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petoskeymods) wrote2018-05-11 09:30 pm
TEST DRIVE MEME
This is the test drive meme for Summer Camp Petosky. Feel free to use this to voicetest, gather samples for your potential app, or just have fun in the setting! Reserves open on May 20th. Hit up our FAQ with any other questions!
Feel free to come up with your own scenarios as well! This is just a sampling of the camp fun that you can be expected to have in the game. Here is our Locations page!
1. WHO INVENTED TRUMPETS
You awake with a start in one of the cabins that litter the campgrounds to the soothing sounds of A goddamn trumpet in your ear.
Alright, it's not in your ear persay, but it is being played from a stereo in your cabin, cheekily repeating itself over and over until you stumble out of bed and turn the damn thing off. 'Bed' in this case being one of the bunks in a bunk bed, wearing entirely unfamiliar clothing.
Welcome to camp. Get to know your fellow campers, your new roommates and the other people who are getting the same wakeup call in the cabins nearby.
2. WHO INVENTED FROGS
It's night. There's nothing around but the soft sounds of nature - the wind, gentle splashes from the lake, Frogs screaming all night -
Apparently, one of your counselors has gotten fed up with the noise, and kept you all up so you could go and hunt frogs, with a light and a container with a lid to keep all your catches in. You've got a partner and until daybreak, and the team with the most frogs at the end of the day gets a whole week's worth of tickets. Think of all the candy you could buy with that.
2A. MAYBE BREAKFAST IS A BAD IDEA
The next morning as you all file in bleary eyed from a long night of frogging, you'll notice the kitchen is serving up all your standard american breaskfast favorites: pancakes, bacon, eggs, frog legs-
Frog legs.
Hm.
3. WHO WANTS TO GO HORSEBACK RIDING?
Thankfully, it's not all frogs and mayhem. The Counselors take you out horseback riding through the woods - which would be a fun time if not for one little fact.
The Horses you're riding are all entirely made from living wood. They even like pets and make the appropriate horse noises somehow, but they're made from wood. They don't seem to be dangerous at least, but...
The counselors warn you to stay on the trail and not go off it, no matter how much the horses want to go there. If you decide the warnings are for suckers, well...You won't get very far off the trail before the horses buck you off and begin sticking their roots into you, forcibly sucking your blood with delighted whinnies. At that point? All you can do is hope someone hears your screams and chances coming to save you.
On the other hand, if you listen to the counselors? You get a pleasant ride through a beautiful forest. Maybe listen to the counselors for once, yeah? Or don't - it's your funeral.
4. CAMP SLASHAWAY
Looks like one of your fellow Campers has died - at the hands of one of your own, no less. Maybe you should get around to checking out the body, and make notes of the condition - because the counselors sure aren't going to be any help here. And if you happened to do it...well, maybe you'd be better off misleading them or obfuscating evidence.
5. TRIALS AND SMORES
It's night. the campfire is roaring, you're all seated around it, and now you've been told to do your best to find the killer. Of course, the killer will be punished, but the counselors say they'll only be put in time out - which is a small wooden shack nearby. However, you can all see that they've put the victim's body in there...which is gross and intensely unsanitary. Yet at the same time, something about that hut just...frightens you.
You'd better find the killer, and hope that no one votes for you tonight.
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[A pause, and then a shake of the head.]
Hardly. I think that's probably giving them too much credit.
[He leans back again, perfectly comfortable where he sits.]
I'm doing well enough. But you... where you're from, horses are extinct?
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You ... you've never heard of them?
[ What kind of paradise is that? ]
What do ya mean that it's giving them too much credit? [ His eyebrows raise, kind of surprised at such a response. If it isn't being watched over, how is it here?
And he looks around at everything once more, carefully, thoughtfully. Where is he from that horses are extinct? That a sight such as this is so rare that he can't even fully comprehend it? ]
Hell. [ A pause. ] Earth. But it's the same thing, really, in comparison.
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[There's a distinction. He'll go ahead and begin coaxing the horse into a trot.]
