skippedabeat | Round 1: Test Drive

Welcome to the first test drive!

Please don't worry too much about using your Personas correctly or following the prompts exactly. They're meant to give you starting ideas, but by all means, go wild and add more options!

The objective here is to try out characters and see who you could have the most fun with in the game's setting. However, feel free to follow this link to request a Persona be generated for you as if you were part of the game. (~~Please try to limit this to only one of your test drive characters if you can as to not overwhelm us!~~ Never mind generating Personas is a pretty fast process! Request for as many characters away as you like!)

If you have questions about the test drive itself, you can ask them here! If you want to play an AU don't forget this entire post can be used for you to get AU scenarios set up and see who your character might have been related too or know before Awakening.

Now then, let's begin...

Prompt 1 - From Dawn to Dusk

The city has been abuzz for the past few weeks. A new string of murders is making front page news and serving as a grim reminder why the nightly curfew is so important. As families, perhaps even someone close to you, mourn, pressure continues to rise at the many police stations and at city hall. The people are afraid and they’re demanding answers.

There's not much time for you to dwell on this.. Like everyone else in the city, you have a lot to do, and a tight schedule to do it in. You don't even notice the application that has appeared on your phone's screen. The headache that follows, however, is strange and disorienting, and it brings with it an odd sensation that something is wrong today. You’re just not sure why.

The day passes by and soon, it's close to midnight. Your body, if you're not in bed by now, is completely exhausted. Despite your best efforts, you'll find yourself closing your eyes. Too bad it's quickly interrupted by a strange noise, and movement like something pulsating softly.

It's your phone, or at least you think it's your phone, but it's never glowed this orange before. There’s mist rising above it almost like fire...something's definitely bizarre about this. Despite your fears, you forces yourself to open it, and click on that strange snake-like icon.

It opens revealing a single statement and blank box;

To begin, please write your name.

Your fingers move on their own. Before you have time to really think about it, and as the pain inside your head becomes so terrible you start breathing rapidly and sweating, you've entered a series of letters and pressed enter. Now you're in a large chatroom with many others...but your 'name' you've never even heard of it...have you? It almost feels like you have...

Prompt 2 - Awakening

The last rays of the sun disappeared over the horizon almost an hour ago, yet here you are, walking through the apple orchards located behind one of the campus wings. The strange app that's been sending you strange clues the past seven days now says you're ready to face the truth. It told you to come here tonight, but never to travel alone. Repeatedly, it warns you to make sure to have someone close by if you're to survive…but besides some friends, what else did you bring with you? Did you pack for this, or did you figure you'd make it up as you go? Are you in a position to be able to bring weapons with you that no one would suspect?

Something is out there, and it's getting closer.

Before you can think, you see it: a large, blackish mass, almost like slime, slithering along the ground resembling a vaguely humanoid shape with glowing yellow eyes. When it roars again, it reveals rows and rows of teeth. This was a mistake your brain warns. The strange name from the chatroom, the days leading up to this...you're fairly certain even if you are prepared that you're going to die.

And yet, something inside you stirs. Even as they move closer, you find yourself charging instead of running, as your heartbeat increases. A voice inside is guiding you, each movement bringing forth a surge of memories of a past that you had lost. You’re angry and confused, but your pain, your fears, your rage for all of this… all of that needs to be taken out on those creatures.

All you need to do now is to tear out your heart.

Prompt 3 - A new, old life

Now that you have your memories back, the strange veil of this world has been somewhat lifted. Things that seemed simple now seem strange. You have so many questions, but not enough answers. Then there's the new weapons you wield and the strange creature inside of you...your Heart Persona.

During the day, you are encouraged to continue to live as you did before, but with old and new memories together, sometimes it is difficult to keep acting like you did. Will it cause issues in your job or school life? Will it change your reactions to whatever life you had here? Do you notice others like you who have awakened?

Maybe it would be a good time to send a chatroom message, just to ask others what they are planning to do. Maybe you should set up a meeting to fight shadows at night. Maybe you’ll organize a plan of attack or set up a club to escape the strange looks others have been giving you. Maybe you just want someone's opinion on the best place to have pizza. Hey, no one said you had to use the AppleNET just for serious things, after all.

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Prompt 3a:

Hiding his identity, keeping secrets, fighting monsters... it's not too unlike his former life, now that he's remembered it. It's strange, though, living in two worlds at once this way. Before he awakened, he just lived life normally. In the life he remembered, it was the opposite, and he was content to mostly hide in the basement with his library and his whiteboards. Even stranger still is the way things overlap, and he'll see someone and be sure it's not quite how they're supposed to appear, and he'll just know that he's happened across another person like him.

