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.
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[You expect Heaven, you expect Hell. You don't really expect - a thousand and one Tim Burton looking jackasses running around. or impossibly tall skeletons. To say Grant Ward wasn't prepared was - an understatement. The place twists. It bends and twists and maybe the comparison's wrong. Or not. The few minutes he's been here and already it seems more real, more lifelike then any movie. Had he only dreamed the end? The bitter draft Malick (or was it Coulson?) had forced down his throat? Idiots.
To say the least.
Hell or not, Heaven or not, he'd be less concerned with staying put and more concerned with getting out if he weren't entirely sure that the weight on his chest wasn't death with a big capital D. No pearly gates, none of what he was expecting...just the grim memory of Coulson staring him down and then nothing. Hard not to be angry. He could have at least gotten Kara back. Rotting together...
He allowed himself a brief unpleasant smile.
Staggering away from the skeleton (screw you very much Mr. smiling white boned son of a -) he might shove through a few patrons on his way out. The only natural solution is to see if this hell hole (or was it?) had a bar with something heavy on tap. What matters is getting there no matter who's in his way - until the laptop spills out of his hands to land on the concrete.
Ward sucks on his teeth briefly - but it doesn't break somehow. That brief bit of karma judgement is enough to make him roll his eyes at the nearest person he's knocked into.]
...Sorry.
[It's been a long day.]
THE TOWN (As a Trick or Treater)
[This is what he's learned in pacing through the town in a nutshell. HYDRA action report. SHIELD Field notes.
1. There's no way out, and the forest is endless. Or near to endless. It's also useless for camping because there's something in it that's off.
Yeah that's it. Off. (It's totally not because he nearly pissed his pants two nights out there. Nope. It's not.)
2. It's dangerous. While he may have found a room above that same bar he first nearly passed out in he can hear howling in the street, shrieks, and screams. He's used to shrieks and screams but the degree that they're happening causes some concern.
3. Something is changing the new arrivals. It's not terragenesis despite the oppressive fog that he wakes up to in the early morning. He's seen people walking around half naked, some with scales, some with an obsessive need to play doctor. Apart from a grayish tinge to his skin and an almost skeletal look to his features (but that's really the fog. It's gotta be.) it's doing something to the residents.
Waking up today however - the shrieks and screams weren't nearly as unsettling, the twisting roads and long alleyways weren't nearly as annoying. Sweep the bar, wash the windows, start setting out breakfast. Meat, sausage, blood, the occasional rotted egg which isn't nearly as upsetting because it's a promotion and -
And the proprietor, that witch (or was she one of the werewolves? It was hard to remember) had left out a great big lollipop. So what if it was 9am? Sugar's a great way to start the day - better then three shots of whiskey that she'd found for him the first night.
Ward can be found at the bar, supervising breakfast to an extent, pausing only to take a pull on the lollipop every once in awhile. Once it's done he breaks open a pack of chocolates along the bar.
Keep up the energy and all that.]
The Town 2: (As a Zombie)
[Adapt and Survive. Despite the shrieks and the screams it wasn't really that bad a day. A nice curving road, the tall spires of the town, the fact that he'd developed a tendency to crave what he was carrying in the container he currently shuffled along with. Well Grant Ward, you're a zombie.
He'd almost made a joke. Almost. Until Sue had put a brain down in front of him and he'd dug in.
She wouldn't mind him grabbing one out of the container right? Right. Us Zombies gotta stick together. It's just maddeningly slow to set the container that reads hospital down, open the lid, and pull out a fresh one that smells...deliciously disgusting.
Heedless of the people watching him. Mmmm. Mmm.
Don't mind the guy sitting on the side of the alley with a box of brains and a very inhuman moan as he eats one. Just one.]
[ Tony's not sure what's worse, here-the smell of decay as he passes by the occasional zombie or watching one eat. Obviously, the decay's an awful putrid smell that's just not nice. Not at all. Granted, the look of decay wasn't much better, but if he just imagines it as some kind of operation documentary on Discovery, he can kind of get over it. But the eating? The eating is never fun to see. There's flesh, and guts, and blood, and then there's also the smell.
It's gross. Really gross.
And of freakin' course, there's a zombie eating brains right in his way. Tony's cutting through one of the ally ways to get to the university, with a small bag of candy in hand. Not that he needs the candy or anything. It's just nice to have it on hand.
