fellmemes | Test Drive #3

Welcome to the November test drive! We're so excited to have you with us.

A few things of note:

✦ Test drive threads can be considered game-canon if you choose. They're essentially in a shared dreamscape and take place between your character leaving their world and arriving in the audience hall with their faction leader.
✦ Reserves will open at 12:01 AM UTC on December 1st, and continue to be until 11:59 PM UTC on December 7th. This is to reserve a character, not an application slot.
✦ Applications will open at 12:01 AM UTC on the 8th, and remain open until 11:59 PM UTC on the 15th, or until all application slots have been filled. Once Activity Check ends, we will have an application slot number available on the application page. The IC & OOC intro logs will be posted two days later.
✦ Questions? We have a FAQ that's chock full of good information! If they are test drive specific, we have a top level thread below that allows for OOC questions to be posted.
✦ The network is available to use! No matter where your character is, their compass arrived on their person. Please feel free to include a network post in your top-levels! Once opened, the compass will display instructions on use, such as using voice-commands to activate it. Usernames are your characters first name or their most common nickname.
✦ Below will be a header for OOC questions as well as a request for Fortuna if you risk having your fortune read in Kyst.
✦ Current players who participate in the test drive by tagging new players will be eligible for a secondary blessing in December.

All set? Perfect! Welcome to Fellden.

AS THE MOON RISES.♪
You’ll find yourself just outside the Temple doors, which will be locked if you try to open them. A little rude, keeping you out after bringing you all this way. The thing is, you can hear a lot of commotion in the distance, and smoke rising from the center of a district; you may want to check that out. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire!

Except the smoke is not at all something to be concerned over. Instead, people are gathered near a large bonfire in the decorated city square, drinking and carousing, singing songs of celebration; Moon saviors have arrived! War winners! The residents of the city laugh and sing and dance in pairs throughout the square that's dusted with snow, grateful for those who have come to aid them. Their merriment doesn’t dwindle as the sun begins to set on the horizon, twin moons rising in its place.

When you (and other new arrivals) are finally noticed by the revelers, do not expect to be left alone! Crowns and laurels of fir and juniper will be deposited upon your heads, seasonal fare of food and drink placed into your hands, while live musicians play loud enough for the dead to hear. You’ll be invited to dance, to drinking games, and offered food and flowers and other items of value. Some may cry when they look into your face, thanking you for becoming their champions during this long and exhaustive war.

Hopefully you’re here to enjoy the festivities. Sneaking off is just fine, too, but don’t expect to be let go of quietly; the people of the Moon Temple are so happy to see you! Enjoy the celebration while it lasts long into the night. If you do manage to leave, a helpful citizen of the Temple will inform you of the nearby transport mirrors that will take you anywhere on the map, one of which they will provide to you.

THE SETTING STARS.♪
You'll find upon your arrival that the castle is not accepting visitors as they decorate the interior in preparation of the festive season that quickly approaches. Guards at the door will instead direct you to the center of the city where further preparations are being made.

Venturing there, you'll be greeted either by those who are decorating for the evening's party that will enlist you to help, or perhaps you're a late arrival and the celebration has already begun! Festivities are in full swing in the Court of Stars. Starfolk have begun their celebrations of the new arrivals and the ushering in the season of the Winter Festival. Once hesitant, guarded, the Stars citizens now welcome new arrivals with open arms, celebrating their appearance with a deep gratitude.

Large circles of dancers will pull you into the fray or pull you to dance one-on-one. Others will place bundles of cedar and juniper in your arms for decorating or perhaps learning to weave your own wreath to wear: some will even take pity, create it for you, and set the laurel upon the top of your head. You'll be invited to dance, drink, eat, and participate in the festivities through a snow dusted square. Even the soldiers will join, knocking shoulders and welcoming you to the Court of Stars.

Whether you choose to remain for the festivities or wander off, one thing is certain: you are more than welcome in your new home. If you do manage to leave, a helpful citizen of the Court will inform you of the nearby transport mirrors that will take you anywhere on the map, one of which they will provide to you.

MARKETS OF THE COAST.♪
The coastal city of Kyst is abuzz for the holidays, some calm finally beginning to settle in after the rocky past few months. Newcomers will be welcomed with smiling faces from merchants as they look to try to sell their pricy but beautiful wares. Tavern owners and barkeeps will beckon with the promise of warm food and delightful drinks, a place by the fire, and stories of holidays of old. The air is rife with music and the smell of delicious baked goods. Perhaps you'll hear or smell something you recognize from your home; as Fellden is the beginning of all worlds, it wouldn't be an impossible likelihood!

Those looking to help out might be coaxed to assist in decorating homes with laurels, garlands, berries, and other bright green, red, silver, and gold colors. Those who seem very eager to help might be recruited by shopkeepers to stand outside and try to get customers in to see their wares, to have a drink, or to rent a room. Anyone willing to do so even for a day will receive free food and drink for the duration of their assistance.

And for the auspicious, some may notice a person who has set up a mild little stall in the back of town, sipping eggnog as she offers fortunes. "Fortunes for the new year, my friend," she tells any who approach her. She offers only a small smile. "A laurel for a card. Only one."

