folkmeme | February-March 2024 Test Drive Meme

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February-March 2024 Test Drive Meme

February-March 2024 TDM

Introduction

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This Test Drive meme is open to all.
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.

Current players are always encouraged to tag new people on the TDM!

🦊 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.

[ Soon You'll Get Better ★ Netfox & Chill]

Soon You'll Get Better . ★

Content Warnings: Power Nullification, Potential Kidnapping, Potential Animal Spirit Harm

The island of Never Fade can no longer be seen in the sky from elsewhere in Folkmore, enclosed within a large purple tinted cloud. Within that cloud, the island is under water—a dreamy purple underwater that all Star Children can breath in if they breath and function in if they function on electricity, so on and so forth. It causes no more difficulties than reduced visibility and greater effort to walk. It's even possible to swim underneath the island, so long as Star Children make sure to make landfall before they get too exhausted and… well… fall.

Friendnapped

The purple water has streaks of silver shot throughout it. Beware, these silver streaks neutralize powers, canon and role abilities alike, for at least an hour. A neutralized Legend won't be able to sense others in danger. A neutralized Myth won't sense danger coming. A neutralized Familiar won't be able to shapeshift to help others. That may set of a danger alarm but not any spidey-sense. These silver streaks are harbingers of spirits recently returned to Folkmore thanks to donations at the Shattered Spoon Shrine: lonely sharks.

The source of the silver streaks in the water, these silver gray sharks swim up and gently bite people. These bites make people go instantly limp but otherwise don't do any damage. They won't even break the skin. Once limp, the lonely sharks take their ~~prey~~ new best friends down to a cave or grotto off the underside of Never Fade. These caves are full of silver water, saturated by the magic of lonely sharks, and the entrances are covered by a thin silver barrier that prevents Star Children from leaving. That means should a Star Child track down where someone is being kept, should they enter its home, they too will be trapped there.

Being held by the lonely sharks isn't the worst experience. These spirits will try to please their new friends, giving them their favorite foods and perhaps even an item from home. This may even be a weapon or magical item. Mind, the magic of these items will be neutralized in the shark's cave. It is possible to fight a lonely shark, even to kill one, but that will only be a temporary measure. Star Children will remain trapped and have to wait for the lonely shark to revive—with even more golden cracks than before. In the end, the only way to escape are hugs, cuddles, and other measures of friendship. Once all the golden cracks have thinned and disappeared, Star Children can leave.

Spread the Love

By the time mid-March comes around, most of the lonely sharks have been fully healed and no longer kidnap Star Children. Instead they swim the None of the Above tunnels below the island's surface, where they provide guidance to Star Children who ask them how to get somewhere. If Star Children have nowhere particular in mind, the lonely sharks encourage Star Children to make their way toward the Shattered Spoon Shrine.

The lonely sharks still create silver streaks in the water that neutralize powers, but they will accompany Star Children and warn them of some of the dangers. When voices call their names, the sharks will snuggle up against Star Children to provide comfort. They're devoted to helping Star Children reach the shrine. Once there, they will encourage the Star Children to donate Lore to one of the broken spoons there, each spoon representing spirits who have left, spirits who became shells of themselves from lack of lore, or ghosts.

Star Children who donate Lore will find their companion lonely shark presenting them with an item from home. This may even be a weapon or magical item. Mind, the magic will be neutralized until the Star Child has spent at least an hour away from the silvery water lonely sharks create. Lonely sharks will happily spend as much time with Star Children as they're willing but will show the way back to the surface either via LIM (Lavender Institute of the Mind) or the None of the Above tunnels.

Never Fade is underwater within a cloud.
Silver streaks in the water neutralize powers, both canon and Role based.
Lonely sharks kidnap Star Children and take them to caves on the underside of Never Fade.
Star Children who find those caves are trapped too.
Escape by hugs, cuddles, and being friends.
By the second month, most lonely sharks are healed and found in the tunnels.
Lonely sharks guide Star Children to the Shattered Spoon Shrine to donate Lore to help others.
Either when captive or once donating Lore, lonely sharks will give Star Children an item from home.

Netfox & Chill . ★

Content Warnings: Forced Relocation, Potential Secret Revelation, Potential Coerced Physical Intimacy

With the wide range of Star Children from many different worlds, sharing similarities, it's no surprise when moments of deja vu happen. That sense of the familiar with the new, the sense of something that happened before without quite being able to place it… or perhaps it being impossible. Regardless, when that connective moment happens, the Star Children involved are transported to a windmill home from the Cloud Colonies. They land together on a couch before a large television with all the makings of a movie night. There could be wine and cheese. There could be soda and popcorn. There could be tea or other hot beverages. There's a cozy blanket (only one). The movie has already been selected, and it starts playing.

Headliner

The movie is roughly based off one of the Star Children's lives, specifically for the Star Child that experience deja vu and triggered this experience. Regardless of the moment of deja vu, the plot of the movie is based off of some real or potential relationship—romantic or queer platonic—in their life. That Star Child can recognize some similarities immediately. If they had any doubts, they get a text message on their relic as the movie starts:

You need to get closer with your companion(s). You can either talk about what happened (or didn't) or not talk wink wink about it with them. The choice is yours (and theirs)! Have fun!

It's possible to ignore the message, at least for a while. The longer the movie plays, the more apparent it becomes that it's based off that Star Child. The starring character's clothes will change to resemble theirs. The cadence of their voice will shift to imitate theirs. Their facial features will shift. These changes will become more and more heavy handed as the movie goes on until even the most clueless companion will have real trouble not picking up on it. It may get harder and harder to distract them from talking about it! There's no pause button, and the only way to mute the movie is to *ahem* distract themselves from it until it becomes an indistinct background murmur.

