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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 prompt 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 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. Maybe it's time to get to know your companions in misfortune. Besides, it seems this has occurred past month already-- Maybe some people 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 diplomacy can stop war, you could even start your own researches on the Crystals— Or you could make sure your house is the prettiest in all of Aqures Ixen. Anything is possible.

3/ Neighborhood woes
The government of Aqures Ixen is very sorry, but it seems there are too many of you Heroes of Light. Hence why there is 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 late at night, and hopefully your neighbor isn't a singer who doesn't know how to sing. On the bright side, you may have someone very cool living with you and an artist 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 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 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 some ancient ruins that may hold some precious information. With Airships and Chocobos at your disposal, you can go nearly anywhere that isn't under imperial control; unless you have a death wish of course.

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 she simply asked you to assist her in her researches on the Crystals. 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 capture a Chocobo during Crystalis de Chocobo, maybe you would have liked to be lost and attacked from all sides in the creepy Magitek Research Facility, or maybe you'd like to celebrate the Christmas of Crystallis. Yet again, maybe you would have liked to regain your true power and subsequently be on your path to death, as in The Night of the Thirteen Moogles. Or how about participating in Christmas at Crystallis or fighting in a war for the warriors among you?

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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shinra_dog: (let's go)

[personal profile] shinra_dog 2015-08-28 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Even with Job clothing, the guy was wearing some kind of freaky mask. What the hell was up with that?

Slowly, stunned, Reno wandered through the items littering the lawn. He couldn't believe this. He did not just die -- again -- to come back to this. Wait, was this all just his stuff?

"Is this s'posed to be my bed?" he demanded, turning back to Deadpool as he pointed at a mattress in the grass.
unalive_them: (Shot 'Em In The Ass With One Of These!)

[personal profile] unalive_them 2015-08-28 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Eyup! Gonna turn that room into a killer trophy room!" Deadpool said. "Mattresses and trophies just don't match. Unless you're some high school football dropout."
bright_and_blue: (fiddling)

[personal profile] bright_and_blue 2015-08-28 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[His expression is just as dismayed, but the fact that she seems to be trying so hard gets through to him. He plops back down to his knees, looking no less depressed, but attempting to reassemble as he talks.]

You're right... We can! There's no time limit to when this needs to be done... but there's also no time limit to how long this could take us. A double-edged sword! Just another tool, but can we use this tool to our advantage, or will it be used against us? Only time will tell! HA! That was some excellent wordplay. You're free to applaud.

[She really shouldn't. But at least he's seems to be cheering up, for the moment.]
unetoned: borrowed from Jenna/Bevelle (contemplating)

[personal profile] unetoned 2015-08-28 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Billy ushered the girl into the kitchen, giving Terra a grateful nod over her head as he saw the kettle she'd heated. He let her choose her seat and helped mix the tea leaves into the water.

"Drink up," he urged the still-sniffling girl once the leaves had steeped. "When you're done, we can talk about your dream, or we can read a bedtime story and go back to sleep."

The girl slurped some tea, looking none-too-pleased with either prospect.

"Who're you?" she asked Terra, rather than choose. "You're pretty."
shinra_dog: (disdain)

[personal profile] shinra_dog 2015-08-28 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Ngh... Put... it... back. Now," Reno growled, just barely containing his temper. If this was a joke, it was the worst possible time.
wickedone: (wtf)

[personal profile] wickedone 2015-08-28 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Albel jumped. Was that...?

The man was alive. In a weird mask, talking nonsense, but alive. Albel had never seen someone come out of crystal stasis like that -- with the exception of Aqures Tosf, but then they'd all been turned to crystal. That was different, somehow.

"What...?" he managed. "What are you talking about?"

Had this fool seriously been killed by a chocobo?
unetoned: borrowed from Jenna/Bevelle (sweatdrop)

[personal profile] unetoned 2015-08-28 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Repairing you?

[Actually, Billy wasn't sure he wanted to ask. The girl was cute, but nothing she said made sense. He waved away his question.]

I don't know anyone yet-

[Billy's moogle, Primoogle, almost vibrated with excitement.]

"Biggs and Wedge and Cid are here! The Heroes of Light rescued Cid from the Empire, kupo!"
shinra_dog: (damn Turk)

[personal profile] shinra_dog 2015-08-28 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"You alright there?" Reno attempted an uneasy smile. "Took quite a fall."

He wasn't entirely comfortable with the turbulence of the airship either, truth be told -- mostly because he wasn't piloting the thing. He didn't like having it out of his control. But he knew this sort of thing was normal, and he tried to remind himself of it every time the craft shuddered and bumped.

He'd just never seen anyone faint over it before. This guy must be terrified.
desertdaggers: (these are sharp)

[personal profile] desertdaggers 2015-08-28 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yuuichiro-

Something unique, huh? Does that mean we'll get to name it, too?

