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TEST DRIVE 001

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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!

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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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"Maybe." Jacob rolled his shoulders in a lazy shrug. "I'll figure it out. I'm used to town hoping and I sorta do something different in each place. We don't have to worry about rent so, it's really just food and they gave us some to start off." It really wasn't that bad of a situation and Jacob tried his best to go with the flow.

"Oh. It looks like there is a music shop there." He pointed at the a sign though it looked like there was only one person manning the store and not a lot of instruments. Everything that was there was handmade and subsequently priced.

“A drifter then, are you? That should at least help with adapting to all this absurdity, at least I hope it should.” He responded with some interest, he’d definitely been a bit of a roamer because of what he did back in his own world. Of course, he also had that one specific place that he always had to return. A necessary constant, in a way. “Expenses are surprisingly small here, I admit. In my own world, places to live tend to cost money and I admit our accommodations look nice enough.”

Food wasn’t even really an issue for him, not unless he got a craving for something a little fancier and of human invention. “If you ever need a hand on food, I can probably bring you some fish by. I may not look it, but I’m quite good at fishing.” He added with a little grin, just don’t ask him to cook it, he has no clue.

Caelan’s attention shifted immediately, his eyes leaving Jacob to look up at the building before them with eager interest. Now this was the first truly good thing to happen today, meeting Jacob and other interesting people aside. “So it does! Seems like you brought me a little luck, I hadn’t found anything like this before now.” He added with a bright little grin, moving with a light step towards the door.

"Sorta. I'd call myself more of a follower." His situation was unusual and because of it, he usually ended up following his family. That wasn't the case now but this was also technically his second kidnapping, so it was easy to not freak out about it.

He'd be found. Eventually.

"Oh? Then you should let me cook some fish for you. As like, a thank you." Jacob didn't know how to cook fish but he assumed he could probably figure it out. Hopefully there were 'how too' books in that ridiculously large library.

His attention was pulled back towards the magic shop as he followed Caelan forward, mumbling beneath his breath. "Just call me your lucky charm."

The man at the shop was older and it didn't look like had had too much to sell but he was constructing something on a wooden work bench that Jacob assumed would one day be an instrument.

“Yeah?” He responded with a little curious expression, “I might have to take you up on that,” He responded with a little smile as he pulled open the door to the shop to enter. It was always vaguely amusing when humans wanted to cook fish for him, it made sense but... There was just something about it that made him laugh, considering how he generally ate his fish.

The comment Jake mumbles isn’t missed, of course. Caelan has decent enough ears, and he was paying close attention to his companion. So he responded with a small smirk over his shoulder, “As you wish. Let’s see what we can find then, Lucky Charm.”

Caelan’s attention finally shifted entirely upon entering the shop, wandering here and there with interest. There were too few instruments for purchase at the moment, and none of them were the sort that he had any experience in playing. Not surprising, considering what had possibly happened in this world. The appropriate materials might be hard to come by for a while... He could try to pick something new up, that was always fun, but he was craving something a little more familiar right now.

Of course, he could use some blank sheet music as well, something to doodle and jot down his composition ideas. He wandered closer to where the shop keeper was working, eyes running over the instrument he was working on curiously.

Jake felt his face flush when he realized that Caelan had heard him. He was used to the people around him picking up on his mumbled whispers and yet he couldn't quite shake the habit of letting his mouth move without checking in with his brain first.

It was always embarrassing.

Jacob stepped a bit behind Caelan, composing himself and taking in the odd small shop. It was clear to Jake that the shop hadn't been there long but the old man at the counter was hard at work. He had a tuft of white hair at the top of his head with impressive sprouts of hair tracing down his jaw to his chin. If Jacob hadn't known better, he'd assume it was some sort of wig.

The man looked busy but as the pair stepped in closer he stopped his work and turned to look at them. He was wearing a pair of goggles that made him look a little bug-eyed. "Young men, yes, yes. What are you looking for? Are you purveyors of music? The craft? The art? Tell me what brought you in here."

Jake would do well to try to curb that around Caelan, he is prone to teasing if there’s a chance to tease. It’s never meant to be malicious, only in good fun. Unless, of course, someone had earned his annoyance. Jacob hadn’t displayed any behaviours or expressed any opinions to suggest that he had yet, so it was definitely more of a friendly tease than anything.

Caelan needed a moment when the shop keep turned and started talking to them. Oh wow, those goggles definitely made him a wee bit intense. Still, he grins excitedly. “We’re here to see what you had to choose from for instruments. Musicians without something to play, it seems. I don’t see anything that I’m particularly skilled with at a glance, you wouldn’t happen to know how I might get my hands on a violin?” He then gestured at Jake a moment later, “and my friend here is considering a guitar.”

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