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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.

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[toybombs]

And so she is left staring blankly for a moment at the glove left in her hands. Wait, this wasn't what she was supposed to get-!

Setting it aside for the moment, she reaches down once more. "T-try again! I'll pull you up!"

[waitingforasign]

With a gargantuan effort, Mihashi grabbed for Rio's hand and managed to grab her arm just above the wrist. OH THANK GOD.

Strangely, despite being a high schooler, Mihashi weighed a total of 110 pounds soaking wet, so it wasn't likely that he'd pull Rio into the water. He was, however, completely terrified. He scrabbled desperately at the edge of the hatch with his other hand, trying to get a grip on the rim so he could help pull himself up.

"Th-the... water...! Mouse... game!"

[toybombs]

"I-I've got you!" She's on her feet now, trying to pull him on up. "J-just focus on getting up...!"

Though even through her apparent panic, the words do not go unheard. Mouse? Game? It sounded an awful lot like what she had just gone through...

[waitingforasign]

With an effort and Rio's help, Mihashi managed to climb up on top of the elevator, where he collapsed on his hands and knees. Now that he was out of the water and no longer in danger of drowning, it struck him that he was soaking wet and he was freezing. So now he was shivering and staring up at her like she was literally God.

"Y-you're... such a nice p-person..." Was he stuttering because his teeth were chattering? Or was it normal? WHO COULD TELL?

He reached up as if to touch her hand, but instead slipped on a puddle of water and found himself falling over the side of the elevator. Both hands shot out and he somehow scrabbled back up, where he clung to the roof of the room with a death grip, wheezing a little in a combination of terror and relief.

"I... I didn't... fall..."

[toybombs]

She actually lets out a small scream of terror when it looks like he's about to fall, rushing to his side when it's apparent he's safely on the elevator again.

"P-please be careful! It's a really, really long way down!"

TRUST HER, she's been contemplating it ever since she escaped, and she still hasn't quite convinced herself that it's completely necessary to jump down the entire ten feet to solid ground.

[waitingforasign]

"I'm... okay!" he said, jerking his gaze toward Rio while still maintaining his death grip on the top of the elevator. Gosh Rio, you were such a nice person, all worried about him like that.

"Um... my name... it's. Mihashi!" Mihashi seemed to talk in strange fits and starts, like he was making a conscious effort to force out little snippets of sentences in an order that sort of made sense. Even more oddly, he was looking pretty much anywhere except at Rio's face. On the rare occasion that he did meet her gaze, it seemed more like he was trying to gauge her reaction than actually making meaningful eye contact.

"I almost didn't make it... That puzzle. Was. Hard!"

[toybombs]

"Eh-?" She blinks at him, looking rather confused. "Ah... M-my name is Rio. But... you had trouble with that puzzle?" It seemed pretty simple for her... Well, aside from having to jump to reach the hatch. It's quite evident just how simple she found it, given she's hardly wet at all from her own go.

[waitingforasign]

"I'm... not good. At math." Seriously, it was lucky if he didn't get straight F's. Mihashi was awfully book dumb. He reached over toward her with his left hand.

"My glove! Please."

[toybombs]

"Your gl-- Oh, right! Hold on..." She hurriedly moves to grab it, making her way back and-

promptly tripping and face planting on the elevator with a resonant thud. The glove, meanwhile, sails into the air - at this rate, it's going over the edge of the elevator...

Almost immediately, she's scrambled onto her knees, a panicked expression on her face as she realizes the glove is out of sight. "Wh-where did it go?! I just had it--!"

[waitingforasign]

Mihashi made a dash for it -- in fact, he made a rather impressive springing leap right off the edge of the elevator before realizing that oops, this was probably not the time or place. He scrabbled at the very edge of the elevator, caught himself with one hand as he dangled halfway down the side of the room, then ultimately lost his grip, falling the remaining five or so feet to the ground.

But he was still clutching the glove to his chest, so... win?

Mihashi just sort of lay there for a few seconds, looking somewhere between shocked and terrified as he stared up at the ceiling. Then he twitched a little. "I'm... alive..." WOW THIS WAS GREAT NEWS. "I'm not dead! Y-you can come down, too!"

[toybombs]

Another squeak can be heard from above as she scrambles to see his ultimate fate, and though she breathes a sigh of relief when he appears to be okay, she's quickly back to shaking her head at his suggestion.

"I-it's so high though! I can't!"

She definitely won't be able to survive a fall like that...!

"Is there something I could drop down onto? Like a chair or... or something."

[waitingforasign]

Mihashi looked left and right, but all there was to be found was a potted plant. He awkwardly rolled it over toward the elevator. "Maybe... if I pulled out. The leaves!"

Were you going to sacrifice Charley II for your sins Rio

[toybombs]

You bet your glove she was.

"M-maybe...?" She's kneeling down by the side now, peering over anxiously. It's still quite a drop, but if there was something she could use to climb down...

[waitingforasign]

Oh, oh! Mihashi looked jerkily left and right, then stood Charley II up beside the elevator and began pulling out leaves. Unfortunately, Charley II wasn't really long or vinelike enough to use to climb down, but maybe if she used it to break her fall?

He put the leaves in a pile next to the pot of soil, working in a manner that only be described as frenetic. Or maybe comically intense.

[toybombs]

It's still quite a jump... will she be able to make it???

Judging by her expression, she is totally not sure on that front. But he went through this much for her sake; she has to at least try-!

"I-I'm about to jump... okay?" She's trying so hard to sound determined, but it still comes out as sort of an anxious squeak.

[waitingforasign]

"O... okay!" Mihashi squawked in return, putting his hands together and fidgeting with his fingers, looking back and forth across the room like that was really going to help anything.

"Be careful!"

[toybombs]

Okay... she can do this. She's brave! She can make a jump like this!

One... two... three-!

Unfortunately, she completely misses Charley II. Perhaps more fortunately, she actually seems to land alright, though the force does cause her to stumble and tumble onto her bottom - conveniently onto that pile of leaves, as a matter of fact. What... amazing aim?

"H-hauuu..." That was terrifying praise God she survived.