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livinglot2017-04-30 02:23 am
ringleaders) wrote in livinglot2017-04-30 02:23 am
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TEST DRIVE MEME #7
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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...What's astounding is that she somehow sticks the landing and winds up on her feet. It's a move so smooth, it shocks even Peridot, and she has to take half a second to laugh incredulously.]
Bwwuhhh-- Heh. Hahaha!
[No okay that's enough SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE RUNNING FOR HER LIFE. Time to scamper past the entrance and abscond into the carnival proper, because saving her own ass is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT than preventing further property damage.]
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she may not be as big as she once was, but yellow diamond still has long legs. long legs that carry her on peridot's tail very quickly.]
YOU WILL BE SHATTERED FOR THIS!
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WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH--
[That's Peridot's incredibly articulate response. She is pants shittingly terrified right now, she has literally had nightmares about this. And everything is only going to get worse, because to make up for that one really cool move she did just before now, she's going to revert back to her usual level of grace and agility and fall flat on her face in her desperation to put as much distance between herself and the angry diamond as possible. She scrambles back to her feet and makes a dive to scrabble her way under one of the game booths, but YD is basically right there already and it's not like it's going to be hard to figure out where she went.]
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peridot is regarded with a strong amount of disdain. yellow says nothing, but reaches out to bubble her.
at least she's not ripping the gem out of peridot's forehead by bubbling just the gem. she wants to bubble peridot's entire form.
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WAIT-- wait wait wait, please don't, please don't shatter me I'M SORRY!
[Soak it up, YD; all that delicious fear babbling and-- yup, she sure is crying, too. Gross.]
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I will ask one more time. Identify yourself.
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She can't give her real designation. She has to bullshit something, because if Yellow remembers the full name of the peridot that sassed her over vidcom (and surely she must, because that was OBVIOUSLY such an incredibly grievous infraction), she's toast for sure.]
P...Peridot, Facet 25FL-- [Shit wait no that's her ACTUAL KINDERGARTEN, WHY MUST OLD HABITS DIE HARD??] Cut... Cut 4GZ!
[YUP THAT'S DEFINITELY HER REAL CUT, DEFINITELY NOT THE CUT OF SOME OTHER POOR PERIDOT FROM HER BATCH THAT SHE JUST REMEMBERED IN HER DESPERATION TO FAKE A NAME]
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[she has no records to pull up to verify. yellow diamond hates that she has to just trust this peridot. she paces a little in front of the bubble.]
As much as you deserve to be shattered here and now, it would be rather inconvenient in this situation. A Peridot such as yourself... have you been hacking? Doing anything with this technology?
[yellow diamond stops and draws back. she smiles, but it's not a pleasant one.]
Don't think I'll forget that you ran, little Peridot. You will be shattered on return to Homeworld. Put on another show like this, however, and I will do it myself. Am I clear?
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Better play along as much as she can, even if she's piss scared right now.
She throws up the usual salute. She's been leaning into the Rebel Lyfe(tm) so hard for so long now that it actually makes her feel kind of scummy to do that, but it's not like she has much of a choice.]
My Diamond-- Please forgive me, I have been trapped here in this measly, stars-forsaken realm for so long that I had completely forgotten myself, AND all protocol, so much so that when I finally laid my vision spheres upon your radiance once more, I was struck with a blind panic, the likes of which no gem has ever experienced before! I completely forgot myself, but you have my word that it will not happen again!
[That is her story for why she threw a trash can at you, and she is sticking to it.]
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[She's hunkering down so hard that she's practically hiding her face behind the diamond shape her arms are making.]
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the bubble starts to tighten.
peridot is going in time out.]
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This is every claustrophobe's worst nightmare. Peridot squeals and tightens up into a ball, gem down against her knees.]
No, wait-- please don't--
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You are defective.
[and she curls her hand into a fist, gesturing for the bubble to compress on itself until peridot has not choice but to dissipate her form.]
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And then she does dissipate, and she does it with a pathetic little squeak that is cut short in a puff of bright green smoke. Except that she also had a bunch of material items on her person, so now all her clothes and belongings are floating in the bubble along with her gem. Weird.]
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not that she wants to.
whenever peridot reforms, she'll be alone and also in a trash can. in, uh, a crappy wooden shack.
look, you gotta work with what you have.]
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Anyway. Cherish the image, for a moment, of that trash can suddenly glowing from the inside, as Peridot's gem slowly rises up out of it, bathed in a shifting white light. It hovers for a little while, and at first looks to be taking the shape of a normal Peridot, sans fae changes... but at the very last second the shape changes all at once, like someone hit a "mutate" switch or something, and suddenly she's there and solid again complete with the same horns and tail and claws as before.
...The second she's done reforming, she drops back into the trash can with a yelp. It wobbles off balance and tips over, spilling her out onto the floor in a cascade of refuse. She immediately pushes herself up with a horrified gasp, like a swimmer resurfacing after too long spent under the water.]
What-- Where--
[Why is she still in one piece. Where is Yellow Diamond.]
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she looks about to do something SUPER COOL, with her gem glowing and humming.
is peridot going to interrupt this?]
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She should really just run, but she's anxious about what Yellow is working on over there. It's hard to make out details from here, but she's going to keep a sharp eye on it for the next few minutes regardless.]
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it was really cool.
so cool.]
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