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test drive meme # 3
 test drive meme #3 It happens in the blink of an eye. One moment, you are home. Perhaps you are with your family, perhaps you are at work. It's a completely normal day . . . and then, suddenly, your stomach drops. You are overcome with a sudden sense of vertigo. You cannot see up, or down, or where you are. All you hear is a voice -- light, bubbly, warm, soothing, in your ear: Don't worry, darling. This won't hurt a bit~ ♥ For those who recognize the voice, it will sound a bit strained. Possibly tired. But the moment happens so quickly it's hard to pin down, and once that moment is over, you fall flat on your face. It's bright, warm, and humid. It takes a few seconds for you to gain composure and catch your breath. You think, for half a moment, that a hand is on your back, rubbing between your shoulder blades in comfort, but when you open your eyes, no one is there. You are surrounded by ancient stone buildings, with carvings you do not recognize etched into the stone. There's a sense of nausea, overwhelming and sudden, when you realize you aren't in Kansas anymore. Even worse, it looks like the tinier inhabitants of the Forest of the Fey are acting a little cheeky.  THE TEMPLE OF BEGINNINGS. Welcome to the "Home Base" of Astoria's Circle. What the actual name of the base is called is lost to the ages, and there's no sense of where you could find it, unless you started asking around. At any rate, this is a central hub of the Circle, a place of powerful magic and mysterious energy. It is a scattering of ancient stone buildings and for the most part, it looks abandoned . . . except for what seems to be a few items, some rooms taken, items moved or organized, even a small garden planted. These are just the smallest hints that there are people here that have been here before you arrived. Overall, it's fairly beautiful. However, it is definitely not modern. Upon exploration, you find that the buildings are kept up by some kind of magic. Some of the rooms have items, things from other Circle members already settled, and others appear to be unclaimed. Pick your rooms, explore the grounds, see the beauty and wonder all around you in such a magical place. However, be careful -- the sprites that reside within the Forest of the Fey seem to be exceptionally active, today, and tricks abound wherever you look. KINGS AND QUEENS.  Typically, the sprites of the Forest of the Fey remain within the protective canopy of the surroundings. However, there seems to be something different in the air, and these little bastards are flitting about and giving out flower crowns to everyone. They are beautifully made, intricate and gloriously decorative, and most people would be happy to adorn one!There's just one problem, though -- they don't come off. No matter how hard you try, those damn flower crowns are stuck on your head, and you cannot remove them no matter how hard you try. Hope you enjoy being a fairy princess for a day. And, if you are alighted with a flower crown, your skin turns the same color as whatever flowers now sit upon your head. A wreath of blue roses? Congratulations, Violet Beauregard -- you're now as blue as a blueberry. The effect wears off in about an hour, and you can remove the flower crown then -- but have fun being every shade of the rainbow as the sprites take their time to torment the new arrivals. BALLOONS FOR EVERYONE.  Normally, there are some animals that wander within the ancient stone buildings of the Temple. Tiny little white bats, sheep that grow on the vine . . . that sort of thing. However, the sprites have elected to add a little bit more flair the Temple, and balloon animals have invaded the living space. Where the sprites got the idea for balloon animals, no one can really be sure -- Astoria seems to think the sprites are waltzing through the spirit realm and seem to have garnered an idea there, whatever that's supposed to mean.So, no matter where you go, there are balloon animals. Little dogs, brightly colored fish, dinosaurs, giraffes . . . except they seem to move, and make noise, and act like their real counterparts. Tiny balloon dogs nip at your heels, balloon fish flicker about in the waters that sprinkle themselves throughout the Forest, and balloon birds float through the skies. Bonus? If you pop them, they explode into (biodegradable) glitter. DECAYED DECADENCE.  Despite the shenanigans from the sprites, however, there seems to be something happening within the Temple that may be cause of concern. Flower crowns and balloon animals aside, there seem to be odd spots of the Temple that suddenly wilt . . . flowers that bend over and wither at a moment's notice, saplings that seem to creak as if suddenly dried from the inside out . . . and it seems, oddly enough, that it happens whenever you, an Arrival, get closer to the wild life. Astoria seems to think that something is wrong . . . perhaps something the Circle members brought back from their last trip. An illness, or something more? Care to poke about and see how far you're willing to take it? Or does your magical gift enable the protection of plant growth? Try out your green thumb and see if you can help. COMMUNICATIONS.  Upon arriving, you will notice on whichever is your non-dominant hand, you will have a fairly simply screen. A smart watch, if you will. Upon exploration, you will find that it has a directory of all those here with you at the Temple of Beginnings- names, and access to a direct message to them. The watch also has video, audio, and text capabilities, as well as what looks like a collection of messages sent to everyone who wishes to open them. This is your 'network', and also how Astoria can reach out and communicate with you. There is nothing keeping you from removing and/or losing your watch! But remember that you will not have access to this network without it. OOC: Also feel free to join us and other possible players on our discord server! enjoy! ♥ |
SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG i took a little rp break
Seems like being around human children would be dangerous for them.
