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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
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
- 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.
- But like OOCly ask permission ofc.
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But then-!!! ]
Alec! You're here! [ exclaimed with an unmistakably genuine grin. Which, of course, means Magnus can't be far behind. Right? They're practically inseparable in her mind. Which is good since she was very saddened at the prospect of having to go this new adventure without them. ] So good to see you, dude. Where are you?
As for the housing, I guess I'll take what I want. [ ... Wait for it. ] I was going to ask Vanyel if he wanted to get a place, uh. Together. [ Said nervously while trying to sound casual. Asking your boyfriend to move in with you is a big!! deal!!! ] Is that too serious? It's probably too serious, maybe I won't ask.
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We made our way to the city. People are getting settled here. [ if magnus was not here, alec would not be conversing over the network. he'd be raking the crash site and the woods for any sign of magnus' presence, lbr. besides, it's obvious when something isnt right with alec, and while he seems exhausted, he's not completely closed off.
his eyebrows raise at rosie. ]
You should ask. What's the point in living in two different places here?
omg this tag went to my eudio inbox not my xist one I SWEAR I WASN'T IGNORING YOU ASDFGHJKL
[ She does imagine Alec's priorities would be a lot different had he not arrived with Magnus. Still, it does worry her that they were probably driven here by... whatever is happening to the multiverse. ]
I mean. I dunno, dude. We lived in different places in Eudio because, like. We see other people and all that. [ Plus, Rose had just never gotten the courage to ask to live together there either so. Y'know. Same shit, different world. ] Would it be weird to live together? Come as a set? I mean, we don't have to, but-
I feel like it'd be weird.
fjkldfhj DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT <3<3<3<3
but instead he'll try being more helpful, as tired as he is. ]
Why would it be weird? [ ok, it does get complicated if they're seeing other people too, but then — ] Plenty of people share a place with roommates.
[ maybe putting it like that will help. it seems like less of a significant commitment, when you think of it from that angle. ]
You wouldn't be the first roommates who also happen to like each other. [ and if they talk, which is historically an issue for rose, they should be able to figure out an arrangement, concerning their other partners. ] If you talk to each other, it shouldn't be a problem.
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I mean. I dunno. We've kind of gone so far without really... being around each other when we're seeing other people, so. [ Ah. The truth. Rose doesn't want to confine or be confined, but... actually having to face that Vanyel is with someone else seems to bother her. A little. Maybe.
(A lot, actually. Which is definitely, absolutely something they should talk about.) ]
We don't have to live together, [ she starts, trying to... talk herself out of it... ] I can be close, at least. That'd be fine.
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Rose.
[ a beat. ]
Talk to him. If you want to live with him but you don't wanna see him with others you can tell him. Then you two can figure out a system that works or decide to wait.
[ he shrugs at that last thing. ] It's not the end of the world to decide to wait. Sometimes you need to.
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She should be able to deal with it, shouldn't she? It was something they'd talked about and she was aware of but hasn't had to come face-to-face with yet. Maybe she doesn't want to. Maybe that means-
Ah, no. She's not going to let her thoughts go there again. ]
Okay, [ she finally replies, giving a small nod. ] I'll figure it out. [ Not 'I'll talk to him' exactly but hopefully vague enough that he doesn't question. Though since Alec is more versed in Rosie speak than most people he might be able to translate that. ]
Patience never has been one of my strong points though, y'know.
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If you're not ready to see him with others and you aren't sure he'll be willing to compromise, then yeah. Better to wait it out. Or you could ask him how he feels, and decide together.
[ deciding together would be the road he takes, personally... ]
Comes down to, again, talking to him. [ POINTED LOOK. ]
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Uuuughhh, fine. I'll ask him about it. [ Even if they don't talk about livng together necessarily, then their relationship and its perameters at least. ]
But if it goes badly, I blame you. [ Kidding, of course. ]
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[ honestly. in full! no relationship can work without communication and if it goes badly they either just need to learn to communicate better or decide it's not working out.
which is better to figure out before you move in together. ]
I'll be here to hear how it went. [ "i expect a full report." ]
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(Even if she's the first to convince herself maybe it should. Sh. Don't point out her logical fallacies.) ]
Alright, I'll let you know.
[ It's a good thing you're not apping Alec until later in June, Charlie, because this means Rosie has more time to not do that thing he told her to. ]
And you let me know where you and Magnus end up settling, okay? I want to be able to visit.
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Yeah, we'll let you know. We're looking around. Weird to think we can just pick a place and move in there.
[ though some of these places require a lot of clean up. alec doesn't mind so much. it keeps them all busy, trying to settle in the city. when there's this kind of work to do, people are less prone to letting their worries eat at them.
and so is alec. ]
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I think it's kind of neat, actually! All these little fixer uppers. Reminds me of finding my little house in Eudio. Only this time Magnus can't go furniture shopping with me to help out, but... I'm sure it'll be fine.
[ Okay but, like, what if they're living together but they didn't talk about it and it's?? fine??? That's cool, right. Totally. ]
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this requires a lot of fixing. and cleaning. but it's the part where he can just walk in and decide this place is his that's strange to him.
smiling a bit, almost to himself: ]
I'm sure he'd be happy to help you figure out how to arrange it all.
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We'll see.
[ If they move in together, she means. (They will.) (But now she has her doubts about how well it'll work after the fact, thanks Alec.) ]