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

[ If Clary weren't such a redhead she might have been able to hide her flush of embarrassment. But unfortunately, those genes are inside of her and it floods to her face unbidden. ]

I watch a lot of fantasy anime.

[ Flowing hair, horses, swords, inexplicably ripped clothing. You know how it is.

None of that matters though, not when she's beaming and reaching down to pet each of the dogs. Rosie's here, alive and well, and so are her pack. That's enough to lift her failing spirits. ]

Plus, life model classes.

[ Aw, no, that's super cute. Though she does definitely know how that is. Sometimes with Feldspar and the other Morgan brothers, her life had felt like living a fantasy Anime most days. ]

Ah, well, that explains a lot.

[ Meanwhile, the dogs are all happily sniffing and licking and tail wagging at the attention. Rose takes a seat on the bench next to her friend, giving a sigh, ]

Glad you made it though, even if you're fashionably late.

[ It does explain her life. More specifically, her terrible love life. ]

I'm always late. Except this time I can't even blame the Jigglypuff. [ Which comes with it's own specific kind of guilt. She hadn't had time to find it before the Portal. ]

And to think, we never even got to do the clichéd roommate slumber party thing.

[ She grins up at Rosie, still mostly distracted by puppies. ] Have you found Magnus and Alec yet? They arrived with me. [ And Jace, but she's not sure if Rosie knows him. ]

Better late than never. Is that bad to say?

[ Rose wonders, briefly, where the pudgy pink Pokemon is. She supposes she was lucky to have gotten all her dogs through the portal in time. Charlie had made it too even if she hadn't actually made an effort for him. ]

Oh, man, I know! Well. You're free to sleep over at my house here anytime, though. Now I got two boyfriends instead of one so. [ Well on her way to a dozen. ]

I've run into 'em, yeah. Still the same as I remember, which is... relieving.

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