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TEST DRIVE MEME

01. ARRIVING IN PELEA
A cold wind singing down from the white-capped mountains which hang blue-black in the distance stirs your cheek, the tall grass all around you. A bough creaks as the wind makes it tremble, and the dappled shadows drift over you, leaves rustling. As you blink awake, you hear the quiet hiss of water over stones. You are not where you once were!

You and a large group of strangers are blinking awake, pulling yourselves up off the dirt, grass, and rubble near a small wooded stream. There is no evidence of civilization in sight, and as you exchange stories you realize that you must decide what to do.

Will you head past the trees and towards the mountains? Deeper into the forest? Stay put and wait for help to arrive? You might even try to meet everyone else, and either convince them to band together... or head their separate ways.

02. CITY SLICKER
There are many cities throughout the world of Pelea, and in most player characters, the Flaws, are welcomed as curiosities. From the pastoral villages or bustling, grand cities of Shousal to the massive, sprawling bureaucratic centers of the Empire, your characters will find a wide variety of cultures and races to interact with and investigate. They could be seeking empoyment, answers to the mystery of their arrival, or a quiet place to drink away their worries.

03. WILDCARD!

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[Patrick lifted an eyebrow as though it might help him get a better picture of her. It did not. Instead he only bobbed his cap a bit in mild apology.]

That's an awful big accusation. I'm sure the city here is only trying to mind its own business. It could hardly expect to be so popular among people like us.

Oh yeah? Well-- how is anyone supposed to have a town meeting in a town of that size, anyway? There must be... [she tries to size it up] ... more than five hundred families in there!

[He gave the city a considering look, then shook his head.]

If I had to guess, I doubt they bother to invite much of anyone to these town hall meetings of theirs. Just a lot of rich bastards coming together to say who's who and what's what.

Oh, that old story. "Money talks," huh...

Tch. See. I told you the town was showing off! Well, I'm not having it. I'm not impressed by you, town!

[He has a good chuckle at that.]

Now you'll just go and offend the poor thing. It's a terrible thing to have to make a city go and be self conscious about itself, don't you think?

Hmph. It'll survive. I bet people coo over it every day! "Oooh, it's so tall, oooh, it's so pretty."

Do they now? And here all this time I thought it was myself, they meant. And now I've got this swollen head for nothing.

[The joke flies right over Pariya's head as she takes it quite literally.]

... Huh? Are you dumb or something...?

Could be I am. My grandmother, god rest her, she always said as much. But I was never clever enough to take it to heart. I suppose it must take a wiser man than myself to be be properly dumb and know it.

... Oh.

[Awkward.]

... There there.

I'm sure you have other skills.

[He doesn't show a hint of being bothered by this at all. If anything, he seems all the cheerier for her misplaced pity.] Plenty of them and more. And what of yourself, miss? What do you mean to do in a grand city such as this?

Ah! [On this point, she becomes quite excited. From her cloth totebag hanging across her body, she pulls a large, round piece of flatbread.]

I'm going to set up a bakery!

[Well, it certainly is bread. It looks better than the rations he used to be on as well, though he questions just how she'd managed to keep it in tact like this all this way. Harper would have eaten it already if he'd had it.]

Now there's a fine line of work. You'll have saved up a good sum to manage that.

Saved...?

You don't think they'll accept trades?

Well I've no experience in baking, miss, but I don't think you can trade for a shop with a few biscuits and cakes. Expensive stuff, all of that.

Huh?! No-- not a permanent shop! That's much too grand!

I just meant... something like a stall! A stall, on market day! That wouldn't be too much, right?

No, not at all. I only wonder where you'll be baking the bread, is all.

Huh? ... In the oven. Obviously.

Brought one of those along, did you?

D-Don't be stupid!

In the town oven!

Oh. [Patrick grimaces. He's not sure what to say to this, but it's very evident he thinks she's in for a bad time.]

... What.

Spit it out.

Supposing this city has no such thing. A grand place as this, it would have to service a fair number of other people. Too many, I shouldn't wonder.

Wouldn't they just make multiple ovens?

It's not like a town can survive without ovens!

Not likely they do, but if they're anything like London, then they have their own ovens in their own bakeries. Maybe you'll find work in one of those.

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