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Welcome to Medietas! Do you have an interest in joining the game? Is there an old muse that you want to dust off? Or, perhaps you're looking for a place to voice test a brand new character and would like to do so in our little island setting among friends? Well, whatever the reason, this is where you can do that!

You all know what to do! 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. Getting Settled: So, now that you've arrived and wandered around the starter home you've been given, it's time to check out the rest of the islands. There's a market on Aerilon that is full of treasures. Or, you can check out Chapter Six bookstore. Perhaps you wander over to the Mean Princess facility on Mulciber. There is so much to see and do!

2. Islands: There is definitely some weirdness going on around the islands from the sidewalks that glow to the mysterious energy that doesn't seem to have any direct source. There are statues that hum softly and seem to grow every so often. And what is with these bridges? Go forth and investigate! Puzzles are FUN!

3. PARTY: Every month or so there's always a celebration somewhere, be it on Mulciber, Imber, Mundus, or Eurus! Eat, drink, dance, talk among the other islanders. It's about making new friends and enjoying yourself, right? Even if you have been stolen away from your homeworld to a bunch of floating islands.

4. Wild Card: Got something else in mind and want to create your own scenario? Go for it!

Comments

[hungryzombie]

The zombie looked up at her, then raised her hands in a similar gesture of peace. "Greetings," she said, in a raspy, wet voice. Like she had pneumonia, or was just recovering from drowning.

"What is this place? It's definitely not Kalona." She walked up to her, standing at a comfortable distance for conversation. It seems that she's retained the mannerisms of humans, aside from occasionally sniffing the air.

[lady_cassidy]

"This place is called Medietas," Cassidy explained. "It is little like the realms I know either. But we are doing our best to adjust. As near as I can tell, no one who is here was born here. We all arrive on those boats."

She really wished she was in the habit of keeping a bottle of Yabarah with her. Sadly, there was no source for it here, and she had little room in her personal storage. But if the other needed blood, she could offer that, at least.

[hungryzombie]

"Looks like the infection isn't here yet," she mused, looking around at the shops that showed no signs of looting or barricades. "The people must be warned. I don't know what this place is or how it can exist up in the sky, but the infection is spreading. I don't want to see more end up like me..."

Her face contorts into a look of great pain and grief, and she looks away for a moment. "Even I'm a vector for the disease to spread. Whoever decided to bring me here has no care or respect for the lives of these people!" She snarls at that, sounding suddenly much more like a Romero film extra than a human being, but she quickly regains her composure.

[lady_cassidy]

"Infection? Do you need a healer?" she asked, she was concerned.

And confused. The woman smelled dead. Wasn't she dead? Well, no matter what, Jaenelle would know. There was no darker healer than Jaenelle Angeline.

[hungryzombie]

"The whole world needs a healer." She sounds more beaten down than bitter--she's more worried about the countless others than herself in particular. "I've been infected, but I seem to have a partial immunity to it. Maybe, with study, my blood could be used to create a cure. We've been talking about that at the safehouse I came from, but we don't have the supplies to start doing that kind of chemistry. Unless there's a cure for the virus here already? Is that why you're not worried?"

[lady_cassidy]

"I'm not worried, because I know the best healer in all the realms and she shares a home with me. We'll have you healed in no time," she said with a warm smile.

And maybe Jaenelle would know why she smelled dead.

[hungryzombie]

"I...guess it wouldn't hurt to try." She offered the other woman a tired smile, showing off teeth that had somehow grown a bit and now looked unnervingly inhuman. "My name's Elena. What's yours?"

[lady_cassidy]

"I am Cassidy," she said with a warm smile, choosing to forgo titles. Either this woman could smell that she was a Queen, or she could not, either way it didn't need to be said. Besides which, she was in a land without Castes as she knew them, and still wasn't the highest ranking Queen here, and she had no one to help but the Queen she herself served...so...

"Jaenelle might have some Yarbrah at the house," she said, turning to lead the way.

Maybe a Guardian, rather than one of the dead? That could explain the psychic scent and the malady.

[hungryzombie]

"Never heard of that," she said with a shrug. "But anything's worth a try. I just don't want to be a constant vector for infection... It's just brilliant knowing that anything that gets too close to me is likely to die. I wish there were some way to make myself less contagious..."

She sighed, hanging her head. "I don't want to go back to the way I was, though. As...terrible as it sounds, this has given me so much freedom. I don't want to lose it."

