01. Test Drive Meme

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TEST DRIVE MEME


Thinking about joining Iterum? Unsure of who to bring or if they'll even fit the setting? Posting here offers you the chance to find out how they'll do while getting the sample for done for their application.

→ Comment down below with the character you'd like to test drive in the setting. Don't forget to add their name and canon in the subject line.
→ Choose a scenario or create your own, and tag around!
→ Test drives will be posted regularly in the months of March, June, September, and December.
→ Threads in the test drive are NOT eligible to use for activity checks, however, you can make them game canon if you wish and both you and your scene partner agree.


Possible Scenarios
Please note that all characters will initially arrive in their assigned housing; they are free to explore the City to their heart's content after that!

01. Arriving: You're pretty sure you knew where you were before you closed your eyes. But somewhere between then and now, you discover that you're definitely not there. In fact, the setting is so unfamiliar to you that it's bordering on unnerving and questions start to stack. Have you been abducted? Did you get drunk and pass out somewhere and not remember? Whatever the case, you need some answers. Or maybe this is familiar and the only thing that doesn't make sense is the layer of dust on everything around you which obviously means some time has passed. How much? No one seems to know. What you do know is that sitting around and waiting for answers is likely not going to happen.

So, you set out and hope to run into someone in the City that looks like they may be in a similar situation. Or, at the very least a person that might be able to provide some explanation. Veteran Chosen, make sure you warn the new people about the Shadows and advise them to steer clear of dark alleys and things that go bump in the night.

02. Party, party!: Now that you've arrived and hopefully settled, it's time to unwind. Inside your welcome basket is an invitation from the Duchess, who has decided to celebrate the growing population of the City with a massive "Welcome to the City" party in the Tower District. Wine spills free, and drugs abound, this is the kinda party that caters to all! The wicked and debauched demons and the good and decent who, if not careful, might end up tainted and corrupted at some point, like everyone else. Even if it's only for one night, why not cut loose and forget about whatever is pressing on your mind?

Nothing to wear? Check your closet, we're sure you'll find something suitable to wear.

03. Prominence: Everyone knows that the City sometimes influences its population on a monthly basis. Unfortunately, you arrived right in the middle of a heavy Prominence. Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, or Pride: choose your sin and get wicked. You'll find it's hard to avoid being sinful, almost as if your basic instincts are taking over.

04. Run!: A lot can go wrong in the City; demon attacks, muggings or there's even danger of being plucked from the streets and forced to partake in the Coliseum's version of Fight Club (if you know, you know). There are plenty of unsavoury types that all Chosen must be aware of. They rule the night, and once the sun goes down it becomes the Sinning Hour. Demons and monsters and humans capable of inciting just as much fear, if not more, come out to play. Mind yourself. It's hardly a tea party out there.

05. Network: Broadcast a video, voice or text message to anyone in your phone's directory. All Chosen have a device that they can use to communicate. Those that are returning will find their phone as it was, though without any contact that was previously in the City that is not currently. For the newly Chosen, a device will be supplied in your welcome basket and will match the type of telecommunications that was being used at the time of their exit.

06. Wild Card: Choose your own adventure in the game's multiple settings!



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Comments

[thegreatexperiment]

I mean, I'm not actually FROM Los Angeles, if that's what you're asking

[abeautifulgame]

Not quite.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you're not in Kansas anymore. None of us are. It just so happens that you're the first person I've talked to who hasn't done this song and dance before.

When I said I came from the middle of no where, I meant it. We called it the Void.

[no, he called it the Void. the group as a whole had yet to really settle on a name for the world they were creating]

[thegreatexperiment]

Yeah
Gonna need a bit more exposition there, Alice and/or Dorothy

[abeautifulgame]

[keep up, gosh]

I'm originally from Chicago. One dark and stormy night -- [literally] -- I turned around and I was standing in the middle of a great, white nothing. And I wasn't alone.

[a long stretch of (...) follows, like he's typing a novel, then a shorter period of nothing. then:]

Are you familiar at all with multiverse theory?

[apparently, he changed his mind about what he was going to say somewhere along the way]

[thegreatexperiment]

The hypothetical set of all universes, presumed to comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them? I may have heard of it. I can go into the Max Tegmark and Brian Greene classification system too, if you want. Why?

[abeautifulgame]

Ha! We ought to talk Tegmark, sometime.

[because clearly his is the superior multiverse theory. but anyway]

I ask because one of the prevailing theories was that we'd all been whisked away to an alternate reality.

[that wasn't his theory -- he was pretty convinced that it was a simulation a la The Matrix. to the point where he'd gone and written a string of code to try rewriting his own physical parameters and fix his leg. it was a theory, though, and it's rapidly, disappointingly starting to look like the right one, seeing as how this definitely isn't Kansas anymore]

I think we've been pulled into another.

[thegreatexperiment]

You're fucking kidding me
Are you talking megaverse with entanglement?

[abeautifulgame]

Like I said. Curiouser and curiouser.

[that would be a yes]

[thegreatexperiment]

Fuck
HOW?
Wouldn't someone notice an Einstein-Rosen bridge or two just lying around?

[abeautifulgame]

Apparently not.

[or he didn't either time he ended up somewhere different, at least]

I'm still working on the how.

[he may need to make his very own murder board]

[thegreatexperiment]

Kip Thorne would be wetting himself right now

[abeautifulgame]

Aren't we all?

daedalus, by the way.

[it's still force of habit to keep his internet persona and his actual self separate, apparently]

[thegreatexperiment]

Skywalker

[Two can play that game. Not that Sam actually cares, like, at all. But she might as well point out the ridiculousness.]

[abeautifulgame]

Anakin or Luke?

[which is to say he's calling bullshit]

[thegreatexperiment]

Luke
Like, you have no idea how much Luke

[abeautifulgame]

Well, my boy, you're certainly as terrible a liar as Luke.

[thegreatexperiment]

What lie?
"Skywalker" has been my handle for a long time
Did you fly too close to the sun or something?

[abeautifulgame]

That was Icarus.

Daedalus was the one who created the Labyrinth. Among other things.

[thegreatexperiment]

Daedalus flew too
Don't mess with me
AP World Lit :)

[abeautifulgame]

You're the one who put the caveat of 'too close to the sun' in there.

[and while, yes, Daedalus flew, too, it wasn't his wings that melted]

[thegreatexperiment]

I think we're getting off topic here
Einstein-Rosen bridges? Multiverse? Potential megaverse?

[abeautifulgame]

Right. Yes.

[he's a sucker for a good debate -- or a ridiculous one, which is probably more on par with what that was. but anyway]

Where were we?

[beyond the obvious that she already mentioned]

Long story short, this isn't my first rodeo.

[was that it?]

[thegreatexperiment]

OK, so you've been sucked into another dimension before
Assuming that's true...
Patterns seem like the first place to start, right?

[abeautifulgame]

Which is why I'd asked if you'd been anywhere else before here.

[trying to find a pattern was his first thought, too]

Beyond that, there's nothing I've seen so far that reads as a pattern.

[thegreatexperiment]

Use your own experience
What's this shithole have in common with your last shithole?