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

[encrestened]

[ She shouldn't be surprised, and yet.... ]

Excuse me? Are you actually accusing me of that?

[archboxer]

I was not the one who declared a foolish war.

[All war is foolish. Even if it's twisted, peace is always preferable.]

[encrestened]

You cannot possibly be serious. You're even more delusional than I thought.

Had it not been for your church-- [ wow, the amount of venom injected into that word ] --people would not be suffering based simply on crests.

[archboxer]

[That actually got her to stand up.]

Civilians will die because of your soldiers. You may win but that will not change. That will not bring back the innocent lives lost for a cause they did not believe in. Am I truly delusional to want to prevent such a thing?

[encrestened]

And innocent people are dying and have died because of a system that favors the overly fortunate! Have you forgotten Miklan Gautier, whose path to his death started because of his inability to bear a crest?

I will not deny that the path I tread and my very hands are soaked in blood. I take responsibility for those that have died as a result. Hate me if you will--I could hardly care. But had there been a sliver of change in the world, my actions would not be necessary.

[archboxer]

Let us speak of Miklan Gautier, then. Even if his troubles started because of his lack of a crest, does that justify his actions? No. His path was forged by himself in the end. He might have even taken them further.

Say that if you wish. Hate me if you desire but I will protect the faithful. Not just the clergy or the knights or even the nobility you hate so. Your path is only soaked in blood because you force it to be.

[encrestened]

He was disowned because of that lack of crest, was he not? Had a system to prevent that been in place, we would not have had to cut him down. Those Demonic Beasts--perhaps those, too, would never have been a concern had the weight of crests been lifted.

My hand was forced the moment my eyes were opened to the reality of our world, Archbishop. My actions are my own, but my ambitions stem from a system that should have been crushed to dust long, long ago.

[archboxer]

He might have been but that does not mean he would not have been disowned otherwise. His personality was deplorable, from all accounts. His father might have ended up preferring his brother. There is no certainty that his death would have been avoided.

[Is she avoiding the question of the demonic beasts? Oh yes.]

Your war will kill more in a matter of a year then what would normally die in decades. Your ambition stems from greed and blood lust, the same as any other warmonger.