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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

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sassafrisk: <user name=e8luhs site=tumblr.com> (Default)

Sorry for all the JoJo, I've made the mistake of binging it and it's burned into my brain

[personal profile] sassafrisk 2018-05-19 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, this guy was just about as oblivious as Papyrus could be about anime. Which was saying something. It would be like kicking a puppy to mess with him. "Points for attempting to quip back, at least. Though seriously, why would the Center publish all of this stuff if it had all of these errors?"
chefbayardee: (awkward neck scratch)

[personal profile] chefbayardee 2018-05-20 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch. Sorry. [ He didn't want to say that war was a painfully recurring thing in most universes, but it was. The alternatives to war weren't exactly humane, either. ] At least the war's over, right?

[ But then he glanced back to his tablet, and made a swiping motion with his finger. An image expanded to take up the entire screen as he showed it to the woman: a huge black robotic lion, wings included visible behind an otherwise normal house in an otherwise normal neighborhood. ]

One of our ships actually turned up in this world. See? [ There was a small hint of satisfaction in his voice, but he also knew it didn't prove anything about his claims. Could make a fun conversation piece, if nothing else. ]
saint_sami: (Sasami - Gasp!)

Re: Get a Job

[personal profile] saint_sami 2018-05-20 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Woah, scary face! Sasami quickly clears her throat and finds her voice as she makes her request.]

I need to get this banner up. C-Can you hold this end while I get the other up?

[She offers Ozen the end she needs to be held.]
chefbayardee: (approval)

[personal profile] chefbayardee 2018-05-20 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you never know. Crescens might show up one day. [ He's smiling, nearly grinning, because it's totally possible! ]

So, how do you know Fei and Elly? [ She didn't seem hostile towards them, which was a plus. But maybe there was a language barrier- her speech patterns were funny. She might be a refugee from all the fighting Fei mentioned. ] You seem happy to hear they're okay.
chefbayardee: (clever)

[personal profile] chefbayardee 2018-05-20 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hunk was prepared for that handshake, thank goodness. He's seen enough terrifyingly large aliens (who used handshakes, surprisingly) that his own had gotten strong and confident. Jecht seems like he's looking for someone who knows what they're doing, and lucky for him... ]

I've actually been here for a little while, so I can try to answer your questions. [ But then he looks away, shrugs, and laughs. ] But we're still figuring some stuff out ourselves.
chefbayardee: (approval)

[personal profile] chefbayardee 2018-05-20 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Got it! [ Thumbs-up for you, guy! ] Okay, so... there are a lot of monsters here. How do people deal with them?

[ An open ended question, with multiple potential answers. The worst kind of question. But, Hunk'll use this chance to gather some information of his own. ] Also, what's your name?
finny_fun: (ariel15)

Re: Chocobo

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-20 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
He just needs some love, that's all. [She patted the Chocobo down.] Yes, yes, you're very handsome.

[The Chocobo kwehed and preened with a little cooing noise before it warked reproachfully at the newcomer.]
finny_fun: (ariel6)

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-20 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
They say there's nothing wrong with the muscles in my legs. I just need to get used to walking. Which should be soon.
maximum_mighty: (emu3)

[personal profile] maximum_mighty 2018-05-20 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
An hour is plenty. I know the fastest routes from here to the item shop and to the airship. Leave it to me!

[At least Emu seems cheered up by the potential adventure.]
finny_fun: (ariel18)

[personal profile] finny_fun 2018-05-20 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
To Ariel, Ammy was a dog. A strange looking dog, but a dog. She reached out and started petting the goddess, giggling. "This is fur right? It's so soft!"
maximum_mighty: (emu3)

[personal profile] maximum_mighty 2018-05-20 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Thanks! We should be doing well. After all, there's plenty of options now back home, and regenerative medicine is the future of our profession."
maximum_mighty: (emu3)

[personal profile] maximum_mighty 2018-05-20 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'll keep that in mind, there's plenty of options. And I've been used to being on the front line so perhaps Paladin mixed with White Mage or Astrologian.
sirenslight: (Focus)

[personal profile] sirenslight 2018-05-20 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
“Exactly! And that, is really weird.”

[Really weird was an understatement, if Mythra was being honest. Because it meant an entirely different set of social expectations, an entirely different way of interesting with people that she just, wasn’t used to. And it meant adapting herself in more ways than the obvious. And those ways were the hardest.]

“...What do you mean?” [Mythra’s interest was piqued, to say the least.]
chefbayardee: (approval)

[personal profile] chefbayardee 2018-05-20 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Only some of the airships can go into space. Some of them pretty much are airplanes." Hunk nods, smiling at the girl as the handshake finished up. All things considered, she was handling this incredibly well. A lot more smoothly than he handled it, if nothing else.

