TEST DRIVE MEME -- JANUARY

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TEST DRIVE MEME Interested in joining Terminal Tokyo? Well, before you apply feel free to testdrive any character you're interested in playing here! This is a good way to see how your character will work in the environment or even the potential CR. For the sake of this meme you are allowed to choose your own partners but it will not count as game canon. Nothing that happens here will, it's just for practice! That said we've decided to give you a bit of what you will see if you join the game. Keep in mind once a month we'll put up sets of missions your characters can join for bit, which is what some of these are! Others are mini-events. So here we go: MINI-EVENTS 1 POWER PROBLEMS A swarm of Kunemon have invaded from the forest! Having electric attributes in their attacks, they're causing all sorts of power problems around the city. Can they be stopped before electrical fires start up? 2) BATTLE MUSIC: One of the shifts causes music to follow your character around for a maximum of two days. Are they upset? Rocking out? Whatever they're doing we hope they're enjoying their new battle theme! 3) CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING!: Have you ever heard the expression "raining cats and dogs?" Well, now it's raining Gatomon and Doggymon, and they're understandably pretty unhappy! Or maybe you happen to be on one of the more normal weather days, like a sudden heatwave, or a freak blizzard, or a raging sandstorm! Better watch out for that tornado day, too. You're already not in Kansas anymore, after all! MISSIONS 1) THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH: 300 BIT The Terriermon and Lopmon have started a turf war! You've been picked to stop it. Watch out for the Terrier Tornados and Blazing Ice. 2) WE CAN REBUILD IT: 500 BIT The poor, poor city. It's in shambles! You've been drafted to help fix it up, in whatever way you can. Planting trees in the park? Fixing holes in the apartment building? Reconstruction of entire shops? Hope you're good with a hammer. 3) OPERATOR?: 800 BIT The forests of the Digital World are strange places, especially with everything merging together. It looks like an unusual amount of weird telephone booths are showing up all over the place, displaying weird bursts of static and odd messages. Track down the booths and see if there's anything of importance...or listen to how to travel to Mars with a canoe. The second one's more likely. Watch out for Kuwagamon. He's irritable. 4 FIRE! 500 BIT The DemiMeramon's are a mischievous bunch, aren't they? Don't think so? Well, we hope that's not your house they're trying to burn down! A bunch of DemiMeramon are loose and setting fire to the outskirts of the city. Stop them before they destroy the whole city, but be careful! They may turn into Meramon, easy enough. 5) TRAINING WITH CHOSEN: 100 BIT With some of the recent Chosen adjusting to their roles, some of the newer Chosen might be looking to them for help, which includes fighting experience. In the spirit of promoting such camaraderie, an observing or participating NPC will give those actively training a few bits for their effort. And, as always, you're also allowed to do this in a free form! These are just ideas to get your gears rolling and see what to expect. (NOTE: All missions and events are more light-hearted here, but will not always be in game).

Comments

[cepicorpus]

[There's a thousand things Vanitas could say immediately about that. Angry things or bitter or just rude, but all of them are bitten back. The trees did nothing except be planted somewhere he didn't like or approve of.

Maybe if they made a little path or something. An obvious purpose beyond 'derp here's the trees!'. Said tree is eyed. It can't be saved now, which was for the best.]

It's an eyesore. They should have put it somewhere else.

[It makes sense to him. His digimon however doesn't seem to exactly approve, by the way it sidles past him and begins seeing if it's possible to reconnect the tree to the stump.]

[darkened]

So, what? Are you suddenly the garden police?

[He rolls his eyes as he says this, leaning forward with a broad smirk on his lips. This guy's kind of an oddball. Who gets so uptight over trees? Is he one of those obsessive compulsive types? And who's to say the trees didn't grow there naturally?

Granted, he has no strong feelings about ecology, so he makes no moves to stop him. His Kotemon, on the other hand, finally works up the courage to march forward and hop in the path of the next nearest tree.]

You should show more respect, mister! This place isn't your playground.

[cepicorpus]

[Of course they didn't grow there naturally, they're very obviously recent replants, what with the fresh dirt and all. It'd take months before they looked natural, and Vanitas intended to have the offending trees cut down by then.

If they put them back in a way he approved of maybe he won't kill the next ones too. Maybe. There's a chance. A slim chance but a chance. So far there's been no serious repercussions and he didn't expect any. Especially not from the replica.

This in no way prevents him from being further irritated. Annoyance is an old and familiar emotion, easy to dredge up.]

...Yeah. I am. I left my badge with my other saw.

