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Test Drive 007

WELCOME TO ATERAT

Here is our Seventh 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. Into the MirrorVerse?

Through the looking glass in every apartment or other residence lies the MirrorVerse, a place of emotion. More information on this mysterious place can be found here.

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

Comments

[kree_soldieress]

Oh, it's very busy. Today is a good day because many of the farmers have come in with early spring crops, and that makes it popular. Lauri-Ell does her best to move at a steady pace, to keep her footsteps loud, to greet people she recognizes now and then to give extra audio cues to Yin.

It's the best she can do.

[moonlitrequiem]

The greetings help the most, here, with Lauri-Ell's footsteps blending into the din instead.

There are a couple of moments Yin looks puzzled and pauses, but she hears Lauri-Ell and moves forward once more. Eventually, though, she finally reaches out for Lauri-Ell's sleeve, as this place is still foreign to her.

[kree_soldieress]

Alas, no sleeves. Shirts were so hard to find that would fit her muscles arm. But when she feels reaching fingers she twists her hand to offer it.

"If this is not okay, there is a ribbon seller nearby. I can tie one to my wrist."

[moonlitrequiem]

Yin's fingers touch skin, instead. Her eyes open at the feel of a hand, and the offer.

She shakes her head. No one should have to spend money on her aside from what it takes to keep existing, after all.

"This works," Yin assures Lauri-Ell, tone still even.

[kree_soldieress]

"Alright then," she says. For now she doesn't bother to curl her fingers around Yin's. That is not proper to do that without warning. The skin to skin touch is fine for right now.

"We still have half the market."

[moonlitrequiem]

Yin nods her head to indicate Lauri-Ell can continue with the market. She is not exactly ready to brave it, but she shows no signs of hesitation, either, and voices no concerns.

It is, she notes mentally, good to have an idea of how much remains without having to use her specter.

[kree_soldieress]

It takes a while, but Lauri-Ell gets them through it, and once at the far side she breathes a sigh of relief.

"From here it is simpler."

[moonlitrequiem]

"Less people?" It sounds quieter, at least, to Yin. Lauri-Ell's sigh would indicate that, too.

[kree_soldieress]

"Less people," Lauri-Ell agrees with a nod. "It will be simpler now. If you wish I do not believe contact is still required."

[moonlitrequiem]

Yin doesn't verbally respond, but nor does she outright abandon Lauri-Ell's hand. Her own hand slowly pulls away.

Regardless, Yin just isn't sure if she wishes to maintain contact or not, not yet. She does know she didn't mind it. But if it's not required.... Well, she isn't supposed to do things that aren't required.

[kree_soldieress]

It is up to her. Lauri-Ell knows it's up to Yin, even if Yin doesn't yet.

"Alright then, let's get you to my apartment. This way."

[moonlitrequiem]

She'll figure it out, start to understand her own preferences, that needs go beyond what keeps her alive.

For now, Yin nods again and follows Lauri-Ell, mentally keeping track of the trek. She has a decent idea the direction of the market versus Lauri-Ell's apartment. Now she just needs to learn the direction from her own apartment.

[kree_soldieress]

"The good news is that all of the new arrival apartments are in the same square. However they are color coded."

Which will make everything awkward.

[moonlitrequiem]

Here Yin has a problem. She isn't supposed to just go around telling people about her observer spirit. That was a secret due to her Doll status with the Syndicate. However, Lauri-Ell sounds concerned for her.

She...doesn't want Lauri-Ell to worry for her. Want, do not want - they're unfamiliar things.

"I will ask," Yin settles for telling her. It's not a lie. She will just ask her specter to look for her.

[kree_soldieress]

Hardly a problem. Lauri-Ell would just assume that Yin got help. As they approach the apartment buildings she aims for blue where she lives.

"This one is mine. The first floor is communal spaces."

[moonlitrequiem]

Then there's no issue. Yin would be at ease to know that, though she doesn't seem bothered now.

Yin hasn't been in many apartment complexes, but for the ones she's been in, that seems common.

Slowly, evenly, she asks, "How many floors are you up?"

[kree_soldieress]

"I am on A-floor, which means on the second."

She moves to the door of the blue building and opens it up. Come on, Yin, it's time to head in.

"It is very comfortable."

[moonlitrequiem]

"Comfortable...." That is almost a word that feels foreign to her. The comfort of a Doll is to no interest to most people. They don't have to worry about Dolls, after all.

She is ready to try it out. Maybe she will feel comfortable, maybe she will feel nothing.

[kree_soldieress]

Once they are inside she moves them to the stairs, heading up with a brief warning that they were coming.

"I am sorry that it is not on the ground floor."

[moonlitrequiem]

"That's okay." She has walked stairs before, she just does it carefully, one hand on the railing to steady herself, foot feeling the distance from the floor to the next stair before it steps down.

[kree_soldieress]

She's very comfortable with navigating the world around her, and Lauri-Ell appreciates that. This young woman knows what she needs to do and so didn't need as worried over.

"There will be a landing soon, from there we will go left.

[moonlitrequiem]

Yin nods her head to show she hears and understands the instructions. If she's relieved to be able to walk straight once more, she doesn't show it, just continues on.

[kree_soldieress]

"Alright then, this is our turn," she says before starting down the hall to her door. If only she wasn't at the end of the hall. That was a bad choice for a new friend.

[moonlitrequiem]

Yin puts up a hand and keeps it touching the wall as she walks. She uses it to guide, but also searches for dips or something that stands out, using little signs like that as a map in her mind as she follows Lauri-Ell.

[kree_soldieress]

There are a number of dips from the other doorways, but Lauri-Ell is happy to wait by her own door once she has it unlocked.

"Do you prefer to sit on wooden chairs or plush couches?"