Round 3: Test Drive

[kokuyoyo]

Welcome to the third 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!)

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 - The National Leviathan Habitat

Eddan's shimmering sapphire of an aquarium, the National Leviathan Habitat, is holding a series of special events at its location in Royal Mount. Students and family groups get half off, with certain events being completely free. This include a full night's stay at the aquarium sometime during the week for any person who checks in with their card. While spots are limited, it's such a large aquarium, and nights can be booked in advance, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. So come, everyone! Enjoy whale spotting, aquarium strolling, educational shows, and a night surrounded by water. However, unknown to you, something else might be starting to beat in the deepest, darkest depths of your heart.

Similar to the flower festival that was used in the prior TDM, Unawakened characters can get a flash of memory sometime during this prompt and Awakened characters will be able to occasionally pick them out. For more information on the National Leviathan Habitat, which is a player introduced location, please check here.

Additionally, if both test drive player and game players agree, the aquarium 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, even on summer vacation. (Or maybe because of summer vacation for the local schools.) 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.

Comments

kamui | gintama

[foeyay]

1;

Reid stared into the shark tank with a quiet intensity he'd never been known for. He should've cracked a joke by now, or at least taken a ridiculous selfie. But even as he told himself this in his head, he couldn't pull himself away - not from those sleek movements, the evolutionary muscle, their dark, glassy eyes. He hadn't come here for the sharks. Actually, he'd saved up for this overnight adventure with every intention of camping out near the coral reef display. But now...

"I wouldn't mind being eaten by a tiger shark. That'd be bad ass."

2;

kamui: let me guess
kamui: the matrix is trying to contact me
kamui: ive totally been invited to someone's internet sex dungeon
kamui: the illuminati is sending me a subliminal message
kamui: MOLE PEOPLE

2

[goingoverhome]

Kajortoq: It's good to see that society hasn't killed people's creativity.

[foeyay]

kamui: i feel sorry for you if thats how you think of society
kamui: ):
kamui: my creativity isnt suffering but my head sure is
kamui: maybe you should put society on trial for that instead

[goingoverhome]

Kajortoq: Putting aside any sass
Kajortoq: You have a nasty headache as well?

[foeyay]

[Reid pauses then, giving this poor stranger a moment's break from his dickitry. Sure, he can accept forgetting he added a new app to his phone. He can even work with two people sharing a migraine at the same time. But these two things coinciding so clearly? It's starting to sound a tad too reminiscent of the straight-to-dvd movie he'd pirated two nights ago.]

kamui: there is a corkscrew winding its way into my brain yeah
kamui: if thats what your asking

1

[sharktrash]

There's something inherently sexy about the idea of being maimed and devoured by a tiger shark of all things. Squalo Cesare is not actually sure whether it's the shark or the tiger part that ruffles him, but all the same, he makes a noise of agreement.

Oh yeah. He was totally nearby looking at the sharks for way too long, too.

"And hurt like a bitch. Look at those beautiful teeth."

[foeyay]

Agreement was far from what Reid was expecting, and the look he turned on Cesare said as much. Apparently all he needed to break his focus on the tank was a guy who was just as weird as he was. Thin lips parted for a toothy grin, and though his teeth weren't as large or deadly as the shark's, they were clearly on display for comparison.

"If it didn't hurt, it wouldn't be bad ass," he countered with a blithe disregard for everyone else in the aquarium that night. "Any death that doesn't make ya wanna scream isn't worth dying to."

[sharktrash]

Well, clearly he needed to speak his mind more. People were just waiting around to agree with him! (Or, alternatively, this was a one in a million situation where two crazy guys with amnesia happened to share a moment admiring carnivorous fish, but way to make it sound special.)

Cesare looks between the shark's maw and Reid's grin, his own slowly spreading on his face. Just lots of bared teeth all around. It's a friggin safari.

"Point. Though it's also nice to die to the dying screams of your enemies."

Not that. He would know. Obviously.

[foeyay]

This chance meeting had fast become a dental commercial. That was fine though. It was the kind of dental commercial that Reid didn't mind being a part of: one that involved sharks and casual death.

Reid couldn't help but laugh then. Cesare's reply was so over the top and crazy that that it had to be a joke, but if it wasn't, that made it even funnier. "Maybe," he chuckled lightly, "but if anybody had the guts to Wilhelm me, I'd have to kill them again on principle. That's just lazy dying."

