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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.

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i. hansel and gretel

[ or just hansel, really. the world might be colorless, but there's someone in red, and while it's normally already fairly eye-catching as far as outfits go it's even moreso when the backdrop has nothing else. the dumb hood is down, though, and dave's hair is a pale enough blond it could nearly blend with the mood.

he's also got sunglasses he's apparently just not removing.

finding himself in a bullshit black and white forest after death isn't really surprising, since it fits the "maybe it's a dream bubble" possibility. he's not sure it really matters; he's somewhere, it's boring, he wants to go somewhere else. maybe find his sister, or one of his other friends.

so he's walking through the woods casually, hands in his pockets and shoulders slouched in a habitual way, kind of humming to himself.

he does start to follow the dumb maybe-crumbs when he spots them, but. ]

Man. If I'm gonna dream-die or double-die, I don't want to go the way of some witch in the woods eatin' kids? Like, I'm not even in the mood for gingerbread, so I'd literally be dyin' for no goddamn reason. I mean, maybe I wouldn't? I'm not sure I'm actually top quality meat in the "wow I want to eat him" kinda way. Like, really cannibal eat him. Maybe the other internet lewd way. Would also like to avoid stranger danger there, though? Christ this is boring as fuck, where's the ominous bgm when you need it? I could jam out to that...

[ he's also keeping up a running muttered commentary to himself, apparently perfectly content to speak to thin air if no one else joins in the conversation. idiot. ]

ii. no??? no

[ you know what. the doll's message probably definitely is important, but dave is standing like. fifteen feet back from the door looking very seriously Not About This Shit, arms crossed over his chest as he eyes the doll dubiously.

it's close enough to being a puppet that he has like zero interest in getting closer. ]

I think I can live a long, happy death without ever knowin' what's on that note.

[ HE'S CURIOUS BUT NOT THAT CURIOUS someone else read it for him, obviously. ]

iii. chickens?

[ that's not a chicken, is it? oh well. dave is at least...kind of trying to help? he doesn't appear to have any actual chicken wrangling #skillz, aside from being really fucking fast. flashstep looks like teleport spam, even though it isn't; so he gets up behind them pretty easy, and snags them even easier, but then he like.

doesn't...know what to do next...?

so he's kind of holding a weird clawed chicken out away from him and looking blank-faced in the way that means "what the fuck do i do now" from him.

what's step 2

does he kill it

he kinda doesn't want to kill it??? ]

iv. downvotes

[ while dave can be found probably sitting on one of the rusting spiral staircases in ruga, he'll also just post to the forum. it's charmingly old school and he doesn't bother to change how he usually types, although he might if he's nagged. ]

sweet more homework
man
you know what this needs
like by this i mean this forum in general
we need some blingee mspaint forum signatures
i do see a paint program in here
natch
granted theres like fuck all colors but i can maybe make very boring sparkles
not that they will sparkle as they would with the proper internet programs
but we can maybe make some magic happen
although fuck do these forums even allow image embedding
how old school even are we i genuinely cant tell
i cant downvote or upvote anything so were clearly in the internet dark ages
back when you had to follow geocities webrings to traverse the web
sign my guestbook please
yeah thats about the extent of my knowledge of those days
im from a better time
with google and 20 other search engines no one ever talks about
and filters for photos

i forget what i started this for hold on lemme scroll up
ok yeah right
someone i dont know what was your childhood like
lets sit in a circle and pretend were in kindergarten and i have to write a badly spelled report on you
maybe spice it up with some stick figure drawings
this is such a broad fucking question
even though it sounds deceptively small
like
how do you even answer it really
describe the pop culture icons of the era
sing some songs from the top 20 list
maybe do a dance
or i guess talk about what you used to like to eat
or drink
man FUCK my life when exactly do i get to eat and drink shit not from randomly apocalyptic or weirdly specific eras
like for three years its been well whatever you guys could make from what you had on you haha have fun kids
and now its just well maybe catch a monster chicken
if youre lucky the eggs will be safe we guess
why cant i just go to a store and buy some apple juice
what the fuck do i have to do to go to that timeline

anyway yeah hmu if you wanna chat

wildcard

[ or do w/e and i'll roll w it! ]

Edited 2018-02-24 22:46 (UTC)

[You know... Minato is also not looking all too sure about that doll, but isn't fifteen feet back a little much?

He just kind of blinks from at Dave's side, hands shoved into his pockets.]

... Think we should just keep going through the forest, then?

[ minato, if you were raised with lil cal (cw: lil cal...) you would have similarly strong puppet feelings. also all the fucking smuppet traps. goddamnit bro why couldn't you have been remotely normal.

anyway, his gaze shifts to the side...not that anyone can tell, although his head turning slightly is a better visual clue. ]

I mean. I feel like we're "supposed" to go in there if we follow whatever bullshit narrative this place is tryin' to force on us, but like...we don't have to follow it, right? We can just say no thank you creepy puppet man and go on our merry way and write our own story, with hookers and blow. Only not with hookers and blow, but like, a billion types of grey food.

[ he'd make a fifty shades of grey joke no one wanted to hear, but that was released in 2011. so you're spared, minato. ]

[Lil cal why.........

Minato just nods at that, though; there's really no reason to argue it. Following someone else's set up narrative isn't that interesting to him either. So he patiently listens to all of Dave's...everything...and then offers up:]

We could probably go around the house instead.

... And maybe find a billion types of grey food. Do you think it tastes okay like that?

Uh...honestly, not sure. I wouldn't think "color" corresponds to "taste", but since color is clearly way the fuck nowhere, it could be that it does here. I vote we test it out on something that looks edible but not an apple, or doritos. The disappointment if they taste weird would just be too much to survive.

[ he starts walking around the house, because fuck going inside? ]

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