Test Drive

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TEST DRIVE 001


-TDM threads can be considered game canon if players involved agree & if it suits any roles you may decide to choose for the current plot.
-Any reserving player that does not submit an app by Saturday morning will be subject to challenging applicants.
-Participation in the Test Drive is worth a flat 10 points per month rather than per thread, and you must have a minimum of 5 comments in that month to qualify for it.
-This TDM is good for the duration of the Mist setting. A new TDM will go up before the next setting.

The NETWORK for this setting is a voice-only walkie talkie system that can be used to communicate between all locations. The default channel will be open to all walkie talkies, but characters can change to an unused channel for private conversation.
of note: There seems to be something strange about these walkie talkies, in that there is no static. The quality is disturbingly crystal clear, like the person you're speaking to is right next to you instead of miles away.

CONTENT WARNING: Some prompts contain gore, character death, and substance abuse.

Reserves will open on Saturday, September 8 until Saturday, September 15
Applications will open Saturday, September 15 until Saturday, September 22

General Prompts


The lights above you are a blindingly, pristine white. The walls around you curve up into the ceiling like the inside of an MRI machine. Your hands, feet, and midsection are strapped to a clinical table, and minutes seem to tick by, with no clear course for escape presenting itself to you.

The curved white space above you flickers with color, and a perfect square like a television screen expands before your eyes. It pans over what appears to be a town, something small and simply populated.

“Hello, and welcome to your first setting,” a neutrally cadenced feminine sounding voice begins, riding the line between human and machine. As she speaks, captions of the text type themselves in neat and perfect Arial font. “The location is loosely based off Bridgton, Maine, United States of America, Earth. The year is 2007. You have been selected to participate. Obedience ensures an enjoyable and immersive experience for our audience. If you have been granted a role, instructions will follow. Do not talk about the role. Do not attempt disobedience. If you have not been granted a role, your objective for this round is simple: survive.”

After that, the shackles may release promptly and allow your character to roam free. Or perhaps not — perhaps they've been given a role to play, and if so, further instructions will play out upon the screen. Once suitably briefed, characters will be released to their own devices. Beware the mist.

CHECK OUT THE CURRENT SETTING PAGE FOR DETAILS ABOUT THE LOCATION.

learn from the mistakes of others

A pair of unperturbed mall inhabitants decide to chance the mist. They're the first of a handful to trickle out the front doors, and they seem to get by just fine. About a minute ticks by, and they disappear completely into the dense fog that presses in from every direction. It's so anticlimactic that for a moment it almost seems stupid to feel uncomfortable by the sight of it.

Until precisely one half of a body is hurled abruptly and with great force from an indeterminate point in the obscurity. It's not a top half or a bottom half; no, it's a cleanly sliced left half, head to toe as though a neat line were cut down the middle. It slams into the transparent glass doors and crumples before them, still and obviously unmoving, slowly leaking.

After a few seconds, a dark tendril of something reaches out, curls around the jutting left ankle, and drags it with painstaking slowness back into the fog.

At least the rest of them probably made it, right?

Right?

Hopefully you weren't one of the others to follow their lead. If you were, that dark shape seems to be closing in awfully quick.

eff this, let's bounce

A pair of car keys can be found discarded or perhaps dropped in their owners' haste. Braving the mist when it's at its lightest and pressing the key fob will cause a car to beep politely, flashing lights to indicate its location in the fog. Take anyone willing to go with you and pile in. Try to get the hell out of dodge!

An excellent idea....

Within five miles of the car's journey the battery will die and the engine will stall. Consider yourselves effectively stranded and with no one but yourselves to blame. Perhaps help will come if you wait long enough? Hours, surely no more than a few days... Maybe you should consider braving the fog to get back? Five miles can feel like a hundred in conditions like these.

Either way, it seems like you're trapped in the car for about as long as R. Kelly got trapped in the closet during that one unfortunate CD.

radio chatter

Characters in the library and the church will be able to communicate via walkie talkie radio chatter immediately! Characters in the mall will not have this ability until later in the month, so any network style threads with a mall character will take place during Week Two of the October plot or later, after most people have already been fully introduced to the setting and given time to adapt.

