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.
Please read through the Rules and FAQs thoroughly before playing.
If you are interested in being a mod or part of the app-team please follow this link and fill out the form. Thank you and have fun!
Well I know! Why don't you tell me your name, and then I can call you by that instead. I'll start, my name is Snow White. And how do you do? [She smiled, clearly not at all distressed that she was dealing with a talking raccoon, Snow could always speak to animals.]
But are you sure you're alright? I'm sure I could help.
Phil looked up at the pretty fawn and wished he could smile. "I'm trying to
find an egg," he said with a sad quack, "I can smell it, but I can find it.
I think I'm too small."
[They're like kindred spirits at this point. Kindred, thrilled, doll-like spirits.
But at least Rocket's had the luxury of being told not to bother his stitching. This is going to be a lesson Sun's not going to easily forget.
He glances over and... and down at the raccoon, blinking a little owlishly. Yeah, he's used to seeing people with animal features, but he's never seen a Faunus that looks completely like an animal.
But hey. This guy is nice enough to bring back his tail, which is now trying to thrash it's way out of Rocket's paws as if it wants to get away from Sun himself.]
Uh, yeah. That's mine. [This is beyond weird and he watches his tail move about with a slightly disturbed look before taking it from the other ragdoll.]
Never, ever thought I'd lose my tail this way, heh...
Not so bad, right? If you see any eggs just let me know.
[and picking up both baskets by the handle to go in search of colorful eggs! It's more than a mouthful now, and he can't talk without dropping the baskets and fluffy duck, so he does his best to keep quiet and just egg-hunt.]
[he'll grumble a bit, because no matter how you slice it this is so undignified. but eventually he figures out how to tuck himself into the basket so it feels almost comfortable, and peer over the side with his sharp little duck eyes.
eventually, he'll spot a flash of orange, and point his beak towards it.]
It actually takes a bit for that to sink in-one moment her vision is of the hallway outside her apartment, the next she's seeing a large, round room, watching a skeleton rush over to shake her hand. It was impossible-it had to be a dream, this sort of thing didn't...
By the time she can remotely get her bearings straight there's a laptop in her hand and Jack has moved on to greet anyone else around, leaving the woman to stare in rather mute shock.
It.
Worked??] That's...impossible....
[Feel free to correct her-or perhaps, comment on the warts she seems to have now that she's here. There seem to have been a few side effects coming in.]
[2-A: LAKE CREATURE]
[A few days. it's been a few days so far, and as much as she had asked about returning home long before, the 'Doctor' has made it clear that such a thing is impossible for the moment. Something about the moon, the sky... (Admittedly she may have still been in a bit of shock at the time.)
There are scales along her throat and cheeks as she's discovered, and they seem to give a slight shine depending on the light; a side effect, she was told, and she tries not to dwell too long on that.
At this point it feels like everything is impossible.
There are a few things that are familiar however, and one of those things is catching her eye right now. She shouldn't be considering souviniers it feels...frivillous. Ridiculous, even, why should she be spending what little money she's gotten a hold of in this place on. That?
...The necklace in the storefront window does seem tempting somehow though...and perhaps her father would be interested, she thinks (neatly forgetting that her father would probably be more worried about where it came from).]
....Shoot. [...Now she checks her wallet. ...She's short change for this.]
[2-B: LYCANTHROPE]
[It was one thing to be stuck in Halloweentown-pleasant as it was in it's own way, she was feeling restless not knowing what was going on at home. Being assured that time was 'different' did not help. What worries her however is what's missing. As far as she can see, most of the people who arrived suffered some sort of side effect from the potion. Something she doesn't want to risk bringing back, if there IS something. She's just not sure what that thing is-
...Not until the full moon at least.] NNHHK...
[Where rather suddenly it feels as if she's going to be sick-as if her insides and her bones are rebelling against each other, crushing themselves and twisting her form. Her senses blur and her vision blacks out, whether because of the pain of fighting 'this' or because she's since squeezed them shut-
...when she does open them however... ....she has...paws?]
[Easter was not a holiday she was very familiar with, beyond a few cartoons and studies on the English Language. She knew there was plenty of chocolate involved and...something about a rabbit??
