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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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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]

[fluffs up in relief?? he doesn't actually want it to do something shocking again

(HE LOOKS SO SOFT)]

[noses fluffy Mikleo with his little deer nose]

[tips over?!]

Wh--Sorey!

[THIS IS THE CLOSEST FAWNS CAN GET TO HUGGING. plopping down next to him, time for the deer cuddles you know you always wanted]

Sorry. You looked really soft and my body kind of moved on its own.

[he's still like this, so, wow]

You were touching the egg and it made you think I looked soft? What kind of things are these?

[that's not how you snuggle Mikleo jeez]

Magic eggs, apparently. I feel like I should have seen that one coming.

You'd have to be on the same wavelength of making no sense.

[...finally plops himself back over on his stomach, leaning his chin on Sorey's dumb fawn side]

Now what?

We could find some more eggs, but I don't know what'll happen if we keep running into ones like this. Maybe there's something else they'll let us help out with.

[Sorey seems content to enjoy the nice weather and be a fawn, too. all good options.]

They said something about doing counts, and baskets. Those seem...safer?

[he's okay with not moving yet, though.]

The baskets have less chance of spontaneously turning into other things. I'd be fine with that if you are.

Okay.

Whenever you can stop thinking about how soft ducks are, I guess.

Just give it a minute. You really are soft, you know.

[it does take a minute or two until his wiggles his little deer behind and decides it's a good enough time to get up]

You're not. You're kind of bony.

[clambers to his feet as soon as Sorey does, shaking grass out of his fluff]

[giving a little shake to make sure there's no grass on him before nudging his basket]

I'll try to be something fluffier next time.

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