Test Drive Meme #5

[spoofer]

Test Drive Meme #5

You wouldn’t wake; i couldn’t sleep for years.

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.


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.

THE RAIN

Here comes the rain. Trickling down the rafters and tinkling down the trees, it starts as a drizzle and steadily increases to a downpour. Maybe it catches you by surprise, chasing you indoors or to share the umbrella of a friendly stranger. There's something oddly elaborate about the gutters of Xistentia's city-- it clearly carries the water toward the temple in the East, a storm system that causes the lamps to pulsate without threatening to shut down.


You'll notice too that you're prone to nostalgia which even infiltrate your dreams, memories sad or happy. This is easily a private experience, but you might find yourself wandering the city to get away from old ghosts or feeling invincible in the glow of memories. More oddly, whether or not you're an artist, you might be inspired to draw on the windows with your finger in the condensation.

Personal symbols, detailed illustrations, these inextricably lead back to the nostalgia. Whatever it is, it might pull someone to ask.

NETWORK

By now, the city of Xistentia has a population of over 400 people. Shops line the streets of downtown, and increasingly well-trodden paths will take you into the agricultural zones nearer to the forest or even down to the beach. There are still distinctive animal presences around— careful with that— but the most common critters you'll see are birds crapping on your stuff outside and tiny winged hairless people creeping your food.

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:

PHOTO SENT

It would appear that your daemon accidentally sent a picture, perhaps one from your photo roll or instagram, or a random shot of you or your surroundings. Wait. Was that a public network post? Wait—

IMAGE CODE TEMPLATE
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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. But like OOCly ask permission ofc.

Comments

mikaela hyakuya -- owari no seraph/seraph of the end

[infatyuated]

𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙝 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 ➝

[ mika's already experienced the end of the world once. to experience it again is not much fun, especially when he's pulled from being with his precious yuu-chan to a crash site of an airplane. he hasn't come to any harm, fortunately, but he's been in better places and better situations. at least he's not thirsty... yet.

blood-red eyes glance around him as he takes in the scene. he's aware of the little black bat that seems to be flopping around him now and scowls at it, reminded of krul tepes' pet bat, arukanu, but as the bat introduces himself with a voice not unlike that of ferid bathory's, he finds himself saddled with a means for communication. not that he approves. looking around again, he realizes he's nowhere familiar, and it's obviously not japan. where he might be, he has no idea. but he does know he needs to get away from the scent of wounded humans before he feels that familiar burning in his chest and throat. so he sets his gaze on the forest, one hand on the pommel of the sword at his hip and begins making his way there. against the smokey, ruined backdrop of the wreckage and the sea, his white uniform is almost glaring, but he doesn't care. he doesn't shuck off any of it, regardless of how wet and sandy it is because the anti-uv black bands on his shoulder keep him from burning. besides, he's more focused on finding his way back to yuu. ]

𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 ➝

daemon: tepesd


[ some twenty minutes later there's an addendum: ]

I'm looking for a Japanese boy with black hair and green eyes.
He'll be in a black uniform with green accents
he'll also be carrying a sword.
He's a bit of an idiot though
so please inform me as soon as possible.

daemon: moonshined

[pillz]

tahts either racist & crepy fetishy or just like
real picky
wats wrong wit white boys in regular ass clothes wit great asses

[infatyuated]

[ this guy has to be american. that's the only explanation he can think of. ]

it's a specific person.
his name is Yuu

[pillz]

[he is definitely american.]

r u hittin on me
how about me
mi
speicifically me
i mena whats so great about yuu anywya

[infatyuated]

[ it's like talking to an american version of yuuichiro, which is a headache all of its own. at least yuu is endearing. ]

Hyakuya Yuuichiro
That's his name. Yuu-chan.
Not "YOU"

Yuu-chan is the only family I have
I need to find him before he tries to attack someone
or something stronger than him.

[pillz]

oh
is he ur kid?

[this dynamic sounds like one kavinsky's familiar with himself, as a recently turned former person, now vampire.]

[infatyuated]

we grew up in the same orphanage together
before we were taken in by vampires.

[ but yuu is more than that, not that mika would explain. yuu is his life and everything that matters to him. it's because of yuu that he's a complete vampire now, but if he hadn't drank yuu's blood, he surely would've died. they've saved each other time and again and mika already feels an ache from missing him. ]

daemon: kyd

[mordacita]

i am generally opposed to providing idiots with swords
at any rate i know no one of that name.
perhaps he will reveal himself in time.

