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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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[Glasses and cane come standard. Never leave home without it. He shrugs.]

Everything needs to be in writing. I mean, that will prevent poor recollection of what's discussed. This is a he said, he said, she said.... right?

[ She almost snorts, ]

And you think dragons will adhere to a written contract?

[ Sorry, Matt. She's skeptical about that. ]

Not in a thousand years, no. I mean that if someone is just keeping a documentation of what words are spoken. I feel like this will simply have to be a matter of agreement. You can't ever reach an agreement if you are dramatizing and mis-remembering what your opposing party are saying.

[He'll take that skepticism as it comes. It only fuels his determination.]

[ She gives a nod, conceding the point. But still skeptical. ]

I suppose. They probably won't agree but their words being on record is better than not.

[ She huffs a small laugh, ]

We're starting to sound like lawyers.

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[He laughs too but it isn't small.]

I should hope that I do. I am a lawyer.

[Sigh. And this might not even be the sort of thing he can wrap up. Matt shakes his head a little.]

Record to keep things straight. Maybe to take down and organize demands to best negotiate terms. It'd be great if they were into contracts.

[ Natasha looks back over him, eyes widening slightly before she's looking away again. ]

Ah.

[ Well. Okay. A blind lawyer. Why not. But she nods at what he says, ]

I'll leave the talking to you then. I can write everything down. I know shorthand.

[ Being a legal assistant for Stark had proved useful after all. ]

Thanks. You'll be able to do it faster than I could.

[And yes, that is a blind joke. Matt taps his chin thoughtfully.]

In case things start to go awry... we should have some kind of signals or verbal cues. If this gets bad, I have a suspicion that we're responsible for our own safety.

[Because of dragons.]

[ She arches a brow at the joke but doesn't comment. But she does give a simple, no-nonsense response of: ]

Don't worry, I'll protect you.

[ And she'll be able to spot things going awry long before he does. She assumes. ]

[His eyebrows lift above the frame of his glasses. A nice answer, a considerate one but... he has the sneaking suspicion that she means it.]

That's incredibly gallant of you. Thanks. Uh...

[Matt licks his lips.]

I was hoping of forming an exit plan that wouldn't involve risking either of our safety.

[ Of course she means it. She doesn't joke about that sort of thing. ]

I enter dangerous situations all the time. And I can't form an exit plan without knowing how big these dragons are, all of what they can do. Although I am pretty good at improvising...

[Except he doesn't. And it's her tone really that makes it believable and not in the slightest assumption that he's helpless. It's a nice touch.]

Well our information so far is that they're big, water based. So chances are they might breathe fire, might swim, so a swift escape is ideal.

[Okay he isn't really sure of what kind of a plan there should be either.]

Improvising. Well, can you give me a keyword to let me know when you think improvisation will go down?

[ She shrugs, ]

"Run" is usually pretty good for escape but if you want something more creative, less obvious... "dorito"?

[ You can blame Clint for all of this, Matt. ]

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