xistentiaooc | Test Drive Meme #2

Test Drive #2

I saw a flower, furrow, and brook

New TDMers are free to RP here as if "new" or "established;"
"new" is likely easier to keep in continuity after apping.

When gameplay begins, the second wave will have
their own intro plot and crash log!

CREATURES IN THE DARK

Far away from the city, the wall of light that is F.A.T.E.S. seems calm, glowing peacefully. You’re on an evening walk through the city, or maybe on a camping trip in the woods, or maybe on a romantic date on the beach; whatever it is, you’re outdoors, enjoying the apparent peace and quiet, for once.

That is, until you hear a noise. It’s a rustle, or a step, a branch breaking underfoot, a heavier sound than a human would make. And that’s when you find yourself faced with one of the many Xistentia critters: the Green Backed Bison. She's massive, with small horns and a broad, mossy back, a small calf at her side. She does not appear to want to charge you^[1], but that might change, depending on what you decide to do! Either approach it, run away, or go into aggressive mode; how will you react to being introduced to the incredible fauna of Xistentia?

Glitch in the City

The city of Xistentia now boasts a population of over 200 sentient souls! Congratulations on surviving your apocalypse, now feel free to enjoy the city and outlying forest. Today, a number of local businesses are open, including the local tailor, our diner Pop's Chocklit Shop, and Sue's Salads. For now, the only bar and lounge is the atrium of the Citadel, the outpost overlooking the sea. It's a lovely day to be out and about.

But at midday, the rendering errors begin. New arrivals, those who came into Xistentia since the second crash find themselves subject to a bizarre phenomenon, where a holographic projection seems to be floating above their head! It contains data about the character's marital status, preferences for fun and dating activities, and pet peeves... and perhaps embarrassingly, it isn't necessarily accurate.

As your daemon will explain the glitch is easy enough to fix! You can either move 100 yards from the location where it began, or another character can remove it for you by touching the graphic.

RENDERING ERROR #285
Preferred Alias: F.A.T.E.S. McWeirdo
Marital Status: Hateboning Nemesis
Preferred Dating Activity: Creating new universes, maintaining the equilibrium of the multiverse, organizing temporal divergences/alternate universes, restoring damage inflicted by D.E.S.T.I.N.Y.
Other Enjoyable Activity: DJing music
Pet Peeves: Unfiltered tap water, gluten-fee pasta, unscheduled apocalypses

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GAME NIGHT

At 6 p.m., your Daemon starts making noise - a software update is being installed. It lasts for a few minutes, your Daemon mainly unresponsive if you attempt to make it do anything else than upload the data F.A.T.E.S. is sending it. Afterwards, it resumes acting as normal as it did before the update, but if you ask it, your Daemon will tell you:

Upgrade was installed for entertainment and integration purposes; Hangman.exe was installed.

Launch the application, and you will be given a match against one of your fellow citizens who also decided to join the game. On your holoscreen is a rudimentary, simple game of Hangman, as well as a chat window to taunt your opponent if you so choose. However, it becomes clear that F.A.T.E.S. has no idea what she's doing... the first word is 16 letters long, and she has pre-filled in the letters Z, C, and Q.

It's a good day to complain about technology, or start a new game afresh.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

hells yeah

Footnotes

Note any violence or injury in your subject headers, thank you.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Okay but what the fuck? Kenzi thought that buffalos were basically big cows. Weren't cows friendly? Was this actually a buffalo? Or also... did it want to eat her? Given the urgency in Barclay's tone, the way his face suddenly looked drawn told Kenzi what her instincts were already telling her, to be cautious, to be afraid.

And then the little demon spawn decides to be all Curious George. He moves towards her and Kenzi inadvertently takes a bigger step back, it's then her daemon, the normally cowardly beast starts chittering at the bigger animals in warning, basically warning them to back off and not being scary at all. He jumps off her shoulder and stands in front of her, making all kinds of sounds.

Kenzi lurches backward, catches herself from falling but the movement is jerky enough to make the larger of the two animals more unsettled, so Kenzi moves quicker, however those damn heels of hers make her stumble on her second step and she falls straight on that petite ass of hers before moving to try and scramble away.]

[And that's

enough to set off mama bear. mama buffalo, as the case happens to be. Her legs look short compared to the rest of her mountainous body, but she's taller than a human and her legs look like snug, angry trees as she kicks the turf backward, lowering her head toward Kenzi. Unlike the russian woman's daemon, the baby buffalo cashes in its smol animal cluepons and gets out of the way.]

Ho! Whoa! [This is probably not Barclay actually slut-shaming the buffalo, just doing his old timey shit, the way he talks. Also the way he stomps his feet and waves his arms, and shouts,] Here! Here, buffalo! Not that way! [Not Kenzi. And in a moment, the massive herbivore is turning toward him, its head lowered. One heavy kick of its hindquarters, and it launches to ram.]

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[ Its worse than any horror movie that she'd ever seen and it does all happen in slow motion...

She falls and before she can even brgin to think about how much this is going to hurt, she hears Barclay's voice call out to grab the beast's attention. And it works, much to Kenzi's chagrin. The animal turns on him, beyond enraged at this point and Kenzi acts on instinct.

She screams. Or rather, she yells and the sound is deafening and directed solely at the animal before it even gets half a foot forward. The air around the sound vibrates, it's visible in the way it moves. And it straight up knocks the buffalo off its hooves, knocks her back at least three feet.

Kenzi's eyes go wide and she suddenly remembers that she isn't merely human anymore, she is badass siren!Kenzi now. She scrambles to stand and does it again except she whistles and uses every ounce of energy she has to drive the beast back further while Kenzi sidesteps, moving over towards her man.]

[The sound— her voice-- blasts through the air.

Beside Barclay, the possum winds up shrieking, scrambling back. Its tiny pink-toed paws overturning twigs and leaves, until it smacks into another tree behind it. Barclay in the meantime-- the pirate himself reacts no less violently, his brow furrowed into a grimace, his hands clapped over his ears. He'd already started to step back, prepared to run, but her siren's cry stops him twofold. For one thing, it's exceptionally distracting. For another, he thinks he just saw a gigantic green buffalo get picked up and bounced through the trees by a wave of sound.

He blinks hard, his eyes watering. Nope. I mean yes. Yes, absolutely, that is definitely what just happened.]

Bloody Hell, [he says. She'd mentioned she is now fae, but bloody Hell. His expression is decidedly impressed.]

[ There is literally no finesse, no grace with what happens in that moment. She simply uses her powers on instinct before remembering that she has them and that she has no clue how to use them.

The buffalo moves backward, or rather flies backwards, and all that surrounds her reacts, her boyfriend, his daemon, her own. They all curl up upon themselves. She stops the sound when she thinks the animal is suitably stunned and she can make her way over to her boyfriend. ]

Are you okay? Also can we please get out of here?

That would be-- [Barclay is watching, stunned, as the buffalo starts to stagger to its feet, way over there. If it weren't for its offspring, no doubt it'd be down for the count, but mother-fear drives the animal to her feet and she goes to her child, even though she's disoriented and slow and badly off-balance.] —an excellent idea.

[The creature is not in any kind of fighting shape, but she's still looking about, dizzily, ready to overreact at the first sign of trouble. Barclay gathers Kenzi's hand in his own, quick.]

I'm quite all right. Shocked. Your abilities are magnificent. [Flourd the possum runs straight into the raccoon by accident, then straightens his path.]

Test Drive Meme #2

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kenzi ur cute fas :'c

kenzi sad is the worst

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