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

[nothingcanstop]

Sooo, like big ol'...sky bases or something. [ She refuses to compare them to battle cruisers. She's a pilot, not a sailor!! ] They must've been huge. ...Even huger than usual, given.

[ Gestures at how tall she is. ]

[lovelikeyou]

They were...

[...we don't have to talk about this.]

But that was a long time ago. No Gem ships have come to Earth for thousands of years.

[nothingcanstop]

Not a single one, huh... Anything left to rebuild?

[lovelikeyou]

[Well, yes, the legs are probably still - ]

No. There's no reason to, anyway. It would just get their attention.

[nothingcanstop]

[ She seems uncomfortable... Della winces for a moment and- ]

Oh, uh, right... Sorry. You don't really talk about...where you came from a lot, so I kind of...forgot.

[lovelikeyou]

It's fine.

[She says that a little too quickly, but.]

It isn't anywhere worth talking about.

[nothingcanstop]

Theeen, what do you wanna talk about?

[ She starts tinkering again. ]

A centuries old lady who's actually a gem must have a lot to talk about. Adventures, excitement...

[lovelikeyou]

Well...

[Rose smiles - she knows this role, even if a lot of the stories are sort of painful in one way or another.]

Do you want to hear about one of the monsters we've fought?

[nothingcanstop]

[ Della LIGHTS THE FUCK UP. ]

You bet your big puffy hair I do!

[lovelikeyou]

[Rose giggles.]

Alright. Let me think....oh! We fought a giant worm recently! My friend Garnet can see the future, and she saw it attacking a human town on another continent, so we all went over there to stop it - me, Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst. We ended up warping to a jungle!

There was only one worm, but she was very large, and she could make smaller copies of herself. All of them spit acid. It ate through so many trees...I felt so bad about that.

[nothingcanstop]

Ohhh! Well, isn't that nice! [ She coos this a little, and then- ] The...stopping it, fixing it, future-save. The destruction of trees is one of things that's bad.

[lovelikeyou]

We try to get involved before humans have to deal with any of it. They shouldn't have to worry about things like that.

[nothingcanstop]

So, were you like, silent protectors, or did they know about your involvement, huh? I've met heroes who were on either side of the scale.

[lovelikeyou]

They didn't, really. We met them sometimes, but I always thought it was better for them to just live their lives, free of all that...

[She smiles, glancing away.]

Although I did meet the most wonderful man recently.

[nothingcanstop]

Oh? Ohhhh? Okay, you can't just say that, what's his name?

[ Has she abandoned the hope of getting work done right now? Possibly. ]

[lovelikeyou]

[Look man, fuck work anyway. Rose beams, leaning forward to rest her chin in her hands.]

His name's Greg. He's a musician. He calls himself "Mr. Universe", isn't that the -

["Sweetest"? But Greg didn't like that. And she - well, once he told her, of course she understood why. She should've known from the start.]

- best?