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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, Eurus, and now Nidus! 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 home world to a bunch of floating islands.

4. Trouble!: All is quiet and calm when suddenly the warning signals across each of the islands sound. Not long after, or, at least only long enough to get prepared, a large hydra creature crawling out of the lake on Imber. Do what you can to help remove this threat before it gets to any of the other islands!

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

Comments

[democratically]

"On three then?" Although any count would have been as good as the next, so long as it was prompt. She somehow doubted that he wanted to remain there for too long, although at least he did have a good sense of humour about it. "One. Two. Three."

She wasn't the strongest, but she did put all her effort in to moving it enough for him to at least get free, if nothing else.

[powertotearer]

That would be nice, yeah.

[frankensteinian]

"It's not that simple. I used my powers to prevent a man from being crushed to death and that was the last time I could pretend to be someone I wasn't. They died because of me. Because of what I am." But he doesn't want to talk about that. Not even to her, someone he once shared so much with.

"All we know about 'here' is that it's a place called Medietas, a series of islands that appear to be floating."

[tript]

On three he breathed out and wriggled. He was pretty sure he was taking some skin off his shoulders, but it was better than being trapped here. So he carried on wriggling until he popped free of the statues arms more suddenly than he expected. It meant he fell towards Padmé, although he did his best to change direction so he wouldn't end up hugging her.

[kindrake]

Jordan shook his head a little in disbelief. "That's crazy. I mean, that you can do something like that. I... know people who can do other stuff, but nothing like that."

His expression shifts back into one of hesitancy at the guy's question. "Well... What if... someone sees? Is everyone here just... cool with stuff like that? Nobody wants to use you or control you because of it?

"Are you not from Earth? Because I'm pretty sure there's not any dragon nests just lying around on beaches on Earth." That's not where he'd found Ladon and the other three eggs, in any case.

[element_wizard]

"It's not a common ability. I've only run into a few people over the years who can do it naturally." A slight, gentle smile crossed his face. "In this place, you don't need to hide what you can do. No one cares. If I had to guess, I'd say over half the people here had some sort of abilities of one kind or another."

The smile turned sharp for a moment. "And I'd like to see someone try and control me. It'll end poorly for them."

Quickly he returned to the affable persona he'd been before. "No, I'm not from Earth. I'm from a tiny no where world called Tynara. And technically, Trey is a fire-lizard. But he is rather dragon like, isn't he?"

And technically, Alec didn't find Trey on his world but Jordan didn't ask that.

[kindrake]

"Over half? Really?" He looked genuinely surprised to hear that. "What... kind of stuff can they do? Do you know?" He wondered if there was anyone else here like him with just a psychic ability, maybe even possibly from his world.

"Is he going to get any bigger...? Or has he always been that size? He didn't, uh... shrink when he came here, did he?" Jordan asked about Trey.

[element_wizard]

Oh, that's a good question. Mentally he started shuffling through the people and their abilities. "We've got people who can manipulate ice, fire, magnetic lines, electricity. Some are necromancers, some can talk to animals, some have magical abilities wizards and witches or things like that. Some have extraordinarily good luck...some have various psychic powers - telepathy, empathy -I've got that one, and elemental manipulation - um..." His voice trailed off as he tried to think of more, "Shapeshifters... vampires, angels other random shit. That's all I can think of off the top of my head."

It is quite a list nonetheless. "Nah, he didn't shrink. He's full grown." Reaching up he scratched the creature under his chin sending him humming softly. His faceted eyes whirled a pleased green and blue.

[democratically]

She wasn't even certain it would work, and if it didn't, she likely would need to go get some more help. Yet Padmé pushed with all her strength, and after a few moments, it seemed like it was enough to free him. Then again, as the realization hit that he was stumbling towards her, she let the statue go and put out a steadying grasp for him. "Nothing's hurt, is it? Did you need to go to one of the clinics?"

[kindrake]

If he looked surprised before, he looked almost shell-shocked now. It felt like he'd stepped into some sort of fantasy world. Sure, people had abilities in his own world, but there weren't that many of them and they didn't have that much of a vast variety of powers, or were even things like vampires. One thing the guy said stuck out to him though, and he asked hesitantly, "You... said you're an empath...?"

[supharstitious]

Too bad. It would have been interesting to know. "Perhaps you are not the one to explain it, then."

[element_wizard]

There's a blink and then Alec said, "Yeah. Not a very strong one, though my shields are pretty damn good. I've got a... mentor of mine who is helping me get better with doing things with my empathy."

Empathy isn't one of his stronger talents which is why he's working on it. "Why?" It's curiosity but nothing more, no judgement.

[kindrake]

"Are they here?" He didn't intend it to come out sounding the way it did, but Jordan almost sounded desperate, expression practically pleading.

[element_wizard]

Another blink. "Do you have shielding problems?" His mentor wasn't there. Sadly. But the shields aren't something the mentor helped him with.

