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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[ Most people wouldn't exactly drink some random thing brought to them, nevermind one that a bat gave them, Kominato Ryousuke isn't... really like most people. It was just a shot in the dark, but it's one that he doesn't regret taking considering something does, in fact, happen. Probably a good thing he made sure to pack his bag properly, going so far as to grab his bat and its bag as well to make his trip a little easier.
He should, maybe, be concerned about the skeleton greeting him? But he's read about weirder things in his favorite books, so. ]
Spooky. [ Said more to himself than anyone else, as he takes the bright orange laptop, although nearby arrivals are more than welcome to pick up his twisted amusement at all of this. (He's maybe a little delighted, in his own way.) ]
B - THE TOWN
[ Here Ryousuke is, now, walking around town with a curious sort of air to him. He brings a splash of color to the town with his bright hair under his (equally bright) baseball cap, but unlike any other new arrivals that might be running around screaming or quaking, he's perfectly placid. His serene, vaguely enigmatic smile is in place as always, as he checks things out, approaching monsters without hesitation. At least he's not the smallest person - or, individual, anyways, do these townsfolk qualify as persons?
Anyways, he's distracted enough by his investigation that he's a perfect target for other unsuspecting arrivals to bump into, and he's not exactly adverse to walking up to other new arrivals to give them a poke if they have visible changes, themselves.
If he can find somewhere to get a drink, though, that'd be great - he feels strangely parched at the moment.
Which means he's gravitating a little towards the water sources, such as the fountain in the plaza. At least that means that he gets to people watch, especially when at the end of the day he winds up sitting perched on the edge of it, his bags at his feet and just... assessing. ]
C - EASTER ISLAND
[ Though, he does have some complaints when he comes through the door to Easter Island, after he's poked around town enough.
Because it wasn't bad enough that he's so short and thin, especially compared to many of his friends, of course he winds up getting turned into a rabbit. Ryousuke's nose twitches in annoyance, but he decides that there have been enough stories about killer rabbits in fiction that he may as well just go with it. Anyone calls him cute, he's within his rights to act on it, he thinks.
A part of him is very, very tempted to turn right back around on his cottontail to head back to Halloween Town, though. ]
[ alright, this place is fucking creepy. ryousuke's not gonna say it so kuramochi will: it's fucking creepy. he wasn't planning on coming to spooksville, considering the drink offered to both of them back at seido, but after ryousuke looked at him with that stupid enigmatic smile of his (it's not that enigmatic, kuramochi could read the come with me off it clear as day), said "fuck it", and followed right after him.
in the chaos of the arrival, he'd lost ryousuke. so he's looking around for a head of pink hair, his own stomach growling like it's three seconds after seido's winter training camp. luckily, kuramochi's Kominato Radar is pretty well trained, after two years with the guy (and a couple months with his little bro, too) so when he spots ryousuke heading for the fountain, he calls out to him with a-- ] Ryo-san! [ --and starts to jog towards him. ]
[ he sounds like he always does when he spots ryousuke. happy to see him, though this time it's tinged with a little bit of relief. it's not like they could have died (??) but... kuramochi worries, okay? ]
Edited (I FUCKED UP MY OWN JOKE) 2016-03-13 14:33 (UTC)
[ Just drink the vial attached! the note had said, and rather than shy away from it here Ryousuke was, with Kuramochi at his side. Spookier, creepier things have happened in even the young adult novels he's read, so the whole thing didn't really faze him. Kuramochi? He could tell that he was a little resistant to the whole thing, but all it took was one look and then he was coming with him.
When they get separated, he's not too concerned. But there's no denying he immediately perks and turns the second he hears the familiar name in that familiar voice.
He takes his cap off and backhands Kuramochi in the chest with it, though the gesture is more amused than reprimanding. Still, there is quite a bit of a reprimand there - not from disappointment, but in teasing. You kept me waiting, it says, though his smile doesn't change. ]
There you are. I was starting to think you'd turned tail - did you get lost?
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?
