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

[fivestagegod]

Not this specific building. But I know how these things work, just as a general rule, sure.

[emberserker]

What are the worlds you people come from? Honestly, secret passages and clue hunts sound like something off a game show for the lowest common denominator, only with fewer people eating bugs.

[fivestagegod]

You're the one who's in here hunting for clues in the first place, aren't you?

[emberserker]

From context with what we're given, not rummaging around for a key! It's conceptually different and you know it.

[fivestagegod]

It's all a big scavenger hunt in the end, though. Information, passageways. We'll find what they want us to find. Maybe they got careless somewhere, sure, but this doesn't seem like the sort of setup that careless people throw others into.

[emberserker]

Making the entire thing a setup? They've got too much time on their hands.

[fivestagegod]

What part of this doesn't imply too much time on their hands?

[emberserker]

Honestly, these people. I suppose they can't conform to rationality if they're setting up this exercise of theirs.

[fivestagegod]

I think they can. They just don't want to.

Marked difference, there.

[emberserker]

Acting out on an extreme scale, then.

[fivestagegod]

Maybe they think they've got something to prove.

[emberserker]

Everyone's got something to prove.

[fivestagegod]

Most people keep it personal, though. And then there's stuff like this.

[emberserker]

Whatever they think they're doing, if they're deliberately leaving clues and such, I have no idea what's in their minds. Honestly, if you want to win, win.

[fivestagegod]

Sadism just does not cross your mind as a possibility, does it.

They're playing with us. That's all this is.

[emberserker]

I understand sadism! I just don't understand letting the enemy have an advantage. They're different concepts.

[fivestagegod]

They'd be letting us think we have an advantage. It's better to crush people when they have hope as opposed to when they're despondent. That's where the sadism comes in.

[emberserker]

It sounds foolhardy to me.

[pot, kettle, other kitchen appliances.]