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

[ladygeryon]

1. why water. why this.

[Nira wakes up with a groan, and immediately notices that this is not her beautiful house or her beautiful husband. She's almost instantly alert, leaping out of bed and flinching again when she notices the water surrounding them. It's a good thing her walking stick is with her, at least, as she supports herself on it to check out the situation. She walks slightly closer, peering to make certain it's real, before backing away with a groan.]

Great. It just had to be water, right? [Her voice is somewhat scratchy, and the scars on her neck are fairly obvious-though they resemble melted stone more than burnt flesh.

Later, she can be found almost anywhere, pacing around the rooms and noticing how they're all exposed to water. When it comes to the tunnels, she definitely tries to hurry through them faster.]

4. something precious

[The item that's come out of the vending machine is a fairly plain-looking orange bandanna. Nira lifts it up to take a better look, peering especially hard at one corner, before a slightly fond smile comes to her lips. She takes a slight sniff of it and sighs contentedly.

Later on, she can also be seen with it tied around her neck, mostly covering her scars, which might surprise some people, since she's probably mentioned not being ashamed of them before.]

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[emberserker]

Are you smelling that? It probably just smells like the prize machine.

[Teenage girl judging you, sorry.]

[ladygeryon]

[Whoop. Yeah, that gets her to blush slightly.] Actually, it smells like my husband. [Slightly ashy and burnt. But that's just how Jake is.]

[emberserker]

Oh, so it's yours? Still, sniffing things like that is off-putting.

[reminds her of some feral child who lives in a temple]

How did they even get our things in there?

[ladygeryon]

I just wanted to confirm. And I've missed the smell of solid earth for a while. [She HATES being under water, okay?]

Probably the same way they brought us here. They only left me my walking stick when I woke up here, after all.

[emberserker]

I don't see the purpose, though. Oh, let's steal their things while we're at it and then give them back.

[ladygeryon]

Maybe they think they can condition us to be grateful. Someone better at that math stuff than me should see if we're more likely to get our personal items back if we're more compliant. [She's working on tying the bandanna around her neck now, hiding most of the neck scars.]

[emberserker]

You think that'll manipulate probability... in a prize machine... where magic is blocked.

[ladygeryon]

It's likely they have some technological way of controlling the prize machine, you know? They could easily manipulate the probability manually.

[emberserker]

What, like a casino machine? Isn't that an urban legend?

[ladygeryon]

Who knows? This is all custom-made by whoever designed this place, after all. A normal machine definitely couldn't fit some of the things I've found inside it.

[emberserker]

That's true enough. I can't believe someone pulled out a bicycle.

[ladygeryon]

We do have collapsible bicycles back home, but even those generally can't fit through such a small slot. [Pokemon-world technology is pretty wild!]

[emberserker]

All right, I'll give you that the machine capsules don't make any sense, but it still seems a bit too much. Nobody's really befriending our captors or anything like that.

[ladygeryon]

Of course not. But sometimes a little bit of friendly treatment is all it takes for someone to start involuntarily forming a bond. That's how Stockholm Syndrome works, after all.

[emberserker]

As if they've been friendly in the first place. Come on now, they antagonize us at every turn.

[ladygeryon]

[A slight shrug.] You asked why they'd return our items to us. I offered conditioning as the first reason I could think of.