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NOVEMBER TEST DRIVE MEME
NOVEMBER 2019 TEST DRIVE MEME
Welcome to November's Test Drive Meme! This month's Test Drive's theme is: DEATH/ZOMBIE HORROR.
All Test Drive Memes contain at least one clue to the Deerington's upcoming in-game events for the month! Keep your eyes peeled! But...not literally.
Characters may die during TDMs, but you do not need to count it towards a game-canonical death unless you want to. Consider it a freebie. All TDMs can be considered game canon as TDMs introduce minor aspects about the world of Deerington that can be revisited by characters later on in the game. You may also use TDMs for your application writing sample as well as AC.
CW: Possible mild cannibalism, organs (including pictures of fake food that looks like organs), mutant insect in linked picture, blood, sensations of starvation, possible binge eating, possible binge drinking.
Don't forget to tag content whenever necessary. Have fun!
NOT BEAST NOR KIN
The blood and organs that have been festering in the ground and walls of Deerington seem to not only be attracting rats at this point, but something far more dangerous and... just plain gross. These deadly looking maggots are roughly the size of an average human. They’re slithering in an out of the ground, filling up holes where some organs seem to have burst open, or writhing around in the wake of the red waves that have left bloody puddles in the street. If you keep your distance, they’re mostly just disgusting to watch, adding to the feeling of utter decay that the town has gone into.
But those who wander too close or who are unfortunate enough to go by a nest of these maggots without noticing could end up swarmed. They can leap farther than something that large should physically be capable of and the sharp teeth on the end of their bodies will pierce through even the toughest of skin and bone. Once they latch on, they won’t let go; not until they’ve finished their meal. If you aren’t quick, the blood loss will be, and you could end up an evening snack for a whole group of these creatures.
They are fairly easy to kill, luckily. Average weapons seem to take them down or you can smash their heads (if you can call it that) with a few good stomps from a boot. The only trouble is how quick they move and how strong they are; you might need to call for help to get away from them when you get cornered by too many of these monsters.
ALL YOU CAN EAT
Maggots aren’t the only things that want to eat, though! And it seems that the community center is aware of that as well. Advertisements are strewn all over town for an all you can eat buffet that will be set up, not even an entrance fee required (though donations are welcome at the door if you’re feeling generous). No one in their right mind would want to go and get food from a party into Deerington at this point though, right? Of course not. You’re way too clever for that.Except that as the party draws closer, anyone who saw the advertisements will find themselves slowly feeling like they’re starving. There’s a hallow belly feeling that no amount of food you consume will ever be able to fill. It feels like you might go crazy from how bad the hunger gets, craving something to fill your stomach, anything... And in the back of your mind, you might remember the buffet. You might start to feel a strange realization that the food they’re offering will actually help get rid of your cravings and you’ll be drawn to the party no matter how adamant you’ve been that it’s not a good idea.
The spread they offer isn’t something that should be appetizing to most on a regular basis; raw, very clearly human organs are laid out across the table on fairly decorative plates. A fountain of what looks like blood is put up in place of chocolate for you to dip your food into. No matter how disgusted you might normally feel, you find yourself practically drooling at the mouth and you’re quick to grab a plate and dive in.
At least the drinks look like they’re normal; sodas, beer, wine, champagne, and liquors ready to create your favorite cocktails. A menu will give you an idea of what pairs best with each organ, so make sure you select something that goes perfectly with your plate of intestines.
What would a Deerington party be without something tricky attached to all this. Even the smallest bites of any of the organs will offer sudden changes to the consumer, each power growing stronger the more that you eat.
- Eating BRAINS will make it so that you are able to hear another person’s thoughts. Anyone standing near by, really. They’ll trickle in slowly at first, but the more that you eat, the more you’ll hear, and eventually it could become overwhelming. Sometimes you can focus in on just one person if you stare at them intently, but that could make you look like a creep. Maybe you should just go somewhere quiet until it passes.
- Eating a HEART will make you feel compelled to confess your emotions to someone. Maybe a specific person or maybe it’s towards a complete stranger, but you just want to get everything out onto the table. You’re overcome with feelings so strong you don’t know how to contain them anymore and you’ve just got to get them out somehow.
- Eating LIVER will cause you to want to drink. A lot. You might find that you’re not able to get enough, even. It doesn’t make you immune to the alcohol though, so it’s got the potential to lead some pretty nasty alcohol poisoning if you aren’t careful. Characters who usually can’t get drunk will find that consuming liver makes them a total lightweight. Woops. Better have someone help you walk home.
- Eating the STOMACH will make you want to eat everything. You’ll no longer feel starving, but you just want to taste any food that’s near you, and you won’t stop no matter how full you feel. It’s not just organs, but any food consumed outside of the buffet. It might be a bad time to go to Peter’s Pizza for a late night meal.
- Eating INTESTINES will give you an abundance of courage. You’ll find that you’ve got guts you never knew you had and it might make you willing to go tell your crush how you feel about them, or tell off that one guy who’s been pissing you off for weeks, or maybe you might start to think it’s cool to go scale a building or fight a monster when you don’t have any skill sets to actually take one down. Hopefully you don’t do anything you’ll regret in the morning— assuming you don’t get yourself killed doing something stupid, of course.
- Eating EYEBALLS will allow you to obtain the memory of the first person that you touch. Depending on how much you’ve eaten, you may just see a small snippet or you could get sucked in to a full and heavy flashback. The memory will feel like it takes place in real time, but by the time that it’s over, you’ll find that whoever you touched is only just starting to ask you what’s wrong — or tell you to watch where you’re going, buster.
