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

[emberserker]

Well, I'm sure things would be different if magic weren't sealed off where I'm from. It'd be common knowledge otherwise, after all.

[bolderfell]

Sealed off? So it isn't commonplace?

[emberserker]

Not for the past thousand years. That's why I didn't bring it up until the profiles started going on about things that seemed impossible without it.

[bolderfell]

I'm not sure I can picture how people survive somewhere where magic's completely hush-hush. How do you get anywhere without getting mauled?

[emberserker]

Regular life is usually peaceful. The closest to magical war we've got is GRANBELM, and that's in Magiaconatus' realm itself, so -- oh, never mind, I'll have to explain fifteen different things at this rate.

[bolderfell]

...Guess the short of it is, your little doll thing isn't going to be much help here, is it.

[emberserker]

No. This is just a model, not the real thing, obviously. I suppose the Professor's given to arts and crafts.

[bolderfell]

Would the real thing even work here, if it's magic?

[emberserker]

No, because this place isn't magic. In fact, it looks to be some kind of anti-magic, stronger even than the seal we've got where I'm from.

[bolderfell]

...Hm. If it's a seal of some kind, there has to be a way to crack it open.

[When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When all you've got is a talent for theft...]

How do people get through yours?

[emberserker]

A small amount of magic leaks through that can be used by established mages. And during GRANBELM, every full moon, candidates enter a parallel dimension in Magiaconatus, the seal, where magic is available to them -- that's where one pilots an ARMANOX, you see. But the only way to undo the seal is to win GRANBELM and become the Princeps Mage. Did you get all that?

[bolderfell]

...Nope.

[emberserker]

Well, I'm not explaining it again. It's not likely to be relevant, anyway. There's no magic here, not even what anyone might have brought from home.

[bolderfell]

Hmph. Nothing I can do about it then, I guess.

[emberserker]

So far, other than investigate this place. It's not like they don't allow that.

[bolderfell]

Well, yeah. But given how far behind Orsterra seems to be compared to this--

[His gesture encompasses her mini-bot, the glass walls and the fish outside, even the vending machine.]

--It's not like I can do much there, either. I could find the answer to all our problems and not even know what I'm looking at.

[emberserker]

Well, if you're going to be useless, at least you've admitted it, but honestly, you can't just sit around doing nothing.

[bolderfell]

...

Inspiring. I'll make myself busy right away.