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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!

bloodinbloom: (Big brother!; Big Sis!)

[personal profile] bloodinbloom 2018-05-18 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"It looks like fun. You're really good at it." She wondered how often he played. "I can wait until you're done playing."
stormcalling: (It doesn't get me too)

[personal profile] stormcalling 2018-05-18 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She leans in real close with a smug grin on her face. Hello, jecht hope personal space isn't a concern. ]

Are you sure you want to get a hoof to your face at some point? I hear shattered skulls hurt.
regalblaze: (Considering 🔪 With me)

[personal profile] regalblaze 2018-05-18 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[He... should probably settle down somewhere. Soon. He'll need it, for his own sake.

And Moogles can be very useful! When they are not overly eager and trying to help you out even when you're getting dressed. Cheerful fellas tho!]


Yes. There are tournaments. However, I know little about the competition. [He was actually too busy to follow everything that's going on, and then after things went down so...]

There are a plethora of wild chocobos around but I also saw farms as well. There should be little chocochicks on the farms. [And yes- they are stupidly cute.]
Edited 2018-05-18 19:57 (UTC)
arosetowar: (â—‘ and here is the night)

[personal profile] arosetowar 2018-05-18 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[No it is a wonderful thing that must be protected at all costs. Dignity, that is, not the chocobo.

Also why does everyone keep calling her lady? Grump, grump.]


I thought they weren't inclined towards aggression.

[Well, dangerous aggression anyway. This one seems pretty aggressively affectionate with how it's moved on to nuzzling her arm.]
finny_fun: (ariel18)

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-18 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Another planet? Like, another world? My father mentioned that he had to lock away the passages to other worlds. So they must be open now. I believe you."

"You'll be working on the PuPu sanitary district first!"
stormcalling: (We'll be gradually torn apart)

[personal profile] stormcalling 2018-05-18 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
So the younger you was a real jerk, huh? [ She is sort of teasing him. She gets it young her was pretty bad too. ] Well I hope we don't drink together. Sounds like we're both the "drink first, punch second" types.
finny_fun: (ariel23)

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-18 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
In the towns around the ocean floor. Some even live on kelp farms and the like.

[It's not that she's a nudist Cornelia, she just has really no concept of outfits.]

Oh, I see. We women cover up top but there's really no reason to wear clothing in my kingdom.
hatejakku: (yeah whatever)

[personal profile] hatejakku 2018-05-18 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
A sport played underwater?

[With scuba gear? Sounds bulky. He's gonna flip if he ever sees a Blitzball game.]

Ah, I get it. I'll need to find a team. [Said with not a lot of enthusiasm. Joining a team was way easier said than done, in his experience. He'll have to like mingle around and stuff. Sure, he can do that. Socializing. Cool.] You sure know a lot about this place. Been here awhile?
maximum_mighty: (emu5)

[personal profile] maximum_mighty 2018-05-18 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Emu raised an eyebrow.] So you're all business all the time then?
staredintotheabyss: (Listen here you little shit)

[personal profile] staredintotheabyss 2018-05-18 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ozen doesn't like to sugarcoat things, the world, or rather multiverse, isn't a nice place.]

Does a nation ask for permission to draft soldiers?

While this is guess work on my part, it would make sense. Why make our departures so non-consensual if it were harmless? Why waste the lives of your own people when you could send expendable alien forces instead?

Why bring so many people if to do nothing with them?
sirenslight: (casually smugg)

[personal profile] sirenslight 2018-05-18 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
“Yeah. Good luck.”

[She isn’t confident, but if anyone can do it, it’s Mòrag. She supposed being Special inquistor meant having a certain level of social graces that Aegises didn’t need to possesss. Still, she supposed she had a few people she needed to introduce her to, eventually.]

“Many people have gotten... the wrong impression from my explanations.”

[Mostly accusations of slavery. She didn’t know what that was about.]
Edited 2018-05-18 20:02 (UTC)
maximum_mighty: (emu1)

[personal profile] maximum_mighty 2018-05-18 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah, well I've been a gamer for a long time now." Emu tapped the buttons, clearing the stage with ease as he defeated Salty with a few well placed jumps.

"My job actually requires me to play games, even in the medical field."
saint_sami: (Sasami - Gasp!)

[personal profile] saint_sami 2018-05-18 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
“You do...?” Sasami said, surprised at that. Oh, gosh, for the first time in a long time, she didn’t feel alone! “B-but, yeah I’m from another world. Jurai. My sister and I came from there but we now live on Earth...”

“I will not be sent to that heap pile!”
regalblaze: (Determined 🔪 to move onward)

[personal profile] regalblaze 2018-05-18 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[And the feeling is mutual. They... didn't really discuss what happened in Altissia, after Ignis was knocked out but- it could wait. From the looks of it, they aren't going anywhere soon.]

And I don't. However, I do advise going about this the smart way rather than the hard way.

[He peers over at the paper with their quest, pushing his glasses up. Without their powers they could be torn into pieces before they can say 'chocochick'.]

