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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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Believe it or not, I. Uh. I get that. When I was in the ring, Luke was all I had.
So losing him was like losing everything. [ Of the world, of herself. Perhaps that's why she'd slaughtered everyone responsible for his death on the way out. Not that she remembers that part of things all too well. ] S'been about thirty years now since then, actually, but... It still sucks, sometimes. So I get it.
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[ Which definitely puts things into a dark perspective, but. That's still more than she ever would have said a year ago. ]
I'm glad though that you guys were able to have something great while it lasted. [ Her love for Ren - Luke was a stage name - was forged in blood and brokenness. Perhaps not the most healthy, but... They were for each other something she's not sure she'll ever find again. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. ]
S'alright. I mean, it feels like it's been longer honestly. Maybe because humans live such fast lives and a lot's changed since the 80s.
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[ Rose is grateful for her chance to live among so many unique individuals, even if it the circumstances of how it came to be has never been ideal. ]
I guess we have that in common, too. I've actually... never told anyone from Eudio about Luke. [ Not even Vanyel. He knew pieces of her past, but not it in its entirety. Maybe someday. ]
It felt like so much happened in Eudio, man. Crazy to think it was only a year. I guess here will probably be the same.
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Thanks. It's not, like... a secret or anything anymore, honestly, but. Also not something I go around telling anyone.
[ Which means she trusts him enough to share. That's definitely a high compliment for Rose. ]
Meanwhile, I always dove headlong into adventure. Not that it ever went well. Kind of why I ended up in Eudio in the first place, actually. [ Adventuring gone wrong. ]
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Not... exactly. Originally, I asked to stay in Eudio as my incentive. To live there and become a citizen. Then I changed it to saving the lives of some people in my world, but. I never got to find out if that one ever was accomplished.
[ She can only hope. ]
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I hope it did too. [ Especially considering it was her fault that they died in the first place and she was technically giving up her life for theirs. Feels kind of like cheating the system, honestly, that during the course of her stay in Eudio she planned to vanish to another world alive and fine but... ]
Yeah, that's... a good point. I mean, hopefully we'll have some answers to all these questions soon.
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[ But along came Vanyel from a world of magic and dragons and adventure that sounded like everything she wanted in life. She may be slightly better still that the portal spit her out here instead of there. ]
Still. I hope I can find a way to a place to call home eventually.
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[ They just have to have hope. Despite herself, that's something Rose seems to be fairly good at holding onto. ]
It's alright. Pretty run-down, actually, but there's the apartment complexes and houses scattered around. With some fixing up, it's all decently livable.
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[ Yes, she is. Definitely. ]
Either way, I hope you and Andrew find a place soon. I'll let you know when Vanyel and I settle down somewhere and hopefully it'll be close!