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

[thelesserevil]

From elsewhere, hm?

Renfri raised a brow, lips quirked into a crooked little grin. "I'm from someplace elsewhere, too," she admitted, looking right at these cat-like eyes of his which she had indeed noticed, though she wasn't going to bring them up unless she found a good way to do so. If in his homeland elsewhere non-humans were as loathed as in hers, just bringing it up at all could have him believing she was picking a fight. She really wasn't here to ruin her nice evening.

"It was a surprise showing up here. But it's not very different. Just... more peaceful, so far." Mostly for her, because her pursuer wasn't here.

[sixth_sefira]

Sephiroth ripped a chunk from the slab of bread resting beside the stew bowl easily, dipping it into the stew before eating it, more to get an idea of how the broth tasted and how hot it was before he took a proper bite of it. Compared to the beer, the stew was a definite step up pleasantly enough, which he was grateful for. While he'd eaten edible but tasteless (or worse) food in his past, he hadn't had to spend coin on it.

He listened quietly to her words, one of his own pale eyebrows rising slightly at the last statement. It made him curious as to the situation and place she'd come from, if this wasn't different aside from being more peaceful so far.

"Did you happen to express a desire to be...somewhere else, before finding yourself here?"

It was the last thing he could think of prior to finding himself here. It sounded as if she wasn't originally from around here, much akin to him...if he could find a commonality in their arrivals, at least there would be a clue as to the cause. Not that he really found himself too upset by the displacement if he were to be honest. He had expressed a wish to be elsewhere, and he had no real desire currently to return from whence he'd come.

[thelesserevil]

The soup today smelled quite good to Renfri, at least by the standards of the meals she usually had, and her nose twitched a little as she considered ordering a bowl as well. No, she would rather wait until later, this conversation was one she didn't want to be distracted from right now.

"Wishing to be elsewhere, huh? Is that what you did?" She sounded pensive, going quiet as she tried to recall exactly what she had been thinking and feeling on that morning as she made her way back into Blaviken.

She had been determined and convinced of the necessity of what she was about to do but she had been a little bit glum too at the thought of all who would die out of loyalty to her. They weren't good men by most people's standards, maybe, but they were hers.

"Yes," she admitted finally, "I did wish for it. I wanted..." To be somewhere safe. Somewhere she wouldn't be hunted as a monster, where she could live her life without becoming the monster she was hunted as by hunting her predator in turn, as Geralt insisted. She still disagreed with his views but that didn't mean she wanted to do what had to be done. "I wanted to be someplace far away," she finished weakly.

[sixth_sefira]

Sephiroth moved to pick the bowl up in one hand, the remaining bread in the other before he turned to lean backwards against the bar beside her, allowing it to support him as he turned to the task of eating the meal at hand. His attention was still on her during this, listening to her rhetorical question, or so he assumed it was for the time being. He'd wait to see if she actually answered his question before he decided to comment further.

He used the bread as a means of eating the stew at first, which given its thickness worked better than one might expect. A few bites passed before she finally answered him with an affirmative as to his prior assumption.

"That may have something to do with us being here possibly then. I also briefly thought of such a thing right before I found myself on the road before this town. I wanted to be somewhere else...somewhere that I couldn't be found.." Somewhere that would allow him to escape both his past and the company that would likely never cease chasing him upon his abandoning it, especially if he lashed out at it as he'd been contemplating doing right before his departure.

"Perhaps it's for the best that we find ourselves here?" He mused a moment after he'd cut his last statement off. "We desired an escape and were given one.." He paused for a moment for one another bite of stew, and the last of the bread with it.

"Time will tell, if there is a price tag attached to it or not."

[thelesserevil]

Somewhere he couldn't be found. Interesting. There could be many innocent or everyday reasons for this, even if her thoughts immediately jumped to such things as not wanting to be found by enemies or the law. Just the way her thoughts would go, with the life she lived. It would be worth watching out for further clues that his reasons had indeed been as serious as her own, though Renfri figured this wasn't something she could directly ask about. If he were indeed on the run, chances were he would also have learned to be cagey about it.

He did have a good point though about this being an escape, and Renfri could easily nod in agreement with this observation.

She tapped her fingers on the tabletop, a wry grin tugging at her lips. "Oh, I'm sure there's a price tag attached," she said, "there always is. Especially with stuff like this. Magic. It doesn't come for free, and sorcerers don't do you any favors." Which was the problem, of course, this clearly being magic. However... "The one good thing about that is, if we were both brought here in about the same way and around the same time, then it's far more likely that someone on this end of things did it. Not someone from our homes sending us away. That would be too much of a coincidence."

[sixth_sefira]

He'd grown up around people who made being cagey a profession, a way of life. Thus he'd learned from a very young age that those who weren't, those that were too honest, too open, didn't last long. They broke and left to never be seen again. Those who couldn't hide their actions well enough, couldn't keep their cards close to their chest, they often ended up the same, save they didn't vanish into the masses, but they were buried in the ground.. or made to vanish as if they had never been there in the first place.

His unnatural green eyes narrowed some at the thought that he'd only escaped one leash for another that wasn't as obvious. Held by an unknown figure. The last of the stew was eaten and he stood up from his leaning position to turn and rest the bowl and spoon against the bar top for the innkeeper to reclaim. His expression sliding back into it's usual impassive look that served him well enough at keeping his thoughts and feelings hidden from the casual observer.

"Sorcerers?"

[thelesserevil]

Renfri had lived long enough among cutthroats to know that people looking all too casual and impassive was a tell in itself, which she took note of though it didn't surprise her too much. The entire affair of being taken from home by unknown people was disquieting, it would be worrisome if he weren't worried.

"Yes, sorcerers," she said grimly. "We must have been brought here by magic, which is... Well, that is puzzling in its own way." Because she was supposed to be immune to magic, she had been for many years now. "But never mind that. Point is," and here she rapped her knuckles on the tabletop again, "point is, what we should be wondering is why. Nobody does anything for free. We won't be able to tell until we have met more people who were taken, if there are any others. I'd like to know if they are fighters, too."