[infatyuated]

I am too
but Yuu-chan is only an idiot in that he
is too kind and needs to protect everyone.
Plus, he was manipulated into joining the
Moon Demon Company in Japan.
That's why he has a sword.

I hope he does. There's other reasons I need him.

[ mostly that he's the prime source of blood for mika. ]

[mordacita]

it would be wise to prepare for disappointment
but if he is not here, there remains hope that he may arrive later
that happened with two of mine. a kingdom of others remains missing, however, including some who are very dear to me
it is the same for many of us. i understand.

[infatyuated]

a whole kingdom?
are you some kind of royalty?

[ he's unaware that rafa is a vampire, much less their king. ]

I'm not unused to disappointment.
still, I worry about him.
He's the only family I have left.
I have to protect him.

[mordacita]

i am their king

so i understand wishing to protect the one you have lost.
it may be impossible for you at this moment
but if i should encounter one by that name, i shall inform you.

[infatyuated]

i wasn't aware there were any
human kingdoms left.

and thank you.

[ this guy isn't bad for a (presumably) human, though mika isn't going to trust him just yet. ]

[mordacita]

there are several, in fact, despite their efforts to rid themselves of all tradition

but i did not say i was human, my friend.

private;

[infatyuated]

[ not human. that has mika immediately wary. if this person a vampire, he doesn't know if he can trust him. a demon would be even worse. he can't imagine anything else because there is nothing else besides demons, vampires, and humans where he's from, and so he in his mind, he's already suspecting the worst.

krul, his sire, would scold him if she were here, but she's not and he has his and yuu's world to save. so if there are other vampires here... ]

99% of humanity is dead where i'm from
if you're not human, what are you?

[mordacita]

[ Hm. Glances at that. ]

i am a vampire
is there a reason why you made this private? i make no secret of it here.

[infatyuated]

I have my reasons.
So you're a monster as well.

[ a long pause and then: ]

and the humans don't mind?
what about when you need to feed?

[mordacita]

[ It's been a while since anyone had that reaction. It prickles more than it used to. ]

we are all monsters in our own ways

some humans mind. i have little time for prejudice
i feed from volunteers. that is more complicated in this world than my own
a friend made a machine that could clone blood for me.

do you have need of it?

[infatyuated]

some more than others.

[ volunteers? this comes as a surprise to mika. most vampires he knows just take to the point of killing those from whom they feed. but this one insists he uses volunteers and he can't help but wonder who would ever. sure, yuu had insisted, insisted frequently and insistently, but maybe it's because he's so different from most vampires that he hates the thought of drinking human blood.

cloned blood, however... he hates admitting it, but this might be a boon for him. he might need this vampire's help. ]

does it work?
the blood of my sire used to be enough, but
and I only have 5 vials left of Yuu-chan's blood

[mordacita]

5 vials is not enough.

[ Anyone would know that. Certainly any vampire. ]

there are animals here
they may sustain you, i do not know

but the cloned blood works. it is no different from human blood
colder. but it can be warmed

tell me did your sire sustain you alone? for how long?

[infatyuated]

[ that much is true and mika knows it. but he hates the idea of drinking anyone's blood but yuu's, if he has to drink it at all. ]

animal blood would not work.
I wouldn't ever be able to digest it.

but the cloned blood might work.

she did. for four years.
I'd never had any human blood at that point
her blood was the only thing I could bring myself to drink

[mordacita]

i see no reason why it would not
i clone it often. it stays fresh

come to try it
before your need is urgent would be best.

[infatyuated]

[ he doesn't want to do this, doesn't want to rely on anyone, but in order to save his world... in order to save his yuu-chan, he has to keep sane. ]

where do I find you

[mordacita]

[ Rafa sends a map point - to the bar he keeps the machine is, a clean and comfortable business in town. ]

get your daemon to find it
that should not be a problem for them

[infatyuated]

[ with the map, it doesn't take much effort to find his way to the location of bar. when he arrives, he's tense, glancing around him as he tries to memorize exits and everything in the bar. one hand rests on the hilt of his sword, the other at his side. he doesn't even know what this other vampire looks like, but he figures he'll know when he sees him. after all, he can smell the blood in the area. he'll be able to smell it on the other vampire when he shows up. ]