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Test Drive Meme II





A. RETRIEVAL

Dreams fade slowly, and awareness returns in increments. The hum of machinery, the smell of recycled air, the murmurs of others waking up around you.

The interior of the ship has been outfitted with cots for those Biggs and Wedge retrieve from the Dream Width. Outside of the makeshift infirmary, windows set into the walls of the worn lounge area offer a view of space.

It’s time to meet your fellow new arrivals who have been brought together on Biggs and Wedge’s airship. The other newly-awakened people have no idea how they came to be here, but now's a good time as ever to introduce yourself to the others on the airship and glean what information you can.


B. CURTI CENTER

The researchers at the Curti Center are not quite so unprepared as last time, but it is still obvious that they are struggling to understand the sudden influx of interdimensional travelers from the Dream Width. "Please step into the lobby for a quick survey. Perhaps there is some common thread we haven't discovered yet..."

The staff will do their best to help the off-worlders settle in. They answer the questions they can, write down all proffered information they can about the arrivals' homeworlds, provide maps and pamphlets about Vaikuntha and the destinations within it, and even guide the arrivals to a neighborhood where housing has been provided for you. Yes, due to the strange influx of arrivals, you’ll be expected to share, but the Curti staff are doing the best they can, considering they are still housing the previous arrivals here on the island.

Experiences like these bring people together. Perhaps you are the only one here from your world, but at least you are not alone in this experience. Others are right beside you, learning the same information, planning trips to visit the same new cities, checking out these Job things, and settling in to their new (temporary) homes.


C. UP IN THE SKY

There’s a whole new world to explore. It’s almost enough to distract from the fact that there’s one place you can’t go- home.

You are on an Airship, the main mode of transportation between the major cities of Vaikuntha. While the majority are owned by airlines, perhaps you hitched a ride with a friend that has their own. You can go anywhere in a matter of hours — One can only hope you don’t have motion sickness.


D. GUILDS

Proud representatives of the Guild are lined up, ready to demonstrate their skills for the new initiates. Make sure to stay behind the designated line, this might get dangerous.

So you want a new Job? You'll have to first travel to the Guilds, sign the papers, go through the orientation and introductory lectures, and get basic training. Afterwards, you can freely chat and practice with your fellow members, celebrating your new powers, and checking out your new wardrobe.


E. LET'S BE ADVENTURERS

Separated from all of your material possessions, connections, and everything you know, and really, what you’re left with is time. Better try to make the most of it.

Enough expository banter. It's explorin' time. Maybe instead of spending every day in your room, you'd rather spend it living it up in the city of Lavode, or betting on Chocobo Races in Sparks Goldsaucia. Or maybe you'd rather go and explore the caves and ruins near Arito. With Airships and Chocobos at your disposal, you can go nearly anywhere!


F. SIDEQUESTS

Maybe you’re telling yourself, ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’ But wait, you did. At least it pays.

It all started when you checked the Quest Board.  All you wanted was a few gil to spend, and here you are in the wild, hunting for a Malboro Vine. Or maybe you are in some ancient and decrepit ruins looking for an artifact. Or you could be asked to be janitor for a week. Consider yourself lucky though, at least you don't have to do that alone.


G. GET A JOB (THE OTHER KIND)

You’ve got a Job, but Claire keeps sighing and muttering about layabout space-people not earning their keep, so it might be time to seek out Employment as well.

There are plenty of opportunities to earn some gil in Vaikuntha, no matter where you choose to settle down. Your iMog slate includes listing for employment opportunities. Hopefully you can find something you can live with so that you can start saving up for an airship or the security payment for your permanent housing.


H. MOGNET

*Ding!* You’ve got Mog-Mail!

Thankfully, you can instantaneously chat with your friends around the world thanks to you iMog Slate. And unlike old-fashioned Moogle Letters, you can even send messages to everyone in a blink of an eye! However, despite the change in technology, the old tradition of Mognet Strikes have never gone away. Nobody knows any more whether the Moogles have legitimate reasons to go on strike or if they are just lazy. But today, Mognet is down, and to get information you have no choice but going to the public boards or risk message corruption and mishandling.


I. RANDOM ENCOUNTER

The ground trembles, and out of nowhere, something hostile appears! Is that battle music playing?

You were minding your own business walking around, and suddenly monsters attacked you! Time to put to use the skills you've learned with your Jobs! Will you try to fight on your own or seek help? And remember, you die in random battle, you die FOR REAL. There’s no shame from running from enemies that are a higher level than you!


J. CHOCOBO MADNESS

You look at the giant chicken, and the giant chicken looks back at you. Could this be the beginning of a beautiful relationship?

The kind folks at the Chocobo Farm have provided you with the tools of the chocobo-catching trade: greens, a bridle, and more advice than you can remember. Time to go find your new steed.

Or perhaps you have already captured a chocobo, and your friend has captured a chocobo, and now you'd like to bring some chicks into the equation. Chocobo breeding may be the minigame for you!


