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Xistentia: Mod ([personal profile] spoofer) wrote2017-05-21 07:19 pm
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Test Drive Meme #1 (cw vehicular crash, moderate injury)

Test Drive Meme #1
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

You don't need an invite to test
but please remember we're currently invite-only

CRASH LANDING

Exit one dimension, enter the next. It was chaos: pressure against your ears, light bending in an impossible, unimaginable way. The very molecules of your body vibrating against one another. If you have windows, the view outside makes no sense. Even if not, your hands, your face, your feet seem like an uncertain thing. It's the feel of reality itself tearing apart, reshaping, reconnecting, thread by thread.

And suddenly, there's a beach— or ocean, whichever you land in. Smoke. Fire. Salt water churning up, fizzing around.

Maybe you crash, in a ship wrecking into sand. Maybe you merely stumble out of a portal, a ragged wormhole in space. Or maybe you fall off the back of an incredible steed, some creature that carried you into this place. Either way, there's pandemonium around you. Incredibly, severe injuries are far and few between— nobody's screaming about the dead. But you might have to help pull someone free of wreckage, or move quickly to salvage burning belongings from the landing craft. Maybe it's the crafts themselves, that you're trying to salvage.

Likely, you don't know them, these other strangers who arrived here[1]. Maybe you don't trust them— you just came out of a dying world, after all. But you all have one thing in common: you're here now.

When you get a second to breathe, maybe you'll see it. The brilliant green forest across the sand. Beyond that, the glint of a faraway city.
INTO THE WOODS

Your first night at Xistentia does not feature five-star accommodations, but as the sun begins to set, the forest offers everything you need to survive. By now, you may even have met your daemon, who'll help guide you through this. There is fallen wood to make fires for warmth and cooking, any number of rabbits, deer, and fish if that's what you're into eating. Those very same animals also provide guidance as to what vegetation is edible, including a variety of vine mushrooms, fruits, and flowers. If you're the kind of creature that mostly eats other sentient creatures, well. Technically, there are a lot of those hanging out too[2]! Now and then, you'll see tiny, winged humanoid creatures the height of a finger dart in and out of view.

A resourceful group, the multiversal refugees have determined ways to create shelters, using wreckage, supplies, and basic survival knowhow. There aren't enough blankets to go around, but the weather is mild and the fires seem to keep out any aggressive creatures.


Things get quiet. This could be a good time to meet the others under less fraught circumstances. Maybe you'll see some familiar faces and reunite with others who fled from your dying world; maybe you'll meet someone new.

Try not to seek out and fight any Rock Trolls. It's still early.
ENTER THE CITY


The city is beautiful, even with the vines covering everything, the streams running down half the streets, the massive white deer leaping off under the highway overpasses. The architecture of the skyscrapers is incredible to look at, modern and sweeping. It's clear that terraced gardens were part of the building design, and some of the greenery that lines the street had been part of the original city plan. This is a city of great potential.

And it knows you're here. As you walk by, beacons like streetlamps begin to emit a gentle glow, registering your presence. No doors are locked, though you might find yourself chasing out nests of silver-winged birds and bug-eyed rabbits.

Here, you can claim empty shops or the clothing and other sales items inside of them. Apartment complexes aren't difficult to find in a range of sizes; nor are standalone homes, brownstones, loft studios. Penthouses may not feel like penthouses when there's a thin layer of dust growing on everything and a flower growing out of the sink, but you know what? Maybe that little bud is gonna be your first roommate.

It's the strangest thing. After a few days, the lights begin to work and the water begins to run, fully operational within the unseen sewer system. At some point, the keys to your house or residence are going to turn up. Your daemon will help you find what you need. F.A.TE.S. welcomes you.
NETWORK

By now you've settled in. You have some time to explore the city, the woods, and your new kit.

Chances are pretty good that your daemon is not a phone or a computer or a wax-sealed piece of parchment or a Howler, nothing with a convenient camera or a keyboard; it probably isn't even a pocket sized. Likelier, it stares at you with eyes that contain the lenses-- or powers-- of a camera, and some part of its body projects a holographic keyboard into the air. For those of us who are not accustomed to manipulating intangible light prisms, it's about as intuitive to type on as shaping a cloud with your fingers.

