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June-July 2024 Test Drive Meme
June-July 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: Ghosts, Potential Violence, Potential Death
Summer has hit. It's hot, and nowhere is it hotter than Cruel Summer. Naturally, new Star Children arrive in Cruel Summer with no indication of which direction to go to escape, unless they're so lucky as to arrive near the Selkie River. The water provides a break, and a selkie skin will protect Star Children from the heat. Though beware the cruelty of leaving a selkie without their skin. Along with the heat, Star Children can hear whispers and the echoes of screams throughout Cruel Summer. There's no obvious source of the noises. Not the normal creatures. Not anything anyone can see.
Whether new or old Star Child, anyone lost, overheated, in need of a rest, or anything else will find a friendly spirit will find them in the sands, rock, or shores of Cruel Summer. They'll guide the way toward the huts found in Cruel Summer. These huts have changed; the huts are bigger and grow together, making them one interconnected twisting winding empty town. No one appears to live there. The wooden town is in disrepair, varying from building to building. Even so, they are cool inside, a welcome break from the summer heat.
No matter how one entered, even through the swinging doors to the saloon, that exit disappears behind Star Children. There's no turning back. The only way out is to explore the way through the buildings. This fact continues to be true building to building as exits continue to vanish. The abandoned town isn't as empty as it first seems. As Star Children explore the branching paths through the wooden structures, they see ghosts of spirits going through the paces of their lives. They're familiar to these spaces and interact with missing objects that sometimes shimmer in spirit energy.
Spirit Children may interrupt these routines to try to talk with the ghosts. Some ghostly spirits are friendly. They may interact with Star Children as though they're someone else, someone the spirits used to know. Others, like the bartender, may treat them like a new customer. Other ghosts are determined to stick to their routines and, should Star Children continue to interrupt, will attack those who disturb them.
These spirits may kill Star Children when they attack. Normal weapons won't hurt them. There are revolvers, shotguns, iron pokers, hunting knives, and other plain weapons around to grab in self-defense. Salt bullets and iron will dispel ghosts. These weapons may be grabbed at any time. However, doing so attracts the creatures in Cruel Summer. A blood red worm spitting yellow acid may break through the floor to eat or spray Star Children. An enormous coyote may leap through the window. Whether attracted by the use of weapons or passing by, any dangerous creature found in Cruel Summer seems agitated when they come near these structures and will attack them and anyone inside. They will focus especially on anyone with a stolen selkie skin.
Should Star Children die, whether to ghosts or creatures, they will not immediately return to life.Do not pass go. Instead they will haunt the ghost town for one week in the room where they were killed. Other Star Children may recognize them and work to snap them out of their routines. Yet nothing will free the Star Children's spirits before the week is through. At the end of the week, they'll come to, alive, in their bodies in the room they died in. Best get through and out of the ghost town before dying again!
A constant through these scenes are the spirits' spoons, visible somewhere in each scene. The ghost spoons are whole. Once free of the ghost town, Star Children may choose to travel to the Shattered Spoon Shrine in Never Fade to search for the broken fragments of any of these spoons. They are in such small pieces, however, that no Star Child may feed them enough Lore alone to bring the spirit back. Two or more Star Children may spend time in the Shrine creating and feeding Lore toward the spoons to heal them. It just may be enough to bring someone back.
Summer has hit. It's hot, and nowhere is it hotter than Cruel Summer. Naturally, new Star Children arrive in Cruel Summer with no indication of which direction to go to escape, unless they're so lucky as to arrive near the Selkie River. The water provides a break, and a selkie skin will protect Star Children from the heat. Though beware the cruelty of leaving a selkie without their skin. Along with the heat, Star Children can hear whispers and the echoes of screams throughout Cruel Summer. There's no obvious source of the noises. Not the normal creatures. Not anything anyone can see.
Whether new or old Star Child, anyone lost, overheated, in need of a rest, or anything else will find a friendly spirit will find them in the sands, rock, or shores of Cruel Summer. They'll guide the way toward the huts found in Cruel Summer. These huts have changed; the huts are bigger and grow together, making them one interconnected twisting winding empty town. No one appears to live there. The wooden town is in disrepair, varying from building to building. Even so, they are cool inside, a welcome break from the summer heat.
