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

[chromaticgreen]

[...This isn't exactly what she meant but she will go with it!]

Y-yeah! Like that.

[And she represses a shudder, because gosh, there really could be a discarded murder weapon somewhere waiting to be stumbled on. It would be better if she found it and stopped someone from accidentally come across it instead. Talk about an unpleasant surprise...]

Maybe we should look in the kitchens? There were a lot of tools in there.

[acherontiastyx]

Yeah, there's plenty of knives and stuff, and he seemed cut up pretty bad. So that might be a good place for it...

[chromaticgreen]

[There's another moment as she feels a chill go down her spine. Death isn't exactly something she's unused to, but it's a lot different, seeing the actual corpses instead of simply the resulting phantoms.]

Y-yeah. I think I saw a drawer of theeem...

[She holds the last word thoughtfully as she turns back to the building, peering inside. The interior doesn't look too off at a glance, so once she deems it safe enough, she walks right in.

It's the door to the kitchen proper that looks off, with clear score marks on the door frame.]

W-wait, those weren't there before!

[acherontiastyx]

Oh snap.

[he leans in and looks at it...]

Looks like we found a clue.

[chromaticgreen]

[This... is not exactly what she wanted to find, but it does seem significant. She swallows her discomfort and moves closer to get a better look.]

I think whoever made these was walking out from the kitchen.

[She points at the way the scores are deeper on the inside, only tracing to the outside as though they had skidded.]