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test drive meme 1.





Her Pa committed suicide
By biting off his head.
Her mother saw her uncle's ghost
And died of fright, she said.
So her unpleasant habits
Seem most curious to me,
Because she seems to come from such
A happy family.




Prompt 1:

he forest looms as ever, colorless but not at all dead. The leaves are full, fluttering in the silence, but there's no scent to them, no color. The effect is eerily hard to navigate, almost like an optical illusion, leaves, branches and trunk blending together with the small path -- which already disappears and reappears at a whim.

But even so...

If you brave the path, it seems as though there is something leading you onwards. A trail of... something, crumbs, maybe, the same shade of colorless as everything else, almost impossible to see. Following those might be a bad idea -- your chances of getting lost, tangled in random underbrush, or wandering aimlessly for hours are pretty high... to say nothing of what you might encounter if you stray too far (hint: even the small, fuzzy things have nasty bites).

Still, it's there, and if you follow them... eventually you will come to a small house. It's decrepit, falling apart and in shambles... do you really want to go inside? Perhaps armed with one of the many convenient tree branches that have probably smacked you thus far?


Prompt 2:

hould you enter the house, you'll be greeted with a creepy, creepy doorman. Aw, how cute! And in that doll's hand, there's...a message.

On a slip of paper, it reads, simply and plainly:

The more you take, the more you leave behind.

Curious! (And yeah, you can destroy the doll. It's just a normal doll. You may even come across said doll already crushed by an intrepid explorer.)

Of course, it's a riddle, and the answer's a warning -- the longer you walk around and about the house, the less you'll remember about yourself, until you forget why you were there and why you should leave, and who you are at all, doomed to wander forever.

Or someone saves you, that's fine too.


Prompt 3:

roblem: There are no fresh eggs in the Town.

Solution: Catch a feral chicken, and keep it for eggs. That seems simple enough, right? You're totally up for the task... right?

But why do all of the animals look so strange in the forest? Mutated, with teeth, or wings that don't belong, or claws. That's... a chicken, right?

Catching it will allow you to get some eggs, but that beak looks pretty nasty -- it might be harder than it looks. But you're intrepid and clever, right? Why not demonstrate your Chicken Wrangling Skills that won you the championship so many years ago? Or try to serenade the savage beast? Or wuss out and form a coalition with which you draw lots to see who has to do battle with the chicken? There's safety in numbers! But the prize will surely be worth a bit of blood loss and fowl-related trauma.

Do it for the eggs.


Prompt 4:

here's a new quest on the forum today, and it looks awfully easy! It's listed simply as:

Quest XXII.
Talk to someone you've never met about their childhood.
Quest will be completed when you have reached an acceptable level of knowledge.


On the other hand, that's a little vague, isn't it... ? How will you even know when you've completed a quest like that?

Still, it looks easy! Maybe go give it a try. You could respond to the forum post to try to find people, or just go on outside, go harass someone about their past. If you're lucky, you'll drag it out of them with very little hassle and it won't take you a good chunk of the day. If you're unlucky, that's what highly persistent stalking is for! But don't forget, you'll likely have to return the favor.

And your new friend might not be the only one listening.


Extra:

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witchplz: (dinner's on you~)

[personal profile] witchplz 2018-02-25 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
kyaaaaa as responsible and irreplaceable as smokey the bear!~
pretty much! conquering and all that

see? completely necessary! the necessities, as the song goes
of course i did. i had a guinea pig, as it were
pursestrings: (127)

[personal profile] pursestrings 2018-02-25 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah yeah, fancy boy, he gets it. He gives the house a look now, considering—hmm.]

You really think somebody lives there? [Okuyasu himself lives in - or rather, squats in a run down piece of shit house, but this is a little much!] In that shithole, seriously? You look like a smart guy, but I dunno...
windeity: (DAVE ♫ sprawl)

[personal profile] windeity 2018-02-25 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
yeah. i think i get it. and it would not surprise me if color sucking mosquitoes were a thing.
16/male/a shack i think.
you?
heartsteals: (first things first i'm the realest)

[personal profile] heartsteals 2018-02-25 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ he actually did just step out of a different time period, and he has no idea what a laptop or a forum is. He does know a creepy house when he sees one, though. Smiling, he clambers back up to his feet, brushing some debris off of his slacks. ]

Waiting for some company, monsieur. I thought this trail would take me someplace a bit less ominous, but here we are.
somelikeitcold: (pic#12064472)

3-ish?

