test drive - forever open.

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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

[wetdownthere]

"New people"? [ This new figure seems well-informed, a contrast to Akane's slightly off-kilter state. When he asks if she just arrived, small glimpses of memories return to her: a familiar figure dressed in robes and a gas mask, the air becoming suffocating, and then-- nothing. The image conjures a feeling of pure dread; she tries to push it out of her mind for now. ]

Are there more of us? What's going on here...?

[blind_badass]

There are a few of us here. I'll give you the short version as you're probably a little disoriented now. You can call me Snake. You're here as part of an experiment by a figure named Zero. We're all here to play games and to be rewarded or punished by the results. *He thinks about what he just said and adds.* I assure you, I was blind before coming here.

[wetdownthere]

O-Oh... It's nice to meet you, Snake. [ An interesting thing to name someone, to be sure. She wonders briefly if it's his real name, but doesn't put that thought into words. ]

My name is Akane... [ Her brow furrows. ] At least... I'm pretty sure it is. [ She's partially grateful for the abridged explanation because, as he assumed correctly, she does feel rather disoriented. Still, that doesn't make the story any easier to swallow. ]

So you mean-- it wasn't a punishment? [ She shudders to imagine a kind of game that would reward the losing party with blindness. ]

[blind_badass]

No, as far as I can tell I've been like this for a while. When I woke up and couldn't see, I wasn't alarmed at all. It seemed natural.

If you look on your left wrist, you probably have a bracelet on.

[wetdownthere]

That's right, I do. [ She had confirmed this earlier, after all. Instinctively, she draws her left arm across her chest to fiddle absently with the bracelet. From the corner of her eye, she notices something: ]

Oh! You have one too... [ Something tells her that it's no accident that they have been fitted with these strange accessories. ] But what does it mean?

[blind_badass]

*His bracelet is on his right wrist.* If you look on it, it should give you a number, a color and whether you're a pair of a solo. What do you see?

[wetdownthere]

[ As instructed, she glances at her bracelet. The word SOLO glows dully against the face in an unmistakable green color. ]

Solo... and green. What about yours?

[blind_badass]

*He presses a button on his bracelet that doesn't exist on hers. A mechanical voice announces his BP, his color and that he's part of a pair.* I received a newer model. *he says wryly*