Round 1: Test Drive

[cordibus]

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.

Comments

Louis | The Trumpet of the Swan

[mutesician]

1 - An Unwanted Contract

Louis is very confused about where this app came from and how it knows his name. He scrolls through the list of names quickly, trying to see if there are any he recognizes...some of them seem familiar, but a lot more don't. And most of them...seem like real names.

Is there anyone else here from Green Valley?

3 - One Swan A-Teaching

Well, even if you've had a giant revelation about your whole life being a lie, you've still got to go to work. Which is why Louis is standing in his classroom right now, writing down today's lesson plan on the blackboard. His trumpet hangs at his side, but it feels odd...the cord is wrong, and so is the color. He never noticed that before.

Any Awakened walking in might see, out of the corner of their eyes, a swan writing on the blackboard instead of a human.

1

[unmaking]

yes? this is galen. who's asking? and is this meant to be for work after all? rather peculiar logo to associate Green Valley with, if so.

[mutesician]

This is Louis, the music teacher. I believe I saw some students on here, as well. I was wondering if it was meant to be some kind of general school network. Although I do agree the logo is quite odd.

3

[beastfang]

Music wasn't something he was normally invested in, with either set of memories. Yet, he had needed an elective course and at the time it didn't seem like such a bad idea to try. Even if he didn't find any like for it the teacher was one that most found approachable and loved what he did.

After the entire shadow incident Genda...No, he was Christopher Noro right now. Koujioru Genda wasn't the one taking this class. He wasn't exactly expecting to see feathers out of the corner of his eye as he went to sit down. Luckily there's only a slight stumble and a slight look of confused shock before Genda slowly sits down in his seat. There's still time before class is to actually start, but it may take a few more moments for him to get used to the teacher being a swan.

[mutesician]

Louis nods at Christopher when he enters the class, simply putting the stumble down to a moment of clumsiness instead of surprise. However, when he turns back to the blackboard, he ends up frowning. They're supposed to be studying musical tones, but for some reason he's written "Deceptive Cadences" on the board instead. There's even notes about how they trick the ear and make you hear the unexpected. Frowning, he starts to erase that bit, waving his hand at the seated students in a general "hold on" gesture.

3

[draculabackwards]

[This has just been quite the experience. How many other people looked like someone else after his own Awakening? Out of habit, he goes to his music TA job. He can see them both. The man writing at the board and...the bird?]

Sir? It's Adrian. I'm here for class today? [Did he also look like a graduate student on the one hand and the princely, finely dressed dhampir on the other?]

[mutesician]

[The person Louis first sees out of the corner of his eye is a stranger, which makes him jump. And then when he takes another look, it's just Adrian. He nods quickly, scribbling something on his notebook.]

Sorry. I think I might have mistaken you for someone else.

[draculabackwards]

This seems to be happening a lot lately. [He gets his things ready before the start of class.] Everyone's rather...jumpy.

[mutesician]

[He nods, scribbling down some more stuff on his notebook.] It seems to have something to do with that Apple.net app that some of us received. That countdown was quite ominous, after all.

[draculabackwards]

Sir, did you also recently have a...ah...traumatic experience? [His chest twinges in pain as he remembers]

[mutesician]

[He blinks a few times, then nods. After a while, he writes something down.] I wonder if it was similar. Did you get pains in your chest of some sort?

[draculabackwards]

[Alucard cannot help but shudder at the memory.] Indeed. Far more than I would have liked.

[mutesician]

[He nods again. That settles it, then. They were definitely dealing with the same thing.] I hope there aren't too many lingering effects. Still, it's nice to have someone who understands.

[lovelledup]

Gladion--or "Asher" as people in the school generally know him--isn't in the music class in question. He's just in the hall in between classes while the teacher writes on the board, and he wouldn't have given the room a second glance if he hadn't seen something really weird while he was passing by.

He pauses at the doorway and turns for a closer look, and there is absolutely a swan standing in front of the board. A really big swan who seems to be writing a music lesson. But then he blinks and suddenly it's... just a teacher. But he was sure...

[mutesician]

Louis happens to glance at the door, and stares curiously at the passerby. He's pretty sure this boy isn't in his class, so why is he staring? After a bit, he waves for him to come in, holding out a notebook with writing on it.

Do you have a message for someone in here?

[lovelledup]

He really wasn't intending to stare for quite so long, but when he can't get out of his head that this teacher was just a swan... He curses himself for it when he's beckoned inside, but decides to come closer as indicated, a bit surprised to be shown a notebook.

"No, nothing," he replies, a bit unsure what he'll say if he's pressed for an excuse for why he was standing there gawking like an idiot. But maybe he can distract. "What happened to your voice?" He's never had this teacher before, so being talked to through a notepad seems pretty strange to him.

[mutesician]

Louis blinks. Then again, he supposes not every student here is familiar with him. Well, he doesn't really mind sharing what's going on with him in this case. I was actually born mute, so I've grown used to communicating like this. Voice synthesizers have always sounded a bit off to me.