"I'm surprised you're not freaking out. When I was in your shoes, I was not having a good day." He grins at the embarrassing implications, and tilts his head at her expectantly. "So... what sort of questions do you have?"
immortalmarshal: (feeling all those years upon my shoulder)

[personal profile] immortalmarshal 2018-05-20 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[It's almost a pity that Ravus is looking away, because Cor tenses almost instantly upon hearing that statement. Any petting cease, and there's a flash of pain in the older man's eyes for just a few seconds.

Mors, he's not been too close to; Cor finished his grieving of that old king before Regis ascended the throne. Regis himself, however...that's another story.

But Cor, as always, gathered up all those feelings of grief and self-blame, and firmly shoved them back down yet again. This is not the time or place (or even the right person) to express them honestly to.]

...my duties keep me going. Before Insomnia fell, the Crownsguard were given a new duty - to protect the common people, instead of just the Crown. I intend to follow those duties to the very end, whether that's here or back on our star.
gunslingersloaded: (Wink Wonk)

[personal profile] gunslingersloaded 2018-05-20 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
You say that now. [She should know Morrison has his ways. And he's sure she'd be annoyed by his goodie-two-shoes ways in maybe... 30 seconds]

And a poor scientist you aint.


[ooc: omg have you seen Moira's dance emote?]
specialinquisitor: (little smile)

[personal profile] specialinquisitor 2018-05-20 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[That question makes a small smile quirk across her lips.]

I'm recently arrived as well. I suppose my background makes it easier to adapt to circumstances such as these. Preparing housing in emergency situations for refugees is, if not always military in nature, at least bureaucratic.
specialinquisitor: (not happy)

[personal profile] specialinquisitor 2018-05-20 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
So long as both sides view it as an option, it will remain so. Therefore, it is necessary we maintain that viewpoint as long as possible.

[She remembers Nia chastising her, in this moment, for the actions of Mor Ardain, and how they had chosen war rather than peace. Certainly words to keep in mind.]
specialinquisitor: (little smile)

[personal profile] specialinquisitor 2018-05-20 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
I think it would be fair to say that your nature as not only a Blade, but as an Aegis, has caused you a fair amount of grief in the course of your life. Which is not to diminish the good it has done you as well.

[The two-in-one had been essentially suicidal, after all -- but had also met Rex during that journey, and found new hope. Mòrag would guess they considered it worth it, after all that... but Rex is not here, after all.]

So, since you do not need a Driver, here you have a chance to live as you choose. Without worry that anyone will seek you for your power, or treat you differently because you are an Aegis.
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (a hero never... wait)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2018-05-20 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Jecht folds his arms, then. Crap. Look like he's actually... gonna have to get serious about something.]

How do you know? That you don't need a partner.
sublimelymagnificentblitz: (do I exist?)

[personal profile] sublimelymagnificentblitz 2018-05-20 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I got one real quick then. Where'd you come from?

[Because he'd sure like to know if everyone else -- or anyone else -- shared his particular situation.]
zanarkandian: (distant familiar lights)

A

[personal profile] zanarkandian 2018-05-20 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately, Tidus has known enough curt and to-the-point people by now that he doesn't let it bother him. No one's at their best when they're trapped in such a strange situation with no warning, after all.

He responds with a thin smile.]


We're in something called the inner-dimensional cloud, or 'dream width'. We're still not sure why, but people from all different worlds get swallowed by it every now and then. Seems to happen in batches. I was caught up in the last one.

We can't go back out to our worlds, so we're going back where this ship came from---a place called Vaikuntha.
staredintotheabyss: (Too old for this shit)

[personal profile] staredintotheabyss 2018-05-20 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Because I've cataloged species before on my own.

[Oh boy, another grin crosses her face, she reaches for her bags and...it's a quill and parchment which she hands it over to him, hope you like homework Jecht.]

By all means, if you feel like you want to be useful... then be useful. Start by describing whatever flora and fauna that happen to be in this area.
staredintotheabyss: (Listen here you little shit)

[personal profile] staredintotheabyss 2018-05-20 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Samson
[She gestures to the Moogle who calmly pulls out a parchment and quill and quickly writes something down]

"Love" wasn't what calmed it down. You were lucky you weren't injured or killed not only startling it, but attempting to ride it so haphazardly.

Such recklessness will only get you killed in the future.
staredintotheabyss: (Default)

[personal profile] staredintotheabyss 2018-05-20 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Very well.

[Normally such a menial task wouldn't be worth her time, but considering her present circumstance in an unknown world, it wouldn't hurt to help.
The building is small enough and she's tall enough to not need anything more than a stool.
]

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