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

( Queenie is a natural legilimens! tl;dr? This means she can read the thoughts, and extract emotions and memories from others without needing to use the incantation Legilimens -- and sometimes without meaning to do so. If you'd prefer she'd rather not, however, please let me know and I'll be happy to accommodate you! )

( one : Fantastic Beasts and Where (else) to Find Them )

[ Queenie is no stranger to strange and somewhat fantastical creatures. She'd recently made friends with a man who had an entire case of them -- and her sister seemed to have made more-than-friends with Mr. Scamander, a thought that has Queenie giggling softly to herself as she explores the new city she's arrived in. It doesn't look much like the New York from her memories, nor does it look much like anything that's familiar to her, magical or otherwise, with vines and thick vegetation growing from seemingly everywhere. It reminds her a little of her Herbology class back during her days at Ilvermorny, although none of it looks particularly familiar and there's the slightest bit of comfort in that thought. Like she isn't nearly as far from home as she thinks she is.

What grasps a hold of her attention and pulls her out of those memories, however, is the large creature that she finds standing in the middle of a mostly deserted street. ]

Oh. Hello there, honey.

[ Her tone is soft and gentle as she approaches the creature slowly -- and currently, she wishes that Newt had finished off that book of his sooner, it might have informed her on exactly what to do (and not to do) with the large beast. Unfortunately, he hadn't and Queenie is left to make this discovery all on her own. ]

Easy, there. I'm not going to hurt you. [ Being mindful of the calf at its side, careful steps carry Queenie right up to the bison, where she looks infinitely smaller in comparison to its massive frame. But despite how large -- and somewhat intimidating -- the creature is, Queenie doesn't show even an ounce of fear as she reaches out to gently run her hand down its snout. ]

See? [ The bison lets out a huff that sends Queenie's dress rippling and pulls a quiet, melodic laugh from her. ] I told there wasn't anything to be scared of, honey.

( two : Well, that's just a bunch of phoney baloney! )

Rendering Error #285

Preferred Alias: Queenie Goldstein
Marital Status: It's complicated
Preferred Dating Activity: avoiding Occamy attacks
Other Enjoyable Activity: accidental legilimency, baking, being not so great at most other spells, hiding the men Teenie brings home in suitcases.
Pet Peeves: jinxing the toliet, being ditched after making cocoa, folks who think ~~Hogwarts~~ Hogwash is better than Ilvermorny, skilled occlumens, Brits and their funny accents, nosy MACUSA coworkers

[ Queenie looks positively baffled by the hologram that appears right over her head -- she's seen quite a few things in the wizard world, but she's never once seen something like this, and she's quick to assume it must be some kind of No-Maj technology.

(But this is the most advanced No-Maj tech that she's ever seen!)

She takes a few moments to read over the words, her brows eventually knitting together in disapproval the more she reads. ]

Now wait just one minute! Where did you get this from? [ She turns an expectant gaze to the demiguise at her side -- one she remembers Newt calling Dougal, but the creature continued to insist to Queenie that it was actually named Dougald, which only manages to confuse the poor witch even more. When her daemon doesn't offer up an explanation, Queenie takes matters into her own hands.

Quite literally since she's still yet to locate her wand. Or any wand, for that matter ]

Evanesco. [ Nothing happens. She puffs her cheeks, stamping one of her feet and trying with a little more conviction. Usually, spells aren't this difficult without her wand. ] Evanesco!

[ Again. Nothing. And just as she turns her gaze back to Dougald, it disappears. (Although, it's likely still standing right in the same spot, just completely invisible to her.) ]

Oh, applesauce! [ She huffs, frustrated. Oh well, back to the drawing board. Maybe this wasn't No-Maj technology at all, maybe it was nothing more than magic she'd never before seen. Her eyes turn upward as she gives another try. ] Finite Incantatum?

( three : wildcard )

( Anything that you'd like, anywhere that you'd like! Or ping

unnideul for plotting things! )

[ This isn't the first time that Aaron's seen this glitch happen today. But, he doesn't immediately step into help even though he knows how since it's a little amusing watching the woman try and figure it out on her own -- he's not the nicest person okay. He's standing casually off to the side, the little furball that is his daemon is on his shoulder. His recently acquired Siamese kitten is on a leash and curled around his foot. The kitten hated to be held when outside but he didn't like it just having free reign in case he might lose her.

Eventually, he does decide to have mercy on the poor lady. Really? What is with all the weird words she keeps saying? ]

Are you having trouble? [ Aaron asks as he stops about 3 feet away from her. ]

[ Queenie goes through a few more incantations, but to no avail -- and it's at this point she's 100% convinced that whoever has put this thing over her head must have done so with a much more advanced spell than she's ever heard of.

Where was Tina when she needed her? Queenie bets she would have known the exact one for this very situation -- she was always good with that after all.

Queenie catches Aaron's thoughts before he speaks up -- one of which amuses her, as it's just about one she always hears, while another proves to be much more interesting to her. The one that indicates he's already come across this... Glitch?

What a strange term. ] Just a little bit. [ And she holds her thumb and forefinger with very little space between them, as though indicating just how little. ]

You've seen this before already? [ It's not so much a question, as it is a confirmation and Queenie takes a few shuffling steps closer to him. ]

[ Aaron gives a nod and the little kitten on the leash goes to start nosing curiously at Queenie. It's not particularly a friendly kitten but it is curious. Aaron doesn't try to tug it back unless Queenie ends up looking upset about being sniffed at. ]

It's been happening to a few people around. [ Aaron adds. He reaches to touch the holographic screen -- with all the confusing things written on it. It disappears with his touch. ]

It's easy enough to take care of, though. I'm Aaron.

Test Drive Meme #2

Queenie Goldstein ( Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them )

2 - hdu with Dougal

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