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cordibus ([personal profile] cordibus) wrote in [community profile] skippedabeat2017-05-22 12:25 am
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Round 2: Test Drive

Welcome to the second 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 - Flower Festival

The Festival of Flowers is in full bloom in the city! As an inhabitant of Eddan, you're excited to go and attend some of the activities! But unknown to you, something else might be starting to beat in the deepest, darkest depths of your heart.

The festival log prompts can be found here. Please note that you can use these to post in the test drive, but not on the player log itself!

Additionally, if both test drive player and game players agree, the festival test drive threads can also become game canon! As long as the test drive character is played as being completely unaware of what has happened in the game up to this point. Keep in mind that they would NOT have had a message on their phones. Two Test drive players can also make these game canon if they get accepted (and they keep the same requirements as above).

Prompt 2 - 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 3 - 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 4 - 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.

hachitaro: (oh no my disguise stopped working!)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-05-28 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Taro: seriously?

Taro: i just updated the virus protection on this!!!
pouringrain: (☂ This can't be good.)

Opening Ceremony! :>

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-05-28 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[The rain didn't bother him as much, never really did. One of the many differences between them, probably, but to Yamamoto it felt like a calm blanket over the underlying tension that a lot of people seemed to be feeling nowadays. It was hard to ignore, at the very least, even for someone as naturally optimistic as he was.

Just meant he had to put more effort into keeping things around him positive. Something that was, at times, difficult when topics like this came up, but the excitement of the festival was certainly helping to brighten things up a bit. So when hearing the question, Mukuro gets a glance past the light blue tulip that he'd been holding. Considering how best to reply, eyes sent skyward like he might find the answers up there, before giving the other a shrug.
]

Dunno. Whoever they are, they're probably pretty bad though.
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: frazil)

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-05-28 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Shirou Fubuki: You did? Then they must be REALLY advanced... Scary.

[Alright, so that may actually be the most logical explanation for this whole app situation, but that's not the reason he's suggested it. He's just fishing for sensationalist reactions.]

Shirou Fubuki: What if they're the type of hacker who knows how to spy on you through your camera? They could be watching you right now.
hachitaro: (Default)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-05-28 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Taro: then i hope they enjoy the view
Taro: ☆⌒(≧▽​° )
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: snowflake)

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-05-28 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[asdfkasdjgh

Okay, he's laughing.]


Shirou Fubuki: ...you're much braver than I am. (^◡^;)
hachitaro: (ahahah!)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-05-28 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Taro: i'm just relaxin' after a hard day! ⌒(o^▽^o)ノ
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: zephyr)

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-05-28 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Shirou Fubuki: That sort of thing does sound pretty relaxing.
forsteri: (108)

1 - idk if you want them to know each other so i left it vague

[personal profile] forsteri 2017-05-28 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He does have his own, actually. He's just... a little more subdued than this other boy is, that's all. Yoshio comes equipped today with not nearly so many flowers as Kouyuki -- he's got a little cluster of forget-me-nots peeking out from the tie of his ponytail and a bracelet resembling a miniature flower crown. There are about five million girls here, for whatever reason, and Yoshio, sitting beneath a tree sporting millions of tiny pink blossoms, keeps feeling like he needs to shove himself flat against the trunk and pray they don't trample him.

He's looking at his phone, so until Kouyuki and the girl actually happen to head in his direction, he doesn't see them coming. He blinks up only when they're standing directly in front of him and he clicks his phone's screen off, visible eyebrow raising curiously.]


I do have some, though.

[Clearly not enough.]
possedere: (amused | smirk)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-05-28 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Even if this girl might be strange and a little insane, anyone who would give him free food was worth a few minutes of listening to. And if it turned out that it wasn't actually free, he trusted himself to be able to slip out without much consequence.

He offered her a polite smile that didn't reach his eyes, nodding lightly.
]

I'll see you there, then.
possedere: (amused | smirk)

i can never have enough cute chromes though :(

[personal profile] possedere 2017-05-28 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's a pleasure to meet you, Ciro.

[Mukuro returned the smile, his more practiced and pleasant, eyes closed in case Ciro noticed how the warmth didn't quite reach his eyes.

The food did look delicious though, and Mukuro perked up when it was set before him, eagerly picking up the fork to try a bite of the cake. This time when his eyes closed, it was only to savor the lightness of it, and the delicious way it seemed to practically melt on his tongue.
]

Is this one that you helped on?

[As he waited for the answer, he went to to stir the contest of the latte, leaning forward to take a sip.]
hachitaro: (hey baby.)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-05-28 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Taro: Look it's hot I'm shirtless because fuck it. Dorm's too warm. So take a look, mysterious hacker~!
possedere: (working | battle)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-05-28 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Mukuro Rokudo: Possibly. But it's not censoring my words.

[It was curious though, and while it was certainly late and he should go to bed if he wanted to function properly tomorrow, he had to know.]

Mukuro Rokudo: Is there another way to say what you wanted to? I'm curious just how far this censorship goes.
possedere: (bored | uninterested)

o/

[personal profile] possedere 2017-05-28 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder.

