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

ghislain ( reines des fleurs )

[fearedblade]

two.

[ There’s nothing preventing Ghislain from confronting his fate. Having attempts to discard the unwanted application from his phone had failed, he had attempted to ignore its perturbing appearance into his life. Ghislain isn’t much of a fan of change, never mind surprises of such a ridiculous caliber.

However, it becomes incredibly difficult for him to ignore the fact that everything around him had abruptly and permanently changed as he glares in the express direction of the toothy beast. Assessing his surroundings, he knows that the best idea is to run somewhere just so he can get his bearings together. There’s the nagging voice in his head, but Ghislain remains highly resistant to just listening it and tearing out his heart right now.

This isn’t the best time or place. ]

… I was a fool to think that this was all in jest. [ He sneers beneath his breath, before he turns on the sole of his foot and quickly ascends a flight of stairs. Gripping the railing, he places a hand over his heart, face contorted in pain. ]

three / part a. (action)

[ After the truth has been unraveled, Ghislain is making a truly valiant attempt to make it seem as though nothing has changed. Regardless of who may be, where the truth lies and where it does not, he cannot afford to cave into his weakness in doubt.

That’s why, unlike the usual material he'd pursue in the confines of a library, the man reads a book on European medieval combat. Where as he would have never bothered to read such books (there is so much to learn from the past that you begin to forget the present, he believes) before, there he is. Everything is familiar to him, everything comes to life as though it’s second nature. To be a soldier, a knight…

He abruptly closes the book, and stands up to return it to its proper place on the shelves. So distracted, that he overlooks his surroundings to such a degree that he collides into another. ]

three / part b. (text)

[ Ghislain has decided to take his predicament as seriously as he possibly can.

Whether or not the answers that will be provided to him will actually be helpful… is a different matter altogether. ]

Before I make my return to that… place, I would like to be well-prepared.
What about the rules of this other world and the nature of their beasts did you discover in your time there?

3-A

[myownpearl]

[Pearl was fairly certain this "other" life of hers wouldn't be found in a book, but for some reason she felt completely useless otherwise. She couldn't just sit around and wait for more of these attacks. She couldn't just continue to stew in her memories, real or not.

A mission. She had a mission and it wasn't going to force her to rip out her heart this time either.

Pearl was scanning the books, history seemed as good a place to start as any. Though perhaps she should try books about gems? She didn't know and backed out of the section. She bumps into another library patron and turns.]

Sorry.

[She notices his books.]

Medieval combat? That's quite an interesting choice.

[fearedblade]

[ Upon feeling the physical contact of another, Ghislain takes a small step backwards to give her space. Regarding the woman, his mollification over the fact that she said sorry over an action that was entirely his fault is hidden by a rigid stare until he finally caves into acknowledgment. It’d be beneath even himself to let the matter go entirely. ]

There is no need for you to apologize.

[ The admittance comes freely, and bluntly at that, though he never actually directly acknowledges his fault in the matter. Etiquette has never been his forte, no matter what world he may inhabit. When she mentions the book, Ghislain regards the cover, with an romantic depiction of a battlefield on the front, out of the corner of his eye with a degree disappointment. ]

Yes. Though… this one lacks the detail that I seek.

[myownpearl]

[She hadn't been quite paying attention either -- but her problem was mostly being lost in thought which he couldn't know.]

Well. Most written records would glorify the violence without necessarily depicting it factually. And that's assuming battles were recorded in great detail -- individual aspects of combat and strategy wouldn't exactly be shared as your strategy could so easily fall into the hands of others.

[Romanticism of fighting and combat was pretty much common for the time, not to mention that the battles won would make the other side look weak and pathetic in comparison. She realized rattling all of that off might seem strange.]

History was an interest of mine for awhile.

3b

[kokuyoyo]

49: Everyone had their own abilities and weapons
49: There's probably some sort of category to them
49: At least that's what I would guess