TEST DRIVE MEME (4)

[trainmasters]

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 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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Comments

[monodeleteism]

[ tilts head, looking curiously to the wall of ice that's appeared - briefly, a shadowy hand moves to touch it ]

Magic. You would block my path, stranger?

Ridiculous. In the first place, I do not remember much at all. Only that one, precious memory belongs to me - yet you would question it even still.

No matter. What magic do you expect from me?

[voreaciously]

That is my memory! You copied it.

[It is unbelievable. It is madness. Considering he made her do that with him in the first place--]

[monodeleteism]

What an accusation! Aren't you rude? Just how would I do that, and for what purpose would I do such a thing?

[voreaciously]

You are literally a barely formed blob of foul corruption. Something I stepped in. You likely gleaned my memories when I did so, perhaps unintentionally. As for why, you have enough identity issues as it is.

[pot, kettle]

What is another?

[monodeleteism]

I do not have any issues with my identity. It is Amane. I have no conflict of such.

Moreover, your words contradict. Unintentionally, yet with a purpose. You ascribe much to me.

Stranger, do you even know me?

[voreaciously]

I wish I did not.

[monodeleteism]

Then I will grant that wish.

[voreaciously]

You cannot.

[monodeleteism]

[ looking over the ice wall for just a moment more before he - stretches his arm out, and ice starts to form in front of him, a bright light sparking from the center as he summons what looks to be a crude lance, shooting it out of the orb of light to pierce the wall. ]

Goodbye.

[voreaciously]

That does not erase knowing you, you--

[she bites down on her vitriol.]

And if you are here, your sister needs to know, goodness forbid what she will do if she hears you calling yourself my--that name.

[not that amane cares about amane much specifically, but this is obviously An Amks™ that they both know]

[monodeleteism]

[ giving her an unimpressed look as the ice further pierces ice ]

What is a "sister". . .

No, don't answer. I tire of your inanity.