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Test Drive #15
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 August 24th-31st. Our next Jaunt, Lightside/Darkside, takes place in January, a clockpunk city on a hill, home to a unique, fey, fairy-tale culture. The Lightsiders and Darksiders live on the same streets, but every day, at sunrise and sunset, one group flees inside to lock their doors, and the other takes to the streets to conduct the day or night’s business. Each group faces unique challenges and mysteries in their separate but overlapping cities--and what they do not know about one another could serve to either unite their society or tear it apart. The Jaunt is scheduled to begin September 9th & run for approximately six weeks.
Prompt #41 is set in the Bando Peninsula from the Code of Dishonor Jaunt, a martial arts fantasy where ninjas, spirit summoners, peasant armies, scheming nobles, and the monastic Sun Guard all recently came together to depose the Shogun who ruled over them.
Prompt #42 is set in the supernatural princedom of Sarmatia, home to vampires, werewolves, and the corvigers who serve them in order for their own shot at immortality. During the Children of the Night Jaunt last fall, the Travelers help Sarmatia hold its first free elections.
Prompt #41
Since the True-Named Empire first started dumping its political dissidents in the Bando, the people of the three provinces have celebrated the annual Spirit Festival from the 8th to the 15th Days of the Cycle of the Hungry Ghost. Normally, it would be celebrated in smaller festivals all over the Peninsula and indeed those festivals are still happening. This year, however, a special Spirit Festival is being held in the burnt remains of the Shogun’s Palace, while representatives from the three provinces meet in a palatial tent to discuss Bando self-government going forward.
For everyone else, there’s the festival.
Hastily erected stalls line what used to be corridors and grand hallways. There is every kind of festival food from octopus balls to meat on sticks to shaved ice brought down from the mountain and flavored with fruit juices. There is rumor that later tonight there will be fireworks. Right now there is a double-ringed Spirit Dance in the remains of the throne room, where the living form the outer ring and spirits made visible by Sun Guard summoners form the inner. In the center of it all, the irrepressible Sun Guard spirit Sai leads the dancers in the ritual chants.
With such a huge crowd, it shouldn’t be too hard for Investigators to fade into it.
Prompt #42
The thumping backbeats were enough to wake the dead. Luckily, the dead made up a good portion of the audience. The top of a burial mound might seem to be a strange place to hold a concert, but Britpop boyband sensation NOIZE liked the spooky atmosphere and had been willing to pay a considerable fee to rent the Kurgan for their concert. Given the unfortunate state of Sarmatian finances after the most prominent banker in Colchis ran off to Brazil with half of everyone’s money last December, this was simply an offer the two co-princes could not refuse.
(Even if it meant they weren’t holding court tonight from their usual spot inside the Kurgan. Too noisy. Much, much too noisy.)
To the Travelers, this might seem like a fairly standard loud pop concert from the tail end of the twentieth century. But when some of the concert-goers show a bit of fang or seem rather hairier than most people--and when some of them might even turn to you and offer you immortality in exchange for serving them--it’s suddenly apparent that this is a different kind of Eastern Europe than they’re likely used to.
Our upcoming app round runs August 24th-31st. Our next Jaunt, Lightside/Darkside, takes place in January, a clockpunk city on a hill, home to a unique, fey, fairy-tale culture. The Lightsiders and Darksiders live on the same streets, but every day, at sunrise and sunset, one group flees inside to lock their doors, and the other takes to the streets to conduct the day or night’s business. Each group faces unique challenges and mysteries in their separate but overlapping cities--and what they do not know about one another could serve to either unite their society or tear it apart. The Jaunt is scheduled to begin September 9th & run for approximately six weeks.
Prompt #41 is set in the Bando Peninsula from the Code of Dishonor Jaunt, a martial arts fantasy where ninjas, spirit summoners, peasant armies, scheming nobles, and the monastic Sun Guard all recently came together to depose the Shogun who ruled over them.
Prompt #42 is set in the supernatural princedom of Sarmatia, home to vampires, werewolves, and the corvigers who serve them in order for their own shot at immortality. During the Children of the Night Jaunt last fall, the Travelers help Sarmatia hold its first free elections.
Prompt #41
Since the True-Named Empire first started dumping its political dissidents in the Bando, the people of the three provinces have celebrated the annual Spirit Festival from the 8th to the 15th Days of the Cycle of the Hungry Ghost. Normally, it would be celebrated in smaller festivals all over the Peninsula and indeed those festivals are still happening. This year, however, a special Spirit Festival is being held in the burnt remains of the Shogun’s Palace, while representatives from the three provinces meet in a palatial tent to discuss Bando self-government going forward.
For everyone else, there’s the festival.
Hastily erected stalls line what used to be corridors and grand hallways. There is every kind of festival food from octopus balls to meat on sticks to shaved ice brought down from the mountain and flavored with fruit juices. There is rumor that later tonight there will be fireworks. Right now there is a double-ringed Spirit Dance in the remains of the throne room, where the living form the outer ring and spirits made visible by Sun Guard summoners form the inner. In the center of it all, the irrepressible Sun Guard spirit Sai leads the dancers in the ritual chants.
With such a huge crowd, it shouldn’t be too hard for Investigators to fade into it.
Prompt #42
The thumping backbeats were enough to wake the dead. Luckily, the dead made up a good portion of the audience. The top of a burial mound might seem to be a strange place to hold a concert, but Britpop boyband sensation NOIZE liked the spooky atmosphere and had been willing to pay a considerable fee to rent the Kurgan for their concert. Given the unfortunate state of Sarmatian finances after the most prominent banker in Colchis ran off to Brazil with half of everyone’s money last December, this was simply an offer the two co-princes could not refuse.
(Even if it meant they weren’t holding court tonight from their usual spot inside the Kurgan. Too noisy. Much, much too noisy.)
To the Travelers, this might seem like a fairly standard loud pop concert from the tail end of the twentieth century. But when some of the concert-goers show a bit of fang or seem rather hairier than most people--and when some of them might even turn to you and offer you immortality in exchange for serving them--it’s suddenly apparent that this is a different kind of Eastern Europe than they’re likely used to.
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"I am afraid I do not know," she said after a moment. She could vaguely recall the smell of his small head, pressed up against her chin, but that was so long ago now.
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"Does a child normally smell like its mother?"