BEYOND THE CITIES.♪
In the distance from Kyst, a large forest looms, the Gods Wood imposing even from this distance. Should you travel there, everyone you encounter will urge you to be respectful while within the forest. There, people can be found visiting intricately decorated shrines, prepared for the upcoming holiday, while people leave seasonal offerings in the bowls and plates within the shrines. You're free to leave the crown you were given at your faction celebration, or perhaps something else that you've been granted since your arrival is better suited for your offering. Be mindful of your actions though; those that show disrespect will be forcibly removed from the Gods Wood by the trees. Best foot forward!

If the forest is too intimidating, there appears to be a gathering at the nearby Lake Theta where the Festival of Aeons is taking place. You'll be drawn into the fold readily where people will inform you that it is a celebration of souls, both living and passed beyond the veil. You'll be taught how to make paper lanterns to be set into the sky when twilight falls, with further revelry coming after. Be prepared for a long night of celebration ahead of you as the dancing, music, and festivities last long into the night.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Katsuki notices because he has a lot of experience with superpowers - and an annoying guy who has ice powers.

So he's immediately alert when someone summons something, drifting closer and scowling. ]

Are you trying to trip someone or something?

[ Of course he starts at the worst possible outcome. Why. ]

Trip? No.....?

[It does cause her to glance down though, noting the spread of ice and Elsa quickly tries to control it again. To keep it under wraps in at least just being directly at her own feet and not so widespread from her, if not outright managing to deal with it entirely.]

Sorry. I didn't really mean to.

[It is just that she still has her slip ups when distracted, or when scared.]

[ Oh, she's new, then. He's pretty bad at telling if someone's new or just from the last batch of people, since Katsuki has been travelling a lot... ]

You just got here? That'll clear up if you just keep using your powers. The control and amount of power, I mean.

The -- really? I usually have more control. I mean, now that I accepted my power more. But I guess being here I am more....hm, distracted, I suppose.

[Which is hardly surprising. Given everything. She's still unsure if Anna or Kristoff were around either for that matter. That in and of itself is enough to be concerning even without this decidedly not being Arendelle. She purses her lips, glancing around again briefly before her gaze lands back to him.]

What about you? Did you just get here too?

[ Katsuki shakes his head, flipping one palm over and letting off a controlled explosion above it. Not enough to hurt anyone or do more than smell like burnt sugar and ash... ]

I've been here a while, so that's an experience thing. When people show up their powers only seem to work off and on, and not like usual, but if you keep practicing with 'em they go back to normal.

[ He has no idea why this is, mind, but at least it's a thing. ]

[Fire? Well. She supposes if she could use ice with her magic, it wouldn't be such a surprise to find someone that could do the opposite of sorts. Kind of. Still, Elsa's eyes widen a little in surprise. She's never actually met anyone else with magic before.]

Experience? I suppose....I'll take your word for it. I've just never actually met anyone else with powers. I was always the only one.

[ Huh. So not the same world, not like he'd assumed otherwise; no one from his world has shown up here except for Katsuki himself. ]

It's different where I'm from. Most people have a power; we call them "quirks".

Quirks?

[The ability to freeze things or blow something up seems a little more than a quirk? But she supposes it might be more normal, more expected and all if it were something a lot of people back home were capable of, for him. Which might be why he wasn't freaking out about her freezing the ground like she had, unintentionally.]

Yeah. We're born with them - eighty percent of the world population is, anyway.

[ So it's more or less Normal. ]

That many? And yet back home, it's only me.....

[At least. That she was aware of, of course. Perhaps the trolls knew of others, or others were around but she just hadn't met or heard of them. But it did seem something obviously rare. At least in her case. So of course this is something of a surprise on her end.]

[ That sounds...lonely, maybe. Katsuki's not sure what it would be like: it's impossible to imagine a world entirely without Quirks with himself in it. He knows they exist, yeah, but he's so used to other people having powers that it's hard to like...picture. ]

Sounds lonely.

It....well. It was after I was afraid of my powers. After I started trying to push everyone away. Was scared of even touching them.

[Which has her instinctively hugging herself with one arm crossing over her stomach to hold to her other arm's elbow as she tries to explain a little more. It's not always easy. Thinking back on how things were then, given how far she has come already in going back to accepting herself again, and starting to accept her powers and embrace them.]

[ Honestly, being afraid of powers isn't...unusual. Katsuki flexes his hands, unsure. ]

It can suck having something that makes it dangerous to even touch people.

I...hurt my sister. Twice, because of my powers.

[So. Yeah, it was definitely something Elsa has had to figure working through. Taken a lot of adjusting and a lot of time and figuring herself out, and her powers and control, to be more comfortable in touching Anna again. Touching anyone.]

[ Ah. There's...that. Katsuki hasn't really injured anyone he loves on accident, at least. ]

And you had to figure out how to use them all alone.

I did. I guess that's why it took me so long, to figure out how to deal with my powers. Because I shut myself away from Anna, from almost everyone. It took me much longer than it should have to figure the trick to it.

[Love. It was so simple. Had been there all along with Anna's knocking and pleading at her door to come and play or do some activity or other together. Years of it and she still tried to ignore when she heard Anna at her door. Until the coronation.]

Test Drive #3

Setting Stars

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notifs plz?

I'm losing them left and right too :/

I'm getting some at least? Just I dunno if I am getting all of them.

Same here

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