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It has to take place in the 6I universe.
It cannot be the character's arrival into the game.
Please only test new characters who do not have a version in the game. Our cast list is here.

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FULL VIEW - The Observers really do their best to make each villager's wrist device as user-friendly for them as possible, but with all new tech, sometimes there's a learning curve... And sometimes, you just screw up. Like now, when you've accidentally triggered the video option and called someone completely random on the network without realizing it. Yep, you're just going about whatever, totally oblivious. Here's to hoping that your clothes are fully on, and that the person on the other end is nice enough to speak up sooner rather than later.
SHADOW OF A DOUBT - Being the intrepid (or just bored) villager you are, you've gone exploring and found yourself a very interesting (if moderately spooky) cave. What lurks in the dark? Might it be some shadow dust to turn you intangible? Or perhaps a cave wolf with all of its little goblin-monkey friends? Maybe, just maybe, it's both.
ILL AT EASE - 'Tis the season for the common cold, and you've got it. Unfortunately, the village doesn't have a corner drug store, so you're achy, miserable, maybe a little feverish. The good news is a little time in bed should do the trick. That is, if you're not the sort who has to be bullied to take care of yourself anytime you get sick. Either way, maybe you'll be lucky enough to find someone to tuck you in and bring you some chicken soup.
WILDCARD - Choose your own adventure. Maybe play powers roulette.
NETWORK - All characters are fitted with a smart watch-like device on their left wrist, which they can use to send text and video messages to other villagers. Text and/or video are allowed, any length. Display names may be changed by characters on the fly, but anyone can tap to see someone's real full name.

Please list your CHARACTER NAME, CANON & PROMPT NAMES in your SUBJECT LINE.

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Ill at Ease

Pike swears that this cold is worse than the three days he spent in sickbay after he ate the orange slime. It was not his fault he got sick after that. After all, his first officer was fine. She said it was because she didn't eat as much as he did. Pike, on the other hand, thinks it was the Habenero sauce.

"Pocket dimension colds are apparently the only thing worse than regular colds"

Really, he looks pathetic. Have pity on him.

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There's nothing terribly exciting going on in the world of Christopher Pike when his device turns on. At first, all you see is darkness, then eventually, you can see the sky, and it's accompanying stars. Soon after that...the only audio is snoring.

Edited 2019-02-13 03:54 (UTC)

Caught up in a world that isn't the pain of being bound and the lack of anything that Gerard has always assumed would come after death is new, and slightly confusing. It's also certainly something to make him curious when he receives a message showing the night sky.

Before there is even another sound, Gerard grabs his pack that he keeps ready, heading out to see if there's a reason behind the messages. Tracing the sky as he's done before, following the device as he works to match them up.

It's about then he recognizes the sound, the rumbling that he at first thinks is a creature. Which is when he realizes there's a man asleep, beneath the stars. It's a lot less exciting than what he'd hoped for, but now he's curious. Is there a reason for it? Is there something he's waiting for.

Settling in nearby, his pack at his feet, Gerard considers his options. At length picking up a pebble and tossing it lightly at the man.

Okay so the night was nice enough out and stars were stars no matter where they were, so that combined with the outdoors made for a nice relaxing environment for Pike. That being said, he wasn't the heaviest of sleepers, so a pebble hitting him was enough to wake him up.

"At least that's less intrusive than a 'red alert' sound."

Then he turned in the direction from which the pebble came, "Sorry, was I in your way?"

"There's a lot of things less intrusive than an alarm," Gerard points out with a snort. "And a lot of horrible things that can take advantage of a nap, especially when you put yourself out there," he adds, shrugging.

"But nope," he says, shaking his head. "Just curious why someone comes out here and broadcasts it. Felt like a bit of a trap, I admit, but I was bored."

And almost wishing he walked into a trap, just to find the first glimpse of one of them since he's been here. He can't figure out who is behind this, and it's beginning to drive him a bit mad.

It's not the first time that colds have swept through village. In fact, it's not likely to be the last, and for all that they're at least less inconvenient than some of the illnesses that the Observers have very deliberately set on the village (or at least, the ones that he's assuming have been deliberately released on the village), that doesn't mean that they're any less troublesome. Not least of all for the fact that there's not much that can be done about it. Instead, one simply has to suffer through them, without even so much as the barest of answers to the various sniffles and aches that come along with it.

"Assuming this is a pocket dimension. But otherwise... I agree."

Pike doesn't particularly want to know what kind of illnesses the villagers had inflicted upon them, or at least he doesn't want to know, yet.

"In any case," he says before pausing for a well timed sneeze, "nothing in my universe's ever made me feel quite this bad."

There was the cough.

"Is there something here that makes you think it's not a pocket dimension?"

Whenever he does feel up to it, Picard is certainly more than willing to explain. It's not likely to be a comforting conversation, especially when no one's managed to find a way back home, just yet. But having been in the village for as long as he has has lent itself fairly well to having at least a passing idea of what to expect from the village.

"It's not impossible that it's a pocket dimension? But if it is, it's one where the passing of time is drastically different to the reality that you or I would know - while I haven't experienced myself, the reports I've heard from the people who do manage to leave and return is that next-to-no time has passed in their reality of origin."

Which doesn't make the theory impossible, mind. But it does through a significant wrench into it.

"Additionally, there are people present here from a wide variety of realities, wider even than I might have thought possible before my own arrival here. If it is a pocket dimension, then it's one that touches an extremely broad selection of realities, and I'm not certain how sustainable that would be."

Chloe has managed to catch it, too. Her own nose is bright red and she's doing her best not to obnoxiously sniffle, but her own stubbornness has finally gotten the better of her, and she's desperate to do anything to clear her sinuses, even if it means entertaining some of the more inane things she's been told about the fauna and flora around the settlement.

"I can't say I know anything about pocket dimensions, but the lack of Afrin is what's getting to me." Chloe does take some pity on him, though, especially because she can relate. "I was actually about to go see if the magical healing abilities of the hot springs extend to viruses if you wanna come along."

Test Drive 23

Christopher Pike | Star Trek | Ill at Ease & Full View

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