quietplacememes | 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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TAKE A PEEP |

[looks can be deceiving. davina knows that lesson better than most. small things can be extremely dangerous. the eggs catch her eye - the intricate details, the bright colors, the question of where they came from - but she doesn’t trust them. right now her best course of action is to not trust anything, or anyone. which is a lot easier said than done when it comes down to it. she’s lived in a cutthroat world before and while she can survive there, it’s not really in her nature to see someone struggling and to glance the other way.

when the vibrant bunnies start cropping up everywhere, it’s the first time she’s smiled since before her arrival.

she ventures out against her better judgment, curiosity wins out. she makes sure her steps are as careful as possible, that she treads quietly. it begins innocently enough. she finds a purple bunny ( how is that even possible? ) and grins. she kneels down beside it, biding her time, waiting for the right moment to try and pet it. then there's a pink one. a blue one. it's peaceful. she's not sure why it's happening, or how something so beautiful and precious can exist in a place so hideous, and yet, here it is.

davina's smile falls when she notices black ones later, moving in on their prey. well, she has news for them. once she catches on to what's happening, she thrusts a hand out, casting a spell that usually causes intense pain in vampires, rendering them immobile... for a time. ]

NETWORK | username: davina

i used to think things couldn't possibly get any worse, then i lost someone very important to me. the truth is that the world never stops, whichever one you happen to be in. and it can always go from bad to worse.

[ straying from the point there a little bit. she hesitates to continue, as if realizing how off-putting the message is. ]

i guess what i'm getting at is: what keeps you going? what do you fight for? you don't have to answer.. but if we're all really trapped here indefinitely, we might as well try and get to know each other. it beats staring at the walls, or waiting for something to happen.

[It takes Max a while to come up with a response; he has to figure out the answer to the question then fight with the damn thing the whole time, but at least typing things out is something more or less familiar, even if it's only dim muscle memory.]

hope.

everything can always get worse. just keep going

[ that's okay. it isn't as if she has much else going on outside of playing the waiting game here. she doesn't imagine that answering a personal, loaded question like that is easy for anyone, particularly when discussing it with a stranger. ]

hope that things will change? [ or just the general vague unattainable kind? ] i'm familiar with the idea. i'm not going to stop moving, or stop trying to reach everything i've worked so hard for just because we're stuck here.

just. having hope. it's better than not having it

[Super deep, Max.]

good

the world needs more people willing to keep hope alive instead of those trying to take it away. [ it's a fair point, regardless of how deep it is. or isn't. ]

even when its hard to find it. easy to lose it that way

how about you answer that question first?

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