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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

[supharstitious]

"The best families usually are." Could he even call what he'd gotten here a family? His family at home was certainly strange, too, in its own way. At least he had someone he knew.

"A few, perhaps, but the lessons tend not to stick as well." The things he'd done to avoid pain were far more memorable than the ones he'd done for pleasure. Maybe it was just him, then, but he doubted it.

Cobweb was used to being looked at. If he was uncomfortable he didn't show it. He'd been a thing, a trophy, a prize to be shown off. In a way he even craved the attention. At home he was a legend and legends were there to be admired, shown off.

"How kind of you. I'm sure 'shining' is something no one else would call me."

[longedfordeath]

"Yes, almost like being alive. Life isn't easily chased away from this city." This curious place had even managed to return Louis to life for the space of a few weeks. For that he'd forever love it, the bittersweet fondness plain to read on his face.

Was that Lestat's objection, that they must stay? The incredible pronouncement once again inspired that familiar exasperation that inevitably followed their sweet meetings. "I never thought of it as a cage," Louis murmured, moving to take Lestat's hand. "This place isn't much smaller than New Orleans was when we haunted it together, and it offers much that our own city couldn't.

"For instance," and he looked at Lestat curiously, having intended to address this earlier, "you walked in the sun today?"

[dreamsallotted]

"It's just the vintage I ordered. I hope. I've had good wines on the islands before. They don't hold a candle to what's available at home, but we all get by." Seel tilted his head, regarding the stranger. " Why not break your diet then?"

If Seel was paying attention, he might have noticed that Lestat felt a lot like Louis, their energies were the same, species wise. They had the same ebb and flow, the same pattern and feel. But he wasn't, so he didn't notice.

"I'm sure it will. Even pretty prisons are still prisons, once you get used to the decor. " Seel acknowledged the dangerous glint, smiling back, but there was no one to take out the frustrations on. And Seel was used to pretty prisons. Sometimes it was just to hard to fight it.

[tryingtobe]

Warmth gathered in her chest at Lestat's acceptance. She enjoyed meeting people but she wasn't particularly skilled when it came to making friends. Being able to be forward and having her blunt request accepted made it easier to speak to him.

"My full name is Anne-Marie Louise Devoss but those who know me here do so as Marie." It was difficult for her to not introduce herself by her full name. Years of breeding and training had programmed the introduction into her very being. Her hand rested gently in his, her fingers thin, warm and pale as if she was sculpted from Periclean.

His laughter drew her gaze as if she was curious by the sounds that echoed from his throat. "I'm not sure where the lines are." She admitted. What Marie knew to be rules were strange when she told them to others and yet there were things that she'd been told not to do in Medietas by those she considered to be her family.

"What is it that you suggest?"

Re: Because she is Amy.

[im_with_stupid]

"Both possible. All the same, let's not land too close to them, okay?" she asked, looking back down at them now. "I've had one of them in my eye before. Not fun. And since we lack a convenient crack of nothingness to throw them into, I'd just as soon not do that again."

Re: Because she is Amy.

[light_of_willpower]

"I'd really rather not destroy property in a place without a good reason, but if it's that concerning I could just blast 'em, y'know." Don't worry, they're about 10-15' away from the statues when he touches back down, then lets her down gently.

Re: Because she is Amy.

[im_with_stupid]

Didn't even take her ten seconds to think about what the Doctor would have said to that.

"No, let's do less of the blasting thing if we can. They kill me, then you can go ahead and blast them, okay?"

[light_of_willpower]

Crossing his arms, and frowning slightly. "I'd rather not give them that chance, if it's all the same." But they do need to settle this one way or another, and he's pretty confident.

Going to walk over to those statues, and examine them again. Including deliberately closing his eyes. Means he'll reach out with other senses--sound for example. They aren't humming anymore. Trying to sense ki in them, and not getting anything there either.

[im_with_stupid]

She stared at him for a moment, then ran after him. One of the first lessons she learned running with the Doctor? Stay near the clearly not human with the bad fashion sense. She figured purple hair ranked somewhere between bow ties and fezzes.

"So, we did all that to get away from them, just to walk right back up to them? What? Are you crazy too then? Not that I mind, just would be good to know in advance."

She was not taking her eyes off the statues now that they were close again.

[light_of_willpower]

"It's this, or blast them, since you seem to think they're such a threat." Trunks murmured. "I can't sense anything off them, or hear them humming, and they haven't moved yet."

One-eye opening, watching her. "Unless you have a better idea?"

[im_with_stupid]

"I don't suppose we could just leave and make them someone else's problem? No, didn't think so," she said without giving him a chance to reply. "I don't suppose you have a sonic or some other sort of scanning device? Something that can tell us if they've ever been alive, or if they've always been what they seem to be?"

Because she did have one idea to find out if they were actually Angels, she just didn't much care for it. She tried to remind herself that it wouldn't be dying. Not really. It would just be going back in time. She'd done that loads of times. Just... usually not without a Tardis.

