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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknown_oosea2020-03-21 03:23 pm
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TDM - Somewhere, beyond the sea~



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!
philoxenia: (no more tug of war now)

[personal profile] philoxenia 2020-03-29 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
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: (o6)

[personal profile] valentinus 2020-03-29 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ 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.
philoxenia: (they once held the keys to)

[personal profile] philoxenia 2020-03-30 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
... I've never done well with uncertainty, but... there's nothing to do about that.

[ A sigh, as she pushes the hair out of her eyes. She wishes it didn't have to be inevitable, but... ]

Of all the reasons to give us incentive to kill someone... well, I think this was a smart choice.
valentinus: (o1)

[personal profile] valentinus 2020-03-30 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A scoff escaped him. He loathed the idea of calling what the man did 'smart'.

The manipulation tactic was simple and base at its core. ]


Careful. Say that too loud and it may add to his ego.
philoxenia: (no more keepin score now; i just)

[personal profile] philoxenia 2020-04-03 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
... You might be right, if it's possible to make it any bigger.

[ She sounds resigned, voice heavy as she glances down at the ruined paper in her hand. ]