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livinglot2017-02-25 04:52 pm
ringleaders) wrote in livinglot2017-02-25 04:52 pm
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⇨ TEST DRIVE MEME #5
WELCOME TO THE SHOW!↴ Or, more specifically, Lost Carnival's test drive meme! This is an opportunity to try out your characters in the setting before you apply, or to put together samples for characters you've never played before. There are going to be options for both new arrivals and veteran characters. Before we get started, let's lay down some details:
NEW RECRUITS↴  You gotta start somewhere, right? These prompts are for characters who are arriving in the carnival for the first time, and who are destined to sign a contract. How they go about that is up to you, but in the meantime they can enjoy the sights and sounds of something truly out of this world. Visitors to the carnival comes from many different worlds today, as the ringmaster casts out her recruitment lures. Will you become her most recent hire? ► ADMISSION FEES: After crossing into the carnival's realm and passing through the trees, most visitors will find themselves at the front gate - though not all choose to enter that way. If they enter legitimately, however, they will have to pass by a clerk who will trade admission and tickets for various attractions and rides in exchange for "anything of value." What is of value may seem highly subjective, and so some may struggle to produce payment at first, though in actuality the carnival will take anything from mundane currency to items of purely sentimental value. ► MIRROR MAZE: The mirror maze (pictured above) is a big attraction in the carnival, and stretches much further on the inside than it looks like it will on the outside. It's hard to get through, and what's more, after you've been in there for a while your reflections will start gaining a mind of their own - mostly in order to taunt and distract you with personal information. They don't know everything you know, but they know more than they should, and their mind games can be pretty hit or miss. ► GAMER'S CIRCLE: Almost all of the game booths are organized in a large ring around the Cookhouse, called Gamer's Circle. Your can play just about any carnival game you can imagine here, for a variety of prizes sometimes traditional, exotic, or outright magical. Dart tossing? Got it. That game with the water guns? Got it. Most of these booths are currently manned by humanoid spirits who look like they are made of smoke. If they can trick you into earning debt, they will. ► NOT YOUR WHEELHOUSE: Sometimes, even magical ferris wheels get stuck. The carnival's particular wheel is enchanted to create a particular out of this world experience - as you pass along the top, you feel as if they are so close to the sky that you can interact with the stars like baubles hanging above your head. Of course, the novelty probably wears off when the wheel is broken and you've been stuck enjoying the light show with some stranger for the last half hour. How are you going to pass the time? ► TRYING TO LEAF: No matter where you came from, you seemingly emerged from a forest. Obviously, to get back home you should be able to go back in the same direction, right? It turns out you can't. Worse, trying too hard to get through the wood will result in you getting lost, or turned back to the carnival. The trees here are not normal, and are varying levels of alien, including things like trees with glowing fruit or orange flowers that constantly burn like candles. ► WILD CARD: Anything else you can imagine in this setting! There are a lot of possibilities and you're free to explore them. Check out the rest of the game info or the locations page for additional inspiration. Want to make a starter with your character experiencing their first theoretical change? Go for it! VETERAN WORKERS↴  These prompts are tailored to the carnival's existing employees, the veterans. Odds are they've been here from somewhere between a few months and three years already, and know their way around the block. For them, this is just business as usual - and depending on their attitude towards their job, they may or may not contribute to a few people accidentally getting themselves a contract. Whatever you do, though, don't warn visitors away from the carnival - the ringmaster hates losing business like that. ► DO YOUR WORK: This one's pretty simple - just have your character doing whatever you'd like to have their job be! There is a big list of ideas over here, and you could use this to try things out with a character you intend to be a new arrival, as well. ► WILL O' WISPS: The ringmaster's will o' wisps have gotten free, and she's asked that everyone keep and eye out and help her reclaim them regardless of their official jobs. Wisps are small creatures that burn both hot and cold and comes in a few different variations of the same basic theme. Handling them physically (or psionically, or magically, for that matter) is difficult due to their near intangible nature. Touching and being around them can result in confusion and a sensation similar to being comfortably drunk. ► BREAK TIME: Whatever you were doing, it's break time! It's time for you to relax however you see fit. Do you enjoy some of the carnival attractions yourself, or is that old by now? Do you hang out in the Cookhouse to get a snack? Do you take a nap? Yolo, baby! ► RIDDLE GAME: For a bit of fun, the ringmaster has left a variety of locked chests around the worker areas of the carnival, each with instructions and a riddle written on their lids. The chest will accept three guesses from each worker before refusing to respond to them any further. If you guess the right answer, the chest will open and you will be rewarded with some manner of fun magical knick knack. If you've run out of guesses, maybe you can conspire with someone else and promise to split the prize? ► CAPTURE THE... EGG?: The Ringmaster likes to keep things exciting for her employees, and this time she's devices a game that mixes an Easter egg hunt with capture the flag. She's hidden various metallic "eggs" around the carnival that chime like bells when people get near, and divided participants into three teams (red, blue, yellow of course.) The carnival has been divided into three zones, and the objective is to gather as many eggs as possible for your team (three points for gold, two for silver, one for copper.) However, when you are in a zone that doesn't belong to your team, if they can snatch off your team flag they can take you to "jail" and confiscate any eggs you may be holding for their team. When in doubt, bullshit the rules! This is a prompt, after all. ► WILD CARD: Anything else you can imagine in this setting! There are a lot of possibilities and you're free to explore them. Check out the rest of the game info or the locations page for additional inspiration. Want to do a performance? Hang out in the Backyard? Choose whatever appeals! |
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Scout grins back and curves her tail up behind her close against her back, out of the way.]