[personal profile] somelikeitcold 2018-02-25 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
Midoriya?

[For his part, Todoroki's just showed up to these chicken-wrangling shenanigans when he makes eye contact with Izuku. He half-turns in surprise, just in time for said chicken to peck the hell out of his classmate's hands. He sighs, faintly.]

These things are a nuisance. Here, let me--

[And with a little wave of his hand he makes a little ice wall to corral in the nearest two birds, about shin length. Cue deeply indignant clucking.]
messianic: (That is best which is not —)

[personal profile] messianic 2018-02-25 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[But why would someone point out that they're good at hiding... puzzling!!]

Me too, so I can't say it's that I was good at finding you.

[More importantly...that creepyass house.]

Were you thinking of going in?
parodeity: ikimaru @ tumblr (UH 🎧 that's not a thing yo)

[personal profile] parodeity 2018-02-25 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
16/male/top floor of a townhouse
also hey you didnt even give me a story
but you know what
despite your conversational failures i find myself strangely drawn to your punctuation and awkwardly terse comments on my opinions
so #0715cd would you do me the honor of an irl meetup
i promise im not actually 40/male/setting up my serial killer lair
totally not jonesing for nerd prey
changedfromwithin: (Pout)

1!

[personal profile] changedfromwithin 2018-02-25 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Laying on the ground is a very cracked and slightly shattered Phos. It's just their luck that they would be right under that branch. By the time they realized it was Diamond in the tree, it was too late; Phos was too blinded by the other's sparkles to see the branch coming.]

Do I look okay?
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-02-25 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
No? You're the one that's hungry. What else are you going to do with it?
dazzlings: sunglasses (全都怪我)

[personal profile] dazzlings 2018-02-25 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Empty hands or no, that is still one imposing suit of armour - is it armour? Is there a person inside it, or has Jin fallen into some bizarre place overrun by robots??

It stops where it stands, though. That's promising, if it listens to her... Jin stops backing away, though she makes no move to approach either. ]


Go on. [ And she'll have questions of her own, too. ] Wait- first! What are you? Do you know what this place is?
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[personal profile] reingenium 2018-02-25 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
I see. I suppose that would work to fulfill the quest!
Would you allow me to ask the same question of you?


[ though that would tie iida down to giving this stranger some of his history... it would still work if he's vague, right? ]

And my brother isn't missing.
He's simply unable to perform in the line of duty because of an incident.
heartsteals: (i don't know what to put for keywords)

[personal profile] heartsteals 2018-02-25 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow the uncouth language... this guy looks like a thug, though, so he's not surprised. It reminds him of the old days... ]

I am a smart guy, thank you. [ he tips his hat theatrically. ] I wouldn't exactly say I really think it, but it would match the theme, don't you think? Following a trail of crumbs into the woods, finding a mysterious old house... Maybe making it out of candy would have been too on-the-nose.
pursestrings: (059)

[personal profile] pursestrings 2018-02-25 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
is there more than 1 kind of MIA..... sure ok

[Anyway, there's Vague and then there's Okuyasu:]

my big bro's dead
messianic: (You efface the Sheen.)

[personal profile] messianic 2018-02-25 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Well.

That's kind of nice, honestly. Akira's so fiercely determined, and Minato nods in response. He agrees, after all. They'll find everyone and help them get out of here--that's what they do.]


Agreed. [Still, Minato is just kind of...as flat as ever. ONWARDS. The forest is kind of claustrophobic when it keeps blocking their path like this, but Minato perseveres anyway, brow a little furrowed as they go.]

Doesn't it feel like we're being led somewhere...?
good_ideas: (angry || are you mocking me?)

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[personal profile] good_ideas 2018-02-25 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Being near this (probably) haunted house was bad enough. Having a doll shoved in her face only made it worse.

