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Test Drive
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.
Applications will open Saturday, September 15 until Saturday, September 22
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.
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.
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.
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)
Valerie Valentine § OC
Really?
[ Hands on her hips, Val seems more annoyed than startled by the display of gore. Of course, those were mooks, so to speak. Disposable ones to teach the others a lesson. Or to make them despair, maybe. She won't claim to be an expert but she's seen enough weird stuff to have an idea. Whatever the case, the fog wasn't giving her any good vibes before and it certainly isn't doing a better job at it now. ]
All that's lacking is a siren alarm and some red lights to really set the atmosphere, but I guess that would be too much on the nose?
[ While she's not talking to anyone in particular, she looks around. She's still kinda speaking to her reflection and that's maybe kinda weird. ]
Still gotta find a way out, I guess.
the lovers
[ Val stares at the name of the person she's supposed to be paired with for the millionth time. ]
Either somebody's a voyeur or there really needs to be a talk about interpersonal interactions.
[ She walks aimlessly, not in a hurry at all to find her designated soulmate. If anything, she's apparently fulfilling that part of her role, so nothing negative seems to fall upon her. Yet. It's enough for Val to hope she doesn't run into her "partner", but she's not that lucky. Still, she does take the time to inquire with whoever she finds if they are the ones she's supposed to be with. ]
Is this your name on the paper? I'd rather you say no regardless but I guess we don't really have that much freedom.
greatest movie
It's amazing how despite the fact we're facing a very real chance of horrible, gruesome dismemberment by unknown misty horror, the fact I accidentally got stuck here twice it's starting to make me consider choke on my popcorn.
[ Dammit Raimi, how did he get away with this? ]
At least there is popcorn, so hope is not lost.
wildcard
[ heyoooo Val is a regular teen tasked to "hold" some pretty strong divine power because circumstances, but she has no intention to do anything out of the ordinary. She comes from a world plagued with weird stuff so she's fairly genre savvy, so to speak. Do feel free to find her anywhere, probably being snarky and mildly exasperated. ]
greatest movie
[ ...granted, this is coming from someone who has decided that three of the movie seats in front of Val are like, His now, and he's stretched across them (turned away from the movie) like a proper cat? But anyway. ]
Once you get used to it, it's pretty easy to just sleep through... Though it'd be a lot easier if I had an eye mask or something.
[ The bright lights are... bothersome, even turned away... Loud noises are too, but he can sort of deal with that; he can sleep through Knights' bullshit, not to mention the literal construction of a stage, so. ]
no subject
[ She looks back up to Toby McGuire's awful hip convulsions for a moment. ]
I wonder though, if someone just zones out and spends all the time here, you're not actually breaking any of their rules. Interesting...
Then again, choking on my popcorn. Very tempting.
no subject
...Well, technically, he's staring at the back of his eyelids, given he's decided to close his eyes again but—details, probably. ]
Mmm, think of it like this... [ He very lazily raises a hand, waving slightly with a sigh. ] Is this movie worth dying over?
no subject
[ She knows that, in theory, she could make a little loophole on her own to avoid having to even listen to the movie while in there, but Val isn't all that certain it wouldn't upset some higher power watching over. Better play it safe for the time being. ]
I might be assuming too much, but I get the feeling this movie isn't all that relevant to you as it is to me, culture wise. Lucky you, really.
no subject
Probably not. [ totally unbothered with saying so, too. ] There's a ton of wrird people at Yumenosaki, but we don't have any weirdos with spider powers.
[ .......okay. wataru might be able to do something similar but he's also. wataru. ritsu doesn't know him well enough to judge, but he was a friend of that thing he used to call his brother, so... ]
no subject
[ Big shrug, even if he can't see her. ]
I bet there's at least one thing that you wouldn't want to stay around for seconds no matter what, though. It's just not this garbo piece of film.
no subject
Yeah, there is, but if you talk about it, it suddenly appears, so... I really don't wanna say anything. [ even thinking about him is risky, so-- ] Are the other two better than this one? I haven't seen 'em.
[ he doesn't really want to either, honestly. ]
no subject
[ She won't push though. That would be very uncool of her. She's very cool, okay? ]
To be perfectly honest? Naaah. Nobody saw this level of awfulness coming though. Not by a long shot.