Test Drive Meme II

[eternitymods]

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!

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Trucy Wright | Ace Attorney

[magic_to_do]

Sidequests

[Trucy is looking over the various options on the quest board curiously. Bits of various critters sure seem popular. ]

Marlboro vines? What's a marlboro?

[She's trying to picture it in her head, but keeps imagining billboards with cowboys on them.]

Soooomething tells me they don't want to go to flavor country...

[Someone enlighten her before she gets herself killed.]


Guilds

[Trucy is looking at a list of the various job options with a thoughtful frown. The jobs seem pretty important around here so she wants to make sure she picks the right one. Magic is an obvious choice for her. But that still leaves a ton of options to sort through. White mage, black mage, red mage, summoner, and the list goes on.

Maybe it's time to poll the audience. By which I mean the next random passerby. Possibly you.]

Hey, do you think it's better to go for white or black mage first? Or maybe something more exotic, like Astrologian. I do kind of like their hats...

[Hat coolness is totally an important job criteria, okay?]


Random Encounter

[Here she was, on a perfectly innocent sidequest to find samples of particular type of moss for a local chemist and that rock she was scraping the moss off of turned out to be a golem. Rude.]

EEK!

[She scrambles backwards and fumbles for her staff. Magic isn't much use against big piles of rock though, so she miiight need a rescue.]

Guilds

[hontobakabaka]

Ruri stops at the word hats, she then looks over and tilts her head.

"Hats? Does the hat they showed you have kitty ears on it?"

Re: Guilds

[magic_to_do]

No it's more of a kitschy-classy witch hat.

[Kitschy and classy. That's quite a feat.]

Why? Is there a job that comes with a kitty costume?

[hontobakabaka]

Ruri looks at her and shrugs, "Every hat or helmet I've seen for jobs offered to me had some form of kitty motif. I'm not entirely certain why."

[magic_to_do]

[Trucy gasps almost comically.]

Whaaaat? That's no fair! I want cute hats too.

[hontobakabaka]

Ruri just looks up emotionlessly, "I would trade you if they would let me. I don't think anyone would take a dark knight in kitty armor seriously."

[magic_to_do]

I dunno. I'd take that pretty seriously.

[She gives Ruri a cheeky little grin.]

I mean, the knight would have to be pretty confident to wear that, right? Not someone I wanna mess with.

[hontobakabaka]

"Unless the other oarty knows all tgere are are like that."

She shakes her head, "I guess it isn't the worst but it is still silly."

[magic_to_do]

[A thoughtful little hum.]

That probably depends more on your personal style. There are definitely people who could pull it off.

[Trucy is still having an internal debate about whether she could.]

So is that the job you picked? Dark knight?

[hontobakabaka]

"No. I haven't really picked one. There isn't anything too much like what I did back back home, but that was the most ridiculous instance of the kitty ear helm."

She shakes her head a little, "Maybe that magitech thing, I was a computer operator before.... This happened. I guess there isn't a lot of use for that here."

[magic_to_do]

Hey, you never know. Maybe you could help them bring on the next technological revolution!

[She sweeps her arm in a grand gesture as if the tech revolution might happen at any second.]

Now I'm a magician back home so I thought about being an illusionist. But it sort of feels like cheating so I dunno...

[Shrug]

[hontobakabaka]

"Sadly I'm not an engineer and a language is kind of meaningless without anything to speak it. Still, it is a thought."

Ruri just looks at her with her usual deadpan, "I'm told there are several types of magic here, maybe a different type?"

Random Encounter!

[monafide]

[ Morgana had taken a sidequest all by himself. Possibly to try and prove he can do this alone. Not that he had any problem accepting help from his friends, but without much knowledge of this place, he felt he had to prove himself. That and he really wanted to go back and boast about his great achievement. It was win-win.

So he was currently hiding behind a rock, watching out for the mobs his sidequest told him to defeat, when he heard a distressing sound and a rock not too far in the distance moving. ]

Oh no, I've gotta help her!

