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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] 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.
redmeguca: (Food is more important than you.)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2018-09-06 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Kyoko takes out a pack of her own and starts eating it... only to take it out of her mouth with a disappointed look a moment later.]

{Hah, it's just a waste if I can't taste it. Anyway, they're probably around here somewhere, but we split up to cover more ground.}
ohwhenyouloveit: ([Hope] Contemplative)

[personal profile] ohwhenyouloveit 2018-09-14 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
{I guess that makes sense...can your telepathy reach them from here?} [That would make exploration much easier, after all.]
redmeguca: (Default)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2018-09-14 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
{Nah, if I don't know where they are, I can't reach them.}
ohwhenyouloveit: ([Hope] Worried)

[personal profile] ohwhenyouloveit 2018-09-17 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
{Aw, poop.} [Hope pouts a bit.] {They were okay last time you saw them right?}
redmeguca: (Default)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2018-09-17 09:36 am (UTC)(link)
{Jail had one hell of a headache, but otherwise they were fine.}
ohwhenyouloveit: ([Hope] Worried)

[personal profile] ohwhenyouloveit 2018-09-18 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
{Oh, that's good...I hope she'll feel better soon.} [Jail's pretty much like an older sister to Hope by now.]
redmeguca: (If you say so.)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2018-09-18 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
{Jail just did something reckless and dangerous again, she'll be fine.}

[Note: Kyoko has known Jail for approximately one month.]
ohwhenyouloveit: ([Hope] Contemplative)

[personal profile] ohwhenyouloveit 2018-09-18 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
{...oh, I understand.} [Hope has known Jail for much longer, but that's enough to let her know what's going on.]
redmeguca: (If you say so.)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2018-09-18 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
{Gave a bunch of other people headaches too, but again: Jail. She does that even without magic.}
ohwhenyouloveit: ([Hope] Worried)

[personal profile] ohwhenyouloveit 2018-09-20 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
{She's not that bad.}
redmeguca: (Default)

[personal profile] redmeguca 2018-09-21 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
{Yeah, I know. Jail's actually pretty cool when she's taking things as seriously as she can.}