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

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

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. ]

[ Because she's Rose, who would rather focus on the cute things he enjoys than the annoyances. She understands the concept of a private life - she led a very, very private life for three decades - but Eudio gave her the opputunity to not have to hide.

It's been so freeing and wonderful that she sometimes doesn't understand why people wouldn't shout their loves from the rooftops if they were allowed to. ] It's burned into my memory now, sorry.

But I won't go around telling everyone or anything, dude, so don't worry.

[ hey, alec totally wants to shout his love from rooftops. loving magnus has been freeing and wonderful and he doesn't hide that fact from the man in question, but that's different than details like pet names and date activities being displayed without him being willing to disclose the information.

and sometimes, alec gets mad at himself for caring so much when no one else seems to. ]

You better not. [ it's not very heated. but she does get a slightly pointed look.

then he sighs. ] I don't know why people even care or want to know this stuff, anyway.

[ As he should! Still, she supposes she can understand that to some degree... There's not a lot Rose minds being disclosed. Like, Vanyel went down on her in public once and that's about as open with your relationship as you can get so.

But she'll refrain from telling Alec all about that fun story. For now. ]

C'mon, dude, I may be reckless but I'm not mean. [ As for why people care, ] I think it's especially interesting with people like you though who can be kind of... private? Like. You're obviously with Magnus, but still. The details are the great unknown and that just makes people want to know more.

[ bless you for sparing him those details.

also that makes a lot of sense, so all the more frustrating he didn't conclude the same thing. people are so... is that really all it takes for others to get so damn nosy? wanting your privacy?

besides, alec is pretty sure no one is curious for curiosity reasons. most likely, it's because they find it entertaining, like vex once did, to badger him about things he's not comfortable sharing or talking about. ]

You've said interesting, but I'm sure half of it is more about fun.

[ which you would think means he catches on and stops reacting, but. look, he's improved!!! it's a slow process!! ]

[ For now. As we've all seen, Rose has no qualms with sharing overly intimate details about her love life.

Cue a snap into finger guns. ]

Yes. That. That, too.

[ Meaning, it is absolutely fun. Sorry, Alec, guilty as charged. ]

But I'll try to ease up on the teasing. Maybe. I make no promises.

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I probably need to do more loosening up, anyway.

[ aka it's fine, it's not entirely your fault, i'll work on it too.

just. slowly. ]

I've never been a really open person.

I mean, a little bit of unwinding isn't gonna hurt you. At least not in my personal experience.

[ It's interesting that he says that, because, ]

Can you believe I wasn't either? Mine wasn't by choice though so I guess I maybe went too far the other way when I realized in Eudio I could be as open as I want and there wouldn't be any consequences.

[ hearing 'wouldn't be any consequences' is like nails on a chalkboard for alec, who considers the opposite to be true at all times. ]

There are still consequences to what you do and say. Just — maybe not the same ones, or the same stakes.

[ he does, however, understand what rose means. after learning more about the world she came from, he can relate, somewhat. he always thought the fact that he was gay would mean consequences on himself and everyone he loves. ]

It's good not to feel trapped like that anymore, though. [ even if he is nowhere near her level. ]

[ Yeah. In her case, she had personally experiences those consequences so... The minor ones in Eudio were paltry in comparison. ]

Yeah, no, I get ya'. Still. I feel a lot more free than I ever have, which is definitely a good thing.

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