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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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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Better.

[Taking a length of cloth from his backpack, he dried himself off, dabbing the water from his face and hair.] I suppose I should go get changed to something different. Lest the armor of the warrior rusts.

But... that can wait. You are very skilled with casting.
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
I've done it a lot. I prefer to heal.

[She doesn't really care for combat.]

I never got your name?
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, my name. My name is--GAH!

[Wiping hot soup of his eyes from where it had been knocked over by a worker up top on the railing, he winced.]

This... ow... godsdamnit, can this ever stop?!
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra grabs the towel and tries to help him clean up the soup. She almost feels sad that she asked.]

I'm so sorry.

Are you alright?

[Maybe there is a reason he can't say his name?]
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
It's like I'm cursed. Trying to tell someone who I am is like pulling teeth.

[He smiles gratefully at Terra as he manages to clean up with her help.] Sorry. Just call me SE if you must. Any more than that is tempting the wrath of Hydaelyn herself.
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hydaelyn?

[She pauses and then continues. She thinks she's heard the name before but she can't remember.]

It's alright... how about Sea? I don't think initials make a very good name.
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
The mother crystal. All life is born from Her, and it is through Her blessing that I was able to survive all these years.

[He nods, smiling a little.] "Sea" is fine. I like the name, and I always liked the ocean. I began my adventurers in Limsa Lominsa after all, a port city, run by the Maelstrom; a sort of pirate coalition.
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods with a smile. She's glad he likes it, her own name means earth and she likes naming things after the planet.]

It sounds amazing. I guess you like adventures like this then?
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
I've been adventuring for quite some time actually. [Sea smiled as he gestured towards the eating area a ways away.] Why don't we get something, and I will tell you about the life of the Adventurers in the Adventurers Guild of Eorzea? Surely it will lift our spirits, after the dunking and hot soup.
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra smiles and nods. It sounds like fun and she likes the idea of having something to eat and drink.]

I know of a Tavern close by.
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Perfect. Lead on, I am not familiar with this town just yet.

[Hefting his backpack over his shoulder, he smiled at Terra before falling in step behind her.]
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[It isn't that far away so she leads without filling in the silence. It's comfortable and its what she's used too.

When they arrives she points at the sigh out front.]


We're here.
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
It looks very homely. [Opening the door and holding it for her for a brief moment, he gazed around the building before finding a table for the pair of them.]

What do you recommend? [he asked Terra curiously.]
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Terra thanks him softly as she walks in and then again as they find a table. She looks around and smiles at the man behind the counter. She's been here a few times and they know who she is now.]

I've enjoyed most things on the menu here. What is it that you like?

[She doesn't know him well enough to pick something for him but they have an excellent stew.]
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I have always liked Buttons in a Blanket, but I don't know if they have that here... [He started looking through the menu and then alighted on one.]

Finger Sandwiches. Those would work. They are small sandwiches cut into easy to eat pieces. in my homeworld, the quality of food could enhance your abilities.
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods, order them water as well as the sandwiches. They have some time to wait before anything will arrive at their table.]

So you were going to tell me of your adventures?
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, let us see...

The first of many, as it were was when I decided to take a quick job, as many do in Eorzea. Gil can be hard to come by, so I partied with a Miqo'te, and Elezen, both of impatient standing.

He smiled at the memory. Ah, his first party that began the journey. "Our journey took us into the woods, to the nation state of Gridania in fact... it was there that a simple journey began to take shape, as my comrades and I saw a falling ship from the sky; an airship no less."
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Terra's head canted to the side curiously "Why was it falling?"

It certainly sounded exciting but it also sounded dangerous. She hadn't know the city that he mentioned but she painted a careful picture in her head about the world he was from.
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It seemed the engines had been damaged, and the pair ejected themselves from it, landing in a grove.

The two in question were a Lalafell man and a Hyur woman, both friends for ages. The small one is a soon to be friend, Papalymo, and the woman Yda.

Unfortunately, while we spoke, the Greenwrath had covered us, and been brought down by our entrance into the forest. A sort of barrier that surrounds the Twelveswood. The elementals, spirits of nature, became enraged at our presence and attacked all of us.
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Terra felt very connected to the elements. To hear that they might attack people made her wonder.

"Why would the spirits of nature attack?" As far as she knew they usually had reason and that reason was to protect itself from something horrible. Possibly a reaction cause by the airship crash but she couldn't say for sure.
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"They were angry, because the wards had been broken. The spirits, protect the people of Gridania, and for this barrier to be broken in such a violent way, naught by them but later another party, we were forced to flee when a giant treant pulled itself out of the ground.

It chased us across the way, my party and I scared to death. The Elezen was complaining and the Miqo'te shouting at the top of her lungs. But just before the treant was about to make a snack of us, starting with the Lala, something happened..."

He smiled at the memories. "Moogles, rarely seen creatures of the Twelveswood, paraded by us, calming the spirit with song and instrument. The Pajal, the White Mage order of Gridania, managed to calm the elementals, and thus we were saved."
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Terra was leaning forward with each new word. She was completely absorbed into his story and she couldn't help but smile at the end of it. She loves moogles and she knew first hand how amazing they were.

"It's a good thing the moogles showed up then." Moogles had saved Terra in her own world before coming here though she didn't know the details. She just remembered a swarm of white furry things and then the darkness that came with sleep.
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes indeed. I am good friends with many of them, although the moogles of the Moghome are very much eager to push their chores onto us." He laughed at that. "There are two distinct tribes, each with a chieftain. One, high above the clouds in Moghome, and another, who live in the Twelveswood. The Twelveswood moogles are my strongest friends, having the courage to fight and to protect."

He smiled in reflection as he sighed. "They have much to live up to, but 5 years later, when I had returned, I went to the Twelveswood. Kuplo Kopp could not remember my name or face however, it was rather sad."
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[personal profile] greenmagick 2015-08-16 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry to hear that." Before Terra could say more the waitress returned with their food and drink. Terra smiled and then took her glass in hand. She liked feeling the ceramic betneath her finger tips.

"Thank you." She spoke to the server as she left with a smile.

Terra's gaze shift back to Sea with a smile. "You've been through a lot then. How do you feel about this place?" She wonders how close to home it was for him.
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[personal profile] derplander 2015-08-16 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"It was a strange turn of circumstances. I was trapped in a time vortex for five years, and when I returned, the whole world was different." He smiled as he nodded at the server and he picked up a Finger Sandwich.

"This place... has yet to feel like home but... I can get used to it. It is a strong place, and I feel like it needs healing. It is on the cusp of an Umbral Era, and it is all we can do to stave off the Cataclysm, er, I mean Calamity."

He chuckled. "At least this time, Bahamut and Dalamund, the red moon are not descending upon Carteneau again."

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