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gachahell_mods) wrote2017-07-16 02:24 pm
JULY 2017 TEST DRIVE
Welcome to the July 2017 Test Drive Meme for Gacha Hell: The RP! You know the drill - comment below and form threads to get a feel for the game, decide on a character, and establish an RP sample for your application.
If you want to know more about the game for writing your prompts, the directory is over here. Reserves are here, and Applications, when they open, will be here. Be aware that, for all characters who join during this first app cycle, the initial free Pull will have double weight applied to ★★★★★ regains!
☆ REGAIN PROMPTSThese prompts are related to regains! Don't have any of those? We've got you covered - mosey on over to the Pull Simulator and click the button for a randomized pull of regains, then use those for your TDM prompts. Of course, you aren't beholden to the results - since this is just a simulator, you can reroll as much as you want, or even just make up some original regains for the purposes of your toplevel.
R1. Memory Regains: Congratulations! You rolled some memories, which have been instantly uploaded into your brain. Maybe you're looking for the person whose memories they originally were, or maybe you've found them and are ready to swap regains to give them back. Or, maybe you just opened the capsule, and you're still reeling from the mental impact. Having someone else's memories in your head is a confusing experience, so it can take a bit of adjustment to get used to the sensation.
R2. Ability Regains: Congratulations! You rolled a new ability, and you can now do things you never could before. Why not give your newfound skills a whirl to see how they work? If they're supernatural, they might be a little hard to control at first - hopefully nothing disastrous happens as a direct result of that.
R3. Item Regains: Congratulations! You rolled... something, and possibly due to a glitch in the system, it spawned right there in Gacha Central, rather than being sent to your apartment. What the hell is this, and what purpose could it possibly serve? Does it have any secret powers, or is it just a weird curio of another person's life? Experiment with it to see what it can do, auction it off to see if you can find its original owner, or maybe just figure out how the hell you're going to get it back home on your own.
☆ QUEST PROMPTSThese prompts move beyond the gacha machine, and deal with the wider setting of Gacha City! Looks like some new monthly quests have rolled in, so it's time to debase yourself in the name of orbs.
Q1. Treasure Mountain Survival Shelter: Here, the rare monsters that would otherwise be fused into uncaring characters for bonus EXP can live in peace... but they do need taking care of, and there's an orb or two in it for you if you do your part. Diamond slimes, gold imps, platinum wisps... the bad news is, a lot of precious metals and crystals are also really hard. As much as these critters had a rough lot in life, they're high-energy, tough as steel, and prone to running into things. Your job is to make sure they get enough exercise. Good luck!
Q2. Fetch Quest: Looks like this month's quest is a randomized scavenger hunt! Some of the things you can find yourself, but some of them you'll have to fuse together from other items, which means you might have a bit of an adventure on your hands. Where the hell are you going to find an 'aged barber pole' for this?
☆ EVENT WORLD PROMPTSIt looks like Gacha City has connected to a new Event World! For the duration of this TDM, you have access to the wonderful and slightly sticky Slimeworld, a sprawling maze of dungeons and wilderness surrounding a single central hub city. Train up the slimes you have, fuse slimes to get more, and send them into battle by playing a complex holographic Bejeweled clone!
E1. Welcome to Slimetown. A whole new world to explore! Upon arriving, a hundred sensations assail you at once, most of them slimy. Meet your new starter slime! Get harassed by vendors of slimes and slime-based products! Get hopelessly lost! Engage in some Slime Fusion once you've run a few dungeons!
E2. PVP. Wanna give the combat mechanics of this world a test run? Slime battle. Accidentally offended a local? Slime battle. Wandered into the wrong building by mistake? Slime battle. Broke the law? Slime battle.
