dysprosooc | TEST DRIVE ; no. 1

TEST DRIVE MEME

So first of all, welcome to Dyspros' very first test drive meme! We're happy that you're interested in the game, and we hope that you have some fun playing with the setting, regardless of whether you decide to join or not.

As a general reminder, we recommend that you look over the game information before jumping in. In addition, if you decide you're ready to join, you're welcome to put in a reserve, and applications will open on May 4th at 12:01 AM (EST). Finally, if you have any questions or concerns, please send us a message!

So now, without further ado, let's get to playing:

A ; NEW RECRUIT
Well then, welcome to the guild, Initiate! After some thought (or maybe the choice was obvious), you've finally settled on a guild, and you're ready to get started. You're welcome to check out your accommodations and see what kind of people you'll be living with for the foreseeable future. This is your home now, so hopefully you get alone with them. If not, then you can just spend all of your time sharpening your skills!

Whether you're just claiming your bed or you're jumping right into the thick of things to practice or sign up for a mission, a new recruit is unlikely to go unnoticed.
B ; MISSION TIME
It's your first mission, which is pretty exciting, right? You have all these pictures in your head of going off to fight a dragon, to come home with great riches and valor...

Too bad those missions are for the higher ups.

No, it's the middle of the night, and you're out guarding the small fields just outside of town from wild animals. Right now you're standing by the cucumbers, which are considered especially important to guard, for some reason. You have to fight off sleepiness somehow, so maybe an animal will come out for you to scare off, or maybe you'll just end up chatting with whoever is stuck doing this with you.

Or you know, if you're a dick, you'll steal the vegetables for yourself.
C ; STORM THE CASTLE
Okay, the missions for initiates are pretty lame, and you're ready for some real fighting. You can go alone, or you can go with some other people, but it's off to Castle Dyspros! You'll find a variety of creatures to fight, and the power of teamwork will help you make progress through the castle!

Or you'll die. There's that too. Good thing it's fairly inconsequential, if weird!

Either way, have fun fighting to your heart's content!
D ; PICK YOUR OWN
Just like it says, if none of the others appeal to you, feel free to make up your own prompt!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

A. Academics Guild

[Her room is small and lacking much decoration, but she doesn't really have much of a choice if she doesn't want to be in battle. Being a merchant, selling and buying and all the like, seems more like her thing than going off to fight monsters. Honestly she's not sure what it really entails, being a mage or a fighter.

Better to be safe than hold people back out in missions. For now, she leaves her purse on her bed and still clothed in the uniform from home, she steps out of her room--and bumps right into someone around the next turn.]

I'm sorry! [Taking in the other person, she hopefully asks] Are you new as well?

D. Ironwall District

[Next step is exploring the district of course. Busy and full of life, Koharu certainly stands out amongst all the locals, but the chattering and shops makes it feel more like home. Slipping through the crowds, she looks into shops, seeing what this world sells.

She pauses at each of the other guilds, wondering for a little what each is like inside before. The Steelarm is oddly reminiscent of home in atmosphere and buildings alike, and she inches closer to peek into the halls. The Seven Titans--that's the fighters guild, she remembers and she gives it a bit of a wide berth as she looks it over. Surely it's not as if the members of the guild are at all violent by nature and anyone can see she's not the type for the guild--and already in a guild on her own. It's just hard to imagine anyone living in there but rough fighters with whom she'd have nothing in common.

Maybe she's been standing there a little too long, looking at the other strange guilds, because she's starting to attract attention. And now it occurs to her that she didn't keep track of the way she came here. She taps the nearest person on the shoulder]

Pardon, do you know the way back to the Salamander and Gold?

Edited 2013-04-23 17:42 (UTC)

[Mami was in roughly the same situation as Koharu, wandering the town and trying to get a handle on her bearings. It was important to know your surroundings. She turns when the young woman taps her on the shoulder, smiling softly when she realizes she must be another newcomer like herself.]

I can't say that I know for sure, but I believe I remember passing it. Are you in a hurry?

Oh. [The other girl seems just as out of place as herself and she finds herself relaxing. Though this probably won't help her get back to her guild.] Oh well I'm not particularly, it's just a little...[Alarming? Upsetting?] Unsettingly to get lost. So easily I mean.

You're new here as well, aren't you? And this place is so different than where I came from... it's going to take quite a bit of getting used to.

Quite...On many counts. I am going to suppose you didn't live in a medieval sort of town full of magic?

No, the technology here seems to be a few centuries behind my own. Although I suppose society here must have developed quite differently with magic so prevalent.

We don't...Is there magic at home? I've never seen magic. Technology surely, that looked like it almost, but not real magic. Not like they seem to have here. Unless this is all a hologram as well.

No, not where I come from either. What I meant is, I imagine many of the technologies we take for granted would be irrelevant in a society of magic users.

Well...that's quite true actually. The jewelery...my cellphone didn't work when I came here either.

I don't imagine many phone plans cover fantasy lands.

[ She can't help it, she laughs softly ] Do you really think it's a.fantasy land? We can't actually be in a place that has real magic.

How else would you explain it?

Well, we had things similar to magic that were just holograms...

[Lithuania hasn't managed to get the hang of navigating the city yet. Well, it was only to be expected, given how disorienting his entire situation still was. Lithuania's only just getting back to the Seven Titans after having spent far too much time going in the wrong direction entirely. He offers a smile for the woman when she asks him, then, because he was only just in a very similar situation.]

If you head that way [Lithuania points] down the road you should be able to find it, Miss. I just passed it myself trying to get back here.

[ Koharu gives him a quick bow, then smiles gratefully] Thank you. I'm afraid I'll just go in circles for days out here.

--Ah!

[a little more often than not, colress is usually the one to sneak up on the other party(rosa could attest to this were she here), so when it happens to be the other way around, it's quite the surprise. thankfully he wasn't holding anything, like the mountain of books he was carrying to his own dorm moments earlier, so the bump only catches him a little off-guard.

still, he manages to recover quickly and offers the other party a quick smile. it was just a small bump, nothing to get worked up about...! :)]

No, please, I'm the one who should be sorry! [except not because she was the offender in this situation, but whatever.] And I am, actually! I've just been sworn in as a scholar today.

[ Koharu nods, giving a little bow out of habit and smiles.] Merchant myself. I'm glad I'm not the only one here who's new at least. I should really pay more attention to where I'm going though.

TEST DRIVE ; no. 1

Koharu Izaki | Shitsurakuen

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