xistentiaooc | Test Drive Meme #2

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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

Optional Code

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

I. CREATURES IN THE DARK

[ alec's bow appears in his hand at the sound that makes him spin around, but it lowers quickly once he realizes what caused the sound in the first place. the bison doesn't look threatening, though it's mass alone is dangerous. alec could surely outrun it, so he dispels his bow, and is further relieved he didn't shoot an arrow without looking first when he noticed the calf near her leg. ]

Nearly shot you, [ he says, tone a little bemused. the creature is oddly beautiful. or commanding? it looks like what an ancient forest spirit might have been described as in a story. it's clearly a parent, and while alec is tempted to come closer, he figures any gesture could be interpreted as a threat toward it's young. better not to risk it.

to the person he hears approaching, he says: ] Careful. There's a baby with it.

II. GLITCH

Rendering Error #285

Preferred Alias: Alec, Alexander, Sayang, Suami, Darling, Mi Sol
Marital Status: Married
Preferred Dating Activity: Kissing on balconies, portal travel, drinks, sex, marriage proposals
Other Enjoyable Activity: Being right, sparring, paperwork, family time, physical affection
Pet Peeves: lack of boundaries, nosiness, rule breakers, clary, people who don't think before they speak or act, when your tea went from perfect temp to just cold enough to be gross, being interrupted when trying to make out, working hard on something and doing your best only to be told it's not good enough, people escaping consequence for their actions, straight people nonsense, giving advice when asked and that advice going ignored, clary, assumptions being made about him or his relationship or his family, lack of order, when jace gets mad he ruined his jacket when if he'd just done his own laundry it wouldn't have happened, mundanes, irresponsibility, being too busy to see his husband and get laid, when izzy leaves her heels at his door when she comes to see him and he trips on them, oversharing, smelling like ichor, being called a stuck up and paranoid, failing to keep people safe

[ it doesn't take alec long to notice the holographic image above his head, and when he does, he feels pretty much the same as if he'd walked into the middle of town without clothes on. that's how revealing it is, in his eyes, and he swats at in irritation, stopping in his tracks on his way to sue's salads to get himself and the mister a smoothie. that plan is now completely on hold until alec figures out how to rid himself of this entirely unwelcome display of personal information. the pet peeve section simply runs off the image, becoming garbled as it goes, but that's the part alec is least worried about. ]

How do I make this stop? Hey, Sophiad. How do I turn this off?

[ his daemon sits on the ground at his feet, blinks, and then rolls onto her side to immediately go to sleep. or pretend to. alec doesn't think it needs actual sleep, but it seems to suddenly be in dire need of a nap whenever he has a request (maybe not so if he didn't so often forget the magic word). so much for being helpful guides through this new world.

alec just clenches his jaw and looks at the floating box, waving his hand through it, trying to tap it or swipe it away. the less it works, the more irritated he gets, and the more furtive his glances to his surroundings become. please let know one come by and ask him about any of this. please. ]

III. GAME NIGHT

[ frowning at this screen. he's not certain the game is set right, so time to send a message to his opponent. ]

Does it expect us to play in English?

Edited 2017-06-18 02:52 (UTC)

Oh my gods, [ comes a disbelieving squeak from Rose. Her face is a picture of pure delight as she zooms right up to him and reads the screen on display. Sorry, bro, she's too nosy for her own good. ]

It's cool, Alec, I like sex too.

[ oh my goD STOP ]

Kissing on balconies is great, too, but getting railed on them is also a lot of fun. See what I did there? Railed? [ Haha, she's so clever. ] Are those all the nicknames Magnus calls you? That's so cute, I gotta' look up what Mi Sol means now...

[ Someone's having a field day.

Also, her dogs say hello. They kind of swarm around them both, tails a wagging. ]

[ NOOOOO

MORE FRANTIC SWIPING AND SWATTING. ]

Stop, don't — Just — How do I get rid of this thing?

[ he is NOT going red from the neck up. you're making that up. absolutely. he hardly notices the swarm of dogs, because his ears are ringing and he can't even look at rose directly even if that dumb joke makes him want to laugh nervously. ]

I'm ignoring every word you're saying if it's not about helping me get this to go away.

Apollod, what does 'Mi Sol' mean, [ she asks her daemon, blatantly ignoring Alec's discomfort. The Golden Retriever's ears perk up and eyes come alight as he gets to processing the request. In a blink, 'my sun' is projected above him and he wags his tail happily. ]

That's adorable. [ Eeeee. An IC Malec shipper right here, okay.

Oh, right, about that- ]

Okay, okay, [ Rose reaches out and touches the display. It's gone in a blip. ] There you go!

[ WH — that was so easy. annoyingly easy.

he exhales sharply once the square is gone, even as her squeal still resonates in his ear. yes, it is adorable. he feels a pang of fondness for the nickname through the frantic anxiety of having so much personal information about himself on display. why couldn't she have focused on the pet peeves? he doesn't care if people know what annoys him. in fact he enjoys telling people as much.

it's not even like magnus makes it a secret he calls alec pet names or avoids them in public — but it's telling the world alec loves hearing those that makes him rub the back of his neck, trying to ease the tension that just appeared there. ]

Forget you saw all... [ gestures, drops his hand, shoves both of them in his pocket. ] that.

[ his daemon is up now, prowling between the dogs and looking bored, barely even glancing at alec or his discomfort. lookin totally snooty about it. alec glowers at it. ]

alec lightwood, shadowhunters (CRAU)

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