spherememing | February/March Test Drive Meme

February/March TDM

Welcome to Sphere's February/March Test Drive meme! This is a great place to get a feel for the game and how your characters might fit in here. Explore the setting, and get your samples and some starting CR all at the same time!

Applications and Reserves are always open!
Threads on the TDM are considered game canon if both parties agree to it!
Threads on the TDM may be considered for Activity Check if need be!

blue moon

So the people within the Sphere City miss the moon. At least, that’s what someone can draw from the fact that as January slips into February, large images of the moon are everywhere. The Full moon, to be more specific. There are silver streamers around the merchant dome, and lights have been modified to have a more silver than golden glow in appearance, even at all hours of the day there. Sure it makes things a bit difficult to see, but that’s not really a problem is it?

At night, several domes have large projections of the moon made against the domes. They’re pictures of the moon in varying states of artistic and scientific values. There's a kind of dreamy music that’s played, and a lot of the locals have silver flowers in their hair. Fire pits are common, and older residents are seated around them, telling tales of the moon and its connection to the waters above them. Some stories tell how it glows and shines or is made of green cheese. They also tell how sometimes there were people in the moon, men or women, gods or goddesses, or animals like rabbits. And some stories tell of how the moon would make people mad, and that’s where the term lunacy comes from.

Oh, and there are a few stories about werewolves too. And about how there walking among the people in the Sphere. Even now.

Food at the festival is based around the moon too, or at least the idea of the moon. There’s mooncake of course, but there’s also moon pies, half moon cheese pies, and pierogi, and various cheese and cracker platters, because the moon is made of green cheese after all. There’s moon-based cocktails, that are blue and silver. And some that are shimmering and shining.

People can draw fortunes from the moonwell, but, they’re silly and nonsensical, and people eat the silvery rice paper after they’re finished with them. A few of them however have more ominous sort of fortunes in them. Things like “help me” or “they’re out to get you” or “they’re coming and you can’t stop them.” People shrug those ones off too though. if someone asks about them.

what big eyes you have

So, there are rumors about werewolves that have been circulating around town, and people seem to be given red cloaks at random. Pretty girls and women are offered them the most, but they are open to anyone. If people put them on, which the surrounding locals will cheer and encourage them to do. Then they tell them that their clue is in their pockets and that they will save the town.

In the pockets is another silver disk with a list of names on it. One of those names is a werewolf. You’re given three clues (something like: ‘wearing a blue sweater’ or ‘bald man’ or ‘at the candy stall’) for each one, and then you either accuse them of being a werewolf or clear them. If you accuse them and you’re correct then you’re given a small vial with glowing stones in it and are told that they were actually pieces of the moon before it was lost. Whatever that means. You may want to hold onto them.

If you accuse them and you’re wrong, the game is over for you for the moment and the cloak is taken away. Each cloak has a different list of six names on it, and the names replenish every time someone gets a new cloak. Why yes, the Sphere is playing a game of werewolf with you. How the game goes entirely up to you, and whether or not your character gets invested or what. NPCs are definitely available for this if need be! Please feel free to go a little nuts with this, and player characters can definitely be one of the suspects if they're up for it.

exploration: something that was lost can be found

It’s big news around Sphere City: some old lost and sealed domes have been found along the edges of town. Not only have they been found, but they’re open! Not only are they open but the stuff inside is there on a first come first serve basis. These old domes show no signs of dust, but there are some personal effects within them, pictures and the like. They definitely belonged to someone who had been pulled into the city at some point within the last seven years.

And they’re definitely worth checking out. One never knows one might find in them. Various varieties of clothing are available, as are books, food items (probably shouldn’t eat them), toys and there may or may not be some magical or important historical things hidden here or there if your character is very lucky. Mod note: Nothing world breaky or living can be found, but small things like potions or jewelry or amulets or small weapons (daggers or guns with a very limited amount of bullets.)

mechanic: memory share

Too see the full updates on how memory shares work, please visit here

Memory shares are experienced over the networked, and beamed directly into the other person's brains as if they are experiencing it themselves.
Shares do not need to be written a certain way, but here is a mod example: Too see the full updates on how memory shares work, please visit Max Tinder memory share.
These memories are things that they are watching through the experience of the person who's memory has already happened. It's like seeing a recording that feels very real. However, there isn't anything that they can personally do within it. These are things that have already happened to the character and are fixed points.
These posts are responded to like a message on the network, and not in the memory itself.

wildcard

This is a good place to test out something like the network or an idea of your own! Remember upon waking in The Sphere, each character is fitted with a small golden circle behind their right ear. This is how they are connected to the network through a neural link. Touch and hold the button to create a broadcast of one of three types:

Audio. Your character thinks audible words onto the network.
Writing: Your character thinks text into the network.
Video. Your character projects a broadcast of a video of themselves onto the network.

