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TEST DRIVE MEME Back to Navigation Prompt I: Mission, get!

And just on time, your phone buzzes with a notification from you-know-who.

Did you hear about the two guys who stole a calendar? They both got six months!

Ah, Topaz. What would you do without her?

Good morning! I hope you all at a hearty breakfast when you rolled out of bed today. A good breakfast can set the tone for the day, and we all like to get started on the right foot, don't we?

Oh, right! Your new assignment came in from the higher ups. Here's what they want this month:

✬ Mission: Steal the Sky!
✬ Mission Requirements: Make sure you bring a friend ♥ A friend of any specialization will do!
✬ Special Requests: The big wigs would like something particularly shiny and valuable this month. I do hear there's a special art exhibition being held at the Glymmer Museum of Modern Art? Perhaps you could start your search there.
✬ Mission: Steal something Sweet!
✬ Mission Requirements: Hmmm. . . this time, find a Grifter to help you out with this request. If you're already a Grifter, well! They do say that two is company, right?
✬ Special Requests: Find something sentimental! Sentimental things are usually sweet, right?

Good luck, Ragamuffins! This is Topaz, signing out.

Seems like two pretty straightforward missions, right? Time to grab a buddy and get started!

Prompt II: Practice Makes Perfect

So you've been in Glymmer long enough to work your way into purchasing a new ability for your specialization. That's awesome! How does it feel to have some Glymmer magic at your fingertips? Probably pretty great at any other time besides now, right?

Because today, your powers are giving you a bit of. . . trouble. They may activate or deactivate at completely inappropriate times, leaving you with a bit of a mess to clean up. If you're a thief, you might find yourself tumbling through random walls. If you're the muscle, you might find yourself accidentally pulling doors off of their hinges. If you're a hacker, you might find yourself shrinking to the size of an ant while trying to brush your teeth (don't drown in the sink!!) And if you're a grifter, you might suddenly become. . . um. The object of everyone's amorous feelings.

Don't worry! It's probably just a glitch? It'll be fine! It'll all wear off in time. Hopefully more like five minutes than five days. But it's kind of hard to tell when it comes to Glymmer Glitches.

Prompt III: Jailbreak??

Welp. The time has come. You always dreaded this day. Tried your hardest to keep it from happening, even. But today. . . you've been caught. The Glymmer Metropolitan Police Force has bested you, and now you’re sitting in the slammer. The big house, if you will. Gods damn it.

Fortunately, they haven't processed you yet! Your secret identity remains in tact, so long as you're still wearing your mask. For now, you're being held in a small cell with nothing but a bench for sitting and an open toilet that you really don't want to use. There's a tiny, iron bar-framed window, and a cell door also made of bars. And the fortunate thing? You're not alone.

A comrade from the guild is also being held with you. Maybe if you put your heads together, you can think a way out of this mess. After all, the guards are totally not paying attention to you.

Show them that it's always a bad idea to take one's eyes off of a phantom thief.

Prompt IV: Network

Today, your phone rings with a new message:

hi i am a glymmer princess who was just given a fortune by my dead uncle who left me all of his gold and jewelry and i don't want it so im trying to give it to the person i think deserves it the most and that person is u

if u reply to this with your name and bank account info i will ttly send u the money get rich quick $$$$$ thank u for being awesome

. . . what?

The weirdest part of this? This message is coming from one of your contacts. A friend you know well! That's concerning. Better check the Glymmer server to see if anyone else is having this problem. Or, you know, chew out your your contact for sending you spam mail. The nerve!!

Or you can use the network for any other purpose. The sky's the limit!

Wildcard.

Feel free to make up your own prompts!!

TDM Notes: The multiple prompt format will not appear in every intro or event post in the game! It is somewhat TDM exclusive to give you guys an idea of what kind of events will be run, and what kind of shenanigans are available for you to thread out ICly. TDM threads are not canon, so feel free to assume CR in order to get some good threads going! Feel free to assume code names as well, or that your character has already purchased abilities, to kind of get a feel for now the mechanics work. Go wild!

If you have any questions, feel free to hit up the Q&A page.

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Kings rule over land, not treasure. Well, they do usually have treasure too, but I don't think it's a requirement.

[pondering it for a moment longer before remembering that they're still in jail, and shaking the thought out of his head]

Later, we can ask someone about it later! No kings have killed us yet, so either there isn't one or there's a weak one. Either way it's not what we need to worry about.

[sucking in a breath, he sticks his hand through the wall. and it actually goes through.]

--Huh! It works. Not bad.

What's that? Do you think I should push it down?

[he's willing to discard the kings conversation for now: it's beside the point. besides, something else here is potentially more interesting.]

I don't think you can go through with your clothes on, if you care about that sort of thing as much as most humans.

The intangibility is a last resort. If I used that to get out of here I'd immediately be arrested again for public nudity.

[pulling his hand back out of the wall]

Breaking the wall down would be flashy. Are we looking for flashy, or stealthy?

