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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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He's met two Ignises already, why not a third somewhere out there in the universe?
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"You... know Ignis?!" Wide eyed and hopeful and it really is problematic how much his hardened soldier demeanor vanishes at the mention of someone from home, his family. Clearly if Asch knows Ignis then he can't be bad.
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There are so many Ignises in the multiverse, Talcott.
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"Yeah. He's-" He's what exactly? it was much more difficult to define than Sol had made it and he actually blushes a little as he remembers the times he'd referred to Ignis as his Brother-In-Law and the horrific moment he'd discovered what doujinshi was.
Things you can't unsee.
"He's kind of family. It's mostly just been the two of us working together for years now. Until recently, that is."
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The multiverse is hard like that, sometimes.
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"His majesty was here?" And he can't hide how hopeful he sounds at that. Noctis was probably the last person he should talk to now, though, knowing all that he does. "He'll be alright without Noctis. He has been for years now. It's... easier knowing he'll come back to us, eventually."
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Not when it's only coming back to die. That's just Asch's opinion, colored by his own experiences (Luke, dragging him before their parents, and Asch is still both grateful and resentful of it).
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"You know what's going to happen?" What version of knowing, though? Did Ignis tell him or had he found out some other way? "Ignis always kept that information pretty close. I'm surprised he'd have shared."
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Akechi, Dan, Sol, none of the memories they'd learned from had been good. Useful maybe, necessary, but not a good thing.
But he's not going to press on where Asch got that information. There's too many similar questions he can't answer himself.
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"Was that something that was common on these Islands? Toying with your memories or... I suppose your mind in general?"
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How to start to explain... "The god that... well they claimed they weren't responsible for us being there, but I call bullshit, was called the Storyteller. And it was a pretty damn literal name - everything that happened was probably for the purpose of creating stories for people to tell, because that's how they got more power."
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And who knows what's happened on the islands since he vanished from them.
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"It sounds like the sort of thing my organization is meant to help prevent from continuing."
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There is a whole one person here from the islands and he has strong opinions about the ST. "I won't say it didn't help anyone, but most people suffered because of it."
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"Especially from gods."
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People, maybe, you can trust. Gods? Not as far as Asch is concerned.
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"Prophecies are just the gods' way of manipulating people into taking the blame for their fuck ups, though." For a boy that believed 1000% in the prophecy 3 months ago he's very bitter about it now.
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Asch shakes his head slightly. "The Score wasn't - it might be part of Lorelei, but it was all humans sacrificing other humans."
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"That's what it usually comes down to, isn't it? Humans being terrible to each other." Bitter and disgusted, yeah. "Sometimes they just slap the name of the gods on it to make it look justifiable. So they can sleep at night."
At least the Foundation made no excuses or apologies. They were worthless to the Foundation as a whole and they knew it.
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From the tone, there's something very close to home there.
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"Yeah... the future... But they never want anything to change so that things can be better." Are willing to torture hundreds to maintain some sort of sick status quo.
"Fuck Bahamut." Or fuck the man, the authority, the 1%, there's so many versions of the sentiment but for him, for Eos, for fans of his world, it all comes down to one thing.
Fuck Bahamut 2k18