2

[possedere]

Mukuro Rokudo: I'm personally hoping it's the government, and they're collecting all of our inane texts and pictures to sell to corporations.

[foeyay]

kamui: i better be getting a % of the profit then!
kamui: you dont find my level of pro inanity every day
kamui: im like the king of stupid nobody matches that shit

[possedere]

Mukuro Rokudo: Is that something to be proud of?

[foeyay]

kamui: of course
kamui: the worlds more fun that way
kamui: or are you one of those stuffy business suit types who has to plan everything ahead of time so they can forget theyre impotent?

2

[purposes]

chrome dokuro: mole people? Σ(;Φ ω Φ)

[foeyay]

kamui: MOLE PEOPLE
kamui: all caps
kamui: dont tell me youve never heard of them

[purposes]

chrome dokuro: i've never heard of them (Φ ₒ Φ)
chrome dokuro: do they live underground like regular moles?

2

[radnarok]

w-wait the matrix was real??!!?!?!??!

does this mean we're all gonna die.

im not ready to die to a man in a suit im not mr. reeves i dont know howw to do bullet time thin g s

[foeyay]

kamui: you my friend are destined for the blue pill
kamui: you are what the blue pill was invented for

[radnarok]

hey!!!!

im not like the steak guy!!! im not a jerky jerk.

i just um.....do not know how to fight....is there a middle ground????

1

[solohunter]

Sharks were probably the only interesting creatures of the sea due to their predatory nature and intense features. The fact that blood can even send a hungry one into a feeding frenzy only proving it acted on instinct. Still, Nishi wasn't that interested.

"Then go find a way into the tank." Nishi won't stop him, but the staff might.

[foeyay]

"Is that a dare, Nishi-dearest?"

Reid's smile couldn't have been any bigger as he sing-songed his question in the most obnoxious way possible. He didn't even bother to look away from the tiger sharks in their tank, as if to add injury to insult.

"They'd probably have more interesting things to say than you at least."

[solohunter]

"Dearest?" As per usual, there was a tone of resistance. Reid probably did it to rile him, and to Nishi's dismay, it worked every time.

Distraction aside, it might have been dare. It might not have been. Who really knew what the young teen's intention was, really.

"Tch. So what?"

He didn't care, honest.

[whitefox]

"Do you really think so?"

Kit watches the sharks move with a subdued sort of curiosity, his vibrant green eyes following the clean way the creatures cut through the water. They are, in truth, some of nature's most finely tuned predators. Beautiful, and strikingly lethal.

"Larger sharks would swallow you whole. Digestion might very well begin while you were alive. But with a tiger shark you'd probably be consumed in larger pieces, your bones regurgitated for the shark's stomach acids and enzymes inability to break them down. To be reduced to little more than vomit and human excrement seems a very graceless end, in any event."

[foeyay]

Reid's awed smile tightened when his admission was reduced to a morbid spiel of biological facts. Sure, it was the truth, but it was a boring perspective of the truth, and that was unacceptable. What kind of monster could peel back a gory shark attack until there was nothing left but a textbook paragraph?

"I've never been all that graceful anyway. If ya can't see how twisted awesome getting eaten alive would be, you're the lost cause here, not me."

Only after delivering this line did Reid turn away from new pals the sharks, ready to face his clear and certain nemesis. His nemesis who had surprisingly familiar red hair, a nostalgic but stiff demeanor, and cold green eyes Reid had definitely seen before.

"Ah!" Realization hit, and Reid's impeccable memory supplied him with a name. "Katelyn!"

[whitefox]

The most minute of twitches followed Reid's exclamation. It was a testament to his composure that Kit didn't drag the heel of his palm down his face in exasperation, too.

He ought to have paid more attention to whose opinion he'd been debunking...

"We spent a year at the detention center together and you can't even get my name right?" Kit sighed. Probably, this is all the proof he needs to know that none of the books he'd duped the other boy into reading would have stuck with him, either. How sad.

Hands in his pockets, he turned his attention back to the sharks. He liked them well enough, as much as he could like any hunter of any species, but there was a limit to just how much he could allow himself to be impressed by them.

"Where is the beauty in dying without a fight, Reid?"

He wasn't a violent person. At least...not without justification or provocation. But he was still someone with pride, who could only think it shameful to die so easily. Kit Florentine would never be prey.