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April-May 2024 Test Drive Meme
April-May 2024 TDM
Introduction
Welcome to Folkmore's monthly Test Drive Meme! Please feel free to test drive any and all characters regardless of your intent to apply or whether you have an invite or not.
All TDMs are game canon and work like "mini-events". For new players and characters, you can choose to have your TDM thread be your introduction thread upon acceptance or start fresh. Current players are also allowed to have in-game characters post to the TDM so long as they mark their top levels ‘Current Character.’
TDM threads can be used for spoon spending at any time by characters accepted into the game.
Playing and interacting with the TDMs will allow characters to immediately obtain canon items from homes especially weapons or other things they may have had on their person when they were pulled from their worlds! There will always be a prompt that provides some sort of "reward" to characters who complete certain tasks.
🦊 New Star Children meet the Fox still in their worlds, and she brings them into the new realm of Folkmore. As you follow her, your body begins to change and new characteristics emerge. These may stay for a while, or perhaps they will hide away after. And during all of this, the Fox explains to you where you will be going: to Folkmore.
and then... you fall like a shooting star, falling to the land in a burst of starlight.
🦊 Experienced Star Children are already familiar with this time of the month. There are shooting stars all across the sky, and some fall to the land, which means the Fox has brought new arrivals. These newly arrived Star Children will face some tests, but Thirteen wants the more seasoned residents to participate as well.
Perhaps you follow the falling stars on your own, or perhaps the Fox simply teleports you there, but it appears you too will be part of this.
Content Warnings: Forced Relocation, Forced Sharing, Potential Violence & Harm
New Star Children arrive in Wintermute. Not at the hot springs, the school, or anywhere else near civilization. They arrive in the middle of white, snowy nowhere. The good news is that Wintermute is no longer dark twenty-four seven. There is enough light to avoid crevasses, blocked up wells, and other dangerous features of the landscape. Further, no one is expected to figure out how to get out of there on their own.
Usually Thoth finds the lost travelers in the cold expanse of Wintermute. However, she's busy exploring the multiverse for new and interesting ideas for technology. Not to fret! She hasn't abandoned ye who've entered here. There's a new emergency lost and found network:
The Wandering Dog food carts are now open twenty-four seven! The dogs work in shifts, but the food remains as delicious as ever. When a Star Child gets lost in Wintermute, another Star Child will happen to be buying food from a Wandering Dog somewhere in Folkmore. One such lucky unlucky Star Child gets transported to the School of Thoth. Specifically, to where the mechanical sled dogs hang out. They receive a warm winter coat over whatever they were wearing and another one on hand for whoever they are rescuing. Then it's off across the snow! Don't worry, non-mushing experts, the dogs know what they're doing and lead the sled right to the designated lost Star Child.
The rescuee gets to lay in the sled for the ride back, wrapped up warm and cozy in their new winter coat (it may be spring, but it's always cold in Wintermute). The sled dogs bring Star Children back to the hot springs, so that they can warm up even more. Alternatively, Star Children can explore the Cutting Edge, the School of Thoth, or something else in Wintermute. However, the Star Children cannot part ways or leave Wintermute immediately.
The sled dogs, yes the whole team, will stay with the pair to enforce this. They may surround the pair like a pack, cuddle pile on top of them, or lay around the edges of a hot spring. No matter how long it takes to realize the dogs are doing this and that there's a reason for it, Star Children will eventually find instructions in one of the dogs' collars: Share something that other people have refused to listen to you about. Everyone ought to be listened to.
Only once both Star Children have shared something with each other will the dogs let them part ways and see, perhaps, the rest of Folkmore.
On the walk to Akhlut Station, Star Children will see plain weapons sticking out of the snow: swords, guns, knives. These are simple, non-magical practical weapons. Experienced Star Children may know to suspect such free offerings, but nothing immediately happens upon picking one up. However, once on the train, the train will be attacked by frost spirits. These icy spirits must either be hacked to pieces until they can no longer reform or melted with fire. Innocent passengers who didn't pick up a weapon may be forced to get involved, but the frost spirits will be most focused on those who picked up weapons.
