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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)
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They sound a bit like my friend...
[At least he has some first hand experience dealing with people like that, so he wasn't too worried about encountering them.]
If I see them, I'll let them know you're looking for them, don't worry!
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...I'm so sorry.. [He's too nice for friends like Cyril. Todd Allison was at least sweet and kind to her on occasion. CYril was nice in his...own... Weird way. But if Izuku's life was nearly as crazy as her own, she's deeply sorry for his lot in life.
SHe lets him go though and adds:] You're probably looking for your friends too though, right? I'll definitely keep an eye out for them too, if you tell me about them!
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Well, Kacchan is...Kacchan. He's mellowed out a bit though! [From an active volcano to an exploding car, maybe. Still as violent as ever, but on a smaller scale.]
It would be great if you could keep an eye out for them! Kacchan has blond hair that kind of goes-- [He puts his fingers against his head, before spreading them out with a small POOF.] --and he usually looks... [...well] ...grumpy as well. And uh, honestly it would be best not to mention me by name to him... [They were on better terms now after they had fought out their problems, but it didn't mean Kacchan wouldn't be strung thin in a place like this. Better safe than sorry.]
And then! [Happier news!] There's Uraraka, she has brown hair that kind of goes like this-- [He pulls both of his hands down from the sides of his head to his shoulders] --and it's short and fluffy in the back. Her face is usually blushing-- [And now Izuku is slightly flushed] --and she has little pads on her fingers for her quirk.
Then there's Iida-- [Pounds his fist into his hands.] --he's got short blue hair and a undercut, and he's usually wearing glasses. He talks with his arms a lot-- [Izuku slices the air with his hand as an example] --and I mean, most noticeably he has six exhaust pipes on his calves, but he might be wearing pants...
...but Todoroki will be easy to spot too! His hair is white on the right side and red on the left, and he has a scar on the right side of his face-- [He circles the spot in question, right around the left eye]--but he doesn't talk too much. Not as much as Iida, in the very least.
And-- [Izuku stops himself, realizing that he's gone on a while about his friends. He scratches his cheek with a finger, chewing his lip.] Uh. Well, I'm looking for a lot of people actually. Some of my other classmates might be here, too...
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But okay, Iida. Undercut with glasses. Exhaust...pipes... on calves....
And that's about where Petunia stops listening fully, expression baffled. Was that a joke? She looks around a moment as if expecting to see someone else near-by laughing or something. He finishes talking, but she holds her hand up in a 'stop' gesture anyhow]
H-hold on, did you say exhaust pipes?
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[He blinks, noticing Petunia's perturbed expression as she raises her hand.]
Yes? It's for his quirk, he can use the engines in his calves to boost his speed-- [Wait. Something strikes him as odd about this. Most people didn't react like that when he described other people's quirks. Sure, he would get looks of exasperation because he was a little long winded, but nearly everyone had a quirk, and most heroes had flashier quirks than Iida's. So, why would she be looking at him like that...?
Unless...]
Uh, you know of quirks, right...?
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But, you sure make it sound like I should? [But she's pretty sure this sin't something she's just out of the loop for and that it's not some Japan-based thing, otherwise Hana probably would've mentioned something about it, right?]
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Every country in the world had quirks though! And the number of those who were quirkless was such a small majority that it would be hard to find more than one or two people in a given city who had no quirk at all!] That doesn't rule out the possibility of an island of people who had no contact to the outside world having a quirkless commune, but the possibility was very slim. Besides, she had mentioned knowing of Japan, so that rules out that possibility entirely.
[Izuku's muttering had left his head and found it's way out into the air halfway through his train of thought, so there's a long moment of him muttering to himself under his breath. But he straightens suddenly, fixing Petunia with a pointed look.]
You...don't have quirks where you're from, right? Is it possible that...we're from completely different planes of existence...?
[After all, he couldn't use One For All here, and none of the AI he had encountered had any semblance of a quirk, physical or otherwise. Was this place mimicking a world without quirks? Not only just a place in the past?]
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But when he says it, Petunia is seized with a feeling of terrible certainty that it's not that far-fetched at all. This whole place was already a totally different world from her own in and of itself-- This wasn't Australia. This certainly wasn't 1921 anymore. It's even possible they are somehow from the same world, just Deku is from the future. Anything is possible at this point, fucking YOLO or whatever.