K. WILD CARD

Feeling inspired to create your own prompt? The power is yours!

regisrex: (Y: Leisure)

[personal profile] regisrex 2018-05-18 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Regis turned to the young woman next to him easily, a smile on his own lips. The way she carried herself was familiar enough that he did not need to ask whether she was nobility; her expression, on the other hand, was sweetly gentle, and that was also a wonderful thing.

"In this world, very much the first, yes. How about yourself?"

Easy enough topic of conversation, no matter what.
regisrex: (Y: Play)

[personal profile] regisrex 2018-05-18 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Regis, on the other hand, has no such reactions at all. Sure, the Nox Fleuret seems like to glare his way out through a steel wall, but that doesn't mean anything bad, necessarily. Probably upsetting for Ravus, truly, but not necessarily bad, in the end.

Besides, his glare has nothing to Cid, anyway.
]

Yes, I am. Regis Lucis Caelum.

[ Possibly one of the first time he's said his full name, here. He's written it, but most people don't care.

A Nox Fleuret would, though, and Regis gives a small bow, respectful and easy both.
]

A pleasure to meet you.

[ Regis, no. ]
sunflowerseeds: (whoa!!)

[personal profile] sunflowerseeds 2018-05-18 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[The frightened frightening creature lets out a yell of surprise at the sudden appearance of...a giant flying hamster-like creature?]

Whoa, you're a--wait, that's not important! We need to find water, fast!!

[Considering the size of the flower it's probably not a threat to anybody at all, but it still looks huge from a hamster point of view, okay?]
einspine: (OH MY GOD!!!)

Curti Center

[personal profile] einspine 2018-05-18 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Papyrus really shoulda seen this coming. Frisk is a flirt machine. It's a scientific fact! But... another gravity-based pun. Oh no! It's too strong! So, naturally, cue the googly eyes as Papyrus shouts...

"OH NOOOO! ANOTHER GRAVITY-BASED PICKUP LINE! YOUR FLIRTING PROWESS HAS PEAKED YET AGAIN!!!"

Wowie. And it's been so long. Is he gonna have to make a new D.A.T.E at this rate?!
specialinquisitor: (explaining)

[personal profile] specialinquisitor 2018-05-18 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[It has been a very long time since anyone referred to her as a 'protege', and the further irony in that makes her smile.]

My own title was 'the Flamebringer', as it happens, but that one was well-earned. I was fortunate enough to be paired with the strongest Blade in Mor Ardhain, after all.
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (back to you all)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2018-05-18 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey, say it seriously or take the title from him, damn it! One or the other! Preferably the other.]

[Kid's just making him more solemn though, his eyes shut.]


Is it our story? Or did we get pulled back to play a role in someone else's?
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (hesitating here)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2018-05-18 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Name's Jecht. [He grabs the guy's hand, gives it a shake. Jecht's got a hell of a handshake on him, the way you'd expect a guy that big and muscley to have.] I got questions for days, but a bunch of 'em are about what question I SHOULD have. Ain't much to wonder about in the middle of an airship...
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (a hero never... wait)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2018-05-18 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, every monster went down if you punched it enough!

Still, gotta admit pooch's senses had it on his. Soon as her head twitched like that, he cut out the joking, dropping a foot back and lifting his fists. Being a monk came pretty naturally to him.

"Same plan as before? I jump it, you make with the magic?"
surrenderto: (By nightlights the children pray)

[personal profile] surrenderto 2018-05-18 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
They certainly lack creativity when it comes to their job names. [ She doesn't even care about what she can only guess is a jab at her. ] Your suggestions however are noted.
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (big grin)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2018-05-18 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait... Blitzball ain't popular enough here that anyone cares a new star's on the scene?

[THAT'S a kick in the teeth! Jecht looks momentarily dismayed -- then a grin slowly grows as the challenge and the fun of it all strike him.]

Then that means you guys don't know the first thing about blitzing. And by the time we're done, this whole world's gonna see what it's been missing.

[This might be a dream come true. Grabbing an entire world's sport by the horns and showing them how it's really played is one thing. Doing it with his son, well.]
surrenderto: (This miracle machinery)

[personal profile] surrenderto 2018-05-18 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
But is ambition wrong? Is unraveling the foundation of which we breathe and live upon such a delusional goal? [ Moira is genuinely curious as back home she knows her methods and ways have a poor reputation. Thus however is a new, free world. ]

To live without searching for answers seems to be a ignorant and boorish life. A waste of the potential that the individual is capable of.
aethereally: (thinking)

[personal profile] aethereally 2018-05-18 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you mean-- this planet, right? [Saleri hopes he does, because if it's city or country, he can't remember. Then again, he's still struggling with the planet name too.] It's, ah... Vai... Vaikuntha! Yes? I'm saying that correctly?
aethereally: (thinking)

[personal profile] aethereally 2018-05-18 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Nn. My hero! I feel like a real damsel in distress. [He sounds sarcastic, but that's to cover up being genuinely intimidated by the idea of fighting a monster. No thanks.

