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Test Drive - 003

TEST DRIVE 003

Welcome to Aterat!

Here is our third 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. Crash into Me

Not exactly, but close enough. 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 and try to get some information from that giant glowing ball, see what you can waste your meager starter coin on in the Market District, or maybe just meet the neighbors.

B. Something Wicked This Way Comes

Beginning today, new creatures will be noticed. As the description suggests, what will be experienced first is a change in mood for the darker. People who are possessed by these entities will have a sick, afflicted feeling to them perceivable by those who are sensitive to magical energies or have a sensitivity to the spiritual energies or can sense non-corporeal entities.

These entities can be purged with even low-level healing spells or by those who are capable of expelling demons or other spirits. There is also a new advertisement found pinned to the Notice Board and posted in random places throughout every district of the city and outside every residence building:
Feeling under the weather? Suffering from the night before? Have a headache? Fever? Minor possession? We have the cure for what ails you! Stop by Grave Concoctions! You won't be disappointed!

(OOC: Added to the bottom of these flyers in a scrawled hand is the following)

We're located just south of the Cemetery! You can't miss us...me. You can't miss me!

Tell Phone

The Tell Phones everyone are provided when they arrive are capable of voice transmission and texting as well and photo texts!

NAVIGATION

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[Wait..he knew that voice, he'd heard it in the darkness. And then on the beach. So it took a moment to place the voice to the face.]

Namine? You're here too? Is anyone else with you?

No... I haven't seen anyone else.

[It's nice to hear a familiar voice.]

I was hoping that this thing would help me find everyone. I'm not sure... how this could happen.

[Terra sighed and felt his shoulders drop.]

I don't know..but where are you?

I'm standing next to a fountain...

[She takes a look around her.]

There are a few tall buildings around me. I think it's the center of town.

By the fountain? I know where that is, stay where you are and I'll come find you, okay?

[Terra is not going to miss a chance to see someone from his own world here.]

Okay.

I will be waiting.

[Naminé stops wandering and takes a seat on the fountain edge, looking between the streets around her and the rippling waves from the water behind her.]

[He still wasn't sure how the phone actually worked, but he thought he shut it off. He actually hadn't though and it ended up staying on throughout his travels to get to the fountain.

Really he should've known Namine would be there, that was where all new arrivals ended up anyway. But the first thing was to get her settled into her new apartment, and maybe show her where some things were since she might need to know that.

But once he caught sight of her, Terra stood there and smiled. It was so nice to see someone from home.]

Edited 2020-11-21 07:12 (UTC)

[Naminé sat at the edge of the fountain with her ankles tucked off to the side. She has turned off her phone and has slipped it back into the bag that she'd been given upon her arrival.

Her gaze caught Terra's approach and while this is her first instance of seeing him in person, she recognizes him instantly. After all, they'd met once before… even if she hadn't had a body back then.

Naminé rose to her feet and clasped her hands behind her back as Terra approached.] You found me. [She glances around at the space around her before finding the small blue bag she'd been given by the short man and picked it up, holding it in her arms as she finished closing the distance between her and Terra.]

You are really here...

It wasn't long before he was heading up the fountain at a brisk jog. After all he'd just gotten here himself though somehow it sort of felt familiar and didn't all at the same time. So he headed out to see Namine, excited that someone from home was here with him even if it wasn't Aqua or Ven. Hopefully wherever they were, they'd understand that he wasn't trying to be absent again as he had been for the last ten years.

But he saw the white dress and the blonde hair so he slowed down and stopped a few feet away with a smile and a nod.

"Yup."

It was kind of weird to see her here but it really was nice to see Namine. But then he noticed the blue bag and half smiled. "So..you're in the blue building too?"

"Yes!" She looked down at the bag with a small smile. "The man said that the key in here would have my room number on it." Naminé gently tugged open the bag and began to push its contents around before finding the key. "Um.." She turned it over and ready the number on its flat edge. "A8."

Naminé looked up at Terra. "Do you know where that is?"

He nodded. "You're in the same building that I am, but I think I'm on floor b. Still, I can help you get over there if you're looking to go get settled in." Terra felt proud that he could at least help Namine as far as getting her to where she needed to go safely.

Safety was important, especially here with not knowing anyone else. And with her here now he could keep an eye out for her.

"Really?" Naminé looked down at her key, curious and uncertain. "So we are close together?" That made her feel a little better. "Could you show me where it is?"

She wanted to know where he lived and where her new home would be.

He shook his head. "I'm not sure, but we can go see." Then he smiled for her sake, all the while wondering why they were here. For some reason it felt familiar to be here but he dismissed it because somewhere like this he was sure he would remember being.

So Terra inclined his head with the way that the building was. "We'll get you settled right in."

She followed at his side, her small blue bag hugged tightly to her chest. "Settled in?" Naminé knew the phrase but she wasn't sure what 'settling' had to be done. "I don't have very much." She was used to living in a room and not being able to leave but... that was probably different and Naminé didn't want to compare it.

"How did you settle in?" She asked, trying to figure out what she was supposed to do.

"That's okay. Your own place will give you time to collect stuff." Terra replied, totally oblivious to Namine's earlier life. But the bonus was that they knew each other so he would protect her until they could both go home.

At the question he wanted to laugh but he just shook his head. "You just start getting comfortable with being here. But you can take all the time you need, because I don't think we're going home any time soon."

"Alright." Naminé bobs her head in a quick nod as she follows at Terra's side. She quiet for a good portion of the walk but as the apartment buildings rise into view, another question rises to her lips.

"Can you not leave this world?"

She was sure that he had a way of traveling between worlds but maybe she'd been wrong about that.

"Not yet." Terra replied with a shrug and he'd been staring straight ahead. "People here seem to think talking to people they call the Aspects would help to find that out though."

He himself had no idea who these people were or what they could do. "But I'm going to find them and see what they say. All we really know is that they tell us to live and that's enough."

The brown haired head shook. "But it doesn't give us any more answers."

"Aspects." She repeated the word softly, her tone thoughtful. "That was what they call the woman at the fountain." She paused and tried to clarify more. "Where I woke up in this world."

Naminé had thought that the red haired woman appeared to be nice but she didn't have a good track record with meeting random people after waking up in a strange place. So she wasn't sure and didn't hold her own opinion as infallible.

"Right." She frowned. "I don't know if I can help but I will try." While also getting used to this world.

"Right."

He didn't know what to quite make of them. So far he'd only met the lady as everyone else had. But Terra recalled there was another one, so he hadn't met them yet. And idly he wondered if they appeared at all but he couldn't let that keep him from watching over Namine'.

Terra's brown haired head shook. "Well it's not like we really have any more information, but we can help where we can, right?"

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