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❪ test drive #4 ❫
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YOUR STORY BEGINS  The Storm came. You only remember darkness, but you don't remember much after that. All you know, perhaps, is that it was cold. You don't know for how long you slept, but the dreams were short, at least. You remember the expanse of stars and the universe that came in view. Every world and solar system ever known was displayed in your dreams in careful, pristine detail. You have also witnessed The Storm, which has devoured a fair portion of these galaxies. It was a dark, thick smog — ominous in appearance and ever foreboding. Your Earth and similar planets were immersed in The Storm. Somehow, you knew it would be the last you'd see of it. That was when she told you what happened, and how you could help. You knew that you'd be living somewhere new, even though you never asked for it. The details here weren't clear, but you knew you'd made a deal with Darma. Not long after, you'll wake at Thesa Station — your body is still cold. It all felt like a dream, but somehow, you knew it wasn't — now, will you keep that promise you made to Darma? PROMPT: THE STORM  CW: death You were awake on Thesa Station. But at some point you, like many other new arrivals before you, wandered into the Observation Deck. Ordinarily, this is where images of The Storm are replayed to remind Refugees of the fate they have escaped. The Natha Orbiters' technology has evolved. They are aware of your gaps in memory. You may have doubts of The Storm even existing, or of your world's destruction. Though they do not wish reliving those last moments on anyone, they have created an experience that will do just that. Before entering the Observation Deck, you are warned that what follows will not be for the weak of heart. As soon as you step in, you will find that the walls around you begin to transform and expand. Welcome to the Planet Cespi, in the Circinus Galaxy. Unfortunately, we were not able to save this world from The Storm's Consumption.
These are its last memories. You are surrounded by blue, grassy hills as far as the eye can see and a pleasant breeze. The atmosphere is thick with a sickly sweet smell. Before you lays the scene of a quiet village, with its residents going about their everyday lives. You aren't alone, either, with an equally confused stranger (or perhaps you know each other?) surveying the scene. Then the world grows completely silent for a full minute. You and your partner are unable to make a sound, verbal or otherwise. Without warning, a deafening roar fills your ears and forces you to double over in pain. The villagers run out of their homes in a panic, finding themselves in just as much pain and confusion as you do. Where there was no sound before, now there is too much for a normal human body to process. Look up. An expanding mass of energy is swallowing everything you can see. It consumes the earth, the atmosphere, the depths of space — and it is getting closer. Your only hope is to outrun it, if you can. The people in the village certainly try to, racing past you. Their fear is very real. Their bodies are very real. You may be able to run from it for a time, only able to catch glimpses of this dark and sinister force swallowing everything and everyone. The earth rumbles and separates beneath you. Electricity surges through the sky, and then through your very body. You fought hard, but it is impossible to outrun the Storm forever. You too will be consumed. Your death is quick, but not painless. What were you thinking, before you took your last breath? You awaken back in the Observation Deck, next to your new friend. PROMPT: TRAINING MODULES  While it’s all nice and well to familiarize oneself with Thesa Station, it is most advised that new arrivals venture out a bit. Not physically. No one is quite prepared for that yet. However, there will be several virtual reality training programs set for those who dare to be adventurous. For those who aren’t and don’t dare, well — good luck, all the same. Once seated and appropriately strapped in, the system will automatically whir to life. 1. When you enter the Natha's newest program, at first nothing loads. You might think this is an error as you look around in apparent total darkness, only able to see your own virtual body if you look down, but soon enough a voice comes to life as if speakers have turned on somewhere. Long ago, the lands of El Nysa were dominated by the ancestors of the dragons who now live among the people, tamed. It was pretty dangerous! How about a little history lesson? And then the simulation comes to life—
2. Let us now travel forward in time, shall we?  a. The Olympian settlement around you is quiet — until the screaming starts.3. And now, the present.  After all those enlightening scenes, the simulation finally brings you to a more quiet area of Olympia. You are deposited out somewhere in The Outlook, a place the very first group of refugees had to trudge through before they found their homes. You've arrived in the early evening — but sunlight is waning, and soon you'll be under a sky full of stars. Luckily, their old campsites aren't too overgrown. The intention here is to get you familiar with some of the local flora and fauna. What sorts of plants will you encounter? Do you find yourself under a Verillum Tree, suddenly compelled to be painfully honest and truthful in conversation with a complete stranger? Find yourself behaving erratically in the presence of Whistleweed? Or perhaps you'll have to break the spell of being trapped in a Vena Amoris' vines... with a kiss. PROMPT: STASIS UNIT  You have found the massive section of Thesa known as the Stasis Unit. There’s no special access required to enter this part of Thesa Station, but refugees are warned that it may not be for the faint of heart. Here, in large pods that nearly cover every square inch of the space, are all of the people the Orbiters have managed to rescue. Your loved ones, your greatest enemy, your next door neighbor — you might find them here. These people are in a state of deep cryosleep. Due to the damaging effects of The Storm, their bodies are not yet ready to be awoken. PROMPT: OMAGE
Upon receiving your mobile phone, you will be asked to set a username. Voila, you can now access the network! You can choose to send a message to the entire network, specific usernames, or you can try out the Orbiters’ service, Omage, which connects you to a random user. They thought this might be a good way for their new guests to make friends with each other...
