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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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[Because, obviously, a reflection is just a reflection, and anything "wrong" with it would have to be a matter of perspective. It's common for the human brain to misinterpret certain stimuli, and...
Looking back to a mirror beside her, Rita sees her own reflection, its arms folded and its mouth curled into an amused smirk. Clear as day.
Despite herself, Rita gasps and jerks away from the offending mirror, then points a trembling finger at it.]
Do you see this?!
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.... Her reflection is smirking at them both.
His own reflection is missing. ]
Y-yeah.
[ It's instinctive, so he's not thinking about the consequences of grabbing Rita's wrist and kind of heading out really really quickly to get away from that particular corridor of mirrors. A missing reflection and another reflection that has a life of its own? That's definitely magic at work here.
It probably takes all of ten or eleven steps before Yamato stops, realises what he's done and pretty much drops her hand like he's been burned. ]
... Sorry about that.
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... Hmph.
[She folds her arms and tries to compose herself. There has to be a rational explanation for this nonsense... If Rita can just find some logic in this situation, then she can calm the hell down.] This... it has to be some kind of illusory magic.
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[ He's giving her strange looks. The kind of looks that say that magic isn't real, even if he doesn't look like he's willing to actually verbalise it out. ]
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[ He's looking at her like she's the strange one now. Just because magic doesn't exist in his world doesn't mean it doesn't exist in hers, but of course, that's not something that's going to be coming to mind any time soon. ]
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What are you, stupid? Of course it's real.
[That's like asking if physics or chemistry is real.]
... says someone who is totally ok with other worlds existing but #nopes at magic
Sure, if you mean stage magic.
[ He may or may not be indirectly challenging her to into proving him wrong. ]
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[Her reflection has changed again, though this time Rita's too focused on this guy's apparent ignorance to even notice. It looks back and forth between them, apparently amused at their heated exchange.]
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He's still looking at her doubtfully, but it's the realisation that she's not joking that throws him off for a bit. Real magic? ]
Hey, Tokyo isn't backwater! Compared to whatever city or village you come from, at least.
[ Never mind that he has absolutely zero idea where she comes from.
His arms are folded over his chest in mild offense, and there's a small scowl on his face. There's a small movement in the mirror that catches his eye, though, and his own reflection, standing next to hers, catches it and gives him a cheery wave. ]
Uh. Don't look, but our reflections are doing weird things again.
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And of course, when she's told don't look there's only one thing to do: look. Rita shoots her reflection a suspicious glance, to which her mirror-self averts its gaze, avoiding eye contact with her. Which, of course, is still freaking weird. She clenches a fist, clearly still unnerved by the phenomenon, and looks back to the boy.]
Anyway, our best bet is to get the hell out of here as fast as we can. [The 'fast' part is more a preference than a necessity, but she gets the feeling he won't disagree with the sentiment, at least.]
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... Unless this place is like the Digital World and is like. A whole new world that he doesn't know about. Just great. How does Yamato keep waking up in new worlds anyway?
He also mentally winces when she looks over at their reflections - at the very least, these... incarnations of their reflections don't seem to be overly malicious. He does agree with her though, getting out of here as soon as possible is a great idea. There's just one problem. ]
You know the way out?
[ Because he doesn't. And it's not like the maze is going to suddenly spit out a straight path for them to walk out, right? ]
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We just have to keep trying until we find the way.
[That's the only way, as much as it bothers her. And if there's illusory magic at work, it's possible that the exit will be harder than it ought to be...]
Unless you'd rather I blow this whole place to smithereens. But if it came to that, we wouldn't get out unscathed, and it'd probably kill anyone else lost in the maze. [She shrugs.]