[ There was no way the great Morgana could just stand by while someone was in danger! He leaps out of his hiding spot and presses the trigger on his crossbow, hitting it in a spot that knocks it back slightly, though it doesn't do much damage.

Disgruntled he dashes towards the young girl and grabs her hand, ready to run. ]

We should fall back!

Re: Random Encounter!

[magic_to_do]

[A talking cat? She didn't even realize they had talking cats here. Maybe he's like a moogle?

Oh, wait. She better figure that out after they escape form the monster.]

R-right!

[As Trucy turns to run she casts a fire spell which strikes the golem in the chest.

That... really doesn't do much.]

Mental note! Fire doesn't beat rock!

[Time to concentrate on running. At least the monster is slow...]

[monafide]

[ Morgana watches the blaze. What is it with cute girls and fire spells? He would swoon a little if they weren't in peril. He manages to run towards a highly forested area. It was unlikely the creature would follow them in there. ]

Phew, that was close! [ Huff, puff ] I wonder how much experience you'd get for defeating that thing!?

[ He could figure that out later. That thing was a menace, he would probably ask the others to come help him take it out. ]

Are you alright? What were you trying to do back there?

[ He strikes a pose. ]

If you need help with your quest, I'm your guy! Name's Morgana.

[magic_to_do]

[It seems like the golem has given up on them in hopes of finding slower prey. Trucy leans against a tree to try to catch her breath.]

More than I'm gonna get considering my fire spell totally flopped.

[She's smiling though. They got away and that's what counts.]

Thanks for the rescue, Morgana. I'm Trucy. They sent me out here to collect some moss. Maaaybe they should have mentioned the angry rocks.

[monafide]

[ He grimaces a little. Man he misses his powers. ]

Yeah, my arrow didn't do much either. [ He's practically beaming now. ] You're welcome. I couldn't just ignore someone in trouble!

[ He furrows his brow in thought. ]

Collect moss!? What for? Hmmm. Oh! Maybe they wanted you to defeat that thing too? Like an optional part of the quest, or something like that.

Sidequests

[whakahou]

[Here, Trucy, have a girl who loves exploring and doesn't understand the reference.]

Flavor country? I haven't seen that on any maps... is it famous for exotic fruits or spices?

Re: Sidequests

[magic_to_do]

Nah, it's better known for cowboy boots and cigarettes. Buuuut I think that's the wrong kind of marlboro anyway.

[Shrug]

This kind of marlboro seems to fetch a pretty penny though. Must be hard to find.

Re: Sidequests

[whakahou]

[Moana just blinks. She doesn't really know what most of those things are, either.]

It must be, if no one even knows what it looks like. It sounds like an adventure.

Re: Sidequests

[magic_to_do]

That's the spirit! I bet we'll find one in no time flat.

[Sure Trucy. And then it'll eat you. Adventure!]

Since they're asking for a vine, I'm gonna guess it's a plant we're after.

Sidequests

[whirluendo_of_puns]

[Yeah, he'd better butt in before she makes the same mistake he did.]

I've heard the locals describe Malboro as... What was it again? Ah, yes. "A nightmare plant with tentacles and teeth."

...If they tried that advert here, "going to the Flavor Country" would probably become part of the vernacular pretty quickly. Just not in the way they intended.

Re: Sidequests

[magic_to_do]

Nightmare Plant sounds like the title to a late night horror movie.

[She would watch that movie. Trucy spends a minute trying to go over the pros and cons of that slogan under the circumstances and she has to agree.]

Yeah it seems like a trip to that flavor country would be one way. I feel like the surgeon general should've put a warning on this quest.

[whirluendo_of_puns]

To be fair, you can apparently harvest the vines before they start growing teeth... although I have a feeling that would only reduce the health risks marginally.

But hey, at least the anti-smoking campaigns would a field day. Just imagine all the PSA ads being shot like short horror films.