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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.
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he can tell he won't last long like this, and alec's just hovering close, waiting for him to fuck up. cool. diversion time.
snapping foot up, mickey lifts it only high enough to plant the sole of his boot on the inside edge of alec's knee, kicking outward hard, hoping he can get the guy's leg to go out. ]
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so, mission sort of a success. he doesn't go down but he's hobbled a bit and he's stopped throwing punches for the moment. )
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if he can get enough force into it, maybe he can knock the dude all the way down. it's always satisfying to see tall people fall. ]
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the wind whooshes out of him but he still has the presence of mind to rear up to try and headbutt mickey. )
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they hit the ground hard, though mickey less hard given alec's underneath him, taking more of the impact, but the headbutt makes up for any pain that spared him, and mickey's head snaps back with a hissed fuck.
but, we're done with the chatty part of this. like the other hits he's shrugged off fairly carelessly (he's going to have a nasty concussion to deal with later), mickey gets a forearm braced against alec's throat to keep him down and plants his knees against the ground on either side of alec's ribs, thighs squeezed tight to keep him there where he straddles him high up on his chest.
aaand it occurs to mickey that this is the exact same position he was in with ian before they realized they were both way too into it and had sex for the first time. alec's frame is a little too close to ian's for comfort and something in the back of mickey's mind panics. wow, fight magic ruined, and mickey's jerking back and pulling himself off alec abruptly, flopping himself down on the ground next to him instead as he stares up at the sky. ] Okay, okay, time out. I think your thick skull gave me brain damage.
[ not at all why he's declaring a time out, but whatever, it works. ]
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while the excuse about brain damage is a valid one, he doesn't think it's the only reason but alec doesn't press either. he lays there, breathing hard and staring up at the sky. ]
Do I need to call an ambulance or something?
[ he's such a nice guy. ]
cw: child abuse mention again
the question gets a sharp laugh from him, and he lolls his head to the side to look at the guy next to him. ]
And stick me with that fuckin bill? Jesus, man, you really are an asshole.
[ of all the injuries and fights and whatever else mickey's been in before, the only times he's ended up in the ER or an ambulance have been when he was unconscious at the time it showed up. that shit's not cheap, and if he ever brought a bill like that to his dad, he'd get his ass beat worse than whatever he was taken in for, then have to find a way to scam the money to cover it on his own. ] Nah, don't get too excited, I'll live.
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( from everything he's heard about this place, people got hurt or people died a lot. the hospital would have been gilded in gold if they were charging people.
still, he just waves a hand in the air and then pushes himself up into a sitting position. )
Where'd you learn to fight anyway?
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[ does he look like he has a single cent to his name, alec? the answer is no. there's holes in his jeans, the laces on his boots have knots in them where they've broken and he's tied them back together, his jacket has rips in places and is thankfully too dark for the blood and dirt stains to really show up. if there's even a chance he'll have a hospital on his ass to pay medical bills, he'd rather wait out the concussion himself.
alec sits up and mickey doesn't bother yet, dabbing at the blood trickling from his nose and a split lip, dark against his pale as hell ukrainian chicago kid skin. ]
Chicago Southside. [ he answers, as if that ought to explain it. ] My brothers, my bastard old man, Russian gangsters, whatever other assholes on the street I ran into and couldn't beat. You?
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( so, he's trained but not in a regimented sort of way. it still works for him but alec doesn't think he'd have been much good in a place like this. his life was built on rules, laws, and guidelines and he needs those to know what to do. )
New York. It's where I'm from. Fighting's part of my job.
( not that he's really going to tell mickey what that job is considering the whole angelic business part of it but he does share a little, at least. )