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TEST DRIVE MEME





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. None of you know how you came to be here or where you are going, and the door to the cockpit is locked as the pilots focus on navigating the treacherous obstacles of the Dream Width. You might as well take this moment to introduce yourself to your fellow travelers.


B. CURTI CENTER

There’s an almost overwhelming aura of excitement in the tower as researchers rush to document this unprecedented number of interdimensional travelers. Over the commotion, the leaders of the Center struggle to explain, ‘Welcome to Vaikuntha. We don’t know why you’ve been brought here, but this is your new home.’

The staff will do their best to help the off-worlders settle in. They answer the questions they can, provide maps and pamphlets about the world 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 under the circumstances.

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. WILD CARD

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

whirluendo_of_puns: ([Kisegawa] what do you think)

[personal profile] whirluendo_of_puns 2018-04-07 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hold up."

Kisegawa strides over to Connie, giving the girl a critical look. Then she reaches into her robes and hands over a Potion.

"Here. I'm not having you walk around with burns, fantasy land logic or no." How exactly magical injuries work, Kisegawa isn't entirely sure. But that's besides the point.
whirluendo_of_puns: ([Patches] hee hee hee)

[personal profile] whirluendo_of_puns 2018-04-07 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee hee, you got it! I'm a real daredevil!

['I don't know about the dare, but the devil part sounds accurate.' Kisegawa's internal jab just makes him grin wider.]

Weeell, okay, maybe not. I think I'd run away if I saw a real monster or something. But falling's no problem! I'm good at falling.

[Wrong kind of falling, Patches.]
whirluendo_of_puns: ([Patches] uwah?)

[personal profile] whirluendo_of_puns 2018-04-07 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Gysahl greens, huh? All right, I'll try that! Thanks, mister!

[The others might try to stop him, but none of that! He's a man on a mission!

The question, though, makes him gape at Lean like the guy's lost his head.]


Why? What kind of a question is that!? Why wouldn't you want to fly with moogles?
doudemoxxii: (surprise)

[personal profile] doudemoxxii 2018-04-07 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh... well, there's no shame in that. I'm actually kind of worried when people... um, are okay with running at monsters, because that happens.

[ Sakuya would be relieved to find a like-minded person in Curti Center at the prospect of battling... Good at falling though... ]

Pardon?
righthandstand: (think think think)

[personal profile] righthandstand 2018-04-07 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh...

[Okuyasu leans to the side, resting an elbow on a crossed arm and tapping the side of his cheek. He'd only seen Rakugo performers in newspapers, specifically advertisements, so he always had an image of a stuffy old man being all traditional and complaining how kids these days don't appreciate the old arts. Uendo is...totally not that.

He's still sure he came from a very traditional family.]


So, how long does it take until you're an official performer?
Edited 2018-04-07 23:51 (UTC)
whirluendo_of_puns: ([Uendo] casting animation)

[personal profile] whirluendo_of_puns 2018-04-07 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Uendo's face genuinely lights up.]

It's nice to meet you, Sayori! Short and easy to remember, unlike the name of a certain boy I happen to know of. Stop me if you've heard this one before, because it's a mouthful!

There was once a young couple who had just had their first child, but they simply couldn't think of the right name for him. At a loss, the father went to the temple to ask the chief priest for advice...

[Uendo proceeds to act out the entire conversation between the father and the priest right there and then, shifting between different voices and gestures with seemingly no effort at all. ("Please name our son!" "Oh, I would be happy to! What kind of a name would you like?" "A happy one!" "Well then, how about Jugemu?") The fact there's no stage doesn't faze him in the least.

The father, despite initially being happy with the name, decides to ask a different person for a suggestion. ("Well, how about Gokō-no surikire?") And another one. And another one...]


...And so the father considered all the suggestions, but try as he might, he simply could not choose only one.

