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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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[Chrom would probably never guess that Seifer was feeling any sort of worry or insecurity about their task. He seemed to be perfectly competent with his gunblade (a weapon that Chrom was very much looking forward to wielding himself someday soon), and they'd felled eight of the murderous creatures so far with no grievous incidents.]
[He rotates his wrist, spinning his sword before grasping it with both hands and leaping forward to deliver a devastating cross-slash, imbuing his strike with the Armor Break ability so that Seifer's next attack will deal more damage. Pretty routine by now. At the end of his attack he jumps back into position, taking a defensive stance. Definitely not a good idea to stay within stabbing range of these things.]
Look alive. There are more coming.
[In the distance there are three bobbing orange lights, slowly swaying toward the two swordsmen. Chrom sighs.]
I don't think I'll understand the need for just one of these knives, let alone twenty. A blacksmith could surely craft something of equal or superior quality.
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[Seifer wasn't insecure or suicidal, but to himself, and occasionally Fujin, he could admit when he needed to beef up his skills when they were new. He works with Chrom easily enough, he's a well adversed partner and far more matched for the tonberries, even though he'll refuse to admit it.
He was impressed by him however, and didn't hesitate to say so.] “You are a hell of a fighter. I think once I get better at this whole thing, you and I need to spar. Just to test our limits and snit.”
[He nods, smirking and ready for them, like he always is. Then he dashes toward the one they're currently fighting, and slashes it across the face, making it ooze blood. He almost feels bad for it but that doesn't stop him from doing another slice across it's shoulder, making it stutter, like it might fall.] “Let them come. I ain't afraid of little squeaky monsters.” [even if they were a fearsome foe.]
Well, from what I know, is you can refine them into certain things and their steel isn't like the steel you can get anywhere else. Armor Piercing Ammo for gun wielders I imagine, if they still work like that in this world.
[he shrugged his shoulders, the lights were drawing closer and he knew, no matter how skilled the two of them were, there was no way they'd be able to take on three at once, unless they went separately for each one, and then shared in the fight with the third one. That's if they got rid of the one they were working on now. ]
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[Despite the seriousness of their situation, it seems like they're working well together.
They might even achieve a C-Rank status after this.It's not often Chrom gets to cross blades with a fellow sword-lover at that, so he's very much looking forward to one of his favorite pasttimes.][When Seifer goes for the front, Chrom angles to the side, so they can catch the Tonberry between them and topple their foe at last. He stoops to pick up the blade and pass it handle-first to Seifer. This is his quest, after all, Chrom's just along for the extra support and to serve as a guide.]
Is that so? We don't have their ilk in my world.
[Now he's kind of curious about whether or not a sword can be fashioned from the steel. He does still need a blade with the dark elemental infused into it, and he can think of nothing more appropriate than Tonberry steel to serve such a purpose.]
[But yeah. Three lights might be three too many. They've got time to discuss strategies, however, thanks to their slow, plodding gait.]
What do you think? Should we try to divide their numbers by splitting up, or fight them all at once?
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[he takes the chef blade easily enough and puts it in his bag.] Thanks. [He wouldn't need a guide if he wasn't so infant to the world here. Infact, he had bristled at the idea of being handed one by Mars, or well... suggested until Seifer cracked to get the retarded moogle off his back.]
I've never been much for guns, aside from my gunblade. Guns are too quick, unsatisfying. Blades make battle a lot more interesting.
[He turns his thoughtful eyes on the tonberries, considering their next move. He would prefer taking all three on at once by himself, if he had to but Mars would probably give him an earful over It.]
Split up. Fall back and fight the third one together. Don't worry, I can handle my own.
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[He's heard of gunblades, but he just couldn't figure out how a gun could fire bullets at the same time. He supposes it's handy to have two weapons in one, but until he starts mastering the Magitek Knight job, he won't know for sure just how they work.]
[But there's time enough for small talk later. He raises his blade as a friendly salute.]
Gods be with us both, then. Shout if you find yourself overwhelmed.
[Chrom means that in the best way, he truly does. Just because Seifer is new doesn't mean he's incompetent as a fighter. But there's always a chance either of them could run into more than just Tonberries out here. Those Black Elementals can be a nuisance if neither of them have any Light-based magic.]
[With that, Chrom takes off to the right, his tattered white cloak flowing behind him. He just needs one or two to focus on him...]
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He remembers the days of deciding on it being his weapon of choice, the long hard days after classes of training and weekends trying to get better at the cost of a social life.
In the end, it's had been worth it.]
Sure thing, but trust me, I'll don't need too much help. [he says, waving a dismissive hand nonchalanty.]
[Seifer takes off to the left, feet dashing as the tonberry moves slower than molasses, the third one they're not fighting at the moment is further back and might give them time to destroy the first before it makes it too close. He runs forward, hitting the tonberry with a well executed slash, coupled with magic bullet twice as it tumbles around.
Jumping back, he realizes by the end of this journey, he never wants to see another green little monster for as long as he lived or at least for as long as he was here.
The tonberry uses everyone's grudge but he manages to duck out of the way just in time before it ends up taking away too much of his health. He has cure but he's not about to find out how much of his mana reserves he can use before running out.
He moves forward again, slicing into the skin of the tonberry twice, and it gives a pained squeak in response. He'd feel bad but the damn thing is an enemy and he's one step closer to finishing his quest.]
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[Resisting the urge to clap his hand over the bleeding injury, he raises his sword once more. The blade is raised as Chrom closes in, but this time he manages to parry it with Falchion before delivering a heaping helping of coal flung right in its face. It slumps, morale bottoming out as it questions its place in the universe and all of the evil it committed. It doesn't really feel like murdering people today.]
[Chrom just. Kinda. Picks up the knife as it drops it to the ground from nerveless fingers. That's one way to do it, he supposes.]
Finished here! How are you holding up?
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Soon the Tonberry falls and he's free of the burden, only to move onto the next one. He turns to Chrom, walking over to him and notices the wound. He casts cure without murmuring the words.] You should be good for now. [Then he casts it on himself to feel revitalized.]
[He turns his attention to the third tonberry, who doesn't seem at all phased by the fact that they just took out two of their comrades. Freaking thing should be terrified, but it looks like he's a glutton for punishment.] Last one. You ready to rumble?
[Before Chrom coudl answer, he ran into battle, roaring and ready, face a lit with fire in his eyes and a curl to his lips.]
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You have my thanks. I'm pleased at least one of us came to this place with some measure of healing capability.
[He looks at the last Tonberry and nods, his face growing serious once more.]
I am.
[And with that he's running behind Seifer, prepared to deliver a secondary strike once Seifer's hit first, to send the thing flying while it's still reeling. He powers up his blade with another Armor Strike to deplete its defenses.]
Right behind you!