Did she scream? Only a little bit until psychometry told her that this was just a normal, run-of-the-mill doll. But to hide her embarrassment, she clearly has to be extra mean. So without even glancing at the note, she glares right at Break instead:]


It says "Gross, haunted dolls: free to a good home."
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gran (granblue fantasy)

[personal profile] crosswind 2018-02-25 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
prompt 3;

[when you've lived the majority of your life becoming a seafaring adventurer as a country bumpkin, you tend to pick up a few things here and there. how to milk a cow-like creature, the best soil to plant a rooted vegetable plant versus a nightshade, which apples are the best to pick and when. chickens, though? gran's always liked being around them, even when they gave him relatively cold indifference, or worse, plucky attitudes. but if there's a situation that calls for the necessity of having fresh eggs, he's not going to ignore the needs of people when he's (somewhat) able to provide a helping hand, so he begins his hunt in earnest.

maybe he has a companion with him, maybe this is one of those adventures where everyone meets up at the tavern and formulates the plan, or maybe gran is just up to his lonesome, but one thing is abundantly clear. he's not going to stay cooped up and sit around doing nothing. it takes a while of decent tracking until he fortunes upon the... beast, and gran raises an eyebrow, two eyebrows, in surprise when he realizes that this... isn't really what he bargained for.]


You look great today. Are those new feathers?

[so here he is, trying to make friends with a very flippant, very nonplussed mutated chicken. conversation failing, he decides to take a far more fowl approach and dives for it, hoping to capture it in his arms. what the hell was he thinking---


as he lands into the mud face first and it gets away all too easily.]


prompt 1;

[he's not really sure he believes in haunted houses, but when he looks at this particular shack, he has to take a moment to reconsider his stance on the whole matter. maybe it had to do with the willow trees smacking him on the buttocks all along the way, or maybe it had to do with the weird chill in the air- whatever the reason for the season, gran feels courage drain from him like water pouring through a sieve. gran doesn't know a horror movie cliche when he sees one, but he is interested in knowing what exactly these surroundings are doing, what this world is capable of, and instead of going through the front door, he stops at a window and tries to peer in.

nothing.

well, nothing aside from the gentle encourage of a tree branch right against the back of his head. it makes him jump, looking around, and eventually at the structure behind him. reaching out, he snaps a branch off out of curiosity, to see if it'll still wiggle in his hands. lifeless, at least it'll provide a good weapon--- but maybe he's not brave enough to go into the house on his own. yeah, probably best to wait near the door and see if anyone else is heading in this direction.]


extra (location: bluo)

[gran finds these canals to be a little offputting at first. he's never seen water that refused to flow when it was cornered in a fashion that the laws of the world should imply that this shouldn't be still water. he's not dumb enough to jump in and start swimming around, but that doesn't mean he isn't leaning over the edge, hand over as he dips his forefinger in to test what it feels like. and immediately, he pulls it out. there's some people who put their toes in the water to see how cold it is, then there are some people who put a finger in and feel like frostbite is starting to set in. this is weird. coupled with the grey scale that the world seems to be colored in, the still water, the eerily abandoned environs of the world around; to say the least, he's apprehensive.

and just as he looks down into the water again, holding his finger up against his chest to keep warm (fruitless, kind of like how you can touch snow and you feel that burning hot-but-still-frigid sensation), he swears he sees something toward the bottom, moving. it has to be his imagination.]


forum quest

[weird, he's never seen a laptop before. forgive gran, he's peck-typing and it takes him forever to actually write anything out.]

Hi everyone, Gran here. Should I break the ice? One time, when I was a kid, my friend and I were trying to pick apples. We weren't tall enough to reach the trees, so he told me to try hitting it with my wooden sword. I did, and a bunch of them fell down on him. He yelled out "Granny!" and I shouted back, "No, I think those were red delicious!"
lefthandfree: (blind clarity)

winner, winner, eggs for dinner

[personal profile] lefthandfree 2018-02-25 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
He's encountered his fair share of oddities in his lifetime, typically not finding himself genuinely surprised by many things anymore—startled at times, but never surprised. When the bird flees down the path past him with a kid in tow, he finds himself needing a proper moment to digest what’s happening as the fact he’s actually witnessing this seems really, really fake. Not that it’s not dire and in need of immediate address; that can’t be comfortable for the boy.

When the moment passes he sprints forward to chase them down. The boy’s added weight and the clasp of the lasso manage to delay the bird enough for Bucky to catch up. He quickly circles around to corral the fowl back.

