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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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[nott_caine]

"Don't listen to the voices," Selene said, spying her sister among the crowd. She didn't need to ask who she was speaking to. Years together had helped her understand her sister's madness, even if she couldn't fully understand Artemis herself. They were never as close as Selene was to Diana, but it didn't change that she was happy to see Artemis.

Holding back from embracing her, Selene smiled instead, hoping that her sister had enough of her senses to recognize her. "It'll be okay."

[stranger_to_the_rain]

"Unexpected," Artemis said aloud, as she caught sight of Caine.

She slowly rose to her feet, the long duster falling around her body, all but hiding it from sight. It had never fit her quite right. And it never would. It wasn't meant to, after all. It had belonged to Papa.

"That's right," his ghost said, as if reading her thoughts.

Artemis ignored him.

Her dark eyes ran up and down the length of Selene's body, before she shook her head. "Why should I be seeing your spectre right now? You've never appeared to me before. Have you risen from the ashes to soar? I hear that's what happens when a Phoenix burns."

[nott_caine]

She shook her head sadly. "I'm not dead, Artemis." Not yet, at least, and certainly not for lack of trying. Eve, Esau, they put in a good effort, but she was tenacious, as all of Adam's children were. "I'm actually here."

Gently, she reached out and placed her hand on her sister's shoulder. It was subtle and small, careful not to spook her. She never could sense which direction Artemis would go. "It's been awhile since Phoenix for me."

[stranger_to_the_rain]

The touch didn't bother Artemis. It didn't surprise her either. She was peering into her sister's aura, in spite of the way Papa was heckling her. Nothing but colors she recognized, of course. Which made Selene's comment about not being dead a bit tiresome.

"Of course you're dead," she said, affecting the same put-upon look of exasperation that Diana often used. "But you mean to say you didn't burn."

A fact she could live with.

Such as it was.

"What's 'awhile?'"

[nott_caine]

"Dead, undead. I'm standing here in the physical plain, unhurt and not burned. Certainly with no intention of burning." Fire? No thanks. But she is pleased to see Artemis at least return her comment with some sass. It dispelled the awkwardness and trepidation.

"30 years, at least."

[stranger_to_the_rain]

"Thirty years," Artemis repeated, as if she were trying to commit the fact to memory, like the lyrics of a song. "Thirty years. Thirty years."

"Yes, you silly thing, thirty years," Papa said.

She ignored him.

Artemis whetted her lips, turning to look up at the sky above them. The sunlight streaming down on them, making them glow like chalk on the blacktop. It probably should have fazed her more. But thirty years...

"It seems I've missed quite a lot," she muttered.

[nott_caine]

"Yes, a bit, but nothing you would want to know, Arty. Not unless you hear it from the voices. Some things are better left a mystery or missed entirely. So long as you are safe, I don't care what happened in my 30 years." She said gently.

"Were you still in L.A? Or did you wander elsewhere? Diana had planned to join you, I think. I forget now where she said she was going after Phoenix."

[stranger_to_the_rain]

As was her way, she gave the impression that she was only half-listening. After testing the railing around the deck of the ship, she hopped up onto it, with all of the skill and balance of a cat. Carefully, she put one foot in front of the other, walking the length of it like a tightrope walker, arms out to either side, letting the wind brush against the flaps of Papa's duster.

"You don't want to know what happened to Diana," she murmured.

"Oh, tell her. What a fun game that will be."

"Shut up," she said aloud to the voice, before turning back to Selene. "At least it's a happy ending. She's married now. A white knight came riding in on a noble steed. Well, it was a Lamborghini, really, but beggars can't be choosers."

She walked as far along the railing as she dared to go, almost to the figurehead of the boat. There she stopped, looking up at the sun-filled sky once again. "Has it always been this bright? The sun?"

[nott_caine]

"I know some of the things that happened to Diana. Not everything, but some. I'm glad though that she found someone to be happy with." It was all their sister ever wanted. At least one York needed to be happy and safe. Diana had gone through enough suffering, let her be the one to take that happiness.

Selene glanced up at the sky, staring at the sun in almost wordless wonder. "I wouldn't know. I haven't seen the sun in awhile. I almost forgot how warm it is."

[stranger_to_the_rain]

"Mmm."

