TEST DRIVE MEME

[visadamods]

TEST DRIVE Welcome to Visada's TDM! Feel free to get as creative as you'd like with these prompts. None of the threads will count as game canon. This is just to give you a chance to play around with the setting and get a general idea of just some of things that can be done in the game. OPTION 1 Mistress Philenor, one of the vivacious butterfly-winged fairies that runs a shop in town, has asked you and another helpful soul to go out to the small lake on the northwestern side of the island and pick some Swallowtails. She needs a bushel of the flowers to make more of her popular aphrodisiacs. You and your partner for the outing leave the village and make your way to your destination. The water in the lake is clear and fresh, you can almost see all the way to the bottom. A small island sits in the middle of the lake, within swimming distance to those so athletically inclined. A tiny stream travels off to the west, emptying into the sea. On the southern shores of the lake grow the Swallowtails: great flowers of vibrant hues of blue. Just remember Philenor's warning. Breathing too deeply of the pollen may have unintended consequences. OPTION 2 Word arrives by lamassu post that there's unrest with the sea dragons. They're refusing to aid the villagers and transportation between the main island and the smaller one to the east has been cut off. People have been stranded there for two days now and something must be done. You volunteer to help and head toward the eastern shore. Maybe you meet others on your way and you decide to work together to see if you can resolve this. Maybe you enlist someone else's help when you learn that Lagiocrus (an ancient blue dragon) is cross with his nephew Jura (a young, free spirited green fellow who doesn't have much respect for people yet) over his foolish courtship of the princess Galzra (a haughty blue dragon from the far north). All of the other dragons in the vicinity are too caught up in the drama to worry about the petty concerns of mortals. Convince Lagiocrus that young love should triumph, or at least be allowed to get its heart broken. Talk up Jura to the disinterested object of his affection. Try to get Jura to see that there are other dragons in the sea. Or find some other way to either end the argument or lure the other dragons' interest back to helping out their landlocked neighbors. OPTION 3 After a long week, you want nothing more than to relax at the beach. It's a great day for it. Fair skies, warm sands, calm surf, and naked bodies sunning themselves along the shore. Wait. Yes, that's right. This is a nude beach. Or if it wasn't, it is now that the first visitor decided to exchange bathing suit for birthday suit. Do you join in? Ogle your neighbors? Swagger up to the hottie on the yellow towel a few yards away and start a conversation? Have fun. Enjoy yourself. You've earned the day off. OPTION 4 Wildcard! Make up your own prompt! Play around with the setting however you'd like.

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[notpatsy]

[ Okay, maybe it sort of was the time to talk about that. ]

Yeah, last time I went up against a guy your size wasn't exactly a party.

[ She grinned. ]

I won though. And I don't know, would you be okay with it?

[ Sure, he'd offered, but it could just be some sort of sense of heroic obligation to make sure the fragile puny mortal didn't get herself killed or something.

Last thing she wanted was to be anyone's obligation. ]

[americanclassic]

[There was a flicker of a frown that passed over his face at the mention of another time with another guy that sounded less than pleasant, but it wasn't his place to ask. He nodded in answer.]

I wouldn't have offered if I wasn't. If you're here and you want to make a difference, seems like helping you do that is the least I can do.

[notpatsy]

Well, in that case I guess you've got yourself a student. I'll have to find something to teach you in turn.

[ She grimaced a little. ]

That sounded much less like I was propositioning you in my head.

[americanclassic]

[That earned her an actual honest laugh.]

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who can slip up from time to time. No need to teach me anything or... ah, anything. Training people is what I do.

[notpatsy]

[ Which had the immediate result that she wanted to make him laugh again, because it was charming. ]

Just... don't go easy on me, okay?

[ She's been through too much shit to be treated with silk gloves. ]

You can be gentle with me after training.

[ Another wince. ]

And I'm doing it again. I think I need to not stand so close to you.

[ She took a couple of demonstrative steps away from him. ]

There, that should help.