New Star Children arrive in Wintermute. Not at the hot springs, the school, or anywhere else near civilization. They arrive in the middle of white, snowy nowhere. The good news is that Wintermute is no longer dark twenty-four seven. There is enough light to avoid crevasses, blocked up wells, and other dangerous features of the landscape. Further, no one is expected to figure out how to get out of there on their own.
Usually Thoth finds the lost travelers in the cold expanse of Wintermute. However, she's busy exploring the multiverse for new and interesting ideas for technology. Not to fret! She hasn't abandoned ye who've entered here. There's a new emergency lost and found network:
The Wandering Dog food carts are now open twenty-four seven! The dogs work in shifts, but the food remains as delicious as ever. When a Star Child gets lost in Wintermute, another Star Child will happen to be buying food from a Wandering Dog somewhere in Folkmore. One such lucky unlucky Star Child gets transported to the School of Thoth. Specifically, to where the mechanical sled dogs hang out. They receive a warm winter coat over whatever they were wearing and another one on hand for whoever they are rescuing. Then it's off across the snow! Don't worry, non-mushing experts, the dogs know what they're doing and lead the sled right to the designated lost Star Child.
The rescuee gets to lay in the sled for the ride back, wrapped up warm and cozy in their new winter coat (it may be spring, but it's always cold in Wintermute). The sled dogs bring Star Children back to the hot springs, so that they can warm up even more. Alternatively, Star Children can explore the Cutting Edge, the School of Thoth, or something else in Wintermute. However, the Star Children cannot part ways or leave Wintermute immediately.
The sled dogs, yes the whole team, will stay with the pair to enforce this. They may surround the pair like a pack, cuddle pile on top of them, or lay around the edges of a hot spring. No matter how long it takes to realize the dogs are doing this and that there's a reason for it, Star Children will eventually find instructions in one of the dogs' collars: Share something that other people have refused to listen to you about. Everyone ought to be listened to.
Only once both Star Children have shared something with each other will the dogs let them part ways and see, perhaps, the rest of Folkmore.
On the walk to Akhlut Station, Star Children will see plain weapons sticking out of the snow: swords, guns, knives. These are simple, non-magical practical weapons. Experienced Star Children may know to suspect such free offerings, but nothing immediately happens upon picking one up. However, once on the train, the train will be attacked by frost spirits. These icy spirits must either be hacked to pieces until they can no longer reform or melted with fire. Innocent passengers who didn't pick up a weapon may be forced to get involved, but the frost spirits will be most focused on those who picked up weapons.
- New Star Children arrive in remote areas of Wintermute.
- Star Children buying food from The Wandering Dog get teleported to the School of Thoth to rescue people with a team of sled dogs.
- Star Children get amazing new winter coats!
- Star Children cannot part ways until they share something others have refused to listen to! The dogs enforce this.
- Simple, non-magical weapons stick out of the snow on the way to the train station.
- Anyone who picks up one of those weapons will see their train get attacked by frost spirits.
Content Warnings: Potential Forced Participation, Potential Harm
Thoth has been listening to any and all ideas people have had around science in the last few months. Whether they were shower thoughts or a discussion between scientific colleagues or anywhere in between, she's made her list and built every one as an experiment. On a human scale. A human test subject scale. Because every idea has merit. That's right: Thoth believes in you.
Posters saying Thoth Needs You! go up around Folkmore. They offer a reward for participating in an experiment. Simply tear off a piece of paper from the bottom of the poster, and at some point in the future, you're in. Now, there might be a little hiccup here or there. These posters are experimental too! So some Star Children who don't tear off a slip might get pulled into an experiment as well. (Who said Thirteen ought to recruit for her trials? Thoth listened… or she tried.) Oh well, at least it's all in the name of science!
Perhaps Star Children need to sing Baby It's Cold Outside to convince the other to stay (it really will be cold outside). Perhaps they have a choice of spinners, buttons, levers, or other devices to interact with. Perhaps they make their way through a maze. Perhaps they try a new contraption. Perhaps they even recognize their own idea come to life! There's a multitude of new tech to try, and it has not been safety tested.
Nothing will explode. Probably. Maybe. Okay, some experiments are definitely going to have explosions. How about pressing that button anyway and finding out if it's this one?
