The Powers That Be ([personal profile] powersthatbe) wrote in [community profile] synodiporia_ooc2016-10-14 02:43 pm
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Test Drive #16

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 October 25th–November 1st, but for once we’re breaking with tradition and instead of an upcoming Jaunt, we have a special, upcoming, multi-week Liminal Space event called Welcome to the World Series, which heralds the end of Phase Two and the start of Phase Three of the game of Synodiporia. Having chosen their Champions in Phase Two, the mysterious entities known as the Trumps are divvying up the rest of the Travelers--and in Phase Three they’re playing for keeps.

Prompt #43 is set in an agricultural-themed liminal space—with a bit of fabrics and crafts thrown in.

Prompt #44 is set in the dreaming realm known as Questing Country. Here, with the aid of their Animal Companions, young lucid dreamers from a variety of species (crystalline Hecatites, long-lived Elves, aquatic Vodyanoi, bone-spurred and four-armed Spartoi, scaled Gorgons with their petrifying abilities and tentacled hair, and your bog-standard humans) fight together as Champions against the monsters that arise from the collective unconscious of their species… for now, anyway. At least until they grow up, burn out, or go wrong.

Prompt #43

Right now, Liminal Space is a patchwork of farmland--a literal patchwork, as the ground under the Travelers’ feet is printed fabric, sewn together as if it were a quilt. One patch has a field of lettuce, another a printed field of corn and so on and so forth. Just about every crop is represented in quilted form, including ones that aren’t exactly… standard. Or legal.

Crocheted farm animals roam atop the fields, making needle-clicking sounds whenever they open their mouths, beaks, and snouts. Here and there lie irons, face down, luckily not at all hot. If you climb on top of one, it should be possible to ride it around like a tractor.

As for the farmhouse, barn, and silo? Travelers might be able to see the plush shape of them on the horizon, but no matter how long they travel in that direction, they’ll never get any closer.


Prompt #44

Whether Fire Mushrooms from Nuclear Winter, Men-in-Black from Conspiracy Country, Plague Vectors from the Softened Caverns, Horned Masters from the Stealing Ships, or any of the manifold Nightmares that haunt Questing Country and cause it to summon its Champions, there is one thing all these enemies have in common: they arise from the fears and worries of their world.

Some of these Nightmares are seasonal.

It’s Exam Season again on Hecate, the annual time during its longer-than-Earth year when the young people of that planet take the tests that will determine both their future careers and their very right to be regarded as adults in Hecatite society--as well as the annual practice exams to ready them for it. To be young and Hecatite during Exam Season is to be in a very stressful situation, no matter your capabilities. So much is riding on the results.

So it’s really not surprising that the twenty-foot-tall Test Proctors from the Hallowed Halls of Education positively swarm from the time that the tests begin until the day the results are posted. The Proctors work to corner any young person they can find, essaying volley after volley of exam questions at them until they fail or give up or attack the Proctor--and that’s when the Proctors get nasty.
pionero: ▸ <lj user="pionero"> (art • forgetting what he wrote down.)

[personal profile] pionero 2017-01-11 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
You'd be surprised. [ He just stares at the man as he bounces up and down. At least someone can find the enjoyment in their current situation. ] I'd prefer to be somewhere real. I guess we can't pick our dreams or hallucinations.
freakyfishdad: (confusion)

[personal profile] freakyfishdad 2017-01-11 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? I'm pretty sure this isn't a dream. Haven't you tried pinching yourself?
pionero: ▸ <lj user="pionero"> (orly • look at this madness to magnet.)

[personal profile] pionero 2017-01-12 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Cal snorts a bit. ] Does that actually wake you up from a dream?
freakyfishdad: (smile)

[personal profile] freakyfishdad 2017-01-13 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it usually works! Unless my sister-in-law's involved, but if she was involved she'd probably be showing up somewhere already.
pionero: ▸ <lj user="pionero"> (oookay • you won't have to hide away.)

[personal profile] pionero 2017-01-13 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Family drama. I wouldn't know. [ So, the reference is entirely lost. ]
freakyfishdad: (smile)

[personal profile] freakyfishdad 2017-01-13 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[A small chuckle.] Oh no, I don't have a problem with her or anything! She literally has control over dreams, so she could make one feel real.
pionero: ▸ <lj user="pionero"> (orly • look at this madness to magnet.)

[personal profile] pionero 2017-01-14 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
...Your sister-in-law can control dreams. [ That makes him laugh. ]
freakyfishdad: (I LOVE MY FAMILY)

[personal profile] freakyfishdad 2017-01-15 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! [He doesn't look offended at the laugh.] That's just one of her powers, too! She's got powers over almost everything to do with the night, so her dream control is just a part of that.
pionero: ▸ <lj user="pionero"> (oookay • you won't have to hide away.)

[personal profile] pionero 2017-01-17 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
You do realize how insane you sound. [ Cal just shakes his head. ]
freakyfishdad: (disbelief)

[personal profile] freakyfishdad 2017-01-17 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
What? It's not that weird, is it? I mean, look at where we are! [He gestures around. Also, quite frankly just being a Yugioh character skews your perception of "normal" a bit.]
pionero: ▸ <lj user="pionero"> (scars • with a thousand lies.)

[personal profile] pionero 2017-01-20 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's just as crazy as the rest of this.
freakyfishdad: (disbelief)

[personal profile] freakyfishdad 2017-01-21 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, it's not that crazy! It's got a coherent theme and everything... [He's not fond of those duelists who think they can just shove 40 cards together and get a workable deck.]
pionero: ▸ <lj user="pionero"> (oookay • you won't have to hide away.)

[personal profile] pionero 2017-01-23 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. Of course it isn't.

[ Cal is just of the opinion that most of everything is insane at this point. Including him. ]
freakyfishdad: (disbelief)

[personal profile] freakyfishdad 2017-01-24 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you consider "normal," then? [Maybe it's best to start from that baseline.] You...you do know magic exists at least, right?