[americanclassic]

[That was... interesting. It was one thing to have girls giving him doe eyes, but another to fluster one just by his proximity. He was trying not to smile, and probably failing, but he gave her another small nod.]

'Going easy' on you won't help you. But don't expect me to go all out. If you can't handle the fact that I have to pull my punches with you out of necessity... speaking now is a good idea.

[It was a shame she took those steps back because... well, he'd liked her where she'd been. But maybe it was for the best, if he was going to be training her.]

I'll have to see who else is here and what this place has in terms of training halls or programs, if any at all. If others need it, it might be good to have classes.

[notpatsy]

I'm more of a training in private type of person. And I do mean that, it's what I did back home so it's not a "let's get sweaty and pin each other to things in private so that I can do dirty things to you" thing.

[ Sigh.

Taking another couple of steps back with a lopsided smile. ]

And I'm not stupid, of course you can't use your full strength.

[americanclassic]

[There was an amused smile this time, paired with lifted brows and him biting his lip to keep the laugh in.]

Good. Because it's not about you being a woman as much as me not wanting to actually hurt you. I'd do the same with any man I was training.

[Just so she knew.

And now he was trying not to picture what she looked like all sweaty and pinned to the-- nope.]

If you'd rather train in private, I think I can accommodate that.

[notpatsy]

[ Well, she was trying to be funny so mission accomplished there. ]

That's very nice of you.

[ She too was obviously trying to fight off giggles. ]

If I say anything else I'll probably end up having to move back even further.

[americanclassic]

You do that and I'm going to think there's something wrong with me.

[Hey, he'd had a bath...]

[notpatsy]

[ Okay no, she had to laugh. ]

You could always come after me.

[ That was officially her throwing in the towel, apparently flirty things were just going to keep jumping out of her mouth so she was going to own it and roll with it. ]

[americanclassic]

Doesn't that border on creepy stalker behavior?

[notpatsy]

Only when you haven't been invited.

[americanclassic]

You have a point. Is this where I ask if that's an invitation?

[notpatsy]

It is if you want to know. And the answer is yes, by the way.

[americanclassic]

Well... I'll keep that in mind.

[If he was going to do what he'd agreed to come here to do, it helped to know there was at least one person here that might be interested. And that she was from home wasn't a bad thing either.]

[notpatsy]

[ She smiled and closed the distance between them again, feeling much less prone to stupid slips of the tongue now that things were more or less out in the open. ]

See, you'll do fine here. Your delivery is spot on.

[americanclassic]

That has yet to be seen, but I appreciate the confidence in my abilities.

[No, he didn't know what that sounded like.]

[notpatsy]

[ Trish laughed and slipped her sandals on, hooking her arm around Steve's when she straightened back up to start walking again. ]

In your abilities to do what, exactly?

[americanclassic]

Um...

[Wait... he had to think about that.

And then blush when he did. But he kept his arm in reach for her and shook his head.]

I didn't mean like that. I-- think I want to change the subject now. How much of this island have you seen so far?

[notpatsy]

I know you didn't. Sorry, I couldn't resist teasing you a bit.

[ She gave his arm a sort of apologetic squeeze. ]

I've seen a fair bit, though I haven't ridden a dragon anywhere yet. Wow, that feels so completely strange to say. What about you?

[americanclassic]

Is that why you wound up coming? To ride a dragon?

[Well, that was one reason to wind up here.]

[notpatsy]

No, the dragons are just a really cool bonus.

[ Steve, don't make it difficult to change the subject, the word "ride" is not your friend right now. ]

I'm here to help. And to live a different life for a while, I guess.

[americanclassic]

[Excuse him for running into a woman with the dirtiest mind in the world.]

I don't know... I think as soon as a unicorn comes by, the world can say good bye to another maybe-hero.

[He was teasing, Trish.]

[notpatsy]

Wow, so much for not wanting to be a jerk!

[ She was obviously teasing as well. ]