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Test Drive Meme - Autumn 2018

TEST DRIVE MEME

I. Dragon Catch

You step out of your house, letter in hand to find what Zephyr laid out neatly in written word for you. Dragons, saddles and a brief explanation Zephyr was interested in a cool new book about people befriending dragons! The little godling had set up a corral, some stables and encouraged everyone to try befriending a dragon to ride. Snippets of the book are included for aid. All in all it seems like a lot of fun!

Well, until you look over the Meadous village proper.

Dragons of varying shapes, colors and sizes are meandering about the meadous, clearly having escaped the corral they had been kept in. One dragon has perched itself atop your neighbor’s home taking a nice nap in the sunshine. A gaggle of cat sized dragons have taken up digging up another neighbors garden. A few dragons hang from the beer tree, more than a bit… blasted.

One or two people you recognize are attempting to catch up to the dragons with mixed results. One person is at least hanging off of a saddle looking rather perturbed.

Do you help or merely let the dragon based chaos ensue by going back inside where you’re less likely to get involved?

II. Be Careful What You Wish For

Well, that... that wasn't quite to plan. You stare down at the crayon drawing from Zephyr showing you exactly what you wished for. Except you hadn't meant it literally. Or you hadn't meant it quite like that, even if your wording had been vague. Now you're stuck with something you didn't want. Or perhaps you made a big mistake and now you're a different species. Or have extra appendages you can't get rid of. Not without making the walk of shame back to the Wishing Pond to wish away the changes. Why this? Why? If only you had been more clear or if only Zephyr understood subtly a bit more clearly.

Hopefully, no one will catch you as you steal forth to undo your mistake. Now that would be quite embarrassing if they saw you like this!

III. Pumpkin Maze Frights

Fall has settled over the landscape nicely, with that comes a rather customary pumpkin patch maze. A tradition long standing that comes as the seasons shift with the Meadous.

Even long time residents seem surprised at the new heights the maze has taken on, not to mention a new sign warning its extra scary this year! The sign also advises there will be a cool prize to anyone brave enough to venture forth!

A few residents are gathered at the opening, talking amongst themselves over the newly scary-ified pumpkin maze. The maze walls are composed of pumpkins of varying shapes, sizes, colors and carvings. One or two snatch a pumpkin to turn into a pie.

Everything is fairly whimsical all in all until one steps into the maze itself to follow the dirt pathway within.

The dirt path under foot is easy to follow, but offers some minor startles at the occasional loose leaf crunching underfoot.The mixed in carved pumpkins that make up the maze walls provide some shallow lighting along with floating string lights in a light bulb shape hang over head. It is oddly darker in the maze than it ever has been before. It’s almost a little scary. The unnatural quiet of the maze doesn’t help matters any. Walking deeper into the maze only leads to less lights here and there.

Zephyr has maybe gone a bit over zealous with this scary thing.

A wind whips up, making the candle light within the pumpkins flicker and lanterns bobble overhead. A few candles flicker out completely for a long moment before sputtering back to life.

Is that a shadow on a maze wall ahead of you? Will you call out or duck behind a TDM convenient hay bale stacks?

IV. Bulletin Board

Each month, Zephyr clears away most of the notes from their Bulletin Board and adjusts the decorations, leaving it fresh and open for anyone who might wish to post something new. The Meadous is a fairly rural place with minimal technology. Those used to a network may find the Bulletin Board is the closest they can come to something like that again. Who wants to actually talk to the neighbors when you can post a passive aggressive note about someone making a racket at 2 AM, instead? There's also some measure of anonymity afforded. Just be sure to only post up your notes when no one else is around and can catch you at it.

V. Choose Your Own Adventure

Whether it's just waking up in the Meadous or exploring some other part of the Setting, you're striking out with your own prompts to get some action started.

Threaded | Flat

iv: bulletin board

[ despite being written in crayon, the lettering and spacing is so perfectly lined up across the note that one could mistake it for being printed off from a computer. ]

Is there a particular reason the residents here make wishes for food and beverage items to grow on trees, rather than asking for the establishes that would serve these items in the first place?

III. Pumpkin Maze Frights

Mazes are always fun. For the first five minutes or so, and then you're stuck with a task that's almost become a chore. Left, straight, right, right, left, left, right. It's ridiculous how easy one can get hopelessly lost, and not the good kind of ridiculous that Harley finds amusing.

Harley would be bored by now if this particular maze wasn't so darn creepy, the flickering lights giving her a little bit of the shivers as she makes her way through. Why didn't she just go bobbing for apples? She wonders if it's too late to turn around and try to backtrack her steps when she suddenly catches sight of a shadow on the wall ahead.

What luck! Another undoubtedly lost reveler to compare directions with. Someone to act as a guiding light in the darkness. Someone to lend her a hand. Someone to... JUMPSCARE THE BEJEEZUS OUT OF WITH A LOUD "BOO!!" AS SHE HOPS OUT INTO THEIR PATH.

Because let's face it, funny is funny and funny takes precedence over the little things like safety and sense of place. She'll ask the other person if they know the way out in just a second, if they haven't ended up wetting themselves.

I: Dragons!!!!

