tone now.
If there's unknown magic around that could potentially kill her, getting the frag out and back to her squad just took on a whole new meaning. She's done farting around.]
Let's get going.
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He turns and starts down one of the other tunnels. She wanted to get going? Well, Carnivac is going very fast.]
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It's a good thing she's used to moving fast; she might not be right on his tail, but she might as well be close, unwilling to let him out of sight. Or go right now really, given he's the one that seems to know his way around the place.]
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There was no need to hold his tongue anymore.]
Before we go onwards, we need to talk.
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But she's here and the Beastial Cyberganic wants to talk. There's no doubt about what -they know who she is, if only by sight- and for a second or two, she seems rather pleased.]
Noo kiill you. Get- [Reasons Vos likes her helmet: it hides the face scrunch as she tries to think of the words she wants.] out. Call Tarn. Leeave.
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I really don't want to kill him, jsyk. but if it happens it happens ._.
its ok death is only a minor inconvenience
IT'S STILL A DEATH!!!
he'll be fiiiine
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