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Test Drive Meme VI
  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, and some helpful Heroes of Light 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 and your rescuers 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. The experienced outworlders who helped pull you from your memories may be able to get you caught up to speed. B. CURTI CENTER
The researchers at the Curti Center are pretty used to this right now, though there's still no good explanation for the influx of interdimensional travelers from the Dream Width since earlier this year. "Please step into the lobby for a quick survey. We have just a few routine questions, it's invaluable to our research so we do ask you indulge us..." 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 have offered to permanently house all of the outworlders here. 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 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 productive members of society and helping support the local economy, 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 housing elsewhere in the world. 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! 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. And they say, those that party up will live to party on! J. LOVE IS IN THE AIR
All the mistletoe would have come in handy here... As January gives way to February, stores and streets are decked in red, pink, and white. Posters line the Curti Center walls advertising Speed Dating events and offer to send flowers with anonymous or signed letters to outworlders and Curti Center employees - though there is some suspicion that a handful of received were never requested by the sender. Who cares! Some romances need an extra push! For the less adventurous types, the love-o-meters stationed at just about every hallway can predict your romantic (and platonic, if you so wish) future with just 100 gil, or even measure how good a potential match between two people will be. Is there any scientific backing to their calculations? That's not important. K. WILD CARD
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Bowser Koopa | Super Mario
Bowser was not unfamiliar with the feel of being on an airship. Still, he was surprised to wake up and find himself on one. Although mysteriously waking up on an airship wasn't the strangest thing that had happened to him, it was disconcerting, to say the least. Bowser immediately began asking whoever the first person unlucky enough to be found by him, "Where the hell am I?!"
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"Alright, but let's get through this quickly," Bowser said to those conducting the survey, before he started. He rushed through all the introductory talks as fast as he could. "I got places to be," he said, though he clearly didn't; he had never even known this world existed before then. However, as far as Bowser was concerned, these were a waste of time. He just needed to get out, see this new world, and devise a plan to proceed. With his old world and stomping grounds gone, he'd need to learn, could this world be a new place to carry out his evil plans?
Bowser wasn't particularly happy about his residential options. "I'm a king," he would whine, "And I'm not just sitting and accepting this!" However, after ineffective complaints and annoyance of those in charge of housing, Bowser resigned, accepting the poorer living conditions to those he was used to.
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An airship ride. Bowser wasn't new to the use of airships, but still, he had a new world to observe, and gather information on. Lacking his own airship fleets, he was forced to use one owned by an airline, where he spent most of his time looking off the deck, observing the lands below.
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Bowser began exploring the lands. Without a clear path or specific goal, Bowser began wandering, going wherever he found himself. Over time, he began wandering the streets of cities, doing whatever he could to get by. Though he had lost his old strengths and powers, his new Jobs and their accompanying strengths were serving him well.
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"Showtime!"
A fight. Bowser's new lifestyle inevitably led to such. Bowser finds himself testing his strengths against some monster that's troubling someone who has a few coins to spend. This monster happens to be of considerable strength, against which Bowser is weak but able to put up a fight, one he has a considerable but not substantial chance to win against.
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"Ah, where are my manners? Forgive me, Your Majesty. I am Princess Corrin of the Royal House of Nohr." She curtsies as courtly etiquette dictates when meeting royalty they are not currently at war with. "'Tis an honour to meet you."
He sounds a bit ill-tempered about the whole thing and Corrin's not sure she can blame him, though admittedly it wouldn't be how she would react to all of this. Indeed, it wasn't at all. But approaching him as fellow royalty might help ease his distemper, at the very least to let him know he wasn't the only one of his station caught up in all of this.
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Despite the sadness in her tone, she smiles encouragingly at him. "But I would be glad to help you in any way that I can." Having made the proper introductions, she allows the mask of formality to slip; just a little, at least. She is still the only representative of Nohr here and she intends to be a good ambassador. "You know, I've been here a few months now and I think I know my way around here pretty well by now."
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However, while so preoccupied with the implications of the topic, he'd ignored the next statement, before remembering they had been said and addressing them. "I've been looking for a way to..." Bowser thought carefully about what he'd say next, "try and get back into my element, find a role that suits me here."