Replies are determined by the player. The network needs to be accessed by choice, so character broadcasts are not automatically beamed directly into people’s heads. The Sphere isn’t that rude.

Private messages are allowed by pressing and holding and pressing and holding again as you picture the person in your mind. This can be an image or a name, err more on the side of things being more accessible than less.

photo inspiration

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Exploring these domes."

Being slow was actually a bit boring, very boring. He's not even sure if he's covered every expanse of every dome in this place. However, this one had caught his attention with the Sokovian things within the crates.

"We could run. One of my favorite things to do."

Run. Good choice. Tommy grins and his eyes flash with amusement.

"I don't know if your old bones can keep up," he eases, voice light and playful.

"Keep teasing."

He's not used to flashing eyes. That is something new. Nothing that he's used to, at the very least. He just gives a bit of a grin. He adjusts his stance a bit, not even bothering to stretch. This? It would be fun.

"Say when."

"You sure you don't need a head start, Petey?" Tommy asks turning to face in the same direction and rolling his shoulders. "Can you even break the sound barrier?"

"That is not my name." Do not call him Petey. It wasn't his name nor a variation of his name. "It's Pietro and I don't need a headstart. Now just say when so we can do this." Break the sound barrier, that one was way too damn easy.

Oh there you go. He grins. Just what he thought.

"I don't know if you've got the chops to keep up with the real Maximoff speedster, Uncle Pietro. But I guess we're going to see."

After all, Tommy knows he's at least Mach-Four. But man, to get to race him now, this is going to be the best. And he holds up three fingers. Two fingers. One finger. And then he's off, fast as a thought, laughing.

Uncle Pietro? That was a new one. He's never been called uncle anything in his whole entire life. Not that he minds it, but it makes him wonder a few things. Far as he knew his sister didn't have any kids. What had happened?

The moment that tome gets to one, Pietro's gone. That aura of blue, white and transparent currents behind him as he does.

Oh yeah, there are a LOT of questions and not many answers that will satisfy anyone. But yeah, Tommy's happy to race after Pietro, and put on an extra bust of speed to keep up. Frankly, he doesn't want to pass the guy. Pietro. Not his Pietro, but Wanda's. Fuck, she's going to be so happy. Gramps is going to be complicated, but hell, this was great.

Tommy, well, he's far less prone to leaving trails unless he's in his actual suit. The silver sides were great for catching light and leaving that same trail. But he was a natural mutant, rather than someone whose powers were given through an Infinity Stone.

"I don't know, Pietro," he calls over, and his words are fast. Not just his body, no. He can talk faster than most people could understand, and he'd give anything to have Pietro understand. To be able to talk for a change. "I'm not impressed."

There was definitely going to be a lot of questions. More questions than he could honestly shake a damn fist at. Honestly, he'd figure things out as they went along. This, this was a cakewalk. If Tommy tried to pass him, he could keep up just fine. Side by side. That wouldn't be a damn problem.

He can't help but laugh at those words. Tommy's fast words do not bother Pietro one damn bit. "I didn't realize that we were trying to impress anyone. Is that what we were doing?"

Don't know, with that sort of speed, Pietro, fists could be shaken at a hell of a lot of questions.

"Nah, not really. Take the sixth right ahead, by the way. Don't wanna run through the Ag domes. I get yelled at if I don't slow down."

And he doesn't have to, if Pietro's here. No point to pretend to be a snail anymore.

Lots of fists could be shaken at their speeds. No one would know what to do with something like that either.

"What's in the Ag domes?"

He didn't want to slow down. Not when there's someone there that can move as fast as he can. This would actually be fun. He'd have to figure out where he can go and where he could. Or more like where he had to slow down.

So, at the sixth right, he takes it. Though, it's possible he went through the Ag domes a bit earlier. So, oops. Possibly. He's been through so many of them already, just exploring.

Too bad Tommy wasn't allowed to shake his fist at speed. Sometimes he accidentally exploded things.

"Agriculture domes. Fuck, I'm so used to saying things short because I can't say them fast."

People who understand this, the rush of air in your hair, the way that everyone moved like stop motion animation played in slow-mo, it's rare. Tommy's met, what, two people in his life like him? And they were always so much older than him. Or his Uncle Pietro who didn't have time for him. Just a few minutes to even get talked to is vital.

"Best place is the abandoned domes. Turned one into a haunted house for Halloween. Great running there. But plenty of things to trip over. So it's like an obstacle course."

It was fun.

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