No matter how one entered, even through the swinging doors to the saloon, that exit disappears behind Star Children. There's no turning back. The only way out is to explore the way through the buildings. This fact continues to be true building to building as exits continue to vanish. The abandoned town isn't as empty as it first seems. As Star Children explore the branching paths through the wooden structures, they see ghosts of spirits going through the paces of their lives. They're familiar to these spaces and interact with missing objects that sometimes shimmer in spirit energy.
Spirit Children may interrupt these routines to try to talk with the ghosts. Some ghostly spirits are friendly. They may interact with Star Children as though they're someone else, someone the spirits used to know. Others, like the bartender, may treat them like a new customer. Other ghosts are determined to stick to their routines and, should Star Children continue to interrupt, will attack those who disturb them.
These spirits may kill Star Children when they attack. Normal weapons won't hurt them. There are revolvers, shotguns, iron pokers, hunting knives, and other plain weapons around to grab in self-defense. Salt bullets and iron will dispel ghosts. These weapons may be grabbed at any time. However, doing so attracts the creatures in Cruel Summer. A blood red worm spitting yellow acid may break through the floor to eat or spray Star Children. An enormous coyote may leap through the window. Whether attracted by the use of weapons or passing by, any dangerous creature found in Cruel Summer seems agitated when they come near these structures and will attack them and anyone inside. They will focus especially on anyone with a stolen selkie skin.
Should Star Children die, whether to ghosts or creatures, they will not immediately return to life.
A constant through these scenes are the spirits' spoons, visible somewhere in each scene. The ghost spoons are whole. Once free of the ghost town, Star Children may choose to travel to the Shattered Spoon Shrine in Never Fade to search for the broken fragments of any of these spoons. They are in such small pieces, however, that no Star Child may feed them enough Lore alone to bring the spirit back. Two or more Star Children may spend time in the Shrine creating and feeding Lore toward the spoons to heal them. It just may be enough to bring someone back.
- Whispers, echoes of screams, etc become common throughout Cruel Summer
- Huts become bigger, interconnected, growing together. Anyone lost, overheated, in need of something in Cruel Summer gets a friendly spirit redirecting them to these buildings
- Buildings will still be in some state of disrepair, but like a whole twisting winding town
- Insides are a cool respite
supernatural ghost spirit air conditioning - Only way out is through, no turning back, as the exits disappear behind you
- Many are friendly, but some are not. One can attempt to talk to them, but how interactive they are varies
- Occasionally other creatures from Cruel Summer may burst in and attack
- If a Star Child dies, rather than return to life immediately, they stay a ghost for about a week, part of the tour
Content Warnings: Fire, Coerced Confessions
Fire! Fire across the realm! For the second half of June, wildfire burns everywhere. While it doesn’t hurt Star Children, it can reduce everything else to ash: homes, businesses, gardens, spirits. The local spirits will be in a panic and beg Star Children for help from small ice mice in Wintermute to fennec foxes in Cruel Summer. How can Star Children help? Confessions. Anything the person they are with doesn’t know. The more earnest and meaningful the better.
When wildfire erupts and spreads, Star Children may stand in or in front of an area they want to protect and confess something to another Star Child who happens to be nearby. Their neighbor? Their partner? A stranger lost in a new land? These confessions simply need to be something the other person doesn’t know to protect structures and spirits. Memories related to the confession will show in the fire. The fire will fuel these memories until they run out of energy, dying down to embers. At least in that place at that time.
Should something start to burn before someone confesses, multiple confessions are necessary to catch the wildfire’s attention and distract it from the fuel source it is feeding on. Two or more Star Children will need to make confessions whose memories are shared in the flames. Water powers can also help quell the flames, but confessions are necessary in the end.
Once July hits, the wildfires are mostly gone, only sparking up here and there on occasion. In their stead are embers. They spark in the air like fireflies and fly around Folkmore, attracted to Star Children. These embers land on Star Children and make them glow. There’s no pain. In fact, the embers provide sparks of insight into memories, situations, and other emotional dilemmas that Star Children haven’t previously understood. Talking the issue over with another Star Children provides further emotional clarity.
Spirits are welcoming to both embers and Star Children. Confessionshelp Folkmore grow as well. Gardens bloom in beautiful displays. Crops grow healthy and joyful. It’s even possible to hear humming from some of the vegetables and fruits. The land grows with the Star Children. Anyone who lacks a green thumb can work their way around that with confessions! Save that dying plant and grow those tomatoes.