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His next question however is one Corrin is able to answer positively though. "Ah, if it's a role you're looking for, that would be one of the Guilds here. They're spread all over the world, but each of them offers specialized training and abilities. For myself, for example, am trained as a Dark Knight, a Black Mage, as well as a custom Job one of the staff here helped me put together last month based on my fighting style from my own world. What "role" is it you were hoping to fill, Your Majesty?"
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However, a question had been asked. Did Bowser rule within the Mushroom Kingdom? "I do, but that's a complicated issue."
Still, Bowser sought to avoid the direct statement that Bowser had any intention to conquer the world, especially since he didn't even know if he'd be able to follow through with such a goal. Any premature action would be dangerous. But Corrin's mention of this training intrigued Bowser. Bowser's loss of powers needed to be dealt with. "Are you saying there's something I can do to get my powers back?"
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"There is, provided you can supply Master Ganeshan with enough information for him to properly replicate your powers." She explains. "Ganeshan is a zora-a fish person, basically-who works here at the Center. Very enthusiastic about Job asterisks. But the process takes time...about two weeks or so if you can meet him every day, and even once the asterisk is finished you'll still have to relearn all the abilities that are part of it. Honestly? I'd recommend getting comfortable with at one of the Jobs that already exist here on Vaikuntha before you try your hand at recreating your old abilities. But maybe I could help you with that?" She gives Bowser a critical look. He's big and brawny, certainly, but also quite turtle-like in his appearance, and turtles are most often known for their protective shells, after all. Could be good on offense or defense, really. "If you were having trouble deciding of course, I don't mean to be presumptuous, Your Majesty."
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Perhaps they had explained that during whatever introductions they had been doing, perhaps they hadn't. Bowser hadn't really paid attention, moreso trying to get the new world than anything.
Questions.
"You, are here. As am I."
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Realizing, however, that he'd been distracted from the conversation at hand, he quickly got back on track. "Well that's a real helpful answer, buddy. Maybe you could tell me something that actually, I don't know, gives me some information?!"
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Yes.
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This is funny to me.
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Bowser hesitated, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to lose his temper at this guy just yet. After all, he didn’t know how the man would respond, and without his flame, how could he know what ELSE had happened to his body? It wouldn’t be the first time he’d been weakened in such a way. Still, Bowser wasn’t sure for how much longer he could stand this guy.
Yet the question made no sense to Bowser. Sure, a lot of koopas didn’t have hair, but his was a royal, higher breed of Koopa, one worthy of the surname, as he perceived it. And the world certainly had other reptiles with hair. “You’re telling me you’ve never seen a lizard with hair? What kind of world do you live in?” Bowser asked, not yet truly understanding his circumstances.
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She had been taken from her world MOMENTS before FINALLY being able to fulfill her promise. Everyone's hopes and dreams were about to be realized.
And now she was here, with this monster who looked a lot like what Gerson might look like in an anime yelling at her about where they were.
She narrowed her eyes and yelled back at him, "I don't freakin' know!"
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"Well, is there anyone on this ship who does?!"
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She was about to retort, "What makes you think I know?!", when she had an idea.
Maybe this person knew something that she didn't?
On second thought, that was unlikely. This person seemed just as confused and angry as her. He probably didn't have any answers for her.
Whatever! Couldn't hurt to try. She needed answers.
She needed to keep her promise.
She responded, "For the second time, I don't freakin' know!!" She then lowered her voice slightly and asked, "Don't suppose you know how you got here?"
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Well, there was only one castle in the Underground that she knew of, so unless he was talking about a sand castle or something, then he was either from the Ruins or another universe.
It seems like he was about to reach his goal of reaching his castle, then was transported here. Like her with her goal of keeping her promise.
Maybe it's people who were about to achieve a goal who arrived here?
She needed more information, though. At least 2 and a half points of information are needed to make a conclusion.
"Last thing I remember, I was in my GIANT MECHA, about to FINALLY keep my promise by getting rid of the human menace once and for all! Then I was here." She responded. "What were you doing right before going to your castle?"
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It also disproved her theory, unless this "Clown Car" crashed into the castle.
Another possible theory was that people who were in vehicles that crashed into things were transported here at the moment of impact. It was a stretch, but it was all she had.
Undyne asked Bowser, "Do you remember anything between your Clown Car crashing, and waking up here?"
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