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Test Drive Meme
Prompts: Awakening ⭐︎ By Daylight ⭐︎ By Starlight
WELCOME TO CHALRA CITY!
You live in a bustling modern metropolis situated on the coast of the Everwave Sea. Lively and ever-changing, it’s been riding the wave of the recent techno-economic boom, and business has never been better! The city has thawed into spring, bringing with it the balmy breezes and blooms of April, although the mornings are still chilly and damp. Students and their teachers around the city are settling into the new school year a little under a month before its start, and with the weather turning warmer, the city seems even livelier in anticipation of one of the hottest music tours of the year.
awakening
You lead a more or less ordinary life in the bustling Chalra City — this is the world you live in, and it’s the only world you know. And then one day you feel something stir in you — perhaps it comes to you in a dream, or you receive a vivid waking vision upon walking into someone else — and in the back of your mind, you hear a voice that sounds very much like your own, uttering a wish with its dying breath.
You awaken to your destiny as a Nova Knight, a reincarnation of an alien from a dead planet who once fought against the Abyss. With your new transformation charm in hand, it's time to go supernova and, with the help of your comrades, save the world.
by daylight
Now you lead two lives: your everyday life as one of the many citizens of Chalra City, and your life as a reincarnated magical crime fighter. Will you manage to balance the demands of your double lives, or will you buckle under the pressure? Will you trust your fellow Nova Knights, or will you keep your identity a secret? And when your back is against the wall, who will you call for help?
PLAYING PLOT-MANDATED HOOKY
Real life means real obligations, and you're at one right now — whether it's work, school, or a family gathering, you're expected to be there, and you can't just leave without raising a few eyebrows (or questions).
Unfortunately, the ship's computer Nautis has been blowing up your phone with texts, urging you to ditch your responsibilities so you can take care of an urgent threat: innocent cityfolk are mysteriously disappearing under a famously haunted overpass, and it’s most certainly the work of the enemy. The person next to you is also a fellow Nova Knight, and they're getting the same messages. The question is, do you know each other as Nova Knights, or only as colleagues or classmates? And either way, how are you both going to manage to sneak out and take care of business — without being seen transforming in broad daylight?
SUSPICIOUS SCALPER
The entertainment industry in Chalra City is booming, as evidenced by the fact that most of their performance venues are booked year round. And one of the hottest new artists on the Atlace scene has arrived at the Chalra City stop of their nationwide tour! Indie sensation the beautiful unit., comprised of Jana The (vocals and acoustic guitar), Eliza Beautiful (upright bass), and Blair Unit (shakers), has made its mark on Chalra City's pop culture scene before they've even arrived. The tour has attracted enough attention from smaller nearby cities that every light rail car is packed, making an already busy commute even more hectic for the locals, and many a local shop is cashing in on the craze by selling unlicensed the beautiful unit. merch. There's even a new ticket reseller downtown selling tickets to the sold-out show at astonishingly low prices. It seems too good to be true, but some fans' loyalty outweighs their common sense, and on the day of the show, the line goes out the door and halfway around the block. It probably wouldn't hurt to investigate… Wait, with all the tickets they're reselling, does the math even add up?
by starlight
A CAPTIVATING AUDIENCE
When night falls, the curtain rises on the beautiful unit.'s highly anticipated show in the Four Clover Stadium. After a seventeen minute silent intro, the crowd breaks into a roar when Jana The plucks the first note on her acoustic guitar. But as the show goes on, some fans seem to be a little too amped up. Any the beautiful unit. fan who bought tickets from the suspicious new reseller will begin to turn into a blacklit monster, the light sticks clutched in their hands now transformed into fearsome weapons. Before long, dozens of fans have transformed into monsters, and more are following with every beat. The band keeps on playing as the monsters advance towards the stage — it looks like they're trying to kidnap the beautiful unit.!
You can fight off the monsters' advance with your powers, but they outnumber you and they're closing in fast. These monsters are still people, though, and those people are the beautiful unit. fans through and through, so maybe if you can get the band to play a track off their unreleased new album, they'll turn back to normal.
THE DEATH JITTERBUG
The the beautiful unit. craze is inescapable. From banners to badges, you can't turn a corner in Chalra City without seeing their logo (the beautiful unit. in an Arial variant designed as part of an artistic collaboration with the band). You don't even need to go to a show to hear their music — the shopping center at the train station is blasting all their best singles, such as "It's Time To Talk (About You (And Me))" and "Let's! (Family Restaurant)", a jingle originally written for a diner in their hometown that stayed on the Top 40 charts for a record-breaking nine weeks. Their music is popular for a reason, though, and plenty of shoppers are dancing along to the beat. The only problem is…they don't seem to be able to stop!
If you investigate, you'll discover that the small crystals attached to the shopping center's speakers are draining the energy of anyone under the hipster dance curse. If you destroy the crystals, the shoppers should go back to normal, but you never know which one of them is an appropriately themed monster in disguise. If you're not careful, you might find yourself in for a serious dance off.