That's what's happening at this moment, as he looks at the person in front of him, eyes widening slightly. "You. You're another one." He keeps the wording vague, so he can talk his way out of it, just in case.

Prompt 3b:

Did you know that the biggest hamburger ever weighed 3,591 pounds?

[Someone has decided that the net is a good place to spout the findings of his intensely random research. This is totally a serious thing, come on.]

[ooc: Will match formatting, and of course feel free to suggest other scenes.]

Uh... Wow. That would take forever to finish, wouldn't it?

[ Why not. Hazama's rather bored with nothing to do himself so he'll just engage in some shitty conversation. ]

For one person? That's an interesting question. If there was one person eating it, how long would it take?

[Hazama, you got him on a new thought track, this is dangerous. Give him a second to find data to calculate this.]

The average person eats about 4 pounds of food per day, so to eat 3,591 would take 897.75 days, or close to two and a half years. But obviously the meat would spoil before then.

It was actually eaten by about 10,000 people.

[ To be honest, the weirder shit gets, the more it fuels Hazama's interest. So he's going to keep the farce up. ]

Man, tell me that they at least gave a portion for some poor people out there. Those would be some kind of once in a lifetime for those folks.

[ Who is he kidding. He doesn't really fucking care about it. ]

I can't find information on what sort of people were there...

[Thanks, this is going to bother him now.]

[ Good. ]

Oh man. Try to understand the feelings of those folks next time, okay? I mean, we just happen to be so lucky that we're on the richer side.

But now you've just said it. I kinda crave for some good ol' burger here.

[ There's the flicker of two large scars crossing Okuyasu's face, there if you look for them, but seemingly invisible to anyone who would wonder why a high school student has such massive facial scaring. ]

Huh? What do you mean?

[ Speedy pickup is not his strong suit. ]

[It's hard to figure out how to communicate that without giving it away, because now he's doubly unsure whether he has it right. This ability to see things hasn't been tested enough to give him that kind of confidence. But for now, he points to his own face, and gestures in a way to indicate the scars that he's sometimes seeing and sometimes not. Maybe that's enough of a hint.]

[ Okuyasu's hand actually goes up to his face to feel his scars, and then the connection clicks, and he grins, nodding ]

Oh man, are you too? Weird, right?

She's still trying to adjust to being Natsumi again instead of just Niko. To think that she's supposed to be traveling between worlds as some armored superhero, instead of living out her life as a normal photographer/blogger for one of the local groups... It's no wonder that she hasn't noticed his face at first.

But that voice? That makes her whirl around to stare in wide-eyed surprise. "You...you are...?" She swears that she's heard that voice before, in battle. (And isn't that still a little strange, to be thinking of recognizing people from a fight instead of from some other scenario?)

He blinks at that reaction. He doesn't think he's met her before. Or maybe he has, and that's a piece of his memory still missing. It's hard to tell when it seems like his memory had gaps in it even before all of this, and he hasn't had enough time to try to sort out all of that yet.

"Philip," he answers, because he doesn't see any reason not to give his name, even if it's one he's a bit out of practice in using at this point. And because of that, it might sound strange to anyone who knows him from here, and not from before, or from that strange chat room, but he supposes he can call it a nickname if that discrepancy ever comes up.

It's hard to say where she's heard that voice before - her memories of battles are still a little jumbled together, both as a sideline witness and as a participant. But his voice, she does recognize from one of them. Somehow, maybe...

"Phillip...does..." She takes a deep breath to calm her sudden bout of nerves. "Does the term 'Kamen Rider' ring any bells?"

[That casual observation certainly catches Alucard's attention. He turns around to look at the young man.]

Another one...wait. Did you also...? [He can't really put the painful experience to words, but he does make a fist with his right hand and touch his own chest.]

[Philip doesn't really have words for that, either, but the gesture is clear enough. For the moment, he just nods.]

So if happened to both of us...I wonder how many other people this has affected.

[Sakuma, why are you answering this. The answer to that is, he needs a distraction desperately.]

Did people share it, or...?

[Meanwhile, it's very common for Philip to find random facts like this, but exactly why he's posting it publicly in this strange place might be a similar reason.]

About 10,000 people.

Well, at least it wasn't wasted. Can a burger that big be good, though? There can't possibly be also giant toppings. You'd have to layer a lot of small ones...

[Now he's considering it realistically. Why, internet person.]

Round 1: Test Drive

Philip | Kamen Rider W

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3a -- Awwww yeah, W!

:D someone else who knows this series

W was the first Kamen Rider series I ever saw

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