Test Drive Meme #1 (cw vehicular crash, moderate injury)

[spoofer]

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.

Comments

powerprose! lmk if not ok <3

[vexy]

[ No, it most certainly was not close enough. He countered by reaching up to set his hand on top of Spock's, then slipped his fingers beneath his palm to bring the back of his hand to his mouth for a kiss. His dark eyes never left his as he did so, knowing full well what that gesture meant. ]

I'm gratified as well, love.

it's perfect!

[mindmeld]

[ Even in the intimate relationships Spock had, few people actually touched his hands, let alone kissed them. His eyes darkened as Vex pressed his lips against Spock's hand. Rather than moving his hand, he let Vex hold it, even squeezed his hand in return. ]

You remain, as always, determined to surprise me.

<3

[vexy]

You can't tell me that you're surprised I'm still keen on you after all this time. C'mon, you just talk to me in that oh-so-logical voice and I get a stiffy. [ He winked luridly, then briefly dragged his tongue over one of Spock's knuckles. ]

Didn't you miss me? Physically, anyway. [ It was probably hard to miss him otherwise since he chatted his ear off via the bead on the daily. ]

[mindmeld]

[ Ah there was the outrageous flirtation he remembered so clearly. How a voice and logical approach could arouse an individual, he was still unsure, but he accepted long ago that Vex was unique.

He disentangled his hand from Vex's after feeling that tongue against his knuckles. It had been some time since he had last allowed anyone to hold his hand. ] I found the ship rather dull without the brand of illogic you bring to various interactions.

[ In truth, he had missed the friends he made in Eudio, and found himself drifting from those acquaintances he had on the ship, especially in the past few months prior to his arrival. ] How are you faring here?

[vexy]

Ha! You were bored without me! [ He announced as if that were some sort of grand victory. It definitely was if you were like Vex and looking for any way to strip down the computer-like pattern of Spock's life. ]

Here? It's shit here. [ His mouth twisted downwards. ] Eudio was paradise, this is full of bugs and beasties that want to eat me alive. Not to mention I'm living in this sorry excuse for a shack. [ For a small place it was alright, but it was definitely no two-floor penthouse. ]

[mindmeld]

[ Between the amount of time he had known Vex and the other people in his life who made it a habit to break down Spock's habits and speech patterns to generalizations, Spock was accustomed to such behavior and only graced Vex with a pointed look at not the correction he would otherwise provide. ] I can assume your life was as chaotic as you wished without my presence.

[ After all, he did not have Spock there to grace him with logic. ]

This world is rather disconcerting after the pristine nature of the ship upon which I resided, and Eudio. However, it has provided ample opportunity for improvement and interaction with a world that was once thriving and is no longer.

[vexy]

Oh it was alright, but you know how it is. Things aren't quite the same when you can only pester someone through a bead. [ Seriously, it was one of the odder forms of communication that Vex had ever encountered. ]

Does that mean you're putting yourself on the clean-up crew? Fae knows the entire city needs a scrub. All those vines, leaves, creepy crawlies and dirt. Ugh. [ Vex wouldn't peg himself for a "neat freak" but there was something about nature that clearly put him off. ]

Darling, it's still thriving. I'm here, after all. [ ha ha ]