ROUND 2 TDM

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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?

Comments

[purrtagonist]

[oooooh my god]

[somehow, Akira manages to hear that taunt over the side of the wind whipping wildly past his ears. he raises his voice and yells back, words shaking with every stride the yeti takes]

Thanks for the sage advice, old man!!

[payback for being referred to as "boy"]

[perfeccion]

Old?! You little punk! I was thinking about rescuing you!! Now I certainly won't!

[... but he does ski down after them. He wants to see what happens next!]

[purrtagonist]

[Akira would come up with a sharp retort for that, buuut the yeti takes him out of range pretty quickly. maybe later, alas]

[. . . anyway, the yeti is on a crash course for a nearby pine tree flanking the slope. and it's totally not slowing down. does the yeti just not care about the environment??? poor tree]

[poor Akira]

[perfeccion]

[WHAM. Yeti, meet tree. And Akira? Well, the force of the impact is probably enough to knock him free of his shaggy steed.

Szayel skis up and pokes the fallen beast with his ski pole, clicking his tongue thoughtfully. And ignoring Akira and his possible injuries]

Curious.

[purrtagonist]

[it absolutely is enough to send him flying, landing face first into a nearby snow drift with nothing but his poor rear end sticking out. at least the yeti is knocked out, a pile of shaggy first and scraggly limbs!1 so they probably won't be eaten today. hopefully]

[Akira shifts and pushes himself up, snow piled on the top of his head and his shoulders. his glasses. . . well. he's still wearing them, but like. barely]

I'm fine, by the way.

Thanks for asking.

[perfeccion]

[good for you, he doesn't care.]

Not the smartest beast, is it? Mmm. All brawn and no brains. Quite the smell too, yikes.

[Szayel sticks his poles in the snow and clicks out of his skis so he can walk a full circle around the yeti. Then, he removes a small plastic kit from inside his snowsuit and sets it in the snow. He plucks some hair from the yeti and puts it in a small bag] Oh! Didn't it just eat someone? Mmm, shall we see if they made it?

[purrtagonist]

[. . . uh]

[kkkkind of giving Szayel a suspicious side-eye as he climbs to his feet, readjusts his glasses on his features, and dusts the snow from his shoulders]

Are you going to cut that thing open right here?

[perfeccion]

Well I'm not going to drag its stinking carcass back to that lovely little ski chalet, now am I? [though, first things first -- he takes a few vacutainers out of his box and gets some blood samples. Once he has those, he puts away his box and pulls out


a goddamn katana]

[purrtagonist]

[. . . . . . .]

Whhhhat kind of scientist are you?

[he isn't about to protest the. . . cutting open?? of the yeti??? since it ate a person, but like]

CW: YETI GORE.

[perfeccion]

You wouldn't know what I was talking about, even if I told you and used very small words. So why bother?

[he unsheathes Fornicaras and runs his gloved finger along its blade. He stabs the yeti at the base of the neck, severing the spinal cord to ensure it's dead. Then, he rolls the giant creature over on its side like it weighs next to nothing. A quick slash of his sword, and the beast's belly is splayed open, abdominal contents steaming in the cold -- including a slimy, bloody skier]

What a shame. It seems we were too late and he suffocated. [he doesn't sound very sad about it, tbh. He flicks blood off the blade with one good shake]

[purrtagonist]

[JEEEEESUS CHRIST]

[there's a lot Akira can handle in the way of gore and carnage. he spent a good portion of the past year fighting Shadows in the depths of the human subconscious, after all. . .. creatures with twisted limbs and horrific bodies, with a thirst for blood and violence that no human could match. but watching this guy slice open a yeti with absolutely no hesitation whatsoever, watching as the blood seeps into the snow and stains it a bright scarlet, is--]

[his limit, honestly. urk--]

[Akira turns away and swallows thickly, although he can still hear the squishing sound of the slimy skier tumbling to the ground]

. . .

Do you recognize the skier?

[well, pink-haired scientist guy may not care, but Akira does]