[lady_cassidy]

"If nothing else, I'm sure we can modify a shield spell. Though if you don't mind my saying, by scent alone I would have guessed you were dead. Guardian?" she asked.

[hungryzombie]

"Spell?" Think, Elena, think. They said something about bringing people from many worlds... "Are you from Earth? At all?" She freezes in place, staring at the other woman with a look of confusion and concern. "Because we don't have magic where I come from, and what's wrong with me is a really serious disease..."

She sighs, shaking her head. The more the other woman talked, the less Elena understood. "I'm a normal person who's contracted a very serious disease. Everyone else who has gotten it has died. I don't understand why I didn't. Once someone infected with this disease dies, their body gets up and tries to eat everything. And I mean everything--animals, people, children--anything with meat they tear to pieces. I need to find out why that didn't happen to me, and use that to keep it from happening to anyone else."

Sorry this took so long. Life got in the way a lot, and a canon review took longer than expected

[lady_cassidy]

"That... Is a very odd story," she admitted. "I've never heard of Demon Dead doing anything like that, but Jaenelle should be able to sort it out. Given who her father is, she's had more contact with the dead than any living person I know. It's possible you made the transition oddly, or that they did. If she doesn't have any blood wine, we'll see to it you get some fresh blood at least."

"And as for earth, if you mean loam and soil, yes, Queens are from the earth."

No worries!

[hungryzombie]

"I mean Planet Earth, the place. It's...a proper noun," Elena explained awkwardly. How else did you explain that? "It's all the living dead do where I'm from, they've destroyed nine tenths of the whole world, eating everything. I'm able to control it, but even I feel the urge to eat and destroy. It's...harder when I haven't eaten recently. If this 'blood wine' of yours is something magical designed to feed zombies, I could give it a try, but...generally I need a few pounds of fresh meat in my stomach. Anything will do, I'd eat cow back during the start of the outbreak."

[lady_cassidy]

Cassidy frowned as they walked, mulling it over. "It.. sounds somewhat different than the Demon Dead. They need blood, but have no actual need for any other food. I can offer blood but the only meat I have... Oh! I bought steaks to make for dinner, they are not cooked yet, but... I could cook them for you once we get home, if you want? It's not much, I just bought enough for Jaenelle and I, but if you want it, you can have it."

[hungryzombie]

"It has to be raw, and it has to be really fresh. It's...embarrassing to say so, but...I'm hungry enough that I have to. Yes, please, I'd like to have them." She hangs her head, but she knows that if she doesn't eat regularly (and a zombie's definition of 'regularly' is frighteningly often), she'll find controlling that impulse harder and harder and harder, perhaps even to the point of attacking someone. She doesn't want that.

"I'll have to have quite the job, to be able to afford enough meat to feed myself regularly..." At least she doesn't have to sleep!

[lady_cassidy]

She stopped and turned, holding out her hands. She called in enough packages of steaks for a small dinner party. She frowned apologetically, using Craft to help with the weight, this was about ten pounds of beef. "Unfortunately, that's all I have at the moment. I was using a cooling spell on it to keep it fresh until I could put it in the cold box. But I can warm it for you, if you need."

[hungryzombie]

Elena took one of the packages and opened it, immediately tearing into one of the steaks with her teeth. She devoured the meat, and even cracked open the bones to gnaw on them before finally dropping them and moving on to the next. She had planned on leaving some for the woman's dinner, but the call of flesh had her almost hypnotised, just enough that she could stop herself at the meat and not reach for the woman's arm next.

After her little feeding frenzy, she hung her head. "I-I'm sorry... I hate that I'm like this..." It was utterly humiliating. In a way, it was actually easier living in the post-apocalyptic waste she came from--when people died every day, eating them was a matter of keeping the waste from bringing disease. Chewing through an entire dinner party's worth of meals offered to her by someone kind...that was ridiculous.

[lady_cassidy]

She blinked, startled at first, but by the end she was offering a warm smile. She shook her head. "You should see Janelle when Mrs. Beal sends out fruit tarts," she teased her absent friend gently. "We'll do all that we can to help you, alright?"

[hungryzombie]

She smiled weakly, though she obviously still felt sheepish. "It's still pretty bad. But at least I could protect my friends...we only got attacked by raiders like...twice, before they figured out they'd get eaten if they tried to kill my friends..."

[lady_cassidy]

"Nothing wrong with being able to protect your friends," she said simply. Some of the things her friends had done to protect others left her little room to judge.