Happy Easter, everyone!
Curiosity gets the best of her in the end-and time is running out when it comes to seeing 'Easter' first hand. So she passes through the door. She draws the 'egg' open, stepping through the resulting hole and...]
Oof-!
[...And rather suddenly she has lost the ability the walk on two legs.] Nnnhh...what just... [Trying to pull herself up to her feet reveals why. At least in Halloweentown it was just a few scales or warts or 'nothing at all'. But this?]
A lamb? [she hisses, holding her hooves up in both shock and possibly even irritation.] A LAMB?
[On the one hand he succeeded in getting a reaction for sure. Oh he really succeeded. Unfortunately when you successfully scare someone with combat experience they tend to turn to 'fight' response.] H-AUH-!
[Scared as she is, she definitely tried to punch you Kuramochi-might be good to try avoiding that.]
[Masumi herself seems to be a young witch-warts and all. She's trying not to think about it for the moment. While Tony has been looking for candy, Masumi's been looking for a cat-there's this sneaking feeling that one. of the strays around this place should be staying with her, and it's a feeling that she couldn't throw off in the end.
It's probably why her answer to what was probably directed at nothing in particular is to glance up from the latest feling under 'inspection' and frown.] While I'm sure your country had Starbucks longer, something tells me this place hasn't gotten there just yet.
[She's assuming at this point but...you don't look Japanese...(That's something right?)]
[[ooc - when you actually look into when starbucks opened in other countries...(Turns out Japan got 15 locations opened in 2012, neat)]]
[Sup, Tony. That would be a small child nearby, dressed up in a rather... well-made deadpool costume, swinging her half-full candy bucket as she paused nearby, peering considerably at him.]
[Well on the one hand, he hasn't made himself look like a fool...
But only because he floated through her while she was facing the opposite direction. A shudder passes through her as she gasps, quickly jumping away to the side to get 'out' of the ghost.]
"I do wonder why that might be, it seems we have even more in common, Monsieur Harkness than I had first thought. And I am Madame Pompadour, though you may call me Reinette."
Oof. [ it doesn't even hurt (it's not one of ryousuke's famous karate chops: kuramochi's pretty sure he could disable someone permanently with nothing but the side of his hand) but kuramochi makes the noise out of habit anyway, grinning sheepishly down at his fielding partner.
what he does not say is "you're short so it's easy to lose you" which is the actual truth. ] Heh, kinda? Distracted, I guess. Sorry, Ryo-san. [ he scratches his cheek, and then puts his hands in the pockets of his hoodie, looking out at their surroundings. ]
You saw the weirdo with the... [ skeleton body??? he doesn't even bother finishing his sentence, he knows ryousuke will be able to read it. ] Right?
Whoa, shit--! [ luckily, kuramochí's experienced enough in dealing with people throwing punches, and his former yankee instincts take over faster than her fist gets there: he manages to catch it, though it does push him back a little bit. ]
Jeez, what's your-- [ oh. oh she's a girl. oh. kuramochi freezes, turning bright red under the stupid mask, and immediately goes to push it up, any of his tough act ruined immediately in the face of a cute girl. ] --Uh, sorry. Thought you were...someone else.
it's a good thing she has experience with dumb teenage boys pfft
[He nods and heads for it, the baskets swinging precariously with the nod (oops). but he manages to not tip Mikleo clear out of the basket, and sets them down next to a concealed cluster of colorful eggs.]
[ When Souji drank the potion, he wasn't quite sure what he was expecting. But considering everything that they'd dealt with in the past year, he figured that... well, whatever it was, he could probably handle it. You face gods and monsters on the regular, this kind of thing isn't too farfetched.
It isn't too farfetched for one of his friends to be here, either. At first he thinks that maybe he's hearing things, but as he scans the room he perks a little at the sight of Rise.
He hasn't seen her look so pale in quite some time, now, though he can understand why when he catches sight of the ghost. Ah. ]
Rise? [ Souji doesn't hesitate to approach her, hand extended in a soothing and welcoming gesture. Best to distract her as quickly as possible. ]
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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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