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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[arroganceandangst]

It was very similar in Eorzea: Aragibal's sister had been lucky to join a guild that held many forbidden tomes for her to pore through, and Aragibal had to learn to read while he was living among the Domans. Even then, he still couldn't spell very well in Eorzean. His head tilted slightly as the man explained that he studied without being a scholar - to Aragibal that was scholar enough. The fact that he read for pleasure - whether it was learning or a book of fiction - was more than enough.

"Reading and books were more of my sister's thing. She studied magic and that eventually turned into research. Before she and I left our home we lived in a nomadic tribe. We would spar, climb cliffs..." His voice faded out, then he continued. "We still spar, but I've taken up fishing, cooking... I especially like to keep flowers. The harder to grow, the better." His face brightened with a genuine delight as he said the next bit. "Chasing the kids around is always fun too." He grew a little more serious. "Most of the reading I do is letters that have been sent to me. I don't really read books for myself, but I will read books aloud to my kids."

His brows furrowed and he frowned a little bit in thought. "For the number of books you have I genuinely thought you might have been a researcher of some kind. If you are not and you study for fun, what is your trade?"

[gadaboutdetective]

Llewellyn listens with interest, his head tilting slightly as he shifted his hold on the books he had to keep them a little more stable in his arms lest he drop them all. “That’s interesting, so you come from a world of magic? No magic in my world uh— at least none that has been proven.” He refuses to say something is impossible though without proper evidence. He’s the sort of person who’d like to believe in more, while being highly skeptical.

So, yes, Llewellyn is still trying to wrap his head around a lot of even being here. Books were at least something of a familiarity for him.

At first, he gets the sense that Aragibal was more of an athletic sort, which beyond jogging daily Llewellyn was not. He almost asks about it further when the man continues to explain his other interest and his expression shifts to one of curiosity. “I see... You’re a man of many interests and talents then. Useful if you have a family.” His expression softens a little as he says that, it’s nice to hear about children who seemed to have parents that cared so much about them. It was how it should be. He moved on a moment later though, “Flowers are fascinating though, I mm... keep them pressed in my notebook as I find them. They’re nice to fuss with...”

Glancing at his collection of books, a distracted little motion as he answered the question. “O-oh, I’m a detective. At least I am in my world, not... really sure what I am here.”