test drive meme 21

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NOTE: The locations in this test drive are placeholders and do not fit with current game events. Due to ongoing changes as we shift to arc 3, contents of this test drive as they related to specific areas or activities are unfortunately not able to be incorporated as game canon, though if it is possible for a particular thread, you may assume conversations took place similarly in a different setting once the changeover happens ICly. Test drive threads may of course still be used for application samples!

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Ingress travel can be disorienting, but there’s no need to worry! All side effects are temporary and lessen with each trip. Your body may experience several sensations at once: being pushed forward as if a hand is resting on your back, momentary and startling blindness, a gentle ringing in your head. You may have difficulty discerning whether it is hot or cold, but where you have been prodded is noticeably warmer than the rest of you. Some may suffer from dizziness while others are perfectly fine. You notice that the area you are in is filled with a soft cerulean light and feels slightly humid and dark despite the glow around you. Regardless of your current state, however, the stress of initial Ingress travel forces your body into unconsciousness.

Waking up is another story. Or maybe it isn’t.

You find yourself in a nondescript room; sometimes with others who have found themselves in the same situation, sometimes alone. A robotic medical tech is always present to explain what’s happened in a rote fashion, though his programming does not permit him to answer specific questions. He provides some clothing, a TAB, and a guide that explains the basics of Ingress travel and why you are here. Outside the room, you'll find you're on a space station that is staffed only by other robots; the only other organics there are those who recently arrived with you, or perhaps your predecessors, who are strolling the halls in search of an observation deck or the tech they've been sent here to fix. Why not introduce yourself and say hello?

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phanos

* The planet Phanos is not as it was during the last visit there. Storms of dark energy swirl across the sections of the world, though they do not yet overwhelm it. The temperature is cooler now, but sandstorms still kick up with great frequency, making cooperation an important part of survival as groups make their way across the landscape, investigating the changes. The pyramid forest remains, but the griffins who live there now venture farther down from their nests, and around a third of them have been twisted by the storms' energies into even more aggressive, monstrous versions of what they once were. Do not take one on alone, or it may be your last mistake.

* Inside one of the tallest pyramids, the lab remains intact, and rumors speak of a locked chamber in its heart that contains valuable material—but is that in the technological sense, or does it hold something monetarily precious in the right market? Maybe you don't care and you're just nosy. Either way, the vault is sealed away behind a series of complicated sliding puzzles that have just one catch—they are not possible to solve without two people operating the locking station. Are you here with a friend? If not, better hope the next guy to come along has a sharp mind for this stuff.

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a good frog

[wallride]

a. guess who's back, back again

[it takes about three seconds for lúcio to get his bearings when he's unceremoniously spat out of the ingress. he only stumbles slightly, looking around then sighing with a strange mix of defeat and fondness.]

You still doin' this stuff, huh?

[said to the ingress, before he quickly checks over himself to make sure none of his gear broke on the entry then... decides to have a look around. if anyone comes near him, he's definitely going to flag them down.]

Hey-- [he calls out.] Do you remember the Moira? That name ring any bells to you? I'm looking for the crew.

b. network - voice

Hello, hello! My name's Lúcio-- I don't know if anyone here knows me, I was with a bunch of people who fell through the Ingress a while ago. Crew from the Moira. Any of ya'll know 'em?

[his tone is only a little pleading.]

Thanks!

wildcarddddddddddddddd

[CUT THE BRAKE BITCHES]

B

[justice_from_above]

Yes, I think I might be familiar with a few of them. [A little sass for you, Lúcio! Can you hear the smile in her voice, because it is there and it is big! It's always a blessing and a curse; things aren't exactly a fun, soothing vacation over here, but hearing a good friend's return certainly picks her spirits up.]

How have you been? You must tell me everything!

Re: B

[wallride]

Is that... Fareeha?! Yes!!

[lúcio just sounds UTTERLY DELIGHTED, okay.]

There isn't really much to tell, girl, it feels like I left just yesterday. Not much has happened back home... or I wasn't home for that long. Hm. How've you been?

[justice_from_above]

It's me.

[She can't help but chuckle with his enthusiasm; it's infectious.]

I've been alright. Things here have gotten a little crazy and I wasn't around for some of it, but since I've been back there's been a prison break and dinosaurs and a rush on the city. You're coming in on some very interesting times.

[wallride]

[wallride]

Dinosaurs?

