TDM - Somewhere, beyond the sea~

[bathymetric]

THE UNKNOWN SEAS TDM

Hello and welcome to the Test Drive Meme for Unknown Seas! Welcome to the bottom of the whole ocean, kids. Use this as a space to freely test characters or character options in something close to the setting! Standard format applies, drop your character name and canon in the subject line

The facility is pretty simple, even if there isn't an exact map yet. There are a number of various windowless rooms and common areas in clusters connected by long glass corridors built in the bottom of the sea. If you look up you can see more tunnels above, but they're darkened completely. Here's some prompts! The kids love prompts, right?

1. Arise from the depths (of sleep)

You wake up in a very functional and simple bed in a very functional and simple room. It's definitely not, however, where you went to sleep. Did you even go to sleep? That's pretty alarming. Also potentially alarming is the window in the wall above the writing desk you've been given - that's uh. That's water out there, buddy. You're underwater. Well-lit underwater, but underwater. You should probably look around or maybe outside - who knows, maybe other people are around here? Or maybe you want to try to demand to speak to a manager.

2. Killing time

Between bursts of violent murder, there aren't exactly a bunch of scheduled activities in this place. So there's a need to fill the time somehow... what are you doing to kill time? I know most everyone interested is a murdergame vet of some kind, so feel free to add in whatever standard murdergame rooms you like to fill the space! There's all kinds of things here. Maybe there's a theater, or an art room, or... an aquarium, for ultimate levels of nonsense?

3. Motive time!

The Professor has announced a new motive for murder! Maybe you've been given an envelope with your deepest darkest secret, maybe you're being offered a great deal of money... maybe he's giving the kitchen staff a week off! There's all kinds of things he could do.

4. Material goods???

There's a vending machine in the hallway, with no... buttons for selection or anything, which is weird. All you can do is drop the coins you sometimes get into the coin slot and hope! It might drop all kinds of things - it's regains, you know the drill.

5. Down where it's wetter, down where someone's deader...

There's been a murder! Get out there and investigate, or like... don't. I'm not your dad. Maybe you want to shield some poor teenager from a grisly murder? Or maybe the investigation is over and you want to chat about the grisly murder over some relaxing tea from the kitchen. You do you!

6. Other

Or maybe there's something not on here that you want to do! This TDM is for you, live your dreams!

Comments

Mira Delacroix | OC

[philoxenia]

2
[ Mercifully, there happens to be a library here... which is where she tends to spend a lot of her time. The selection is pretty interesting, though there's a significant lack of history books... still. ]

Usually I'd be a little more comforted with a library around, but....

[ It's hard to forget that they're, like. Underwater.

She also hangs out a lot in the art room--painting, mostly. Maybe you've come in when she's working on paintings of those who've been killed here... She doesn't notice, though, she's that focused. ]

3
[ Whatever she has in her envelope has her shaken--your deepest wish--and she hastily rips it up. ]

Nothing is worth taking someone's life.

4
[ Well, someone's gotten quite the collection! She has the items all spread out on a table in the dining room, and she's surveying them curiously. ]

Oh-- anything that's yours, please take. I don't really have a use for many of these things...

4

[emberserker]

I doubt most of these belong to anyone, honestly. I'd say nine out of ten of the things I've gotten were generic rubbish. Or worse. [She indicates a Hand Bra.]

[philoxenia]

Still, if something does belong to someone, they should have it back.

[ She grimaces at the Hand Bra. ]

I'm not sure why anyone thought that was a good idea...

[emberserker]

It's hideous, and tacky besides. I doubt anyone's going to wear the thing.

3

[bolderfell]

...Nothing, huh.

[Therion's open envelope remains in his hand.]

[philoxenia]

... no. Nothing.

[ Except... it looks like she's trying to convince herself, too. Which bothers her more than anything else.

Mostly anything else. ]

[bolderfell]

[On his side, he doesn't sound bothered. Just quiet. Maybe distant.]

People have killed for a lot less than their 'deepest wish.'

3

[lovelikeyou]

...of course not.

[But she's staring at the paper in her hand.]

[philoxenia]

[ It seems like it's... very, very rough on all of them. Or most of them. ]

Are-- are you okay?

