TEST DRIVE #9

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Test Drive Meme #9

Desires and dreams and powers

INTRODUCTION ⇄ FAQ ⇄ APPLICATIONS

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

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. 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!

Comments

[thekevinthwonder]

✓

Quite a few versions of something similar actually.

[cryfrustration]

Wow. Guess people can find just what they're looking for, huh? Pretty clever. So what about these daemon things, you have them too?

[thekevinthwonder]

Sometimes. Most of the time people just end up messing around and things never go anywhere. Not daemons, cell phones.

[cryfrustration]

Well that's a shame. And straight up, I got no idea what a cell phone is, but I'm willing to bet it doesn't mean having a bird deliver your mail.

What about the rest of this place? It anything like your world? Cause I gotta say it's all weird as hell for me.

[thekevinthwonder]

It's just the way it is. And, yeah, birds haven't been used for a very long time.

It's not totally different a lot of the buildings and everything are similar and the land in general but I guess the laws of physics or whatever seem different here.

[cryfrustration]

Can't say I know much about laws of physics. To me this place looks like something an asura with a gravity fixation would build. It's got the angles and lines and lights but there's not enough pointlessly floating crap and holes in the floor.

[thekevinthwonder]

What's asura?

[cryfrustration]

Short sorta toothy little things with big long ears? Come from underground, look kinda imp-like? You don't have those?

[thekevinthwonder]

Sorta sounds like a rabbit, I guess.

[cryfrustration]

Oh. No, not like that. I mean they're people. All technomagic science-brained people. Just...not human.

[thekevinthwonder]

That's...strange sounding.

[cryfrustration]

Guess that's a no on you having em where you're from then. Well I bet they'd love this place.

So, do you think you've been here long enough to show a guy around?

[thekevinthwonder]

I'll have to take your word for it.

Enough for a starter tour, I think.

[cryfrustration]

Tell me where to meet you?

[[OOC: We could do the thread of them meeting in-game if you're interested in making this game canon?]]