test drive.

[vivariummods]

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!! The Test Drive will be open up until Vivarium opens on July 5th. 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

[skyentificmethod]

That-- I-- You can't be serious. There is a time and a place, meathead!

[juuustice111]

There's no better time or place than circumstances like this! We detectives need to stick together, in the name of justice!

[skyentificmethod]

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...I...suppose. I never knew you felt that way.

[juuustice111]

Huh? Of course I do. I feel that way about all the detectives back at the precinct!

[skyentificmethod]

...!?

Look, what you and the other detectives and your assorted savorocities get up to is your business and I'm pretty sure I don't want any part of it.

[juuustice111]

What? But I specially got one of one of those just for you...

[skyentificmethod]

...Did you, now.

[juuustice111]

Yes... should I have asked first? I mean, I don't know your tastes, but I figured everyone likes those...

[skyentificmethod]

Don't you think it's hard to think about those in a situation like this?

[juuustice111]

Well, no, not really. After all, we've all been deprived of them for days now...

[skyentificmethod]

If it's that tough for you to go without, then perhaps you should just take care of it yourself!

[juuustice111]

Are you sure? It feels so selfish to eat it all on my own!

[skyentificmethod]

!!!

Is--is that even possible!? Just asking out of scientific curiosity, you see

[juuustice111]

Of course! No matter how big it is, there's no problem if you take it a little bit at a time. Haven't you ever seen Detective Gumshoe on his lunch break?

[skyentificmethod]

No... He always got so excited leading up to the lunch hour, I figured it was something too personal to interrupt... But, I guess you did?

[juuustice111]

Sure, we've had lunch together a few times.

[skyentificmethod]

I can only imagine it's pretty intense. And sausage-filled.

[juuustice111]

[laughs]

We do love our meat! I keep ending up having to treat Detective Gumshoe, but I don't mind. I know he'll repay the favor one of these days.

[skyentificmethod]

Yeah, sure. You just keep believing.

Anyway, as exciting as this little trip down memory lane is, as you can see, I'm pretty busy, so...

[incidentally she does not seem to be busy with anything at all]

[juuustice111]

Sorry, I'll let you get back to work. I'd better get this sandwich to somebody else before it gets soggy, anyway.

[skyentificmethod]

SANDW--

[remembering where she is, she continues considerably closer and more hissed]

--SANDWICH!? Since when did you have one of those!?

[juuustice111]

Since the—

[wait, I'd better be subtle. STAGE WHISPER TIME]

—Since the beginning! I thought you knew.

[skyentificmethod]

How would I know something like that!? What do I look like, a d--

[okay, never mind the rest of that thought; instead, time to abscond to a dark(ish) corner]

Let me see it.

[juuustice111]

[glances over his shoulders, opens up his suit jacket, and shows her the goods]

[skyentificmethod]

[is duly impressed

drooly impressed, even]

W-wow... How did you end up with something like that?