test drive meme #1.

[seeingyou]

Hello, passengers and potential passengers!! Welcome to the first-ever eyemind Test Drive Meme. Here you have a chance to play around in the game's setting before deciding to app, test out new characters, or just roll around and have some fun. Enjoy!

No invite is necessary to play in the test drive, but please remember that eyemind is a (semi)private game and you must request an invitation before submitting an application. Request an invitation here!

Please note: Threads from the test drive meme DO NOT count toward AC and ARE NOT considered game canon, but you are welcome to use them for your app samples.

SCENARIO ONE: LIGHT UP THE NIGHT



The ship has stopped on Arion, near the settlement of Taunican, at the height of harvest season, and since the planet is largely agricultural, that means there is a big harvest festival a-happening.

What's neat about this festival is that it's not just a celebration of the harvest - it's a celebration of the community, and of the planet as a whole. The dominant local religion (for lack of a better term) isn't exactly experienced in term of worship but of honoring the planet itself - the seasons, the landscapes, the crops. Natives talk of Arion as if it is a living, breathing entity, because for them? Arion is.

Every evening while the ship is docked, there is a bonfire in the fields outside the town square, starting at dusk. There's a giant potluck feast, with everyone in attendance encouraged to bring dishes to share, but no one will be turned away if they arrive empty-handed. Fiddles and flutes and drums provide the soundtrack for the folk songs about Arion the locals sing around the fire; dancing and games and laughter are everywhere. This is a peaceful, joyous celebration, and you're invited!

SCENARIO TWO: WE NEED TO GO DEEPER



You're asleep, but maybe you don't know that - in the middle of a dream, it's not always easy to tell the difference between reality and the scenes your subconscious creates. You find yourself somewhere that may or may not be familiar, doing something that may be mundane or fantastical, but you're not alone. This is a dream you're sharing with your shipmates. What secrets and truths will you learn about each other?

SCENARIO THREE: STOP HITTING YOURSELF



Ope, looks like Navi’s wandered a little too close to an interdimensional rift in space-time, and now things are getting a little weird. If you happen to have superpowers, you may find that you don’t have quite as good of a hold on them as you do normally, or maybe now there are unintended side effects that occur when your powers are used. Maybe your character usually possesses enhanced strength or speed, and now they suddenly find themselves too swol to handle ordinary objects without crushing them, or they may have uncontrollable zooms and be physically unable to slow their roll.

No superpowers? No problem! Non-powered characters may find themselves deprived of one or more of their natural senses, i.e., sight, hearing, smell, taste, etc. Have fun being suddenly and temporarily blind! Walk into walls, eat trash, be free.

Comments

[sisterswitch]

[hey, jack’s a midwest millennial hacktivist with no soul and a literal monster side. stranger things, etc.]

Do I look like I’m going anywhere? [she gives five a hint of a grin and sits down on the floor near him and the stack of books.] So this is your dream? That makes sense, it didn’t look like one of mine. Didn’t feel right, either. What happened when you were here before?

[pubertytwice]

_{[ Another thing he doesn't know where to begin. Does he talk about how everyone mistreated his sister caused a lot of pent up anguish until she went crazy and blew up the moon? Probably not the best first impression. Unlike some of his siblings, Five isn't entirely honest if he doesn't need to be. ]}

Well. I walked a lot... alone. Mostly alone, at least. You know, it's the end of everything, so you get creative about what to do.

_{[ Why does he sound so nonchalant about this? Usually he's a lot more.. distressed. Maybe cause it's a dream and apart of him thinks she won't remember this later.. or maybe he's curious of her reaction. ]}

sorry for the delay, my job blew up -__-

[sisterswitch]

[family stuff’s complicated - jack gets that. she’s an only child, orphaned by circumstances she caused by mistake, estranged from the rest of her extended family. but she also gets the need for omitting details, sometimes.

and if five’s wondering what jack’s reaction will be to his story, he’ll find nothing but sympathy. her expressions are typically subdued and small, but there are tells in the way her mouth purses tightly and the way she quietly hums in acknowledgement.]

It’s not easy to be alone. I mean, sometimes it is, but not always. And there’s a difference between the type of alone you can be in a crowd of people and the type of alone you’re stuck with in isolation.

[she’s well-acquainted with both types.]

But you survived, right? The end of everything.