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Aterat Mod Account ([personal profile] ateratmods) wrote in [community profile] ateratooc2021-10-09 04:39 pm
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Test Drive 005
WELCOME TO ATERAT

Here is our Fifth 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!

Helpful Links to Get Started

Arrival & General Information | Setting & Bestiary | Locales & Businesses | Residences & Housing Info | Rules & FAQ (ask questions here!)

I. 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.
II. What Goes Bump in the Night
It looks like Aterat proper has a spirit problem. Maybe you're seeing specters, hearing disembodied voices, your windows rattle when there's no breeze outside. Maybe there are cold spots in your place of business (or your apartment, which is so much worse). Either way, you're 100% convinced you're haunted. Hopefully, someone else believes you, or maybe you're used to feeling crazy.
III. A Mean, Green Mother from where now?
There's a pollen problem in the city, and by that we mean it's everywhere. Yellowish green pollen seems to be caked-on everything with the misfortune of being outside, whether it's windows, banisters, carts, you name it. If it's outside for a duration of time, it's a free game to have a layer of dust settled upon it, and it plays havoc on anyone who breathes it in. Allergic to pollen? Your allergies are horrible. Not allergic, well, you might just have the sniffles anyway, and another problem. You seem to be completely unable to tell a lie. Not only that, but you feel the overwhelming need to tell people things you'd usually keep to yourself. Maybe you like to put cream in your coca-cola (you monster) or maybe you've done something terrible and you really need to get it off your chest either in person or over the network.
IV. Try the Network
The Tell-Phone allows for text, video, and audio transmissions to everyone else who has one. Give it a whirl!
V. Wildcard
The above prompts are all options, and there's much more to the setting than what they provide. Do your best (or your worst)!
monochromatically: (In the moonlight)

[personal profile] monochromatically 2021-11-20 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Mono listened curiously to that, it sounded a lot like nicknames were just versions of your name with something like Jake or JC. He didn’t think it sounded bad though, and most people had a few names... At least the people he met here did, so sometimes he wondered if it was weird that he only had one.

“I guess a nickname could be kinda neat. I don’t always wear the bag, though. Just sometimes, at least here.” Back in his world was different. It was necessary. Here... People were nice, and they kept saying his face was okay... So he only wore it when he felt like he needed it now.
brotherofagod: (Default)

[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-20 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Jacob thought for a moment but a nickname didn't immediately come to mind. Then he was reminded of the shadow that had been following him earlier. He was sure that it was Mono though it was only a guess.

"How about lil shadow as your first nickname. I think it suits you pretty well." Then he'd have a nickname.
monochromatically: (It's dark 'n spooky)

[personal profile] monochromatically 2021-11-20 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Mono hummed a little, thinking about it... It was better than something to do with the bag, and he had heard some people say that he’d been ‘shadowing’ people... While he was shadowing them. So Mr. Cat-guy was definitely good at thinking of stuff.

“I guess that makes sense. I’m really sneaky and shadows are good for hiding.” Yes, he hadn’t quite clued in that he had at least admitted to being prone to sneaking. There was no way Jacob didn’t realize Mono was the one following him before now.

brotherofagod: (Yeah?)

[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-20 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Jacob smiled when his suspicions were confirmed. He was glad that it was a kid following him and not someone who wanted to hurt him. He really didn't want to worry about assassins while he was living here. It wasn't like anyone here knew who his sister was, so they really didn't have a reason to want to kill him.

"Good. I'll call you lil' shadow from now on." It was a cute nickname for a cute kid.
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[personal profile] monochromatically 2021-11-20 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Nope, Mono didn't mean any harm at all... Not that he couldn't do harm, but no one here had given him a reason to. He rather liked the adults in this world, and Jacob was proving to be just as nice as the other ones he'd met.

There were a few he avoided... Just because he wasn't one hundred percent sure of them, and from a distance they looked like or reminded him of people he'd known in his world... But otherwise, it was great here. "Okay, neat. Now I got a nickname, that's another new thing." He might have been smiling under the paper bag, not that anyone could see it.

But it was implied in his tone. "Thank you!"
brotherofagod: (Giggle High.)

[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-24 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
He smirked. "Glad to help." The kid was cute and while Jacob wasn't used to kids, he had a tendency to treat everyone the same so he wasn't unfamiliar with these sorts of conversations.

"I need to get to the carpentry shop. If you ever need help finding that cat of yours, that's where I'll be." He was going to tussle the kid's bag as a sign of affection but he remembered how he had reacted before and decided against it. Instead, he lifted his hand in an innocent goodbye.

"I'll see you around lil' shade."
monochromatically: (Crayons and Shading)

[personal profile] monochromatically 2021-11-26 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Mono hummed a little, kind of wanting to know how the man knew his way around so well… But not being entirely sure how to ask without it ‘blowing his cover’ (that had already been blown)…

But the carpentry shop was a place he knew pretty well by now, “Okay! Um… I’ll probably see you there. I sometimes deliver messages from there to customers who have stuff waiting to be picked up.” He explained, waving a little in that direction. Tommy didn’t have him delivering heavy stuff, but he was a pretty good message carrier. It was a good job for a kid who tended to run around the city anyway, and it meant he could afford things in a place where one had to pay for what they needed.

That Jake had already gotten a sense of how Mono reacted to being touched was a good thing. The child was still trying to get used to such things… and he’d had some awkward situations already.

At the goodbye, Mono realized that, like many adults, Jake had stuff to do. “Bye! I’ll remember, but I think I’ll see the cat around again sometime soon, anyway!” Because he intended to follow Jake around again sometime, as he tended to with everyone who caught his interest.
brotherofagod: (Smiling.)

[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-28 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds good." Jacob continued to smile as headed down the street. He didn't notice his little shadow trailing behind him but he looked forward to the next time.