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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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[She lifts her hand to flick Hibiki in the forehead again.]
I hate people like that. People who think their dignity is more important than their safety, and look down on other people for it.
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WHY MUST INDIGNITIES RAIN UPON IT
To keep one of said headaches from sprouting, Hibiki averts her eyes. Fine. So be it. There are some people whose limitations simply cannot be helped. In that case, the highest-quality decision is - ]
....Let's just exit this cave quickly.
[ - to stop conversing and start trying to take the lead position on their journey. But at least she's headed the right way this time. ]
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[She grumbles, but. At least she's walking? And heading in the right direction, even.
That said, now that she's got her hands free again, she's drawing both of her daggers, just in case something happens.]
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Ando, meanwhile, nearly walks into another wall - but then figures his best ploy is to stop trusting his own sense of direction and follow Hibiki-sama's back. This is more appropriate for a butler and maa-nager, as well. ]
There's no end to this....
[ Mused to herself. Who is there to speak with, here? Her new acquaintance is an idiot, and Ando is a goat. ]
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not wrong, but rude]
It can't be too long. See, there's no branching paths anymore, so we're probably getting close.
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[ Such trivialities are Ando's concern. And he does look impressed with this deduction. If ever he and Hibiki-sama become entrapped by a subterranean labyrinth again, he will be able to be of more use to her now....!! ]
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[Enna is not a spiteful person. But she does tend to believe what others say... Which means even though there's something relevant to say, Hibiki doesn't want to hear it, so she'll keep quiet.]
The exit is close. I can see some light up ahead, but...
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[ Hibiki relaxes. Now that it's come to this, safety is inevitable!
She walks boldly towards the light. ] The sun surely shines on our triumphant escape.
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[Well, the good news is, it is in fact a mine exit.
The bad news is, it's coming out of the mountain side, so it's... Kind of a very sheer and steep path! Incredibly perilous-looking.]
1/2
[ SUNLIGHT. Darkness depresses Hibiki, so she's focused on that to the extent of all else. She raises her head to greet the welcoming rays, accepting the cup of tea Ando has just handed her in anticipation of her being able to taste it again. ] Now, to the dawning of --
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[ Looks like she found the exit! By nearly walking off the edge!
This teacup is going to be falling for a very long time..... ]
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[she's helping? she's helping!]
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[ Hibiki vibrates in place, teeth clenching. Part of her dashing and cool aesthetic is to always carry a rope which she can use to swing around on high places, but she needs something even higher up on which to affix it! A cliff with nothing but sky is less than useless!
IF ONLY THERE WERE AN ALTERNATE USE FOR SUCH A TOOL! ]
Curse this......
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[she says this like it's no big deal, but. she did already start flying for a bit in the tunnel, after all!]
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We'll make our own way. ANDO!
[ "Much obliged, Hibiki-sama!"
Hibiki then proceeds to tuck Ando under one arm (Ando bending over to accommodate this, as he is taller), affix her rope to the side of the cliff, and - in a fit of inspiration caused mostly by pique - hop off, carrying her "goat".
Said rope came out of her sleeve, has apparently no length limit, and is also purple and sparkly. The aesthetic must be maintained. ]
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it's sparkly, and thus, she wants it.
Wings, reptilian and draconic, but covered in feathers, sprout from her back. And then she just. Picks up the rope, not caring about the people still attached, and starts flying off towards camp.]
Shiny! Shiny rope. Why is rope shiny? Mine now.
i had to make a new icon for this
[ Hibiki suddenly finds herself dangling off her rope, holding her goat butler beneath one arm, being borne aloft by a winged idiot. Her methods of carrying them have gotten MORE ABSURD?!!?! ]
PUT THAT DOWN!!
MY RADIANCE DOES NOT EXIST FOR YOU TO ABSCOND WITH IT!!
oh my god i'm laughing so hard
[honestly she may be themed after a crow but she acts more like a magpie sometimes.]
it was an honor to create an icon for this thread
[ Maybe if Hibiki swings back and forth, she can dislodge the rope from her captor's grip...
Ando, especially powerless in his maa-ster's hold, sort of jangles every time they move. His belled goat collar is noisy. ]
omg i am happy to hear you say that. i am loving this absurdity.
I don't care about you, though?
same here!
[ There is a tug as the burden on the shiny rope begins to slip downward.
"Hibiki-sama, your grip--" ]
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Did you just say "gasp" out loud?
[honestly we're lucky she can't see that text or she'd try to hoard it too.]
enna has hit the sparkle factory jackpot (you should see hibiki flirt)
Hibiki recovers from the shock of not being cared about, however, and resumes her non-hoardable yelling. ]
Whence are you abucting me?!
[ And Ando. But Ando is currently her luggage. Her luggage that is now looking at his hooves. Each of these is 11cm, so, the distance to the surface in goat hooves is.... ]
she'll just abduct hibiki entirely and demand she makes more sparkles tbh
[She's low enough that a fall might hurt, but wouldn't be dangerous.
That said, she's starting to pick up a pattern, and is bracing for Hibiki's realization that Enna cares about a rope more than her.]
you're going about this wrong, enna. flatter hibiki, and the sparkles never end!
Rgh!
[ Yeah, there they go. Any situation in which Shikyoin Hibiki is not comfortable (or proving her valor by enduring) is one that really...doesn't require Shikyoin Hibiki, yes?
So Hibiki lets go. Ando presses his hooves together and prays, tears leaking from his eyes. If he perishes, may his undoing at least cushion Hibiki-sama!!! ]
yeah but then she has to listen to hibiki
who wouldn't want this all day every day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miYVdxrz5go