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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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Apparently, someone wasn't happy with the results of the sonic screwdriver and proceeds to lick the ring of the Moon Well. Basically, trying to find out what the Moon Well is made of and if there's anything extra on it.

Finally, Ten turns; "Did you get the rope?"

Right, licking the well was a bit much, and elicited a low chuckle from Richard. Who was this man and what was his deal? His turning and asking for rope wasn't surprising given his actions. He clearly did want to go down there. Richard might as well oblige since he put the idea into the man's head.

Turning, he found one of his students who left, then returned with a good bit of rope and handed it to The Doctor.

The Doctor tosses a stone down the well and seems to be calculating based on the noise on how deep the well is.

That is before giving the stranger one of end of the rope and tying the other end to himself and proceeding to step onto the well rim and holding his sonic screwdriver using that as a flashlight as Ten slowly backs downwards into the Well; hopping downwards to be exact with the pulley system The Doctor made something of a makeshift harness.

So it wasn't posturing, playing an act of an insane person to garner attention. That was almost horrifying. It was also fascinating. As the man went to descend, Richard thought about just dropping the end that he'd been handed and leaving, but there was a childish curiosity to know if there was anything down there (There wasn't, he was sure of it). So he waited for the man to return, or call up from the bottom, or even scream because he'd broken something from falling in.

There was no screaming. Only the glow of the sonic screwdriver as the Doctor descends and looks at the walls of the Well. When he reaches the bottom; unties himself and looks around and smells around and after circling around a few times and feeling the wall for any cracks (a sign of a hidden passage) finally when he's completely sure there is nothing, ties himself back up and pulls himself and walks up the well wall; with the sonic between his teeth as he's grabbing onto the side of the rim and slides so he's sitting on the rim and unties himself and puts the sonic back into his suitcoat pocket and looks beyond Richard in thought.

Weird. Curious. If there's nothing down there are is something coming from nothing?

Whatever the man had been expecting wasn't there. Probably a cage full of people being forced to write the fortunes while begging for help. Things didn't work like that, especially here. It was possible that there was a deeper meaning to the cries for help, it wouldn't be found at the bottom of a well. It would probably be found in the Sphere itself. Something no one could presently get to.

Maybe not something caged up but something. Maybe writing on the walls. A crack in space-time. Something After a moment or two Ten notices that he's being stared at stares rudely right back, "Whut?"

"You didn't find anything." It's not a question; it's a statement. Of course, he didn't. "What were you expecting to find?"

"You can use words." Ten remarks rudely and then his tone returns to normal, "Don't know. Writing on the walls. A secret entrance. A crack in space - time."

Well, that was annoying. The man's arrogance was almost enough for him to walk away, but the nievite of his words kept him there. "There wouldn't be anything like that down there." Of course there wasn't. Why would be there a convenient plot device like that just sitting around in the bottom of the hole.

"Something doesn't come out of nothing."

It's like finding something in the void - which shouldn't be but can because that came from somewhere else.

"No, but this place most likely works differently than where you're from." It's easier not to try and explain the Sphere's situation to him. He doubts he'd believe it without evidence anyway. Richard knows that he wouldn't.

"The universe doesn't change rules. Psychics no matter where or when in the universe you are doesn't change. The only possible way it could change would be saying that - but that's impossible. Completely impossible."

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That phrase sounded familiar. "It's, unfortunately possible." Richard hated to admit it, but it was. After what he's seen there was resigned admission to it, but that didn't change the facts about his universe. "I've seen enough to believe that the possibility that this isn't the same universe I'm from is relatively high."

But how? The Time Lords are all gone. They're not holding up and watching the walls between universes.

Ten slides off the side of the Moon Well and to his feet; very poised and powerful but at the same time not a threat; "And what have you seen that's made you believe this?"