unknown_oosea | 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Oh? How sensible of you.

[ rin is there literally any reason for that to sound so backhanded ]

Then it sounds like neither of us have anything to worry about for the week. Well, barring everyone else here, but that's how it always is.

[ It's, like, barely worth mentioning. ]

Well, everyone thought that last week, and look what happened.

Sorry, I figured accidents could be taken for granted. We could all choke to death on our breakfasts tomorrow, too.

Accident or not, it's a pattern, and you know that.

I'm not denying that. But we should all be on our guard regardless, and this [ she waves her envelope in front of Anna's face ] is one less thing we'll be thinking about.

Don't you talk down to me like that. Regardless, it doesn't sound like your hostage is much of a problem?

They're... an enemy.

I mean, don't get me wrong — it's not like whatever you have going on with yours. But they're my opponent, so it'd be pretty stupid of me to stick my neck out for someone who is in my way.

[ Maybe she'll be able to convince herself of that, if she says it out loud. ]

I don't know what they have in their brains about fellow competitors, in that case. They're stupider than I thought.

[ That makes Rin crack a smile. It's maybe even a little genuine. When she answers, it's with an exaggerated shrug and a sigh. ]

Maybe they're hoping we'll be sentimental? I can't begin to wrap my brain around how they think.

[ ...though— ]

Or... Maybe it's them who doesn't understand how people think? [ Her affected demeanor slips, and she crosses her arms. ] That'd explain a lot about the point of this "exercise", if you look at it that way.

Obviously. I mean, normal people don't do this, and they've put all this effort into it. If they want to kill someone, just do it.

But I mean, what if it's someone or something trying to learn? If it's trying to motivate us with people we have some sort of attachment to, without understanding the difference between positive or negative connections...

What, like they've just lived down here all their life? Don't be ridiculous. Then again, this entire situation is ridiculous besides...

Is it that ridiculous? Some of us aren't even human. Maybe they're some kind of... alien, or something.

Alien. I'd tell you you were out of your mind, but then, we've got a duck walking around.

Hey, it's not like aliens are my go-to either, but you can't really rule it out in a situation like this. If not an alien from space, then some sort of entity that's at least alien to us as humans. It'd do a lot to explain exactly how they have access to the kind of magic or technology they must have used to bring all of us here, too.

That's true, and how there's no magic in here at all. Even Magiaconatus leaked some out.

[ Hm... The concept of a place with no ambient mana isn't so odd to Rin, given the state of her timeline, but the topic does touch on one of several questions she has about where they are. ]

"Magiaconatus"? Sorry, I'm not familiar.

I wouldn't expect you to be; it's the reason mages are under secrecy in my own world. Magiaconatus is a seal that's trapped most of the world's magic. That is, until somebody finally wins GRANBELM. That being me, I'm sure.

[ Wow, it's like walking into your living room only to find that every piece of furniture has been moved two inches to the left. ]

You're pretty comfortable talking about something that's supposed to be secret, then. Well, not that I have room to talk. [ Being Ms. Advertised-The-Holy-Grail-War-Online, and all. ] But I get what you mean. Unless this is a dead planet, it's weird for there not to be any sort of... magical energy, mana, whatever you want to call it. But at the same time, as far as I know, crossing parallel worlds is something that's only possible with magic.

It's not like the profiles didn't already tell everybody.

[or like she actually gives non-mages the time of day anyway, so she doesn't have to keep any secrets in the first place...]

So what, the Professor is somehow hoarding it all?

I don't know. [ It's as honest an admission one can get from Rin Tohsaka, but there's really nothing else for her to say. ] It could be something like that, or it could be that this world operates under fundamentally different rules than mine did.

Did you have any equivalent in your world? The magic of parallel worlds?

[ It's all theoretical, since there's no way to put any theory they come up with to the test... But she can't help but be a little curious. ]

Not that I'm aware of. Nobody's been able to reach one, in any case. What, are you saying you could?

Not at all. It's what those of us in the business call a true magic — something that usually isn't replicable by normal human means. I'm aware of the concept, but that's it.

But that's why this situation is so crazy, you know? To be able to do something humans shouldn't be capable of with either magecraft or technology, two dozen times over...

And then use it for this. It can't be just a waste, there must be a purpose.

Obviously there's a purpose. The question is whether it's something other than what we've been told, or if the Professor really thinks this "experiment" is a worthwhile use of its resources.

[ It might, if it really is something alien. ]

TDM - Somewhere, beyond the sea~

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