This test drive is meant to provide those who are interested in applying to the game an opportunity to not only experience the setting and mechanics, but to interact with players and characters already in the game!
The threads on the Test Drive Meme may be used for both sample sections of the applications and those already in game may use the threads here to supplement up to ten comments for their AC regardless of whether the player you threaded with applied.
It is up to the discretion of each individual player on whether they would like to use what happens here on the Test Drive Meme as their IC intro into the game.
PLEASE REMEMBER: The monster your character picks will not be official until you are accepted into the game. This is your opportunity to try out all sorts of monster types until you find the one that suits you and your character best!
And without further ado:
"Welcome our dear guests! We've been waiting for you!"
The Prompts:
Prompt 1 - Arrival: Having just arrived to Halloween Town, you may feel a little queasy. That is entirely natural. You're in a giant circular room with whatever it is you may have brought with you. A very tall figure walks out of the shadows and he's incredibly pale... that is until you realize the hand reaching out to you is not bone-thin, oh no, it is actual bone. Meet the ruler of Halloween Town and the king of Halloween, Jack Skellington. He greets you with a big smile and exclaims with joy how happy he is that you made it and how much happier he is to see you, one hand held out in greeting and the other holding the Jack o' Laptop he has ready for you.
Perhaps you stay to listen to him explain what awaits you and he will then happily escort you outside into the town to provide you a quick explanation before he excuses himself to greet the other new arrivals, leaving you to explore the town. Or, perhaps, the mere sight of a skeleton was... not what you were expecting and you ran out screaming before he can get more than a "Hello-" out.
Either way:
Prompt 2 - The Town: Whether you ran out screaming or were guided out into the town, there are most certainly monsters and ghouls all about. If you were patient enough to wait for an explanation, you know that they are the residents of this holiday. If you ran out screaming? Well, you might be getting more than a few scares- we mean... stares. But the town is just waiting for you to explore! But something is strange. When you look into a mirror or see a glass you look just a tiny bit off. And perhaps you feel just a tiny bit different.
Maybe you don't even have a reflection and all you can feel at the moment is a deep need to feed. Surely someone can help you... provided you can stop screaming at the sight of the citizens long enough.
We wouldn't recommend attacking any of the citizens, however, newborn monster that you are. We wouldn't want you to be a spirit so early in your visit.
Prompt 3 - The First Door: You've now been in Halloween Town for several days and while the zombies eat brains and the vampires drink blood, no one has tried to attack you (unless you've attacked them first, of course). The mayor, driving in his car announces a town meeting! Everyone must come to the Town Hall, even our new arrivals. Jack and Sally explain that Easter is nearly here! And the Easter Bunny has been kind enough to invite you all to experience what it's like to get ready for the holiday! It is time to take your trip through the Hitherlands to the door of Holidays. The path is laid out with Jack o' lanterns and linked bat-light strings between the trees to guide you to the doors. Don't mind that rather ominous entrance, within is perfectly safe... well... at least we think it is. As you travel along the path, you'll come across all the doors, but the one you are seeking is the one currently open. Trying to open the other doors, be it with spells or with force will result in nothing. Do you go in? Do you head back to the town?
Prompt 4 - Easter Island:Welcome to Easter Island! You may need to squint at first, since it's so bright and colorful, the complete opposite of Halloween Town. But once your vision adjusts, you'll notice something... different. You will find you are no longer any monsters but instead you're- well... to put it quite plainly, you're adorable! You have been turned into the citizens of Easter Island! The Easter Bunny welcomes you warmly, quite surprised to see so many adorable newcomers! And you'll find, perhaps without surprise at this point, that you can understand him. So what does he have planned for you?
Prompt 5 - Easter Egg Hunt: No matter what cute, adorable, and fluffy animal or egg ghost you've been turned into, there is an Easter basket waiting for you to go on a hunt! Throughout the entire island, that's yours to explore, are all sorts of different colored eggs. Each differently colored egg offers you a special reward or a certain kind of magic.
If you find:
A red egg: Will make you more inclined to hug and cuddle with the next person you see. A pink egg: Is a dark chocolate egg! Mmm chocolate. An orange egg: Is a milk chocolate egg. Mmm more chocolate. A yellow egg: Will suddenly turn into a small plush animal that replicates the animal you got turned into. It's so soft and fluffy. A green egg: Will turn into a little plastic egg-bracelet or egg earrings. Don't lose them though, the Easter Bunny asked Lady Luck to imbue them with a tiny bit of luck. A blue egg: Will make you burst out into song and you can't stop until you finish that song. A purple egg: A couple extra Holidollars and you get to take that with you back to Halloween Town.
