Test Drive - 004

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TEST DRIVE 004

Welcome to Aterat!

Here is our forth Test Drive Meme! There are a lot of areas of the city to explore, so please have a look around! In case you need a little help getting started, I've included a few prompts below, or feel free to start your own! Exploration and player initiative are the names of the game here!

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A. Crash into Me

Not exactly, but close enough. You have just arrived and received a strange satchel from a tiny, strange little man and are left more or less to your own devices (more information on what to expect upon arrival can be found here)! Follow directions to the north and check out the housing, or maybe have a look around the Historium and try to get some information from that giant glowing ball, see what you can waste your meager starter coin on in the Market District, or maybe just meet the neighbors.

B. A Winter's Ball

What brand new ballroom would be complete without a fancy new winter's ball to break it in? Things are a little strange at the ballroom (check the prompts) with mistletoe that traps you for a kiss with a random passerby, strange gray meringue that makes you willing to overshare, not to mention the fact that one of your strange possible overlords funded the whole thing. What's the worst that could happen?

C. We're all hanging out at the park, right?

The park near the Complex has become a glittering expanse of show! Children and adults alike build snowmen and even sled down some of the higher hills in the area. There are stands around the park selling hot chocolate, coffee, tea, and cider, as well as sweets and wrapped snacks for the day in the park. Speckling the park at regular intervals are standing fire pits designed to ward away the cold and allow for gatherings and conversation.

The pond in the park has frozen over as well, affording the abilities to ice skate as the ever-industrious Raimon is renting skates, and maybe even challenge people to a hockey game. How hard could it be to find some makeshift pucks and other accoutrements in order to play a game?

Tell Phone

The Tell Phones everyone are provided when they arrive are capable of voice transmission and texting as well and photo texts!

NAVIGATION

Comments

[allagain]

[ THUMP! The snow hits G'raha dead-on, knocking him flat on his back and burying him. Despite that, he's laughing as he props himself back up. ]

That's cheating, you know!

[weyetch]

You knew what you were getting into. [She snorts, amused, as she walks over, folding her arms as she crouches over him.] This go how you planned it, buddy? This work out for ya?

[allagain]

You seem to be in good spirits, so I would say it has.

[weyetch]

[ROLLS HER EYE, FLICKS HER WAND, AND DUMPS MORE SNOW ON HIM]

[allagain]

[ HE DESERVES IT, TBH

He shakes the snow off his head, ears twitching as he does. ]

Come now, is the joy of my friends not a noble goal?

[weyetch]

You're so obnoxious about it.

[don't mind her she's just emotionally constipated and cannot bear this stupid sincerity]

[allagain]

[ G'raha laughs again as he finally makes it back onto his feet. ]

It's been quite a long time since someone called me that one. It's almost nostalgic.

[ Almost like he's actually 24 again. ]

Have you ever made a snowman before, Witch?

[weyetch]

People should call you obnoxious more often. Keep you humble.

[She does, at least, offer a hand up as he starts to stand.]

Hoo, not since I was real young, I think. The Universeity doesn't really get snow. Can't be too hard to re-figure out, though.

[allagain]

[ The hand up isn't really necessary, but it's appreciated nonetheless. ]

It's been many long years since I made one myself, but as they say, it's so easy a child could do it.