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] haveabiscuit 2016-04-26 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
She's a teacher. She hears everything. Or at least, that's what she lets the young Gryffindors think. It's not so terribly far from the truth after having dealt with two generations of young Gryffindors.

"A pity." Clearly no one involved in this had been set on the right life path. Some cleaning would do them good.
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[personal profile] highsteaks 2016-04-26 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The teacher heard her. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap.

"... you can't give me detention either," Chie points out to be safe. "Since, uh, I don't think you teach at Yasogami High School... do you?"

(Considering their hiring standards, it's always good to check these things.)
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[personal profile] haveabiscuit 2016-04-27 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"I teach at a school in Scotland." That was usually the best answer to give. Less detail, less to explain. "Were you planning to do something worthy of detention?"
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[personal profile] highsteaks 2016-05-01 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Nooooooooo. Definitely not. I'm a good kid. No detentions here."

(Oh man, Chie hopes she's buying it.)