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aurorastation2019-02-01 10:33 pm
trainmasters) wrote in aurorastation2019-02-01 10:33 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME (4)
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!★ One
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.
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 in aurora for awhile -- long enough to have recovered a memory/power or two, if you lost any. And it's lucky for you: today, the area around the train has been surrounded in a strange mist that makes you feel dizzy and overly warm. Left alone, your condition will slowly degrade, with increasing lethargy and shortness of breath until you lose consciousness. The cure is easy enough, though -- touch another person and they'll see one of your memories, experiencing it as if it's their own. The effect is mutual -- you now have a piece of eachother, and you're safe from the illness... at least until you take another big breath. Good thing there's no mist inside the train!
☆ Four
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"Cruise ship"?
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When rich people pay a lot of money to get on a giant ship that cruises out in the ocean for fun.
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[mer. assuming. . . mermaids? mermen? mer. . . folk?]
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... huh. A world without mer or Ravanges or hungry ghosts...
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[tilts his head back, eyes slipping shut]
But it's a world with its own kind of monsters. They just don't all hide in the dark.
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... we even have Creators that are like that, too. Well, one of them. The other one's like a puppy.
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Creators?
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Well, Kaleb calls himself Character Designer.
They supposedly built up and designed my world and the roles of the people in it, but something went wrong and Kaleb, the Character Designer, was supposedly sent into the world to gather up the key roles to fix things but... turns out the other Worldbuilder Diederik just wanted to trap him on the world before he destroys it?
It's all very dramatically large-scaled. I'm not even sure how I got involved except I'm apparently in the key role of Thief Doomed To Hang Himself And Die Unceremoniously In The Middle Of The Story.
[hey, another big block--still not that much bigger than the last one but...]
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[THERE'S SO MUCH THERE. THERE'S LIKE. SO MUCH??? he has so many questions??? so he's going to respond to the first thing he can]
That's a stupid role.
[which is, naturally, the idea that there is anything about Levi's life that is predestined or predetermined. fuck THAT]
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[lolol]
Better than being the Heroine or the Villainness.
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[folds his arms!! and frowns!!]
You should be the one determining what your role in life is. Not someone else.
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[biggest block so far...]
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And that's a start.
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I can't tell if you're convinced that's true or not.
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[from his perspective? they shouldn't]
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I think we have time for messy existentialism. But it's up to you.
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According to what Kaleb's told me, originally, there's these non-existent creatures called... Shadows? Silhouettes? One of those. And he and Diederik write roles and worlds for them to experience an existence. So, when they die in the world, they lose the role and go back to that whole non-existence thing. Rinse and repeat.
But that won't happen to me now. Ever.
[HE HACKED AND GLITCHED OUT OF THE GAME'S OPERATING SYSTEM OR WHATEVER]
The end.