[justice_from_above]

[She cracks a smile,]

Dinosaurs.

I had a tapejara. Hadn't quite come up with a name for him but he wasn't exactly tamed and took off on his own eventually. It was fun while it lasted, though.

[wallride]

A tape-- what? You had a dang pet dino?! Fareeha! That's mad!

[he laughs, wtf he wants a pet dino.]

Hey-- ah... who is still here, then, huh?

[justice_from_above]

I wish he would have stuck around but, it wasn't meant to be.

[She shrugs. At least she's got her armor back now so she's not flightless without a flying dinosaur.]

Lion House is intact, Kaz, a few from our world.

email me at this webzone when i learn to have some FUCKING chill

[inconsequence]

[Let's skip over the part where Chara has a small existential crisis over the fact that their final message to Lúcio actually probably came through, and hurtle right back around to the part where they're an absolute little SHIT because that's their prerogative and also what they're best at.]

[Which means they're gonna answer his call just outside the Ingress with the worst possible joke.]

Certainly. There's Moira where that came from.

[wallride]

[it's not immediately clear in how he reacts to them, but yeah, he did get that message when he came back through :)]

Aw, don't give me that ship! [he says with a laugh, because of course.] That's an awful familiar voice, comm device!

[inconsequence]

You're mistaken.

[They're smiling, as is their additional prerogative, and also continuing to drive their heels in as they elect to be as subtly infuriating as possible.]

The owner of this voice has, alas, been absorbed into my conglomerate of SOULs. Which is how it is I may imitate them most perfectly.

[wallride]

I can't imagine how deep and philosophical their last words were.

[do u wANT TO TRY HIM, CHILDE.]

[inconsequence]

Oh, they were as unmemorable as the one who uttered them. Easily forgotten.

[Doubtless he can hear the smile as they say it.]

Did you know, sir, that the infamous cargo ship, the S.S. El Faro, was caught in a dreadful tropical storm and sunk? And did you further know that the final transmissions ever recorded were, and I am quoting here...

[You might think they're bullshitting him. They're not.]

Rut roh.



Alas, that poor, pitiful child could not hope to leave such a legacy in their wake.

[wallride]

[OKAY EDGELORD funny that you're talking THE EXACT SAME AS CHARA.

time for lúcio to bring out the big guns.]

That's a shame. They left me a message I wanted to talk to them about after I left.

PILEDRIVES INTO DIS

[gainedlove]

Lucio!! You're back!

[HEY HELLO BRO DID YOU WANT A SMALL CHILD LAUNCHING THEMSELF INTO YOUR MIDSECTION BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GETTING MY GUY]

YEAAAAAA

[wallride]

Frisk!

[lúcio laughs, hugging them back and PICKING THEM UP TO SWING AROUND IF THEY'LL LET HIM.]

Aw, man, I'm so glad you're around, little buddy!

my longest yeah boy ever

[gainedlove]

[Why would they stop him? Frisk laughs gleefully when they're swung around, holding on tight.]

I missed you so much! Was everythin' okay at home?

[wallride]

It was all cucumber cool but I still missed my friends here!!

[not true; he didn't remember them, but whatever. he doesn't let go of frisk just yet ughhhh he's so happy to see them!!!!!!!!]

I'm so glad you're doin' so well, man!

b

[shiro2hero]

Lucio--!

[Well holy shit, this is probably the happiest he's ever sounded ever. Or at least, recently.]

Lucio! It's Shiro! Where are you!

Re: b

[wallride]

Big man!

[it's a relief but at the same time kind of sad to know so many people he knew are still stuck here... but then, lúcio also doesn't know how much time has passed. he could've been gone for a week for all he knows.]

I'm at the Ingress Complex. How long was I out for?

[shiro2hero]

I'm coming.

[Because of course he is. He wants to see Lucio again so badly... considering everything that's happened.]

Months. It's -- you've been gone for months.

[wallride]

Shit.

[there's a rare GENUINE SWEAR.]

Well, I don't know what I expected. I'll stick around here, yeah? Follow the healing beats!

[shiro2hero]

It's okay -- it's -- it wasn't your fault.

[Like he could blame Lucio for anything at this point, whoops.]

Almost there.

[wallride]

Yeah, but it still sucks, man.

[lúcio is still at the ingress complex, chatting so some random staff member. because of course.]