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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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But it might be second to Jade in the bathrobe.
The guy Lance comes across has bright red hair, and that's honestly damn near the only thing that makes him stand out from the darkness of the cavern, because he's dressed from the neck down in various shades of black and dark grey. He's wearing an expression that somehow mingles "not impressed" and "actually, kind of impressed" into one faintly confused whole.]
Broken reality, keeps dragging people from other worlds in, unless you meant the mining tools, in which case hell if I know.
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(But at least Slav isn't there to have a heart attack over broken realities.)]
Yeah, yeah, kind of mean those crazy things just chasing people down.
[He huffs, running a hand through his hair as he looks Asch over. He looks...
Well. The look on his face is a familiar one, to Lance.]
So I guess this isn't Vaikuntha, then.
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[So yeah, that's an easy answer.
Asch watches the pickaxe trail back off into the darkness for a minute.]
They haven't bothered me, so I don't know what to tell you.
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[He sighs, disappointed. He already knows it wouldn't be his version of Earth, but still. It's...been a very long year.]
Guess I should pay more attention. [A beat.] Name's Lance, by the way. Should probably get introductions done before everything collapses again.
["Again".]
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[Reality, for its part, is just kind of befuckened.]
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[Save Them From Reality.]
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[Clearly looking at your heels there, buddy.]
I know one other person who can, but she's a lot smaller than you.
[Short people don't have as far to fall.]
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[Why yes, he does sound very boastful.]
I can fight, too. And dance. Obviously.
[Obviously.]
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So can she. Though I'm not sure why, even for a member of the Intelligence Division, heels are just a stupid decision...
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[Unless you're like. A Dragoon, or something.]
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[The name won't mean jack shit to Lance, of course, but the thought seems to put Asch in a slightly better mood.]
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But then his shoulders relax, because it...must be a different Black Lion. The Lions don't have names.
(If they did, it would probably be more alien than Largo.]
Well, not everyone can be cute. For those of us that are, though, why not go the extra mile?
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I don't think I've ever called someone in a shirt like that cute in my life.
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What would you go for, then? Pretty? Handsome? Sexy?
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[Which sure seems a good word for you all around, Lance.]
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[He can take it.]
But I do look good, don't I?
[It's...hard to tell if he's being serious or not. Is he? Who knows.]
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[Not even skipping a beat there.]
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[Wink and a finger gun.]
Only with the right person, of course.
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[He's not even going to look up after that facepalm. Even so... Where's that music coming from?]
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The music is strange, though.]
Is that...music?
[wat
He looks around, trying to find the source.]
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[And so when we come out of this not recognizing each other like the faceblind idiots we currently are, at least there will be that.]
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[That's not actually an acceptable answer in this situation!]
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[Beat.]
If all of that means nothing to you then just call it 'magic' and be done with it.
[Nailed it.]
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You could have just said it's coming from you, dude.
[He looks amused, at least.]
That also doesn't sound like magic.
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[Asch, it's absolutely magic. Just... Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it isn't magic.]
The third time someone looked at me cross-eyed as I tried to explain, I gave up.
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