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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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I think I'm off to a good start on that already.
[Yes, she means you.]
But I'm sure everyone else will be great to meet, too.
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[But nevermind that—] Some are quite eclectic, and come from all manner of wonderful and terrible worlds, both.
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[She does frown at the mention of terrible worlds, though.] What do you mean by that? Terrible worlds.
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... as for terrible worlds...] You should consider it a blessing that you don't know. [His brow draws together as his expression sobers significantly.] Many people have been... taken to places where they were driven to the edge and forced to kill.
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[That's...Oh. That breaks her heart to hear, if she's understanding it correctly.] People were taken from their homes and... [Is this even her place? Can she even get angry about that...?] How are they holding up, here?
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[She would say safer, but...]
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... of which, there are, regrettably, quite a number.
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Yes, I agree. And it's the least I could do. After all, almost all of us are aware of how disorienting it is to be suddenly taken from your life and displaced into an entirely new world.
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You're basically an expert, compared to me. [She runs a hand through her hair. It's...sort of hard to wrap her head around all of this, but the proof is there. This is so clearly not her home, so can't...see why he would lie to her.] It's all just so strange to think about. Like...why me? And why you?
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[He shrugs.]
Your guess is as good as mine.
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[She finds that hard to believe, somehow. Surely there must be something about him that's a draw...?
Hm. She doesn't know enough to say anything for certain.]
Maybe it's just luck of the draw, but I don't know if that's more comforting or less.
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[He shakes his head a bit.]
There is some pattern to it. There are some of us who knew each other in previous worlds.
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[It's not, as far as she's concerned. She'd rather be mundane, most days, than a monster that needs to be kept under constant surveillance.
She's done nothing, but she could, and that's bad enough.]
Us? So you've got friends from back home?
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Well... it is... rather humbling, being perhaps the only person here who hasn't had prior direct experience in the supernatural... or with...
[He shakes his head, then, moving onto the next topic. His smile brightens a little.]
Yes. As well as a son. Coming here has... [Something flickers through his eyes, for a moment.] it's provided me with an incredible opportunity... one I never would have gotten otherwise.
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It just gives you a different perspective from everybody else.
[She brightens at the mention of his son. She's...glad this place isn't separating families, even though that flicker makes her worry.]
I'm glad you get to be with him. It...would be incredible lonely without him, huh?
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Indeed. He's an incredible young man... I may well be the luckiest father there is.