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Test Drive 005
WELCOME TO ATERAT

Here is our Fifth Test Drive Meme! There are a lot of areas of the city to explore, so please have a look around! In case you need a little help getting started, I've included a few prompts below, or feel free to start your own! Exploration and player initiative are the names of the game here!

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I. Crash Into Me
Not exactly, but close enough. You have just arrived and received a strange satchel from a tiny, strange little man and are left more or less to your own devices (more information on what to expect upon arrival can be found here)! Follow directions to the north and check out the housing, or maybe have a look around the Historium and try to get some information from that giant glowing ball, see what you can waste your meager starter coin on in the Market District, or maybe just meet the neighbors.
II. What Goes Bump in the Night
It looks like Aterat proper has a spirit problem. Maybe you're seeing specters, hearing disembodied voices, your windows rattle when there's no breeze outside. Maybe there are cold spots in your place of business (or your apartment, which is so much worse). Either way, you're 100% convinced you're haunted. Hopefully, someone else believes you, or maybe you're used to feeling crazy.
III. A Mean, Green Mother from where now?
There's a pollen problem in the city, and by that we mean it's everywhere. Yellowish green pollen seems to be caked-on everything with the misfortune of being outside, whether it's windows, banisters, carts, you name it. If it's outside for a duration of time, it's a free game to have a layer of dust settled upon it, and it plays havoc on anyone who breathes it in. Allergic to pollen? Your allergies are horrible. Not allergic, well, you might just have the sniffles anyway, and another problem. You seem to be completely unable to tell a lie. Not only that, but you feel the overwhelming need to tell people things you'd usually keep to yourself. Maybe you like to put cream in your coca-cola (you monster) or maybe you've done something terrible and you really need to get it off your chest either in person or over the network.
IV. Try the Network
The Tell-Phone allows for text, video, and audio transmissions to everyone else who has one. Give it a whirl!
V. Wildcard
The above prompts are all options, and there's much more to the setting than what they provide. Do your best (or your worst)!
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[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-20 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
The pie was finished before he was able to answer. It was really good so he hadn't been able to stop eating after taking his first bite.

"That sounds scarier than the plant monster." Ignis was a good guy but he was also quiet. You never wanted to get a quiet guy angry.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2021-11-20 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Good. Very good. Nida had a more leisurely pace to his eating. He was more used to his husband's masterful work. A task he hoped his lover took more pride and joy in these days.

"Oh, very much so. He can kick my ass sometimes. It's scary."
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[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-20 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I remember that sparing session." It was scary but it'd been interesting. "I don't think I can win against him either." That didn't mean that Jacob wasn't going to try but Ignis had been fighting much longer than he had.

"Think I can get a map before I try and find a place to buy a jacket? I can return this to you after that." He really didn't want to go out in the cold without a shirt again.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2021-11-20 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Nida laughed at the memory of the one Jacob would have seen. There had been FAR more intense ones more recently than that, mostly because they could get away with it, having no audience. And Nida came out on top sometimes. It was nice to just know he could hold his own.

"Yeah, I've been fighting since I was younger than Ignis, but that doesn't mean I had the drive he did. I'm more like a fine wine. I get better at all I do with age. A late bloomer. His drive... Damn."

There was nothing that could compare for the drive his husband had, and Nida was awed every time that drive was turned to Nida's own betterment.

"Yeah, hold on, let me sketch this out," he said, rising to go to the desk and pull out some paper. The good news was that, among his other skills, maps was something he'd been trained in, so he soon had a very passable one to hand over. "Here, this place will have shirts and coats. Not winter yet, I think you'll want something else for that. Leather maybe. Oh, but they do scarves sometimes. If you can't afford it tell the guy there, Rhy, that he can put it on the Scientia tab, and you can just repay us when you can afford it. If I'm not in here when you come back, just leave it with the other guy."
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[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-24 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thanks." He calmly followed Nida, watching as his hands skillfully marked the paper. It was a straightforward map with clear directions to where he needed to go. "I didn't know you were so good at this." It wasn't surprising but another facet of his old friend. It was comforting to know that there were still things they could learn about each other. Even if Jacob has changed, things were the same.

Jacob appeared calm but his thoughts were turbulent. There were a lot of things he wanted to do but it felt as if he had an unknown set time limit. He didn't know when he would be taken away again and he didn't want things to go like they had last time. He had been thinking about what he wanted to do at the fountain but he didn't have an answer. The best he could do now was start tackling things one by one.

He studied the sketch when it was done before sliding it into his pocket. He'd go see the tailor to grab a jacket and maybe see if the guy had a way to fix his shirt. Then he'd go back to thinking.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2021-11-25 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well of course he didn't know Nida was good at this. The older man chuckled and let him take the map.

"What good is hiring a spy if they can't report back with accurate intel and scouting information?" He asked with a smile and a shrug. These days he owned what he was a lot more. Much to Yuki's clear displeasure.
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[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-25 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
"That's true." Jacob assumed that Nida had been good at his job. Otherwise, he wouldn't have lived as long as he had. "It comes in handy."

He looked towards the little chocobo and felt himself smiling before heading towards the door. "Thank's. I'll make sure to come by soon and let Ignis know." It would be obvious to Nida that Jacob's mind was elsewhere.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2021-11-25 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh his mind was clearly elsewhere, and that left him warm inside. Jacob had something he needed to do quite eagerly and that meant people he had cared about here.

"Go, go. When you're more settled in I will find time to collect you for training at the house."
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[personal profile] brotherofagod 2021-11-25 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds good." Jacob lifted his left hand as he opened the door with his right. "Thanks Again."

He grinned and then slipped out of the guardhouse, closing the door gently behind him.