TEST DRIVE MEME

[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. 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!

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[He stares at her, lips parting to repeat the words she just said to himself. Shiro eases himself a little farther to the edge of his ledge, hand gripping the spear tightly.

Sometimes the armor of a dragoon is just so impractical he yearns to be tackling problems in his old armor.]

We can wake it when we're not in its home. If you fell into its mouth you can't ask for permission for anything.

[He will never let that happen. But he's trying to make a point.]

[heartcandy]

[ it's mouth is pretty large, now that she looks at it. a large, black cavern, filled with teeth. she shifts back a bit on her ledge ( which wasn't that big to begin with, is starting to crumble at the edges with her weight ). ]

Oh, I see, this is its home!

[ maybe... it would be more polite to ask it later, when it's already awake. out of its lair home. ] But— I already wrote my name on the quest board. Doesn't that mean whoever posted the request is counting on me?

[ they'll be disappointed, if she returns empty-handed. ]

[spaceforged]

[It’s the second time she has drawn him up short and he isn’t quite sure how to handle this. His gut tells him to speak honestly. Thus he does as he holds his hand a little farther out to her.]

They are but they don’t want you to be harmed in the attempt. We’re only going to be getting up there to the edge. We can plan how to get the vine from there.

But, [He glances around and is glad that the beast is still asleep.]

Like this is too risky.

[heartcandy]

[ it is a bit of a precarious position, the ledge she’s standing on continuing it’s slow erosion at the edges, and after one more moment of indecision ( she’s made an ally, she’s sure that ioryogi would praise her for this, if he were here. she can almost hear his voice ‘ten points for kobato’ for managing to get someone to help her ) she steps towards shiro, and reaches out for his hand.

. . . the movement is enough for a particularly large piece of ledge to crumble and fall, the trajectory of it seeming to go in slow motion as it bounces down the cliffside. . . and right into the open marlboro’s mouth when it was mid-snore. it shuffles around, seems to cough, before it’s vines start to move, climb up the cliffside towards them.

it looks like, it’s woken up, huh?

she stares down at it, eyes wide— ]

G-Good morning?

[ is that. . . the wrong thing to say at a time like this? ]

[spaceforged]

[He watches the piece of rock fall in seemingly slow motion with his blood running cold with horror. He jerks his spear out of the cliff side in a spray of rocks and clips it into the section made for it on the back of his armor.

There’s no time to lose. As the vines start moving, Shiro grabs her hand and moves to pull her up with him.]

Grab onto me. I’m going to get us out of here but it will be really fast. Okay? [If she lets him, he’ll scoop her up and leap up once he’s sure he can do it safely. He doesn’t want to stick around for bad breath from the beast.]

[heartcandy]

[ it seems as if her greeting has done nothing to placate the malboro, instead it only serves to give the monster a sense of where to stretch it’s vines, a direction to where it needs to strike. she’s pulled up by shiro, but doesn’t look his direction ( eyes still glued to the malboro as it opens it’s mouth and a ball of green smog starts to accumulate in it’s maw ) until he speaks. ] I-I understand! [ it’s not too difficult of a direction, grab onto him, but still she fumbles. grasps fruitlessly at the smooth plates of his armor, until she finds an edge to curl her fingers around. ]

[spaceforged]

[There is just no time to think about the creature below them. He wraps his arms around her and leaps. It never fails to surprise him how fast and high dragoons can jump. He hops back from the edge and releases her.]

Still okay? [Two steps puts him between her and the hole. He draws his spear and keeps the point towards the ground.] What job did you take again?

I can probably keep it distracted but I won’t be able to do that and get the vine at the same time.