MONSTER INFO
Here's some convenient info about various monsters for use in TDM threads. For the purposes of the TDM, there aren't hard and fast rules about how they work, so have fun and go wild!
tbu. GROUPIES: Those desperate fans who bought suspiciously scalped tickets will turn into monstrous versions of themselves upon reaching a certain hype level: some of them grow in size; others grow claws, fangs, or hand-crocheted beanies; any fan merch on their person becomes a grotesque weapon. Somehow, they always look like they're under a blacklight, and if you listen closely, their seemingly meaningless grunts comprise an infinite chorus of I was into them before they got big. They're still fans at heart and will probably turn back to normal if you can get their favorite band to play an unreleased single!
THE SOFT SHOE STINGER: Anywhere people seem to be compelled to dance, there's a human-disguised monster in the crowd, poised to attack if any Nova Knights show up. Once unveiled, it's clear from those brightly-colored antennae and compound eyes that this guy is allied with the enemy, and his dance moves truly out of this world. You can defeat this monster by winning in a dance-off, but if enough of you just pummel him with your powers he'll leave. Either way, it's a win.
GROOVE GHOSTS: Any time people are possessed by the spirit of dance, whether at a concert or under the influence of a monster's spell, these guys might show up to jeer at your pitiful moves and heckle you about being off-beat. They can be dispelled by Silver-level powers, but if enough of them gather, it might take a bit more coordination to beat them all.
Note: While the TDM has some specific prompts, you are not limited to these options for threading! Please feel free to use any elements of the setting you see in the info pages.
dispenses stupidity upon ye
Maya sighs deeply and overdramatically, clapping Kalim on the shoulder.
"You totally owe me for this though, big guy."
She books it toward the video store and stops right in front of it, right in the view of that video game store. And she waits. And when she hears a car coming close enough, she takes a breath and runs out with her hand out to stop the car, as if she's stopping it on behalf of, say—
"Wait, wait, wait, there's a cat!"
While this is largely a stupid move, it somehow works? The car stops short, and the driver even gets out to check on this supposed cat. Suddenly, there's a commotion, as Maya pretends there was totally a cat here and now it's gone and the folks around her start to take notice.
Even the video store owner comes to check, asking at the door if it was a specific cat— apparently there's a few that hang around the area.
Of course, as Maya swears up and down that it was exactly that cat, she looks around, checking to make sure she doesn't still see Kalim.
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Unfortunately all the spinning and twinkling is over just in time for Maya to look over and see Nova Sunbeam shimmering into view next to the dumpster where she left Kalim. Probably just a coincidence tho
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Which is a good thing, because Maya totally definitely absolutely saw that! And sure, there's like a little tiny weenie baby chance that wasn't Kalim, but there's also a chance that that over there is one of her lil baby bros, running off into danger.
Oh, yeah, and even if he isn't? That's a magical hero. She's supposed to ignore that?!
Without a single consideration for the fact that doing so also puts her in danger, Maya starts chasing after where she thought she saw Nova Sunbeam.
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"Maya?!" Ah...shoot. Kalim slaps his hand over his mouth. "Uhh, I mean...random citizen...?" He trails off with a weak laugh. Nautis has explained the oblivion field to all of them, and he knows it only does so much.
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And then she cuts her arms in an X-shape, signaling a 'no-go.'
"WRONG! Try again! Take it again from the top aaaand— Action!"
She cannot make it clearer she is attempting to give him a do-over here but... it's not like she can unlearn something like that!
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"I think it's kinda too late for that! You gotta promise not to tell anyone, though, okay?"
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Maya raises a brow, hand to her cheek in thought as she plays stupid. She'd never turn him in, but she does want to hear his excuse.
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You know, unless he messed up and told them by accident,
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But Maya believes in heroes, and before her, this bright and shiny friend of hers is standing in a hero's garb. There's a part of her that is so, so jealous— and yet, so relieved.
This whole time, heroes have been so close by, haven't they?
"Well, if you're sworn to secrecy, I guess I am, too. But—"
Maya puts on a bold grin for her Kalim, and poses in an action stance— legs apart, fist at her side, and drawing an imaginary sword in a broad arc. Surely he recognizes one of the Steel Samurai's slick moves.
"Only if you promise you'll beat the bad guys and tell me all about it later!"
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"Yeah! Of course I'll beat the bad guys. Call me later and I'll tell you everything! Or, actually, why don't you come over? I bet Jamil would love to see you too!"
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"Of course! You better be in tip-top shape when I get there!"
Whether or not she thinks Jamil will be happy or not is... irrelevant, because she's showing up anyway. You know, after a bit more subtly making sure things are gonna be okay, instead of just blatantly following after someone this time..
"Take 'em down, Kaa-aaaaaaammmy guy! Good! Luck!"
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"Thanks, my...random citizen!" He laughs, exhilarated, and gives her a big thumbs up. "Stay safe out there, okay!"
With that he takes off, although, like, not literally – it would be really cool if he could fly but alas he has to just kind of anime leap away...