All affects from the food will wear off within about an hour if you’ve only had a bite — or they could last up to twelve if you really stuffed yourself. Please be sure to obtain OOC permission from any players for the brain and eyeball prompts!
Character Arrival
You can read how all characters arrive in Deerington here.There is not a collective "all these characters showed up at the exact same moment" occurrence in Deerington. Since characters fall asleep, die, or pass out at various times throughout all their worlds, it wouldn't make too much sense if they arrived in game all at the exact same time. There should be some discrepancy between character arrival, whether by a couple minutes, hours, or even days up to a week.
The players are entirely in control of how/when they want to play their characters arriving in Deerington. For TDMs, you can play it like your character has just arrived and that can be maintained as your game canon, or you can wait until game events for that moment. Or you don't need to acknowledge it at all. The flexibility for character allows a bit more of an organic feel to the character arrival situation, so please play it to whatever feels right for you.
If you are interested in having an "arrival" introduction for one of your TDM prompts, you are more than welcome to explore that option.
intro
[Rose probably looks innocent enough since she doesn't even have anything resembling self defense, if her clothes might be a little weird with a leather jacket and bright pink poodle skirt. She juggles the groceries to one side to free up a hand to offer him a handshake.]
Welcome to Deerington! It's trash, but it's not Hell. What sorta world -- [A mental skip, she's so used to being the person dimension jumping, she forgot for a moment that most people don't do that literally ever!] Err place, do you come from? I'm Rose Tyler, by the way. Only been here a few months. Well, I say only, but for me that's a lot! 'S just, others have been here a lot longer. [Face scrunch about that, clearly not pleased, but unable to offer promises of progress yet either, so eh.]
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He offers his own hand and takes hold of her forearm, expecting her to do the same. It is a common enough expression of trust among the warriors of men. ]
Well met, Rose Tyler. I am Legolas, of the Woodland Realm of Mirkwood, in Arda.
I'm so sorry for this
[So Rose roughly does her best guess of a LotR copy even if it's been ages since she saw the movies, since she mostly read the books... and she kind of regrets not playing around with Aru like this because it would be incredibly nerdy, but worth it at this point.]
[Speaking of which...]
[Her eyes widen with instant recognition!]
No way!!!
[But she doesn't mean she doesn't believe it, she's just elated. Prime ministers, presidents, queens, authors, historical figures? Who cares? Not Rose! But give her anyone from Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter, and she'll fangirl harder than the Doctor does to all the others.] Hey, can I have a selfie with you!? That's uh-- [... a photograph. Picture. Created by Crowley... Give her a moment to think how to explain it.] Instant magic portrait. [She's already setting the groceries down on the ground to whip out her cellphone and text her friends, yes.] It's not dangerous, it just uses light's reflection, I promise! Like a mirror, but it stays in a crystal ball of sorts that can show it to others!
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But whatever it is must be exciting, given her demeanour. ]
Being a newcomer to this place, I am, of course, interested to discover how you live here. [ It's not a yes, but it's not a no either. He's watching curiously to see what she does. ]
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Fluids. We have Fluids here instead of... [.... cell phones. Cybus tech. Give her even longer to figure this one out.] Communication devices???
[She shows off the Fluid device on her wrist.] Very useful. You can... [Stream. Video. ..... ????] Show yourself or write words to people also here in Deerington... [Slowly, but then she nods!]
First thing you gotta know, is people come here from lots of different... [... universes. Wow. That is going to go over even worse than it did with Merlin. Okay.] Time periods. [Yes, that's a lot easier, at least.] Me, and most of my friends here are from way in the future of you and a few others. Like milennia. Thousands and thousands of years. Twenty thousand years even.
[Gestures around them!] All this is probably really futuristic or just plain weird to you, and it's actually the past for me. Sort of. It's complicated.
So if people seem to recognize you... that's why. Mostly. It's complicated. But there's a lot of legends, and it happens a lot here, you're not alone in it. [Nod!] Yeah.
[Okay. That's step one. Step two... ????? She has no idea. What does a Mirkwood elf do in a place like Deerington...? Oh wait!]
Second thing is F.E.A.R. You wanna check them out. The Doctor and Aru will be mad at me, because I'm trying to start up my own uh... organization, that will run counter to them, but FEAR fights a lot of the monsters here and stockpiles weapons, and they're -- [Orcs, Sauron, darkness, zombies...?????? She'd field this to Aru if she wasn't half worried Aru might be even more incoherent than Rose herself.]
[Rose shakes her head.] The monsters and fighting them is probably what you're more used to than my stuff. [Face scrunch!] I'm more on the technological side. Not just the Fluids... but stuff that'll get even madder to try to explain.
Oh my gosh though! Do me a solid, if you ever do some archery practice or demonstrations, put it on camera -- Fluid. I'll show you how to show it off, or do it for you, but I wanna see Aru swoon! [Worst/best friend ever.] Oooooh if we only had Green Arrow or Robin Hood we could have the most amazing competition evar-- ahhhhh sorry! I'm bein' rude, you might not even be that into archery? I mean, legends get overblown, but usually I find the truth is even better than the stories, yeah?
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Truth better than stories? [ He pauses a moment to consider the question she's given him. It's a question he's never been asked before, and by the smile on his face it clearly delights him. ] Can you have one without the other? The best stories all have a grain of truth, and the best truths are always told through stories.
[ Getting a straight answer for anything from an elf is almost impossible, Rose. ]
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[ Though he did shoot down a Fell beast in the pitch dark of night, and they're going to talk about that once he gets home. ]
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[Totally going to set up filming him shooting things now, okay okay.]