But perhaps an egg hunt isn't something you're interested in! That's completely fine, the citizens need a lot of help getting ready for Easter for people! There's all sorts of jobs you can do! There's egg painting, egg counting, egg gathering, and basket weaving! All of these jobs pay Holidollars and you're making holidays wonderful for children everywhere!
Just don't drop the eggs! We don't want to make more egg spirits! Dropping an egg will bring you a whole day of bad luck as well.
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[They're stopped between a shop and a much larger shop, bright lights and a stylized pumpkin hanging from a sign. There's other pumpkins in the windows. He'd found it trite for awhile but that sort of architecture's become comforting. It means trick or treating and possibly illicit activities but as long as nobody gets hurt...
And they wouldn't.]
Lady there? She's a lycanthrope. Cat chick. She's obsessed with pumpkins. Pie, soup, whatever. All of it. You magic all her pumpkins so they blow out in the shop, I oversalt her dinner which she should be starting in about ten minutes. She'll be picking it out of her teeth. She buys her dinner. Never cooks. Might be the only lycanthrope I've seen here who doesn't.
I've got left over pumpkin cookies. You swoop in, offer those as an alternative to her dinner from the local diner - she's sentimental and she'll offer you as much candy or items as you can carry. Compare that to what I'll be grabbing when the lights are out and we can fill three, four bags with the stuff.
[The polite way of phrasing all of this is "you provide a distraction while I steal candy" but they don't rob. At least not directly.]
...Your hat's a costume too right? It can change your appearance?
Well of course Alice drank the potion, thanking the bat as he left her parlor room. She hadn't seen anything marked "poison" and she had read the instructions quite thoroughly. It sounded so terribly exciting! Experiencing all of the holidays, the chance to meet Father Christmas! So when she arrived, she wasn't scared by the skeleton, she'd seen much scarier things. Besides, this was no madder than Wonderland, though she'd never heard of "Halloween." As she was led outside, she had caught a reflection of herself in the reflection of the plaza and let out a gasp before big, fat tears came from her eyes as she saw the long nose. She hadn't even thought it strange her fingers were longer, but she had a big long nose with not one, but two warts at the end.
She was hideous!
The seven year old hiccuped as she sat at the fountain, hiding her face in her hands and not wanting anyone to see such an awful sight on her face.
Prompt 3 - The Door
Alice peeked inside the tree and then bit her lip. She had followed the White Rabbit, of course, but this seemed very different than the other whole in the tree that lead to strange and unfamiliar places. She took a step back.
"It... we just jump in?" she asked, though her curiosity at what could be down there was starting to outweigh whatever dangers there might be.
Prompt 4 - Easter Island
That absolute squeal of delight? Is coming from the little blonde rabbit with a bright blue bow around her neck. She was jumping about, that awful nose and the warts gone as she was a rabbit! An adorable little bunny. Oh she wanted to hug herself she must be so soft and fluffy! And this land was absolutely beautiful. She was quite glad she had gone through the door.
"Oh isn't this absolutely splendid! We're such cute little creatures!"
Prompt 5 - Easter Egg Hunt
Alice had the little Easter basket in her paws. She had a plush little stuffed rabbit of herself, a few differently colored egg earrings and bracelets, and even some chocolate. She hopped along and took pause at the sight of a red egg.
"Oh! I've not yet found a red egg until now, I wonder if this shall give me anything."
You want me to be the distraction while you steal the stuff? Please, I bet you haven't even stole the stuff I have back... Wherever.
[Mal's just looking unimpressed. It's not that its not a good idea - she may make a note of it for a later date - she's just not there to play distration girl]
It can be a costume, but I have power outwith that. Not that I want people recognising me when I pull candy hauls, though.
[Four and a Half means Four bags for him. And she'd make his costume? He raised an eyebrow and smiled that same wolfish smile but really in his mind there's just those four mouth watering bags of candy. Oh he won't trade the best stuff but he could trade for cake, cookies...
He wipes a hand over his mouth.]
Let's see the magic Sabrina. I'll run in and we'll see if it works.
[It should work. It probably will work and afterwards Ward will meet her across the street, his own bag overflowing. He's got multiple bags beside him and he might - might be calmly unwrapping peanut butter cups and popping them in his mouth one after the other.]
