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Test Drive 006

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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Arrival & General Information | Setting & Bestiary | Locales & Businesses | Residences & Housing Info | Rules & FAQ (ask questions here!)

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. When the Carnival Came to Town?

Take a look at the prompts from our latest event and go to town (or the carnival).

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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Unfortunately for Haru she just so happened to be between her and the exit. For her part Haru hadn't really seen anything, she'd been too caught up in moving with the crowd towards the strange environment that had appeared. She hadn't been here exceptionally long herself and it was still quite an adjustment to make. Everything seemed so exciting and it pulled at sense of adventure.

Though there was still such a thing as too much adventure. Having someone crash into her while seemingly in a panicked state was certainly a bit close! A mixture of worry and surprise crossed Haru's expression as she tried to maintain her balance.

"Miss! Are you alright?!" there were deep layers of concern in her voice. What could have caused such a reaction in someone?

"It's a psuedomonas!" she shouted. "Why would they even have one in here?! If it catches me, it'll kill me and eat me and there aren't any neutrophils here!"

The whole while, Red Blood Cell was trying to get to her feet without so much success. Once she did, though, she reached out and braced the girl's arms. She looked a little like--

"Are you a macrophage?" And now that it was said-- honestly, she looked a lot like a macrophage. "It's over there!"

Red Blood Cell pointed toward that pseudomonas with one gloved hand, still panicked.

Haru did her best to try to help the girl up and to steady her. "A-a macrophage?" she blinked in confusion and then shook her head, causing her fluffy hair to bounce. "No, I'm Haru." That...wasn't the best response and she knew that, turning just a bit pink. At least there wasn't time for embarrassment as she looked towards the green blob that the girl was pointing at.

Was that a shadow? She'd called it a psuedomonas...?

"I truly need to work on getting a weapon here," she said with a sigh. "Do not worry, I will not allow it to catch you," she tightened a hand around the girl and started to move to put a bit more distance between them and that thing. " Is it weak to anything?"

Not a macrophage? Her colour was almost right, but--

But the way she acted was actually more like a neutrophil. Which made it all the easier for Red Blood Cell to halfway hide behind her. "Well," she said, "the white blood cells use their knives. The macrophages use... their weapons are always huge, but each one has her own. The Killer T-Cells - I think they just punch them to death."

She didn't mention the phagocytosis. She had a feeling that someone who wasn't a macrophage or neutrophil shouldn't eat parts of the pseudomonas.

Wait. She froze for just a second to look at her in pure confusion. Which probably wasn't really a good thing to be doing in the moment like this, but Haru really couldn't help it. "Are you referring to cells like in the body?" How were they outside the body though?

She blinked almost owlishly, looking at Haru with confusion. "...Yes? I mean, I am a red blood cell."

How was it that no one here knew what a red blood cell looked like? She remembered someone had said that red blood cells were inside the body - similar to what Haru said - but...

"I'm very confused."

"You're..." Haru blinked several times in utter confusion. "You're a red blood cell...?" Her voice was layered in confusion on top of confusion. She put a finger on her chin, tilted her head, and looked the girl over inquisitively.

"I believe we both are!"

Now that got a slow blink. "You're-- I think you'd know if you were - you'd be as afraid of that pseudomonas as I am," she said. "I mean. Unless you've never seen a pseudomonas before. I was only afraid of my first one after it threatened me, but I was still an erythroblast back then."

Her look turned guilty as her mind completely turned away from the previous subject and more toward this one - all thanks to her own memory. "I thought the first one was still the white blood cell who was teaching us."

"Oh, my, I meant I believe we are both equally confused. Though I seem to be doing a good job of making the situation more confusing." Perhaps it was a particular talent of hers. Or maybe it came more from her innate ability to make things slightly more awkward. Either way, Haru felt utterly awful that she had no idea what this young woman was saying.

"I am sincerely sorry that I don't seem to understand. The things you're saying...they are parts of the human body? But the way you are speaking like they're people?"

Edited (i can't do acronyms for just so you know) 2022-08-13 08:51 (UTC)

"Ohhhh. So you mean you were confused, too - I understand now." Her mind had been about one degree behind. But then, with a smile, she nodded. "Of course I'm part of a body. I'm a red blood cell," she said, easily agreeing with that. "And my friends are other red blood cells, white blood cells, the cute little platelets... I don't think I'd be brave enough to call the macrophages or the killer Ts my friends, but yeah, I know them, too."

That smile of hers remained through the whole thing. She'd been one of the first red blood cells to make friends with the immune cells. That was changing, bit by bit, and she was glad.

"Yes! Very confused," she said with a little giggle that quickly faded, to be replaced with an even bigger look of confusion. "But-but, if you're a part of the body how are you outside of it? And human looking." She looked like a normal enough person to Haru but perhaps there was something she was missing.

"I'm afraid this is all rather...strange to hear."

"This is how we all look." The rest, though--

"But. I... I do know sometimes we end up outside of the body, but that's usually a bad thing. Like through a wound. But one time we did get some new red blood cells from another body. It really saved us. Maybe something like that happened? I... I don't know."

"I....see...." No, she really didn't see.

"With certainty I can say that the rest of the people here are not red blood cells. Or from a body at all. I know I am certainly not and that would be something one would know, wouldn't it?"

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i find this thread hilarious jsyk

I love this whole situation XD

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