Special Edition TDM

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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

[underpinnings]

"Clearly." He flicks a gaze up from the man's boots. "Hence all the giggling."

Still: most people don't lounge all over trees unless they need to, this far from an audience. It would lose him some time to drag the man back to the village, but it would lose him more to carry some kind of guilt around and double back later. Moving the hand off the ax, he held it palm-up, then placed it outward, between them.

"Let's get you back, you can deal with it from a bed."

[greatseerbob]

"Don't be deliberately dense. It's not a good look on anybody." Bob thrives on pointless obfuscation. He just doesn't take it well from anybody else, even in its milder forms like dry detachment. "I doubt the bed is necessary or anything. Unless that's a proposition? I honestly can't really tell most of the time."

[underpinnings]

FEDRA boarding schools were still boarding schools, and he'd spent seven years in segregated dorms, every shithead teenager the military could drag in boiling over together. The man's point B is so far from Owen's point A he can't take it as anything but idiotic ribbing, and over the years he's evolved his adolescent eye-rolling into a blink so slow it's almost reptilian.

He drops the hand back to his side; at this point, his new friend can let him know if his legs aren't working. Well, needs to and can are different things. "Would pretending it was get you to come along any better than admitting it's not?"

[greatseerbob]

He can respect reptilian, even if his own nature is much less saurian than usual and he's really more of a giant bird most of the time anyway. The pragmatic response amuses him, though. He can relate. He's just very used to mortals throwing themselves at him. Not usually the brighter ones, but the mountain's groupies aren't always very discerning. "No, just an ongoing project about reorienting my social awareness. It's a personal thing."

[underpinnings]

"Getting people into bed," he asks, deliberately obtuse for the sake of an arching brow, a touch of tongue to incisor. The punchline is, "It doesn't have to be."

Orient that, weirdo against a tree.

"Is walking part of your ongoing project, or should I be building some kind of pallet to drag." He's not keen on replacing that tree for support, and outright carrying anyone that tall is out of the question.