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3.0 Test Drive Meme

3.0 Test Drive Meme

Welcome to Well! Characters arrive a little differently this month (see the first prompt). Your character arrives this month in the middle of the formless desert with only a handful of memories, clad in old west style clothes of your choosing, with no items from home.

Anyone is free to play on the TDM, but you need an invite to apply. Feel free to use these prompts, and interact with the arrival or locations. NPCs are around, but only say a certain set of phrases. TDMs can be considered game canon.

This TDM takes place from the first week of August onward, and can happen concurrently with other events during August and September. This will be the only TDM for August, September, and October.

Applications are open July 26th until August 1st, and August 27th until September 1st. Invites are available for friends of current players.

A Little Lost
Content warnings: heat exhaustion, feelings of unreality

You wake up in a sea of sand. It’s hot, and dry, and it seems to go on forever. You don’t remember much about yourself except your name and a handful of memories that most likely aren’t useful right now.

The sand slip-slides under your feet with every step. Sun beats down heavy and hot on your neck and your head. You’re so thirsty. How did you get here? How long have you been walking? Where are you headed? You can’t know. You feel like you’ve been walking forever, but the sun stays high above you, like it’s always noon. It may have been hours, it may have been mere minutes. What are those things circling in the sky above you? Vultures? That can't mean anything good.

Eventually, you find someone else, another new arrival, maybe, or a resident of the town who may have wandered a little too far into the desert. Maybe they have some water on them? Either way, company is exactly what you need right now, because there sure isn’t anything else in this desolate place. Not a cactus, not an animal, not even hints of a town.

Once you’re together, it seems a little easier to move forward. Time starts to move, too. The sun dips in the sky, your feet tread through the sand, and together, eventually you find the town.

If you take too long after you find one another, and the sun sets, be careful. Cacti sprout up closer to town, and after the sun sets, the cacti start to move, and they seem hungry for blood.

tl;dr:
  • This time, new arrivals wake up lost in the middle of a vast desert.
  • There's too much sun, too much sand, vultures circling and too little water.
  • Finding each other makes time start again, and lets you find the town.
  • If you don't make it back to town before nightfall, vicious living cacti appear to attack you.

Face Your Fears
Content warnings: hallucinations, reality shifts

In this town, fear soaks the hot, dry air. It lurks in shadows and the corners of rooms, waiting for their moment. What is it that you fear? Monsters? Disappointing your parents? Maybe you’re afraid that everyone you love will leave you, or that you’ll end up alone. Whatever it is, right now, there’s a chance of becoming very real.

It happens suddenly. Your mind drifts. You lose focus on what you were doing, and when you look up again, the world around you has shifted. What was a nice lunch with a new friend or a fun visit to the saloon becomes a nightmare. What fear manifests is totally up to you, and it can be different every time. The person beside you could become a monster you think is trying to attack you, or you could be suddenly alone in a cold dark space, desolate and empty.

Whatever horror your mind conjures up for you, it will feel real in all ways and with all senses including, of course, your perception of pain. As far as you know, you’re trapped in a nightmare with no way out.

Except, of course, there is a way out: you just need to figure out that it isn’t real. Maybe you’re strong enough to do that on your own; maybe you’ll need help from a friend or a new pal, reaching through the illusion to pull you back. After all, these hallucinations are entirely in the mind of the beholder: to everyone around you, it sure just looks like you’re yelling at your pancakes!

tl;dr:
  • You start hallucinating that the things you fear most are actually happening to you.
  • These fears feel like real, concrete sensory experiences, even though they're only happening in your head.
  • You can escape by recognizing that what's happening isn't real, either on your own or with help.



Bullrider
Content warnings: mild bovine coercion, alcohol

Come on, hot stuff. You know you want to.

Bet you can’t stay on for more than half a minute.

You don’t look too tough.

You think you can tame me?


In the saloon, you hear a voice in your head. It calls to you, the words seductive and enticing: you want to prove it wrong, you want to find out what it’s promising, you hate to lose. Whatever the motivation, you find yourself abandoning your drink and making your way to the new attraction at the back of the saloon: the bull.

It’s a big boy: a massive mechanical bull. Covered in spotted cowhide, with a bull head and big horns, this thing sits on a massive pedestal like a challenge. Around it is spread... relatively thin padding and a flimsy rope to keep the audience back an appropriate distance.

The compulsion keeps a hold on you until you’re on the bull. Maybe you’re on it with a friend, or a stranger, and it starts up with a mechanical buzzing. It starts to sway under you, and now you have just one job: stay on.

It starts easy, but gets harder as it goes along. It’s incredibly difficult to stay on for more than a minute. But during that minute, you feel amazing. You feel hot as hell, in whatever way that works for you: sexy, powerful, bold, in control.

Until he throws you off onto the padding or into the crowd! When you get thrown, there's a good chance you'll go flying into the crowd. Hopefully they're ready to catch you!

If by some miracle you manage to stay on for more than a minute and a half, the bartender slides you a bullrider special: a spicy whiskey cocktail with a hint of lime. Feel free to leave it up to pure chance, and have the mods roll a die for you to see whether you manage to stay on or not.


tl;dr:
  • There's a mechanical bull in the back of the saloon!
  • There's a strange deep voice in your head, coercing you into giving it a shot.
  • It's hard to stay on, but when you're on it, you feel powerful, bold and in control.
  • The padding's pretty thin and you'll get thrown hard when you do. You might hit someone!
  • If you stay on for more than a minute and a half, you'll get a fun little drink as a reward.



sighsheavily: (pic#14667795)

[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Does it? [she scoots back against the pile she's made to test how far she sinks.] I can't say I've any notion of it being of any interest at all.

