Test Drive Meme #1: June-July 2025

[fatedhearts]

!! JUNE-JULY 2025 TDM !!

OUR FIRST TDM

You'll find five plots to get into down below, if none of them suit your fancy, then please do a random and wild card it!

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BOOYAKA!

Here is how everything began: https://fhlogs.dreamwidth.org/257.html Sephiroth's post is still available for tagging!

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1. ARRIVAL - THE PLANET

You might be eating dinner, reading a book, even walking your dog or trying to sleep. Whatever you’re currently involved in, you’re suddenly pulled out of it when a mysterious portal opens around you. Now you’re falling ... falling ...

Where do you land? It could be anywhere—the top of a tree, the back of a chocobo, even out in the ocean. Or maybe you actually have a relatively normal landing in Edge, the Midgar ruins, Kalm, or somewhere else in the surrounding area, such as the wastelands or the meadow, the latter of which has a few homes standing. Some are abandoned, but at least one is occupied.

One thing is for sure—you’re not home anymore. As to where you actually are, well, you’ll have to find that out when you’re found or rescued. (Do you need to be rescued?) Be careful if you land on a chocobo. The surprised bird will very likely bolt! I'd figure out where you are before night falls.

2. ARRIVAL - 7th HEAVEN
You've been directed to a hotel called 7th Heaven, it's part of Edge, near the ruins of Midgar. When you come across the hotel, you'll notice it's grand. It's quite big, and has several floors. It's building however is a bit crumbled and you can see a woman sweeping off the steps leading up and into the hotel. She asks you if you're from the portals and you respond yes, she invites you inside to get a room, something to eat and to get acquainted with the other hotel guests.

She leads you inside, gives you your room assignment and asks if anyone showed up with you. You tell her no and she takes you to the open breakfast bar. She doesn't ask how you arrived, it's likely she assumed. She introduces herself as Tifa Lockhart and let's you know that anytime you need anything, just ask around for her. There's no way for you head back home for now, you'll have to deal like everyone else. She then leaves you to your devices.

3. ARRIVAL - BALAMB GARDEN -
You're directed to Balamb Garden, where an old man is hunched over and asking you if you've arrived through the portals. He introduces himself as Cid Kramer, and ushers you inside it's walls. You ask if you can get a room here, he claims you can but you'll have to enroll in the school or instruct in something as per the rules. He doesn't have time to show you around right now, so he introduces you to someone else that can help.

You're greeted by a young woman with raven hair and a few brown streaks in her hair. She introduces herself as Rinoa, she takes you to the library for entertainment purposes and then guides you to the cafeteria so you can get something to eat but she doesn't have time to show you around right now, maybe later. She tells you she's sorry but right now there's no way to get you home or anyone else for that matter.

She tells you once you're done eating, come back to the front hall, and take the elevator up to the third floor. You can talk to Squall Leonhart if you want more answers, if he's in the office. She then gives you her number incase you need assistance. Then she's gone.

4. KD-KAIDA Station 999
"This is KD-KAIDA Station 999. Bringing you all those smooth jazz hits and rock ballads of yesteryear. This week we have letters pouring in from our listeners. Love letters, letters to the editor, political intrigue, even fan notes of yore."

There's a tssk and a task that sounds, then several jazzy beats. "You're on the air, ... tell us, who are you sending a love letter to, unless you'd like to do it at our forum."

[All characters are to write an in network post that is either a letter of some sort, it's either open to all or to a specific person. You must label your posts with Station 999 so people are able to respond if that's what you want.]

5. THE BEACHED MIND-JELLIES
Last night the stars glowed brightly, a portal opened and out spewed several hundred jelly fish that look quite strange. These creatures line the beach all over, near Edge and Balamb Garden. These jelly fish are emitting a funky smell and squirting a noxious liquid that shouldn't be touched. Anyome who comes in contact with the jelly fish might be stung, or get squirted one.