"Of course! I'll just use all of them! My son's name is... Jugemu Jugemu Gokō-no surikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kuunerutokoro-ni Sumutokoro Yaburakōji-no burakōji Paipopaipo Paipo-no-shūringan Shūringan-no Gūrindai Gūrindai-no Ponpokopī-no Ponpokonā-no Chōkyūmei-no Chōsuke!"
whirluendo_of_puns: ([Patches] happy patch!)

[personal profile] whirluendo_of_puns 2018-04-07 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I can do dancing and balancing acts and stuff! And sometimes I'd control the stage lights upstairs for Shisho! So I've got no problem with heights.

[Because tripping on your feet is apparently the same as falling off an airship.]
mahoukillabro: (pic#9676260)

E!

[personal profile] mahoukillabro 2018-04-07 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Did someone say sneaking? That's Rose's specialty!]

[Especially when it also comes to noticing nearby threats. You don't get to be the head of an Assassin's guild without learning how to observe your surroundings.]

[Thankfully, the goblin goes down pretty easily with a well-placed strike.
Nobody ever accused Rose of being sloppy when it came to her job.]


Hey, you might wanna be more careful next time. Any longer, and you would've been goblin food.
mahoukillabro: (pic#9676261)

F!

[personal profile] mahoukillabro 2018-04-07 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Too bad, Riku. You're stuck with somebody with who is probably the absolute worst person for this job.]

Nope! None at all. But how hard could it be? All we have to do is wrangle them up, right?
nyxmare: (Default)

[personal profile] nyxmare 2018-04-07 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Nyx steps aside to let the boy have access. He watched carefully since taking the saddle off was part of learning the muscle memory. Plus, it wouldn't do to catch a hunk of feathers in anything. A chocobo losing a sudden chunk of feathers could be quite a shock to deal with. Those beaks could do some damage.

"I do. I used to ride them back home but when I went to the city of Insomnia it was mostly cars there." All cars.

This had been good nostalgia. He secretly preferred the Chocobos to cars because they were able to get off the main roads cutting through the landscape. It'd just been a good chunk of time.

"I'd have to say, Nami, if he doesn't recognize one of these then he most likely is from another world."
piume: (Default)

[personal profile] piume 2018-04-07 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His head was definitely still there on his shoulders, and Lean could slowly feel a headache forming in the back of it. ]

That's an awfully specific wish to have on your first day. Did you perhaps consider thinking a bit... [ Pausing for a second. ] smaller? Like trying to settle in, first?

[ He suddenly feels bad for this guy's future housemates. ]
mahoukillabro: (pic#9676261)

[personal profile] mahoukillabro 2018-04-07 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Why Don't You Just Get a Job?]

[Rose is used to working. Rose is used to being a merchant. After arriving here, it doesn't take her long at all to find gainful employment, especially when the weapons shop is hiring.]

[The pay isn't great, and there aren't many customers, but the 50% discount is enough to entice her. That, and the challenge. After running a successful Merchant's Guild for years, she knows that she has what it takes to turn this store around.]

[What it takes is going into the streets and being loud. Loud, and charismatic.]


Step right up, step right up, and buy your weapons here! Daggers, axes, bows, we've got everything. Have a pesky monster infestation? Nothing a good broadsword can't fix!

[Guilds? Guilds!]

[Guilds were Rose's thing. They are where she feels most comfortable, and they are also a good way to make connections when you go somewhere new.]

[However, as much experience as she has, she doesn't like the paperwork. She didn't like it back home, and she doesn't like it now. Thankfully, she's not alone here, either, and so she turns to the person next to her, with a look of pure boredom on her face.]


Ugh, I don't remember there being so much paperwork. Do we really need to fill out all of this?

[Let's Kill Some Things]

[Another (easy) way to make some gil was taking killing monsters. People would pay to have the monsters gone, and people would pay for whatever the monsters left behind. It's a win-win.]

