ateratooc | TD006

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!

Helpful Links to Get Started

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)!

Navigation

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Inesa was leaving the green building when she spotted the white and black-haired man making his way towards the residential buildings. There were two small puffy Chocobos trailing behind her, one pink and one white, following her like she was a mother duckling. She stopped in the court yard between the four colored buildings as the man addressed her.

"No. I've been here for a few months now. Are you lost?" Her head tilted, her long wheat-colored hair falling over her slender shoulders. The young angel was dressed in a short light pink dress and a pair of well-worn brown leather knee-high boots. The back of her dress was open gathering at the base of her spin and while it was cute, it looks like the dress hadn't originally been designed to be open.

The two Chocobos stopped behind her and peeked out curiously at the unfamiliar stranger. They cooed and chirped towards Insea but for the moment her attention was on Shade. "Perhaps I can help you."

“Not completely,” Shade says and he doesn’t know if it’s better or worse that she[‘s been there a while and he’s not finding someone in the same situation as he is in. He doesn’t know what he’s really looking for by calling out anyway. He can figure out which direction he should go by the key in hand but he’s perhaps hesitating. He glances at the chocobos with a raised brow finally before his attention returns to her.

“I’m not lost but I guess I’m not quite… feeling like I understand completely where I am, if that makes sense.”

Inesa's expression softens. "Yes. I understand. I have been traveling from world to world for some time though it is usually by choice. Even then, it can be difficult." She has the ability to hop between worlds and universes but that aspect of her magic has been blocked since her arrival.

She gently gestures to a nearby bench and takes a seat, leaving a space for Shade to join her. "Do you have any specific questions?" The white chocobo jumps into her lap and preens happily while the pink bird begins to circle her boots. They had been going out but there was no time restraint that meant that they couldn't stop and help.

"Oh. I've been very rude. I'm Inesa. This is Rose." She pointed down to the pink chocobo. "And this is Snowdrop." This time she indicates the white poof that's sitting on her lap.

It's not the strangest thing he's heard lately, he guesses, that she's been traveling world to world by choice for a while. Still, it's unsettling. And he definitely hadn't made a conscious choice to be here or unconscious that he knows of either.

He moves to sit beside her, leaning forward so his forearms rest on his knees and he considers the question. Honestly, it's one of those things where he feels so out of his depth that he's not quite sure where to even begin asking questions. Maybe he really just wanted someone to exist with for a bit more than anything when he'd called out to her.

The creatures are strange but kind of cute at the same time but he bows his head a bit at her and then the chocobos as well.

"Shade. It's nice to meet you all. And as for questions. I think I'm so out of sorts that I don't even know yet."

"It's overwhelming." She spoke the words as if she was addressing herself as well as him. It was difficult to arrive here but Inesa had been lucky, first at the Sphere and then here. This world and those in it were a blessing.

Inesa didn't understand why but she slowly reached out to Shade and placed her hand in his. It was a soft touch but something real. "It's okay if you don't have questions. I am not from this world... any world because of the choices I've made. But to exist we need others, so while you learn about this world, please let me be your other."

Friendship had sustained her over the years and she knew it was the nature of all living things to find those similar to them. Even in a world like this one.

Shade nods. Overwhelming really only scratches the surface of what all this is. He isn’t sure how to get his footing or really how to make connections with the people here — or anywhere. But his coven and family isn’t here and he’s never been this alone.

He stiffens briefly at her touch, surprised more than anything by it but soon he relaxes and finds himself strangely grateful for it.

There’s a small smile at her kind words. “I think I can try to do that.”

TD006

<3 A. Crash Into Me

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