But here's your network access. Accessible to all your fellow travelers in XISTENTIA.

Misfires, typos, and blurry video footage are likely. Time to feel like a Luddite!
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

hells yeah
Footnotes
  1. Some of these can be nameless, plot-device NPCs to facilitate interactions! But even in this case, please avoid gore in describing their current state of being. Anyone dead or catastrophically injured will have disappeared by the time your characters make it to Xistentia. There are no corpses or dying here.

  2. But like OOCly ask permission ofc.
deathstouch: (007)

[personal profile] deathstouch 2017-05-26 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aric ignores the sexual comments as usual. ]

I believe that he gave himself a gun. Apparently, he lacks faith in my combat abilities.
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[personal profile] deathstouch 2017-05-26 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aric takes this time to draw out his gloves which he hadn't stopped keeping with him. They aren't his gauntlets, which he wishes he also kept at the ready constantly. He frowns between the two as he slips them on after sheathing his sword at least for the time being.

Alize is nosing at Kavinsky almost immediately after. ]


I'll take care of it.

[ The shoe. Kavinsky shouldn't have expected him to respond much to his dramatics. With a gloved hand he reached down to cup Kavinsky's cheek briefly before he's gone in search of a shoe the proper size, he'll probably bring back at least two.

He has no qualms looting shoes if he can find some. Or just taking them from some unsuspecting person. ]
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[personal profile] fingerprint 2017-05-26 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's gotten to meet his daemon by now - or at least been confronted by it. This place really didn't want to be subtle in the least: Thingd is its name and it doesn't seem to have gender attached to its name at all. As it should be, one should suppose.

There isn't a lot of progress done between all these strangers, either confused, too eager to help, or retreated into circles of people they knew previously. ]


Louise!

[ Calling out to her as much as he's greeting her, relieved once again. ]
hasitsthorns: (pic#10878863)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
So I ended up here instead, looks like. Finicky world hopping magic.

[ A joke to try and lighten the mood but then he says that last bit and- Hm.

For the first time in perhaps her entire life, Rose understands the pang in her heart that comes from the mention of him being separated from his family. It had always been something that she knew she was supposed to feel sad about but actually couldn't fathom why because she'd never had a family she cared enough about to lose. Until now. Recently, even, she had experienced the frantic scramble and worry that came with not knowing where her family, her packmates were or if they'd even arrive.

She gives him a little squeeze at the mention of being the only one that made it, allows him as long as he needs to hold her. Part of her feels... guilty, maybe, that she's the only one here for him when he has others back home to be concerned over. Another part is glad that she's here for him (and Vex, she guesses, but she's undeniably better) since he at least isn't going it alone. And a last part that she isn't about to dare speak is selfishly happy to have him not all to herself but mostly.

For the time being, anyway.
]

Hey, we'll make it right. We'll fix what we can here, maybe, and then... head back to Tamriel. [ Or. He will. Part of her worries she might not fit into his life the way she hoped or that his feelings will change or any number of things she frets about regarding them and going forward at any given time. ] I'll make sure you get back to them sooner rather than later.
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[personal profile] fratricidio 2017-05-26 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Reunite with people, she says, and in his uncertainty Caleb debates with whether he should resent that or not. Mostly he just wants to be with people he knows in a place that he knows, and this is most definitely not it. What would be the point, when everyone outside his family wouldn't treat him as a friend, anyway? ]

... He's just keeping me company for now. Not that different from home. I think he knows there's no point in doing much else.

[ Quietly, Dogd nods. ]
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[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it was a surprise for me. We were supposed to be heading to his world, but... he made it and I didn't. Landed here instead, looks like.

