TEST DRIVE MEME

[theflaws]

TEST DRIVE MEME

PREMISE PLOT ARRIVAL SETTING NAVIGATION

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!

Comments

[partridgicide]

It is the only opinion that matters. No doubt you have an entirely far too optimistic one.

[espigeonage]

Again, your consistency is amazing.

[Pause. Yuuya flares his tail up a little.]

Incidentally, doctor, with your world-class brain you have no doubt realized that here you don't have institutions and guaranteed blind eyes to fall back on. Most people are too large to be easily overpowered by a partridge with a weak wing, and those who might be anyway will have people wondering where they've gone.

So, a little friendly advice for my favorite ex-employer: behave.

[partridgicide]

Hohoho, how pointless. I never said this environment wouldn't prove beneficial.

[espigeonage]

Careful, doctor. Thanks to your so-wise decisions I have no more need to remain quiet about your proclivities. You'd do well to consider the implications of that.

[partridgicide]

Threats by the assistant is . . . . boring. I'm bored already listening to you.

As for implications, make unwise decisions of your own and see how long your truce with your brother lasts.

[espigeonage]

Ah, poor doctor Iwamine. My pigeon heart bleeds for you.

[Yuuya stands on one leg and pulls his other up against his body, insultingly comfortable.]

Here's the thing, though. You've already invalidated our old agreement. My brother is not here, and if he comes here, I'll handle that myself. You have no hold over me, anymore.

[partridgicide]

Oh, but his father does not, does he? I wonder how he'll react to the truth. I always have a few contingencies in place.

So I suggest you don't waste my time.

[espigeonage]

Sure you do. Yet despite my cocksure appearance, I'm no fool. Sakuya knows. He's smarter than you imagine. Moreso than I in my overzealous generosity believed, even. That's good enough.

I've had it with being manipulated by you.

[partridgicide]

[ Shuu has already tuned him out. He has little patience for emotional revelations. ]

[espigeonage]

[Yuuya's not willing to attack him in cold blood, but he does still have that poisoned scalpel and open eyes. Shuu will have a hard time getting up to anything in this setting.]