[Being a ninja, she isn't as offensive as she's used to, but she more than makes up with for it with stealth. She can't take on large groups of monsters by herself, certainly, but she's fast enough that she can pick them off from the shadows. Hopefully, they weren't anybody else's targets.]
promiselisting: (pic#12192773)

[personal profile] promiselisting 2018-04-07 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She pauses for just a second, before taking that offered hand up. ]

Sakura, Futaba.

[ Universal translation isn't going to change the fact that she's giving her as one would in Japan, last name first.

So, uhm... where do they start. ]
conniemaheswaran: (ConnieSmallSmile)

[personal profile] conniemaheswaran 2018-04-07 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Connie starts. She wasn't expecting Uendo to be so attentive and... kind, after his initial impression. True, he was surprisingly useful in the fight against the elementals, so she was in really no place to judge. "Um, thanks!" She takes the potion tentatively and guzzles it down, sighing in relief as her burns heal. "Alright, we should get moving. I want to avoid another encounter if at all possible."
spaceforged: (Feeling lost? Yeah he does that a lot.)

[personal profile] spaceforged 2018-04-07 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[He waits until Ira is finished speaking. Ships and oatmeal. Not what he’d expect but it shouldn’t be too much trouble. He nods once.]

Then over all we should be good. Nothing that bothers me is general or easily stumbled upon. And not having certain food around is easy. I’ll be hitting local cafes since I can’t cook.

[That’s an easy thing to manage. Shiro smiles just a little.] Fair warning I’m an early riser. I’m quiet but I can exercise elsewhere if you’re easy to wake up.
dontbesuchacrybaby: (3. I focus on the pain)

A

[personal profile] dontbesuchacrybaby 2018-04-07 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Of the list of people she could've asked, Miki probably isn't the one she should've.

Feeling like hell and an unholy pulsing in her head, Miki can barely remember what happened to her last...a part of her doesn't want to...

But something about this person seems comforting to her for some reason.

"Sorry, I'm on the same boat as you...figuratively speaking, though it wouldn't be wrong for you to say it literally too"
Edited 2018-04-07 23:59 (UTC)
dontbesuchacrybaby: (3. I focus on the pain)

Miki Makimura | Devilman Crybaby

[personal profile] dontbesuchacrybaby 2018-04-08 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
RETRIEVAL

To say she woke from a dream wouldn't be accurate. No, it's more true to say it was a nightmare. It takes awhile for her to truly 'take in' her understandings, she's in a...medieval fantasy ship?...What? That can't be right, this has to be a dream or a hallucination. It feels almost like she's a plane, but that's impossible, no interior of a plane looks like this except in cheesy fantasy stories...then again it wasn't too long ago when the world found out demons existed.

Still this seems different somehow.

There are other people on this ship by the looks of it which is...a good thing? She sheepishly taps the person next the shoulder still in flight or fight.

"Excuse me, do you know what's going on?"


CURTI CENTER

"You're far from home, Miki Makimura."

She says to herself. There's a twinge of guilt in saying it through, there's not a home to go back to, not anymore. She can't even sure if...

Tears swell in her eyes. Her family, her friends...they're gone, in more ways than one. Akira and Miko could still be alive, but for how long? She could bring them here...but she doesn't even know how she got here, let alone know how to bring anyone else.

What if she brought a team to her world, maybe with their help they can help find them...but can she really do that? Ask complete strangers for help and risk their lives for people they don't even know?

So many thoughts rattle in her head, it's all so overwhelming.

She sits down on a bench, trying to collect herself, the last thing she needs is to make a scene and breakdown in public like this.
Edited 2018-04-08 00:21 (UTC)
dumbingofage: (That's pretty funny)

Retrieval

[personal profile] dumbingofage 2018-04-08 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[It's only going to get worse. There's a metallic rolling sound of something sliding back and forth, and the second it stops the sounds comes back.

