test drive meme #1.

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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

Vicar Max - Outer Worlds

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one

[ For most of the people here, this harvest celebration must seem simple, mundane, and even a little boring. After all, for most, farming is just how food gets to the table. But for Max, who has never so much as seen a vegetable or an animal that wasn't poisonous to eat? It's a revelation.

The farms, the plants, the fishing and the pearl-diving... it's all things he hardly knows other than in some abstract texts brought from Earth that he'd been privileged to read. And yet, here, all are so used to these things. He wouldn't say that they take them for granted, but in the context of his own civilization, he can't help but think so to some degree. These people with their functional food and their agrarian society... so different from Halcyon. The light in their eyes, the energy in them, the lushness of everything-

He's glad that he'd only been summoned into this situation after his revelation. He's almost sick to think of how he would have tried to put this all into context as a proper scientician.

Instead, he can merely accept it as another facet of the beautiful chaos that is existence. He can dance or warm his old bones near the bonfire, enjoy the delicious and nourishing food the likes of which he's never had. He can enjoy the sun on his skin and the feel of the water and the sand as he carefully pads around at the beach and tries a few expeditions into the waves.

...and it's not too hard for him to find something akin to a tossball stick to handle any pirates that might cause trouble. A little bit of violence is just what the doctor ordered after a few days of paradise.

All in all? He's happy for company with any of it. Just, uh... stand back if you're going with him after pirates. Sometimes, he can get a little enthusiastic. ]

two

[ It's a simple enough dream. Simple enough that someone might mistake the hallways of this ship for the one they've been brought to, but it doesn't take too much attention to see the difference. The Unreliable, as she is called, is not exactly what one would call 'state of the art'.

If it's any kind of art, it's probably some sort of recycling project. It's also, despite the efforts of a rather zealous janitorial robot named SAM, not all that clean.

But if you leave the cargo bay and go up the stairs, go past a couple of rooms, and peer into the one occupied by someone who isn't just a shadow from a dream, you'll see the man in the blue cassock sitting at his little table with his books and his journal, scribbling away in between reading lines of what look like nonsense but would be, in the real world, some manner of mathematical text.

The vicar will pause, put his pen down, and glance up at you as you approach. ]

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