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Test Drive Meme (13)

test drive meme



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 a while, but this is the first time you've ever seen.... well. ...There is a crab following you around. It's a cute, small crab and it will not stop singing. You cannot escape it. The crab is everywhere, no matter where you go. No matter how far you run, no matter how you try to escape it. Helpfully, there is a message on your Chain that says the crab will leave you alone if you make a new friend.

What do you do?

☆ Four
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fervidclaret: (75)

Itsuki Ozaki | Original Character

[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-08 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
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[Itsuki comes out of a room after dressing himself real nice and he sees the tea. Then stops and looks it over, then stands over it and just gives it a sniff, recoiling in disgust.]

O-oh... Oh, it's leaf water! I mean tea. Tea is what people call it. Ah, what a kind gesture... I'm allergic to tea, though. Thank you though, whoever um, offered?

[He will not dump it out but he will definitely not be drinking any, sorry. He will offer cuddles if YOU need it though?]

2.

["How much do your secrets weigh?" Well! Time to panic! Itsuki clearly has secrets. So many secrets. He's just not sure if life and living is worth giving them up! Sure he might die and that'd suck but it's better than honesty!!!

So he's going to look to you.]

H-hahaha... so uh. What secrets you got?

3.

[There is a crab following him. The cuteness of the crab itself is debatable, but Itsuki seems endeared, even with it singing. Why does it sing? How does it sing? These are questions an eldritch abomination living in the skull of a human man does not have. He's just going to kind of enjoy this nonhuman company.

Thank goodness for sea creatures.

Wait.]

...If I make the crab my friend, do you think that'd count? Must I keep it at an arm's length in order to continue to enjoy it's presence...?
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Neutral; Body Language; Shrug (12921264)

2.

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2020-01-09 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Crow is not by nature very fond of sharing his secrets. He's got more than a few himself, albiet likely less than an eldritch abomination but that's just how things go sometimes. For his part, he shrugs at the question. ]

Well... It takes me at least an hour to get ready in the morning before I'll let anyone see me.

[ He leans in and adds in a stage whisper-- ]

I have terrible bedhead.
fervidclaret: (64)

Re: 2.

[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-09 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
Those answers are useless! We're going to die and you're talking about your morning routine?! [Hi I'm an unfathomable being from beyond time and space and I have ANXIETY.]

Humans are such awful creatures, I hate them so much...

[That tips the scales a bit, thankfully? As Itsuki sobs a little.]
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile; Wink (12967735)

Re: 2.

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2020-01-09 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, no one ever said it had to be a big secret.

[ He winks at Itsuki, completely unrepentant. ]

2.

[personal profile] soulcarve 2020-01-09 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm...

[ Kiri swings her bare feet casually over the edge of the scale, seemingly unbothered. ]

Well, I've got the curse of Muramasa? I guess that's kind of like a secret?
[ does Terrible Knowledge still count if it doesn't bother you? ]
fervidclaret: (68)

[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-09 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Things are still falling apart and Itsuki motions. At the floor.]

PARDON.
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[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-09 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Why is she so chill? This is terrible?]

Ah, wonderful. Thank you for your honesty. I still care about you no matter what you have...

[He doesn't know her and he has no idea what "the curse of Muramasa" means.]

Please continue.
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Body Language; Shrug (12967712)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2020-01-09 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, it helped!

[ Like, barely.  ]

Alright though, let's see.... Oh! I know my library books are late and I still don't turn 'em in until I want to.

[ This also only barely helps. ]
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[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-09 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I swear if I survive this, I'm going to bite your fingers and toes off, and make the rest of you into stew! I can't believe I spared humanity for this!

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2/2

[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-09 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[There is a loud THUNK as the scales tip... and the floor stops falling.

And Itsuki's face turns bright red. ]

H-haha... just kidding!

[personal profile] soulcarve 2020-01-09 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Because the endless void is possibly more natural than reality anyway????? So it's not like falling into it is a big deal or anything!
...And also because why would she want to lie about stuff? ]


Ummmm...
Do you think it's gotta be stuff that I'm hiding, or just stuff I haven't talked about before?

