aurorastation | TEST DRIVE MEME (4)

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
Wildcard. Make up your own prompt! Check out the setting and team pages for info on the train. If you have any questions, ask on the q&a page. Otherwise, apps open on February 8! In the meantime you're free to join us on Discord.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ gloops closer like a chump ]

As the coin - there is myself and yourself, certainly, but within... my. Should you have proven so lacking that perhaps requires further elucidation as well. As there exists myself and yourself, siblings having partaken of like experience, for this purpose we are a single side represented within two coins, themselves additionally siblings. Here, Brother -

[ fuck this place for ruining this for her in her esteemed opinion but

just sticking her hand into his neck, into the decapitation wound, stroking at his throat with the pads of her fingers for a few moments, back and forth

can you... can you even feel that........ ]

- lies your mouth. That through which your self is made, the source of life and expression, as with the river. Certainly you must understand at least this much. The betrayal endured in Shimabara, that which you have endured in the forest - such that those misdeeds are seen corrected through your own hand, madness and ambition.

[ the jury is out but he does close his eyes ]

. . . So I am justice. No - vengeance?

[ !!! cute !!!

she meant to take them out once they were good and mudded up but his throat feels so nice against her fingers and she has wanted to do this forever and she hasn't seen him in like, fuckin 9 whole days or whatever

but he is a baby, so she does resist the urge to grab, instead just idly petting him, up and down now ]

Of course. Yes, you've understood it correctly.

[ burbling in his words but does not even look fussed about it, his voice is wet though ]

And you the same?

Now -

[ "pay attention," she ALMOST says, but ]

Yes.

[ she's so patient ]

Then the purpose of us here, now. It is to bring justice, to enact vengeance?

Hm.

I see.

[ stepping back, now - not really going away from her so much as wandering with his thoughts ]

Ah, that -

[ flexes her fingers now that they're loose, toying with the gunk a bit, testing the springiness ]

This place is rather - no, we've simply been brought here. Through some insipid machination of that man's, or through coincidence, it remains impossible to say.

[ mud springy ]

What. Then my purpose for existing here has little meaning?

I would claim its purpose, rather, would be to leave this place, but it is nevertheless - greater than a simple annoyance, by far. To sleep would be of greater productivity were we whole; as your memories have been lost, however, so too have my abilities.

[ just eats the mud off of her fingers, grumpy ]

TEST DRIVE MEME (4)

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along

Re: cw self-harm for anyone following along