[ Aw, Mulder. You're adorable, especially when you're a sleepy sheepy. ]

Don't worry, Mulder, mine are all out of sorts too. [ So many new things to smell and see, it's naturally v. exciting. ]

There's, uh. No running water. Sorry, dude. Also! The only connection we have is this network so far.
hasitsthorns: (Aɴᴅ I ᴡᴏɴ'ᴛ ʟᴇᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄʜᴏᴋᴇ)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
How unfortunate for you.

I'm glad I can't smell your cat stink from here.

[ children, please ]
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[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a personal problem.

[ His daemon isn't actually the only feline. There's a quiet mrow before a cat saunters under the canines and into the house. While Rose had made mention of her dogs, she's been excluding Charlie from her count. Mostly because the orange somali wasn't supposed to have made the trip. She has no idea how he got into the portal on time and is surprised she hasn't lost him yet. He keeps up with the dogs well enough and, hey, if can hunt mice than at least he'll be somewhat useful here.

She actually doesn't comment on the break since, well, he's right. The house looks fine to her, honestly. Seems like he's put in quite a bit of work into making it decent. (No.)
]

You mean you aren't supposed to drink wine straight out the bottle? [ Kidding. Mostly. She enjoys a good boxed wine herself, but 'class' isn't a word synonymous with Rose as most people know. ] My standards for alcohol are extremely low right now so, y'know what? Sure. I don't even care it's your sloppy seconds. [ She grabs the bottle as Charlie hops up onto the table, peering at Vex curiously with amber eyes. Mrow? ]
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[personal profile] assumptions 2017-05-26 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't be prepared for everything.

[ Aaron shrugs. He'd learned this early on. One would think that an anciently old vampire would have a better grasp and a little more chill.

But no, Axel doesn't really seem to have much chill in Aaron's opinion. ]


It's too bad you're not like Blade. [ So what that Blade is only half vampire. Blade probably would've been more suited for the woods of the unknown.

Aaron is an asshole. ]
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[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope! [ Not yet, at least. ] All in one piece.

[ As he can see. The rest of her dogs start to swarm upon the two now, tails a wagging. They remember this man! He is a good one. Rose had been very sad when his scent had left their home before this. But now he's back! Hooray! ]

What is this 'patience' you speak of? [ Magnus, of all people, knows that patience is not one of Rose's strong suits. ]

I came from Eudio. I was supposed to be going to Tamriel with Vanyel, but... ended up here instead.

[ And he didn't. ]
lacquers: (you're great at apologies)

[personal profile] lacquers 2017-05-26 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That answer has him breathing a sigh of relief and nodding slowly, as if digesting the information. Seeing her maybe was not enough, but hearing the words from her mouth helps.

This whole situation is quite a lot to be dealing with all at once.

It's not exactly how he would have chosen to be reunited with his friends from Eudio, but what's important is that they're here and they're unhurt. They can move on from there as they go. Speaking of, Magnus chuckles softly at both the sudden swarming of canines (he gives each and every one some pats on the head and scratches their ears and greets them all, of course) and at Rose's comment about patience.

Well. ]
Attempt would be the operative word then, I suppose, [ he says, correcting himself with no small measure of affection in his voice. ]

I see. [ Slight furrow in his brow. ] I think it would be good if we could all hear one another's stories, just to get all the information we can. It can't hurt.
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[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 'Mistress Rose.' She likes the sound of that, but for probably all the wrong reasons. It's not a fancy title in her mind but something a bit more... salacious sounding. Hm. The woman will turn it over in her head again at a later more appropriate (or inappropriate, as it were) time. ]

Where are you from? [ since she doubts that she's from Rose's world (perhaps the Makai, but that's a stretch) nor Eudio since, as mentioned, she would've recognized the woman. So that means she's from another world entirely, one that Rose wouldn't mind learning about. Maybe it'll ease this stranger, too, if she takes an interest in it. ]
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[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It was awful. Until they found each other here. There's a large amount of affection in her voice at the way she says, ] Yeah, we are. Safe and sound and together.

[ And this was the woman afraid of love. ]

No problem, dude! Trust me, once we find a place and get settled in my dogs are getting so many, of the cuddles. They're being good, brave boys right now but I can tell they're really uneasy.

