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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!
mouflon: (my crotch is in a state of paralysis.)

[personal profile] mouflon 2020-03-29 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ As much as Rin wishes otherwise, she's obviously physically outmatched by Jasper. Trying to take it by force will just end with her not having a ruby and also probably some broken ribs. She goes still, meeting Jasper's words with a scowl. ]

What does someone like you even want with it? It's not like a regular gemstone has any value to you people, right? That'd be like if... If humans went around using bones for money, or something.
hardnosed: (pic#10532350)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-03-30 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Rin's behavior, which she would probably choose to read as acquiescence to her obvious physical superiority even if it weren't, keeps Jasper's own bearing solidly in casually condescending territory rather than menacing. That doesn't mean she lets her guard down. She never does. ]

I don't know what you humans use, [ she scoffs, and raises the gem to face level to take a closer look. ] It doesn't matter down here anyway. Currency is worthless in this dump.

[ The only pronouncement she makes is a nearly inaudible hn, because Jesus Christ of course it is. The ruby doesn't seem particularly impressive from where she's standing, but, trinket or money or whatever the stone was originally, it clearly means something to her. ]

You can't possibly believe you could barter your way to the surface with the likes of this. He put it here in the first place.

[ she's not calling him professor!! fuck off!!! ]
mouflon: (I bet they would shake like gelatin)

[personal profile] mouflon 2020-03-30 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She knows it doesn't have any immediate value, but it still grates to hear Jasper say the words currency is worthless. There's something with value, always, whether it comes in the form of tokens or favors or resources she can barter.

However, all of that is besides the point, because— ]


I'm not talking about bartering or bribing anyone here! But you don't intend to stay here forever either, right? And when I get out of here, I don't want to be destitute because someone who doesn't even understand how much precious stones are worth stole my savings.
hardnosed: (where the fuck is jasper's chin)

[personal profile] hardnosed 2020-03-31 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She snorts. ]

How valuable can it be if [ waving the ruby On High ] this is all it takes to bankrupt you? You earthlings make no sense.
mouflon: (vulgar juice overflows from her crevice)

[personal profile] mouflon 2020-03-31 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ugh. Rin can't tell what will make Jasper more likely to hand it over: letting her think it's worth that much, or admitting it's just worth more than she particularly wants to lose. Maybe she should try a different tactic. ]

Anyway, putting that aside. I don't want it back just for the money it's worth. [ This is, amazingly, a true statement! ] It should have a lot of magical energy stored inside it, so if I can figure out a way to activate it, we could do some serious damage.