Opening Testrun Meme

[aegis_mods]

Before the game actually opens, lets all take a moment to-Hold up, need some kind of goofy picture.



Before the game actually opens, lets all take a moment to try out some characters that we think would work well here. Test the waters, declare who you're interested in, have fun, invite your friends. Tell them we brought punch and pie.

The Prompts!
1. Arrival - One minute, you were doing your own thing back home, the next, you were sucked through a glowing portal. Suddenly, you find yourself in a random stretch of road, surrounded by screaming and the sounds of gunfire and explosions. All around you are other confused and disoriented people. Beyond them, a haze of smoke, through which hulking...things slouch about, writhing with tentacles.

You've just taken part in a mass emergence event. They tend to be accompanied by the appearance of horrible things from between worlds. They're hungry, but Aegis has sent some of their best agents to help you out. Flee to safety, then try to figure out just what the HELL is going on.

2. Emergence - This was a lucky one. You actually got a full two hours of warning before the emergence event took place. Anyone who was around and could fight or help was gathered up, thrown through a hasty briefing, then shoved into transport helicopters to try get to a stretch of cornfields somewhere in Kansas before it exploded into a mess of confused and lost people and Astral Beasts.

Right now, everyone's still on the helicopter. Got any last minute thoughts to get off your chest before everything goes crazy?

3. Vigilance - Welcome to your new home. Vigilance is a medium sized city on the east coast of the United States. It's host to a number of things to see and do, but most notably, it is the secret headquarters of the Aegis Initiative. After the absolute chaos of your arrival, you have some down time to get your head together. Take a look around town, have some fun. They've got mini golf.

4. Quarantine - Sometimes, things go wrong. Sometimes, the general public blames it on sliders like you. Sometimes, for your own safety, you have to stay inside. There's always things to do in the base, but most of it is things like "Clean the bathroom" or "Finish these reports" and that can only keep you busy for so long before you start strangling people.

So what does a slider do when suffering from cabin fever in a military compound?

5. Celebration - Nothing like near death experiences to make you appreciate life all the more. You thoroughly trashed some aliens yesterday, and now it's time to celebrate the fact that no one was disintegrated. The mess hall has been hastily converted into a dance hall by way of shoving the tables out of the way and putting on some loud music. The kitchen staff was recruited to feed everyone, and someone MAY have spiked the punch. Someone may have also spiked the pie.

6. Wild Card - Or of course, you can come up with something else altogether. The world of Aegis is a big one. The same size as our own world, in fact. There's bound to be things you can think of that we didn't cover here.

Comments

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[treue]

[Leona has been under quarantine for two weeks. She has borne the brunt of this indignity without complaint, but her demeanor has definitely gotten considerably frostier as time has progressed. Today she is sweeping purposefully through the base, toward of all places the kitchen. Dare you approach?]

[villain_of_this_play]

[Kuja was always a little frosty himself, but he gotten outright surly while doing the busywork. In this case, he's stuck doing food prep, his tail thrashing like a decapitated snake as he's washing some leafy greens.

He glances up as Leona approaches]

Tell me true that either my shift is over or that you are willing to help me make this mind-numbing work go by much quicker.

[treue]

I am here to provide assistance. I require a change of pace. Badly.

[villain_of_this_play]

I suppose it was too much to - [He pauses, realizing that Leona just offered to help. That's... utterly unexpected]

Oh. Right.

[He falls silent for once, before speaking up]

I'm still cleaning up these greens, and we have some fruits next, would you mind picking through and throwing out any that look unsuitable to eat while I finish up here?

[treue]

Yes, I can do that.

[It may just be Kuja but she not appear to have any idea what looks good and what doesn't as she is carefully scrutinizing the fruit and putting the underripe ones in a pile while casting aside the properly ripe ones]

[villain_of_this_play]

[Normally he didn't give a damn, but considering he has to eat with everyone else like common people, the Genome felt he had to speak up]

Might I inquire how you are exactly organizing the fruit?

[treue]

I've noticed fruit with that coloration tends to be too sweet, I always fear it has or will soon mold.

[xiao_lan_long]

[Kusuha, being from the same world and with roughly the same powerset but without nearly the same amount of practice at being confined to a cramped military base, has had roughly the same problem. Her patience with her normal strategy of passive-aggressive moping broke before Leona's, though, so Leona will find her already in the kitchen doing a very carefuly and very...thoughtful inventory of the assorted ingredients accumulated there.]

Oh, Leona! Hello! I didn't expect to see you here...

[treue]

If I must be trapped in this godforsaken hole I will at least utilize my time efficiently.

[xiao_lan_long]

It's not really that...well, okay it is that bad but...

That is to say, I had the same thought.

[treue]

Well since you are here I shall provide assistance. What do you require of me?