Perhaps to eat, maybe...
forgeabettertomorrow: (Ehehehe well...)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I'll catch you some delicious fish and whip you up a meal you'll never forget!

...[Huh, she's...climbing onto the bed. Okay. Just...don't call attention to it. If you do that, she'll get self-conscious and stop. Don't do or say anything stupid. Be cool!]

...What's something you feel you'll want to do when we get out of here?
sighsheavily: (pic#16590724)

[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmh.

[she folds her arms at her middle, thinking about it.]

See...see a forest. A garden. Somewhere green and soft, not so...brown and harsh.
forgeabettertomorrow: (We can fly if you believe)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds nice. Someplace peaceful. Maybe a little isolated.

I'd love to help you find one to your liking. Maybe even plant one ourselves.
sighsheavily: (pic#16420023)

[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Plant one, hmh? I wonder if I've any aptitude at all for it. Given all the fire...

It'd be a pleasant dichotomy.
forgeabettertomorrow: (I'm about to do something awesome)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
We could always try. Wouldn't hurt to learn, you know?

I think you'd be good at it. You have a lot of focus and an eye for detail. And you're definitely patient, seeing as how you put up with me.
sighsheavily: (pic#16416823)

[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[she glances his way sidelong, her mouth quirked on one side.]

Patience with someone like you is different than waiting for plants to grow, I think.
forgeabettertomorrow: (I don't really get it but...)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah? What makes me so different? I mean, if you want me to grow you have to talk to me and show me a lot of care and attention. I think it's pretty much the same.

[He rolls onto his back so he can look up at her upside down through his bangs. Like a big stupid dog.]
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[with a slight tilt to her head:] The plants don't scream. And...they stay in one place.
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[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
See? I think that's a point in favor of the plants being easier to deal with than me.
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. I'm doubt they're as keen on conversation, however.

[arching a brow:] They can't lift heavy things for me, either.
forgeabettertomorrow: (this Lance guy sounds alright)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm starting to see why you tolerate me now~

[He stretches very, very obviously, showing off his powerful arms and pecs.]

Alright, so it's a tie. The plants aren't as loud and obnoxious but they don't talk much but we're both nice to look at.
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[she lifts a hand to cover her mouth.] I wonder if they're as humble...!
forgeabettertomorrow: (Don't know how to quit)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm, you raise another good point. Sounds like the flowers have one up on me now~

What could I offer you that flowers can't...

[He posits the question thoughtfully to no one in particular. Musing playfully out loud.]

Well, I can promise to shower you with as much affection as you shower me with. Flowers have a hard time reciprocating.
sighsheavily: (pic#16416827)

[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[her face reddens.]

Or flustering me so, I'd say...
forgeabettertomorrow: (We can fly if you believe)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sits up again and scoots up closer to her.]

Then...I think that puts me one up on the flowers now...
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[her eyes get big and ears more alert to her heartrate jumping. is she always going to feel so excitable? it's both thrilling and rather embarrassing.

after a quiet gulp, she moves her hand away.]


A, a notch or two, I think. Yes.
forgeabettertomorrow: (We can fly if you believe)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sidles up right next to her up against the headboard. And then, he lifts an arm to drape it around behind her. It's an opening. An offer. He knows how skittish she can be.]

You know, you still haven't told me how you've been feeling. How you're holding up...your thoughts.
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Thoughts?

[what thoughts? how's he expect her to be anything but brainless when he's sidled up and gotten so close?

her own fault, really. she sat down, didn't she?]


I...I suppose they must be in there, somewhere. Certainly. I'm a bit preoccupied, though.
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forgeabettertomorrow: (Don't know how to quit)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, that draws a bit of a playful look from him.]

Preoccupied how, hm?

[He leans in a bit closer now. Any closer and he'd be resting his forehead to hers.]
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[she almost pouts.]

Just-- kiss me already, will you?
forgeabettertomorrow: (I think I know where I belong)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can't help but laugh at that. He had no idea Cecelia could be so distracted by something like this. But he's certainly not going to pass up such an earnest demand.]

[But neither is he going to just mash his face into hers. He reaches up and places a hand on her cheek tenderly. A calloused thumb brushes at one of the freckles affectionately before he leans in and presses his lips to hers. It's gentle and warm and has every intention to make her melt where she sits.]

[And when he breaks the kiss to breathe, he gives her a pause so she can do the same before kissing her again.]
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[she was readying some complaint about being a tease, but that thought, too, is eradicated with a touch and any followup evaporated with a kiss. again the weightless, thrilling feeling overtakes and leaves her aflutter.

with the chance to breathe again, she almost manages a thought or some start of a quip before she's captured by another kiss. hardly worth fighting, and in not contemplating too much at all she finds it easy to reciprocate.

breathless again, turns her head away just enough to catch it.]


Oh, I... I think I'm a bit addicted to this--
forgeabettertomorrow: (We can fly if you believe)

[personal profile] forgeabettertomorrow 2023-07-25 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say you are. Ever since that day you've been a lot more affectionate.

...And before you say anything, I don't mind. It makes me happy. It makes me happy because you're happy.

[The arm that was around her draws her close so she can kiss and cuddle to her heart's desire.]

But since we're being so honest...I think I'm addicted too.

['To you' is heavily implied.]
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[personal profile] sighsheavily 2023-07-25 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[on cue, being called out does make her shrink a bit, but there's nowhere to hide away save against him. the balm to that is the calling of himself out, which keeps her from squirming too much.]

Well. Well, good, then-- [sound lamer, Ardenbury. she ducks her head.] It may as well be...mutual. Or I'd be rather mortified.

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