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Test Drive: April 2019
Test Drive Meme
Winter
Want to see if your character is a good fit for the setting? Not sure which character concept you want to go for? Or maybe you just want to play around in a meme with no commitment? It's all good! Feel free to use one of the winter-themed prompts below, or write up one of your own with no restrictions!
Blizzard!
The winter storm is a bad one, where it's not safe to be outside for more than a few minutes. The winds are fierce and destructive, the snow is blinding, and it's easy to get lost when everything around you looks exactly the same. Will you stay inside where it's warm and keep your friend company? Or are there too many tasks that can't be ignored just because the weather's a little chilly?
Fun in the Snow
The countryside looks beautiful in winter, with every house and fence and tree cloaked in glittering white snow. It's the perfect kind of day for a real honest-to-goodness sleigh ride. Or maybe you'd prefer to build a snowman. Or maybe that dude over there needs a snowball glued to his face right now and only you can make that happen.
Food Storage Looters
Fall is the season to gather food and prepare for winter. Winter is the season for rest and bonding with friends and family. But not everyone has that kind of foresight. Goblins, for example, get their food by raiding farms and orchards and stealing chickens. The fields are barren and the coops are locked up to keep the chickens nice and warm, so is it really any surprise that the lock to the town food stores is broken, and there's sounds of squabbling and munching and belching coming up from the cellar?
Starry Night
The holiest of all Vallaress holidays. It's a time of feasting and exchanging gifts as anticipation for spring begins to escalate. It's also the most popular time for marriage proposals and weddings! Are you planning to get hitched? Or maybe you're attending the ceremony between two villagers just about to be wed when something interrupts? This is also the one day of the year where monsters are pretty much guaranteed not to attack anyone as they're all struck with a terrible weakness and apathy.
Blighted Snowmen!
Yesterday everyone competed to build the best snow creations. Along with the traditional snowmen, people also made snow bunnies, snow buffalos, and even a snow castle. But a blight sorcerer can't stand the sight of fun, and cast a terrible enchantment that animated each and every one of those snow creatures to come to life! Watch out! Rabid snow castle is lumbering your way!
Magic Lessons: Fire
Almost everyone wants to learn some sort of fire magic during the winter season, whether it's because they ran out of firewood, or because they need a magic flame that won't dim or sputter out when setting up camp during a long journey. Are you a student? A teacher? Or maybe you're just trying to figure out how to cast a self-taught fireball, because there's no way that could end poorly.
Rayla | The Dragon Prince (OU) - OTA
[When Rayla was called to this world, she thought, 'maybe it wouldn't be so bad!'
Then the winter hits. Boy, her feelings about the winter change about as fast as the weather does. First the light snow hits, and then the heavy stuff came, not to mention the harsh winds. Never helped that snow was often the worst sort of thing to have around when you're an assassin trying to sneak by.
And it had officially reached the point where she wasn't feeling great staying outside. So, the Moonshadow Elf trudged on through the forest in search of cover, at least until the snow died down.
She spots a cave; an unassuming place, but still better than standing outside and freezing to death. Not many other options to weigh, so she makes her way inside.
It proves pretty effective, and Rayla finally finds the time to shake off some of the snow... until she hears something. Movement. Not to far from inside the cave. Suddenly, two, curved swords are in her hands.]
Who's there? Come out now!
[fun in the snow]
[Snow wasn't all bad. Sure, when it wasn't harshly blowing on you, it could even be fun! A number of people had been out and around, making snow angels, and building impressive snowmen.
But it seems there's someone going around and messing with them. Not in the typical sense of destroying the snowmen, but instead... giving them ears? In fact, there she is now, shoving a couple sticks in a snowman's head and stepping back to admire her handiwork.]
Snowelf.
[Is that your snowman? Not anymore!]
[Blighted]
[This is karma. Has to be. the universe conspired against her to get her in this universe, to this specific point.
The snowelves are attacking.]
Wait! Stop! ...I command you to stop. I'm your creator!
[Sort of? Kind of. But no dice, the lumbering pile of snow and sticks isn't going for it, so she goes with the next best thing, lashing out with her swords.]
Take this! [POOF. Her swords sink into the side of the monster's face. This doesn't seem to... hinder it in any way, in fact, now her swords are stuck in it, and it's within whacking range with its stick arms.]
Ow! Ow! Cut that out, already! How is fighting snow so difficult?
Blighted
Finally, after its done and Rayla is covered with the snowy gore of what was once her creation he eyes the club thoughtfully.]
Hm... as I thought, blunt weapons work much more effectively against these things.
[Did he even notice her there at all? We may never truly know.]
no subject
[She cries out as the snowelf meets his untimely end, and splatters her with his slushy remains... and doesn't stop there. She stands there, arms out to cover herself as her unknown rescuer pummeled her creation into the dirt.]
... Uh, thank you? [For what? Saving her? Stopping at last?] Great, you beat up a snowelf with a club. I've just had to work with what I got!
Fun in the Snow
[Annie's surprised at the sudden addition, but certainly not upset in the slightest. In fact, when Rayla steps back to admire the snowelf, Annie does the same, holding her chin in her hand as her head tips ponderously to the right. Then to the left.]
[...Ah-ha! Now that she's seen Rayla's ears, she understands at last!]
Gotcha! That does look more interesting, doesn't it?
[She settles her hands on her hips and nods her approval.]
How about we give the snolf some weapons and a snow monster to bravely defeat?