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Test Drive Meme
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— Reply with a character you wish to test in the game's setting.
— Feel free to use one of the prompts below or make one of your own!
— Tag around! This is a panfandom RP, so don't hesitate to tag both castmates and non-castmates.
— Most importantly, have fun!
1/ Welcome To The World Of Crystallis!
You have seen reality shatter and collapse around you, in the depths of the void you found a Crystal and now you are in the city of Aqures Ixen, surrounded by Moogles and people as lost and confused as you are. On the bright side, everyone thinks you're a legendary Hero! On the downside, they expect you to save the world. Maybe their expectations are a bit too much. Thankfully, you're not abandoned to your fate as a Moogle explains to you everything you need to know. It's probably time to get to know your companions in misfortune. Besides, it seems this has occurred very often this past year-- Maybe the characters who have been here for longer than you may help.
2/ Do You Like Your New Life?
No? Well, either way, you better get used to it, to your new powers, to your new house, to the ball of fur that follows your every steps—Who knows, maybe you'll even make some friends here. Besides, even if everyone expects you to save the world, fighting isn't the only way to do so. Maybe you could open a shop to help and properly equip your friends who are actually eager to fight. Maybe you could try and gather people who think it is possible to negotiate with the Calamity, you could even participate in the research on the Crystals— Or you could make sure your house is the prettiest of them all in Aqures Ixen. Anything is possible!
3/ Neighborhood Woes...
The government of Aqures Ixen is sorry, but there are too many of you Heroes of Light. Hence why there are no free houses left in district dedicated to housing you. This may also be why you're not alone in the house that was given to you. Hopefully you're not living with a mad villain plotting to take over the world and hopefully your neighbor isn't a singer who doesn't know how to sing. On the bright side, you may have be living with someone very cool and maybe an artist of great talent lives next door! It's just not likely.
4/ Crystallis De Chocobo
Upon arrival, your Moogle gave you a map of Crystallis. This world may be a bit big for you to explore, so why not go to the Chocobo Farm and ask for a Chocobo? These big birds can't fly, but they're much more efficient than horses when it comes to travelling. Maybe it's your first time riding a Chocobo; it might be a good idea to have someone with you in case something goes wrong. Or maybe the old man at the farm didn't have any Chocobos left and gave you some Chocobo Lure© so you can go and capture your own. You can find details on Chocobo Capture here.
5/ A Thing Called Mognet
Hopefully you weren't used to Internet and cellphones back home. Otherwise, you might be a tiny bit confused when your Moogle returns to you with a stack of letters. Or maybe someone else's Moogle is coming to you with a voice message it learnt by heart and is now going to recite it to you with a lot of Kupo. That's how the "network" works here.
6/ A Thing Called Strike
In spite of how old-fashioned it is, Mognet is very useful and odds are that you may have become dependent on it. Hopefully not, because one local tradition seems to be Mognet Strikes. Nobody knows any more whether the Moogles have legitimate reasons to go on strike or if they are just lazy. But today, Mognet is down, and to get information you have no choice but going to the public board in the third district or in taverns.
7/ I Believe I Can fly~
You are on an Airship! Airships regularly depart from Aqures Ixen and stop by most major cities in the world, so they're the perfect means of transportation for you to go and explore this world. You can also borrow the Heroes of Light's official Airship, the Enterprise and some characters even have their own airship! You can go anywhere in a matter of hours — One can only hope you don’t have motion sickness.
8/ Exploration
Enough expository banter. Now is the time to explore. Maybe rather than spending most of your time in Aqures Ixen, you'd rather spend it living in Balicea, or betting on Chocobo Races in Trano Golsaucia. Or maybe you'd rather go and explore the ancient ruins that may hold some precious information in the continent of ruins. With Airships and Chocobos at your disposal, you can go nearly anywhere!
9/ Random Encounter
You were minding your own business walking around, and suddenly monsters attacked you! Time to put to use the skills you've learned with your Jobs! Alternatively, maybe this encounter isn't random at all, and you have been sent on a mission to kick some imperial asses in the war confronting the Heran Empire and the Republic of Esdham. Good luck!
