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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[ He shifts uneasily when she looks teary. He might be all about people getting a fair shot, but when it comes to emotions like this, he's not so good with comforting and being there for them, so he's glad when she speaks without needing much encouragement. ]

War? What war?

[ He doesn't exactly keep up on foreign affairs, so he's not entirely sure what's going on. Maybe Billy would know more about it, but he's not exactly here to offer his help. ]

Or he's already been here and gone? Who knows how many people have already repented?

[When Ray cries, which is rare, it's more akin to hysteria than normal tears. For the most part, thankfully, a lifetime of having people she knew arrested, executed or disappeared has allowed her to build up walls between her and what she felt, between herself and the world. It was almost armor enough to keep her sane, in the end.

Almost.]

Taiwan has broken apart from China to become our own country. So now, we're at war with China. Any actions, jokes, or possessions that allude to sympathizing with the Chinese are grounds for arrest or execution. It's complicated, but... I think the best way to put it is that at some point it stopped being about China and started being about absolute control and scaring everyone into submission. And making a country where saying that in the wrong company can get you killed.

I hope he's moved on. He was a good person; he didn't deserve any of this, or any of what happened back in Taiwan.

[ It's more than he really knows how to process, especially seeing as he'd mainly paid attention to what might keep him alive and had sort of just moved on from there. Still, he tries to listen? After all, it impacts him a little now here, if there are people from other lands. ]

I can understand, a little.

[ Maybe? It's not exactly the same, but there had definitely been plenty of blood shed over the two countries separating. ]

Only, for me, it's Mexico and the US. Not so complicated, just people trying to steal what's not theirs.

[Harder to process for her is the lack of government control here. No military police on patrol, no government officials putting speeches on the radio, no fliers encouraging people to turn each other in. It's nothing like anything she's ever known.]

I don't know much about Mexico or the United States. We weren't really allowed to read about it, and the newspapers didn't report on a lot of foreign news anyway, no matter how bad it was. But - there's some truth, to that being part of Taiwan and China splitting. I wouldn't know what's really whose though, not for my country or yours. Mostly, I just tried to find ways to keep going. I'm really not an expert on these things.

[ For him, the lack of government may not be new, but it's definitely appreciated. He enjoys the fact that no one is chasing him down here, but then, it seems like by the letters, they have intentions for him to follow. ]

What happened was not fair for my people, that's what happened.

[ He may sound biased, but it's the bitterness that's been allowed to grow since he was a child. ] What we had, it was taken from us, and then we had no option but to work for people who didn't appreciate us or respect us.

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