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Special Edition Test Drive!

In April, Sixth Iteration will be making the transition from simulation to real life on a new, uninhabited planet. While the Observers have gone to great lengths to choose a suitable planet and terraform the area our intrepid characters live in, there will be a great deal of unpredictability and increased risk.

This TDM focuses on the NEW, POST-SIMULATOR environment, and is open to EVERYONE, whether your character is in the game or not — It's a chance for everybody to try out some of the new scenarios coming our way in April. (Yes, that means characters in the game can make top-levels!) Use one of the prompts below, or make one of your own.

There's ONLY ONE RULE, but it's important:

Your threads here should NOT be about your character's arrival on the planet. We want to save that for the actual event!

Environment Prompts

The Observers have terraformed the area approximately represented within the boundaries on this map, but outside of the sim, there are no canyon walls keeping characters inside... or native plants and animals outside. Perhaps you have adventured past the edges of the map, excited to have somewhere new to explore. Or maybe you've just gotten unlucky within the safer boundaries of the created habitat. Either way, you've come into contact with a native plant or animal, and your body's reaction isn't exactly normal:

1. Brown, skunk-like mammal, brown with cream-colored stripes and extremely bushy tail - Spray smells sweet but makes the target drowsy; Adult humans doze off for apx. 2 minutes, and wake up with libido increased 200% for apx. 5 hours.


2. Small, glassy green ant-like insect - A bite leaves a red welt about the size of a quarter and the sudden ability to lift 10x your body weight. The welt and strength gradually fade over 12 hours, leaving you loose limbed. People typically feel weak after, but that may simply be psychological.


3. Purplish seeds about the size of a walnut - They are protected by hard seed pods that are either bright green or brown depending on age. Opening the pods can be very difficult, but one of the native birds has a specialized hook beak to pop them open, so the seeds can sometimes be found already shucked. Eating one seed provides a sudden burst of energy for about 20 minutes that allows (among other things) running at speeds up to 60 MPH. The after effects can be brutal, though, particularly if your body isn't used to it, and can include vomiting, dizziness and exhaustion.

Texting Prompt

All characters will bit fitted with a smart watch-like device on their left wrist. They cannot remove the device no matter what they do to it. It looks similar in design to this. (The functions shown in that picture are not necessarily included.) Functions include automatic distress signal when danger is perceived as well manual SOS that send your location to all watch wearers, digital clock, and text messaging to all or select watch wearers.

- Texts may only be 140 characters long
- No video or voice, text only
- No usernames, everyone is listed by their name

Please list your CHARACTER NAME, CANON & PROMPT in your SUBJECT LINE, even if your character is already in the game.

Comments

Phryne Fisher | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Texting

[fishingfortrouble]

I would have preferred a typewriter, to be perfectly honest.

1/5 - Rapidfire

[fwips]

oh wow u must be rly old

[fwips]

omg thats not wut I meant

[fwips]

I meant u must b from olden times

[fwips]

idk if ur old or not

[fwips]

I'm just stopping now

[fishingfortrouble]

It's generally considered impolite to ask a lady her age. But I'll forgive it; I'm feeling magnanimous today.

[fwips]

thank u I'm sorry if I offended u I didn't mean it that way AT ALL

[fwips]

I would never ask I swear

[fwips]

my aunt would kill me

[fishingfortrouble]

[There's a moment of surprised laughter at that, which passes entirely unnoticed save perhaps for the pause before she answers.]

It'll take more than that to offend me. But tell me about your aunt. She sounds like a marvelous woman.

[fwips]

she is, shes great and the coolest person I know (Im not cool but she treats me like I am)

[fishingfortrouble]

Does she have a name, this cool aunt of yours?

eeeeeeeee phryne!!

[warriorborn]

What's wrong with good old-fashioned pen and paper, that's my question. This contraption takes forever to spell out anything.

she's so great /chinhands

[fishingfortrouble]

Why, nothing of course! But at least a typewriter makes sense, if there has to be technology involved.

the greatest tbh

[warriorborn]

[ Benedict doesn't point out that he doesn't quite know what a typewriter is. He assumes it's something related to a printing press, which seems cumbersome for quick, person-to-person messages. ]

I confess I much prefer actually speaking to one another.

it's true

[fishingfortrouble]

[It's not entirely dissimilar to a printing press. or at least, it's developed out of the same sort of tradition. And admittedly it still wouldn't be terribly convenient for the sort of communication that's currently ongoing, but that's not anything that Phryne mentions.]

I'm sure that could be arranged. Although I'd need to know who I was looking for. And perhaps where.

[warriorborn]

I find most people can usually be found in the same place day after day. For example, I am almost always in the Inn or behind it with the bees.

[ex_assertiveness90]

We've technology like this where I'm from. It has its advantages and disadvantages.

[ maybe this will be less obnoxious and more purposeful. maybe people won't start treating it like village twitter. she can hope. ]

[fishingfortrouble]

This is first I've heard it. And really, couldn't the same be said of any new technology?

[ex_assertiveness90]

I suppose you're right.

[ there's not really anything to argue there, and Stella knows how to pick her battles. ]

Do you mind my asking what year it was for you before you came here?

[fishingfortrouble]

Not at all. It's currently 1928. Or would be, I suppose, apart from my being here.

[ex_assertiveness90]

I see.

Your mentioning the typewriter made me curious. There are almost 100 years between us. Forwards in time, not backwards.

[ not that odd — she's met people here claiming to be from earlier eras even than that — but it helps, to have a frame of reference. ]

[fishermansweater]

But you couldn't have used a typewriter to talk to us, unless you got very creative.

[ It's perhaps fortunate that the medium of text doesn't alow for tone of voice, because if it did, Finnick would be sounding a little more flirty than is entirely appropriate for a married man. It's nothing personal. ]

[fishingfortrouble]

As it happens, I'm very good at being creative.

[And perhaps it really is just as well that the medium they're currently speaking through doesn't allow for tone of voice, given that it strips out the flirty overtones that Phryne would otherwise impart to the sentence.]