xistentiaooc | TEST DRIVE #9

Test Drive Meme #9

Desires and dreams and powers

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, almost at odds with the thinning layer of snowmelt over everything.

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 winter-browned forest across the sand. Beyond that, the glint of a faraway city.

Power Problems

Your first week in Xistentia^[2] is punctuated by power outages. It seems ironic, considering the city's street lights gather emotional energy and nothing bugs people out like electrical blackouts! But there you go. Fortunately, your daemons don't completely stop functioning; however, they do get oddly slow and sleepy.

Maybe you'll be in the streets, handing out candles and flashlights. Or maybe you revel in the darkness, curled up around someone you care for. Sometimes, the other senses seem to get stronger in the dark; you could hear a lover's heartbeat going like a drum, or speak stories through the walls with your neighbors.

But the next moment, your powers go on the fritz, absurd and unexpected. One moment, you might be carrying a cup of coffee brewed at a cafe that utilizes a pyrokinesis in these dark times; the next moment, the cup is floating out of your hand with newfound telekinesis, and snow is blowing out of the coffee shop doorway. Powers might be reversed or nullified, or even amplified.

But maybe once you recover from the shock, you can have some fun with it.

Just watch out for accidental animal telepaths and their Disney Princess squirrel trains.

NETWORK

Xistentia now has its own 'friending app.' You can use it to make connections with new people! But beware, your daemon may well post without your permission, and things could get pretty embarrassing.

F.A.T.E.S. thought it was a pretty good pun: Synchr. Get it? Like sinker? Hook, line, and?

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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.
If you decide to join the game, this prompt may be patched over into the upcoming event, which may result in new powers for your character. Please keep an eye out for a mod announcement soon!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Kevin hasn't met all that many new people here just yet and he's always eager to make new friends or at least have a pulse at what is going on in his surroundings and that isn't much different than it had been back home now that he's in this new place. Perhaps having a finger to the pulse here is even more important than it had been in Riverview. Both had their dangers, though.

He shows up on the beach not long after the last message had been sent and there's not a whole lot of people on it so it's easy to spot the person he's meeting. He doesn't say anything about his appearance -- he's not that rude, as he comes up to him. ]

Hello.

[oddly enough, nightcrawler's grown used to people not questioning his appearance. things are different on xistentia, even more so than earth back in his own homeworld. some places have come to terms better than others, but here, everyone looks at him like he's ... normal.

it helps when you have a good personality to counteract the demonic look.

he can hear the footsteps before the greeting, though waits until kevin says hello to turn and face him. reaching with both hands, he flips back the hood of his coat, fangs bared in a wide grin.] Hello! Wow, that didn't take long at all. [he lowers one hand, offers the other out to shake.] Nice to meet you, Kevin. My name is Kurt.

[ The fangs are weird and Kevin does a doubletake but again, doesn't say anything yet. ]

I'm fast enough. [ Kevin smiles and reaches to take his hand in a quick handshake. ]

It's a pleasure to meet you, Kurt.

[hopefully, kevin becomes accustomed to fangs because he isn't the only one with them. there are quite a few vampires floating around that he's sure to meet when exploring the town.

he shakes the hand in his own then withdraws, motioning with the same limb toward the trees.]

Shall we?

[ Kevin has yet to meet any vampires that he knows of and well he wouldn't be in a hurry to do so if he knew. But all the same that's of no matter at the current moment as he looks to the trees with a slow smile. ]

Let's go. Are we timing?

I don't think that's necessary. We can just— [he stops, gazing out across the trees.] Run.

[this is a casual sort of thing. kurt sees no reason for them to worry about something as superfluous as time while they get to know one another. he gestures by jerking his head then takes off, settling on a more human-like run with some extra pep, glancing from his peripheral since he has a good feeling kevin should be able to keep up.]

Sounds good to me.

[ Kevin is already warmed up and so he's ready to follow the other as they start to run. He still has some curious feelings about the other as they keep up together. ]

[he's pleasantly surprised either way, lips quirking again as kevin comes into his line of sight-- just like he'd figured.]

What else do you enjoy besides running?

The usual, you know? Movies, books, sometimes journalism.

[ Kevin grins and looks over at the other. ]>

What about you?

Can't say I've gotten into much journalism. Movies and books are wonderful, though!

[kurt's pace increases slightly, his attention drifting back off toward the trees.] I also like art, cooking, video games— [he hesitates, but only for a second.] And plants.

[ Kevin keeps pace with Kurt and keeps aware of the surroundings as hes still trying to get used to this place and familiarize himself fully with it. ]

Plants? [ He questions curiously. ]

Yes, [he responds simply.

they're something kurt hasn't had idle conversation about, but he's willing to now.] Flowers, herbs, succulents— things like that?

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