Remake

If any Star Children thought this experience might have been a Valentine's Day prank, they'll be poorly mistaken come mid-March when it continues with a twist. The movie less closely resembles any one Star Child's life (whew?)… because it blends the lives of all those present together into a new story. One character is based off each Star Child, and it fits the other Star Child into the role of someone who was or could have been emotionally and/or physically intimate with them. If they had any doubts, each Star child gets a text message on their relic as the movie starts:

You need to get closer with your companion(s). You can either talk about what happened (or didn't) or not talk wink wink about it with them. The choice is yours (and theirs)! Have fun!

Not only does each Star Child have to decide what approach they want to take, but the other Star Child may pick up on what they're putting down! One Star Child may want to talk it out, but the other one desperately doesn't. Oh noes, how shall it be resolved? Well, the longer it takes, the more clearly the film demonstrates one way they could resolve it—a fictionalized ending, happy or sad or bittersweet or anything else, between the characters as they more closely resemble those watching them on the sofa. No one's free until they have a heart to heart or a something to something else. Any physical intimacy can do.

Experience a moment of deja vu and get transported to a cozy living room in a Cloud Colony windmill.
For the first month, the 'host' Star Child gets a text letting them know to get intimate—emotionally or physically.
For the second month, all Star Children get that text.
For the first month, the movie is based on the 'host' Star Child's experiences, what did or could have happened. As the movie progresses, it becomes more and more obvious that's the case.
For the second month, the movie is a story blending Star Children's experiences together. That too will become more obvious over time.
Some form of intimacy is the only way out!

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i. [arrival]

[Alright, so this is... weird. Not as weird as some of the other shit that's happened to her in her life, but still weird in a way she's not sure she likes. The world is saved and everything is fine, but there's still a lot to do, or at least a lot she wants to do. And why the hell is it just her...?

Almost immediately, Beau can be found sitting wherever she landed with her legs crossed, kind-of-sort-of meditating in a semi-monotone outfit. At least, she looks like she's meditating, with the eyes closed and the hands at rest and all, but really she's just sort of checking in with every part of her body and figuring out all of her pockets are empty. That's gonna present it's own problems. There also seem to be white feathers that keep appearing out of nowhere that she's brushing off her shoulders, leading to a small pile around her after a few minutes.

Regardless of how quietly you approach though, once you're within about a 5 foot radius, she'll snap one eye open and look towards you.]

What? Am I in the way or something?

ii. [friendnapped]

[This isn't the first time Beau has been underwater, able to breathe or not, but it's a lot more pleasant than those other times have been. The water is gorgeous and everything here seems too... easy. Simple, maybe? It's suspicious, as far as she's concerned. It's making her suspicious.

This is compounded by the fact that one of those strange sharks bites her, and then she can't even hit it as it drags her downward. She is... not quiet about the experience.]

I knew it! I fucking knew it! Don't-- stop dragging me, just eat me already or let me hit you!

[If you don't catch her there, she can be found not too long later in the shark's lair, back against a wall and looking appropriately grumpy. She absolutely socked one and now feels quietly guilty about it. So much so that when it begins to approach again with a long, familiar stick in it's mouth, she tries not to jump up too quickly and scare it off.]

Is... is that my staff? Where did you even-- no, come on, I'm not gonna hit you again, c'mere...

[She's on her hands and knees half army crawling and half shuffling to not scare the thing off. Maybe someone tell her she can just apologize.]

iii. [headliner]

[Considering Beau is from a world that doesn't have movies, popcorn, or a variety of things happening in this situation, she's immediately put on edge by the sudden teleportation and a lot of things she doesn't understand. Almost instantly she's standing, hands out in front of her and somehow balanced perfectly on the uneven terrain.]

Okay, I'm getting really tired of all this teleporting without asking, what-- what is the deal here. Who are you, what is this, and do not try shit with me.

[She isn't looking like she's about to start punching you instantly, which is a lot of character development on her part, but she is wary and won't get down and be normal about this without some sort of explaination.]

iv. [wildcard]

[Wanna do a prompt I didn't work with, do something else, or just chat?? Hit me up at

cancerously and we can hang. Canonpoint is end of canon but before any timeskips (so right after the Trent fight in 141).]

[Caduceus has been similarly abducted and has just been kind of chilling in the back of the cave with a cup of inexplicably not-dispersing-in-water tea (a present from his new aquatic friend), with another shark swimming happily around him, occasionally dipping under his arm for pets like an excitable puppy. The sight of Beau struggling for her staff sure is one for sore eyes, though he's hesitant to be too presumptuously familiar considering the last time he tried with someone from home.

Still, he's cheerful:]

I think it just wants your attention.

[For a moment, Caduceus' voice saying something calm while she's struggling doesn't even register as odd. She just stretches and tries not to make any sudden movements so the thing doesn't run off again.]

Well it's getting it already, and it'll get something else if it doesn't--

[wait, hang on, processing, turning head around]

What the fuck Caduceus, when the hell did you get here?

[aka 'how long have you been watching me do dumb shit and not helping?']

Just a few minutes. [So yeah he's been getting a whole show.] Sorry, I was sort of held down for some tea. Look at this, isn't it amazing?

[He waves his teacup, which somehow is not dispersing said tea all around him in the water. He takes a sip. So good...]

You've been watching me struggle while you just sit there and drink tea.

[Wow. Wow, Cad. Offended. She thought you were better than this.]

Maybe they just knew you'd stick around if they gave you nice stuff. Not like this guy trying to make me feel guilty for self-defense.

[She is not watching the shark, which is still tentatively approaching her with her staff in it's mouth.]

beauregard (beau) lionett | critical role | legend, to her dismay

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friendnapped, first part

TWIRLS HAIR, HEYYYYY

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