Well, if you need one of those, I like to think I've a decent hand at it.

- Hawk
greenmagick: (Default)

[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-28 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Terra nodded with a warm gaze. "Of course. It's at the edge of the 14th District." She would welcome all to her shop, if only to see it. She got a lot of business from the townspeople wanting to buy flowers.

"It isn't a big shop..." Though it's made her feel more comfortable here. "Um... is there anything I can help you with?"

Not that she has answers.
greenmagick: (head tilt)

[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-28 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra looks up at him, handing him two pieces that clearly looking like they fit together.]

Here, I think these are supposed to hook together.

[Better the mechanic do the job.]
greenmagick: (Shy/embarassed/small smile)

[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-28 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Terra flushed slightly at that turning towards the young girl with a warm smile. Unlike before she seemed relaxed and happy, as if the child pulled her awkward and nervous tendencies away.

"My name is Terra. Thank you, what's your name?"

She smiled before stepped forward to crouch down to eye level.
unyieldingspirit: (just disappointed)

[personal profile] unyieldingspirit 2015-08-28 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
A shield… Curious. [she frowns.] I'd think it would be important to work that out. […preferably before it ends up turned off somehow, if that's at all possible.]

[she nods, blowing out a sigh.] Besides anything, it's tiring. Thinking that anyone else might be hiding the truth… I'm sorry you've had to deal with that.
acceptedoblivion: (Default)

[personal profile] acceptedoblivion 2015-08-28 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)

[Well, he wasn't wrong to assume that... Besides, he was starting to get Sora-like vibes from this guy... Maybe it was just a part of the Rikuface thing to not... say any details.

He gives Ven a straight face before responding, ignoring the first comment.]


A bit, yeah. [Crossing his arms, he shrugs.] There's a few similarities between what I could do here and what I could do at that world.

[That they weren't an illusion, though... that was a bonus.]

What about you? I see you're showing off that Keyblade of yours. Not able to summon weapons either, huh.
derplander: (Default)

[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-28 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
We're trying to disable Alexander before the shield potentially goes down. So far, it's working. [And preferably before shit happened that was out of their control.]

Thank you. I know, for myself at least, being strung along like a puppet on strings sometimes frustrates me.
makingfriends: (But I'm totally tall enough to ride!)

[personal profile] makingfriends 2015-08-28 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ven nods lightly at that first part; he discovered as much pretty quickly, as well. A lot of the same spells, just... starting over from the ground up. Which sucked, and was pretty humbling. Mostly sucked.

Twisting around, he's halfway through the motion of dropping back outside the fence when that second remark comes, and it's enough to make him miss the simple landing. He doesn't do anything as clumsy as fall, but he does stumble slightly, that default friendly air of his quickly shifting into tensed surprise. Not confrontational, but definitely wary.]


How do you know about that?

[Not just the name, but the nature of it, too... that's a stark contrast from all the stares and questions it's garnered in this world up to now.]
unyieldingspirit: (how do I put this)

[personal profile] unyieldingspirit 2015-08-28 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's strange. To think, that her armour- or perhaps not hers precisely, but someone's, certain- could stand in front of her like this- it's almost too incredible for words.

She smiles, cheered.]


He chose a good one, didn't he?

Whoa- [she reaches out to try and help Maggie stay on her feet, ears flicked up in concern.]

I don't think… Uncle Cid's come here. […that's probably the best way to say that, right? If he does turn up… Well, she'll think of something then.] Or- that is, I haven't seen him yet. We can ask others if they have, though.
acceptedoblivion: (listening ♥ I'll wait here)

[personal profile] acceptedoblivion 2015-08-28 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He should have figured. Illusion or not, it was just like his luck that the one familiar-looking person he came across would act oblivious to what he could be speaking of. Ira wasn't sure whether to be angry or relieved.

He crosses his arms, contemplating just how much he should tell this guy.]


There wasn't a way to approach them, let alone tame one. Not exactly the best life choice, if you wanted to avoid being destroyed.

[Destroyed, not die... Whether it was an inherited urge not to use death so lightly or the last year of his life affecting him, he wasn't sure yet. Looking up though, he supposes he could see just what he could get from this Sephiroth.]

I only came here because that moogle wouldn't stop insisting on it.
acceptedoblivion: (smile ♥ in my time)

[personal profile] acceptedoblivion 2015-08-28 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aw shucks, if this guy was going to get tripped up over something like that then he was not going to have much fun with this guy whose initial setting is always trollolol.

Congrats, Ven; you got a smile out of him.]


My... friend, Sora. [Light, that's still weird to say.] He wields one. A guy named Terra was teaching me a few tricks before he left the world we met on, too.

