Test Drive - 001

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TEST DRIVE 001

Welcome to Aterat!

Here is our first ever 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. Welcome to the Jungle

The URBAN jungle, that is. 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, see what you can waste your meager starter coin on in the Market District, or maybe just meet the neighbors.


B. We've Got Fun and Games

At least there's entertainment. In various parts of the city, there are street performers, slight of hand tricksters, and probably a game or two of poker in one tavern or another (there are several to be found, after all). Start up a game of darts, or just sit broodily in a corner and watch the others coming and going.


C. You can have anything you want but you better not take it for free

The Harbor District is a rough joint. There are pickpockets, swindlers, but also hardworking folk and more than a few buildings that seem to be locked. It sure would be a shame if someone were to go about performing some casual Breaking & Entering...you know, as long as you don't get caught. There are guards around, though not nearly as many here as in the other districts. It's almost as though they like to avoid the place. People talk about wererats in the shadows at night and it's not unheard of for the unaware to go missing when they're traveling around here after dark...


D. What's that smell?

As if being carted off to what looks like a city out of a video game weren't bad enough, there's an entire district to the northeast that seems to be walled off, warded, and in all ways inaccessible. According to the sign, it's the cemetery...and boy does it smell.


E. Speaking Crystal

You could always take a look at the instructions that came with your crystal and see who else is listening. Remember, though, these devices are Voice Only and cannot be filtered. If you speak, anyone with a crystal can and will hear you. Now, whether or not they choose to respond is another thing entirely.

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Comments

[mobprincess]

[ Despite knowing the guy who responded can't see her, her freckled nose scrunches up in a huff of annoyance. ]

I don't suppose they're listening as well? I got a couple'a things I'd like to say to 'em.

[ And precisely none are particularly polite. Still, no need to get pissy with this guy; it ain't his fault she's here. ]

Guess things could be worse though.

[asthecroweflies]

Might be. I haven't seen anything suggesting they are, though.

[Such as their "benefactors" responding to a crystal.]

I guess there could be demons, yeah.

[mobprincess]

[ After a little pause; ]

...I think demons could make things interestin', so long as they're not goin' around possessin' people and all that.

You got experience with 'em?

[asthecroweflies]

Well, that is exactly what demons do, love, so that's wishful thinking, there.

[There's a brief pause.]

I've encountered them once or twice. Back home, I'm a Private Investigator, but I do some paranormal investigation with a friend. We've...found some things.

[mobprincess]

Statistically, I feel like there's gotta be some that don't - I mean, what're the odds all demons just wanna make you puke pea soup?

[ Is this besides the point? Yes. Does she care? Eh. Maybe. Tangents can be fun. ]

That's badass, dude. What kinda- no, wait, what's the craziest thing you've found?

[asthecroweflies]

Yeah. Some of them make you murder everyone in your office building.

[Deadpan? Yeah...]

...that one. That one was, uh...sometimes I wish I could scrub bits of my mind, you know?