Once Star Children survive the experiment—and they will, Thoth may be a loose cannon of a scientist, but she's ensured that much—they will emerge from one of the School of Thoth's laboratories. Togo, the grey wolf mascot, waits on the other side with an item for each test subject: an item from home. This may even be a weapon or magical item.
No one is left to the cold to fend for themselves. One of the nearby classrooms has been set up as a first aid center. Dog spirits of all sizes, from the smallest Maltipoo spirit to the largest Great Dane spirit, staff a healing clinic and will treat any injuries Star Children received in the experiments (or already sported). They offer hot lemonade—lemon juice, molasses, and hot water—to everyone to warm their soul. Injured Star Children can find a corner to rest by themselves or company with which to discuss their experiments.
Thoth has been listening to any and all ideas people have had around science in the last few months. Whether they were shower thoughts or a discussion between scientific colleagues or anywhere in between, she's made her list and built every one as an experiment. On a human scale. A human test subject scale. Because every idea has merit. That's right: Thoth believes in you.
Posters saying Thoth Needs You! go up around Folkmore. They offer a reward for participating in an experiment. Simply tear off a piece of paper from the bottom of the poster, and at some point in the future, you're in. Now, there might be a little hiccup here or there. These posters are experimental too! So some Star Children who don't tear off a slip might get pulled into an experiment as well. (Who said Thirteen ought to recruit for her trials? Thoth listened… or she tried.) Oh well, at least it's all in the name of science!
Perhaps Star Children need to sing Baby It's Cold Outside to convince the other to stay (it really will be cold outside). Perhaps they have a choice of spinners, buttons, levers, or other devices to interact with. Perhaps they make their way through a maze. Perhaps they try a new contraption. Perhaps they even recognize their own idea come to life! There's a multitude of new tech to try, and it has not been safety tested.
Nothing will explode. Probably. Maybe. Okay, some experiments are definitely going to have explosions. How about pressing that button anyway and finding out if it's this one?
Once Star Children survive the experiment—and they will, Thoth may be a loose cannon of a scientist, but she's ensured that much—they will emerge from one of the School of Thoth's laboratories. Togo, the grey wolf mascot, waits on the other side with an item for each test subject: an item from home. This may even be a weapon or magical item.
No one is left to the cold to fend for themselves. One of the nearby classrooms has been set up as a first aid center. Dog spirits of all sizes, from the smallest Maltipoo spirit to the largest Great Dane spirit, staff a healing clinic and will treat any injuries Star Children received in the experiments (or already sported). They offer hot lemonade—lemon juice, molasses, and hot water—to everyone to warm their soul. Injured Star Children can find a corner to rest by themselves or company with which to discuss their experiments.
- Thoth has built experiments to bring Star Children’s ideas to life.
- Pick a paper tab off a Thoth Needs You! poster to participate. Or don’t. A mishap may bring Star Children there regardless.
- Do science! Be a human experiment! Maybe experience explosions!
- Togo, the Thoth mascot, will have an item from home for every Star Child who participates.
- Dog spirits man (dog?) a first aid center in a nearby classroom.
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[she was glad to see that at least some portion of Folkmore was like what she remembered from home. not Hawaii, but New York City.
and when she sees him pull out his spoon as if to pay, Rachel grins and blushes] No, no, it's okay, I can afford my own. I've been talking a lot.
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[ And he wants to experiment more with how the spoon paying works. It's like... tapping it on something of the shop owner's and then the lore transfers, right? That's been his experience so far.
Said shop owner being an odd looking spirit guy, of course. But hey, they have a responsible seeming smile? Eh, he'll just copy her order wholesale for the most part. His familiarity with this is so lacking. ]
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[Rachel still can't believe that earning local currency could be so simple. she tries to imagine the looks on the faces of people she knew back home and a good potion of them would be horrified.
but she wants to be able to fit in here, at least better than she did at the White Lotus.
and the spirit child (?) is kind of adorable. cute, it seems, is going to play a large role here]
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[ But okay, spoon tap for the spirit... kid? Maybe a kid. It looks young but he doubts a youngling is actually making dishes like this. And then steps to the side to wait for everything to be finished up for them. ]
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[she joins him, unable to keep herself from looking around curiously. the spirit children are unlike anything she's ever seen before, even in movies]
Can you believe this? It's all so different from home.
