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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:

1. Audio. Your character thinks audible words onto the network.
2. Writing: Your character thinks text into the network.
3. 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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Something Lost

[gristle]

If there was something that Beverly Marsh was good at, it was going out to find things that other people wouldn't. When she'd heard that some of the domes were open for people to take things from, she'd hightailed it over there as fast as she could. The people were nice for the most part here (too nice, too artificial, it creeped Bev out) but she didn't like being given things for free. Now that there was money and she was being given a stipend, she found herself looking for something that she didn't really know what it was.

And a bike. She really wanted a freaking bike.

So, that's what she's out here doing, honestly. Looking for a bike. There's a backpack slung heavy and low on her shoulders, already full of things that she'd plundered, and when she stepped into the occupied dome, the sound of two voices confused her. Following the sound of them because she they sounded unfamiliar, she was surprised to find that the man was alone. The redhead had a deep and suspicious frown affixed to her face when she just asked in a way that was only slightly accusatory. "Who were you talking to?"

Something Lost

[multiple_man]

Rudy had been standing craned slightly to one side to see who was coming. When he saw her, he straightened up again. It was just a kid.

"No one," he shook his head lightly, then amended with a sigh: "Meself." But that wasn't really what she was here for, was it? He waved an index finger across the room at the dresser. "If you're lookin' for clothes, there's loads of girls' things in there."

And he went back to trying to jimmy the lock on the cabinet.

[gristle]

Bev was out of practice with schooling her face here, that much was evident from the way that the flash of disbelief went across it. At least she didn't actually say bullshit aloud. Yet anyway. There was more than a little bit of her that wanted to though, that much was written in the look she gave him and the tightness of posture across her shoulders. And of course in the largess of her eye roll when he told her to go looking for girls clothing.

Like she needed girls clothing here.

With intention, Beverly swung the heavy backpack off her shoulders, and she set it on the ground with a heavy thump before she started to shuffle through it. The shuffling was brief, before she stood up again and opened a pocket knife with a rather satisfying click. "Let me." There's a confidence in her voice, because she's definitely gotten some cabinets open in the other domes with this thing so.

[multiple_man]

Rudy's eyebrows lifted when the knife came out. He couldn't be certain she really knew what she was doing, but seeing as his next play would have been 'find something heavy to smash the cabinet open with,' no harm in letting her have a go. He stepped back away from the door, far enough to let her work — though not so far that he couldn't hover behind her shoulder to watch.

"You came tooled up. Smart."

((ooc: If you'd like to decide what's in the cabinet, feel free! In the thread above, it was a collection of crystals imbued with protection charms, but I didn't necessarily want to repeat that.))

[gristle]

"You sound surprised," Bev muttered at him over her shoulder with a little bit of a smirk, and she just slipped the blade between the locking mechanism and cabinet gave it a quick jimmy of the two. It didn't take much time, effort or skill to undo these locks, and she knew that they were different than the locks on the things that belonged to the people who still lived here. Maybe that was because the Sphere cared more about people who were here than those who didn't. It didn't matter, as she pulled the doors open.

Frowning at what was inside, she just reached in and pulled out one of the books. It was old, and dusty, and Bev scowled as she blew the dust off the cover of it. "Seriously? Why would someone lock up a dusty old copy of Pride and Prejudice? I mean it's just an old book." An antique book, but that was beside the point. "And it's boring." She reached in and pulled out another one. "Dickens, and not even the good one. What the hell?"

[multiple_man]

Likewise, Rudy frowned over her head while she started inspecting the books.

"Hate an anticlimax," he agreed. He still reached for one of the books himself, crooked a finger over the embossed leather spine and pulled it out. That one was Jane Eyre, but Rudy was more interested in one might be behind it. Or inside... Rudy pulled out the book and started flipping through the dusty pages, on the hunt for whatever secret stash the room's former occupant might have been hiding.

[gristle]

Following his lead, Bev flipped the book open to the first page, and what she saw there made her eyes go wide all the way around the blue, and she reached out and stopped him from flipping through the book so roughly as she showed him the copy that she herself was holding. "Wait. This is like autographed by Charles Dickens. I think it might be a super valuable copy of it." The tone of her voice expressed how that didn't make any sense, because why the hell would someone have super fancy books that were hidden miles and miles below the ocean in a safe.

"..How would they even get here?" She found herself asking softly, and frowning at the copies. "Like all of the stuff you could have below the sea at you want fancy old ass books?"

[multiple_man]

Rudy paused when she stopped him, clocked the signature, then flipped to the cover page of his book. 1st Edition. "Oh, shiiit. These have gotta be worth hundreds!"

To someone. Not to him or her, but there had to be something they could do with them.

"Maybe... they belonged to a treasured family member. Great-granny's heirlooms. The last remnants of the life of a woman who game —" insert softly dramatic sigh, "— so much for her family."

The serious act lasted for another beat before Rudy grinned and let off a laughing snort, gestured toward the empty bed. "Sucks to be that person. Now you've left granny's heirlooms at the bottom of the ocean."