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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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Two years.

Would her own punishment be for as long? If the gods willed it, then who was she to challenge them? She couldn't, not here, that is. Fran looks to the armor that Lauri was so fascinated with. She took in the lines and whorls of it, a reminder of a home she was now taken from. Like a prisoner.

"There is no length of time we must wait before we are sent home?" Fran wondered if Balthier made it out of the Bahamut alive. If the others aboard the Strahl were safe. She gently unclips the bracer to hand it over to Lauri. "You may look. But I will wish for it returned."

It was lightweight, though had no give when pressed upon. "It is unassuming, far studier than one would give such credit for."

The Kree offered a shrug. She doesn't know. It's impossible to know. People go home, yes, but she doesn't know how or why. Just that they do.

"Yuna went home very fast. But I've been here a long time. I wish I had better answers."

The offering has Lauri-Ell gasping in delight. She holds it delicately and looks it over, twisting it this way and that. It's so beautiful.

"It is much stronger. I cannot tell if the color is true, but it is beautifully designed to pop next to your skin. It is practical, but also art!"

Fran sees the delight in Lauri's eyes at the offering, and is silent while her bracer is looked over. "Tis the armor made for warriors of the Viera. The Salve-makers have light colored armor and it is not fashioned to protect against attacks."

A soft smile. "This armor has seen much. From creatures far larger than one could imagine, to men of armor I defeated with no weapons."

With no weapons? Her eyes went wide, with awe.

"You are a great warrior then! Yes, this makes sense. Amazing armor for an amazing warrior. I am honored to meet you."

"I am a pirate, actually," she corrects with a soft smile. The woman's pleasantry was almost contagious, and it did help Fran feel more at ease in this strange world. Lauri was like no one she knew of from Ivalice in such mannerisms.

"The honor is well met, and all mine. To find someone that can appreciate such things I wear." She holds out her hand to retrieve the bracer back, her skin feeling as thought prickles ran through it at being so vulnerable. She hated it. "My partner and I were well skilled in our trade, he with firearms and I with a bow. It seems I was brought here without him or my weapon."

Are pirates not great warriors too? Yes, they are more cagey and round about with the whole thing, but even in space they had to be willing to fight. She was definitely happy to hand the piece of armor back to Fran. It would be wrong to hold it long.

"Ah! I know bows and firearms. They are very good. I have attempted to use the energy bow before, but I have preference to rifles. I quite respect those who can handle a bow though."

Without her weapon. Oh no. Lauri-Ell frowns at that.

"Sadly, I do not know where one could get a bow here."

That was a good thought. Shame others in Ivalice didn't have the same mindset outside of Balfonheim. Their loss, her gain.

She frowns to know that there's no known spot, by Lauri that is, to buy a bow. An energy bow? Sounded like something infused with magic. The Viera would have to look into it later. "I may use others, such as spears? Polearms? I will work to pay for such a weapon if you know where I may find one."

"Ah, those you will want to come to the forge for. Gili makes amazing weapons! My Master, she is very good, and is teaching me what she can."

And that was something she was proud of.

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