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MAY/JUNE TEST DRIVE MEME
Welcome to the EWAY TDM!





Prompt A: Serious Event

Hellhounds are coming for a visit! For the first day of the event, residents will hear crazy howling coming from the direction of the forest, but it's off in the distance. If anyone investigates, they won't be able to find the source of the howling.

On the morning of the second day, the hounds approach the mansion. They are invisible, only able to be seen by demons, but they can certainly be heard by their growls, snarls, and barking. They aren't the most delicate of beasts, so there will be plenty of broken furniture and doors as they charge around inside the Mansion.

Hellhounds take no prisoners. They attack viciously and woe betide those who end up in the same room as one. A death by hellhound is nasty and probably slightly traumatizing, if remembered. Here is what one would expect when a hellhound comes near.

There are defenses against them: lining plenty of salt along doorways and windows, or even standing in a circle of it can keep them at bay. They can also be blown to high heaven, if one can rig up a bomb big enough. Barring a door very well can also help, but hellhounds are strong and tenacious, so they'll eventually break it down. They just won't stop once they have someone's scent.

Prompt B: Lighter Event

This event is bringing movies to life! For each character, there will be one movie represented in the mansion in some way. This will most likely be either a setting change (where part of the setting just shows up on the grounds or inside), the sudden appearance of creatures or animals (because everyone needs velociraptors running around), or the general themes of the movie affecting the population (like some mysterious American Pie rooms on the second floor that make people want to lose their virginity before their high school graduation).

How do you decide which movie your character would bring to the mansion? Well, one of two ways. The first is that if your character is from a canon where they would have watched movies, then you would pick something that they have seen. Movies that only exist in their canon are 100% okay to inflict on the mansion. The second is that if your character is from the past/a mystical magical movieless land/just doesn't care about movies, then you're free to pick any movie you want to add to the mix. Movies that they have seen in the mansion are also okay to use, if you would prefer.

For the characters who are film buffs, big fans of a movie, or just plain watch too many movies, this event will go one step further. These characters will think that they are actually a part of whatever movie the mansion brought to the event on their behalf. They will take on one of the character roles from this movie and thoroughly believe that they are really this character. Being plucked out of their movie will not phase them too much – they will be trying to stick to the general plot of their movie as much as possible. They will gain or lose abilities based on who they think they are (someone from Star Wars might be able to use a lightsaber, but if they were a wizard before they wouldn't be able to use their wand for this event), and their personality will change accordingly, but there will still be traces of who they really are underneath. Little details that don't quite match, like certain phobias or their annoying habit of whistling too much. Of course, their friends who don't have any interest at all in movies will be thoroughly confused and probably try to snap them out of their craziness, but that most likely won't be easy. They're busy! They have to go blow up the Death Star! Or find their son Nemo! Or stop the aliens from stealing all their women and gold!

Prompt C: ediS rorriM

The mirror side is Queen-less. Or so it appears. How do the mirrors cope with this new turn events, what do they do? What does it mean to be a mirror? Feel free to have your mirrors contemplate it together, or reach out to their real counterparts by writing on mirrors to communicate.

Prompt D: Choices

Any scenario goes! Thread out your character's arrival, have them act like a long-established resident, let our past events inspire your scene, or write up literally any Wonderland-based scenario you feel like playing with.

Rules

Test drive memes go up every other month. Please note that ONE (1) TDM thread may be used as an application sample. Minimum 5 sentences. ♥ TDM threads do not count for AC. ♥ The next TDM will be for July/August ♥ Have fun!



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[ofamind]

"You are searching nonetheless," Violet intones, unresponding to his defensiveness. At least she doesn't sound particularly accusatory. Actually, she probably makes staring at a trash heap sound kinda deep. "By way of garbage if not in it. You are trying to find something that will not be found easily."

[bigheaded]

That gets his full attention. Dib whirls away from the garbage to look at the girl. "Yes," he says, in the caught-off-guard tone of someone who was expecting ridicule and derision but instead got something like understanding. "Yes, I am." Does she get it? Actually understand what he's doing, and why?

"How did you know that?" Is she a psychic or something? What if she is? Is she reading his mind right now? Quick, think of something stupid!

[ofamind]

Well, yes, she is a psychic, but she doesn't go around reading minds willy-nilly. That ends badly for everyone, as it turns out. Rather, she's perceptive and insightful, and even better than that, overconfident enough to act like she's 100% definitely right rather than just probably right. It's a bad habit. Violet knows better now, though, and having it called out directly makes her pause.

...But honestly, nah, she's probably not overstepping too badly in this case. This guy ain't hard to read. "There were few other possible explanations," she says after a moment. "You are single-minded, intent on a goal. The nature of that goal is less obvious."

[bigheaded]

Oh. Not a psychic. Darn, now his brain is full of stupid, ugh.

She's dead-on, though. Intent and single-minded? That's Dib to a T. He decides to explain what he's doing to her, while she's still giving him the time of day.

"I'm trying to discover where the garbage goes," says Dib. "I watched it vanish yesterday while cleverly hidden inside a hollowed-out log. But I was too far away. I couldn't identify whether something took it away, or if it just disappeared. That's why my vantage point today is much closer. I'll get to watch it disappear from practically on top of it." He grins, clenches a fist, and declares with dramatic relish: "The answers are so close, I can smell them."

Dib. Please. That's garbage. It's garbage-smell.

[ofamind]

"They are still something that will not be found so easily. You are wasting your time." And what few scraps of respectability Dib may have ever had, but that's clearly long past being a concern.

[bigheaded]

Dib, regrettably, decided long ago that he would rather be right than respectable. He'd like to have both, of course. One day, he'll be respected for being right! ...but that day hadn't come yet.

"What d'you mean?" he asks, on the defensive again. "There has to be an explanation. And I'm going to find it! I'll show you. I'll show you all!!" His voice pitches up sharply, bordering on hysterical.

He really shouldn't be getting this emotional about trash. There may be some baggage here.

[ofamind]

He certainly does have strong reactions. Nobody can say he's not invested in his work. If anyone would benefit from psychic invasion it might be this sort of guy, but then he also makes it extremely unnecessary. Violet, on the other hand, is as placid as ever.

"You have been putting extensive thought into this. Give a theory."

[bigheaded]

Oh, she asked. Oh, good. He grins behind his glasses.

"My theory is that it could be some kind of transportation spell." Dib wiggles his fingers, like abracadabra! magic vanishing trash! "If we can figure out where the garbage goes, and how it gets there, we can harness the trashy-vanishy-thingy and use it to get out!"

....aaaand probably wind up in a dimension of garbage-stink in the process and never feel clean again. But hey. That's pretty par for Dib's course. At least it's escape?

[ofamind]

"Next, tell me about your expertise in identifying Wonderland's magic and discerning the details of its working by sight."

[bigheaded]

A beat.

"Well, I don't have that," Dib admits. "But I won't learn it unless I study it, right?"