“Woah, there— Hey— Easy—” He gestures with his arms open, ducking from side to side to keep the bird from going further forward. Tunnel vision is apparently a thing, and the bird flaps angrily while squawking at Bucky aggressively (threateningly?) when it realizes Bucky doesn’t plan on getting out of the way.

“Jesus—” This is definitely one for the books, Barnes. “Hey, you okay there? Can you get the rope free?” he manages to ask as he continues ducking and dodging the pissed off bird as best he can.
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[personal profile] chariotry 2018-02-25 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, he'd been hoping that his words would make her smile, but seeing her eyes light up is still well worth it.

His hand drops, still holding the piece of paper between his fingers. He thinks that this might be a bounded field of some kind; it's definitely the work of magic. ]


Says the exact same thing.

It may be a warning, telling intruders not to steal unless they wanna face consequences.

[ He looks around the room, scanning. ] So, little miss, tread with caution. The objects you find here may be cursed.
holloweyed: (32)

[personal profile] holloweyed 2018-02-25 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Her first impression isn't wrong at all—he is thriving on and continuing to be weird. If this girl were anything like the one he swore loyalty to back home, he might have lightened up, but... Elizabeth is a touch more active, if a little misguided. He drags his hand down the cane to extend it to her, like he's considering letting Elizabeth take the handle over her measly stick. But he drags it back a moment later, like he really doesn't consider her worthy after that question.]

That isn't your first one. Am I answering two now? [He hums, moving past her to stoop and pick up the paper.] How exhausting... If I did live here, what should I do for you trespassing my property?
jokered: (school has too many tests)

[personal profile] jokered 2018-02-25 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[there are times to be serious, and plenty of them probably exist here—but if you can insert a sense of humor into things once in a while, what's the point?

especially when their surroundings are already so dreary.]


Unless we've all simultaneously gone colorblind, and I don't think that's it.

[he's doing his best to keep spirits light, frustrating as it is.]

Akira. [with a bit of a smile and a shrug. he's amiable to introductions, it's fine.]
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[personal profile] hypertoxic 2018-02-25 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ she spends a long moment on the ground, shivering and still crying.

and then she pops to her feet. still crying. angrily. but she's not sobbing anymore. ]


Fuck it. Just fuck it! I might as well find something new to care about since moping about how my life is over is both pointless and irritating. You!

[ She marches over to him, reaches out -- pauses, withdraws her hand, roughly shakes her head, and MARCHES AWAY, gesturing for him to follow her?? ]

I'm pissed off so I might as well channel it productively! Dave, have you ever fucked shit up before?
heartsteals: (if you go all in)

[personal profile] heartsteals 2018-02-25 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[ because he has a big ego and can't help himself... it's not like it matters here, anyway, right?!? Lupin doesn't think so. There's not exactly anything to steal in this rinky-dink monochrome town. He prefers his treasure a little more vibrant. ]

Well... Everything about it is telling me not to go in, to be honest.

[ but he's here now... they (whoever "they" are) were clearly leading him here. ]
pursestrings: (079)

[personal profile] pursestrings 2018-02-25 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, tipping his hat just makes him look like a fancy douche. Okuyasu tries to look friendly, but it's... strained...]

Sure, I guess... It'd be an alright prank? I wasn't thinking about all that stuff. [Like, his first idea was to throw rocks, so??] Y'know, cuz the rest of us have to live here in the real world.
jokered: (become a more fully realized adult)

[personal profile] jokered 2018-02-25 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
[just be proud that akira's spirit of rebellion clearly admires the shit out of lupin's everything.]

There's not much to be curious about. My childhood was pretty boring.
messianic: (When shall completeness)

[personal profile] messianic 2018-02-25 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
[This is why you don't let city boys out to roam wild in the woods. It just doesn't end well for anyone.

But at least they're in good humor about it! Minato nods, seems entirely unbothered by Ryoji's close proximity (pretty normal, really) and responds with an easy:]


That's right. We do.

[He'll give Ryoji "we"--really, he feels better to not be alone right now, so he's grateful Ryoji found him, something Ryoji seems singularly good at.]

Though I don't think getting a little distracted by it while we go is so bad. [Ryoji seemed like he was enjoying himself a lot... Minato can't really begrudge him that at all.]