She chews on her bottom lip and looks around. She doesn't dispute it, but it brings another, even more disturbing question to mind] What... What kind of place is this that it can kidnap people from entirely different worlds? How much power would you need for something like that?
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What kind of power would you need to bring people from the same world into a simulation this detailed? Beyond that, it's hard to believe but...
[When they were already in a situation like this, well...anything was plausible, wasn't it?]
...well, it doesn't change what we need to do, right? [He attempts a smile and hopes it sticks.] I'm sorry for confusing you, though. Where I'm from, almost everyone is born with a quirk, which is a kind of ability that is unique to the user. Like a...superhero power? [Did she have those?] And my quirk...well, it's not working right in this place anyways...
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But! They can do it!! They can totally accomplish this somehow, eventually.
She listens though and perks up in delight] Superpowers, and superheroes! I know about those, at least a little! I think they're mostly popular in America, but there's been talks of comics and stuff starting up in Australia too! [She doesn't really understand it all--Figures like Superman wouldn't actually exist for another 9-10 years--but she gets the gist of it.]
What is it though? Your quirk, I mean! It's probably something super cool, right? Get it, because-- Because it's a super power, so-- [So it's SUPER cool... It's not funny. She thinks she's funny.]
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Well, I have a kind of super strength, I guess! [At least, that's what it says on paper. One For All was a little more complicated and a lot more of a secret that super strength was the only way he could explain it.] It's pretty cool! I'm still learning how to utilize it properly, so I can't use the full extent of my power without repercussions. [A subconscious nervous fiddling with his right hand, which was crooked and scarred from those repercussions] But the costume I normally wear helps me with some of the ill-effects, so it's not too bad!
[God, he's practically vibrating with the desire to talk more about quirks. How often did you get to talk to someone who had no base level understanding of them? There was so much he could tell her! It's taking all of his self-control not to infodump years of quirk-fanboying on her.]
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She can see how not being able to control it would be a problem, though she doesn't take it to mean repercussions against himself. She thinks he means like he goes to open a door and accidentally rips the entire thing off the wall or something.]
And you say everyone has a quirk? Are they all different? So like, can someone else fly, or make food appear whenever they want, or-- Or... [She trails off a little, fingers twisting together in mild anxiety and giving away some of her own insecurity] Change how they look? Or, you know, transform into someone else entirely?
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[But enough about him, Petunia wanted to talk quirks! Someone was actually willing to talk quirks with him! He instinctively looks for his backpack with his hero observation notebooks before he realizes that of course they're not here. That's fine, he remembers plenty.]
Well, most of the population has a quirk; there is a small portion of the population who are born quirkless, but usually a child will be born with their parent's quirk, or an evolution of it!
[He's so into his explanation that her nervous tick completely escapes his notice.] But, yes! Some people can fly--either because they have wings, or their quirk works against gravity--or they can create things from their bodies! Some people have quirks that let them copy the looks of other people! The possibilities are endless!
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(Or would she? She's not entirely sure, it's a...complicated issue)
People misusing their quirks for nefarious means is both sad and completely to be expected, given human nature. Cyril would definitely have used it for evil, and her brothers...
She feels suddenly very cold at the idea of her brothers weidling any sort of power, Elijah especially. Even if he didn't have a power, if Meredith did... And Meredith would do anything Elijah asked of him, which would be just as dangerous.
No, no it's a very good thing quirks aren't at thing for them. Petunia would undoubtedly want to be a hero and likely she'd probably have to beat up her brothers at some point then or else otherwise try to turn a blind eye to too much.
THough she's lost in her own thoughts a moment, she zones back in in enough time to get the gist of everything else he was saying.]
Oh! So your mom or dad must have some super strength quirk thing too? So unfair, I want a cool superpower... I can't really do anything...
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[Thankfully Petunia doesn't seem to be too hung up on his answer. She actually seems...disappointed? Izuku frowns as he listens--the feelings she portrays are a little too familiar to the ones he felt before All Might.]
Even if you don't have a quirk doesn't mean you can't do anything! [The frown is wiped from his face as soon as it comes, trying his best to reassure her.] I wasn't--err, I was a really late bloomer with my quirk, so for a while I thought I didn't have one at all. I wanted to be a hero, but I didn't think I could do it without all the cool quirks my friends had. But I didn't give up! I studied a lot and trained harder than anyone so I could catch up to everyone.
Besides! [Izuku uses his fingers to pull his lips up in a smile.] The most important part of being a hero is this! Reassuring people and making them feel safe! You don't need a quirk to soothe someone's heart!