Looks reasonable enough. How are you faring with your Asterisk?
arosetowar: (â—‘ a scheme is not a vision)

[personal profile] arosetowar 2018-05-18 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I suppose there wouldn't be...

Is this your first time outside of the water?
hatejakku: (serious)

[personal profile] hatejakku 2018-05-18 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'll figure out how to stay in one spot eventually, Ignis. And why he needs it.

For now, he was stuck on the idea of a chocochick. He looked back up to the grown one trying to get another green out of his hands.]
Kind of sad that they're not all wild, but with the monsters out there, I can kind of see why this is good for them. [Nothing looked remotely like the animal abuse going on in Canto Bight yet, but that place also had him fooled for a minute, too.]
gunslingersloaded: (BAMF)

D

[personal profile] gunslingersloaded 2018-05-18 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess 'm lucky they had something similar to home. [Check it out, McCree already headed over to the Gunslinger Guild and hit them up for paperwork and gear.]

You thinkin this one then?
regalblaze: (I want to ride 🔪 my chocobo all day)

[personal profile] regalblaze 2018-05-18 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Will Finn end up being as big of a fan of chocobos as Prompto? Because it sure looks like it.

Ignis sighs, petting the chocobo's neck, temporarily distracting him from his quest for more food.]


Indeed. Only recently we had dealt with a hoard of monsters known as 'Chocobo eaters'. We managed to push them back, but the fact is that there are more of those beasts out there, hurting less experienced Chocobos. [He turns to Finn.]

Take care of them and they will take care of you too. [The Chocobo 'kwehs' loudly and nudges Finn again, asking for the rest of the greens.]
extrasaltypotato: (Default)

Hikaru Aosora | Tabletop OC, isekai parody | (bgm: muffled Meatball Parade)

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2018-05-18 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Retrieval

Someone is not happy that they came back with the proportions of a Lalafell - almost mistaken for one, except for the canines in his grimace and the dragonfly wings on his back. Mind, they're less furiously mad than grumpy.

"Of course I'm an adorable little scamp here," he grumbles. "Why wouldn't I be? It's not like I'm home by any stretch of the imagination, why would I be able to reach the top shelf in a store here?"

Curti Center

The new arrival is looking over the class - excuse me, Job TM pamphlets and nodding, considering a bunch of them unfolded in front of him: Black Mage, Chemist, and Illusionist especially. He taps his staff against his back, grinning.

"So if I've got this right, I can spec two of these at once?" he says, mostly to himself. "Oh man. There is so much I can break with judicious levelling and subclassing."

Get a job. A real job!

...Ah. The joys of retail. This is one thing he didn't miss from home, to be honest. Time to put on a customer service face.

"Welcome to our apothecary, are you looking for potions, reagents, just browsing?" he says, trying not to sound as bored as he feels.

LFG

Is this lalafell guy seriously holding up a sign saying LFG to deal with Thunder Plains. Need a tank, a healer, a physical DPS. Will split gil evenly, divide equipment as needed?

Yes. Yes he is. Taped it to a staff twice as tall as he is. He's even eating an apple with his other hand, looking bored. And/or at his watch.
Edited 2018-05-18 21:31 (UTC)
finny_fun: (ariel15)

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-18 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"What's Jurai like?" asked Ariel, interested in the concept of another world having a kingdom. "What's your king like?"

"Owowowow let go of my whiskers!"
finny_fun: (ariel18)

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-18 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Technically yes, although I've visited the surface once in a while. Dad doesn't like it when I go up there though.
extrasaltypotato: (Default)

A

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2018-05-18 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Shops down the market square. Street food and ingredients if you can cook.

...assuming you've got two gil to rub together, of course. You broke?

(That voice is coming from Gabriel's stomach. Specifically, from someone with about the proportions of a Lalafell and a 'this is my life now I guess' expression on his face.)
extrasaltypotato: (Default)

D

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2018-05-18 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"I dunno, the spelltank I had the last place I got stuck in could find a way to make turning invisible flashy," says a bored-looking guy about 2/3rds as tall as him. "But maybe that's just his brand of extra dramatic."

He's considering the same plumed hat, and tries one of the rapiers, frowning. "Or maybe it's to draw aggro. Be the flashiest guy in the room, and let the guys without armor or wards stay in the back, flinging elfshot and fireballs. God knows that explains half of the paladin armor I've seen drop."
saint_sami: (Sasami - Adorable)

[personal profile] saint_sami 2018-05-18 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
“Jurai’s pretty nice. There’s a lot of trees there, so you don’t have to worry about getting hot under the sun... even if we didn’t have devices that can alter the weather. As for the king he’s... stern. Very stern. But he can be nice when he needs to be.” She giggled knowingly at that, as if she had a secret over it.

“Kupo Bite!”
extrasaltypotato: (Default)

Mognet

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2018-05-18 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
At least one player, anyway. Call me Hikaru, I guess.

Crowd control back home. Maining Black Mage, levelling Chemist and Illusionist for support options.

Does 'AWOL' mean anything to you other than the usual?