Roles

Employee of the Month (Multiple)

Some characters will be printed wearing a designated kiosk uniform, their name sloppily stickered in slightly crooked letters onto a Dippin' Dots badge, or whatever store they may happen to be assigned to. The cool voice that introduces them to the mist will carry on to tell them that they'll be playing employee # _____ in this month's immersive experience. Their motivations and objectives are simple: go to work.

Except the role seems to be bugged, because they can never not go to work. If they leave the five or six foot radius of their designated post they'll begin to experience consequences, which worsen in severity based on distance and duration. The role doesn't end at mall closing, it doesn't end on Saturdays, it simply doesn't end. Hopefully next month's code push will have a bug fix; we apologize for the inconvenience.

(If choosing to keep these threads as game canon, the role will wear off within the first in-game week)

Aggravated Assault

Congratulations, participant! You will be playing the role of a CONVICTED FELON having recently been released on parole. Your motivation for this month's immersive experience is frustration. Having undergone hard time, you'll find that we have increased your aggression and temper characteristics, and lowered your inhibitions. Your objective is to find and begin an altercation with Snuff the Rooster, who will be playing the role of the person who turned you in, NARK. Your altercation must take place in a public space with witnesses, and may not stop until Snuff the Rooster is unconscious, evicted from the mall, or someone intervenes.

Thank you for your participation!

Consequences for not completing the objective in this role can be moderate to severe.

Snuff the Rooster

Congratulations, participant! You will be playing the role of NARK. Formerly a close friend and ally of CONVICTED FELON from Aggravated Assault, you were quick to roll on them during police questioning in exchange for your freedom. Your motivation is to turn over a new leaf, and get your shit together. Your objective is to survive the altercation.

Thank you for your participation!

The Lovers (Duo Role)

Congratulations, participant! You will be playing one half of a partnership role! Please seek out (character 2). Your motivation this round is love, and the need to protect your partner from threats both inside and outside of the mall. Your objectives is to greet your lover with a kiss and place them above all others. Do not act like strangers.
Consequences for not completing the objective in this role or failing to present a convincing couple can be mild to moderate.

Pathological

Congratulations, participant! You will be playing a background character in our current setting. Your motivation is to tell lies; at least one third of what you say must be unarguably untrue. Your objective is to keep these lies from being discovered as false.
Consequences for not complying with this role can vary from mild to severe, with the compulsion to tell larger and larger lies growing as time goes on.

Scared Speechless

Congratulations, participant! You will be playing a background character in our current setting. You may choose one person, stranger or otherwise. This is the only person you may communicate with, either verbally or through writing.
Consequences for not complying with this role are severe.

Glitches

potency error

Someone seems to have miscalculated the relative strength of intoxicants; all inhibition-altering substances seem to have been cranked up to eleven. One shot has the strength of three, though the taste seems to stay exactly the same. One or two drinks will quickly creep up on you. One of the joints found discarded in the bathroom trashcans will easily green you out. God forbid you've got anything stronger.

greatest movie of all time

Settling in to the relatively nice theater found at the far end of the mall is a decent way to make the time go by. The projectors are automated, and there are six different theaters that show flicks at scheduled times.

Except that every single one of them is showing Spider-Man 3. Every single one, every single showing, no matter what is advertised, becomes Spider-Man 3. That's how you know this is a horror game. Hope you didn't wander in by mistake because the doors will shut behind you and leave you to watch the entire showing. Please keep your feet off of the seats.

please replace toner cartridge

It seems there was an error in printing someone this first time around; everything came through but the visuals somehow. Your character is flesh and blood, fully formed, wearing tangible clothes even, but are completely invisible. Donning additional clothing causes it to clip out and then promptly disappear. Taking clothes off will cause them to reappear. Hopefully this gets fixed in the next lite patch.

(If choosing to keep these threads as game canon, the glitch will wear off within the first in-game week)

code bases by tricklet

Comments

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[gotyourselfapilot]

[ Poe had been watching and observing in the back of the group. Something felt off when that dark shape came in. Maybe Amilyn Holdo hadn't seen it. He's not afraid to speak his mind when times call for it. However, trouble seemed to find them first or the group that had gone out before them.

