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JANUARY TEST DRIVE MEME

Welcome to Sphere's January 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! A note for current players: this will not be the same as the main February plot so if you're feeling this, come on over here and have fun!

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.

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.)

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.

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Levi initially felt pretty sure that he was in a dream of some sort. It was definitely the sort of weird nerdy thing that his brain might manage to conjure up. But, the longer it went on the more real it started to feel -- if not still really, really surreal. But he ended up at the festivities too and that's where he saw Nico and well if this was real at least Nico was there too.

He finished eating the moonpie that was in his hand and then went over to catch Nico, touching his shoulder as he came up from behind him.

"This isn't some shared delusion, right?"

Nico spun at the sound of the voice, a voice that he didn't know that he needed to hear until that moment. Levi-- somehow Levi always made the world make more sense to Nico, although that hadn't always been the case.

"You're really here?"

"I haven't decided yet," Levi said and dropped his hand away from the taller man's shoulder.

"If I am, this is really, really surreal."

"What haven't you decided?" Nico asked, looking put out at the loss of contact, but as he looked around, understood that discretion was the better part of valor, but he still missed the contact.

"If you're not really here, Lev, then I have bigger problems and probably need a CT. Are you okay?" His face morphing into a look of concern, his eyes sizing Levi up subtly.

"If you need a CT scan then I probably do too," Levi said and he shakes his head at the concerned question, waving it off almost dismissively.

"I'm fine. This is is just weird and I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be doing surgery right now," but there was none to be done here apparently -- which left him with a lot of questions.

Nico rolled his eyes, giving Levi an exasperated look, which is common, but not important at the moment. "Why are you not freaking out right now?" Nico asked, out of the two of them Nico was the more likely to freak out, although he would never actually admit that out loud.

"Lincoln is probably going to kill me when I get back, if I get back," Nico surmised, running a ragged hand down his face. "Ugh, why now?"

"Because, either this is real or it's not real but it doesn't seem particularly nightmare-ish, at least if you don't really think about the fact that we could suddenly be crushed with who knows how much force if these dome things break or whatever."

He's only calm on the outside right now, okay.

Levi shrugged and he points towards the nearby drinks. "We should get some of those," he suggests with a quick grin at Nico.

"Worry about Dr. Lincoln later."