TEST DRIVE - Part 3

[stigematize]

Maybe you've been here for a while, or maybe you just got here. Either way, you're all in the same situation - you've been turned into a magical gemstone and stranded in a foreign world! And all you've been left with is the clothes on your back, stripped of all powers except one.

Clearly, you’ll just have to make the best of it.

How this works:

☆ This is a test drive for cosmographia, which means you should get a little familiar with the setting and premise.

☆ Otherwise, this is just meant to help you feel out how you may play and serves mainly as a chill interest gathering and get together kind of post! No app necessary, and you don't need to play in this post to apply - or vice versa.

☆ Everybody is welcome! There are no character limitations; pg au oc canon pigeon whatever. Just toss up a topcomment and/or jump any threads that pique your interest.

☆ This post will remain open until it begins to approach 5000 comments! Then a new test-drive post will be made.

☆ Rules-wise: Be cool to yourself and others, and keep in mind the other game rules too.

☆ If you do apply to the game and are accepted, and you want to keep the CR, you may so long as what you did isn't setting breaking and everyone involved agrees.


YOUR OPTIONS:

☆ You find yourself in the Heart of a ruined temple. There is a large glowing gem that thrums with some kind of rhythm, and jewels scattered all over the room, kept in strange bubbles. At the very least, touching the large gem will give you a standard info-dump, but some of you might be a little cautious about touching weird luminescent gems. Good thing that there are other people there too!

☆ Or perhaps you already know everything there is to know, and are there in the Heart of the Ruined Temple to greet new arrivals. Or perhaps you simply had business there already, like storing away a corrupted gem from a monster, when someone new seemingly dropped in from no where.

☆ It's Farmer's Market day in the plaza of Waverly Bay! Perhaps you're there perusing the goods and strike up conversation, or accidentally bump into someone and get to know them that way. It's a fairly standard day.

☆ There's an event! You don't really know what else to call them - missions, perhaps? But something in the temple was triggered, and the glowy Heart gem has something new to "tell" you: If you want a new power, you should try telling other people two truths and a lie. Those who you interact with must try and divine the lie from your statements.

You have no idea how something this simple will get you a power, but hey.

Comments

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade slooowly tilts her head to the side, considering each option. She doesn't know what a Reaptide party is, but it seems like a silly thing to make up! So it's got to be the horse or the age, and Pylon is such a neat name for a horse that she wants it to be true.]

You know... I am not sure that you are eighteen! You look a little younger.

[girl_at_the_window]

Sixteen. I'm sixteen. [She laughs] You want to try me?

[cuteandquarky]

Me too! And hmm... let me see!

I grew up on an island without any other people. I've died at least two times. Aaand, I can control the wind! Which one do you think is false?

[girl_at_the_window]

[Susan lets out a low whistle] You sure it's only one?

No, no, wait up. I'll get it.

[Dying at least twice is something she would have thought impossible, but then, she's died and she's still here, and it seems too out of left field not to be true. Which leaves the other two, both of which are wholly bizarre]

Um... The first one? I think it's the first one. You didn't really grow up on an island.

[cuteandquarky]

Nope! I grew up on an island! It was just me and my dog Bec for most of my life, but he took good care of me!

I can't control the wind, though. That was my friend! I can control space, though. Or... I could before I ended up here, anyways. Now I can't control much of anything.

[girl_at_the_window]

[It's testament to what Susan's seen in the last few weeks that she's willing to just accept that and roll with it]

I can't imagine growing up with no-one around. I surely can't.

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade shrugs. It hadn't been fun, but it had been her life, too - she'd been used to it.]

Well, I wasn't entirely alone. I could still talk to people and stuff! They just weren't physically there. But what about you? You said you had a dad and a horse?

[girl_at_the_window]

[nope no we're not talking about her past LET'S NOT]

How do you mean, talk to people without them being there?

[cuteandquarky]

With the Internet! I had a computer and a wireless signal and pesterchum, so it wasn't too hard to make friends...

[Oh, wait. What kind of world is this girl from again?]

Um... did you have the Internet where you came from?

[girl_at_the_window]

[Wow. None of those words mean anything. Susan picks out the word "net", and, bearing in mind that this girl is from an island, puts two and two together to make five:]

We don't have any kind of nets. We're farmers.

[cuteandquarky]

Oh! Well... Think of it more like... Do you have phones? Or do you write letters, at least?

[If not, then this analogy will take even more work.]

[girl_at_the_window]

[Susan frowns] Of course we write letters. I don't know what a phone is, though.

[cuteandquarky]

Okay, well... imagine that you can write a letter to somebody, and they are able to see it as soon as you send it! And then they can reply immediately, so you can also see their letter immediately, without having to wait for it to travel between the two of you! That is kind of what the Internet is like.

[A vast simplification, to be sure, but it summarizes the most important part.]

[girl_at_the_window]

[Susan has no frame of reference for that, but she's a quick study] Is that all it's used for? [Because she can think of about twenty more uses right off the bat] It sounds incredible.

[cuteandquarky]

Definitely not! You can use it for all sorts of things! I know that if you look around here a little bit, you can probably find a computer with limited internet and see for yourself! Though it might be kind of expensive.

[girl_at_the_window]

Oh. [The smile falls off her face] I... I don't have any money.

[cuteandquarky]

That's okay! It's not too hard to get a job here or ask people if they need some help! And I am also sure that somebody would be willing to let you borrow their computer for a bit if you ask nicely.

[girl_at_the_window]

Do you think so?

I mean, I've got some skills, I guess. Aunt Cordy said I was useless, but Aunt Cordy said a lot of things. Ain't really had a job, though. Not one I had to go and find, anyroad.

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade just met this girl, but she is not going to let anybody be down on themselves, even indirectly.]

I know so! Don't listen to Aunt Cordy! You can do anything that you set your mind to!

And if you want, I could help you look around for some place to work. There are lots of shops that would be happy to have you help out, I bet.

[girl_at_the_window]

[Susan laughs suddenly, then puts her hand over her mouth, blushing] Cry pardon. It's just that I thought... it's funny, isn't it, the people we meet. [By which she means it's funny that she's getting advice on community issues from a girl who grew up alone on an island]

I'd love that. Thankee-sai.

[cuteandquarky]

[Jade doesn't really get why she's laughing, but Susan doesn't seem to be laughing at her, so she doesn't worry too much about it.]

I guess it is kind of funny!

And what does Thankee-sai mean? Is that just a fancy way of saying thank you?

[girl_at_the_window]

Something like that, aye. It's just the polite way of saying thankya, where I'm from. [And she really does say thankya, her already thick accent thicker than ever on that word]

[cuteandquarky]

That's pretty cool! I do not know if I know a polite way of saying thank you. Thank you very much, I guess?

[She shrugs. The intricacies of language have never really been her thing.]

Where are you from, then? I cannot place your accent at all!

[girl_at_the_window]

Hambry. In the Barony of Mejis. Doubt you'd kennit, it's a small sort of place.

[cuteandquarky]

Yeah, I've never heard of it! I guess I would tell you where I was from, but I don't think my island had a name. My friends liked to call it Hellmurder Island, though.