Test Drive Meme #4 (cw vehicular crash, moderate injury)

[spoofer]

Test Drive Meme #4

Fall toward me with your entire body.

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.

FAIRGROUNDS

Xistentia's late summer fair is on! As F.A.T.E.S. learns about different universes and different people, the event looks mismatched, beyond complicated, and you might wonder why, exactly, how to get ride tickets when no money is exchanged. But as you wander through, you can see a rollercoaster, a five-a-side soccer pitch set up for a tournament, facepainting, an archery range, a haunted house, a circus tent, a Ferris wheel, plenty of different food stands with eclectic choices all over, from kebabs to Taiwan's infamous penis-shaped waffles^[NSFW] to popsicles for two. Maybe this is only a front to get people involved with each other?

Everybody is welcome to man a booth, or just walk around and participate in the different activities set up around the fairgrounds.

NETWORK

One afternoon, you are taken from whatever you’re doing - taking a walk through the city, sunning yourself on the beach, running around in the forest shoring up defenses - by a message, appearing on your Daemon’s network screen. It’s a simple line of text, that reads:

NEVER HAVE I EVER...?

If you choose to answer it, you’ll be connected to another player at random. You both get 10 points. The loser? Owes the winner a favor.

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

[lunasty]

[fortunately for everyone involved, even the incredible acuity of drake's wolf nose can't pick up the specific scent for 'this guy thinks a supersize wolf is fucking this slender white twink.' or maybe that's unfortunate. he could use a laugh today.

the movement!! of shoe toward ari draws his attention rather sharply. but he manages not to do more than curl his upper lip above his teeth. it's a nerve-level reaction, like goosebumps and grimaces. he doesn't growl; he merely watches the small bit of footwear travel closer to the orbit of ari's person very attentively. because of how huge drake's head is, in wolf shape, his eyes cross slightly.]

<I thought he just didn't know how to use the word 'exasperate.' De sounds French, -gard sounds English, Elezen sounds like Japanese anime.> [his snout drops slightly as he refocuses on aymeric's sword.] <Maybe we should tell him his holy sea looks nice and we're sorry these folks have all dropped fire and rubbish in it. And we haven't got passports.>

[baeta]

Thank you. ( he says hesitantly, moving his hands away from drake to accept the offered shoe. wriggling tiny toes under drake's paw until he moves it, ari then replaces the shoe back to its rightful place, even if he would've been just as happy to go barefoot. )

Do you -- oh, sorry. < Do you think we need passports? I don't think so. If we do we're going to be in trouble. >

( he gazes shifts back on to aymeric, studying him slightly -- the idea of a new race or type of myth excites the little wolf greatly, and he immediately wants to compare and contrast, figure out how similar they really are.

that said, this is a stranger. he should try to be polite. )

Um, i-is -- is this your holy sea? ( he points to the water, scattered in debris and fire. ) It is very nice. Me and Drake both think so. I haven't heard of Ishgard, is that in Europe?

[remarkablymodest]

[ Aymeric wouldn't be opposed to any inquiries about his race but perhaps at a less pressing time. Neither of them appear to be wounded, but- He'd rather get them out of potential harm's way lest that changes.

The man look towards Ari's point, then recognizes the misunderstanding after a moment of mild confusion. See. Sea. He supposes that'd be the conclusion to come to given they are on the shore. ]

This is not my homeland, no, [ he settles for, opting to explain later. ] Ishgard is in the region of Eorzea, in the snowfields of Coerthas. I have never heard of 'Europe' but I assume that is a country or continent of the planet earth. My world is called Hydalen and I am learning it is vastly different from earth in a myriad of ways.

We are currently in the world of Xistentia. I can take you into the city, if you'd be agreeable.

[ But there's something else more important he wants to address, actually- ]

How are you able to communicate with him? [ He says, looking briefly at Drake before his attention goes back to Ari. ]