TEST DRIVE MEME

[consolemods]

Hey, so you've read the info and you know the premise! It's time to have a little fun doing that test drive thing before we all plunge into that Mock Week, right? So hey, have fun! The setting of the mock trial is going to be Wild West-inspired. That sort of cheesy Wild West flavor that's got maybe a little grit to it, right? You're free to do whatever you want with the locations and amenities, since it's a TDM and all. Feel free to have some fun making things up.

And now....


PROMPTS:
A. DOWNTIME!
1. Arrival! Hey, you've just woken up in this weird Old West town with some weird glasses on your face! Maybe you should mess around with those... or maybe you should leave the room and figure out who else the heck is here. It can't just be you, right?
2. Daily life! So you're stuck in this town. There's an invisible wall around the place, and there's some creepy rules encouraging you to start murdering each other. But... maybe you should just hang out with the other people who are here? You don't wanna get your murder on right away, do you?
3. Challenge! Hey. You're playing a stupid minigame. Pick a Mario Party minigame, or some kind of dumb video game minigame that's a huge departure from the normal gameplay. You're doing that now. Have fun!
4. Investigation! I'm guessing some of you are a little more proactive than others, so you might want to do a little bit of poking around the setting! With a friend, because two heads are better than one! Have fun with that.

B. MURDER!
1. Mmmmotive! So whoever's responsible for you being here has decided you've spent a little too much time not murdering people, and they've decided to give you a little extra push! But... what is that push? Maybe your family and friends back home seem like they're being held hostage, or maybe they're going to leak your deepest secret. Or maybe it's something that doesn't really affect you at all... but it might affect someone else a little more strongly.
2. Murder! YOU'D BETTER GET READY TO DIE. Or someone in your sights had better get ready to die. It's one or the other. Probably.
3. Body discovery! The best part of waking up.... is finding a corpse of one of the other players. Maybe it's a friend, maybe it's someone you hated, maybe it's someone you barely knew. Either way, you're going to have to play amateur sleuth and try to figure out whodunnit!
4. Trial! All the evidence has been found, so it's time... to talk it out! Who did the thing? Did you do the thing? You'd better figure out, or your life may be on the line.
5. Boss fight! Well, you picked the culprit, but they're not going down without a fight. Have fun fighting the mutant, monstrous version of whoever it was!
6. Afterparty! Well, that was definitely something new and different, huh. Probably pretty traumatic for everyone involved! It's time to regroup and maybe have a little food and stare at the wall for a while.

Comments

[carbide]

Maybe.

[Olympia pulls on the knot to loosen the lasso.

Then she just kind of

pulls Kokoro over

and nudges her toward the box where she's meant to put whatever she catches.]

[stavros]

--I am not a game prize! [she's flailing now. so dignified.] Stop that!

[carbide]

I may receive points for you.

[Is she kidding? ...if she is, it would be the first time since she got here.]

[stavros]

[sighs and pulls out of her grip]

I did not come on the train. We need to catch those!

[She says as they've missed two or three train cars so far.]

[carbide]

...true.

[Thus, by making a good point, Kokoro avoids being forced right back into the box.]

I think I can do this now.

[Sure enough, she swings the lasso and successfully snags a generic bag with a dollar sign on it.

Wow, that... sure was a quick improvement, wasn't it?]

[stavros]

[Kokoro swings hers and. knocks the bag over. She grumbles and tries again.]

I am still more accustomed to hitting things than grabbing them -- ah, there!

[Got a real bag! Yaaay.]

You are doing better all of a sudden.

[carbide]

So are you.

[It's exactly the same. Nothing strange here at all. Shush.

She catches another bag.]

[stavros]

[Lasso, toss, continue.]

It is just more training, is it not? These challenges. They do not just want us to embarrass ourselves, but to improve our bodies and skills.

[carbide]

That's possible.

[Lasso! Get!]

Or it's an attempt to foster resentment so we'll be more likely to kill each other.

[stavros]

Either or both. Regardless, it makes death more likely and us more entertaining.