[Of course it works. It's Mal, she's the best at what she does because she's got a drive behind her that most don't. She glares at the calm unwrapping of the peanut butter cups]
They had better not be from my part of the stash, and don't even think about keeping all the good stuff for yourself. I know some lovely little spells that'll send any wolf howling for mommy.
[As much as Alice hated her new nose with not one but two warts and her long spindly fingers, she couldn't go around with a bag on her head, though the idea was sorely tempting. She practically jumped out of her skin at the sounding crowing and turned to see... a boy who could fly. She gasped and clasped her hands together. Was he a bird monster of some sort. She wondered if she could fly since she was a witch!]
However are you flying all by yourself! [She exclaimed to the boy as he flew overhead.]
1 - Arrival - Lake Creature [It doesn't seem like there's a lot of people screaming upon arrival, but there's someone who honestly looks like she wants to. Rise doesn't mind the idea of Halloween from what she's heard of it, but the western festivities have nothing on this very tall, very personable skeleton that's eagerly shaking her hand before leaving.
Honestly, she looks pale. Really quite pale. Not as pale as Jack of course, but after all this and drinking that really gross potion... she's more green around the gills and terrified looking than she was an hour ago.]
...This is unreal.
[Holy crap is that a ghost following Jack now? Okay. She just might really lose it.]
Th-this can't be r-real...
[Shadows she can handle any day. Ghosts? NO. THANK. YOU.]
2 - Around Town [Okay. Okay. She's okay.
You know what? This place isn't too bad. A little freaky at first and she still hasn't gotten used to seeing ghosts around, but at least people are nice. That's a plus right? They helped her in not trying to scream her head off.
But as Rise stops in a store window to check herself over, she might need a hand again. Or someone to talk to. While adjusting a pigtail she sees something on her skin. Something that looks light pink. A zit maybe? There's more of them around actually. Pink and... blue? Zits aren't blue, and they're certainly not rough to the touch.
No. These are more like scales.
She has scales. She has scales.
Cue this little idol screaming her head off now because this can not be happening.]
4 - Egg Hunt This place isn't so bad actually. Definitely better than that other town.
[No ghosts in Easter land, that's for sure. Instead of her weird scaly fish-skin that she had back in Halloweentown, this place turned her into a little auburn bunny. Which is definitely an improvement in her books.
And egg hunting didn't sound like such a big issue to her either. So she's been going around, placing eggs in the basket that's as big as her when she picks up a yellow one--
Pop! Suddenly, she's not holding onto an egg, but a plush replica of her bunny self, ears mimicking her usual pigtails.]
Awwww! It's so cute! [And into the basket it goes with a giggle.] This place isn't so bad, right?
Wildcard [Hit me up with a new prompt if you want! ♥]
[it isn't often she's caught off-guard, but she figures at least this time, it's warranted. Instead of nothingness or Hell or whatever the crap demons get when they die, she gets this. Jack Skellington grinning and explaining something she could give less than a shit about. A potion and a bat and sure, why the fuck not, and this is what happened. Her expression goes from wide-eyed to bemused, and whatever the skeleton is going off about is filed away for later, once she has time to herself. She briefly considers killing off a beloved children's character, but decides to leave instead, laptop snatched and tucked under an arm, before she can give into the urge. Clarence would be so proud.
And then she's in the town and no, this is definitely some sort of Hell. Maybe that special kind of Hell, the one where people got what was coming to them. She can hear screams of surprise and at least that's comforting and familiar, but the longer she looks around, the longer she feels more like herself - and not so much like herself - she puts that thought aside. If it really was Hell there'd be someone coming after her, and she can't help but be just a little disappointed that isn't the case.
With a roll of her eyes Meg lets her head hang back, eyes on the sky as she says to whoever happens to be nearby:]
Just kill me now.
the town (ragdoll);
[okay, so no one put her out of her misery. She cursed that and cursed her luck but instead of just offing herself - it was seriously tempting, she was in a damned kid's movie - she instead decided to explore.
Explore and ignore whatever the hell was happening to her. She wasn't going to acknowledge it, because if she did that made it all too real and she wasn't about to let that happen. Even if her hand just wouldn't listen to her, though she couldn't be too upset, what with the obscene gestures it would make whenever it did get out of hand.
But otherwise? Everything was perfectly fine. Hand shoved in her pocket and the other hand holding it there, there was absolutely nothing going on—]
Ow.
