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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!

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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Not even Dezel ever mentioned rabbits hatching from eggs, so you've got me there. Your form has nothing to do with eggs, either.

[he lets out a satisfied quack when the basket tips up intact, and then tries to cover his beak in embarrassment, and fails horribly.]

[Can fawns laugh? This one is chuckling a little. He can't help it, the quack was too much of a surprise.]

Maybe it's about everyone coming together to help each other out, since the birds seem to have a habit of misplacing all of their eggs like this.

[It doesn't sound exactly logical, but it is fun to think about.]

Don't laugh...!

[he clears his throat, grumpily, and tries to focus on the conversation, nudging another egg out of the pile.]

My question is, why does nothing on this island have sensible hands?

Sorry, sorry.

[doing his best to keep a straight face and tipping Mikleo's basket so he can roll an egg into it.]

They probably get along fine without hands, don't you think? We're not used to it, but they must have learned to adapt.

Yes, but I am just saying, they might have learned to adapt better with hands. I don't think it's even feasibly out of their reach; look at how drastic the transformations they're able to put us through are--

[the egg he chose is yellow, unfortunately, so there's a sudden poof and a surprised noise when he finds himself tripping over a little plush duck instead of rolling an egg]

--!!!

[that is something he wasn't expecting, and when the egg poofs he jumps back with a start, tripping over his own hooves in the process. Once it becomes apparent that nothing else is happening, though, he leans closer to see what happened]

Did...did it hatch?

Yes--no! I don't know.

[he nudges it nervously until it turns over, tilting his head in a quizzical way]

...it's not real?

[He leans over to sniff it, concerned!! What has happened to this poor duck]

Not exactly the symbol of new life we were expecting.

Should...should we take it with us...or bury it...

[poking it gently with his nose to see if it'll wake up, which is when he realizes it seems to be full of cotton]

Uh, well, I don't know if it was alive to begin with. I think it's full of...fluff?

What.

[noses at it some more]

...it's a doll?!

I thought it was a baby! You scared me there for a second.

[he sounds disappointed it's not a baby duck]

I scared you!

[he'd thought it was some kind of horror prank, okay. HERE IS YOUR NEW FORM, AS A CORPSE. now that they've figured out it's just a doll, though, he'll dump it in Sorey's basket.]

...it's not a baby, but I guess you can keep it.

[...he noses it so that it's sitting upright in his basket and not lopsided. very relieved it's not a baby corpse, that would have been alarming]

Not as fun as raising a baby duck, but it'll do.

If you found an actual baby duck it'd turn into something horrible when we went back.

[A BABY MONSTER..........]

You think it works that way with creatures native to this place too?

It might.

[honestly he has no idea, but Sorey, please don't collect babies, you'll never stop.]

A fifty-fifty chance!

[he's forced to concede that they have better things to do than look after baby animals anyways. probably.]

But better leave any live baby animals here to be safe.

. . . we can take them to the Easter Bunny before we leave, if we find any.

[compromise? compromise.]

[a good compromise]

It's settled! But not all of the eggs are hatching, so we might not need to worry about it.

[...looks at the heap suspiciously]

You pick the next one, and we can see if it hatches into a deer doll.

Or another duck. Deer don't hatch from eggs.

[because logic makes sense here!! but he nudges at a red egg, moving it towards his basket. nothing is happening...it seems safe]