[That was a generic response, and for no reason other than boredom, Mukuro felt like picking it apart. He shifted lightly, plucking at the tulip bulb as if to start peeling off layers of it.]

They seem to be intelligent, if they haven't been caught yet. I have to wonder as well if one of them might have a background in law enforcement.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

listen i haven't fallen yet, you sinner

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-28 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Ciro watches carefully, hiding the nervous curl of one hand behind the other as he awaits a verdict, and nods his head quietly at the question.]

Since you seemed interested... I thought I would get a slice from mine.
pouringrain: (☼ When the words all sound the same.)

wow mukuro let yamamoto enjoy his flower :c

[personal profile] pouringrain 2017-05-28 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ah- hey!

[He'll make an attempt to lift it out of Mukuro's reach, though the next comment does seem to distract him enough to tilt his head with a quirk of a smile.]

It sounds like you've been thinking about this a lot. Are you really that worried?
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: foehn)

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-05-28 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Upon closer inspection, Kouyuki realizes that he knows the boy sitting beneath the tree, or at least recognizes him as someone else who attends Green Valley. Probably, they've passed each other in the halls and, if he's not mistaken, they have a couple of classes together, too. What was his name again?

Yojirou? Yoshi?

He stares thoughtfully into the billowy canopy of flowers overhead while he ponders this, leaving the girls next to him to exchange awkward glances and then shrugs. They're not really sure what to do with neither boy speaking, so one pulls out a compact mirror to check her reflection while the other fiddles with the lei in hand, seeming to drift away from the conversation as quickly as Kouyuki did. Then, finally, chin tilting back down, Kouyuki smiles brightly.]


You're Yoshio, right? [He's in one of the sports clubs, but he can't remember which one.] You have some of the other flowers, but it doesn't look like you have any of these orchids.
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: acclimate)

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-05-28 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Shirou Fubuki: But why would it censor your words if it didn't want you to know what I was saying?

[Still, it really is curious. He'd only been trying to discuss the food in the school's cafeteria and his track-and-field practice. Why should either thing be redacted? It doesn't make sense.]

Shirou Fubuki: Anyway...
Shirou Fubuki: I'm not sure there is another way.
Shirou Fubuki: At least not one that won't sound just as misleading.

Shirou Fubuki: Hmm...
Shirou Fubuki: What about you? Have you experienced anything weird?
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: sublimation)

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-05-28 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Shirou Fubuki: I guess that's one way to follow your bliss...?
Shirou Fubuki: Even if it means inviting some creepy hacker to spy on you.
hachitaro: (ahahah!)

[personal profile] hachitaro 2017-05-28 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Taro: Maybe Mr. Creepy Stalker Hacker just wants some friends~!
Taro: I'll be your friend, Mr. Creepy Stalker Hacker!
touketsu: (𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘂: polycrystal)

[personal profile] touketsu 2017-05-28 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Even if it's amusing...]

Shirou Fubuki: You probably shouldn't lower your standards that far.
possedere: (thoughtful | fighting)

yet

[personal profile] possedere 2017-05-28 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
How thoughtful of you.

[Mukuro would let him linger in anxious nervous limbo for a few moments longer as he took another bite of the cake just to be sure, chasing it down with another drink before turning back to Ciro, satisfied.]

It's delicious. I wouldn't mind trying the rest of what you've prepared.
kokuyoyo: (I don't even know how to be here.)

I WILL PERSEVERE

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2017-05-28 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Goddammit, Mukuro, you stressed him out enough in another life.... Stop toying with him in this one.]

[Because there is that slump of relief again, which he at least tries to hide.]


After you finish this?
blackdogdown: (smokin (guts is punched by casca and loo)

[personal profile] blackdogdown 2017-05-28 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Fists are blind brother." He shoves a little more in what might be a tousle, might be a very cruel form of facial reorganization. "There isn't anyone on this planet who I wouldn't beat up. That includes you."

Anyone. He won't point it out, and his face barely shows his flash of anger (he always looks angry) and instead he lets his hand slide down and sighs.

"It's important for you to know how to defend yourself. There's nothing wrong with being scared, but you should know how to stab a guy like me."
possedere: (thoughtful | fighting)

sorry nothing good happens around him

[personal profile] possedere 2017-05-28 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Smirking, Mukuro kept the tulip out of his reach, which was a feat considering that Yamamoto was taller than him and could most likely snatch it back with ease. He peeled off another layer idly, eyes on the mayor's face, not exactly seeing him.]

Shouldn't we all be? There's a sophisticated killer or group of killers on the loose and they show no signs of stopping.

[He turned to look at Yamamoto, gaze sharp.]

Can we really afford to be so carefree?
possedere: (bored | uninterested)

[personal profile] possedere 2017-05-28 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Mukuro Rokudo: It's difficult to know. Every search I've done on this app has come up empty, which seems impossible given how nearly everything is online nowadays.

[As for the other question... Well, Mukuro wasn't too keen on giving out more information than necessary to a stranger. Especially not when he couldn't be sure it wouldn't come back to haunt him later.]

Mukuro Rokudo: I can't say for certain. It may be a case of just imaging the symptoms so they happen.

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