Looking around and you might find a source of this noise, a girl, roughly the same age as Futaba placing bullets on the floor and watching them roll around like marbles, fascinated of how they move back and forth in this room.

Yuuri hasn't been on anything like a plane before either, hell she's only seen one once in action and it blew up. In any case the rolling sound isn't going to stop anytime soon
]
dumbingofage: (The relationship of predators and prey)

F

[personal profile] dumbingofage 2018-04-08 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Beside her is another girl, this one looking dressed more like a soldier of some kind with a rifle strapped to her back. But you wouldn't think of her as such by by her lazy and laid back attitude]

I'm sure we can finish it before then, I wanna be finished too so I can take a bath...

One question...what's a monster?...Also what does being "paid" mean?
dumbingofage: (Pretty)

Yuuri | Girls' Last Tour

[personal profile] dumbingofage 2018-04-08 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
B. Curti Center

[...It's the simple things that keep you going sometimes. The things you don't even think about. Yuuri is utterly amazed by what's before her, people, bunches and bunches of people, not even strange alien people but regular folks that most wouldn't even think twice at if they were on the street on their own world, and some of them were eating things...things decidedly not in bar form like the fish she had awhile ago.

Hope nobody minds a nosy girl just watching you while you eat...hope you're not uncomfortable at that.
]



I. Random Encounter
[The unmistakable sound of gunfire can be heard in the distance.
Yuuri might of bit off more than she can chew this time as these weird Cactus-things popped out of nowhere and started to harass her with needles. No serious injuries but she's pinned behind a tree. She could use to help is you don't mind
]


Edited 2018-04-08 02:05 (UTC)
chefbayardee: (confused)

[personal profile] chefbayardee 2018-04-08 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ Unlucky for them, Hunk... does not pick up on the order of the names. ]

Sakura, like the cherry blossoms?

[ And then he pulls her hand with a delicate display of force- he didn't want to whip her across the room! But then he starts to pull her along, at least until they pass That Potted Plant and get out of the room. ]

So... there's a giant window, if you wanna see space?

[ He's seen space. He doesn't sound incredibly excited about this. ]
homelate: (eh!?)

[personal profile] homelate 2018-04-08 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sayori blinks, in complete awe so much that she's forgotten to clap! ]

Amazing... you didn't bite your tongue at all saying Jugemu-Juge something!

[ Not the voices? Not the body language!? ]
promiselisting: (wat)

[personal profile] promiselisting 2018-04-08 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Okay yeah, Sayori is... kinda spot on with a lot of that. Which is actually kind of relieving in its own way. ]

Y-yeah. That's one way to put it.

[ It's just... a lot at once. And as Sayori pointed out, none of her friends around her, that she can see. ]
promiselisting: (wat)

I get the feeling I'm gonna be googling "how popular is x in Japan" a lot playing her

[personal profile] promiselisting 2018-04-08 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
DC and Marvel... was those like those American superheroes? They certainly sound similar. She has passing familiarity with them - everybody knew about those movies that were coming out recently. Not as cool as Phoenix Ranger Featherman but, y'know.

In any case, it's enough that she's able to get the jist of what she's saying. "Huh, that kinda does, actually. So like... it's one big giant crossover..."

Now that she's able to think about in those terms... that... helps. She's still nervous about being surrounded by strangers but it somehow feels slightly less overwhelming?
promiselisting: (but that's none of my business)

[personal profile] promiselisting 2018-04-08 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Huh? Did he... not get it? Like... he doesn't look Japanese, so she could get that if he was a foreigner (not that they aren't... both foreign here), but at the same time, she can understand him perfectly? ]

Futaba.

[ Maybe repeating it will help do the trick? ]

Sure, I guess.

[ Funnily enough she doesn't sound particularly enthusiastic either. She's... seen space too. Even floated out in some kind of anti-gravity field. Cognitive space, did that count? Not to mention she was in Necronomicon a fair bit of the time. It probably couldn't hurt at least. ]