Connecting to server... PROMPT: WILDCARD
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nobuchika ginoza | psycho-pass
[ Not for the faint of heart, what is that supposed to mean he turns to ask, but doesn't find out until the door has hissed shut behind him, and he turns to stare down the corridor of faintly glowing metal pods bracketing each side like eerie, silent sentinals. There are others in here too, mulling about, stopping by faces they apparently recognise or perhaps don't, a mixture of expressions visible on their faces.
Ginoza looks up then, too, into the face of the nearest sleeping form in the frozen pod to his left. He doesn't recognise them, but.. someone must, he supposes. Out of sheer instinct his feet start to move, taking him down the rows of-- he's trying not to call them caskets, in his mind, but that's what they seem like to him. Is that the woman who confirmed his entrance to the Instruction Center all those years ago? Is that the old woman who walks her dog along the street outside his house, who always seems to cross his path as he's leaving for work? ... Is that his mother?
He shakes his head as though trying to clear his thoughts. He's obviously just becoming too clouded by all this. He doesn't look back at that pod, though. Instead he kind of power walks past it, and his momentary distraction has him bumping into someone standing before another pod. He startles backwards, eyebrows shifting like he's about to shout when his brain catches up with him, reminding him that he isn't at the MWPSB right now, he isn't above anyone here, he can't snap at a stranger here-- and forces his expression into an apologetic one. He bows his head a little, without looking. ]
Sorry.
omage
Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with...
You’re now chatting with Shepherd1... Say hi!
...
Hi.
[ What? That's what it told him to do. ]
wildcard
i'm good for anything~
omage; un: unchained
Kagari might be more inclined to play this cautiously, if he hadn't literally just yesterday found Masaoka on this network. But the coincidence is too great; even without Kou-chan's profiling skills, he knows who this has to be. Even so, some part of him hesitates. He's free now; Gino has no power left over him. And truth be told, he doesn't particularly resent Ginoza any more than he resents society at large, or even himself. If it weren't for Ginoza considering him potentially useful as an Enforcer, he would've spent the last two years of his life the way he'd spent the 15 before that. Quietly in hell, in a formless haze of days and nights which stretched into each other with no end. If the Storm had come for that Shuusei Kagari, he's not so sure he'd have even wanted to be saved.
So there is a certain gratitude he holds for the Inspector. More than that, he's a member of Division One, the only home and family he's ever known. He would probably rather die again than admit out loud to his erstwhile superior that he missed him, that he came to check on all of them nearly every day. But at the same time, there's an anxiety deep in the pit of his stomach. Sybil was only a bad memory, as long as he was alone. He was lonely, but his freedom was unchallenged.
Gino doesn't have a Dominator here, to keep him in line, but he might try to resume that relationship of superior and subordinate anyway. Kagari doesn't want to remember that he was a latent criminal, doesn't want to think about Sybil or Japan or any of that in this new chance at life. He doesn't think Gino would ever let him forget, though.
....Still, in the end, Kagari can't keep himself away. Division One is still his family, in the end. Still the place he belongs, more than any other.]
oh my god
at least masaoka has the excuse of being old, gino-san
was shepherd1 really the best you could come up with
no subject
The purpose of a username is to allow the conversation partner to quickly identify who they're speaking to.
[ He's not patronising, that's just his tone. Or maybe he is. Who knows? The wonders of text platforms. ]
I believe mine did an acceptable job at that.
no subject
man, seriously?
you were allowed to be anonymous on the internet and you never tried it?
[He huffs to himself, inaudible to the former Inspector.]
you're so weird
where are you? in the station
i'm coming up
no subject
It's that surprising feeling that has him responding almost amicably. ]
One of the lounge areas.
[ Almost. ]
-> action
such a taskmaster, even in space
rude tbh
[But there's no bite to it as he says so; he's already teleporting his ass up to the station and looking for that very familiar bespectacled man, who he's very definitely not about to admit to having visited along with the rest of Division One almost every day since he woke up himself. It'd probably make Gino as uncomfortable to hear as it would make him to say, honestly.]
So, Sleeping Beauty finally awakes, eh? [Why yes he is making a Disney reference rn, literally fight him, Gino] Took you long enough.
action
He won't mention it though, because rightly enough bringing that to light will probably just make this whole situation even more uncomfortable. Because that's what he feels upon seeing Kagari, isn't it? Uncomfortable? Definitely not soothed or slightly at peace, or anything that might make sense of the warmth in his chest as he studies the one thing he finds familiar in this strange world before him... Right? ]
Well, if I'd known you were waiting on me, I'd have woken up sooner, I assure you.
[ It's viciously sarcastic - Kagari probably knows as well as I do that unconscious or conscious want has nothing to do with emerging from stasis - but the way he says it definitely isn't cold, so that's as close to a win as Kagari will get right now. ]