[ He'll have to excuse Rose's amusement at that face he pulls. If only because she probably had a similar one herself. ] I feel you. We're gonna work on it, definitely.
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[personal profile] bloodychangeling 2017-05-26 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Toby actually laughed at his last comment, shaking her head. "No offense. Partially because I am pretty bitchy, just ask anyone who's met me before my third cup on a better day. And because I know enough purebloods to definitely agree with you. I'd probably be pretty snotty myself if I wasn't a changeling. Even a changeling who's a knight still ends up being pretty low on a Fae social ladder, and I can count the number of nobles I can stand for more than ten minutes on one hand with a couple fingers left over. The only reason I hold my tongue with the Queen of the Mists is because she's already tried to get me executed once on bullshit charges. Well, that and she's scary. Part banshee, part siren, all crazy bitch." Hey, the Queen wasn't here, she was going to let it out while she had a chance.

She actually sighed at the mention of Oberon, shrugging and leaning against a dingy counter. "Don't know. He left us hundreds of years before I was born. He's not dead--well, we don't think he's dead, he and the Queens--Maeve and Titania--just...shut the doors to the old lands and left. Maybe that's why we keep using his balls and their tits as swears. Maybe we think if we offend them enough they'll come back." She was surprised by the note of wistfulness in her voice. Maybe it wouldn't have been there if she hadn't been to Anoon, if she hadn't seen just a bit of what Fairy had lost when the doors were shut, but she had. "Guess that's pretty much a moot point right now."
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(ftr that goodbye was supposed to be good job q_q mobile fail)

[personal profile] astralera 2017-05-26 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I hail from Eorzea.

[ It's something she doesn't mind offering. After the incident of her arrival Era has resigned herself to the need to speak up more often, leaving her yearning for Alphinaud's company despite never wishing any sort of danger upon the boy.

She tilts her head slightly, curious, and gestures toward the other woman. ]


And you?
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[personal profile] rekt 2017-05-26 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ murphy has already jumped on the bed, plastered his face to the windows, found the booze, and took a piss in the master bathroom to claim it as his own. by the time they find the cake, he's well and good hyped up, bouncing on the heels of his socked feet as the dig into some cake, fucking cake, in the apocalypse. he's already loving this apocalypse so much more than his one from home.

he'd been about ready to throttle k on the way into the city for all the whining he was doing, and all the blank staring aric was up to, it's honestly amazing john murphy isn't, for once, being the most obnoxious one in the group, wishing k would talk less and aric would talk more, and some how stuck in the middle of the spectrum. but now, acting like a kid with this idiot boy who'd become his closest real friend here, maybe this place will actually be livable. maybe less of the hell that earth was. is.

sputtering a laugh as he chokes on the last piece of cake he's trying to swallow, murphy gets it down with a gulp, before he can clear his throat enough to say - ]
Copy, if you really want me to eat you that bad.

[ k's gross bad jokes have grown on him, apparently, but he opens up to let him zoom zoom the spoon into his mouth with only slight eye rolling. ]
hasitsthorns: (Aᴡᴀʏ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴇᴀʀs)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Since this Caleb doesn't know Rose, he is obviously unaware that she makes friends wherever she goes. Even without meaning to. This time, however, it will be entirely intentional to be friends with this Caleb; otherwise, she figures it'd be wasting the opportunity the multiverse gave her to still have him in her life in some fashion. ]

That's not so bad, I guess. A little bit of familiarity. [ And it occurs to her that maybe just like in Eudio, ] Sorry. I know how rough it can be without anyone from home.
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[personal profile] assumptions 2017-05-26 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aaron rolls his eyes and he leans back a little and gently pulls Mulder up to lay on his chest now that it's at an angle it'd work. His chin nuzzles down into the fox's fur a bit. ]

Do you think you'll do any good at that?
hasitsthorns: ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ ᴏғ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ (Iᴛ's ᴇᴍᴘᴛʏ)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well. Considering both her packmates are here, Rosie isn't certainly inclined to complain anytime soon.

