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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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Alex Reagan didn't sleep particularly well. Even here, when demons and the terrors of them were literally incalculable miles and times away, sleep still eluded her as it did in Seattle, and every place that she'd visited in the last two and a half years. Sometimes, at night, Alex found herself walking. She walked sort of aimlessly, knowing that there really wasn't any sort of way for her to get lost here, not with the network literally plugged into her brain at all times.

It would be better if she was walking with a dog, but given the lack of living things here in the dome, that wasn't very possible. Yet anyway, but like with everything else, Alex had hopes for it happening. Eventually, even if it wasn't right now.

Hearing something above her, Alex's attention focused upwards, and she blinked in the dim lights from the domes around her. Was there...? Yes, there was someone on the roof up there. Of course someone on the roof up there gave her a little tiny edge of fear in her stomach, because honestly out of everyone who was likely to be found wandering on rooftops, it was like to be Simon. Worrying about Simon was a habit in the same way that grabbing an umbrella in Seattle was, so she found herself moving up to the top of the dome.

The height took the tiny woman some time to reach; scaling buildings was something that was directly out of Alex Reagan's skill set, and the slight huff of her breath announced her even before the soft earnestly Canadian voice did. Upon closer inspection, the person was too big for Simon, but that didn't mean that 1. they didn't need help and 2. she was going to waste the trip up here. So she just called out softly. "Hey. Are you okay?"

Somehow, raucous clattering seemed less sinister here than it might if he were on a job. All the more pity; had Alec not written it off as inconsequential, he might have saved Alex the trouble. The question, however, thankfully grabbed his attention.

"Oh!" Clearly, she was struggling. Alec got to his feet and crept to the roof's edge, offering Alex a hand up to help her the rest of the way.

He didn't mean to laugh, but it was light-hearted; impressed by the woman's tenacity, if nothing else. Alec laid a comforting hand on her back, coaxing her away from the edge of the roof, to (relatively) more stable footing.

"I'm quite alright, I'm sorry to make you come all the way up here for nothing. Are you alright?"

"Thanks," the word came with a quick grin once she was settled onto the relatively safer roof. Well, relative to climbing up to it anyway. She would definitely be killed if she'd fallen off the roof climbing up to see some stranger, and that was even if the fall didn't kill her anyway. But she was here, so that was good enough and she'd worry about that whole getting down business later on. Probably. Right now she didn't want to consider the three stories that separate her from the ground right now.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just not really used to the whole climbing thing. Not a lot of reasons for me to climb buildings back home." The tone was light and joking, because that was how Alex tended to defuse things; with jokes at her own expense. "I guess I'm out of practice from climbing trees when I was a kid." Alex had climbed a lot of trees as a kid actually.

But she focused on him for a moment, even in the dim light as she caught the ragged racing of her breath. "You're new here, right? Hi. I'm Alex. It's nice to meet you." And then because she's Alex she can't not ask another question. "What are you doing up here?"