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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.
One miner thing
{Oy, don't shout like that. This place is pretty unstable. Also, it's not Goat-san's fault. You just lost your sense of taste because of this place's effects, you spoiled brat.}
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[ Hibiki's head whips around in search of the source of that voice. Ando, for his own part, softly bleats. Goat-san... ]
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{I know, because the same thing happened to me. So apologize to Goat-san, you spoiled brat.}
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[ Hibiki's hand goes to her lips as she considers this. She looks shocked and dismayed.
To...to have fallen victim to....such absurdity....
Ando bows in thanks to the girl for saving them, since Hibiki-sama is preoccupied being the star of a movie only she is watching. ]
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{I said apologize to the goat. You spoiled brat.}
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Ando holds his serving tray up as a shield, prepared to leap in the way of any assault. The spear did, however, have the intended effect: Kyoko has Hibiki's attention.
She smirks. ]
If things are as you say, then I admit he's blameless. That suffices, correct?
[ Ando, for his own part, nods vigorously. Which sets the bell at his neck jangling. No offense was taken here, maa! ]
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[The spear disappears into pink flame as Kyoko exits her stance.]
{But there's something I want you to know.}
[A spear shoots from the ground again, stopping just underneath Hibiki's chin.]
{Waste food again and I'll kill you.}
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[ Ando bleats in distress and he isn't the one being threatened with a magic weapon. Hibiki, for her own part, goes cross-eyed looking at the spear, then sniffs and averts her eyes. ] You've made your point.
[ This does nothing to hide the fact that a drop of sweat is sliding down her face, but she hopes it deflects. ]
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{Great, now let's get you out of here so you can actually appreciate your tea.}
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[ Hibiki is not inclined to take cues from anyone who doesn't know what they're doing. Whether or not they've just threatened her with bodily harm. ]
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[True to her words, Kyoko starts confidently walking in the direction she came from.]
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She sniffs. And drives the point home with some gratuitous English before following. ] If my intuition leads me elsewhere, I'm leaving.
[ Ando falls into step a respectful few paces back from Hibiki-sama. ]
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{Alright, just head that way a bit farther and you'll reach the way to Keystone station. Then you can get some nice tea, a warm bath, whatever you like.}
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No, wait, of course that worked. Because Hibiki chose to follow this stranger, and Hibiki's instincts are never wrong. She smirks. ]
I see you were drawn to me for a reason. [ A pause to think. Grandly, taking a few steps towards that exit - the better to be framed in light. All the world's a stage, and one must choreograph oneself accordingly! ] Should I bestow amore upon you as thanks before departing....?
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[Kyoko actually speaks a bit of French. Not much, but she knows that one. It seems to have caught her completely off guard.]
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[ Now it is Hibiki's turn to pull something out of seemingly nowhere. Ando can do that with tea. Hibiki can do that with...purple lilies.
She kisses the petals, and then reaches to stick the flower behind Kyoko's ear. ] A token of our meeting.
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Au revoir, mademoiselle. May our paths resound again!
[ The air fills with glitter that has nothing to do with being lit by crystals. No, Hibiki is just spontaneously generating sparkles.
Such is her appeal! ]
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Man, what a bitch.
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But she does sneeze, and is promptly handed a handkerchief by Ando as master and butler head off in search of Appropriate Opulence.
Could she have caught a cold down below....? ]