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Test Drive

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.

Please read through the Rules and FAQs thoroughly before playing.

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Thank you and have fun!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Whoa!

[His immediate reaction is to take a few steps back as soon as he sees a dragon, of all things, curled around the tree. He's been through this enough times that he at least knows to be wary of a dragon, especially when he's on his own.

But in those few seconds where she isn't attacking or making him feel sick from heavy amounts of malevolence, he notices a few things. Notably that she doesn't seem to be full of malevolence, or at least not as much malevolence as you'd normally see in a dragon. There's also the part where she's talking, and he can't say he's ever had that happen before. Surely someone would have mentioned talking dragons before if it was possible to communicate with them?

He decides to be extremely articulate back.]

You're a talking dragon.

[she sniffs, slowing in the air until she's a long still lazy coil, eyes fixed on him; there's probably a little malevolence hovering around her, but not as much as even a regular hellion.]

What, are you another person who has not met a talking dragon before? I am not going to eat you, if I even can, though I will not say no to trying ghost beef if you have a ghost cow; I will tell you that now. There has been so much fuss and bother over it already.

I wasn't worried about you eating me. I'm just, uh, surprised. I didn't know dragons could talk.

[Is she a seraph?? a ghost dragon seraph?? maybe that can happen]

I don't have any ghost cows, or any ghost food to eat, sorry. Not even ghost ice cream.

Well, that is a shame! But if you are done being surprised and you have no food, then help me figure out why there is an egg on this tree.

[whatever she is, she's bossy.]

[he's used to bossy people. bossy dragons is a new one though]

You don't know? I guess you weren't at the meeting or I'd have seen you. They said it's a door to another holiday, so like another realm I'd guess.

[tosses her head, with a little flip of her wings]

The meeting was not very important, if it was my Granby would have been there, and he was not. Help me open this ridiculous egg, if it is really a door; perhaps he is on the other side!

I've been passing through walls and doors the past few days, I don't know if I can open them.

[but he does obligingly float closer to at least try]

Who's Granby? A friend of yours?

He is my captain, of course. I hope I find him soon.

[doors are inanimate, they can probably give it a decent college try]

[handles aren't that big either, so after a few awkward tries he gets ahold of it and pulls the door open. SUCCESS...!]

You have a captain?

[wait, the more important question]

Are you a seraph, by chance?

Of course I have a captain; I have the very best captain of all.

[...? she snakes her head around, to eye him curiously]

But what is a seraph?

A seraph is sort of like a spirit. Or, they're a lot like humans, except they don't need food or sleep and they have an affinity with a certain element. Where I'm from, some seraphim turn into dragons, so I thought that might have been the case with you.

[he bites his tongue and decides not to mention the malevolence part]

But I'm guessing there's no relation. Dragons where I'm from don't have captains, either.

Why, except for the affinity, which makes some sense, that seems rather different and miserable: it is good to eat and sleep, and it seems very strange to be turning from other things into dragons.

[unless 'seraphim' is another word for 'eggs,' and he's talking about them hatching...? but no, he clearly knows what eggs are, that doesn't make sense. flips her tail, in a little bit of confusion]

No, I would say there is no relation at all, though now I would like to meet a seraph.

[he watches her movements with some interest, peering at all of her spikes--getting this close to a dragon that isn't out to kill him is worth some study, even if she's different from the dragons he's aware of.]

My friend is one, and I'm pretty sure he's fine with how he is. I can introduce you to him later. I'll have to let him know who you are though, or he'll be as surprised about you as I was.

[she's all snaky, not like the dragons or drakes he's run into before (though they come in all shapes in sizes, so...)

since they're both ghosts, he's probably getting doused in the steam and damp that issues from her many many spikes.]

Good, it is decided! You will tell him about me, and I will meet a seraph, and we shall get to the bottom of this different dragons business quickly.

[the smoke is new, he's fascinated by the smoke now that he's pretty well convinced she has negative desire to attack him]

I don't know if it'll be as quick as that. But I'm curious to know what the differences are too.

It cannot be so slow as all that. Come along, what did we open the door for if we are not going to see what is inside?

Dragons are really surprising where I'm from. --Oh, right, ladies first!

[making a sweeping gesture with his hand towards the door, letting her snake her way in first]

[well, she's going to ask how they're that surprising, but

they've both just turned into eggs

so that's distracting]

[well

this is awkward]

This was unexpected.

This is unpleasant! I do not wish to be an egg again! Fix it!

I don't know how it happened in the first place! We just went through the door--

[it clicks, more or less, that the door was the trigger, so he looks back for it to see if there's a sign of what made things change]

[PRESUMABLY THERE IS A DOOR BACK AND THEY ARE NOT TRAPPED IN THE LAND OF FLUFFY EGGS FOREVER -- he might be distracted for a moment by her headbutting (eggbutting?) him in irritation]

[The headbutting egg is very distracting, enough that he looks away from the door back to her]

Hey, quit it! I think we'll go back to how we were before if we go through the door.

But then we will not be able to look around here! How do we fix it without the door?

I don't know, I just got here too. We can ask around and see if anybody knows, this must happen a lot if people come through that door often.

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