E3. Slime Dungeons 101. It's your first dungeon run! The low-level areas look innocuous enough, but it's easy to get harassed and beaten up by slimes if you don't take them seriously. Time to form an unbreakable bond with your slime companion(s) and learn how to slide three slimes of the same color together in increasingly advanced patterns in the name of victory. You can try to use your own inherent combat abilities against the slimes, but they have massive damage resistance against non-slime-based weaponry, so it'll be an uphill battle. Don't worry, if you lose the slimes will usually just kick you back out to the entrance - people almost never die here.
E4. Out of Depth Encounter. Usually, it's pretty easy to tell what kind of slimes are gonna appear in a dungeon, but once in a blue moon, you get something unexpected. A flying magenta magma ooze wandered into the wrong zone, and what was once a bejeweled fight to grind rare items is now a bejeweled fight to survive! Will you stand your ground, or just try to back it back to the surface before facing another party wipe?
R1. Memory Regain - Detective Lt. Columbo | Columbo
As he stands his hands come to either side of his head, holding himself steady as if some one had taken the wheel in his head and decided to go for a joy ride. It was jarring, all too intense for the fellow to truly process all in one go. Like a thick medicine, it would take its time to finally hit the pit of his stomach when the thought finally became fully realized. He paces back and forth, resembling more of a drunk than a man lost in pondering. Yet, while he moves and lowers his hands, he begins to talk aloud to himself.]
She shoots her brother.. Makes it look like an accident.. Brother comes in from the patio.. But how do I pin the tail on the donkey if the donkey isn't any where to be found?
E3. Slime Dungeons 101 - Taako Tacco | The Adventure Zone
It isn't until he's given instructions on how to proceed through the dungeon that it hits him. His eyes go wide, blinking in astonishment, before his brow furrows and an displeased look is not painted upon his face. Turning slowly to his party, his voice raises up in a hiss-like manner, sharp and agitated at his revelation.]
Sonuvah-.. It's fricking Puyo-Pop isn't it? You know? That game, where you take the slimes and line them up and t-.. Oh for fuck's sake! What's next? Some one is going to run out with a bunch of oranges and pretzels and then we're going to be chased down like ghosts? Forget I said that, because if that's giving whoever is running this place any ideas, I'd really like to not do that. I'm watching my figure and not trying to eat any dots, please and thank you.
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Congratulations. You have discovered the sinister conspiracy that the people who run this place have no frigging original ideas.
R1. Memory Regain | Yakumo Koizumi | Bungou to Alchemist
[ That is the first warning to someone being in the area of the Gatcha Machine already. The owner of the voice sounds pretty amazed. ]
This person has such good vision! They even had spots! Oh! What shark has spots?
[ He notices movement, and though he can't see who it is who has turned the corner thanks to his poor eyesight, that doesn't really matter at the moment. ]
Do you know how many sharks have spots?
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Sorry, I don't know much about sharks. Why, did you see one?
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[ He holds out the round sphere ball thing that the memory came out of. ]
It was spotted like a leopard.
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[ A memory about a mysterious spotted shark??? ]
It sounds like we have a mystery on our hands! [ She sounds very excited. ]
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[ Now he’s even more excited. ]
Do you think it’s a scary mystery?
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[ Elodie grabs his wrist, then points dramatically off into the city. ]
To the library!
[ Aaaaand it's gone. ]
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[ He enjoys them a lot, actually. ]
Yes! To the library! [ Wait. ] Where is the library?
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I have... no idea. Do you have a map?
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[ Maybe it’s just because of the round, stretched-out way that he speaks, that betrays that he’s not speaking his native tongue, but he sounds too cheerful saying that. ]
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[ YOU NERD ]
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[ But this is exciting! ]
Sadao Maou/Satan King of Demons | The Devil is a Part Timer
Maou struggled under the weight of a certain overlord's comatose body as it flopped on top of him. Yes, he had enough magic left to enhance his body until he could carry it easily, but with how his energy stores were looking it was much wiser to rely on mere flesh and blood muscles. So there's a reedy looking dude with a huge, muscular, demonic figure draped over him as he struggles across Gacha Central.