[He is not going to mention just how many Keyblades have met his face for being an idiot/manipulated jerk. Noooope.]
makingfriends: (Herp?)

[personal profile] makingfriends 2015-08-28 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[And that's a twofold surprise. Just the mention of Sora is enough to shock him silent for a heartbeat, recognition of the name written all over his open face -- but before he can even start to breach that topic, his focus instantly spins on its heel fast enough to put a ballerina on crack to shame.]

Terra? You know Terra? [That wariness of before instantly dissipates, obviously, because Ven takes a step forward as if this much-needed confirmation might try to slip away.] Where? What world? When did you see him? Was it recent?
acceptedoblivion: (concealed ♥ I'll wait here)

one of these days i'll renew his paid... /sob

[personal profile] acceptedoblivion 2015-08-28 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)

[Well what do you know, small worlds.

He looks a bit surprised himself, but knowing how those guys just seem to attract friends to them like moths to a flame, he can't be entirely.]


Y-yeah. Not for long, though. [And considering what happens to those who that kid lost grip of, he's hesitant to say much more.] He heard what I was trying to do so started teaching me basic magic to keep an upper hand...

Funny thing about the "when" and "where" - that place threw conceptions of time and space off the side of the 91st floor. Not exactly a place anyone would want to be, either.
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makingfriends: but your words aren't you (I trust you more than anything)

i understand that struggle. it is real. :c

[personal profile] makingfriends 2015-08-28 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's not entirely comforting, not quite the full answer Ven would prefer, but he'll take it. He visibly loses some of that tension.]

So... he was okay. [It's like Aqua, then. Lost on another world somewhere, but... okay. Alive. And Terra was himself, by the sound of it. He shakes his head after a moment.] Yeah, time's kind of weird here, too. People from the same worlds arrive from different... time points, or something. [It's weird, complicated, and he's honestly had enough of time travel shenanigans for now. And, well, ever.

But speaking of time--]


Wait -- what did Terra look like? Just a little older than me, right? [...Well. Sort of?? Age is a funny thing?? But this guy doesn't know that.] Brown hair?

[Not silver, please don't say silver -- and don't say he was more like twice Ven's age, because that odd vision from months back is still fresh in his mind, the faces of two men in particular. By himself, he never would have guessed at the connections -- or the vague likeness of the second individual -- but someone in this world wanted him to see it, wanted to make sure he had suspicions. And since then... well. He's been eager to put several fears to rest.]
acceptedoblivion: (down ♥ or just not enough)

;-; also gomen 4 this butt

[personal profile] acceptedoblivion 2015-08-28 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. [He nods.] Before he disappeared from that place, anyway.

[After that was anyone's guess. He could have been left to wander the wastelands of his version of their Worlds, could have been dragged to the admin levels and destroyed by phantoms of said version of Worlds, or...

Yet that's not something to linger onto; those other goody two shoes would find a way to save all of them. Somehow.

That question gives him cause to pause though. What he looked like? Well that was an odd question.]


Tall, brown hair and blue eyes... Probably ten years older than what we look like if I had to guess. Always wearing a black coat with armor on his left arm, but... that's just the Terra I met.

[He uncrosses his arms to rub the back of his neck. He's probably only confusing the guy more.]

Can't say I ever fully understood why, but there were multiples of other people there where things were different back home. Could be that the Terra you know is out there and never met me, or it could be the same guy.
shinrasfinest: (Intent Gaze)

[personal profile] shinrasfinest 2015-08-28 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh? That's not so entirely dissimilar to the Legend here then.

[The Legend that speaks of Heroes of Light coming to defeat the Calamity. Of course, the popular story doesn't share the fact that every single time the Heroes have failed to do so.]

Anytime.

[Not one to stick around, Sephiroth turns to leave and will do so unless Meteor has anything else to say to him.]
makingfriends: (when I'm not a step behind)

asdg never b sorry i thrive on shots to my feels

[personal profile] makingfriends 2015-08-28 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[The "ten years" guess isn't a surprise, really, just a reminder; it's been far too easy for Ven to forget that time didn't wait for anyone else while he slept. It's the mention of a black coat that gets a reaction, of all things: he starts, looking concerned and confused -- and then resigned, even disappointed, shoulders sagging slightly. That coat... the same one that man wore? The same one that Ven himself now has a copy of? He'll have to ask later, once he meets up with Mograe again. If it is, though... that's just more unanswered questions.

But speaking of--]


Multiples? [He tilts his head. Like the doppelgangers here, maybe? Or...

...ugh, this is confusing. At the very least, he knows that Terra -- a Terra? -- reached a point in their future. That's good enough.]


...Mm... well... Thanks for telling me all that. I owe you. [His smile's definitely not as bright as before, but it's there.] I'm Ventus, by the way -- Ven for short.

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