[lovelikeyou]

[welp, can't let anybody know Rose Quartz has frailties!]

Of course! It just startled me a little, that's all! [Gonna fold that up and ~shove it in her boobs~] Are you okay?

3

[blackmass]

Your sentiment is a terribly shortsighted one, Mira Delacroix. While surely you believe your words, this does not make them an objective truth.

Perhaps some have things worth killing and dying for, and if you truly do not--then you may count yourself truly blessed.

[philoxenia]

[ #thankskotomine ]

Just because I believe it doesn't mean it's the same for others. I realize that.

[ she's so tired already. why are you like this!!! ]

[blackmass]

[because]

I fear such pretty words will do little to aid us in this situation. The fulfillment of one's dearest wish is perhaps the most obvious thing one would kill for. It would be a shock to me were we to last the entire week without one or more of us falling to such desires.

2 - art room

[obstagoodboy]

[...]

Bit morbid, ain' it?

[Like, he gets it- he can't deny he's been writing music along similar lines. But he wouldn't perform them publicly]

[philoxenia]

[ She isn't expecting anyone, so she jumps a little--luckily, her paintbrush is away from the canvas, so no mistakes here. ]

... Do you think so?

[ She turns to him, thinking. ]

I guess... I just don't want anyone to be forgotten. It sounds kind of silly, doesn't it?

[obstagoodboy]

No. I get you. That kinda thing is why we have art at all, yeah?

[He goes over to the current painting, frowning but not actively upset]

'Dunno if I could have 'em looking at me though.

4

[snackooed]

A-ha! There you are! I was wondering where you went off to, you little scamp...

[ It may not be a surprise, but the little jar of fine white powder with a big, bold CSI written across it belongs to Ema. It looks more like part of a Toys R Us play-detective kit than an actual investigative tool, but the way the girl clamors over it, surely it'll be helpful in some way, right?

Ah, right, right, she probably should talk to the person behind the table, not the very inanimate object-- ]

You're a real lifesaver! If this got into the wrong hands, we might've had a bit of a problem on our hands, y'know?

[philoxenia]

Ah, it's no problem-- really, I didn't do much at all.

[ If it belongs to the girl, then does that make her a detective? Honestly, if so? Bless. ]

I'm glad you were able to get it back. Are-- you a detective, then?

[snackooed]

Well, I certainly was. But those days are long behind me.

[ Ah, the horrors of her old job...just the thought of it is enough to give her a shiver. Thankless work, an awful boss, paid in peanuts... ]

I didn't study my butt off just to be written off as any old detective. I'm a true, blue forensic scientist! And this is one of the most important tools for the job!

[ It's pretty ordinary fingerprint powder, but she talks like it's worth its weight in gold. ]

2

[precognit]

Seems like a big risk, having all these books surrounded by all that water.

[Alice leans over the back of Mira's seat, angling to see what she's reading.]

Find anything good?

[philoxenia]

At least the facility itself seems very sturdy....

[ Mira glances up at her, then clears her throat. ]

Sort of... it does make me miss my own books from home.

[precognit]

[Normally, Alice would be able to accept that more readily, but not having the security blanket of her visions to assure her of it...

She shudders, a tiny movement. Drowning doesn't sound fun, vampire or not.

Alice tilts her head at Mira, refocusing her brilliant gold gaze on her, and smiles.]

What did you like to read back there?

3

[valentinus]

[ It's easy to tear through it with one clawed hand, watching the paper strips fall to the ground. If only it were just as easy to say he felt satisfied upon the figurative 'carnage' so to speak.

That said, there are some things worth taking the lives of others. But he seems far less interested in questioning her personal belief in such things at this time. ]

Do you believe the others will think the same?

[philoxenia]

I think it would be more surprising if they did.

[ She lets out a breath. ]

We don't really know one another that well, all of us... It's hard to say what people think, believe, or what they'll do.

[valentinus]

[ He didn't answer to that immediately, but her words were in a way agreeable to him.

They had no idea in the end. All they could surmise for now was that the motive would've effected some of them on some level. ]

Then all we know right now is uncertainty.

...But it could be there are some of us who feel the pull of their desire strongly. And so, one life would be an easy sacrifice.

[ ... ]

It'd be best to prepare for the inevitable.