atonementooc | Test Drive 001

Test Drive #001

Welcome to Atonement's first test drive, and thank you very much for stopping by! Please refer to the prompts below for ideas, or simply make up your own, whichever is easiest for you.

Prompts

Arrival: You don't quite remember how you arrived here. It appears that you're suddenly in a dead land with eerily red skies. The grass is dead, the trees are dying, and there's absolutely no sounds of life beyond your own footsteps, even if it feels like you're being watched somehow. Eventually along the narrow path you follow, you walk through gates that seem to guard a quiet, abandoned town and a sinking feeling starts to settle in that you are far from home and there may not be an easy way back.

The sign hanging above the gates simply says "Welcome to Penance: Home Between Homes" and nothing more.

Within the gates, there are the leftovers of what may have once been a lively, welcoming little town, if it didn't look as if people either fled or somehow vanished in the blink of an eye. There are dusty shops that are still stocked with supplies, many with their doors busted out or left open. There are homes that haven't been touched in what feels like an eternity but they still have furniture and the remnants of the people who lived there previously. Cars and bikes are littering the streets that are in varying shapes of usability. The more you look, the more unsettling everything becomes...

First Punishment: As a show of good will, your hosts will give you a very easy, albeit potentially embarrassing, task to carry out for your punishment this month.

First: There will as few secrets in Penance as possible. Transparency is key to atonement. You will reveal at least one sin in a way that will be permanent, which means via tattoo, scarring, branding, or other permanent means somewhere on your person. For those who are unable to be injured or scarred, there will be enchanted items that will be able to pierce even the toughest skin, cut deeper than even increased healing can recover from. All necessary items will be available at the tattoo parlor in town. If desired, characters may also make an announcement on the network listing their sin(s) for judgement from their peers.

Please note that if the character insists they are free of sin, they will be provided a list of what they're guilty of by their hosts.

Settling: It's time to settle into a home in Penance, either alone or with roommates. There is comfort and safety in numbers after all...

Do try not to fight over housing if you've both accidentally chosen the same home... Your hosts will be very unhappy if you start a fight this early on over such a silly thing.

If settling down isn't something you feel like doing, you may go and explore anywhere that you'd like, including outside the gates. Please be aware that there may be demonic forms of all types of common animals living outside them that move swiftly and silently. They will vary in aggressiveness and tamability, so please keep this in mind.

As a note, all threads may be considered game canon if all parties agree. Hope you have fun and thank you! Game is set to officially open February 1st or when we reach a minimum of 10 players.

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[ The pain in his arm has his fingers half curled, the bright red mark of a brand burned into his wrist. It stings, and he needs something to take off the edge of the pain. Good thing for him that a doctor seems to have set himself up in the tattoo parlor.

Normally, he knows he would wait. Let Goody negotiate the details with a doctor. But he can't wait. The blood and pain making this an urgency that he can't ignore. ]

How much for laudnum?

[ Just a taste. Just enough to take away the pain. ]

If I had any on me, I'd give it to you, [ Whale can't help but remark, with a little bitter laugh. ] It's a tattoo parlor, not a surgery room. The only slightly useful things I've found are rubbing alcohol, some bandages, and seran wrap. Everything else I've half-assed.

[ Which he's pretty pissed off about, as shown by the scowl on Whale's face. ]

I'm here mostly so nobody slices their jugular open in a misguided attempt at following the instructions. [ said as he rolls his eyes. People are dumb and people who've been given sharp objects somehow miraculously become dumber. ]

[ There's a grimace at that, fingers curling again as a twitch of pain sears through his new burn once more. Rubbing alcohol? Doesn't sound particularly good for a burn. ]

.... Seran wrap?

[ What the hell is that? But some fresh bandages would probably not be a bad idea. And he probably should wash it with whiskey or something to keep it from getting inflamed. All the same, there's a snort at the doctor's comment.]

I believe that level of idiocy is sin itself.

Plastic film? I think some places put it over tattoos so the tattoo itself doesn't rub up against your clothing or anything like that.

[ Fun fact: Whale has never really gotten a tattoo in his life. He simply shrugs at Billy, in a sort of 'hey, hell if I know' shrug. Because again, hell if he knows.

That last comment, however, makes him laugh and Whale gives the other man a grin. Yeah, he won't fight that it would be a really dumb move. ]

You never know. Some people are just born stupid, maybe one of them ended up in purgatory as well.

[ Plastic? What is that? He doesn't understand the word, but right now he's trying to focus on something past the burning sensation in his arm. The blistered skin starting to flame red and patchy, the M carved what feels like all the way to his bone.

He takes the half-smoked cigarette out of his pocket with trembling fingers, the pain starting to ebb into the corners of his mind. He was supposed to split this, 50/50, but he needs a little something to take the edge off. ]

... Got a light?

[ And a way to keep him from being one of those stupid idiots that ends up killing themselves because of infection? ]

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