And it'd be nice to take a bite of his chocolate bar if the sight of a zombie eating brains didn't make him want to barf. ]
Do you really need to eat that out here? Didn't your zombie-mom teach you any manners?
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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?
GRANT WARD | AOS | MCU
[You expect Heaven, you expect Hell. You don't really expect - a thousand and one Tim Burton looking jackasses running around. or impossibly tall skeletons. To say Grant Ward wasn't prepared was - an understatement. The place twists. It bends and twists and maybe the comparison's wrong. Or not. The few minutes he's been here and already it seems more real, more lifelike then any movie. Had he only dreamed the end? The bitter draft Malick (or was it Coulson?) had forced down his throat? Idiots.
To say the least.
Hell or not, Heaven or not, he'd be less concerned with staying put and more concerned with getting out if he weren't entirely sure that the weight on his chest wasn't death with a big capital D. No pearly gates, none of what he was expecting...just the grim memory of Coulson staring him down and then nothing. Hard not to be angry. He could have at least gotten Kara back. Rotting together...
He allowed himself a brief unpleasant smile.
Staggering away from the skeleton (screw you very much Mr. smiling white boned son of a -) he might shove through a few patrons on his way out. The only natural solution is to see if this hell hole (or was it?) had a bar with something heavy on tap. What matters is getting there no matter who's in his way - until the laptop spills out of his hands to land on the concrete.
Ward sucks on his teeth briefly - but it doesn't break somehow. That brief bit of karma judgement is enough to make him roll his eyes at the nearest person he's knocked into.]
...Sorry.
[It's been a long day.]
THE TOWN (As a Trick or Treater)
[This is what he's learned in pacing through the town in a nutshell. HYDRA action report. SHIELD Field notes.
1. There's no way out, and the forest is endless. Or near to endless. It's also useless for camping because there's something in it that's off.
Yeah that's it. Off. (It's totally not because he nearly pissed his pants two nights out there. Nope. It's not.)
2. It's dangerous. While he may have found a room above that same bar he first nearly passed out in he can hear howling in the street, shrieks, and screams. He's used to shrieks and screams but the degree that they're happening causes some concern.
3. Something is changing the new arrivals. It's not terragenesis despite the oppressive fog that he wakes up to in the early morning. He's seen people walking around half naked, some with scales, some with an obsessive need to play doctor. Apart from a grayish tinge to his skin and an almost skeletal look to his features (but that's really the fog. It's gotta be.) it's doing something to the residents.
Waking up today however - the shrieks and screams weren't nearly as unsettling, the twisting roads and long alleyways weren't nearly as annoying. Sweep the bar, wash the windows, start setting out breakfast. Meat, sausage, blood, the occasional rotted egg which isn't nearly as upsetting because it's a promotion and -
And the proprietor, that witch (or was she one of the werewolves? It was hard to remember) had left out a great big lollipop. So what if it was 9am? Sugar's a great way to start the day - better then three shots of whiskey that she'd found for him the first night.
Ward can be found at the bar, supervising breakfast to an extent, pausing only to take a pull on the lollipop every once in awhile. Once it's done he breaks open a pack of chocolates along the bar.
Keep up the energy and all that.]
The Town 2: (As a Zombie)
[Adapt and Survive. Despite the shrieks and the screams it wasn't really that bad a day. A nice curving road, the tall spires of the town, the fact that he'd developed a tendency to crave what he was carrying in the container he currently shuffled along with. Well Grant Ward, you're a zombie.
He'd almost made a joke. Almost. Until Sue had put a brain down in front of him and he'd dug in.
She wouldn't mind him grabbing one out of the container right? Right. Us Zombies gotta stick together. It's just maddeningly slow to set the container that reads hospital down, open the lid, and pull out a fresh one that smells...deliciously disgusting.
Heedless of the people watching him. Mmmm. Mmm.
Don't mind the guy sitting on the side of the alley with a box of brains and a very inhuman moan as he eats one. Just one.]
Zombie Time
It's gross. Really gross.
And of freakin' course, there's a zombie eating brains right in his way. Tony's cutting through one of the ally ways to get to the university, with a small bag of candy in hand. Not that he needs the candy or anything. It's just nice to have it on hand.
And it'd be nice to take a bite of his chocolate bar if the sight of a zombie eating brains didn't make him want to barf. ]
Do you really need to eat that out here? Didn't your zombie-mom teach you any manners?