It's one of two things, if you get stung, you end up with a physical attribute that you didn't have before. Superstrength, fast reflexes, super speed, etc etc

If you end up ingesting or getting the liquid on your skin, you end up with a mental function you didn't have before; so pyrokinesis, telepathy, telekinesis, claudaince etc etc

These effects will last anywhere from a few minutes to a few months, depending on player preference for their characters!

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[bluefang]

1: ARRIVAL- THE PLANET
cw: midgar zolom

[Space and time spun around the knight. Bending, twisting, folding and colliding, inverting and extruding and...

He's felt this before. He's certain of it- but where, when, he does not know. A sick sense of déjà vu is the warrior's only companion as he is carried away on the flow of kaleidoscopic time. As he falls off the very edge of it, a portal's exit (a torsion? now?) the only point of reference in his sight.

Portal or torsion, it mattered not. It dumps him within the shallows of what would appear to be a rather muddy and quite polluted bog- face-first, and with an almighty crash of platemail meeting water.

Fortunately, it is only the shallows.
Unfortunately, a shadow beneath the surface of said bog appears to have been alerted. It winds and it coils underneath the muddy water, before it makes a beeline straight toward the shore.

The warrior, by now on his knees, muddied and bloodied, stares downward at the water forming waves at his feet. His hand moves to his sword. His shield is held instinctively closer.]

[imjustaman]

[Sephiroth is out patrolling at night, trying to keep watch for any new arrivals brought in by his terrible mistake. When he sees someone land near the Zolem, he immediately flies over and lands nearby, sword drawn.]

Be careful. It’s dangerous. It’s better not to engage it if you can avoid it. Unfortunately, it’s already noticed you.

[bluefang]

Sephiroth. This is your doing.

[Alas, that's not a very nice greeting to someone (literally) dropping by to help. But the warrior's confusion was apt. Given the danger this swordsman held in his experience, fitting.

It is for that reason that he braces his shield arm. For that reason he points the sword directly at the other. For that reason his knees bend as he prepares to lunge straight toward him, and-

-suddenly, there's a crash of stinking water. The creature, the zolom, knocks the warrior sideways with a heaving sweep of its tail in attempt to force him to the depths. He was unprepared. He was struck. But even then, he can adapt.

As he hurtles to the side, a wave of shining, flashing light bursts from the ground before him, tearing the muddy ground asunder. It strobes upward to the heavens, before disappearing. Immediately, the earth between that and the zolom is torn apart in the same way. Over and over and over- the light arcing it's way toward the serpent.

...And Sephiroth too, if he were between the warrior and the creature. ]

[imjustaman]

[Sephiroth just looks sad, if his eyes could be seen at all. And a bit surprised, as he realizes he knows this person.]

It's my fault you're here. But as for this creature, it was here long before me....

[He leaps away as the Zolom emerges, and he stays away as the light strobes. He has no desire to get in the way of that. But he's ready to lunge if the creature comes at them again, hovering in the air on black wing, sword drawn.]

[andstitch]

"WHOA!" she said, seeing the armor. She quickly took a photo. "Are you a fallen knight or something? Like a vampire who now has to kill other vampires to fulfill an ancient blood prophecy?"

[bluefang]

A blink follows. As well as the scrunching of his facial features at the flash on the strange little device in this small girl's hands. Once his vision had cleared, the warrior responds.

"A... vampire?"

Confusion is writ plainly on the warrior's face, his eyebrows furrowing. Vampire. Why did that elicit a faint memory? A town turned graveyard...

"My apologies, miss. I've no idea of what which you speak."

...He didn't. Right? His head tilts, somewhat.

"What is that? In your hands."

[andstitch]

"You know! Blood sucking member of the the walking undead!" she held her hands out, wrists limp, head lolling to one side. "I vant to suck your blood. Mwah ha ha ha ha" she went back to usual. "Like that!"