[kindrake]

"That would imply I have a shield to begin with," he muttered to himself, sounding a bit bitter about it, before he spoke up. "I... feel stuff," he finally confessed. "Touching an object or a person or an animal, it can be anything. I feel emotions from them, of stuff that's happening now or has already happened and sometimes even stuff that hasn't happened yet. Sometimes it happens even when people are just standing close to me. I was... kind of learning how to block it back home, but I've never been able to really control it. Even these don't always help." He held his hands up and wiggled his fingers to show the gloves he always wore. "The stronger the emotion, the harder it is to block it, and when there's a lot of people..." He waved a hand at the various people around them. "That makes it harder too. It sucks."

[tript]

"Thanks," he said, as he held onto her just long enough to make sure he was steady on his own two feet again.

"I'm fine, I think." He was hurt, but it wasn't that bad. Probably. He tried pushing his shirt off one shoulder and found it was stuck to the skin. He winced. "Perhaps going to the clinic is a good idea."

[lioncubking]

"I really don't know anything about this place. Where I'm from, magic is something that happened a long time ago. At least, I think so."

Everything he knew about his world had been turning upside down before he died, she he really couldn't be certain. Magic was supposed to have died out with the dragons, but he heard a lot about dragons returning, even if they didn't think he could hear them. Tommen hadn't been the strongest king, but he wasn't deaf.

He took a bite of the pear and chewed, giving her a slightly bashful half-shrug at her question. "King, actually," he mumbled, then recited the unwieldy titles in a tone that indicated he didn't much want them, "Tommen Baratheon, First of His Name, King of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm."

After that long recitation, he sighed and took another bite of the pear. "Not that it did me any good."

[element_wizard]

For a moment Alec stared up at the sky and quietly cursed in some language. It was obviously rude and obviously not directed at Jordan. Looking back at Jordan he sighed.

"Be'sed, be'sed," Alec said - it sounded like his version of 'Okay' and pinched the bridge of his nose, "It sounds like you're not just an empath but a psychometric. That's why you're picking up things when you touch them. You probably need new gloves. First things first... actually second thing first - first would be strangling whoever let you out without shields - can you sense me. I'm shielded."

His shields were pretty tight; able to keep him free of intruding thoughts from annoying highly telepathic boyfriends.

warning for spoilers. Which I should have done previously, sorry!

[lady_cassidy]

"I'm just learning this place myself," she said, empathetically. Confusion on her face when he corrects her. "King... wait, I know that term...." She called him Prince, and was struggling to recall what King meant. "Ah, Alric said on his world there is a male caste equal in rank to a Queen, and that is a King."

She gave him a warm smile. "Well then, brother, be welcome. If you need a place to stay, there are plenty of rooms at the Queen's residence, and I am certain Jaenelle won't mind."

That... was an awful lot of titles, and that coming from a girl who spent four months learning protocol from the High Priest of the Hour Glass, High Lord of ****, former Warlord Prince of Dhelman, Steward to the Dark Court at Ebon Askavi, Warlord Prince Saetan SaDiablo.

Some days Cassidy almost forgot how much dark power was keeping her, and her people, safe. When she got home, she had so many gifts to put together, so many people in her life to thank. Being here had made her appreciate them all so much more.

[notsogroovy]

She paused a moment to take that in. She'd never heard of how Erik had become who he was. What he was. She wanted to ask what had happened, but now, with a child literally attached to him, was not the time or place. So she focused on the safer topic of conversation: what had happened to them.

"I noticed that. It's some bizarre mixture of being in the air and yet still having your feet on solid ground." She didn't like it. She wasn't sure when or if it would come crashing down, but obviously it hadn't come down in the time Erik had been here. Which gave her another question to ask.

"How long?"

[notsogroovy]

Well, that's good I suppose.

[Suppose because she wasn't sure how she felt about being stuck in an enclosed space with the both of them. It hadn't been like that since not long after they'd first met Erik.]

How are you doing?

[notsogroovy]

"Probably best that you saw through me. I'm not sure I'd have been able to make the cup when pressed." It wasn't like she'd exactly been the type of child who had hot chocolate all the time. She'd been lucky to scrounge up what food she could. Lucky that she hadn't been caught out sooner than she had with Charles. They might not have been able to see through her, like Charles had, but she could still have come face to face with the person she was pretending to be.

"Believe I am who I say I am, or are you going to have to question me?"

[notsogroovy]

Not exactly the Xavier I was thinking about.

[So he didn't go to the school. Didn't mean he wasn't a mutant and hadn't heard of it, though. However unlikely it was that he knew the term without hearing about the school.]

How do you know the term mutants when you're talking about people?

[frankensteinian]

"It's been a few months now." Which he finds it hard to believe, most of the time. "Most of the time it's possible to forget that they're not islands like any other, until it's time to cross one of the bridges." Though it wasn't so bad when he could fly across the open space between; that's a sensation that's already familiar to him.

"No one knows how we got here, either, or how we can get home again."

[shadowblends]

so far, yes.

[From what he can tell, there haven't been any major fights, but who's to say what could end up happening in the future?]

i'm doing well, thank you!