Also, her boyfriend being here means she's still going to get consistently laid so. That always helps any situation.
]

Oh, uhm! Vanyel found a little house that seems like it should be good after some cleaning up. Enough room for the animals, too, which was the biggest thing.

[ So, yes. They are. Apparently. And Rose didn't even have to ask! ]
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[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-26 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Magnus (and Alec, by proxy, as his ma- er, boyfriend) and Vanyel! So technically three packmates, she supposes, but...

Also, Rosie uh. Didn't think it needed cleaning up, that was Vanyel. She thought it was perfectly fine as it was until he said something.
]

Aaron too, huh? [ That seems like it has the potential to be... awkward. ]

But I'd be happy to have more familiar faces around! I'm sure Vanyel wouldn't mind either.
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crash;

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-27 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ What he might hear over the panic is the sound of someone losing their lunch in the waves crashing to the shore. Dimensional magic, man. It's rough on the stomach. ]

Euuugghh, [ she groans, on her hands and knees as water laps over them. If she were less disoriented, maybe she'd be more panicky about being so close to such a large body of water. As it is, she's just trying to get head on straight and-

Hey, where are her dogs? They've been distracted, seems like, by a familiar(?) looking his face. His scent is wrong but the face is practically the same so they're going to greet him anyway. Doge logic. Enjoy eight canines coming up to Aaron snuffling him curiously where he lay. Only seconds later comes a sharp whistle and Rose padding across the sand (as quick as she can without puking more) to call them back.
]

Boys, c'mon, leave the poor dude alo-- Aaron?
hasitsthorns: ғᴏʀ ʜᴇʀ ɢᴏᴇs ᴏɴ (Nᴏᴡ I ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴍʏ ʟᴏᴠᴇ)

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-27 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ This isn't entirely the reunion she had planned either. Though she's happy to have a reunion rather than none at all, she can't deny she would have preferred it to be under better circumstances. ]

No, I'm... sure it can't. It'll be interesting to hear all that happened to everyone, actually.

[ Considering her own experience seemed pretty unorthodox. ]

What about you, dude? I thought you were supposed to be living it up back home.
lacquers: (where is our tardy little tutor)

[personal profile] lacquers 2017-05-27 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Magnus considers that for a moment, then purses his lips. He does not look any less good-natured for it, which we'll just have to chalk up to the magic of Magnus. ]

Well, 'living it up' might be a stretch. We returned to the beginnings of a war, an attempted genocide, and then, as if that weren't enough, the actual apocalypse.

Unfortunately, there hasn't been much in the way of downtime. [ He smiles wryly. ]
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[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-27 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Funny enough, there isn't much Rose is worried about anymore. She has the people most important to her here and safe. The uncertainty and fast-pacedness of this new world is already actually a bit more familiar than Eudio had been. It practically felt stagnant compared to home.

She sees this as all one big adventure going forward. And adventure was something she definitely missed that Eudio couldn't offer in the same ways as home (or here) was able to.
]

Mm, yeah, I can understand why it'd be pretty worrying for mortals. [ Another reason, perhaps, that she's so lax. Eudio may have softened her a bit, but you can't take the fight out of a fighter. Loathe as she is to admit it, that will actually come in handy here. ]

Stuff trying to kill me on a regular basis? I feel right at home, dude.
hasitsthorns: (Sʜᴇ ʟɪᴠᴇs ɪɴ ᴀ ᴅᴀʏᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ) (Sʜᴇ ʟɪᴠᴇs ɪɴ ᴀ ᴅᴀʏᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ)

cw: attempted suicide

[personal profile] hasitsthorns 2017-05-27 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rose isn't afraid to die. She even tried to once. The scars on her back, however, are a lesson learned: she doesn't get to decide when it's her time. That's not her choice. While she learned it the harshest way possible, it ensured that she won't ever take that course of action again.

Even if she still sometimes does have a bit of reckless abandon with her own life.
]

This place reminds me too much of home. Well. My original home. I lived among humans for about thirty or so years, but before that I was in the Makai.

Not a pretty place.

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