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Test Drive 006

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. When the Carnival Came to Town?

Take a look at the prompts from our latest event and go to town (or the carnival).

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)!

Navigation

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

What did a Renamamiya cell do? She'd... she'd never, ever heard of one of those. But he looked more like she did than any of the white blood cells (except maybe Eosinophil, but she wore pink instead of red). All she could do while he spoke was blink, looking at him in now-silent confusion. This world...

That... What?

At least one thing was clear.

"So. So you aren't a red blood cell?

"And this body-- this world, I... guess I mean? There's..."

Her voice trailed off as she looked around for yet another time. Well. It really didn't look like the inside of a body. And there weren't nearly enough cells moving around here for it to really function if it was. But... what did that mean?

"This is really weird," Red Blood Cell murmured eventually, looking a little pale. "I must've taken a really wrong turn to get here."

It was more confusing to learn that she was a red blood cell, or at least that she thought she was. "No. I'm not a red blood cell. I have them."

He looked her over again, just as confused.

"You don't look like a red blood cell. For one, you're a lot bigger than one." And she looked like a multi-celled organism, just like he was.

"We all took a wrong turn, I think. You can call me Ren. What, um, what should I call you?"

He... had red blood cells?

Wait. Was she his red blood cell?

She blinked, looking at him and then, as she'd let go before, she slowly reached out with one white-gloved hand and poked his cheek. He'd said they all took a wrong turn. At this point, she was pretty sure hers had been more wrong than most. "Um. I'm... just a red blood cell. I guess that's what you call me? I have my designation, but everyone just yells Red Blood Cell when they want to get my attention. We all just... know when it means us." As she speaks, her words start to get faster. This, she has confidence in. "It's like, when I want to get White Blood Cell's attention, I just yell White Blood Cell and he knows it's him, even though his designation is 1146. There's also 4989, 2626, 2048-- Oh, and then there's Killer T Cell, even though I think he's changed over, now, to a Memory T Cell, and there's all the Macrophages, and the adorable little platelets--"

Now that had her stop cold, eyes growing wide. "Oh no, I hope Backwards Cap is okay..."

He blinked, eyebrows raised slightly at the contact, and her proceeding ramble. It was tough to follow, not because he didn't know the science, he was good at science, but because she spoke of all those things as though they were people, not just tiny, microscopic pieces of them. It was unnerving as much as it was disorienting. He hadn't been here long enough to realize in some reality, something like this may very well be exactly how things worked and it was just confusing.

"I don't think time passes back in your own world when you come here." Of that much he was certain. A friend of his had arrived here from well before his own point in time but Ren had never missed him back home. "So I'm sure Backwards Cap is fine."

Time doesn't pass. Now that was...

It was oddly comforting, really. When she'd left, everything had been going fine. Normal, at least. There were always a few brave bacteria getting in, but the different white blood cells tended to get the job done very, very well. So if everything was still just like that...

Red Blood Cell took a deep breath and sighed it out. "Oh good. I mean, there's not much I can do to help, but... Thank you. Thank you for telling me."

"Don't be silly, I'm sure there's a lot you can do to help." His mind is still flirting with the idea that she is actually a red blood cell, and the idea that all the millions of RBCs running through his own cardiovascular system might have individual faces, personalities, and motivations was enough to freak him out and he decided not to think about it again. Ever.

"Like, what are you skills...? Besides deliveries, I mean?"

She blinked slowly. "That's... That's my job. That's what I do. I deliver oxygen and nutrients, and I return the waste. I mean, I've helped with healing before, but that's more because of the platelets and their clotting factors and their fibrin. When that happens we kind of get stuck--" She lifted a hand, self-consciously scratching at the back of her neck. "Any blood cells close by get stuck at that point, until everything's pulled back together. Even the white blood cells."

"Okay..." Was this even possible? Were all red blood cells anthropomorphic? What did that mean for anyone?

"...so. Were you a red blood cell in a human body, or...?" That might be important information, or it might not mean anything. There was only one way to know.

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