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

[deathkid]

[ following behind zeke, his brows raise a bit, watching the incubus with mild skepticism. ]

Alright, first kiss.

ca: incest mention

[salveo]

Ooh, well, I hope you don't get creeped out but my first kiss was my mother. In sex demon families that's usually the way it goes...

[ He looked a little sheepish as he rubbed the back of his neck. He wasn't ashamed but he knew this was a taboo subject for more. ]

cw: incest mention

[deathkid]

[ you know, anyone else would've probably balked at that, but nico just kinda gapes for a few seconds before shaking his head and chuckling. ]

Well, my step-mom is also my cousin and my boyfriend is also my second cousin once removed? Or something like that. When half your family are Greek gods, incest tends to happen.

[ and he doesn't mention that he is was in love with his first cousin, percy. ]

[salveo]

[ That made him smile and look more comfortable. ]

Oh yeah, all the gods I know are like that. Well, I'm glad it doesn't freak you out. But with sex demons it's more of a necessity thing so we don't accidentally kill our first feeds, we need experience before we get out there, you know? Nothing's worse than killing your first.

We don't usually date family since we can't breed with them anyway. Two sex demons, that is, we can't procreate with each other. It's gotta be with another species, humans are typically the best to go for. Hey wait, this is a whole lot of truth from me and it's supposed to be your turn. So truth or dare?

[ He asked as they stepped in the line for the face painter. ]

[deathkid]

Can't say I've met a lot of sex demons, to be honest. Empousai sort of count, but their powers of seduction don't really work on me. [ being gay and all.

he shrugs a bit as they approach the painter, and nico gives the booth a leery look. ]

I picked dare last time. How about truth?

[salveo]

Empousai... those are vampires, right? Yeah, their compulsion has nothing on sex demons.

[ Zeke can't help but grin at Nico's reaction to the booth. Not that he was a sadist or anything, it was just something silly and Nico didn't seem to be a fan. ]

Alright. Say you had to wear something on your cheek permanently, but it was your choice what it'd look like. What would it be? And no, I promise I'm not gonna dare you to get a face tattoo, I'm just curious.

[deathkid]

[ continuing to make a face, nico considered the question for a few seconds. if he did have a permanent mark, he'd want it to be meaningful. it took a few seconds, but the answer soon came to him. ]

My sister's name in Ancient Greek.

[salveo]

That's nice, you two must be really close. Family is important to me too. I'd probably tat my kids names on me if I wasn't afraid of running out of room.

[ He didn't want to ask too much about someone's sister because he never knew if he was going into weird territory, so he kept it light for now. ]

I think it's my turn, and so I pick dare.