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

[leovaldez]

What kind of team is it that you have a teammate that you call Mr?

Just wondering!

I don't know if I believe in aliens.

[ptrprkr]

[ Okay. He has a point. ]

idk, it's polite?? [ And he wasn't taught good manners for nothing! ] he's a pretty important guy, i can't just go around calling him tony like we're old friends.

i do. i've seen them before.
they came out of a huge wormhole back when i was a kid.

[leovaldez]

Why not?

[ Leo doesn't have the best track record when it comes to politeness, to be honest! ]

Dude, are you sure you weren't like...

Hallucinating it? And maybe they weren't aliens, could've been monsters or titans.

[ptrprkr]

it might be weird, and he's WAY older than me.
he's kind of like my mentor, too.

[ Only because currently Tony Stark isn't there to deny it. ]

no way!! the entire city saw it! there was a huge battle and everything, it was crazy.
wouldn't aliens and titans technically both be monsters?

[leovaldez]

Why do you need a mentor?

Well, no.... not really. Titans are like super-gods. Monsters are like gorgons and giants and empusa.

[ptrprkr]

because i'm still kind of new to the team, so he's sort of showing me the ropes.
he's been fighting aliens and gods a lot longer than i have.

maybe titans are actually aliens? the ones in the city were able to keep up with a god and a monster.
what about an alien that's also a like a flying battle ship? monster, titan, or something else?

[leovaldez]

What are you that you're fighting aliens and gods or whatever?

But titans like... created everything. Or something. I didn't pay that much attention to learning stuff really...

But like I've dealt with some. They suck whether they're aliens or not.

[ptrprkr]

an avenger! we're sort of like a team of heroes, we save the world. and lately, there's been a lot of aliens and gods starting stuff.

[ Not that he's done much saving the world. Minor details! ]

they created everything? are you sure?

[ He's fairly confident that a giant explosion created everything. But, hey, to each his own, he guesses. ]

[leovaldez]

Huh. Well! What can you do, tho?

I'm definitely sure. This one stupid titan kept bothering me.

[ptrprkr]

how can you be so sure? is there evidence?
why was it bothering you?

[leovaldez]

Yeah, I mean... I know enough people who know.

That's a longggg story. You don't wanna know.

[ptrprkr]

i could probably find people who say they know bigfoot, but that doesn't really make it evidence.

[ Pics or it didn't happen, Leo. ]

i kind of do, though.

[leovaldez]

Well, I mean...

I'm half-god.

And gods came from Titans.

[ptrprkr]

then where did the titans come from?

[leovaldez]

ever read greek mythology?

[ptrprkr]

not lately.

[ And not outside of an assignment for his English class. ]

but i watched hercules when i was a kid.

[leovaldez]

Hercules is a total d-bag.

[ptrprkr]

really? he seemed like a pretty nice guy in the movie.
he had a little bit of an ego, but he came around in the end.

[leovaldez]

Well, movies aren't real.

[ptrprkr]

i know that 😒
was it even close?

[leovaldez]

Not even close. Chiron is way cooler...and weirder.

[ptrprkr]

i feel like i've been lied to. thanks for nothing, disney.

i don't think he was in the movie....
maybe he was too weird?

[leovaldez]

Do you seriously trust disney for having any realistic integrity for anything? I mean they made Hades blue. That stupid satyr reminds me a lot of Coach Hedge, only coach is louder and eats more trash.

[ptrprkr]

not really, i gave up on that a long time ago.
you're saying he wasn't really? i bet he didn't have the flame hair either, did he?

[ Damn you, Disney!! ]

[leovaldez]

Yeah no. He's way more lame than that.