Test Drive 21 (October & November)

[sixthiteration]

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→ Choose one of the scenarios below or make up your own. Feel free to try multiple scenarios.

→ Write LOGS or TEXT prompts, or both.

→ THERE ARE ONLY THREE RULES FOR THE TDM:

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

→ TDM threads cannot be used to meet AC, but if the character is accepted into the game and both players agree, you may keep the CR.

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Prompts

1. STAYING POWER - Go down to the bunker, they said. You can get yourself amazing powers from the vending machine, they said. Well, you've done that, and you've made your choice, but one thing nobody told you was that unless it's a power you're familiar with, you might be on a teensy bit of a learning curve when it comes to keeping it under control. You have a week to figure it out without killing anyone; have fun!


2. FORGIVE AND... - You poor thing, you've gotten into some dust moths. Not that you can remember that, because depending on how big that swarm was and how quickly you got out of it, you might not remember much at all. Better hope somebody's got some Forget Me Nots on hand.


3. HIT & RUN - Life in the village can be pretty sleepy... until suddenly, it's not. Were you being a troublemaker? Were you disturbing the local wildlife? Because it's now disturbing you, chasing you down the street in front of everyone. Maybe it's a herd of chupapaca or a swarm of fireflies. Or maybe you went old school and it's just a really pissed off badger. Godspeed and good luck.


4. WILDCARD - Choose your own adventure. Maybe play powers roulette.

Texts

All characters are fitted with a smart watch-like device on their left wrist, which they can use to send text messages to other villagers.

- Texts may only be 140 characters long
- No video or voice, text only
- 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 in your SUBJECT LINE.

Comments

[onesyllable]

Faraday shifts, hands on his hips as he considers what this man is going on about. "You and I aren't ever gonna see eye to eye on it bein' easier to keep a snake alive than dead. Like some men, just no point in them," he says, not one to look at things from a conversational viewpoint. Especially with anything that causes trouble in his life like snakes can.

"Well see, there you got me. I can see that. Hence why I don't get keeping them alive. Less snakes means less holes a horse can turn their ankle in. Less horses boltin' and leaving a man in the dust. Less heading out in the middle of the night for the outhouse and ending up bucknaked on the ground with a bite in your leg."

Okay at the last there's a bit of a smirk. He's seen that happen and since it wasn't him, it might have been amusing.

[cryptoherpetology]

Alex actually laughs at that as he makes his rounds through the lab, checking locks on cages, and feeding the things he isn't handling today.

"Well, the medicine also means we can treat crazy men who handle snakes, too," he says with a good dose of self-depricating amusement. "Believe me, I've done things that look a lot dumber than this."

[onesyllable]

Faraday holds his ground, only slightly angling his body as the man moves about checking on things. Which is at least reassuring that he puts that much time and effort into ensuring the poison snakes were at bay.

"So you're pretty much just doing this so you can keep playing with snakes?" Okay, he's sounding a bit crazy again. "You sound proud of that."

As if he isn't a huge fool.

[cryptoherpetology]

Alex laughs again, this time more of an amused, humble chuckle.

"A little bit of that, probably. But more to understand them. And believe it or not, there are medicines that can be made using small amounts of snake or spider venom. These snakes don't exist back home, could be there's a cure for something in them."

He decides it's probably not a good idea to mention animals that secrete psychedelic compounds. He can very clearly imagine Antimony scolding him for not sending the cowboy out to lick toads.

[onesyllable]

"I'm sure there are. Making medicine out of everything now'days," he says, though the now'days he means is a century plus before when Alex is used to.

"So you from this place, whatever it is?" Not where, but what. He's still not sure it's all real though he refuses to learn the truth of why it might be some kind of afterlife.