One time that a Star Child confesses, either to wildfire or to embers, they will find a jeweled box shaped like a flame. The peak of the flame comes off to reveal the insides. Within, there is an item from home. It may even be a weapon or magical item. Larger more meaningful confessions are more likely to receive weapons. These items may even be larger than should fit in the box or its entrance. Whether the box should only hold a single ring or fill the palm of one’s hand, these items fit. Star Children also can keep the jeweled box, and this one item from home can be stored within the box. Other items too large to fit the box will not enter it. Only the one from the box.
Fire! Fire across the realm! For the second half of June, wildfire burns everywhere. While it doesn’t hurt Star Children, it can reduce everything else to ash: homes, businesses, gardens, spirits. The local spirits will be in a panic and beg Star Children for help from small ice mice in Wintermute to fennec foxes in Cruel Summer. How can Star Children help? Confessions. Anything the person they are with doesn’t know. The more earnest and meaningful the better.
When wildfire erupts and spreads, Star Children may stand in or in front of an area they want to protect and confess something to another Star Child who happens to be nearby. Their neighbor? Their partner? A stranger lost in a new land? These confessions simply need to be something the other person doesn’t know to protect structures and spirits. Memories related to the confession will show in the fire. The fire will fuel these memories until they run out of energy, dying down to embers. At least in that place at that time.
Should something start to burn before someone confesses, multiple confessions are necessary to catch the wildfire’s attention and distract it from the fuel source it is feeding on. Two or more Star Children will need to make confessions whose memories are shared in the flames. Water powers can also help quell the flames, but confessions are necessary in the end.
Once July hits, the wildfires are mostly gone, only sparking up here and there on occasion. In their stead are embers. They spark in the air like fireflies and fly around Folkmore, attracted to Star Children. These embers land on Star Children and make them glow. There’s no pain. In fact, the embers provide sparks of insight into memories, situations, and other emotional dilemmas that Star Children haven’t previously understood. Talking the issue over with another Star Children provides further emotional clarity.
Spirits are welcoming to both embers and Star Children. Confessions
One time that a Star Child confesses, either to wildfire or to embers, they will find a jeweled box shaped like a flame. The peak of the flame comes off to reveal the insides. Within, there is an item from home. It may even be a weapon or magical item. Larger more meaningful confessions are more likely to receive weapons. These items may even be larger than should fit in the box or its entrance. Whether the box should only hold a single ring or fill the palm of one’s hand, these items fit. Star Children also can keep the jeweled box, and this one item from home can be stored within the box. Other items too large to fit the box will not enter it. Only the one from the box.
- Last two weeks of June, wildfire burns across Folkmore. After that, they are rare.
- Confessions can protect or rescue buildings, land areas, and spirits.
- Come July, embers spark across Folkmore like fireflies. They provide insight for Star Children. Talking helps.
- Confessions help the land grow.
- Confessions reveal a jeweled box containing an item from home.
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"I am thinking less of allies and more of ways to recover our numbers but if our Brother has allies, they will be most welcome."
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"Brother always carves out allies. Everyone is greedy for something," he said simply. He didn't hold out much hope that other Nightkin would arrive to add to their number. It seemed too good to be true to know so many existed here in this place already.
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"From what the galaxy has whispered, he indeed is gifted in such regards." Which was important, and needed. She didn't know if more would appear here, but she knew more could be made. Which was equally important.
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"He is. Hence why you should do better to speak to him over myself," he said simply. He did not have the skills of his brother, but he had also come here to develop his own on a path that he chose. Perhaps this Sister and his brother could find a fruitful alliance.
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It takes her a moment to pull herself together, to cool herself to present. Still at Savage's words, she patted his bicep, "Do not discount your talents Brother, especially with so few of us currently, all our talents are precious."
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Her passions are warranted; it is in their blood to be roused by such fights, to seek knowledge and power. He didn't dare touch her in return, but his gaze fell to where her hand continued contact with his arm. "I can see why others would follow you, Sister."
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Maybe he thought he would need to prove himself to back up such a claim. He would.
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"Some may have those feelings but with so few of us, there is less Magick to draw on. And we will have fewer without our Brothers alive." But she too believed they were mostly stories told to keep especially male kits in line.
"Good. Tell me Brother, have you hear takes of Purrgils, the giant space beast which roam the hyperlinks as the edges of known space?" The oldest tales, ones she had thought were just cradle stories.
