ASGARD GENESIS - TEST DRIVE #1

[asgardmods]

the test drive meme. ❧ let's do this. Anyone can post to the test drive meme, including duplicates! Please put your character name and canon in the title of your comment. All threads are considered open to everyone! Tag around and make some friends (or enemies)! If you decide to apply to the game, you can use your TDM threads for your app samples! You only need to provide seven comments if you use TDM samples. You can't be "late" to a TDM! This will be considered open until the next one goes live next month. You can make up your own scenario, interact with one of the locations in the game, use the welcome process of your character selecting a god house, or use our optional prompt below! You do not need to pick a god house to play on the TDM! You can have your character still in the process of discussing/deciding/despairing instead. If you are accepted to the game, you can keep TDM threads as game canon as long as you fudge some of the details depending on your original thread. If you aren't sure exactly how to do this, you can always ask a mod. Reserves open on May 25 at 12:01AM PST and close on May 31 at 11:59PM PST. Applications open on June 1 at 12:01AM PST and close on June 7 at 11:59PM PST. Please always feel free to contact the mods if you have any questions! Have fun, dear (future?) Wanderers. ♥ ❧ optional scenario. As you enter Asgard proper, many of the natives have gathered into curious crowds to greet these mysterious children of the World Tree. Some of them carry baskets of flowers and nervously offer one to any Wanderers that come near. They are vibrant and colorful, picked from the wilds surrounding Asgard, and they might have an odd effect on your character if they sniff the flowers directly. Purple flowers will make your character very giggly and easily amused by everything they see and hear. Orange flowers will make your character feel very warm all over, like the sun is beating down on them directly. Blue flowers will make your character somewhat short and impatient with anything that seems like even a minor inconvenience to them. Effects of the flowers can wear off anywhere between a few minutes to an hour. And for those new to Asgard, this scenario aligns with some of the general curses we might have in the game! navigation.

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[forlosttime]

[Amusement at her bluntness makes his face a bit more pleasant.]

What's modern for you? I was living in the 2000s before that temporal anomaly. Or whatever that was.

[originallutece]

Once, 1912. After that, I didn't live in any particular year, but rather all of them and none at once, so please don't try and explain things like television to me.

[What a weird fucking answer.]

Where in 2000?

[forlosttime]

As in the year, or the locale? 2019, in the US.

[He'll just be stingy about details, it's fine. He leans forward.]

But wait. Go back. Explain the 'all and none' thing. Were you stuck?

[He's thinking she's saying what he did to get back to his siblings. No fair. How come she gets to be an adult?]

[originallutece]

No. I was . . . removed from it.

[She wrinkles her nose, because how to explain this to a literal infant . . .]

How much do you know about the theory of multiple universes?

[forlosttime]

I know about it, in theory. Once you've been through projecting your consciousness forward into a suspended quantum state version that exists across every instance of time, you know a thing or two.

[He puts his book down with a grin that leaves a dimple in his cheek.]

Don't worry about softening it. So what, you were...? In the middle of projecting yourself through time and space and stayed that way?

[originallutece]

Mm, no, but close.

[Now he's interesting, and she officially sets her book down. They're both at that point. They've gotten there. Good job, them. She turns more towards him, one arm resting on the table, her blue eyes cool as she studies his expression.]

If you understand quantum states, you'll understand this. My . . . partner and I had a machine that tore open the fabric of the universe for brief periods of time. It, by necessity, existed in a fixed point, but had parts of it that straddled the line between worlds. Certain critical atoms, you understand.

One day, it overloaded, thanks to an idiot. We were, of course, killed. Our atoms were scattered. But because there was a possibility that we might not be, we were reborn: beings who were alive and dead all at once, existing in possibility, removed from all the constraints of time and space, because we existed in all of them at once.

[forlosttime]

[He pauses, mulling this over.] All of time and space? That would have been handy back home...

[He glances up at her.] Not that... I think you're recommending it. I've just been trying to stop the apocalypse. Would have been useful.

You and your partner. What's your purpose now?

[originallutece]

A question for a question.

The circumstances of why you were projecting your consciousness forward into a suspended quantum state. Even I never did that as a child, and I assure you, I was quite precocious.

[A beat, and then, for the first time, she smiles.]

If you are a child.

[forlosttime]

Ah, [he smiles, charmed by her knowledge and educated guesses.]

There, you have me. I'm 58. Something in the equation was wrong, I know it, but well... hindsight is 20/20, I suppose. My powers obviously don't work here, but I could push myself through space and time.

[originallutece]

Ah. Of course you are.

[That's not sarcastic, but rather breathed out, delighted by this new intrigue.]

In both directions? In time, I mean. How far in space could you go?

[forlosttime]

Yep. I've tried to work out an exact spatial limit, especially when I had all that time to myself. Looks to be about 3,600 feet, on a good day.

[Watch as his mun pulls a guess out of thin air! But Five wants to know more about her.]

Are you alive now, here?

[originallutece]

I believe so. My heart beats, I breathe, I require sleep and food once more . . . I can't tell if I'm aging once more, but I would hazard that yes, I'm as I once was.

[Her nose wrinkles just slightly, because honestly, that's the worst possible outcome.]