Instead of closing his eyes, Salieri turns his back on the fight. He doesn't like that either, but it seems better than keeping his eyes closed.]


Just don't and get yourself turned to stone, alright?
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (got my sword)

E

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2018-05-18 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Boy, some matches are just -- well, the canon name is pretty accurate for this one, huh?]

[Being a monk, Jecht isn't wearing armor. Being Jecht, he isn't even wearing a shirt. And he's regarding his apparent partner with some level of amusement.]


Man, how do you even see out of that?

[He at least means it as friendly banter...]
jeido: commissioned art. do not take (rdm)

I is for I want this CR so bad

[personal profile] jeido 2018-05-18 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps, your own story ends at that chapter.

[Stepping forward and coming from seemingly out of nowhere, Jade smiles as a burst of white magic stuns the nearby skeletons, scattering their concentration in the air as he pulls out his rapier, prepared to take down the nearest skeleton in tandem with a flourish or two of his hand.]

I, however, don't intend for mine to end at that point.
witchwithoutacause: (talkin shit)

J

[personal profile] witchwithoutacause 2018-05-18 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw come on, it just wants to be your friend.

[ Amanda's just got her hands shoved into her pockets, like she isn't even here to do anything other than make fun of people.

Actually she's here because racing sounds kinda interesting, she's just not gonna let that stop her from heckling someone. ]
stormcalling: (Crying all your lullabies)

[personal profile] stormcalling 2018-05-18 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I see your humility is clearly legendary.[ She would make fun of him more for it but she can guess or hope that he's aware of it. Who knows with humans. ]

I don't know if you noticed but- [ She taps the tip of one her horns. ] These get in the way of a lot of sports
finny_fun: (Default)

Ariel | Kingdom Hearts

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-18 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
B. Curti Center

Ariel was not the type to be a shy girl, and yet, she fidgeted, trying to get someone's attention. She had been pleasantly surprised by her legs, even if it meant being unstable of sorts, but stuck in a wheelchair thanks to her balance issues. For the time being at least.

Wheeling over to the door, she reached for the door and yelped as a flood of moogles and people came out. "Excuse me, anyone? Help?"

She hated feeling helpless, and her moogle, Boxcar, sighed. "Maybe we should come back later, kupo," said Boxcar.


Chocobo

Wild Chocobos! Ariel was interested in these kinds of creatures, having seeing them there. Even her own job of Cavalier was interesting, and she was sent out to get a chocobo.

Getting up from her wheelchair, she carefully picked her way through the fields, going towards a chocobo who was nipping at greens. Careful, careful...!

Seconds later, a shriek of not-quite-terror was heard as Ariel had managed to pounce onto the chocobo and it was hightailing it around the field, Ariel hanging on for dear life. She was half shrieking, half giggling. "Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you!"

"Oh dear, oh dear oh dear!" Exclaimed Boxcar.
finny_fun: (ariel31)

B

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-18 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
What is that? It looked like Max, but it was... different.

"Whatcha looking at Kupo?" asked Boxcar as Ariel gestured towards Ammy. "Oh, that's a dog!"

"I thought so, but it's so different from Max." She held out a biscuit for Ammy, trying to coax her over, not even realizing she was a newcomer.
finny_fun: (ariel13)

A

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-18 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Me?

[Ariel looks up, the girl dressed in nothing but a medical gown. It seems, she didn't have any clothing of her own to her name. Also, she was in a wheelchair for the time being.]

I'm from the great sea, Atlantica. Sorry for not standing to greet you ma'am, I'm a little unsteady on my legs and they put me in this contraption.
finny_fun: (ariel18)

B

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-18 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh thank you very much!

[Taking the pamphlet, she looked up at Ji with a grateful smile. It was made to note that the girl was in a wheelchair, on loan from the hospital but she seemed all right, her legs moving under the simple dress she wore.]

There's so much I want to learn about this world, I've never been outside my own world.
staredintotheabyss: (Kids say the damnedest things)

[personal profile] staredintotheabyss 2018-05-18 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Another chuckle]

It takes more than a decent blade to earn a title like that.
Pray tell, what is your real name?
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (fist pump)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2018-05-18 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! Not in blitzball, they won't! Back in Spira there were these guys called Ronso, had horns right here. [He jabs the knuckle of his thumb on his head, center and high on the front.] Played just fine. Yours'd actually be an advantage.
staredintotheabyss: (Too old for this shit)

[personal profile] staredintotheabyss 2018-05-18 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[She stops for a second and turns around to see her "partner", removing her helmet. She wants him to see her face just so he can see how fed up it is...made all the more clear with a great big "smile"]

Do you ever stop talking?
Edited 2018-05-18 17:25 (UTC)
stormcalling: (In the end)

[personal profile] stormcalling 2018-05-18 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess I'll have to accept it. [ She raises a brow, because she is a little less sure about someone whose excited about not being in jail. ] I don't know if I'd say great. I would be worried if they thought if taking us then throwing us in jail.