10/ Getting Jobs Is Hard
It all started when you asked Cid to give you a new Job. What could and should have been a formality, quickly turned into a trial. All you wanted was a Job, and here you are in the wild, hunting for a Malboro Vine. Or maybe you are in some ancient and decrepit ruins looking for an artifact. Or yet again, maybe he simply asked you to assist him to clean the laboratory. Getting new Jobs is not easy. Consider yourself happy though, at least you don't have to do that alone.
11/ The World Is Subject To Unrelenting Pain and Suffering…
This is why you should play a game. After all, there are things a lot more important than saving the world: Blitzball is one of them. Triple Triad is another. Why don't you take a break and do something different for once; anyone wanting to play Blitzball is given a special potion allowing them to breath underwater, whereas someone who wants to play Triple Triad should have no difficulties finding veterans more than happy to get rid of their low level cards.
12/ Events Of The Past
Missed an event you would have liked to participate in? The Test Drive Meme is the perfect place to play this event without being restricted by the game's chronology! Maybe you would have liked to be lost and attacked from all sides in the creepy Magitek Research Facility or maybe you'd have liked to celebrate the Christmas of Crystallis. Yet again, maybe you would have preferred to regain your true powers and subsequently be on your path to death, as in The Night of the Thirteen Moogles or chase ghosts for a living. Or how about reliving some of your Worst Memories or fighting in A War for future of the world?
13/ Wild Card
Don't like the options offered here? Go crazy and choose what you want to do in this world!
You have seen reality shatter and collapse around you, in the depths of the void you found a Crystal and now you are in the city of Aqures Ixen, surrounded by Moogles and people as lost and confused as you are. On the bright side, everyone thinks you're a legendary Hero! On the downside, they expect you to save the world. Maybe their expectations are a bit too much. Thankfully, you're not abandoned to your fate as a Moogle explains to you everything you need to know. It's probably time to get to know your companions in misfortune. Besides, it seems this has occurred very often this past year-- Maybe the characters who have been here for longer than you may help.
2/ Do You Like Your New Life?
No? Well, either way, you better get used to it, to your new powers, to your new house, to the ball of fur that follows your every steps—Who knows, maybe you'll even make some friends here. Besides, even if everyone expects you to save the world, fighting isn't the only way to do so. Maybe you could open a shop to help and properly equip your friends who are actually eager to fight. Maybe you could try and gather people who think it is possible to negotiate with the Calamity, you could even participate in the research on the Crystals— Or you could make sure your house is the prettiest of them all in Aqures Ixen. Anything is possible!
3/ Neighborhood Woes...
The government of Aqures Ixen is sorry, but there are too many of you Heroes of Light. Hence why there are no free houses left in district dedicated to housing you. This may also be why you're not alone in the house that was given to you. Hopefully you're not living with a mad villain plotting to take over the world and hopefully your neighbor isn't a singer who doesn't know how to sing. On the bright side, you may have be living with someone very cool and maybe an artist of great talent lives next door! It's just not likely.
4/ Crystallis De Chocobo
Upon arrival, your Moogle gave you a map of Crystallis. This world may be a bit big for you to explore, so why not go to the Chocobo Farm and ask for a Chocobo? These big birds can't fly, but they're much more efficient than horses when it comes to travelling. Maybe it's your first time riding a Chocobo; it might be a good idea to have someone with you in case something goes wrong. Or maybe the old man at the farm didn't have any Chocobos left and gave you some Chocobo Lure© so you can go and capture your own. You can find details on Chocobo Capture here.
5/ A Thing Called Mognet
Hopefully you weren't used to Internet and cellphones back home. Otherwise, you might be a tiny bit confused when your Moogle returns to you with a stack of letters. Or maybe someone else's Moogle is coming to you with a voice message it learnt by heart and is now going to recite it to you with a lot of Kupo. That's how the "network" works here.
6/ A Thing Called Strike
In spite of how old-fashioned it is, Mognet is very useful and odds are that you may have become dependent on it. Hopefully not, because one local tradition seems to be Mognet Strikes. Nobody knows any more whether the Moogles have legitimate reasons to go on strike or if they are just lazy. But today, Mognet is down, and to get information you have no choice but going to the public board in the third district or in taverns.
