Test Drive - 002

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TEST DRIVE 002

Welcome to Aterat!

Here is our second 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!

NOTE: While you do need an invite to apply to the game, you do NOT need one to tag or top level on the Test Drive!

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A. Free-Fallin'

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. For the Benefit of Mr. Kite there will be a show tonight on trampolines

Just to the north of the market district, a small carnival has been set up in a square. As the sun sets, the stalls around it come alive with callers, carnival games, roasted meats are available as well as sweet treats. The games have prizes, stuffed animals and the like, and there are musicians. It's almost as though it's all in celebration of something, but what is anyone's guess. You're welcome to attend and see what's what, and any performers among the gathered are welcome to take part. The whole affair is very mirthful and fluid.


C. Delve Down into the Dark and Deep

If you're a more adventurous type, why not see what all the fuss is about in the sewers, or, if heroics are more your style, maybe look into why people seem to think it's fine to have monsters living just under their feet. Or just use the opportunity to keep your skills sharp. The sewers are pretty vast, after all.


D. Tell Phone™

Why not give that phone a shot and see who answers?

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Comments

[skyward_eyes]

More... What's the point of getting attached when places like this just take them away?

Also people deserve privacy in their own homes.

[abreedapart]

Depressing point of view. [ But honestly, not one she disagrees with. ] That mean you've been been to a bunch of other places like this?

[skyward_eyes]

Depressing but potentially accurate.

[A bunch? Is two a bunch?]

Two other places. I barely remember them. This place fucked my head up something fierce.

[abreedapart]

[ Fucked up heads happen to be an upsetting idea for her so she focuses in on that. ] Fucked up how? Just you arrived with your memories bad or something?

[skyward_eyes]

Exactly. I remember events. Vaguely. I know I interacted with people. Vaguely. I don't have the names or faces or important details.

[abreedapart]

Shit. Did someone cause it or something?

[skyward_eyes]

This place seems to have. It didn't happen the last two times I was pulled through to another world.

[Something here broke his brain. Nothing that can be done for it.]

[abreedapart]

That's messed up. Anyone else had a side effect like that from ending up here?

[skyward_eyes]

Yes, but I do not know that it is my place to share the knowledge of other people.

[abreedapart]

Fair enough. It's good to know it's a thing that can happen here.

[skyward_eyes]

From my experiences, there's a lot of things that can happen that you'll never expect, and probably never want.

If robots start to be a thing, I'm out.

[abreedapart]

Robots? Oddly specific.

[skyward_eyes]

You're definitely not wrong! But add in 'any form of dupes of ourselves.'

[abreedapart]

I've had more than enough experience with shit like that for a lifetime.

[skyward_eyes]

Agreed. But it still keeps happening. If I was a religious man I'd pray it wouldn't happen here.