The Powers That Be ([personal profile] powersthatbe) wrote in [community profile] synodiporia_ooc2016-04-23 05:24 pm
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Test Drive #14

Welcome to the Synodiporia Test Drive Meme! Below the cuts there are two new prompts, and here are the prompts from previous test-drives, which you’re still welcome to use in this post. When you comment, be sure you specify what prompt you want to play with, and please put up your own threadstarter - it makes for a much more friendly environment that a forest of bare toplevels! OCs are especially welcome! Please take a quick look at our Directory & familiarize yourself with the concept and setting of the game before you jump in.

Our upcoming app round runs April 24th-30th. Our next Jaunt, Neapolitan Beach Vacation, is a Roman-era romp with drama, comedy, and romance, a light-hearted chance for Travelers to catch their breath between metaplot-heavy, more serious events. Our next Walkabout (a more player-driven alternative event, for those not interested in the Jaunt) will be a survival/exploration event set on a ruined island Travelers visited in the distant past... Both Jaunt & Walkabout will begin May 7th & run for approximately four weeks.

Prompt #39 is set in a synaesthetic Liminal Space where sounds become shapes and motion becomes music.

Prompt #40 is set in the Marches of Purgatory Jaunt, a contested kingdom in the afterworld where Angels, Demons, and Sithen (immortal conscientious objectors) barter over sins, virtues, and lost souls.


Prompt #39

The floors in Liminal Space are paths made of keyboards and fretboards, or stepping-stones across prismatic pools made of drums and cymbals, and they make noise accordingly. The walls, colored liquid glass, vibrate with sound, creating patterns of jagged, angry exclamations (it was a rough Jaunt), smooth soothing waves of pastels, or, at particularly apt descriptions, dislodging bubbled sculptures of the pictures discussion paints. It’s almost impossible, no matter how hard one tries, to create something discordant - and equally impossible to create silence or bland color.


Prompt #40

The Vanity Fair is a day’s flight away from Melasurei and the burning river it bridges. In a field of gently-waving asphodel flowers, underneath an impressionistic sky with swirling stars and half a hundred waxing and waning moons, a galactic spiral of colored tents is centered around a gradient-shifting bonfire in which smoke-images flicker, curl, and disperse. Within the tents, hooded souls, undead immortals, and various celestial beings sell their services, Sins & Virtues, scraps of disconnected memory and personality, and other ephemera. There are fruit that can only been grown in tilled fields irrigated with tears, blessed or cursed objects, the indentured dead themselves, and then, of course, the bonfire itself, fueled by wood from Hell, grown on regrets, mistakes, and impure thoughts. Vendor or customer, everyone here wants something, and everything here is something someone wants.
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[personal profile] lechiennoir 2016-04-25 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
Sirius, too, had received the spiel. That doesn't mean he's not going to look around as much as he can, however, even if most of these things probably do have to do with the Dark Arts. It gives him a bit of an odd feeling in his stomach, knowing that his parents probably have more than enough creepy old things like this lying around their house back in London.

Even so, a curious hand is stretching out for some of those wares -- at least until he hears a familiar noise. Then he's standing straight as he can, looking as innocent as the day is long. "I dunno who did it, professor, but Bellatrix started it."
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[personal profile] haveabiscuit 2016-04-25 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Minerva raises an eyebrow at him. She's seen that look from so very many students, and from Sirius Black himself far too often. Though not lately. Not for a long time, from Sirius Black. It's almost comforting.

"This looks rather large for her to have started." Since for once that cluck was not actually directed at Mr Black.