7/ I Believe I Can fly~
You are on an Airship! Airships regularly depart from Aqures Ixen and stop by most major cities in the world, so they're the perfect means of transportation for you to go and explore this world. You can also borrow the Heroes of Light's official Airship, the Enterprise and some characters even have their own airship! You can go anywhere in a matter of hours — One can only hope you don’t have motion sickness.
8/ Exploration
Enough expository banter. Now is the time to explore. Maybe rather than spending most of your time in Aqures Ixen, you'd rather spend it living in Balicea, or betting on Chocobo Races in Trano Golsaucia. Or maybe you'd rather go and explore the ancient ruins that may hold some precious information in the continent of ruins. With Airships and Chocobos at your disposal, you can go nearly anywhere!
9/ Random Encounter
You were minding your own business walking around, and suddenly monsters attacked you! Time to put to use the skills you've learned with your Jobs! Alternatively, maybe this encounter isn't random at all, and you have been sent on a mission to kick some imperial asses in the war confronting the Heran Empire and the Republic of Esdham. Good luck!
10/ Getting Jobs Is Hard
It all started when you asked Cid to give you a new Job. What could and should have been a formality, quickly turned into a trial. All you wanted was a Job, and here you are in the wild, hunting for a Malboro Vine. Or maybe you are in some ancient and decrepit ruins looking for an artifact. Or yet again, maybe he simply asked you to assist him to clean the laboratory. Getting new Jobs is not easy. Consider yourself happy though, at least you don't have to do that alone.
11/ The World Is Subject To Unrelenting Pain and Suffering…
This is why you should play a game. After all, there are things a lot more important than saving the world: Blitzball is one of them. Triple Triad is another. Why don't you take a break and do something different for once; anyone wanting to play Blitzball is given a special potion allowing them to breath underwater, whereas someone who wants to play Triple Triad should have no difficulties finding veterans more than happy to get rid of their low level cards.
12/ Events Of The Past
Missed an event you would have liked to participate in? The Test Drive Meme is the perfect place to play this event without being restricted by the game's chronology! Maybe you would have liked to be lost and attacked from all sides in the creepy Magitek Research Facility or maybe you'd have liked to celebrate the Christmas of Crystallis. Yet again, maybe you would have preferred to regain your true powers and subsequently be on your path to death, as in The Night of the Thirteen Moogles or chase ghosts for a living. Or how about reliving some of your Worst Memories or fighting in A War for future of the world?
13/ Wild Card
Don't like the options offered here? Go crazy and choose what you want to do in this world!
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Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
Though by nature her time in crystal stasis felt like none at all, she couldn't shake a vague sense of stiffness, both in mind and body. She felt as though she was moving through molasses, the very air around her resisting her every move. How much time had passed? Where did Aqures Ixen stand in the conflict? Had the refugees been relocated to Santa's Village? Had the Emperor honored their Yuletide agreement? What of the Calamity? How much of the world had it consumed while she had been in stasis? Her thoughts raced as she walked along the cobblestones. She was too distracted to keep up the illusion, letting it drop as soon as she was free of the neighborhood around the hospital. She needed information - and she didn't want to alert the other Heroes to her presence just yet.
And so, the Queen ducked into an alleyway and teleported to one of Aqures Ixen's seedier establishments. All the better to learn about recent happenings. She refused to return to her compatriots a lost lamb, and so took a place at the bar, swirling around a glass of terrible wine she'd bought with a few spare gil she'd had on her person when she'd crystallized.
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
"Oi oi," said one of the toughs. "A newbie to the bars?"
"Shush you," scolded another tough, this one with a large mohawk. "That's one of dem Heroes of Light."
"Bah, Hero or not, they don't have anything on Lady Coppelia," said a third tough with an eyepatch and a large afro. "Oi, you want company?" He called out to Ashe.
"Bruno," said Coppelia and he blushed, "What I mean to say, is that you need a drink ma'am?"
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
The Queen didn't recognize Coppelia - was she a Hero of Light as well, or merely a warrior her underlings thought to be a match for one? "Have you what I seek?"
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
"Coppelia only requests to know how if you have been away for several months, or have just arrived. There is little gained from explaining the whole history of this world."
"Lady Coppelia's a Hero," said Bruno, grinning. "But she's a good one. She came in one day, and healed everyone after a bar brawl. We don't touch her, and the rest of the thugs in town knows this."
