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❪ test drive: #1 - the overflow ❫
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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 as you slept. 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 can help. You knew that you'll 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 was all a dream, but somehow, you knew it wasn't — now, will you keep that promise you made to Darma? PROMPT: THE MESS HALL  It's fascinating to the Orbiters how such a dull room can be turned around so completely with people in it. All meals are served by Roman, and while all the food is delicious, some of it is a bit odd. Is that neon green soup? That’s hideous. If you happen to be in the mess hall at a particularly unlucky time, you and the food will suddenly begin to drift. Someone’s got jokes, and they’ve turned off the gravity control. Now it’s just you, your fellow refugees, and the floating sea of food. Wait, did that person just chuck a pie in your direction? 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. Be advised, however, that participating in one of the training modules will start you off favorably with the Natha Orbiters’ in terms of REPUTATION. Once seated and appropriately strapped in, the system will automatically whir to life and the dense foliage and forestry of a section of El Nysa will open up. According to one’s map registry, it clear to see that it’s miles from the outer gates of Olympia, but not as far enough to venture into any other territories. So, in that sense, you’re safe.
PROMPT: STASIS UNIT  You have found the massive section of Thesa known as the Stasis Unit. There’s no special access required to access 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: HANGAR STATION  You find your way to the hangar station. Here rests are a factory worth of docked mobile suits. You recall how the Orbiters had previously spoken of a "space frontier," but only after seeing this you realize how real their words are. Most machinery have marks of wear and tear, assurance that they have indeed been used before, and an assembly of others are going through repairs and maintenance. No one seems to care that you've just strolled in. In fact, there seems to be a couple of the aircraft that beckon you to take a closer look. Maybe you’ll only look on the outside, maybe you'll be greeted by the hand of a mobile suit extending toward you and welcoming you to its cockpit. You go out and explore SPACE!!! Unfortunately, that mobile suit should have warned you it only had 20 minutes of flight time left in its system. Or, perhaps, you’re a particularly ambitious pilot and you’ve strayed past the designated perimeter. Either way, the HUD display is now blinking with errors, cropping up with a single message: DISTRESS SIGNAL. 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
You are welcome to write any scenarios in Thesa Station! Characters have been granted temporary access to the Observation Room, and are encouraged to study it carefully.
FINAL OOC NOTE
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...What's that? Food?
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Sadly, the latter seem largely uninterested.
No, they are just fools who think to become gods.
A common affliction these days it seems.
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Thers's no god! How can someone become what doesn't exist?
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I know a very beautiful young woman who would argue with you on that front, my friend.
Myself, I am unsure. I'm not sold on the "The less He does, the more it proves he exists" argument.
Ultimately, whether the Maker exists or no, the argument is irrelevant to how I live my life.
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If this God exists, wouldn't proof of his existence be through him....well existing? Like, wouldn't he need to prove he's around?
[He's metaphorically and almost literally scratching his head now.]
Yeah, the god stuff makes no sense. It's not like it changes anything, right?
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Ah, but that is the Chantry for you. All doctrine and no fun.
Exactamente! Flowers exist. Animals exist. Beautiful women with large bosoms exist. The world, it exists.
Or, it did, anyway. Not so much anymore.
How they got here and for what reason they exist is a question for fat men with long beards and bad eyes to answer.
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You have a weird friend but yeah, the Storm destroyed everything. So nothing exists anymore except...us? Yeah, we exist.
Ew! Why fat guys with beards? Are they hearing god too?
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Maybe she was onto something. We did end the Blight in record time.
And, scholars tend to not get out much. It makes them doughy. Most, I think, do not hear Him either.
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Interesting. Tell you what, how about we trade stories. You tell me about Geostigma and I'll tell you about the Blight. Deal?
The story goes like this: a thousand years ago, the Magisters of the Tevinter Imperium stormed into the Golden City of the Maker and, in their arrogance and sin, corrupted the seat of creation.
The Maker cast them out of his city, back to the world, and these magisters became the first darkspawn, infecting and corrupting everything they touched. The Magisters sought out their false gods, the dragons, and corrupted one. This was the first Archdemon.
With the help of the Archdemon, the Blight spread across the land. The earth grew sick and bore no fruit, the animals and people became enraged and ill, killing and consuming everything in their path.
That first Blight lasted for almost two hundred years before the Archdemon was defeated, and the darkspawn sought the dwarven Deep Roads, far beneath the surface, seeking out a new Archdemon to infect. There have been four others since. The Fifth Blight took only two years before it was ended.
I was travelling at the time with the Wardens who defeated it.
Now, your turn.
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[TLDR;]
So, the Blight kinda is a disease. Geostigma is revenge. It's revenge against all of humanity for what they did to Mother!
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But this though, this sounds like quite the story itself, one I'm very curious to hear.
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Mother isn't human. She came from the heavens, from the stars. Mother crashed into the planet and slept for a long time. During then, the humans found her and used for weird experiments. They abused Mother and she hated them.
Mother wanted revenge. She told our "Big Brother" to get revenge but he was killed. So, she returned to the Lifestream with him and they both poisoned it and made all the humans sick.
Now they die! They die for everything they did!
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This "Mother" you speak of, what is she exactly? If you know. And if she is not human, are you not either?
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She's not human and neither am I. She's different, very different. I only seen her once but I know what she sort of looks like.
I used to be able to sense her but now I can't.
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Still, perhaps she is merely sleeping still? [How do they put it?...] In stasis?
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My brothers are still asleep but I hope they wake up soon.
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Perhaps you simply haven't found her yet.
...If I may ask, how do you feel about the humans that are here? The ones who are not from your world. There certainly are a lot of them, after all.
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This ship and stuff is weird but...they're trying to save everyone, so it's okay.
But I still hate humans!
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But it is as you say. They haven't tried anything odious yet.
[Said like he's almost waiting for the shoe to drop, eh?]
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If these losers try anything, I'll bash their heads in!
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Likely you have not heard of it. The specifics of politics in Thedas are not necessary to delve into, but in a nutshell, every group is mightily offended by some other group or another. Sometimes, it's humans.
They do not bother me, taken as a whole, but often the politics provide opportunities to make a fair bit of coin.
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What makes Antiva so beautiful? I want to know! What's it like?
Nothing is beautiful where I'm from. It's all ugly.
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Not in Antiva!
It's warm. It rains often, and thus the flowers are always in bloom. When the wind is right, you can catch the scent of the vinyards.
It's in the way the moonlight dances along the water of the cove, and the waving of fine silk weavings in the breeze, in the sheer drop of the cliffs where the buildings stand and look over the water. It's in the artistry of our architecture and in the faces of our people.
[Give him a minute Loz, he has to have a sad.]
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I don't think I ever seen the ocean before. Is it prettier at night than during the day? I like night time best since it's quieter at night.
What kind of artistry? Are there statues in the city?
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