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T E S T   D R I V E   M E M E

Welcome to Medietas and our first ever Test Drive Meme! As we approach the grand opening of the game on April 1st, we thought we’d kick things off with a little something that will get you all interacting in the new setting! And it’s one less sample you have to worry about on your application if you’re considering our little game here.

You all know what to do but if you don’t, just follow the instructions and HAVE FUN!

How To Play:

→ Comment with the character you’d like to test drive. Don’t forget to add their name and canon in the subject line.
→ Choose a scenario, or start your own!
→ Tag around!


Possible Scenarios:

1. New Arrival: You’ve just arrived on the island of Medietas, in the city of Aerilon via a … floating boat, with people you may or may not know? You can’t help but ponder what’s going on here, but the vessel seems to be approaching a harbor and when it docks, some lovely locals are standing in wait to greet you. After that they hand you a map and communications device and invite you to find your accommodations and explore.

2. Party, party!: On the evening of your first night in the city, a party is being thrown on Aerilon in honor of your arrival. Eat, mingle, dance, meet the other new arrivals! The locals put on quite the celebration!

3. Go Exploring!: There's plenty of places to explore, be it in your designated housing area, or on one of the adjoining community islands! Hike the mountains in Eurus. Sit on the beaches of Imber with a cocktail, or go swimming. Adventure in the forests of Mundus. Be careful though! Every area has it's dangers.

4. The Bells Are Ringing!: And that means a islands wide warning that something dangerous is approaching! But where the heck are they coming from? Nevermind that, the caretakers rally the children and the senior citizens while Scykal, Imber's local sea monster, emerges from the large body of water on the island.  Interesting.  He hasn't been spotted in a long time.  Help the locals defeat him!

5. Wild Card!: Choose your own scenario!

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Comments

[aster_planetes]

On one hand (and this is a very large hand), it's patronizing to have an arm offered so quickly. On the other hand... On the other hand, Roshanak is getting decidedly annoyed at having to be in this form, and starting to be tired at the concentration required. Her teachers would say it was her own fault, for not practising: this does not, in anyway, make it better.

So she swallows her pride, and accepts the woman's offer. She doesn't exactly need it, but it'd be churlish to refuse. K

"A seat would... It would actually be very useful," she admits.

[iron_beneath_beauty]

She could see the moment of questioning in her eyes, that choice between offense and acceptance. Much to Lyanna's relief, she decided on the latter. There was an empty chair nearby, close enough to the dance floor that would offer the woman an excellent view. It was also near to the refreshments, granting her a few short steps, should she wish to eat.

"Here," she said, leading her to the seat. "Forgive my forwardness." She added quickly. "I am Lyanna."

[aster_planetes]

"And I am Roshanak," she says, sitting down gratefully. "Nothing to forgive, I was in need of assistance, even if my pride was not allowing me to seek it. I am not quite used to walking on two legs, and the effort is wearying."

Maybe she shouldn't admit it so easily, but she is in a city made up of five floating islands. If the people here are not familiar with those other peoples not human, they will be soon enough, she's sure.

"So. Thank you."

[iron_beneath_beauty]

"Two legs? This isn't your natural state?" She asked in confusion, stepping back to grant her space. Given the confusion that already existed, due to the island's nature, it shouldn't have surprised her to hear this statement. Yet she was left confused and unnerved by the admittance.

She nodded, happy to show a measure of kindness to the woman. They were all far from home. A bit of warmth would be welcomed, even by the hardest of heart.

[aster_planetes]

"Not hardly. This is an enchantment. Oh, um, one I did myself, on the request of those who met me at the docks," she hastens to clarify. "I am a centaur, that is, from the waist up, I'm as you see me now, but from the waist down there joins the body like that of a horse."

And a most pretty horse at that, if she can be forgiven a moment of vanity.

"But our hosts have been kind, so far, so I am obliging them. It is just somewhat tiring to remember how much smaller I am now."

Roshanak looks up at Lyanna, and tilts her head a fraction.

"I've startled you, lady."

[iron_beneath_beauty]

"That would explain your struggle." It was a bit more blunt than she intended, but it baffled her that those creatures of legend were true. That there was one before her. "You are capable of casting magic?" Her father's Maester had told her once that there had been a study of magic, long ago. It had been abandoned and ridiculed, leaving it in the realm of stories for children.

A place like this would challenge so many of her misconceptions.

"This world startles me, in truth."

[aster_planetes]

There is not always something wrong with bluntness, and Roshanak takes no offence. It's the same sentiment no matter if she'd couched it in softer words.

"I am indeed capable," is what she chooses to answer. "I have studied spells and enchantments for a number of years. So, really, if I could not, then my mother would be terribly disappointed in me."

Parvin is not. She often does not know what to make of her wayward eldest daughter, but centaurs have always valued learning and Roshanak excels at it.

"Maybe I do need to get used to the idea that to others, people like me are only stories," Roshanak concedes. "But there are certainly many startling things in the wide collection of universes."

[iron_beneath_beauty]

"So I understand. If I did not believe it before, being brought here has opened my eyes." She said, recalling the sight of the sky, the floating barges and the view from the edge of the island. "This place has a way of making a believer of the greatest skeptic." She smiled. "I imagine my brother Ned wouldn't know how to respond."

He was too much of a sensible man. He did not believe in the supernatural.

[aster_planetes]

Roshanak laughs softly at that, and even with her human-form, there is an equine quality to the snicker. "Neither would my brother Khorvash. He's always preferred being a shepherd to anything else."

She is fond of him, possibly the fondest out of all her brothers, but in a lot of ways, it's a case of opposites being fondly baffled by the other.

"But if these are just the wonders here, on the first day, the ones revealed later on will be marvellous beyond all compare."