A noncommittal sound. Artemis saw sunlight all the time. But not the real kind. Not the kind that blistered and burned. The kind that filled her dreams and visions and let her know that she'd taken a leave from reality.

But this was reality.

It made no sense at all.

"Well, what were you expecting?"

"Shut up," she muttered. In the same breathe, she asked her sister, "There was a man called Solomon. He did not live up to his name. Liam ripped his heart out with his bare hands. Quite the brazen act for a Ventrue Prince."

[nott_caine]

"I heard about Solomon and the things he did." At least someone killed the bastard. "Liam's still alive then?" She'll hold back her snide comments. Too many beatings from him have made her less than receptive to his kinder overtures.

She stared up at the sky again, shielding her eyes from the light. "Did you know about Esau?" Artemis always had visions. At least some that had been proven right. Had she seen their brother and the things he would do. "Probably not, right?"

[stranger_to_the_rain]

"Jacob's brother?" she asked, turning to look at her sister with a sharp, suddenly interest. It was a stark contrast to the usual dreamy expression she affected, the one that shielded her from harm. The one that singled her out as nothing more than 'just another Malkavian.'

She could snap from face to face in an instant.

And when she heard a biblical name, she knew it was time to pay attention.

"Tell me."

"You're not going to like this, poppet.

[nott_caine]

It was different than with Diana. Selene couldn't reveal the truth to her middle sister. That was a truth that would be too difficult for the young woman to carry. Artemis had a way with the unpleasant facts. She walked that fine line between madness and sanity. This would hardly push her over the edge.

Still, it wasn't a pretty story.

"Esau is...was our brother." Selene said softly. "Our younger brother. Mom had him...in the asylum."

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Artemis didn't react.

Not outwardly.

Of the York sisters, people often joked that she was the least passionate. They teased her for having no interest in love affairs. For never shouting. For always turning inward where the other two turned outward.

But nothing could be further from the truth. Artemis too had a lusty passion, smoldering inside. What she lacked, significantly, was the capacity for surprise. When she heard new truths--if they were, in fact, truths--she often could see them. Woven into an intricate tapestry around her.

And she would wonder why she'd never noticed them before.

Perhaps that was just the way the madness wanted it.

After an endless moment of silence, Artemis stepped off the railing of the boat, landing neatly on her feet on the deck. She turned to look out at the water. "I see," she said quietly.

[nott_caine]

It wasn't something she wanted her sisters to know, but this wasn't a story she wanted to bear alone. Someone needed to hear the truth about what happened. Diana wasn't going to be able to manage, but Artemis had a way with unhappy events. She wasn't easily broken, not as far as Selene could see.

"I'm sorry." She felt the apologize regardless.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

"I see no reason for platitudes," Artemis muttered, eyes plunging into the depths, to some place that no one else could see. "It was hardly, your doing. Unless you're apologizing for withholding information and I know that you're not."

That wasn't in Selene's nature.

"And there's nothing you can do about any of it, poppet."

Her fingers played against the wooden railing a moment. "Cainite, I assume?"

[nott_caine]

"It's not something easy to hear. I'm sorry that I have to subject you to this." Despite everything that Selene is, she did care for her sisters.

She nodded, "Grandmother sired him. She had plans, I think. When she was killed, he assumed control of the Garden." Anything involving the Garden was bad news. They had been fortunate to pull free from its hold, but their fates were too intertwined with that cult. They would never escape their roles.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

"Of equal Generation to Papa."

Papa who was laughing uncontrollably. It always happened that way when Artemis felt like she was spinning out of control. Spinning and rattling and shaking. Jostling from one thought to the next, while dedicating her energy to maintaining the facade of a placid lake, instead of using it to silence the voice.

Always her biggest mistake.

But her willpower was strong. And her irritation was stronger still.

"Did he know?"

It helped when the voice didn't answer. It couldn't answer. Even Artemis knew it was all in her head.

[nott_caine]

That was an interesting question, one which she wished she knew the answer to. Esau never mentioned their father and she didn't see the reason to ask then. Now that he was dead, there was so much that she wanted to know. It seemed unlikely, however, that Esau would have ever parted with that information willingly.

He hated his past almost as much as she hated hers.

"I don't know. Maybe? I think only Grandmother knew, she had a fondness for our bloodline and miserable people. He was miserable, obviously."