After a few more moments of watching the fog, he finally steps forward towards her. He's looking slightly downward at first while rolling his jaw a little to get what he really wants to say to her. Poe pulls his full attention on Amilyn as he speaks. ]

I don't think going out there will be a great idea. It may end up becoming a suicide mission. [ On Crait it certainly would have been. Poe though wouldn't let her go alone if she were determined enough to go out into the fog. ]

There's something out there. Do we really risk going now not knowing what we could be dealing with?

[lightsped]

[ Amilyn hadn't seen the dark shape. She hadn't even been aware of how terribly the other group's expedition out there had gone. What she knew was there were still a determined few that wanted to see what they could glean about the creatures in the mist, and that she didn't want them to make the trip outside alone. Not when she could provide them with some backup.

She saw him hanging towards the back as the group gathered- shocked that it took him this long to speak up. This being a suicide mission didn't worry her as much as it should. She's already had some experience with that. ]

It may be, yes. [ She's certainly agreeing with him on that. But, in the hopes of not sparking panic among the rest of the group around them she, instead, tilts her head to the side, indicating him to join her away from the group.

If there's anyone she's glad to find she's stuck in this odd place with, it's him. ]

[gotyourselfapilot]

[ He saw a silver of some dark shape that didn't come back to show itself. Maybe because no one else was near it or it could have moved on. Poe's been through many dangers before but there was some kind of a plan in place. There didn't seem to be much of one here. Nor did he know the rest of the group. Who could fight or who couldn't? He did know the mall would be safest, they could come up with a plan. They could very well make a stand if something worst showed up.

Out there they could be running blind and end up in a place hiding out with nothing. The group of people needed to know that there was nothing wrong with staying behind if that was a choice.

Poe understood the head motion and started to move away from the group since it really wasn't within his plans to cause a panic. ]

I hope you have an idea of a plan, Admiral. [ He's been thinking nonstop of one. The mall could be the best place they ended up being stuck in versus a place that didn't have any means to survival. He looks to her while keeping his stand more relaxed and at ease. ]

[lightsped]

[ The spot away from the group is still close enough where she can keep an eye on the doors and the group itself, now speaking among themselves thankfully.

Amilyn crosses her arms and glances back at him. ]

This group, these people, are determined to go out there. One way or another. [ Poe is a capable commander, all criticisms aside. ] We're out of our element and I have no power here.

[ She admits this quietly. ] If we let this group leave with the intent of finding out what we're going up against, that's better than pacing in front of the doors and just wondering. Unless you have a suggestion, Commander? [ Not Captain. ]

[gotyourselfapilot]

No one really has authority around here. In truth, I feel trying to convince them stay may not do any good if they are that determined to go out there. But we have supplies, we can easily figure out the entire layout of this mall. There's probably a map somewhere. [ If he had to go in search for one he would. But being alone here wouldn't do much good. ]

[ Poe raises his eyebrows up at Commander while pointing at himself with his hands while shaking his head. ] Captain Dameron is sticking around until the General says it herself. Maybe it'll be better if you just called me Poe while we're here and we can drop the ranks for now. [ His lips press together as he glances over at the doors. ]

If the people are already antsy here they'll be more so out there. We're going to need good people watching everyone and making sure we stick close enough together to not get lost. Someone may already be quick to pull the trigger just be feeling trapped in a building when there feels as if nothing is happening. But out there can be way more dangerous than in here.

[lightsped]

Then it's just Amilyn when you address me. In a place without ranks, keeping the charade seems a bit pretentious doesn't it?

[ Though his suggestion that he'll keep the demotion until Leia arrives and changes it... That does garner a bit more admiration from her. ]

This group is a time-bomb just waiting to explode, I concur. Taking them around the shopping center for a better understanding of it all may only work for so long.

[ But long enough for them to have a better grip on the situation as a whole... She licks her lips and sighs, watching the group a little more carefully though the rest of her attention remains on Poe. ] Though, it would give us the time to single out those who pose a threat and consider them appropriately.