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test drive | 1
Welcome to the first test drive for Systemwide! We are excited to have you. All prospective players are welcome to tag in and test out their characters, be they unplugged or free born. We would like to offer a range of scenarios that can be expected during gameplay, which are also useable prompts for app samples, and of course, if something else about the setting strikes you, feel free to come up with your own!
Please put your character name and canon in your subject line, and indicate which prompt you are launching from.simulation | maybe this is your first time. perhaps you've been here countless times. it's a room, as confined as a boxing ring, as expansive as a battle field, whatever you need it to be, whatever you're here to train for.
1. Before you is a city of rooftops, empty of human life. This is a safe place, because while it may hurt you, at least it won't kill you. Perhaps you are practicing your influence over reality, leaping from rooftop to rooftop. Are you successful, or are you failing to free your mind? Perhaps you're helping someone else overcome their fear of heights.
And of course, an operator can always load up some Agent-like training programs to make it interesting.2. Congratulations, you know kung-fu, or maybe some other system of combat, like crazy parkour archery, cartwheeling with guns, or sword fighting on horse back. Perhaps you're trying out something even more fantastic, a magical skill or a superpower.
Show me. Or a friend.mission | whether on board a ship or with your mind sunk deep into a Matrix, you will have to join the battle eventually. sometimes things go terribly wrong. what are you gonna do about it?
reality | as much as many Matrixes are designed to be a comfort, you have to face the real world sometime. or maybe this is the world you have only ever known.3.
Something's gone wrong with this extraction.There's a lot of information to process. Your target's been extracted, and that's the good news -- your ship, in reality, is heading to their location now -- but the bad news is your team has been scattered. You could be anywhere within this Matrix, deep in the jungle, or lost on a subway train, or staggering out of the crashing waves of a night time beach, and the operator needs a minute to figure out your exact location before they can direct you to a port out of here, or send another operative to collect you.
All you have to do is stay alive for that long. Easy, right?4.
You were warned of this. You've been prepared in endless simulations, with a dozen cautionary tales, training sessions with the EMP. Still, it's nothing like you imagined, when the operator shouts: "Sentinel closing in at seven o' clock. It's gaining."
And then the shriek of metal.5. Annual celebrations are rare to come by, but the anniversary of Neo's Truce is one that always draws in the crowd. The event takes place in a massive cavern in Zion known as the Temple, and there is music, and there is dancing [a little NSFW].
Everyone is there.
Where are you?6.
The wind on your face, up here on the desolate surface, tastes bitter, different to what it feels like in a simulated reality. It's freezing cold and always dark, but sometimes, you need a reminder about what it is you're fighting for. Or maybe you're seeing the wasteland of Earth for the first time.
Either way, you shouldn't be out here for too long. The machines might find you.wildcard | choose your own adventure.
7. Perhaps you're riding with the Dothraki, or sitting under the Sorting Hat for the first time. Maybe the pleather bodysuit is pinching under your armpits as the traffic of the 90's roars by, or the Nova Empire's sprawling city glitters, towering above you. Maybe you're showing someone around the place you called home for your entire fictional life.
Or perhaps it's nothing as fantastical as that: the Council meeting droned on for two hours, and you're just happy to be home, even if it's a tiny enclosure with rust-edged furniture. Maybe someone's coming over for lunch, and there are real greens in the protein slurry today; maybe you're about to ask to join a crew.
There are infinite worlds to explore, but try to remember that only one of them is real.
reality
It's alright. Nobody else wants this, either. Everyone is hurting, wishing they were back. But we can't.
[...He says this like it's supposed to make her feel better. Look, he's trying!]
cw: hella spoilers
[ The repetition comes quietly as she faces way from him, eyes searching as she really processes the phrase. Then, she turns, defensive and practically recoiling as she pushes back to her feet, leaning onto one of her metal crutches. ]
You think I wanna go back there?
[ Her retaliation comes out sharply. There are a lot of things she misses from before she was unplugged. Coulson, Simmons, feeling like she was a part of something, feeling capable.
Having Fitz and May awake helps, but Fitz is a source of guilt (his insistence that the old world didn't really qualify because, philosophically speaking, none of what they did was real certainly doesn't help her guilt because she could have saved him from what happened, could have circumvented how he was hurt if she'd only been strong enough to let Ward die the first time), and May reminds her of all the things she'd worked hard and trained her body to do that she can't accomplish anymore.
But HYDRA? Her father, Ward, Whitehall, all of it. GH325 and Coulson's hypographia and her own weird immunity and the Diviner and whatever the hell happened in that temple to her and Raina? No. She doesn't miss that. She doesn't miss her destiny, or the people trying to sell it to her. She doesn't miss being betrayed and used and manipulated and lied to. ]
no subject
Don't you?
[There are a lot of things about his world Cole didn't like. So much pain and suffering, so many innocent lives cut short. Demons and darkspawn, starvation and blight. Corruption. Evil in the hearts of men. But there were friends, and freedom, and he could help. There's none of that here-- well, he's trying to help. Could that really be enough?]
What is there for you here?
no subject
[ She blurts it out like she can't imagine another answer. It might not be pretty, it might not be easy, but that has to be worth something. Skye shakes her head, balking for a moment before she finds the right way to follow-up. ]
The truth. You'd rather have a bunch of machines lying to you?
no subject
[Cole is really wishing he had his hat right now. It still startles him that everyone can just see him, even when he doesn't want them to. Makes it hard to sneak, and harder still to help anyone without them noticing-- now he has to be noticed. It's still good, but... uncomfortable, somehow. His hands worry slightly at the hem of his dirty tunic shirt, suddenly self-conscious.]
Do you find purpose in it? In what you think is true?
no subject
[ It sure as hell isn't what she thinks is false. The question helps her deflect whether or not she's actually seeking a purpose for herself; mostly, she's seeking a way to help, to do what she thought she'd been doing with SHIELD. ]