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quietplacememes2018-04-01 07:45 pm
bequiet) wrote in quietplacememes2018-04-01 07:45 pm
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TDM #004
TEST DRIVE MEME
You wake, standing. A thick, muddy red dust coats your skin and clothes - it sticks to your tongue and blocks your vision. Inhale and it chokes you, exhale and your breath puffs out in front of your face in a transparent maroon cloud. It tastes of copper, tangy and harsh. Movement is difficult, every limb tingles and aches. Look to your left, your right. Evenly spaced in each direction stands another person indistinguishable in every way from the next. You're disoriented and lethargic, unable to grasp onto a single thought. A pinprick of light blooms ahead and grows steadily larger; a door has opened.
Hands grip your wrists, push at the small of your back and guide you out of the darkness into a room with four walls and a thin, sagging ceiling. The plaster is peeling, the air is musty, and the floor is slick. White plastic piping juts up from the center and curves into multiple spouts, clean water flowing in uneven streams. Those hands pull your clothes off and clear the dust from your body, redress you in handsewn jumpsuits.
A finger is pressed to your lips. Kind eyes meet your own and a single word is whispered - hush.
Led out of the room in a line, you’re taken down a short hallway and into another, much larger room. There’s a woman waiting for you there, a child hugging her leg, and a cloth bag in her hands. She reaches in and pulls out a device, passes one to each of you. Once finished, she begins to move both hands in graceful gestures, a language. One of the people who helped you lifts their device and the screen lights up, tracks the woman’s hands. Letters appear on the screen and you understand the device’s purpose. She tells you what she knows and it’s not much.
This world is haunted. Noise attracts them, so it is not allowed. Communication is through body language, soundless writing, and the device. She tells you that your feet must be light and your mouth never used. There is a community outside these doors, where you can survive together, but only if you agree to one thing: complete and total silence. You'll have time to talk it over. Acceptance allows you to journey outside. The ground is marked in pathways of sand, lining the paths to each building and everywhere in between. You notice that the locals hold their devices always, aloft and glance to it often. It will not vibrate or make a sound to signal a message.
Notices appear. The bulletin board feed lights up so you can read about the history. Rules. Guidelines. Feet on the sand and never anywhere else. To open a door you brush your fingers along the hinges - oiled and you may enter. If not, take the brush from the can sitting nearby and coat the metal with the dark liquid. You're to settle into your new home.
Take a peep
Content Warnings: Possible animal-thing death
Themes: Slice of life, it's like gremlins... kinda
On the first of April, small piles of dust with brightly colored eggs at the center will spring up over night. After a few hours the eggs will begin to hatch and out will come the smallest and brightest bunny-like creatures (the only notable differences from regular bunnies are the colors, size, and that they make no noise). They're friendly and immediately attach themselves (bond) to the first person to pick them up. One of the natives calls them "peeps" because they don't make a sound. All with unique personalities, the creatures can be found nibbling on the dust and needing no other form of food, and will shy away from any and all water sources.
If, however, any of them get wet - there will be a sudden and brief rain shower at noon - the creatures fur will turn black and they will begin attacking the others that didn't get wet. Stopping them is key, and the black creatures will either dash away from the community if given the chance or will need to be stopped.
OOC: All characters can keep a Peep! Any color! They are palm-sized and never grow larger than an adult hand.
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peep peep
That is, up until he sees another guy crouched over watching as an egg hatches. And out comes a bunny.
Okay, that's not right at all.
Sora's drawn over to crouch next to Lance, pulling out his communication device.]
Did that egg really just hatch a rabbit?
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still. lance can't exactly say that he isn't immediately enamored with the little guy. it's freaking adorable?? just look at it?? how could you think this was weird —
he somehow manages to keep from chuckling outright, though the amusement shows in the crinkle of his eyes as he taps out a reply. )
pretty sure it did
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He reaches out to pet the bunny with one finger, careful not to crush it. Part of him is wary because of the last creatures that suddenly showed up around here were birds who keep chirping loudly.]
I swear, the longer I'm here the more I can say "I've seen it all".
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lance, focus.
which apparently means focusing on blue sniffing at the newcomer's finger when it reaches out for a pet, and if that isn't the cutest freaking thing he's ever seen in his life. well. he could think of a proper metaphor if he wasn't currently preoccupied with the blue ball of fluff in front of him. and this new kid.
who now gets a quizzical sort of look from this guy. )
how long have you been here?
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How do they make this happen?
He can't help but smile when the bunny sniffs his finger and hopefully Blue doesn't get scared by the smell of his two cats. (Or his Dream Eater.)
A shrug.]
Two months. But I was world-hopping before I got here. Stuck on different worlds, you know, helping out where I could.
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blue doesn't start at the smell of anyone else, which should probably give rise to some measure of alert or another, but doesn't, and so lance just watches this exchange with a fond sort of smile on his face, something pulled hard to the side as he observes.
that answer brings his attention back around, like it might have never wandered, and catches it by the corner of the mouth. )
different worlds?
my team and i were doing that too
kinda
( mostly in that they were … hopping … worlds ... and trying to help along where they could, while also building alliances.
but that's different. )
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It is a little weird but Sora is glad that the little thing isn't startled by his own pets. After a moment of petting, he passes Blue back to the teen who seems so attached to it.
Oh, he hasn't met other people who world-hopped in a long time outside of his friends (and enemies).]
Did any of your team end up here with you?
[Sora just made friends and okay, he did find people willing to fight beside. Saving the universe from people who wanted to destroy it.]