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[vitaelamorte]

♦ Test Drive Meme ♦

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P r o m p t s

I. Second Time's The Charm This... this looks awfully familiar, and... familiar in an awful way. Look around all you like, it won't change, it won't go away. You are in Wonderland. No, worse: You're back in Wonderland. Just when everything was nice and comfortable at home, or-- or wasn't it? Maybe you're happy to be here again. Hey, no judgement, free room and board is nothing to scoff at! Blessing or curse, that's really up to you; all you know for sure is that, apparently, you're here to stay. II. What will you children do next? It's time for another wonderful event in Wonderland! For its duration characters will suddenly find themselves ten years older or younger. This can be physically, mentally, or both, i.e., if your character is 20 years old right now, they may become 10 physically but still have the mind and memories of their 20-year-old self, or they may revert to the mentality of their 10-year-old self and lose all the memories they have of being older. Characters over 200 years old may even age by a century, as a decade isn't that long for them. III. Through The Looking-Glass What an extraordinary day! All of Wonderland's mirrors-- just the things, not the capital Mirrors, not the ones like you --are suddenly shattered! Shards on the floor as far as the eye can see, and empty frames that are just begging to be stepped through! Oh, but you should really stay on your side unless the Queen of Hearts orders it otherwise. Or should you? Who's to say she wouldn't want you to investigate? Go ahead, go on, explore the real side for a change! Or... stay put right where you are, and see who comes to visit. It's really up to you. IV. Wildcard Play out your character's arrival. Celebrate their anniversary. Choose a different event to experience. Do anything and everything you like!

Comments

[thenamegame]

That's exactly what a hallucination would say.

...probably.

[Or, you know, what a real person who wasn't a hallucination would say.]

[hsalf]

[He breathes in, trying so hard not to roll his eyes because he cannot tell if Cisco is joking or being serious here.]

And makes you think you're not the hallucination, hm?

[thenamegame]

[His nose tilted upward.]

...touche.

[If he was a hallucination, he was a pretty good one. Definitely giving off the Boss Man vibes, for sure. Cisco certainly felt like a reprimanded employee, that's for sure.]

Okay. Hypothetically speaking here.

You're real. I'm real. Even this place is real. Which means the other people I've heard running around must be real, too.

Maybe they even have some real answers to our really real questions?

[hsalf]

Hypothetically speaking, they may have the answers. They may also be working for whoever or whatever brought us here. [He says with a loose fold of his hands.] We should be cautious on that front, so as not to be drawn into any false sense of security.

We aren't safe here, Cisco, remember that. I say that as your boss, your friend... [he smiles] and as a lucid visual and auditory hallucination of your mind.

[thenamegame]

[There was a forlorn sigh, and subsequent muttering:]

Even my own subconscious bosses me around. Of course.

[Then, louder:]

Okay, new plan.

They might be weak, but there's some signal getting out. If we could send a highly encrypted transmission concealing our precise location, it could give us a chance to make contact with minimal risk.

[hsalf]

[He nods at the plan.]

Sounds like as good as any plan. We shouldn't make the transmission too long, in case we get noticed by the source of the network and get shutdown. Maybe make it a sound of some sort.

[thenamegame]

What about...a single burst transmission?

Like a written message, or some image that only people we trust would get?