"Hrgh. Damned thing! What am I even going to DO with a dead body? Why can't you just walk by yourself you stupid corpse?"
At those words, the body immediately stood up on its own and started walking forwards, tangling itself up with Maou's legs in the process and resulting in both of them falling over in a tangled heap.
E3!
Maou stood before a small swarm of slimes, speaking to them. He was a skinny guy, and the slimes were hardly impressive, but something about the scene was...ominous. The atmosphere would be better suited for a dark king whipping his army of demon knights into a frenzy before setting them loose against the heroes of light.
"Though alone, each one of you may be weak, together you shall each enact a small part of my plan! You shall be like extensions of my will, inflicting my desires upon this world! To those who show cowardice in battle, there shall be no mercy, but to those who serve me well, the rewards shall be beyond your wildest dreams!
He made a dramatic gesture at the slimes, which looked back at him with the same blank mindlessness they looked back at anything.
"Now go forth! Despoil the land before you! Leave no stone unturned! Let no foe have a moment of respite! We go to war!"
The slimes started bouncing up and down enthusiastically. They had probably understood none of his speech, but they seemed to have liked it none the less. Maou looked quite pleased with himself.
R1
"Okay, do I even want to know why you're carting around someone's body?" He questions, eyeing him a bit warily - to be honest, having a dead body does make others leap to the worst possible conclusions.
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He untangled himself and stood up, dusting himself off. "This one doesn't seem to be properly dead, though. Pity, but I'm sure I can figure out something to do with it."
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Aww, bass?
[Without much regards for his surroundings, and without any real fire behind his complaint, Morgan plops down right there to try out the guitar that had popped out of thin air next to him. Though his fingers find the strings, they lack the instinctive grace he normally has in picking up a guitar. He remembers all of his lessons, strangely enough -- but doesn't retain the skill.]
[Weird. But maybe that's helpful in this case? Without any memories of guitar to get in the way, applying his knowledge to actual learning will be easier. So, quite cheerful about it all, he settles down to practice some fingering exercises.]
Q2
[Without hesitation or much dignity, Morgan practically dives to the curb to snatch a flattened box out of the street.] Gotcha!
[Hopping back up, he holds it up to examine it, then tucks it under his elbow with a nod and digs into his other pocket.] That's Discarded Dozen Box off the list. Next up: Mystery fruit?
Wonder if I can get a durian around here somewhere.
Rita Mordio | Tales of Vesperia
This... all right, all of this is very strange, but this gemstone that Rita's now holding, something that she's told contains "unlimited power", doesn't seem like it's anything more impressive than a shiny rock. Clearly the only powerful shiny rock here is the one in the golden choker she's wearing; this Sol Emerald, whatever it is, won't be worth two gald to her.
"Hey," she says to the closest person to her, not even caring if they're in the middle of a conversation or anything. "Is there anywhere I can go to sell this? It's supposed to be enormously powerful, but I won't be able to use it like this, and I don't think there's any blastia refinery stuff here."
E2.
let me show you just what i'm made of!slime battle!"O incandescent locus, annihilate the vulgar before me! Spi—"
Kind of the problem with everything being made of slime, Rita's noticing. Everything is gross and sticky and she can't use her magic scroll cleanly or quickly enough without it getting covered in gunk and grossing her out too much to actually continue reading off her incantations properly. (Maybe that's just her excuse for her not really being able to remember a lot of her incantations, for some reason.)
Dropping her scroll, she rushes forward at the slimes that she'd somehow pissed off and starts punching at them instead. It's about as effective as it might sound. The squishing is no less gross than the stickiness but at least she's pretty sure she's doing some kind of damage. Maybe? Well, hopefully nobody will walk in on a genius researcher thinking it's a good idea to deal strike damage to something gelatinous.
E2
"Are you all right, Madame?" He asked, standing up.
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"I'm fine!" she says, her attention going back to the pile of smile that she'd been tenderizing. And, uh, it looks like it was just... slime. Not even sentient slime, just a thing of slime. She pushes herself up to her feet, wipes off her stockings with a disgusted look, and looks around for something else with a face.
