Test Drive 001

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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. premise | faq | taken | reserves | apps | hiatus/drop | network | logs | ooc | mods | requests

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[noassgardian]

Is that really your name? I mean-- it's cool. Neat.

[Did they even use cool back then? Probably not. But it's hard enough to adapt to a new place and also keep in mind that apparently, Penance hauls in cowboys too.

He's used to time shenanigans, but seriously. It's just... a lot.]

Um, yeah... here. Contacts-- you've got to add someone in to be able to send them messages, but that's how you address them. I have no idea how regular letters will be delivered... I guess it depends on if anyone's even around to run a post office.

[intheashes]

[ It's definitely going to take some getting used to, to know he can say his name here without getting a reaction other than amusement. While he had been living, the name Goodnight was respected...or feared, depending on what side of the Mason Dixon line you hailed from. Here, it means nothing at all. He's somehow escaped his infamy. ]

Yes, that really is my name. I was named after my granddaddy who died at the Alamo. [ Of course he's not going to drop the full obnoxious Cajun Catholic name he had been saddled with. ]

Contacts. [ He might have no clue how to rightly operate this, but he's sure as shooting putting the name Billy Rocks as his number one contact. He'll fill out the rest later. ] Well, as much as I think I would like letters, this sounds so much easier. So thank you for showing me this. Would you mind terribly if I added you into this contacts? In case I have more questions.

[noassgardian]

Wow... Sorry, I just-- that's something you read about in history books where I'm from. It's kind of weird to think they're pulling us from all over, right?

[Apparently what time you're from doesn't really matter here. Just the sins, he guesses.]

Oh-- no way. Go ahead. Billy Kaplan, by the way.

[Which, admittedly, is way less impressive than Goodnight Robicheaux and Billy Rocks or whatever he just put in his phone, but.]

Trust me, one thing I know a lot about is phones, so you can hit me up whenever. And well, maybe if you ever get familiar with game consoles.

[intheashes]

History books. [ There's a very small part of him that sees almost too happy to hear that. If there were book of history about his time, then surely his name would have come up. There's something almost poetic that he would disappear into history, a nobody. Just another unnamed sharpshooter among many. That's where he belongs, he knows. An unknown forgotten relic of that terrible war. ]

All right, son, I've got you in this thing. Right here. [ Right under Billy Rocks. It shouldn't be too hard to text the correct Billy. ] And I'm certain I will bother you again about all of these advances. But I think I might skip this...gaming consoles you speak of. I prefer a game of poker or even Faro if I wish to test my luck.