[ because if it's the former, rip.
anyway, swinging her feet again ]


When I get home, I'm gonna destroy Heaven with the rest of my Familia. We basically have to, or it's not revenge in the sevenfold degree.

[ —said as though literally any of that makes sense out of context ]
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[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-09 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[... You lost him.]

You know Heaven isn't real, right?

[He says, unhinged from time and space as he is. It's said in the same way that an adult tells another adult that Santa isn't real. Like this is a normal conversation and they are both definitely participating in it. Yes, he's definitely listening to all of these words.]

This doesn't seem to be helping... Mmmhh, I don't want to splat! It took me so long to grow this body, and it's quite nice!!!
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[personal profile] soulcarve 2020-01-09 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ agreeably ] It's very nice.
I'm pretty new at mine, but until I get my powers back, it's the only one I've got.

[ leaning over on one elbow, palm propping up her chin ]

But no, Heaven is definitely real. I've been there. They don't let you touch the flowers. Or, I guess you can, but it's actually a really bad idea.

[ ....what if you're spilling secrets of Mythic World but you're just too much of a dumbass to realize the significance of that, does that count, ]

Maybe you should try, though? I guess I'm not very good at this.
fervidclaret: (64)

[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-09 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Actually sobs.]

Wait... [sniffle] ... no it's fine. You aren't human, I guess??? [Sniffs... cautiously...? Spilling secrets of some world that Itsuki doesn't believe exists doesn't seem to be doing it because there's no reluctance to share!!! Itsuki has so much reluctance.]

I... live in my head. Like it's a very snug t-shirt. But if you take off the t-shirt, you die.

[personal profile] soulcarve 2020-01-09 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ eyes going wide with eager interest ]
Literally in your head? Because... you aren’t really a person either?

—Ah, [ expression falling, genuinely concerned for the first time in this whole ordeal ]
Are you being imprisoned? And they kill you if you try to leave?
bad_crowmance: TOCS 3/4; Smile; Jerkbird (12920653)

[personal profile] bad_crowmance 2020-01-09 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
About which part, I wonder.

[ Far from being intimidated, Crow instead just sounds amused. ]
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[personal profile] cawnflict 2020-01-09 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a black-clad man with crow wings is very slowly nudging a different plate towards him.

it's heaped with an abnormal amount of very juicy looking hamburgers. ]


Allergic to tea is new.
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[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-10 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely all of it.

[SWEATS IN ELDRITCH HORROR.]

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[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-10 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[GRABS HIS HEAD AND HOLDS IT ???PROTECTIVELY???]

Nonono!!! Inside of my head is good and the outside world is terrible and dry!
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[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-10 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a very rare condition! I can't have any plant-based foods at all. I have to take a lot of vitamins.

[He does not take vitamins.]

I’d like to formally apologize for this character

[personal profile] soulcarve 2020-01-10 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
...Oh.

[ her turn to pretend like she definitely followed that logic ]

I mean, it seems nice to me? It’s got all sorts of beautiful things in it, like wildfires and the moon and vengeance. But don’t worry, I won’t talk about your wet head if you don’t want me to.

cawnflict: (pic#10805037)

[personal profile] cawnflict 2020-01-12 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...

well he can remove the lettuce and tomato... probably. ]


So you're a real carnivore, then?
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No apologies we die like men

[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-12 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The ocean is fine. Some lakes are alright, too. But nothing really compares to my head. It's not a prison... I think. I grew it myself, I'm very proud of it.
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[personal profile] fervidclaret 2020-01-12 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I...

[This feels like a loaded question. Itsuki eyes those hamburgers. Literally everything but the meat patty would have to go, but he is a little peckish...]

In so many words, I suppose... I just have to stick to animal products, is all.
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[personal profile] cawnflict 2020-01-13 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ the sad thing is he wasn't expecting a serious answer. his people are like, animal costume people!! the wolves he knows still eat veggies from time to time. ]

Sounds like it's a pain to keep track of. The worst I get is when people think it's weird for me to eat eggs.

[ you'd think it'd be when he's eating chicken or something. ]

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