[light_of_willpower]

"I could try and cut one, but I think you'll object to that as much as you will to my blasting it." Both eyes open now, and watching her.

[im_with_stupid]

"Alright then. Only one way to do this." She pointed to the closest statue. "Step back about ten feet, and keep watching it until I tell you to look away." She didn't really want to do this, but absent the Doctor or a sonic, she didn't see that they had much choice. She was kind of wishing River was there, however.

No, strike that, River would do exactly what Amy was about to do, and there was no way Amy would let her. So just as well she wasn't there, then. And as much as she missed Rory, she was glad he was home and safe. She didn't think she could handle watching him die. Again.

[light_of_willpower]

"Does this way you're about to do things involve you dying, or being hurt, because I'm still against that by the way." Those arms are being crossed again, and he is frowning. If only he knew just how much he was channeling his Father right then, and a lot of his Mother too.

[im_with_stupid]

"It's not exactly dying, as far as I know. And besides, it wouldn't be the first time I've more or less died. And I can't think of any other way to be sure other than to offer them bait they can't refuse. I'm a time traveler, apparently the time energy off of those of us who hop about is like some cosmic feast to them, or something."

[light_of_willpower]

An eye-brow raised, as he looked at her. "Okay, so...they feed off energy?"

A pause, head tilting slightly. "First of all, I'm a time traveler too. Secondly, I can guarantee you I can put off enough energy that in addition to that, I'd be a very tasty snack. Thirdly, YOU know how to deal with these weeping angel things. Which means, if we confirm these statues are them, then YOU need to be here to warn everyone else."

[im_with_stupid]

"Time energy mostly, but they were feeding off a spaceship once. Kind of." He was a time traveler also....? "You wouldn't happen to be called The Master or anything like that, would you?" [Not that she knew much. Mostly just that he wasn't as the Doctor put it 'one of the good ones'.] "Or the Corsair?" [What was it with Time Lords and the word The in their names anyway?]

"I'm not letting you risk yourself, don't be stupid. And since I don't know how to stop them, and you now know to keep looking at them and to not look in their eyes, you know about as much as I do. And if they do send me back in time, I can just warn everyone all the sooner. See? Neat and tidy, so you step back and keep watching them, yeah?"

[light_of_willpower]

A flat blink at the names, and his stubborn streak is kicking in. "Nope. My name is Trunks. And I'm not letting you risk yourself. If I know as much as you do then I can also warn people, if they send me back. It wouldn't be the first time I've gone back to warn people about future events.

[im_with_stupid]

"Not the first rodeo for me either," she said, hands on her hips, still watching the statue, even though she really wanted to glare at him.

"Look, I've got people who are probably already looking for me. They'll find me if I get tossed back, probably even make it easier. Follow my temporal footprint or whatever technobabble he comes up with."

[light_of_willpower]

Still that frown--and what the heck was a rodeo?

"If you have people looking for you, all the more reason for you to be here, and now."

[im_with_stupid]

"Look, I'm not letting some random guy risk his neck for mine. Not happening. So, you back up, and I'll go be bait. Can't be harder than resetting the universe," that last was muttered to herself under her breath.

Lemme know if I need to edit this.

[light_of_willpower]

"And I'm not letting some random woman risk her neck for mine." He grit out. It was worse than arguing with his mother. Or his father.

"Alright then, new plan." It's not as if they weren't close enough--both to the statues and each other. Trunks was also pretty sure he was faster than she was as he moved to wrap an arm around her, hopefully pinning her arms securely. His other hand went to cover her eyes.

Assuming that all worked, he closed his own---all or nothing.

Nah it's fine.

[im_with_stupid]

Her mouth dropped open at the audacity, and she started struggling out of pure reflex. For once... she was speechless... or rather, she couldn't begin to think of what to say.

But that only lasted a moment. "GET OFF ME!" It had been a close call between that, or screaming for Rory, and as much as she wanted Rory there, she was hardly going to be taken seriously if at the first sign of trouble she went calling for help. Then again, maybe better Rory wasn't here. If he was at home, he was safe. She was getting more than tired of watching him die.

[light_of_willpower]

That moment was all that was needed, if these things were as fast and likely to take the bait as she'd said. IF they were anything other than ordinary statues. Which...well...okay maybe they weren't ordinary statues, but they weren't weeping angels judging by this test.

Which meant no sooner had Amy finished her shout, then Trunks let her go. Even taking a few steps back to give her space. "Sorry about that, but it seemed like the only way we'd stop arguing was to both go." Which, since they both hadn't...

As dangerous as her weeping angels sounded, he was willing to bet these statues weren't them, given their tests.

[im_with_stupid]

She stared at him for a moment, wondering just how incredibly stupid he was, then she burst out laughing. Stupid or not, it was something the Doctor would have done. Something River would have done. It felt almost like home.

"Alright then. Not angels. On to the next crisis, then. I'm going to go and guess that just before you found yourself here, you were holding a small black box?"