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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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[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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[That was when...he's from before it all? Before Ikutsuki? Before Shinjiro? Oh. Oh no, she's not sure she can handle this. Hold it together Minako]
I guess that explains it. It's...December, for me. December fourth.
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Right around when it's supposed to be over... [He does know it doesn't end when it should. But why?]
Was during the typhoon, for me. September 19th or 20th. Can't remember too well, high fever...
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[She smiles a little at the memories of earlier. What to say? Can she stop what happened to her happening to Minato? Maybe...Pharos would still exist, but if they stopped Death from forming, would the Fall still happen?
....she wishes she could ask Ryoji about it. He hadn't wanted it either]
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[He...he doesn't want to ask. There are three more Arcana Shadows. October, November, December, that's the latest it could end. And yet it lasts until the end of January? December's full moon should be the first or second of the month, which means.... Minako should have answers.
He doesn't want to ask.]
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[Minako shakes her head, a sad little smile on her face. She doesn't want to mention what's coming up. He doesn't deserve the pain of knowing. He doesn't have to be in the situation she is.
If his future could change though...she wants to try, for his sake. No one else deserves to go through it. Not if she can help it. But how? How do you try and help without explaining everything?]
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[And a see-through fish, at that. Let's just...talk about that, not about the Dark Hour. Not about the uncomfortable truths that separate the two of them. Is ignorance bliss? Or is it just a different flavor of agony?]
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[That sounds...kind of cool, if she's honest, but maybe not while in the middle of being sick with fever]
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[Being a weird see-through fish thing was kind of neat. Wouldn't be terrible to be one again. As long as he was actually underwater, he was kind of gloopy for land...]
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[A small part of her is excited to see what happens next. Lack of sense of touch is weird, but not really interesting. Minako is something of an optimist when she's not thinking about the past]