[That's what All Might taught him, after all.]
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She scratches at the back of her head, grinning sheepishly.] ...Yeah, you're right. And just because I don't have a... a quirk thing doesn't mean I can't help people who need it! [She pumps a fist in the air with enthusiasm] I've beaten back bad guys before! I can fight! Hahaha!
[She laughs brightly, feeling much better and grins at him] You're definitely going to be an awesome sueprhero, Deku! A super superhero, even!
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But most of all, he's happy that the girl seems to be feeling better. Izuku grins back.] I'm sure you've been a great hero to the people you've helped too! [There's a return fist pump from him.] I mean, you've already helped me by talking with me for a while! I've learned a lot of useful stuff!
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[It wasn't quite their first meeting, but it was the first proper one where Petunia was using her real name.]
I imagine this place is probably not going to let you use your powers without some kind of consequence so... So! The point is! Even without powers you can still do amazing things! Which...Which is basically what you were already saying, I was just... Reiterating it. [Yeah... She scratches the back of her head again, all sheepish once more]
But I'm the one really learning things! If this is really 2007 like it said, this is... Really really far in the future for me. Nothing's very familiar at all.
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That's so cool though! I'm sure your friend appreciated it.
[He's looking at his hand as she talks about his powers, flexing his fingers. He hadn't really felt the fires of One For All at all since he awoke in this place, but maybe if he kept trying...it wasn't really a big issue right now, because like he said and like she was saying now--he could still be of use without them.] Thank you for saying it again though! It's nice to be reassured. I don't know if I can use my quirk at all, but there's still a lot I can do without it.
[For now he puts quirk talk aside (even though he really wants to talk more about them)--she was talking about her world more.] This is the future for you? For me, this is the past...Not too far, but still... [His head tilts.] How far in the future is it for you, if you don't mind me asking?
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She looks a little sheepish though, twisting her fingers together when he asks about it.] Let's see... The war had just ended not that long ago... I was in Australia, and it was 1921.
[So yeah, this was very veryfar in the future for her. Everything was completely alien, from the fashion to the technology. Hell the whole mall thing was pretty different from the shopping centers she'd seen here and there.
But she's coping. Somehow. One minute at a time it feels like, but still chugging along.]
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[Izuku's eyes are wide--when she said far, she meant far. He hadn't been expecting that answer at all. But he blinks away his shock, raising his hands in an apology.] Sorry, sorry! I didn't mean it in a bad way, I'm just--surprised! That's pretty far back, even for this year!
[Being pulled into the past was one thing--at least he was familiar with the concept of everything here. It must be rough for Petunia.] Being in a new place with new technology and everything...you're keeping up pretty well with it. I wouldn't even have known it was that far back for you if you hadn't told me.
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You wouldn't be saying that if you saw me when I first arrived, haha... I completely freaked out, was running all over the place like a-- LIke a chicken with its head cut off. Completely panicked.
But... You can only really keep that up for so long, you know? Eventually you're forced to calm down. I had to accept this was really happening. B-besides! I can't do anything about it right now! And if I keep thinking of it like an adventure, it's not so bad!
There's lots of neat stuff about the future though! They have hot dogs wrapped in pretzels! [IT'S AWESOME]
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If you have any questions about this time period, you can always ask me! Err, not that I was actually alive at this time, or in America...but a lot of the technology is at least familiar to me!
[He's eager to hear more of her perspective though. How often do you get to talk to someone who's seen the past first hand? Even if it was a different past than his.] What's been your favorite thing you've seen so far? If you don't mind me asking, that is!
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I don't mind! It's just... Jeez, I don't know where to begin... [She's not about to bring up the more Serious Topics, like the fact that no one gives her a second glance for walking around this place--She's an Aboriginal girl in 1920s Australia, it doesn't usually go this nicely for her--even if so far that's been probably her favorite thing. She focuses instead on the other positive, tangible things]
Those massage chair things were really neat! And a lot of the electronics... The phones, and the television! But the prices on things like clothing or even food are just insane to me... [Inflation!!]
But I think the television was the neatest! One of the stores had a whole wall of them playing all sorts of different things! And in color!
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[He's smiling again as he listens to her list off the new things she's discovered, sharing in her excitement.] Those are all really cool things we have! It must be so strange seeing some of these things that were never around as much before, instead of growing up with them like I had!
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