[It's said flatly. Almost certainly it's bullshit. As the kotemon however decides to get directly in his path, his own digimon suddenly perks up and scrambles after them both, alarmed.]

Move or be moved.

[Such a simple phrase, and so completely packed with malevolent intention that there's really no mistaking exactly how he might choose to move the oddly-helmeted creature.]

[darkened]

Tsk. If you were such a hotshot, you'd remember the badge.

[He knows it's a big lie, but he'll humor the guy anyway. Of course, once he stomps over to Kotemon, the Replica's smirk wavers just a tiny bit. Folding his arms, he leans back against another nearby tree and watches. He knows Kotemon can take care of herself, especially if she goes XV-mon on him, but still.

Is this guy really so desperate to make a wreck of the place? Is he some kind of weird delinquent?

Kotemon doesn't budge and instead scoops out her sword and clasps it in both hands.]

No! Chosen aren't supposed to act like big jerks. I'm not gonna allow this!

[cepicorpus]

Do you practice trying to sound this clever in front of a mirror in the mornings? Cuz it's not really working out for you.

[There's a certain blatant lack of really giving a damn here, there's no bite to his words. The replica is nobody he knows or cares to know, and there are trees to destroy. Trading taunts with someone that meant nothing to him just wasn't a good way to spend his time. He wasn't going to get anything out of it.

It's only fun if he knows the person he's tormenting. Then it's worthwhile.

The digimon with a sword is studied for a moment with completely unhidden disgust. People actually relied on these things?]

... Go play with someone who gives a crap.

[Vanitas is still strong for his size and age even without his powers. And quick. He reaches to grab the sword by its flat edge and shove it aside, and with his free hand reach for Kotemon herself with every intention of lifting her straight off the ground and toss her aside. He's strong enough to do it. Barely, but capable. Maybe surprise at the audacity would even give him the time needed.

His partner doesn't find this even remotely amusing, its scramble turning into a panicked charge. Nothing can be said with its muzzle taped shut but it's going to interfere, things are going to get bad and really, really fast..]

[darkened]

Ha. You know, the whole bully routine's not gonna get you that far. Might want to work on that a bit so you're actually intimidating.

[Still not budging, the Replica watches with amusement as his partner huffs and puffs out her chest in an attempt to look scary. But hmm, just to spice things up a little, the Replica fiddles around with his D-Stream. Kotemon looks kind of doofy, but her next form... heh. Let's see how the guy handles it.

The timing can't be better, as Vanitas not only succeeds in disarming Kotemon, but with her small size, the small Digimon gets flung aside despite her attempts at squirming. She hits the ground with a thud and moans ofr a second or two before fumbling for her sword and charging back towards that tree.]

I don't wanna do this, mister, but you've left me no choice!

[BAM. The Replica's D-Stream vibrates in his grip, and Kotemon's body bursts into a shimmering white glow.]

Kotemon, evolve...!

[And, within seconds, there's a huge, blue dragon standing in her place, fists clenched, lips pulled back into a toothy grin.]

XV-mon, the rougher, tougher, and way cooler Digimon than you, scruffy!

[And with her evolution comes a more arrogant personality. Go figure!]

[cepicorpus]

[While it's obvious he heard the replica, it's also pretty clear he just isn't interested in bothering. The look of pure contempt he shoots the silver-haired boy is enough evidence of that. He's got other things to do.

Like get this digimon out of his path.

It's amazingly difficult to intimidate Vanitas with a monster. He used to spawn monsters just by getting upset over something, if there's a creature that will phase him at all it's ... probably not going to be a digimon. He was afraid of things, enough to keep running for years, but that wasn't something like this. This he knew how to deal with.

The sudden evolution of something tiny to something very large only seems to draw the pause of reconsidering how to tackle his foe after the temporary victory of getting rid of it. There's only calculation and interest. Not a flicker of fear. Not from Vanitas, who seems completely undeterred.]

Good thing I'm not a digimon. I've been wanting a dragonskin coat.

[His partner on the other hand..

Well, Vanitas doesn't have a protective shell, or claws or sharp teeth. Humans just aren't designed to take the same level of abuse a digimon is, and the armadillomon knows it. It would have to be strong enough for the both of them, tough enough to protect someone who surely has no idea what he's even getting into.

Before Vanitas can take action, the now far smaller digimon hurtles at XV-mon, tucking up into a ball in the process; hopefully the sudden impact will divert her attention away from its squishy human partner and to someone who can actually handle the abuse.

Like itself. That's what friends do, isn't it? Vanitas didn't understand, but it did. Some things were worth fighting for.]