"Blah blah blah... Ground Dasher!" she shouts, trying to fast-cast the arte. Nothing happens. "Crap."
didya know Namco did a Sgt. Frog game in the Tales style?
"This humble one seems to have little need to intervene, but I am glad to give any assistance." He stated, though he pauses as Rita tries and failed to perform some kind of magic.
"So you are also having trouble with accessing your abilities?"
i didn't but i'm totally unsurprised
"What kind of abilities are you supposed to have?" Well, look, tact isn't really her main concern right now. "It probably doesn't take much to swing a sword around."
it's even more self-referential than usual for Namco
Dororo swings, striking down a Nearly Invisible slime that leaped at them. "learn when to strike." The Keronian added, scanning their surroundings. "It seems they are slowing down, might we quit this place?"
that's no small feat, i'm almost impressed
She heads back over to where she'd dropped her casting scroll and picks it up, holding it at arm's length. "Let's go." Though she isn't actually ignoring that the two of them are in the middle of a fight, sort of, she's definitely fought much, much worse than a few slimes. Something about... some kind of. There's a man in a red coat, probably? In some kind of tower?
Ugh. She'll figure all this out after she can get her clothes cleaned.
Saber Nero | Fate/
Animal care is not exactly something Saber is known for; if she only knew exactly what she's known for - her True Name eludes her - but she is divinely gifted with many talents that could only be denied by a jealous heart. So it is with confidence that she strides into the corral, and she can't help but admire the way the rare monsters just glitter - the way diamonds and gold just glint in angles that is not normally seen, the muses called out to her, begging her to use her admirable skills to recapture this in a more pleasing form.
However, while she's busy admiring the shiny creatures, she is unaware that an Electrum Imp had taken a shining to the ribbon in her hair and was prepared to tackle her to take it - perhaps warning her will be kind, or maybe she needs a lesson in paying attention to her surroundings.
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"Uh, hey. Hey!"
Time for an impromptu save. Ember picks up one of her own slimes, a pink thing that is in no way rare, and chucks it at the imp.
And misses. It's going straight for Nero's head instead.
A face Takeuchi likes so much he did it twice (or a dozen times)
"What on-" She yelps as she crashes onto the ground, the sound causing the nervous-type rares to flee. It took a minute, perhaps three of them before she reached a hand up and pull the slime off of her head. "How dare you attack me when my back as turned?" The short woman shouted as she quickly pushes her up to sit, then stand, pointing at Ember. "If you wished to duel with me, you should have done the honorable thing and announced your intentions!"
nero is cutest :(
Ember seemed to be unable to form the words right, because that imp had just run off and now she was dealing with a woman she had been trying to save and accidentally slimed her and SHE WAS NOT A FIGHTER.
Elodie Ridgely | OC
[ Here we see, in the middle of Gacha Central, a sarcophagus. Tall, majestic, and with Elodie next to it, swearing loudly as she tries in vain to push it. The sarcophagus stands proudly and nobly, ignoring all attempts to move it anywhere.
Eventually, she gives the hell up, and leans against it to catch her breath, sinking down to the floor and dragging her hands down her face. ]
What the hell is this? Do they seriously expect me to somehow drag this all the way to where I'm staying? Can I just, like... leave it here for someone else to clean up? I don't even have any idea what I'd use a sarcophagus for.
[ "Why is this my life now" comes to mind, but it'd feel a bit off to say it out loud, considering that she has no idea what her life was before. ]
-Q2-
[ As you walk through the city, you come across Elodie, sitting against the side of a building. There's a sack on the ground next to her, and she's mumbling to herself while scribbling something on a small notepad. ]
Acorns... check. Aged cookbook... check. At this rate, this quest is as good as... huh?
[ Her brow furrows, and she looks up, noticing that someone else is there for the first time. Maybe they know something about this. ]
What the hell is a 'gameboy'?