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unknown_oosea2020-03-21 03:23 pm
bathymetric) wrote in 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!
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[Shelley's thing is more the bold and adventurous action, not the science part, really. She starts rooting through the pile]
I haven't made lemons explode yet, the only thing I have exploded is...uh... [She hesitates for a moment] ...an evil lair in a volcano.
[She hesitates because really, she's starting to realize talking with people around here about her weird adventures only earns her puzzled stares]
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Was it an active volcano? Those are just the pits, amiright? Like, when you have to outrun all that lava and they just SPPPCHEEWWWW [ and she mimes one exploding, because of course she does ] all over the place?
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[Thanks for your opinion, Shelley].
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[ A brief moment. ]
By which I mean, yerp, s'mores in active volcanoes is totally da bomb.
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[She seems to brighten up considerably. Maybe it's because there's something appealing about s'mores in active volcanoes]
Why were you bunch hanging out on active volcanoes, anyway? Are you a crazy adrenaline junkie?
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[ From the way she looks away and busies herself with getting that blanket into the maybe pile, that's...a strong perhaps. ]
That uncle I mentioned? He's kind of a magnet for danger and adventure and mysteries... It came naturally. Volcanoes are like, maybe one of the tamest things I've explored around.
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[An adventurer, so cool. Shelley's eyes are pretty much sparkling with interest]
And now you can add 'underwater murder complex' to the list. That's got to be a new one for you, no?.
[Like, this really must be a one-of-a-kind adventure, really, she figures]
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...should we be...taking this all a little more seriously?
[Shelley is perfectly able to understand this is a terrible situation and that everyone's lives are in danger, but she has been trying to keep her usual sunny disposition instead of worrying 24/7. Not only for her sake, but also for others' sake]
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Sometimes...everything's really awful, and there's really not much you can do about it, except...gather as many resources as you can, hunker down, and do your best. But if you're so focused on how bad it all is, it'll start to weigh you down, until you can't do anything. Sometimes...you have to push through it and force yourself to see...or, make a bright side.
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[Shelley manages to crack a small smile. Right, Della is right. Keep moving, don't let yourself be drawn by how terrible things are. Go stash things, wash your hair, play board games, build submarines, do anything except worry for too long]
You're right. I will keep going no matter what. Yes, that's the way! Until we manage to burst through a wall with a submarine made of cardboard and trouts or whatever, we just have to keep finding a bright side even if we have to make it ourselves!
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