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It is pretty surreal.
[ He agrees. Like. A decade ago he entered what he might've once called a 'fantasy' world. But this one ... well, the denizens of this seem like they're all to a man magical beasts or Incarnates. It's wild, seeing the menagerie. ]
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Yes. But not necessarily in a bad way, just a different one. And I'd rather adjust to this than what I left behind.
[being a piece of arm candy, a trophy wife whose only duties were arranging parties for the 1% while her parents barely scraped by in Brooklyn]
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[ Assuming that she had a similar experience to his. Lex is in some ways checking for that - but scolds himself for doing it. This was meant to be some sort of impromptu date thing, wasn't it? ]
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[another Kitty, head to toe in designer labels and head firmly up her butt? unable to see the point of working, of having her own money, of not understanding the way normal people lived?
Rachel was normal people]
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Actually, first I've heard that one. But I get the meaning! Something you where forced into, or you just stumble into the situation?
[ Or maybe it was a whirlwind romance. Haste and all. ]
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I kind of stumbled in? I'd had a bad breakup and a friend introduced me to Shane and he kind of Disney princed me off my feet. Next thing I know, I'm in a wedding dress which cost more than my apartment's rent for two years and 'Here Comes the Bride' started playing.
But, really. Shane is one of those New York royalty types, he calls and asks for a table at an impossible to get a table at restaurant and boom! Suddenly the best table in the place is available and his. He's on a first name basis with the Kushners, which should've been a warning sign right there. And there was always some event, some gallery opening, some hot new club to get into.
I grew up...not poor, but definitely not rich. My dad owns an heirloom Jewish deli, but it's getting harder and harder for him to get the cash to run it. So I went to community college and bartended my way through.
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Heeeh. So is your status 'engaged' or 'married' at this point?
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Married. For better or for worse. [with no small hint of rue in her voice]
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[ Though from his tone, this is obviously a joke. Still, married and regretting (or at least lamenting) it. That's an unfortunate position. ]
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[a very big problem. a very annoying problem and absolutely backing up the trophy wife feelings she had]
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[ Though from his tone, that's also meant to be something of a weird joke. Sarcasm, but also trying to play a compliment. It's something he brushes past quickly though, glancing back to see of the larb's done - not quite - and then back to her to say, ]
White Lotus?
(CW: self-blame in humor)
[and she's teasing right back. both male Mossbachers never looked at her face. and she's pretty sure the Mossbacher daughter didn't, either.
and she makes a face] Yeah, this ultra-posh hotel and resort in Hawaii. We were supposed to be in the Pineapple room with the private terrace and plunge pool and boy would Shane not let me or the manager forget it. [eye-roll]
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... His eyes so shift color from hazel to yellow as he considers it, but still.
So now- huh, ]
Supposed to, huh? Does that mean you guys got the downgrade?
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she notices the eye shift, but doesn't know what it means. not yet]
Uh-huh. The Palm Suite. Which was fine! It was beautiful, easily the most luxurious anything I've ever been in and it had a wonderful view of the ocean. I would've been completely happy staying there. But Shane had to have his way, so....
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[ With aristocrats, that is. He -- ah! Food seems to be done. Both food and the teas, so as he hears the spirit say as much, he turns to collect his own. ]
(CW: Covid)
[Shane certainly seemed to think he was royalty, but--food! she's starving and she hears her stomach rumble in anticipation]
(CW: Covid) continues
[ A Covid... cleaning process? So it's... maybe it's a disease? Or an animal?
But yeah, let's collect that tea and food! ]
(CW: Covid) continues
[foooood. she can't help taking a large bite of hers once she has it]
(CW: Covid) continues
...Wait, wait. We're saying - ah, a fucking plague basically just happened, where you're from? In the United States?
(CW: Covid) continues with a side of Trump
Um. They called it a pandemic which is...basically the same thing. And it was global, not just the United States. Of course in the States it didn't help that the president was a total fucking moron who suggested that people try injecting disinfectant into themselves.
(CW: Covid) continues with a side of Trump
(CW: Covid) continues with a side of Trump
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(CW: alcohol, natural high)
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