[ Tucking his cap into the outside pocket of his bag, Ryousuke adjusts the strap on his shoulder and accepts Kuramochi's apology - even if he obviously sideeyes him a little. Don't think he doesn't know exactly what you're thinking, Kuramochi, but at least you're smart enough to not say that exact thought. ]
Understandable, I guess. There's a lot going on. [ He makes a vague gesture to signify the entire town, before he's rubbing his fingertips against the side of his neck, where he's got some scales coming in. They're a little itchy, but he thinks that might be because they're dry.
But he hums, an amused noise, and his smile ticks up at the corners. ] The skeleton man? Yes, I saw him. He was rather welcoming - he was the one that sent out the potion and the note.
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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?
Kominato Ryousuke | Daiya no A
[ Most people wouldn't exactly drink some random thing brought to them, nevermind one that a bat gave them, Kominato Ryousuke isn't... really like most people. It was just a shot in the dark, but it's one that he doesn't regret taking considering something does, in fact, happen. Probably a good thing he made sure to pack his bag properly, going so far as to grab his bat and its bag as well to make his trip a little easier.
He should, maybe, be concerned about the skeleton greeting him? But he's read about weirder things in his favorite books, so. ]
Spooky. [ Said more to himself than anyone else, as he takes the bright orange laptop, although nearby arrivals are more than welcome to pick up his twisted amusement at all of this. (He's maybe a little delighted, in his own way.) ]
B - THE TOWN
[ Here Ryousuke is, now, walking around town with a curious sort of air to him. He brings a splash of color to the town with his bright hair under his (equally bright) baseball cap, but unlike any other new arrivals that might be running around screaming or quaking, he's perfectly placid. His serene, vaguely enigmatic smile is in place as always, as he checks things out, approaching monsters without hesitation. At least he's not the smallest person - or, individual, anyways, do these townsfolk qualify as persons?
Anyways, he's distracted enough by his investigation that he's a perfect target for other unsuspecting arrivals to bump into, and he's not exactly adverse to walking up to other new arrivals to give them a poke if they have visible changes, themselves.
If he can find somewhere to get a drink, though, that'd be great - he feels strangely parched at the moment.
Which means he's gravitating a little towards the water sources, such as the fountain in the plaza. At least that means that he gets to people watch, especially when at the end of the day he winds up sitting perched on the edge of it, his bags at his feet and just... assessing. ]
C - EASTER ISLAND
[ Though, he does have some complaints when he comes through the door to Easter Island, after he's poked around town enough.
Because it wasn't bad enough that he's so short and thin, especially compared to many of his friends, of course he winds up getting turned into a rabbit. Ryousuke's nose twitches in annoyance, but he decides that there have been enough stories about killer rabbits in fiction that he may as well just go with it. Anyone calls him cute, he's within his rights to act on it, he thinks.
A part of him is very, very tempted to turn right back around on his cottontail to head back to Halloween Town, though. ]
B... [hello]
in the chaos of the arrival, he'd lost ryousuke. so he's looking around for a head of pink hair, his own stomach growling like it's three seconds after seido's winter training camp. luckily, kuramochi's Kominato Radar is pretty well trained, after two years with the guy (and a couple months with his little bro, too) so when he spots ryousuke heading for the fountain, he calls out to him with a-- ] Ryo-san! [ --and starts to jog towards him. ]
[ he sounds like he always does when he spots ryousuke. happy to see him, though this time it's tinged with a little bit of relief. it's not like they could have died (??) but... kuramochi worries, okay? ]
[swoon]
When they get separated, he's not too concerned. But there's no denying he immediately perks and turns the second he hears the familiar name in that familiar voice.
He takes his cap off and backhands Kuramochi in the chest with it, though the gesture is more amused than reprimanding. Still, there is quite a bit of a reprimand there - not from disappointment, but in teasing. You kept me waiting, it says, though his smile doesn't change. ]
There you are. I was starting to think you'd turned tail - did you get lost?
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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?
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Understandable, I guess. There's a lot going on. [ He makes a vague gesture to signify the entire town, before he's rubbing his fingertips against the side of his neck, where he's got some scales coming in. They're a little itchy, but he thinks that might be because they're dry.
But he hums, an amused noise, and his smile ticks up at the corners. ] The skeleton man? Yes, I saw him. He was rather welcoming - he was the one that sent out the potion and the note.