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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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And the emblem on her uniform gets an outright stare.]
Gekkoukan...?
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That's the school I go to, yeah. Do you know how to get there from here?
[Getting back to the dorms would be easy enough from there]
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Sorry, can't hear. Need to type on a phone or something. [...Does she have one on her, he has his, it. This is inconvenient. He does notice she has the same kind of headphones and MP3 player as him. Same model, but red instead of blue.]
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She does, luckily, have her phone on her! So she pulls it out, flicking it open and starting to type, before turning it around to show Minato]
Sorry! Gekkoukan is the school I go to. Do you know how to get there from here? I'm a little lost.
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You can't. Kind of hard to explain, different world completely. Never seen you around school...transfer student?
[...Should he...head back to basecamp with her or something, he doesn't. Want her to have to type out everything just because of the stupid Fissure.]
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Then she types again] I transferred earlier in the year, in April.
[Yeah the world thing is still processing, she's not. Entirely sure how much to believe that. What is going on?]
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[It sure sounds weird, but he says it so seriously....]
...Transferred in in April, too. 2-F. [...Others here are from 2016.] 2009. Time's weird here too.
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It might be easier if we can, then. Since that's also the class I'm in...same year too.
[This Is Weird. Minako has a lot of courage but this is weirding her out]
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Camp's this way. [...More or less this way. Times like this, he really misses Fuuka's navigation, but at least the tunnels stay put. He starts walking, hands in pockets.
...When they actually get back to camp he's going to need a few minutes to sort out ohgodthesounds. He will never take the sound of his own breathing for granted again.]
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When they get to the camp, she blinks and then glances at her hands] Oh... [Speaking of things she hadn't realised, her sense of touch returns and now it's definitely a little overbearing. She tries to rub them together gently, watching Minato. If he couldn't hear, then it must be kind of similar]
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Notably, there's a silver pistol in the holster around his waist.]
That's better. [For a certain definition of better.] So... Toriumi-sensei's class?
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At the question, she nods] Mhmm, that's right.
[For the moment, she's pretty okay with just letting him explain or ask questions. She's still too confused]
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He freezes. No way. He's met both Akiras. This girl looks nothing like him, though. But...wouldn't that explain why they've never seen one another, despite being in the same class? Well, she already probably thinks he's nuts. She's probably right.]
Weird question. How many hours are there in a day?
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This is very much not normal]
...twenty-five. Though most people don't remember the last hour.
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[He thought that might get her. Hell, he's got his own. No reason to assume, but...god. This is weird. He needs a nap. He...doesn't think she could be part of Strega...
He doesn't know if he actually wants an answer.]
Wild Card?
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...yeah. I can use multiple Persona. How do you know all this?
[Could he be one too? But then the class and the year...it doesn't make sense]
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[No. No. No, he doesn't want this to be like Akira and Akira. That would mean....she has that dangerous Persona, too, right...?]
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[She's reeling a little, staring at nothing for a long moment. What was this? How was this possible?]
This is impossible...I was the only one who could use more than one, and I've never seen you before...
[Minako is generally pretty chill, but this is really weirding her out to the point she can't. After everything else, now this?]
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[She doesn't know Elizabeth, that's noted and filed away as not immediately important. Right now...right now what's important is figuring this business out. They're probably- what, the same person? Sort of?]
Like those movies with two dimensions where everything's the same except one thing went differently. Only lower key. [those usually involve a different country winning a war or something, thus changing history significantly enough that present-day culture is different.]
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[She remembers those kinds of movies. One small change and suddenly there were two parallel worlds, nearly identical but for that change]
...I guess that might make sense. To think that there'd be another world that's almost the same though... [That's sad. Too sad. Sad enough that she immediately deflects from it and sends the thought process to the other end of the spectrum] There might be two of all my friends. That's...well, exciting to think about, but I also don't know if I could handle the idea of there being two of Junpei-kun.
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[More importantly, and this he says with some mild excitement.]
Two of Ikutsuki-san would mean the puns never end. [He. Loves puns.]
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[As for that...she blinks, feeling cold for a second. Ikutsuki...was he...did he not know? Or were they maybe different in the different worlds?]
Y-yeah. They'd probably bounce off one another a lot...
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Two of Akihiko-senpai might be the rowdiest of all. [Protein. And constant boxing. And a feedback loop of training addiction.]
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I think it might be good for Ken-kun, if there were two of him. He'd have someone to talk to about all the things he's interested in.
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Yeah....he's kind of distant. Probably be good to have someone else his age around.
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