Test Drive (December & January)

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→ Holds and applications are always open. Holds are required for all applications.

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

→ Write LOGS or NETWORK 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.

→ Character want ads are here.

Prompts

1. SNOW BLIND - It's snowing, a lot, and pristine landscape though it might create, it also brings plenty of problems, especially when you live in an Edwardian-style village with a serious lack of snow shovels. It's currently blizzard conditions and visibility is nil — Maybe you gave in and ducked into the nearest house for temporary shelter, and discover someone else had the same idea (or just lives there, oops). Maybe you're stubborn enough to still be out in it, struggling against the wind and snow. Or maybe you've tromped into the South Village Inn like a human popsicle, and are just hoping you don't lose any fingers before you make it to the fireplace.


2. JUMPED-UP - Winter's here, which means it's the perfect time for an expedition to warmer, southern climes. You've joined a group following the river all the way down to the far southern beach, for fun and for science. On this latest break in your journey, you've spotted a large, jewel-colored feather and picked it up, maybe as a specimen to bring back or just a feather for your cap. Turns out it's an archaeopteryx feather, and you're now, well... let's call it a little gravity-challenged. Not a bad benefit once you figure out how to control it.


3. COLD CALL - The snow has slacked off, leaving behind a winter wonderland. Sure, there's plenty to do, but after being cooped up inside for days, most people won't blame you for a morale-booster — That is, unless your way of starting a snowball fight is to pop up and throw them at unsuspecting passers-by. Making a snow man or snow angels might come with a little less retribution, but you do you.


4. 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, 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 in your SUBJECT LINE.

Comments

[relentlessness]

It isn't as if his life hasn't been filled with so many things, including death and murder and theft, but kidnapping seems more trouble than merely ending a life once you've gotten the information you need. Kidnappings mean that they might escape and secrets could go with them. Death was a better choice.

"Wonderland? I guess that sounds a bit familiar," he says, considering that. He's not much of a reader, but he's heard of the books. He thinks. "In whatever the book is you're mentioning. My sister reads a bit." A lot of a bit, but that's really her thing.

"I'd have thought it was crazy before this place," he admits. "But given some I've met here..."

Given how old some of them should be, dust and gone twice over, he's starting to believe in a lot more than he did before.

"This is madness to me though, but I believe you." He makes a bit of a face. "So your kidnappers never paid for their crimes?"

[cisskabob]

Cissie gives him a wry, sympathetic smile. She is fully aware of how mad it all sounds, and she lived it. Is still living it. It feels worse somehow, here in the village. Maybe it's because in Wonderland, they never needed to worry about supplies or food, except in rare, short-lived circumstances. Maybe it was the welcome pamphlets and matter-of-fact way everyone presented and accepted the Way Things Are in Wonderland, while here...

It's different.

"No," she says, giving a shrug. "I never really knew why they took us, either. But then, I'm not sure why we're here, so that seems to track. I was just... there one day, and fell asleep in my bed, and then I woke up here, in the fountain. Not exactly the most welcoming entrance, frankly."

[relentlessness]

"No one seems to know," he admits, making a face. "Most of them here just seem to think this is all madness itself, but there feels like some kind of method to the madness."

Especially in his mind, with those that they've brought together. It's all been such madness. Maybe it's no different than a place called Wonderland.

"Makes you wonder how they're connected. The same people or just random slips in time or something." It all feels like madness, but he hasn't any idea what to think of it all, just trying to make sense of the things he's been told by others.