[with a hiss, Meg stops and glares down at her pocket, as if that will have any effect whatsoever] Would you stop that?
[and if she catches you looking, well - you get an even angrier glare] What are you looking at?
wildcard;
[player's choice! Meg's a ragdoll, so follow your heart ♥]
[The lamb pulled himself to his full height (omg, he reaches whole 11 inches!) and tried screaming back. It came out as a horribly adorable 'BAAAAAAA!'
To which, Daryl made the ugliest face he could, even more annoyed and pissed off, before stomping over to the bunny and glaring at it. He saw the blood on it's ear, how wrecked up it looked. Maybe that's why it was screaming? Though wouldn't it have been crying and trying to find help if it was worried about that? Not out collecting eggs in one of them baskets.]
[Mal takes the hat off, and shakes her hair out. (Yes, the purple is natural.) Hats, ugh. But she needed a costume, didn't she? At least a witch wasn't as bad as some of the things she could have been.]
I'm not a princess, and I want my fair share. We can't hit her any time soon, fooling once is easy enough but you do it too often and even the stupidest of marks begin to catch on.
[She glances through her bags with a satisfied smirk. She then looks up at him]
Call me Sabrina again, and I make sure your costume is of one of the weakest monsters there are.
[Ward raises an eyebrow, intrigued, and pushes more candy over to share. On the one hand a grown man eating candy, but on the other he just can't get enough of it anymore. He was a fat kid, always taking too much according to his brother. Now with this.]
Fair enough.
[He offers her a hand] Grant Ward. You can call me - Grant, or Ward. Or Wolfy if the situation requires it.
[Oh he liked her. Pulling the hand back he gestures to the hat.] You handled that magic like a pro. Mal. I have the feeling we're gonna end up working well together.
While sitting by the lake and looking out across the water, Sora hears Rocket's voice, and he stands up so he can look around for the source.
While he hadn't really been expecting it to be a ragdoll raccoon-type creature, he's not totally surprised, considering everything else he's seen. This is pretty normal, actually.
It's always nice not to get a strange reaction out of people. The kid actually seemed pretty accepting of the fact that a raccoon was talking to him.
Gold star for you, Sora.
Rocket stopped a few feet from the young man, eyeing him slightly before his tail gave a flick.
"You were welcomed here by that skeleton prick named Jack, right?" he asked, one ear cocked while the other flicked out to the side. "Any idea where he is?"
[Surprised at the sudden affection, Sora carefully sits. Or... lays, because he quickly finds out with his spindly legs and the way they bend, sitting is not really an option. He carefully puts his basket down too, letting the plush fall off and land on top of the pile of eggs before he turns his head to look at the bunny.]
You okay?
[Oh, a red egg. He'd yet to find any of those color yet. Maybe that had something to do with it?]
[She still didn't know much about interacting with other humans... or in this case animals, though they may have been a human before coming to these worlds. Unfortunately there was only so much Seed and Wren could teach her about it.]
I'm not sure why, but I really felt like I wanted to do it. Then before I knew it, I was hopping to you.
[But it seemed the effects hadn't worn off and she gently hopped a little closer, to lie next to him with her side pressed against his. He was warm, but pleasantly so. It was kind of... comforting.]
[He dipped his head again and crossed his arms over his chest, fingers curling into the armholes of his vest.
After another moment he dropped his head and shuffled one foot. Not really sure what to say or do now. Leaving would probably be seen as pretty rude. And his head was being nice enough to give him a kindly woman to talk to, so leaving seemed pretty bad.
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halloweentownooc2016-03-10 09:50 pm
Test Drive Meme
Welcome to the Halloween Town Test Drive.
This test drive is meant to provide those who are interested in applying to the game an opportunity to not only experience the setting and mechanics, but to interact with players and characters already in the game!
"Welcome our dear guests! We've been waiting for you!"Prompt 4 - Easter Island: Welcome to Easter Island! You may need to squint at first, since it's so bright and colorful, the complete opposite of Halloween Town. But once your vision adjusts, you'll notice something... different. You will find you are no longer any monsters but instead you're- well... to put it quite plainly, you're adorable! You have been turned into the citizens of Easter Island! The Easter Bunny welcomes you warmly, quite surprised to see so many adorable newcomers! And you'll find, perhaps without surprise at this point, that you can understand him. So what does he have planned for you?
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