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

[soulsword]

"Very," the smile that touches her lips has a wicked edge to it. "I was six when I was taken to my first other dimension. It was a hellish adventure." There's nothing in her tone to indicate that it was a negative experience. In fact she almost sounds vaguely amused for some reason.

"Were did you come from?" That was the thing she was most curious about. Surely someone that gave no reaction to her former appearance must have experience with monsters. Or at the very least with oddities.

[chaosvessel]

He watches her for a moment, wondering idly if she's going to elaborate on what precisely was 'hellish' about this adventure, but when she doesn't, he sets the curiosity aside for not. Sharing inside jokes with only oneself might be entertaining to some.

"A city run by a sentient AI overlord." And he said all that deadpan.

[soulsword]

"AIs are never enjoyable to deal with," she says with an equally deadpan expression. "They always go insane with power. Or some plan they find grand." The first thing that came to Illyana's mind were the mutant hunting sentinels. There were other examples she could think of, but those were always the first to come to mind. It was probably the same for most mutants.

"Is that city not where you originate from?"

[chaosvessel]

She wasn't wrong and he blinked. He didn't remember her from the city, and the way she spoke suggested she'd encountered more than one AI with similar motivations. It was a disturbing trend.

He shook his head in response to her question. "No. Neither was the world."