xistentiaooc | Test Drive Meme #5

Test Drive Meme #5

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

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

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

hells yeah

Footnotes

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.
But like OOCly ask permission ofc.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

( there's a tidal wave worse than the downpour from the sky headed juno's way -- he might find his memory stirring by some unruly murmuring from off screen, in a voice that sounds scarily familiar in an annoying and childish way, but once the wave locates juno, there's no hope for him at all. she comes, feet stomping, clothes wet, hair deflated on her shoulders. it seems like one (1) rita the great was in the middle of a rant with herself, which she starts fresh off as soon as she sees juno. )

Mister Steel, oh you've done it, you've really done it this time! You believe this? I wake up in the middle of butt nowhere and some robot guy's yelling at me going, oh the world's ended, bye Mars. No way! I try to contact Mister Steel, you know, like always, and what do I get? A voicemail! Yet here he is, plain as can be, making googly eyes at a peacock in the rain. Absolutely unbelievable! Do you have any idea what I'm missing back at home, Mister Steel? Do you? It's a movie marathon of The Lion, The Witch, and the Tentacle Monster from the Outer Rim. I mean, mind you it's not the top tier of movie entertainment, but there's this real nice looking lady in it -- I remember my friend Lizzie was telling me about her once, she was in some ad campaign for some kinda sexually transmitted whosie-whatsit, but just cause she's in the ad don't means she's got the disease, right? Anyway I remember Lizzie telling me all about this --

( it could go on forever please help me )

Edited 2017-09-24 04:49 (UTC)

[ oh no.

ohhhhh no. oh wow. oh yes. because he didn't get to spend nearly as much time running around the flaming "IT'S FINE!" wreckage on the beach looking for her as he'd have liked before being dragged away. and now? well, now juno doesn't waste any time. the second that familiar voice starts going off about some weird space stds, he's standing up, displacing his daemon who squawks again with an "i'm not done with you!"

well listen she is now because juno isn't even going to waste time. yeah, she's babbling on about someone named lizzie and this one time that juno is blocking out because he's got this basically down to a science, he might just be clutching her half in-half out of the rain. ]

Rita.

[ it's literally only going to last like 4 seconds before he stares at her kind of dumbly. ]

I didn't see you on the beach--you--

[ shh. don't! don't talk! don't go off on a tangent yet, let him ask the most important question before you go on. ]

You okay? Besides the... movie marathon thing.

[ priorities. rita's got 'em. good to see they haven't been washed away with the tide. it's. kind of a relief. ]

Test Drive Meme #5

rain!!!!!

i literally cannot believe u did this to me??? and my heart???