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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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[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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[Even sad as she is that Shinjiro got hurt, her eyes practically sparkle at the thought of so much good food. Oh she's disappointed that couldn't ever be a thing, she wants it]
He's a little less distant, at least to me. It took him awhile to open up though.
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But man...that much good food....a miracle. Maybe both of their Shinjiros will turn up and it could happen anyway.]
Hm...well, he'll open up when he's ready.
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[And goodness knows Fuuka needed it at the time]
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...Ah, manners. Minato Arisato. Nice to meet you.
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[Minako wore herself thin sometimes, but she hid it very well. She can't help blinking at his last name]
Oh, we have...the same last name. And similar first ones. I'm Minako. Minako Arisato. It's nice to meet you too.
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...No.
That...can't be why they're mutually exclusive. Can it? His mouth goes dry and he feels that familiar coil of dread wrapping around his heart.]
.....A car crash?
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.....yeah. Ten years ago. I got shuffled between relatives a lot, afterwards.
[But then...could he also...? It's something she doesn't want to think about. Please don't let it be the same]
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[No. No. At this rate, they really will be the same, and she'll have one too... She'll have another Black Persona....]
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[She shakes her head, not in disagreement, but distress. Why? Why does he also have to go through what she had? It wasn't fair to make anyone else go through this. How much was the same? She had to know]
Pharos? Did he start appearing to you too, when you went to the dorms?
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Yeah. He did. He's confusing...learned a little more about him since coming here. [Pharos is still with him.]
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You...don't know who he is?
[Is it different? She's praying it is, but Pharos...Ryoji...]
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[He doesn't like the implications that it was Pharos recovering energy after the Black Persona went wild. He doesn't want to think there's another. But....but if that's how it's going to be, then isn't it better someone knows in advance?]
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[She's calm. This is fine. She can deal with this. Some...other universe version of herself that has no idea what's coming. It's okay]
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