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!

Helpful Links to Get Started

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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

[faithfulsupport]

[Well a friendly voice wasn't what he expected but at the same time he really hadn't expected much at all. Ignis pushed his glasses up over the bridge of his nose and nodded to acknowledge the lady had heard him though she couldn't see it. But then he paused as she asked his name.]

I am Ignis Scientia. And you are?

[whereishe]

I'm Yuna. I had just arrived here.

I was given this crystal by that small man. It's a little like the the comm sphere system that Shinra had invented, so it isn't too unusual. Do you not have anything like this where you're from?

[faithfulsupport]

Something in common then..

[This was spoken low, but it was audible enough. Still, he kept quiet as Yuna spoke and pictured the little person giving him his own blue satchel with the crystal enclosed therein. And then he heard something about comm sphere and shook his head though she couldn't see it.]

We have..radios and phones.

[Like normal civilized people..]

[whereishe]

I see.

I don't think those things are here. I haven't found to much anyway...

[She'd been hoping for more machina or magicks of some kind.]

Have you explored the city much?

[faithfulsupport]

[At hearing the report Ignis wondered what the tech here consisted of, though being able to communicate was always a plus in his book.]

I've not had much of a chance as of yet.

[However, he of course planned to change that. Gnomes and running and trying to figure out where the heck he was had taken precedence.]

Have you?

[Reports were good things.]

[whereishe]

I have explored a bit but I hope to explore more and I'd like to go outside the city.

My understanding is that there are dangerous out in the area around the city.

[faithfulsupport]

[Well this was a report.]

If it's dangerous, it would be wise to err on the side of caution and perhaps take someone with you.

[Yes he's being chivalrous which can be totally misunderstood like Aranea had done a time or two.]

[whereishe]

I hope so. I wanted to advertise for a team before going out there.

[faithfulsupport]

So you have a team prepared?

[whereishe]

Not yet but I will.

I just need to find them.

[faithfulsupport]

[She couldn't see it, but he shook his head.]

Then I'm afraid I will have to be your first volunteer.

[Ladies didn't belong in danger.]

[whereishe]

Really? Are you able to fight?

I don't know what's out there.

[faithfulsupport]

Yes, I most certainly am capable.

[There was a smirk[

Only one way to find that out I suppose.

[whereishe]

Alright. You're in.

Let's go find out.

[faithfulsupport]

[There was a smile and smothered laughter.]

And here I thought you were searching for a team.

[whereishe]

I am but I want to make sure that everyone is safe too.