foundationmods | ROUND 2 TDM

TEST DRIVE MEME

This is the test drive meme for The Resort. Feel free to use this to voicetest, gather samples for your potential app, or just have fun in the setting! Reserves open on November 9th. Hit up our Round FAQ with any other questions.

Feel free to come up with your own scenarios as well! This is just a sampling of scenarios that may come up during gameplay.

1. MORNING WAKEUP CALL

You wake up with a start in a hotel room - one with a single bed and it's own bathroom - due to the buzzing of an alarm on a Tablet by the bedside. You're in the clothes you last remember being in, but you sure as hell don't remember checking into a hotel or resort for the night...

There's a message from 'Resort Staff' after you manage to turn off the horrible noise, letting you know there's breakfast for all of the guests down at the Restaurant.

It's 7am, but if you don't ignore it and go back to sleep, there's a continental breakfast buffet spread out at the Restaurant, just like they said there would be. It's all free of charge, too...which is good, because you certainly didn't pay to come here. Maybe getting some breakfast first before demanding to see the management is a good idea - and you can also find out who else got brought here against their will, too.

2. RESORT EXPLORING

So, after your meal (or just more sleep), you're bright eyed, bushy tailed, ready to take on the day and find out what the hell is going on. However, the Staff is all cheerful but evasive, saying that you signed in last night, and even helpfully showing you your signature in their guestbook. And while you know that's a crock of bullshit, they're very insistent that you're here for a week stay...

If you decide to check the Resort out, you'll quickly find that the upper floors are currently undergoing maintenance. But, there's a Ski shop nearby - which isn't surprising, considering that the outdoor courtyard is snowed in. There's also an indoor pool and an outdoor Jacuzzi in case you want to soak in style! And there's a bathing suit in your room, along with a change of clothing...

There's also plenty of empty or unused rooms, oddly enough. Though the strangest thing about this entire hotel is all of the rats. They're all clean, tame, and friendly - but it's downright odd to see a bunch of multi-colored rats skittering about either in special sectioned off areas for them, or up in tubes on the walls, much like a really elaborate hamster run. If you decide to go near them in a sectioned off area, they'll happily just hang out with you doing rat things. Huh. And as long as you're friendly with them, nothing seems to happen. But if you're unfriendly...?

Well. Maybe some things are better left untried.

3. SKI TIME

So you've explored the hotel and seen all the sights you could. Now you're ready to brave the slopes with whatever equipment you took from the Ski shop (all free of charge, again), and have some FUN! Or just see what the outside is like in this weird place you found yourself in, either or. It's cold, but not too cold - and the snow outside is perfect for skiing and sledding. There are three slopes, all ranging from bunny to advanced, and there's even a Ski lift for you to get up there on! If you don't want to go on the slopes, there are some smaller hills to sled down on.

3-A. SKI.....TIME...?

It happens before you can even realize it. You're having a grand old time down on one of the slopes, going at a high speed, wind in your hair and the snowy landscape whizzing by you. It's perfect, except -

- hang on -

What the fuck is that?!

You manage to dodge it in time, but it simply follows after you at a high rate of speed, scraggly arms and legs flailing as it skitters across the snow. Out of the corner of your eye, you see an unlucky skiier get eaten in a single gulp, the horrifying creature barely stopping before beginning to chase you again.

It seems you'll have to ski for your life.

4. FOREST BREAKOUT

Alright, you're done with Skiing and this weird-ass Resort. It's time to brave the wilderness and get the hell out of this place. As you go into the forest, for a while, it's just you and the snow... But then it gets darker. And darker. And there's no end to the forest itself...