What I mean to say is, I don't think these creatures have much power. [He's actually beginning to suspect they're something like golems.] Though if you're from an earth that doesn't even have horses, you must be from much further in time than me/
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[ Did they do it? Did they erase them from history? Not in his lifetime, no, but in the future, there's a future without them? ]
No... I'm kind of hoping that you're the one in a further time than mine. I'm hoping that you might be from our Earth. [ A beat. He's going to leave the issue of the wooden horse to the side right now. ] ... Hey, kid, what year is it for you?
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[His voice is lofty, like the little know-it-all he is in his heart of hearts.]
They're just myth. Stories people told each other, probably to explain things they didn't understand. [The fools. But, to answer the question he actually asked:]
It's 1999.
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1999, huh. [ He makes a soft tsking sound. That's right -- he remembers that the Aragami were named such by others. Naming them after myths. What is the point of it. He isn't one to argue about it; besides, it's already said and done. ]
If the apocalypse is coming, then... you probably won't miss it. But if a business known as Fenrir appears, join it. That's the only advice I have for staying alive, if you are from my Earth. [ 'Course, the warning he's giving is for fifty years in the future. ]
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[How kind of him, sparing a warning. Mitsuru merely nods ahead.]
Are you going to get on your horse and follow, or shall I leave you?
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[ He doesn't trust it. Not yet. But-- ]
I'll keep up with you, though. [ Can't give a warning and not make sure the kid doesn't bite it while riding a wooden "horse." ]
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[...He sounds so presumptuous. Still, the horse will begin along, seemingly pleased to be moving - or at least, as pleased as a horse made of wood can be.]
What year were you from? [Oh, right, we're continuing that conversation I guess.]
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[ And he's walking at a brisk pace, keeping up with the horse. His hands shove themselves into his pockets, because he's a rebel punk like that. ]
2070. [ A sigh. ] Not like there's much point keeping track of years anymore. But people feels like it means something, I guess.
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When did horses go extinct?
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[ Not the exact date, anyway. ]
Around the time pretty much every other animal went extinct, I guess. It happened pretty fast... think people were more worried about the cities being devoured.
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Yeah. They eat everything, anything. Organic, inorganic.
[ He gives a small shrug. It is what it is. ]
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[ But hey -- ]
No one does. [ We are all in the dark and suffering so it is fine. Narrator: It wasn't fine. ]
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Then what do you do?
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It is endless but that is the work environment we now have. Yeah, it ain't just me but there are others that are just as stupid for going out into that He'll. [ He gives a small nod. ] They call us... God Eaters. [ Roll theme song. ]
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I suppose that makes sense, since the gods are what turned on you in the first place.
[Definitely troubling, though. If he's able to save Aya... is that all they have to look forward to?]
It doesn't sound like there's much of a future left.
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[ There's no reason to pray in that kind of world. ]
There isn't. [ Soma's cheerful, and he keeps up with little difficulty or signs of tiring. His tone of voice hasn't changed much since when they first started talking to now, even with him jogging alongside the wooden horse. ]
But... all of us are still going to fight. We can't give up until we give something to someone else. There is a future past all of this... it might not be anything that I'll see, but one day a human will... and Aragami will be nothing more than myths, again.
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...Hopefully there's still enough to survive on by then, too.
[If animals have gone extinct...]
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[ He doesn't question where the food comes from. It's probably for the best, really. What matters is that everyone's fed in Fenrir. ]
The Aragami don't eat everything. They have a bias against what they will and won't eat. Most of what they want these days is humans, but they seem satisfied with devouring rocks if they can't get meat.
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If animals have gone extinct, though, that means there's probably going to be problems with the ecosystem as well.
[A lot of animals help regulate that kind of stuff, or at least, that'swhat he read.]
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[ While Soma sounds sarcastic, he honestly has never heard that word before or why the lack of animals would mess it up. But isn't everything messed up back home so what is one more thing? ]
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It's the balance of organic life, like plants and animals. If it goes out of balance, it could cause areas to become uninhabitable. For example, without enough plants to take in carbon dioxide and convert it to oxygen, there wouldn't be enough oxygen in the air for people to breathe.
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