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TEST DRIVE

Want to test out the setting? Not sure if your character is a good fit? Need to start gathering some samples? You know how it goes: → Comment with the character's name and series in the subject. → Pick an option or make your own. → Tag around. → Enjoy yourself!! Check out these helpful links to get a sense of the game: G A M E  L I N K S ✖ FAQ ✖ Bracelets ✖ Locations R E S O U R C E S ✖ Virtue's Last Reward Wiki ✖ Virtue's Last Reward Trailer ✖ Virtue's Last Reward OVA option one. You're awake. You're lying on a cold floor, and your head is pounding. It feels like you've been hit with a sledgehammer. You can barely move, but you push yourself up anyway, and look around. You're in an unfamiliar warehouse, and on your left wrist is a bracelet. It feels heavy, and no matter how hard you tug at it, it refuses to come off. You can't remember how you arrived here, nor do you recognize anyone else. Try not to panic too much. ( For the purposes of the Test Drive, characters will be arriving in the warehouse instead of the Elevator/AB Room) option two. An Ambidex Game has just concluded. You have entered in your vote and there's no turning back. Did you trust your opponent and vote ally? Or did you double-cross them and vote betray? What did your opponent do? Did they vote betray while you voted ally, or did they vote ally while you voted betray? Why did you choose one or the other? Just what did you do? option three. Rules are meant to be broken. You've just reached a certain amount of BP, and you can finally have access to food (low or high quality) or to the dorms. It's great, things are getting a bit more bearable now, but seeing the others without the same "luxuries" as you, you feel like you should do something. It's against the rules to bring food or blankets out of their respective rooms, but Zero can't have eyes everywhere... can he? option four. Exploration and Escape. All the windows are bolted shut, and all the doors are locked. The exit is through the number 9 door, but no one can reach it until they have 63 BP. It'll take too long to wait for help to arrive, and to accumulate that many points. There must be some way out. Maybe if you search enough, you can find a tool to help you break down a door. option five. Wild Card. Want to try something else? Go for it! Have your own AB Game round, have characters argue against each other, try to keep the mood cheery, whatever! Make full use of the environment and mechanics, just remember to keep it within the game's structure.

Comments

[toybombs]

Eeeek!

[A tiny, terrified scream is what Akane will get in reply. In the distance a small girl cowers, curled up on the ground hugging herself tightly. Where is she? What's going on? Where did this bracelet come from? Why does her head hurt? Everything is a mess of confusion...

Warm tears are already gathering at the edges of her eyes. A small hiccup of a sob escapes her. Crying is more than likely imminent at this point.

She's... probably not going to be a threat, at least?]

[wetdownthere]

[ She isn't expecting a scream, to be sure, and is rattled from her stupor when it rings through the air. Akane's vision sharpens on the figure of... a young girl? Yes, she's certain that there is a young girl cowering in the corner, and can only assume that the small shriek came from her.

Cautiously, Akane approaches her. ]

Hello? Are you hurt?

[toybombs]

[She stares up fearfully at Akane for all of about a second before quickly shaking her head.]

N-no... But where are we? I wasn't-- At least, I don't think I was...

[...Actually, she can't really remember what she was doing before at all. But she's fairly certain it had nothing to do with waking up in the middle of suspicious warehouses with a terrible headache and a weird bracelet...]

D-did you just wake up here too...?

[wetdownthere]

Mhm, that's right. [ She confirms this with a nod. Nothing is making sense, and there is something almost unnatural about this place. She wracks her brain for memories of what happened before she woke up here, but, alarmingly, very few spring to mind. For now, all she can conjure is that her name is Akane... beyond that, however, things are hazy. ]

You don't remember anything, do you? From before you arrived here?

[toybombs]

[She has to think about that one some more, and it does take a moment. But eventually she gives another soft squeak as one memory in particular jumps out to her:]

A... A man in a cloak... with a gasmask...?

[Was that the person who had kidnapped her...? It seems most likely, if it's the only thing she can recall.]

[wetdownthere]

[ That story strikes Akane as odd, and she realizes it's because she remembers something similar: a figure dressed in all black wearing a gas mask... smoke filling the edges of her vision... ]

Oh, now that you mention it, the same thing happened to me. I guess you have a bracelet, too? [ She holds hers out as an example, flashing the number 3 glowing on its face. ]

[toybombs]

[She nods, somewhat brokenly. Her hand hangs limp as she raises her wrist to show Akane the bracelet, half-hidden under her sleeve. It, too, bears a number 3.]

I don't recognize it at all, though... Did somebody put this on us while we were asleep?

[Unless they all had coincidentally matching bracelets before they came here. Derp.]

[wetdownthere]

That does make the most sense. [ After all, she doesn't remember ever believing that oversized electronic watches were en vogue, so it would follow that their captor must have provided them. ]

What do you think they're for? They both have the number "3" on them... that must be important somehow.

[toybombs]

Maybe we're supposed to match? Oh, no... The colors are different, aren't they?

[The one on her wrist is glowing blue with the word PAIR underneath. What's that supposed to mean?]

Is it like... color teams?

[wetdownthere]

[ Akane inspects her bracelet again. The word SOLO blinks up at her, a contrast to the other girl's PAIR, and the face glows with a pale green color. ]

PAIR means two, right? So, maybe there's another person somewhere with the same kind of bracelet as yours.

[ And then, almost a murmur: ] And SOLO would mean the opposite: "alone, unaccompanied"... [ The idea of that doesn't sit well in the pit of her stomach. ]

[toybombs]

So I get to be in a pair with someone?

[How... comforting? Except not really...]

Oh... but that means you're by yourself? [Wah, that might just be even worse!] Why can't everyone just be on a team together?

[Or better yet, what is even going on here in the first place?]

[wetdownthere]

I don't know... [ She looks around furtively. ] I don't really want to be alone in this place...

[ She is silent for a moment. Akane appears to be thinking to herself, and there is a distant look that comes over her face, as if her mind is somewhere else entirely. Suddenly, she snaps back to reality. ]

Well, if your bracelet says PAIR, then there has to be at least one other person like us here. Do you think we might get more answers if we found that person?

[toybombs]

[...? She looks puzzled as Akane apparently zones out, though she comes to attention immediately upon being addressed again.]

Ah-- w-well, it's worth a try-! We can't be the only people here...

[...Or at least, she really hopes not. Eek!]