You hear whispers. Wolves growl and snarl in your ears, the trees - are they moving? Has a dense fog settled in, making it hard to tell where you're going? Why...why is there another set of footprints in the snow next to you? Your ears are ringing, your head hurts, y̝ơ͍̻̲̥̟u'̰͈̯̞̖̪͜v͙͚̙̘̲̝̖͢e̖̲̟̟̮̯ ̖̙͟m̗͙͍̙͢a̷̬̹̠̬d̡̼͙̳̭ͅe͏̱ ̖͔̠̭̺̬͝ͅá̯̪ ̹̻̠͖m̥̜̫̤̯i̘̲͈̼̮s̼̙͔͎̠̦̘t̪͠á͇̣̫͎̜̻k̫͎̠̫̦̻é̯-͓͍͘

And then you wake up on one of the hotel couches in the lobby, with a Staff Member smiling indulgently over you with a cup of hot cocoa in their hands, going on about how you just came right in and took a nap.

Hm.

5. RESORT MURDER

Somehow, you knew it was going to get worse. And when one of your fellow Guests end up dead, that just cemented it for you. Someone has been killed - in a horrible way - and now you have to suspect each other. Will you check out the body? Mourn for the dead? Or lay a critical eye on your fellow Guests, watching each of them carefully for any sign of Otherness? That person in the corner of the room - did their neck just bulge unnaturally a little? Are those fangs shining in that person's mouth? What about the people in the rooms next to yours? Don't you think they talk a little weirdly, move just a little unnaturally?

Will you do something about it, before they get you?

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I almost got eaten by a yeti.

[in case Minato needed validation that his choice to stay inside was a good one]

[. . . anyway, Akira is following that up with a slow sip of his cocoa]

[...]

That's not a metaphor for something, is it...

It might be a metaphor for the supposed inevitable failure of humanity's struggle against pain and suffering.

[. . .]

Or it could've just been a yeti. Jury's still out on that one.

[. . .]

[another sip]

I see...

[Blandly:]

So it's a real yeti out there... Scary.

[you don't sound too scared, senpai]

It's on the ski slopes, so. . . [okay, now he sounds a bit more somber] Be careful if you go out there.

[. . .]

And be careful if you go too far into the forest, too.

... I wasn't really planning on going out there yet... it looks cold.

[Too laid-back? Too laid-back.]

Are you okay, though? That sounds really dangerous.

I'm fine.

[TOO LAID-BACK. but also, probably a little smart? maybe]

I'd only rank it a four on the danger scale. Out of twenty.

[... Huh...]

You must live a dangerous life.

[To have a scale like that!]

Why twenty?

Not really. I'm pretty average.

[peering at Minato from over his mug now]

No particular reason. Everyone uses a ten-point scale, so I thought I might shake it up.

...Ah. You're that sort of person.

[What does that mean, Minato.]

I don't think you can say you want to shake things up and then also that you're average, you know. They don't really go together.

[. . . what does that mean!1]

Who made the rule that they're automatically mutually exclusive?

It's not a rule... just a feeling I get.

[SHRUG.]

Maybe it's an expectation I feel like subverting.

[which would still put him on the right side of "not average" but hey. . . you know. . . he's like this]

... So...

[...]

You're a rebel?

[yes]

Without a cause.

[SAGE NOD]

I see... you admit that so easily...

[HMMM]

[HMMMMM]

[what a mysterious person to whom Minato is speaking]

I don't see a need to beat around the bush.

[.....]

You're right about that. It's easier that way. Anyway--I'm Minato. Nice to meet you, Rebel-san.

Just Minato?

[not that he's complaining, but he isn't even being given a last name. huh!]

So familiar already, and we just met.

Oh... Arisato Minato, if you'd like my full name.

[EASILY...]

I was getting used to just using "Minato" because there are some odd people here from different places...

Kurusu Akira.

[finally giving out his own name, just as easily]

But just Akira is fine. I've noticed the same thing, actually.

[... Hm...]

Then Minato's fine on my end too.

It's strange, isn't it? Not that I thought there were many lodges like this in Japan, but still... what a reality check.

"Reality check."

[Akira repeats, brow raised]

I don't know if that's what I'd call. . . all of this.

[...]

I guess a reality check that everything I thought was true is not exactly right?

[. . . soft snort. . .]

Well, sure. I guess that's fair? How good are you at adapting to sudden shifts in your understanding of the universe?

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