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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[invariable]

That leads us to an easy question, then. How much is your word worth?

[hyperkinesia]

It's all I have.

[ Take from that what you will. ]

How about you? I can't really know for sure that you're from 2022, either.

[invariable]

Nothing to lose kinda guy, then.

[It could be a question or a statement - her tone leaves it ambiguous.]

Unfortunately, my word isn't worth that much. My line of work requires me to be a good liar.

[hyperkinesia]

You could say that.

[ And it would very much be the truth. ]

That right? [ Color him curious. ] And what's your line of work?

[invariable]

Secret service. Not so secret around these parts, but whatever. I'm not working for them while I'm here, anyway.

[so carefree about it, too.]

You do anything interesting?

[hyperkinesia]

Really? I can honestly say I am surprised. [ He wouldn't have pegged her as a secret agent, but then what does he know. ]

I'm a physicist, actually. So, a lot of science work. But... I was also part of a team, before coming here.

[invariable]

A physicist and a team player. You just keep gaining points, Bruce.

[Is she sarcastic?! Hard to tell. Why can't you be upfront, Claudia.]

Go on.

[hyperkinesia]

[ Yeah, he can't tell either, but he works on that assumption. Not like he's much of a team player anymore, in any case. ]

Well, back in my world we have the Avengers initiative. A group of people with... extraordinary skills and abilities. Some superhuman, others not so much. Fighting off alien invasions, stopping the bad guys from doing bad things-- that kind of stuff. [ Said a little simply and with a hint of humor, but he really is very serious there. ]

[invariable]

[There's a frown quickly followed by the arch of a brow. People with extraordinary skills hardly sounds like it's that spectacular. Reasons for a spotlight, sure, but why put it so vaguely?

Until he mentions alien invasions, anyway.]

... Right. So. You're gifted, and you... use the power of science to stop aliens from taking over New York.

[hyperkinesia]

[ She's probably not thinking of the right kind of 'extraordinary'. Well, she might for some of them, but others are pretty far beyond extraordinary, and outright insane. Case in point. ]

No. I used the ability I have of turning into a really big green rage-fuelled monster. [ A pause. ] But science too, sometimes. [ Not at the same time, that would be a disaster. ]

[invariable]

[Well, 'gifted' in her world means super powers, so there you go.

Speaking of which -]

... Why green?

[hyperkinesia]

[ Of all the questions to ask. Bruce is actually a little surprised that's what she points out first. ]

It's just what radiation accidents look like on steroids.

[ He's not serious. ]

[invariable]

[The fuck.]

Right. Which part of physics teaches kids about that.

[hyperkinesia]

None, I should hope. One freak accident's more than enough.

[ Well two actually, except the second wasn't an accident so much as a power-thirsty man hellbent on killing Bruce. But he's not going to bring up Blonsky. ]

[invariable]

Okay, so - [She gestures with one hand - trying to imagine what the monster looks like and regretting it - squinting upward with a frown.] You weren't born with it. You're not really gifted?

[hyperkinesia]

[ Depending on what kind of missions they get here, she might just see for herself eventually. For now, though, he can't say he minds that she doesn't know what the other guy looks like. ]

I wouldn't call it a gift, even if I had been born with it. [ Especially then, even. ] But no. There's no one like that in my world, I don't think. Unless you count Norse gods, but then they're not exactly human. Kind of hard to compare.

[invariable]

Huh. Your New York is crazy as hell.

[Or just Earth, Claudia. You can say Earth.]

Well, in any case. I'm gifted. And I was born with it.

[hyperkinesia]

You don't know the half of it.

[ The whole universe is insane, really. ]

There's another thing that's different between our worlds. [ He nods at her. ] So, what's your... gift?

[invariable]

[Her answer is as easy as they come, and she - once again - sounds proud when she delivers, posture straight up.]

Invulnerability. Haven't found anything or anyone that can hurt me yet. [She shrugs one shoulder, lips stretching to a preen of a smirk.] Convenient, huh?

[hyperkinesia]

[ Under any other circumstance, Bruce would agree that it's something to be proud of. But right now it hits a little too close to home, reminding him that what can be such a good thing for others, to him it's nothing but a curse. ]

Must be nice. [ He tries to smile, at least. ] The agency you're a part of, everyone there is gifted?

[invariable]

That's right. Unfortunately having superpowers doesn't make them smart, but what can you do. We can't all be green physicists.

[She is clearly the only shiny crayon in the box. Guess how nice it is to work with her, Bruce.]

[hyperkinesia]

No, I guess that's a pretty exclusive kind of club. [ With sarcasm: ] A shame, really.

[ Don't worry, he knows one of you. He's best friends with him, even. ]

[invariable]

[Let's be BFFs too Brucey.]

I wouldn't go that far. It's nice to be exclusive. You need an ego boost, that's what you go to.

Are we still far from the place?

[hyperkinesia]

[ So long as she doesn't call him Brucey. ]

I'd much rather just be normal, honestly. [ Being a monster isn't all it's cracked up to be. ]

No, it's just ahead. [ And lo and behold, after a few seconds they're approaching some stands and small coffeeshops with plenty of food to choose from. Because things just line up perfectly like that. ] What are you in the mood for?

[invariable]

No such thing. Even for normal people.

[But ouch, someone's gloomy.]

Maybe some orange juice. You?