Carnies. Never change!
[She takes up the silver hilt of her lightsaber and holds it in a ready position. The blade sings into life. Scout envies a lot of powers, but she wouldn't trade the lot of them for this, her line of heart's fire blue.]
Come on then!
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[ It's said with a little laugh, as Strange levitates more of the objects. This'll be good for him as well. He's always trying to push his magic, take into different places, why not see if he can coax the air into doing two different things at once? Logically speaking, he should be able to do it. Practically speaking, these sort of fun little parlor tricks are magic that he's only just now practicing.
With a grin and a flick of his hand, one of the darts zooms towards Scout's position. It's not flying towards her exceedingly fast, about as fast as it would be if Strange had actually thrown it himself. ]
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You could move around, too. The thing with remotes is they shift around unpredictably.
[Also they fly and their darts are stun blasts, but hey.]
Ideally I'd be blindfolded. Maybe another time!
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[ says the person whose job in the scenario is to throw things at Scout. With another nod, one of the balls shoots towards Scout, this time in a larger arc, more of a curveball type of movement than anything else. ]
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[A tiny sliver of the ball isn't incinerated, though it's melted and deformed from contact with her lightsaber, and splats on the ground. That's the tricky thing with practicing on solid objects - her blade isn't terribly wide.]
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[ With a hand gesture, Strange sends two of the darts flying at Scout, shooting them at her faster than a normal person could throw. Moments later, one of the balls flies towards Scout as well, equally fast. ]
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I can do this all day! How 'bout you, is this tiring or anything?
[Challenging, trying to find out more, they're both good.]
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Certainly not! Rest assured, I'll tell you if I ever get tired.
[ and have two more darts getting magically flung at Scout from two different directions. ]
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Maybe I should've brought a bigger box, but picking up things that aren't junk by now would've been a really stupid way to tack on more debt.
[These are all discards, usually dented or otherwise damaged from too much use.]
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[ There's only three or so items left, a few darts. Strange sends them towards Scout and then, at the last minute, adds in the half-eaten apple that he had been eating as another target for her to hit. ]
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[Scout's stance relaxes and she takes out the last projectiles with a more casual flick of her saber - and two sizeable chunks of the apple survive this, one of them bouncing off her sleeve. She makes a face.]
Every time I fight and there's food there I end up covered in it. [...that's kind of an overstatement, there's maybe a fleck of pulp.] Universal constant.
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At least it's just an apple. I imagine if I tossed a tomato at you, the results would be quite different.
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Maybe! It might have exploded. Sometimes really watery things get like that, if there's no way for steam to escape.
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[ because yeah, he's never seen a lightsaber before. He's not touching it, but Strange can't help but take a few steps closer to get a better look at Scout's lightsaber and what it actually is. ]
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[Obligingly she holds it up. The blade hums steadily when held still.]
Don't touch. You'll lose fingers.
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Well, there's solid, liquids, and gas, [ said as he picks up a stick. ] And I'm afraid that's all I really know about states of matter. Evaporation, melting, condensation, and all the rest.
[ His science education is very 1800s and not all that good to begin with. And, as he finishes talking, Strange just straight up pokes the blade of the lightsaber with the stick. ]
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Heat solid to get liquid, heat liquid to get gas, and basically if you heat gas enough you get plasma. Lightsabers are basically contained plasma.
[Dryly:] I'd rather no one played with it too much.
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So it's used for a weapon, I assume?
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The Carnival is safe from Jedi hunters and the people here are more open-minded and less free with violence than Mandalorians, but the past two years weigh on her. She'll use her lightsaber and what abilities in the Force that she has, but she doesn't feel like talking about them too much.]
Sometimes. Or a tool. I'm sure you can see the applications.
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And yeah. Scout might want to keep things to herself but Strange is the sort of person who will incessantly bother people with questions, so...he starts to incessantly bother her with questions. ]
Can it light a fire or is it more of a contained force?
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It's only going to start a fire indirectly. It's hard to cut through some kinds of, uh, really thick armor. [how do you explain blast shields to someone with that level of technology?] Instead of a clean cut you end up melting through it, and that can catch things.
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