Test Drive Meme

[darstone]

Comment here with your characters that you're thinking of bringing into LR, and tag around with other people to see how suitable they'd be for the game! As a note, these threads may be used for application samples, which are opening August 11th. So get your samples ready ahead of time with this meme! However, even if all participants are accepted with those characters, these threads will not be game canon. This meme is taking place in the setting of Darstone, so while you may leave your comment blank, I'd like to recommend you set up a scene or two in your initial comment. Some suggested settings are provided below, but make up whatever you'd like based off the setting pages! ⑴ Marketplace. There's a lot to do in the market-- not just buying goods and window shopping, but sitting down for a cup of coffee at an outdoor table, or getting a drink at a bar. ⑵ Housing. You've just gotten here and finally made it to your assigned apartment, but it turns out you have roommates, and they're one of them. ⑶ Adventuring. Whether out into the surrounding caves or taking a boat onto the lake, you're adventuring, maybe on a quest. Whoever's with you might be a member of your party-- or they might be trying to beat you to the reward. ⑷ Snow. What's snow doing in a cave? Isn't this weird? Well, Darstone is situated under a frosty mountain peak, and from time to time the local mages like to simulate the weather that's going on up above. That means there's some very light, fluffy snow falling from the cave ceiling right now.

Comments

omg kittens

[grislytragedian]

[Never having spoken to or met a troll, John's not entirely sure WHAT the Disciple is exactly but hey, non-human creatures aren't exactly rare here so who cares.]

[Also she has an armful of kittens and it sure looks like she could use some help giving each and every one of them the pets they deserve.]

[He walks around to the other side of the basket, kneeling down in front of it and pulling off his gloves before reaching inside to assist in the truly daunting task that is kitten-petting.]

Di loves kitties okay

[whomheloved]

Oh! Hello...do you like purrbeasts too?

[John's appearance startles her because she's hardly used to any kind of aliens either, but hey, anyone helping her in her kitten-petting duties must be okay, right?

She giggles as three kittens immediately begin vying for John's attention, sniffing at his fingers and in one case even attempting to chew.]

Jo-Lal is pretty fond of them too u u

[grislytragedian]

Purrbeasts? [Oh wait, duh. Clearly she means cats.] Oh! Ahaha, yeah. I do. I used to have one as a kid. His name was Caspers.

[And he is just going to give all three of the kittens attention at once. Even you, oh little toothy bitey one! Never mind that he only has two hands, he's totally got this!!!]

What about you?

[whomheloved]

Oh, you did, really? Me too! She was a wonderful lusus but...she wasn't around for as long as I could have hoped for. What was yours like?

[There may be a slight bit of species miscommunication going on here, but who cares?! There are kittens to be petted!]

[grislytragedian]

[Clearly, because John looks a little confused.]

Er...Lusus?

[whomheloved]

...yes?

[She's not sure what the confusion is here, a lusus is a lusus to everyone, right?]

[grislytragedian]

[Not quite.]

...what is it exactly? I've never heard of a Lusus before.

[whomheloved]

You don't have lusii?? Then who looks after you when you're still young?

[grislytragedian]

Ohhhhh, so lusii are like parents for your species then? That are...cats I guess? Or are they all different kinds of animals?

[whomheloved]

Yours are called parents? Yes, that's right, they're all kind of animals, depending on the grub's blood colour and temperament usually.

[grislytragedian]

Typically. I mean technically you can be raised by an sibling or a grandparent or some other family member. Or a completely unrelated adult in some cases. But yeah, humans are raised by older humans, not animals.

[whomheloved]

Humans raise other humans?! Really? And it works out well??

[grislytragedian]

Yeah, really! And most of the time it works out just fine.

[whomheloved]

[She shakes her head, still looking nonplussed.] That's - well, it's amazing!

[grislytragedian]

I...guess? [That's the only sort of system he's known, so it's really not all that amazing to him.]

Though I kind of find myself wondering the same thing about being raised by an animal. How...exactly does that work out well?

[There are always the stories about wild children being raised by wolves but...yeah. Those are stories.]

[whomheloved]

[Di laughs.] I'm sorry, it's just - it's a really strange idea that adults of the same race would bring up the little ones! I've only ever known of one case where it happened with trolls and even though it went very well, neither of them were exactly your typical trolls to start with...

Well, the animals are good at defending the little ones, teaching them to defend themselves and survive, and they usually form quite a close bond, with the wrigglers starting to take care of their lusii too as they get older.