aurorastation | Test Drive Meme (10)

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Your character wakes up in a neat bedroom in their team carriage, in nondescript underwear. They might be missing their memories, or their special abilities, or they may just feel a little queasy. Next to them is what seems to be a smartphone, which they know how to use even if they never had before, even if they don't know if they have before. On the screen is a simple message:

Welcome aboard the Aurora!

You have been selected by the Star Prince as a potential hero, tasked with saving the universe from Malice. As a passenger I, your Construct and Conductor, will attempt to provide you with quality lodgings and safety. In return, we ask that you join your fellows in making bonds and doing your utmost to bring joy back to the Stars.

Due to the process of restoring your body, you may find some things are missing. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to return them to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your cooperation.

★ One

Upon investigation, you'll find some basic clothes matching your team's theme in the storage provided in your room. Or, perhaps, you're wandering out of the room still undressed. Either way, downstairs you'll find someone has left a tray of cups of hot tea on the living room table. Drinking it may be simply pleasant, or it may cause you to feel a sudden need to warm up to the others in your carriage -- emotionally or physically. Welcome to the team, newbie!

☆ Two

Shortly after your arrival, you find yourself wrapped up in some monster NPC's Game. You're inside what appears to be a stone temple, with a massive golden scale on one wall. Suddenly, on one side, a heavy metal weight is dropped. As the scales tip out of balance, the floor begins to slowly disappear, brick by brick, ready to drop you -- and whoever is with you -- into an abyss. Your only hope comes in the form of an inscription on the altar:

How much do your secrets weigh?

Every secret you tell causes a weight to fall onto the other side of the scale. The bigger the secret, the bigger the weight. If you can collectively tip the scales, the floor will quit dropping bricks and a door will appear to allow you back to the train. If you can't, you'll fall, seemingly forever, til you pass out. When you wake up you'll find yourself unable to lie.

★ Three

You've been on the Aurora for awhile. Maybe you've even made a few friends! Maybe you've been keeping them at arms length -- even though you know you shouldn't. You know that's not how any of this works.

Either way, you find yourself waking up some place you're not used to-- you're outside the train, no matter where it is you went to sleep. You may not even be sure what it is that woke you up at first -- but then you'll realize. It's the person next to you. Maybe they're still asleep -- maybe they've already woken up and they're staring at you in confusion.

Or maybe they're staring at the handcuffs holding you together. You know, whichever.

There's only one way to get these handcuffs off -- you'll each have to share a memory with each other. It's the only way. So... enjoy that.

☆ Four

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[The yellow skin wasn't jaundice, so Penric was just going to fold that into 'a type of human variation that he'd never seen before, even from foreigners'. His first thought was that somehow she knew he was a sorcerer, and this was normal suspicion. He did glance to his shoulder, to see if his sorcerer's braids had materialized on his strange clothing. Nope. He held up his hands.]

I assure you miss, whatever was done to you, I had no part in it. Even if I wanted to -- which I don't -- I currently am incapable of much of anything.

[An internal snort from Desdemona, who was more out of sorts than Pen, since they were technically her powers, but wasn't going to let that remark go unnoticed.] .

I was kidnapped as well, you see.

[because of course that was what this was about.]

[She is still glaring at him in anger and suspicion, but one thing gets her to pause a moment. Rubbing at her forehead, actually feeling it with a closed fist.]

Incapable....

They took your horn too?

Er... what?

I am certain I missed a leap in logic there.

There's not a lot of creatures that can do this level of transmutation. Gifted unicorns, draconequuses, and possibly Changelings with some kind of transference spell would be the most likely contenders.

Take a step back. What happened to you that made you scream. Besides 'I woke up in a strange place that was not where I went to sleep'.

I've been turned into some freak of nature, of course I screamed!

[Pen looked at her, then down at himself]

But from what?

A pony, what else?! The only other species that look like a ranbow threw up on them is fish and birds! Are you braindead? You're the one who coukd have been a buffalo or cat or griffin.

Edited 2019-09-05 13:36 (UTC)

I assumed you were a human from some very distant land. We do vary somewhat in coloration.

I've never seen a pony in that color either.

Yeah, kinda hard to find a repeating coloration outside of a family, that's what happens when your species is pretty much every color in existence because magic has infused itself to a genetic level.

Edited 2019-09-06 04:55 (UTC)

I mean, in my experiences, ponies are not wildly colored. Perhaps a bit more colorful than humans, but not by much.

Are you colorblind?

And what the hay is a human?

I'm a human. And not noticeably colorblind, no. I've checked.

[After all, Desdemona dimly remembers being a mare and a lioness, as well as several other humans; it gives one the sense of how one's senses vary.]

[She looks him over. Suspicion back.]

So why are you temporarily incapable if you haven't been transmutated into some weird ape?

Well, it's not me exactly, it's my demon. For some reason, her magic is completely blocked. We can't even light a candle.

I should have mentioned I was a sorcerer sooner, shouldn't I?

[Excuse her as her mind just kind of]

[Skips]

[Right there]

[That moment when you WERE a demon and it was a whole thing for your development]

A...what?

A demon? Her name is Desdemona.

{Try to make this sound normal, Pen, and be prepared to run if it goes badly.]

What does a demon have to do with sorcery? What is it?

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