[looking the...large dragon up and down]

Actually, nevermind, let's go with flashy. You should break the wall down.

Ha! Okay, wait a moment. If you want flashy--

[he taps consideringly on the wall, feeling the echo through the bricks in his talons, then... takes his claw back and leans forward to just bite at the wall instead. one long, pointed fang scrapes the stone as he drags his head in a circle. funny, the tooth leaves a long black mark behind, the wall charring alarmingly as the dragon moves on--

a second later, he rears back and headbutts his whole weight into the wall: a circular hole falls out of it with a thump, for all the world like a cartoon.]

A-ha!

Those are the deadliest teeth I've ever seen.

[doesn't even hesitate to hop out of the hole--freedom first! and he makes sure the dragon is following before they have to start running from the cops]

Ehehehehehehehehehehe...!

[the dragon is SO PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS OF THIS, especially the admiration. ducks down enough to press his head and shoulders through the wall and slithers the rest of the way out, almost snakelike with his legs pulled close to his body and his wings flattened down to his back. stands up and shakes when he's out, the harness on his back and the lights twined through it blazing into life again.]

Would you care for a lift?

If you're offering, I've got no reason to refuse!

[especially since their jailbreak did cause some commotion and there are definitely some sirens blaring as the police rush to re-capture them. he grabs the harness and swings himself up--with a bit of clumsiness, but it's the results that matter]

Ready for takeoff!

Then, hang on!

[it takes only a massive leap and a few powerful wingbeats for the dragon to launch himself into the sky -- his passenger had better be hanging on, though. it's not an entirely smooth transition, especially when his airbus twists out of the way of a couple of pesky helicopters that have shown up. at least it doesn't seem to phase the one who's flying.]

Ahahahahahahaha! Just try it! Sky-turtles! Hopping toads! Fat little beetles!

[things went from cool to terrifying in less than a minute! he holds on tight and doesn't do anything except for yell as they twist and turn before finding some of his voice again]

AHHHHHHH SLOW DOWN SLOW DOWN! I'M GONNA FALL!

We're going to get CAUGHT if I don't twist a little!

[the dragon's taunting tone slides quickly towards exasperation, but he does grudgingly level out his flying. it should be enough - if his passenger's got anything he might use for a rappelling hook, there's places to tie down on the harness.]

Hurry up and buckle yourself on--!

[it takes some doing even after the twisting stops, but he manages to buckle himself in with a bit of handy-dandy rappelling hook. and once he's reassured himself that he isn't going to plummet to his death, he calms down and stops yelling. heck, he even looks like he's having fun hanging out up in the sky now.]

Next time I'll buckle up before we take off. Now I know for next time. Alright, full speed ahead! Do you think you can lose them?

Ha. Watch me!

[now that he's reassured that he's not going to lose his reactive fellow guild member as soon as he gets serious, Geir picks up speed rapidly, his wingbeats thundering in the air. the moment he's gained enough altitude he's back at his antics, rolling over and over through the sky in a maneuver that brakes him so abruptly that the helicopters can't stop in time to follow him.]

[it's a jerky, sometimes bumpy ride even once he's strapped in, but without any worry of falling he just cheers the dragon on. mostly it's just whooping and hollering at any sudden turns, but when he wants to be heard he leans in and tries to shout over the whipping winds.]

Alright! You really showed them! Can you go higher than this?

Of course I can! How high?

[the lights on his harness dim as he angles his wings higher, retreating from the city into the dark arch of the sky until it's almost a jewel of its own beneath them. the air is thin up here, and cold; it's almost certain that the helicopters can't spot Geir's dark scales through the thin clouds without the lights.]

You can do a disappearing act like this, sometimes...

[with the air as thin as it is, he doesn't press him to fly any higher. instead he contents himself with peering through the small gaps in the clouds to try and spot any pursuers]

Impressive! Now I know who to team up with for any assignments that need a daring escape. Or a nice view. That was some clever flying.

[he can't help preening at the compliment, stretching his wings out a little further to cup the brisk winds and proudly straightening his back out.]

Thank you. It's true. I'm very good at it.

You are very good at it. Even flying on swords doesn't compare to this. The next time that we have to steal something, let's steal one of those helicopters. Then I can race you!

[he does not know how to fly a helicopter]

Flying... on swords?

[sorry, there's a point that needs to be addressed here first before they can debate whether a dragon could beat a helicopter]

Of course. --Don't tell me you haven't seen anyone fly on a sword before. You're a dragon.

[SURELY SOMEONE ON A FLYING SWORD HAS TRIED TO MURDER THIS DRAGON SOMEWHERE, AT SOME POINT?]

[VERY CAREFULLY:]

I'm used to flying the usual way. You know.

With my wings.

You wouldn't fit on a sword anyways.

You need a high cultivation level and a spiritual sword in order to fly on a sword, so maybe the cultivation where you're from just isn't very good?

We have lots of farming, as far as I know...

[you've lost him]

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