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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.

If you have any questions at all about setting or what is or isn't acceptable, please submit it on the FAQ!

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You... didn't?

I was sure that you had mentioned it.

Maybe not.

[There is another brief pause.]

I'm sorry. I just have this feeling that we were going to meet.

"Were going to"?

[Haven't they?]

Right...what's your name?

It's Syeira. Syeira Harven.

I didn't mean to frighten you... It's hard to explain.

I-frightened is a strong word. [He clears his throat.] You know, there's a disembodied voice coming through a magic crystal a funny little gnome gave me in a bag, and-

-It's nice to meet you, Syeira.

That is true.

It's your voice that I recognize but I am not sure what you look like.

Can we meet?

[Hey, that actually has an explanation.]

Maybe you saw my partner's Youtube channel? ...but the odds of up being from the same world are...astronomically low.

...yeah, sure. Down in the Square?

Is it?

[She considers that but she's sure that she knows him. Would it be so strange if they were from the same world.]

Yes. I can meet you there. I'll be there shortly.

[She might get a little turned around but she's planning to be there as soon as possible. Syeira is very easy to spot.]

Well, yeah. Think of how many other worlds there are, that I'm just learning about really.

[He clears his throat.]

Yeah, I'll be there.

We might beat the odds.

[Her voice trails off before the connection is completely severed. It doesn't take her long to make her way to the main area of the city however she's careful. Syeira doesn't want to get lost. This is too important for that but she doesn't understand why it's so important. It's just another person...

She can hear her brother's opinion in her head, though she knows that he isn't here. It isn't safe. He isn't one of the clan. Maybe it was good that her brother wasn't here...

Syeira arrives after Jagger and walks straight towards him. Her eyes aren't looking at him but a shadow along side of him. It was difficult for her to see the futures from her home while she was trapped in this city but she tried to look towards the future now, to see him in her future.

She stopped in front of him, her skirts swirling around her ankles. "Hello Jagger." Syeira smiled. It was strange but she couldn't help herself.

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