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

[lightsmith]

...Seriously?

[Sounds fake.]

They ain't that common. There's Miqo'te like me, Roegadyn, and Lalafells--that's most of what you'd see around where I come from. Then out a lil' further there's Elezen and Au Ra, too. Occasional Roegadyn and Viera, but they're way more common in the First.

You tellin' me your shard's got none of that?

[magician_t]

None of the names sound familiar, no. And I'm an educated man so it's not ignorance.

[He looks FASCINATED though]

Tell me, how are they different from 'Hyur'? Can they interbreed? What magic do they specialize in?

pretend i didn't say roegadyn twice

[lightsmith]

I don't know nothin' about the science of it, you'd have to ask somebody like Krile or Y'shtola. But like...Roegadyn are real big, built to be warriors or paladins. Lalafells are a real tiny race of folks, lot of 'em are merchants or politicians or stuff like that. Elezen are real tall with kind of long necks and pointed ears, and Au Ra are people with horns and scales sort of like a dragon's. Then Hrothgar are kinda bulky lookin' feline folks--different than me, they got faces and hands more like a lion's. Viera are all real tall with long rabbit ears, most of 'em women.

But...'what magic'-? That's a weird question. Anybody can use magic, except Garleans. They're built kind of like Elezen, but without the pointy ears and with a kind of white third eye in their foreheads.