[ from what she saw of them during her travels with Hathaway, delicacy is not their strong point. (He didn't specify that they weren't usually created with life.) ]
NO WORRIES i'm obviously also not the fastest
He looks back at her, though, this expression not quite draining from his features.]
They don’t act alive with human children. Insofar as I know. They’re normal balloons, usually.
[This probably requires a better explanation — Connor doesn’t seem to care that most would find this an obvious statement.]
Their current levels of… activity is due to Astoria’s magic.
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[ it's a good thing she's become relatively used to the idea by now. Even so, it remains an unsatisfactory explanation for basically anything - including this. What mechanism can do something like turn objects into animals? Moreover, what's the point? The woman in question clearly didn't intend to elaborate on the big questions, let alone little ones like this, so 2B may as well stop wondering. ]
I take it things like this happen frequently, then.
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[To be fair, this was only Connor's second stint at the temple in question. He figures he should give that a little context.]
The last time I was here, I had just newly arrived from my home. There was a heavy rainstorm, and flowers that could change others' moods. But compared to what we're seeing today, that doesn't seem nearly as nonsensical.
That being said, nonsensical also depends on what you're already used to.
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The planet I'm from, Earth, didn't have magic. But I've seen it on others.
[ it's hard to compute (literally), but luckily, she doesn't really have to. It happens. She deals with it. Solving scientific riddles isn't a combat android's job. ]
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[That gleans an expected amount of curiosity from Connor. He has had conversations about multiple worlds, as one might assume given that most of them hail from differing ones. But her words imply something altogether different.]
How many worlds have you visited before this one?
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[ it sounds like a lot. It is a lot, actually. And it's strange, to be able to say that like it's nothing - but she'd gotten so used to that new life in a short period of time. ]
Approximately 5 months ago, I was recruited by an interstellar peace-keeping guild. [ a pause. ] I guess there's more than one of them.
[ because this Astoria person's spiel sounded similar, to say the least. ]
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[But as soon as he says it, he asks himself why not. If one existed, Astoria at the helm, why not two? Or more than that?
He makes a diligent little note to himself, stored somewhere in troves of housed databases: don't make such narrow-minded assumptions.]
Won't that other peace-keeping guild be missing you?
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But she keeps that to herself. Instead, she only shakes her head faintly. ]
They had a lot of recruits. One missing android won't slow them down. It wasn't my choice to come here, anyway.
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You’re in good company, at least. If you don’t mind my own opinion. There are plenty of other androids and machine lifeforms here; myself included.
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[ it's not surprising, per se; she, too, is a near-perfect facsimile of a human being. But the only androids she's ever known are fellow combat androids like herself - it's strange to see one out of uniform.
Strange on another level, too. Because here's an example of someone like her from another world, created for another purpose (she has to assume.) He knows about human children and customs. Does that mean he lived with humanity? What is life like for an android that has always known its masters? It's a brief glimpse into a life she never could have had. ]
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[Though he is in his own brand of uniform, the aforementioned "RK800" plastered on the left chest area of his jacket.
As if anticipating the next question, he continues.]
Created to aid law enforcement.
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[ it's just a guess. Where she's from, at least, the androids didn't have "laws" - they had programming and regulations that were common knowledge to every individual. Those who went against them were instant traitors. There wasn't supposed to be any sort of gray morality in their society, but... ]