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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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[SHE'S JUST SAYIN', BROSKI.]
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[ HE'S COMPLETELY UNREPENTANT. ]
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[She snorts, but then gestures to the scale.]
Well, if you're motivated, then introduce yourself. I'm going to have be sharing quite a bit, looks like.
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[ It really comes in handy having someone who knows who the hell you are around, he didn't even have to come up with a fake name. ]
And what's your name?
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[She has her memories, can't relate? But she squints at the scale, considering.]
And I'm afraid of heights.
[...Tiny clink. Scale is unmerciful.] Oh, c'mon, really?
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Whatever, he's shaking his head at that secret. ]
C'mon, you gotta think bigger than that. Like---
[ He clears his throat, then throws his hands out dramatically. ]
I slept with my best friend's girl and I'd do it again!
[ The scale doesn't move even slightly, naturally. But he says it loudly and with great flair. ]
You know, something big.
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[She stares at him a while, though, because that sounded a little too natural, coming out of his mouth.]
I guess there's no helping it. I..was the reason my twin brother's first girlfriend dumped him. [Clunk. Longer pause.] I put snakes in their bed when he brought her home.
[CLUNK.]
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Looks like that's more along the lines of what the scale wants. Heh, we may not die after all.
[ Which would be great because he really doesn't want to die! ]
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[Clunk. A long pause.]
Oh, I guess that counts too?
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Whoa, for real?
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...She did a great deal of...forbidden things, to revive my brother and I. As a result, we exist halfway between life and death. I have a pulse, I breathe, I'm capable of eating and sleeping, but...I need to do very little of it, and I find it's substances other than food that sustain me most.
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[ Understatement of the century. He shifts his weight from one foot to the other, crossing his arms over his chest. ]
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[She deadpans that completely, but she's eyeing the scale. Takes a deep breath--]
She went mad. I had to...kill her. Before she destroyed an entire nation.
[CLANG. Well. The scale tipped!]
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...I won't go spilling your secrets to anyone.
[ For whatever comfort that's worth. ]
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[She's just going to start trying to not hyperventilate because the ground is back oh thank fuck.
...she wasn't kidding about the fear of heights, her brain will turn back on momentarily.]
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[ Like, he's relieved to not be dead but she looks like she's about to pass out or something. ]