Test Drive Meme #1

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Welcome to Fernweh's Test Drive Meme! Do you have an interest in joining the game? Need to make sure the setting works for you and your character first? Or have you made the decision to join the game and need fresh samples for your application? Whatever the reason, feel free to use the scenarios however you wish.

You know what to do! If you don’t, just follow the instructions.

How To Play:

→ Comment with the character you would like to test drive (duplicates are allowed)
→ Choose a scenario or start your own
→ Tag around
→ Have fun!

SCENARIOS

01. Arrival

You have been sitting and staring at the sign above you for some time now, lost in a blur of swirling questions that seems to start with how you ended up there; in a place (and time, maybe) that you know you weren't an hour earlier. Or maybe you're an old hand at this by now and you've figured out that this is simply another stop that the multiverse bus has made. So why not get off and look around a little?

At any rate, the sign points you towards the direction of a place called "Gazin", which looks like a decent-sized town from where you stand. There has to be someone who can explain.

02. Around Town

So, you've settled in. Well, mostly. At least you know where things are without taking too many wrong turns and ending up in the less desirable areas of town. But now you can go about your day. Visit the market, check out the local shops or have a drink with a new friend at one of several inns.

03. Exploring

You've heard people talk about some pretty interesting places and now you're itching to get out and find them. Be careful though, there are creatures and monsters out there that will be pretty interested in meeting you and may wish to have you for its next meal. Better take someone along. And maybe some weapons, too. Make sure one is made of silver.

04. Monsters

So, you managed to find that location you were looking for. Good for you! Only.. it seems you've also found one of the native creatures to the area and you now face to face with it. Um. Good luck! We'll see you when you get back!

Hopefully.

05. Celebration

It won't take long for you to figure out that people of Gazin are, all in all, pretty happy people. It shows, too, when a seemingly quiet evening suddenly bursts into a random, impromptu party to celebrate whatever good fortune has touched a person. Name Days, good harvests, betrothals, weddings, or just life in general.

Sing, dance, drink and be happy, too!

06. Wild Card!

Want something else? Feel free to choose your own adventure or mix and match to create something completely different!

NAVIGATION

Comments

[valiantdragon]

He only shakes his head in answer, waiting patiently for her to speak as she chose. She- Daenerys- knows more than he does. Of what happens after. Of even just this world. He's not all that surprised with the question she chooses first.

Rhaegar doesn't immediately answer her though. How to explain it all, to phrase it simply but truthfully? "There is a...sickness. In our blood. A madness that appears, sometimes strong, sometimes hardly noticeable until later in life."

Nothing he'd readily admit to just anyone, but he believes what he sees, and what little she's told him.

"Unfortunately, as Father ages, he has been growing more paranoid and suspicious, even of me." Speaking in the past tense is a challenge he is not yet going to meet. For him, this is all the present.

[thebrideoffire]

"The way Viserys framed it, the madness was lies from his enemies. Ser Barristan was the one to tell me and he refused to serve me fully until he was certain that I wasn't like our father." She shivered, frightened to voice these thoughts, but able to for the first time. Somehow she always believed Rhaegar would understand where none of her advisers would. "I fear sometimes becoming like him, that my blood will be tainted."

She didn't want to be a monster, but what else could she be if her children were monsters as well? Her decisions, made in good conscience, did not always sit well with her. She wanted to be a good queen, one that was loved, but Meereen was proving how difficult that might be.

"Viserys, I cannot say if it was madness or cruelty that afflicted him, only that he seemed at times to possess both." Some of their blood never suffered the taint. Their mother, she was good and kind where her husband and son weren't.

[valiantdragon]

Hearing the name of a trusted friend has him smile knowingly. "Fear is what gets us, Daenerys, in the end. Ser Barristan is a good man who will guide you well, if you let him. His voice is one you never need doubt." But he understands her fear. Feels it himself, but he has gathered people he trusts around him. Listens to them.

"It is why I spend time with the people. Getting to know them, and letting them come to know me." Rhaegar thinks she might be more like their mother, if not like him. But hearing some of what has happened to their brother has him frown, expression darkening a little. Not at her.

Sorrow and pity for the little brother he remembers. "...Perhaps a bit of both. I know him as a kind child. It is possible the responsibility was too much for him, even with Mother around."

[thebrideoffire]

"I trust him with my life," for he had proven himself and sought forgiveness where Ser Jorah demanded it. The city was alone, without her guidance while she was here. Yet there was Ser Barristan. He knew her and what she hoped to do, he knew her brother and had always spoken of Rhaegar. There was no one better to guard Meereen in her stead, until she found herself again and what she needed to do.

"I was told you were the last true king of Westeros, more than our father was." Even if he never wore the crown. Rhaegar was the last dragon. More than anything, she had tried to model herself after his image, but perhaps had fallen short.

"Mother died when I was born. We were alone in Essos and dependent on the charity of others. We fled each city, afraid of assassins chasing us. There were times when we had nothing. The day he sold mother's crown, I think that is what changed him. He didn't wish to be the Beggar King any longer."