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
"I have been...away." No need to reveal more about the Heroes than needed - Ashelia wasn't sure how commonly known the crystal stasis was among the population, despite there being a whole wing in the hospital dedicated to the crystallized Heroes.
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
"October, otherwise known as All Saints Wake and Hallows End in many worlds, it coincides with the holiday of Halloween for Earth. On the night of the 29th, at precisely 12 midnight, 13 moogles utilized a Black Crystal in order to summon forth a deity known as Good King Moggle Mog in a form similar to Earth stories as a "Stay Puff Marshmallow Man". November saw the impending Crystallization of the Empire City, which occurred in January of 2016 Earth Time."
Coppelia tilted her head. "Is Coppelia going too fast?"
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
"So it did happen." Ashelia opened her mouth to continue, but stooped for a moment. Did this young woman just refer to herself in the third person? Focus, Ashelia. "The crystallization. What of the Heran people? Were they granted amnesty to flee by the Emperor after all?"
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
Coppelia thought for a moment. "The capital has been transformed into a state known as Pandemonium. According to lore, Pandemonium is the birthplace of monsters, and/or the landing site for the monsters from the Moon as accordance to Final Fantasy VIII. Crystalis hosts much similarity to the worlds presented."
"We don't know what Lady Coppelia means by that either," said Bruno with a grunt. "She sometimes says a lot of confusing stuff, like how she's not a real woman or something."
"Truth. I am one of 19 Bots created by a Chinese Money Laundering Group for the extensive purpose of obtaining Gold for the utilization of reselling its value to Players." said Coppelia without breaking.
"See? Weird stuff." said Bruno.
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
Ashelia looked from Bruno to Coppelia and back to Bruno. "There is always a method to the madness, if one looks closely enough. The Heroes hail from many different worlds - what seems to lack logic to us may not be so where she is from." Ashelia hadn't a clue what the Lady Coppelia was referring to either, but it didn't seem to have any bearing on things. This Final Fantasy though...
"Crystallis does indeed hold similarities to many others by nature - it is made up of those that have come before in previous cycles." She bit her lip in thought, crossing her arms and tapping on her lips with the tips of the fingers on her right hand. "Is that all we know about Pandemonium? What of the Emperor Garland?"
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
"Yeah, she's just really weird sometimes. Often talks about HP and MP and stuff," said Bruno. "She's an odd cookie."
At the last question, Coppelia replied. "The Emperor's status is unknown but presumably he lives in some fashion. Pandemonium is a place that manages to stay isolated due to the inability to access it as a location, due to the crystallization process. There has also been developments with minor side quests, The Chocobo Forest, as well as another Side Quest known as the Other Heroes of Light. The Other Heroes were a group awoken and journeyed here. Their numbers have severely diminished, due to the strange deaths and vanishings of said members. Numbers were estimated to be almost fifty. Only few remain."
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
The mention of other Heroes gave the Queen pause though. So many! And almost all of them vanished, or dead? "Other Heroes? Explain, please. Where did they awaken? Here in Aqures Ixen?"
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
Coppelia paused here. Wasn't it right to remember them in a moment of silence for the fallen? "Approximately seven months after their awakening by the woman known as Kalki who had been said to have fallen at the hands of Palitutu and Artemicion and their Ultima Weapon, several of them crystallized abruptly. Some died, according to reports, while others lived on, linked to the Crystal of Fire."
"A damn shame," grumbled Bruno. "There were kids in that group. Even us toughs don't spit on the dead."
"The ruling factor of the city has said they are researching the cause, and have not come up with answers. They also claim the Fire Crystal is losing power, much like a battery on its last legs. Soon, there will be no more Adventurers."
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
The Queen looked at Bruno sharply. "More children? Father above..." She shook her head. "But not Ib. Not Ib. Tell me she lives yet."
Re: Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca | Final Fantasy XII
Bruno shook his head. "I don't think there were too many casualties, and I think from what the boys say, all the other kids are accounted for. Geez, what a sorry sight that was."
"Coppelia apologizes for not being there when the passing began. Coppelia's Revive spell was not available at this time, due to the cancelling of Coppelia's War-Cleric capabilities." added Coppelia. "If this was Elder Tale, the fallen would have revived at the Cathedral. Sadly this is not the case."