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"The Force is everywhere Sister, though perhaps not as the Ichor of our own planet produces. We are strongest at home, so... do you think these temples beyond our stars will have the same potency as Dathomir?" For him, he drew on the Force whenever and however he wanted, but the Ichor was important to their people to contain their spirits and allow them feasting. "You... have chosen a mate, Sister?" He asked very, very tentatively.
He tilted his head at the strange name, considering before shaking it in a negative. "No, Sister. Are they important to your cause?"
[OOC: SPACE WHALES!!!]
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"They do. Likely not as powerful to those not exposed to the Ichor, but we populated a vast area beyond Dathomir for many many years. Why we built an enclave on Dathomir is a mystery still to be divined." But she wanted too. The mysteries of their far past was something she was committed to. "No, I have not. There was never prospect which held that potential, although I know it was because I was still seeking out a Nightbrother." Not... someone outside them.
"They will lead you home, if you can find them. They taught us the gift of hyperlane travel and their migratory routes lead to Peridea." Hence brave and bold - they were huge dangerous animals, wild, and their paths vast.
(LOVE THEM!)
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He tilted his head at the idea of her waiting for a Nightbrother. It made sense; other males could suffice but they were not as obedient or colourful as actual Nightbrothers. "Perhaps your return to Dathomir or to Peridea with our kind then it will allow you the opportunity to take one for yourself." What if he nudged her to Maul? They could make a powerful team, though his brother would not be subservient. Then again, she didn't seem interested in that kind of demands so it could work. Hmmmmmmmm....
"I see. I've never seen whatever they are." He would fight one though. He'd fight just about anything though. "But I expect I will know them if I see them?"
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"Prehaps. I will follow the Great Mothers' advice on the matter as well." Advice, orders - from them, it amounted to the same. "But returning to Dathomir to continue Mother Selena's clan would be ideal." But if he people would be best served by her fulfilling another role, she would, without hesitation.
"Yes. They are present in ancient glyphs too." She looked around, spying a pile of char and turned toward it, giving Savage a little pull to come with her.
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He nodded his head, not about to provide advice. She would choose when she decided to or when ordered to. Maul's only issue was not being able to produce kits, so the continuation of Talzin's bloodline unfortunately fell to him. He was leery of such a role; surely she would tolerate it but not be encouraging as if it were Maul.
Maybe he had seen them in the glyphs. "On Dathomir?" He didn't resist her pull, following along and matching her step. His own interest in the char was little. "Perhaps I have seen one in glyph then, Sister. There are rare stories of warriors riding beasts to meet the Fanged God."
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At the pile of char, Morgan uses her for to press it down, flat and compact, using her Magick to telekineticly make it more suitable before spreading her fingers out as a green burning appeared and carved out a Purrgil glyph curled around a planet.
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He peered over at whatever it was that Morgan was doing, leaning forward to view the creature that she was drawing in the ashes. "Is that an ugly shooting star, Sister? Or a hungry space beast with tentacles?"
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"A Purrgil. A spacefairing beast which travels the hyperspace lanes, large enough to carry off tar destroyers in their tentacles. Tame one, as we Sisters tame rancors, and it will carry you from Dathomir to our other ancient Temples, to Peridea. Fail to, and it will kill you and drag your corpse to their graveyard."
Brave and bold, Brother. Brave and bold.
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After all, Morgan described them in such a way as to put them akin to rancors in ferocity. How one traveled on one he didn't know, but they no doubt had secrets if they would take them to these ancient Sisters in another galaxy. "If one isn't strong enough, the graveyard is where they belong. Only the strong will survive."
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"They don't travel alone, but in pods. And they can swallow mid-sized ships."
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"I see, so they are more dangerous together." That made sense. In a way, that was like how male tended to hunt. They were far more potent together than alone.
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"They are. And they travel in huge pods. I recommend spending time watching them, at least a few days, before attempting anything." She paused for a moment. "They are like us, Mothers and daughters, Sisters all, traveling together, and Males together."
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"I would be fine watching them from a distance." He didn't have the skills of taming animals; he had purposefully allowed many of those skills atrophy to protect his little brother and hide in plain sight. Now he was so angry and welling with Force potential that it was likely off putting to animals and semi-sentient beasts such as that. "They are transient. I assume safety in numbers."