test drive.

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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!! 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

[lanvaldearest]

[ meet the poor sap who chose ally. see, natalia has a sense of honor and nobility, memories or not. who could choose betray when someone's life was on the line? certainly not her.

but certainly jake, apparently, judging from the board, which she's watching with the most betrayed expression. prepare for a very confrontational princess, jake, hands on her hips once the shock settles in. ]

I expected you to, which I see now was a poor choice. [ .... ] How could you?

[ BITCH PLEASE. ]

[fairsfair]

[ Hey, he's totally good with confrontations. He might not remember it, but he was a mercenary, so being yelled at is nothing. Piece of cake. ]

Hey, not my fault that you actually trusted a complete stranger. How did I know that you wouldn't have picked betray as well?

[lanvaldearest]

Do I look like someone who would gamble with someone's life, stranger or not?

[ don't answer that. actually, jake kind of looks like the kind of person who would do that, but she wasn't one to pick "betray" over appearances.

so jake should totally pick "ally" for that same reason. ]

We're all experiencing the same circumstances. That is reason enough to trust and cooperate with each other.

[fairsfair]

[ Wow, are you saying that he looks like a complete dick? Excuse you, in canon, he totally helped in saving the world (by first asking for money, but let's ignore that). ]

Yeah, let's just do that for who-knows-how-long until we all reach 63 points. You honestly don't think someone's going to eventually pick betray down the road?

[lanvaldearest]

[ uh, well, complete dicks can still save the world by accident. sit down and pick ally, jake, before she makes you.

his response does give her a moment of hesitation, though. as noble as she is, she can't call herself stupidly naive. it helps to think. ]

Well... of course, at some point that might be true... [ an exhale, as she steadies herself. ] But that in no way means we should betray each other simply for fear of being betrayed. When we do that, we're simply creating the situation we want to avoid.

[ crossing her arms. ]

Does that not bother you?

[fairsfair]

[ Rude, he did not save the world by accident. He generously gave up blood to save the world. He's the hero of Red Cross. ]

Not really, because that's life, lady, whether you like it or not. People are going to say one thing, but do the other. Better start liking it.

[lanvaldearest]

[ yeah okay. make way for saint jake, he'll save you but only if you donate $$$$. CAPITALISM.

natalia truly looks like she wants to say something, but all the pent-up frustration is being held with a bit tongue. she's tensed, but that goes away with her planned words. ]

... I'd much rather prefer to fix it, than be satisfied with that.

[ a sigh. ]

So with or without this pleasant talk, if we are to be pit against each other once more my vote will not change. [ ... ] Will yours?

[fairsfair]

[ IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER, he changed his price from $50 million to a mere $50 from the goodness of his heart. He deserves a good meal after killing god-knows-how-many zombies, okay. ]

[ And it's honestly best for Natalia to stop there. Jake isn't one to change his mind that easily and they would have gone in circles. ]

Yeah yeah, maybe, but I'm not making any promises.

[ To be honest, if he really did get pitted against her in the next round, he would choose ally... only because she has 1 BP now and even if he's a jackass, he's not going to kill someone (not unless someone pays him to...). ]