Okay, holy shit. She's been here before, but dragons are new. (She's sure that they would have been around a lot longer if someone she's sure is still here had her way, so they must have been contraband or something.)

Jade immediately locked on on the one napping on someone's roof, though, and with several minutes of effort-she's not that good at climbing, okay???- has joined it, happily resting her head on it for an afternoon nap.

This just means whoever is coming home to this house, of course, now has a dragon and a strange child sleeping on their roof. Maybe it's your house? Probably that's worth investigating.

III: What pumpkins???

Jade is just... standing at the entrance of the maze, staring at the walls with a fierce look in her eyes. Occasionally she reaches out to touch a pumpkin, only to withdraw her hand and take a deep breath.

She does this for a really long time, until she finally notices someone watching her, and politely steps in front of them.

"Umm. Could you help me figure out if these pumpkins are actually here?? I have had some very bad luck with pumpkins, well... failing to exist when I touch them. Could you pull one out for me please??"

Can you really refuse this girl and her terminal pumpkin cravings????????

IV: Message board!!!!!!!!

ok so its like....... fall now??? and it was summer when i went to bed
so the way i see it there are two options!!!!!!!!!!!!
one is i fell asleep for like a month and a half which is not the most unreasonable amount of time i had ever slept so i am going to hope it is that one
the other option is that i perhaps slept for over a year?????????????
or maybe i vanished again and came back???????????????
if it is that second one then god dammit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if it is the first one then i am probably extremely nutrient deficient and would appreciate if anyone has any spare applesauce
yes specifically applesauce!!!!!!!!!!!!
also hi my name is jade how is everyone :)

[Lourdes knew from the start that this was complete bullshit, and this thing that she's standing in front of - this tower made from metal and spikes and human limbs - just proves it. She stares up at it, dead-eyed and emotionless, idly wondering if it often makes people (soft people, naive people, normal people, people who haven't seen the horrors that she has) scream in terror. From the first half of the welcome letter that she'd read before she'd tossed it aside dismissively, she'd gotten the feeling that this is supposed to be a happy, fluffy place, but this? This is proof that that was a lie, just like all happy, fluffy things are. The Meadous, apparently, doesn't even do a halfway good job of hiding it.

She stands there for a while, quietly congratulating herself on getting to the truth of things so quickly. She's sure there are people (soft people, naive people, yadda yadda) who are taken in by the lie at first, and the post-realization crashdown is probably hard on them. She'd feel sorry for them, she thinks, if she were capable of such things anymore. But after some time, she'll move on, wandering like a ghost through town and eventually finding her way into the woods.

She walks and walks, past the point when her legs start to get sore. There's no purpose to it, and she's going in circles half the time; she might not even end up that far away from the village. She's just walking for something to do, really; she's walking because it's better than sitting still. But eventually, she won't be able to walk anymore, and so she'll half-collapse onto a flat rock, folding her legs up under her and staring listlessly out at the trees. When the animals start to come out (they're easier to notice when she's just sitting quietly, instead of tromping through their habitats), she just watches them quietly at first. But then, one by one, she starts to control them: first making two rabbits play leapfrog, then bringing a deer in and having them all run in a tight loop in front of her, and then adding more and more animals as she sees them, until there's a synchronized ballet of woodland creatures running in smooth, concentric circles around her rock.

It takes more concentration than it should - more than it did the last time she tried this back on her Earth. Those two months she'd been on probation without her powers had gotten her out of practice, she realizes bitterly. And that, surely, is something she'll be punished for eventually.]

[OOC: Please note her many content warnings (none of which will be brought up in detail - or at all, in some cases - without prior permission) as well as her crazy powers! If you want your character to be susceptible to her body control, let me know; otherwise I'll default to assuming that they're immune. If you want your character to be susceptible to her magnetism, feel free to just write it into your tags; this is just an effect she has on people rather than something she actively does.]

II. Wishes.
[Okay, so apperently this Zephyr guy can't give him his friends back. Which would have resulted in nothing if his list of friends didn't include a small robot and someone who liked bugs.

So that's exactly what he got. A small robot bug that isn't even sentient.

It's not a total loss, though. He got a new toy out of it! Now the people of the Meadous will have to live in fear of that thing suddenly crawling on them while they were minding their own buisness! Spoopy... Until it runs out of juice, anyway.]

Bulletin Board
[Looks like someone decided to wish for a typewriter, if only because posting ransom notes on a regular basis would be a waste of time and resources.]

I miss having a network. [With anon function.]

V. Money doesn't grow on trees...
[But apperently Chinese takeout does.

You'll find this guy sitting in the tree with a box in his lap, casually slurping on some noodles. Don't ask how he got up there in that giant coat, he has his ways. Sluuuuuurp.]

Ah! .... Heh. And I thought Wonderland's closets were weird.

[He might have been a little spoiled from the infinite object closets and free food back in Wonderland, but he's adaptable.]

Threaded | Flat

connor; detroit become human (psl/au)

Harley Quinn | DC Comics | Snowblind

Jade Harley | Homestuck | Facility

Lourdes Hidalgo | The Star Shards Chronicles | Mask or Menace