Test-Drive Meme!

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TEST-DRIVE MEME

Maybe you've considered appping a new character but you're not sure how well they would adjust to the in-game scenario? Well, here's a chance to give it a try!

• Post with a character journal you'd like to voicetest or you've considered apping to Ruby City. Feel free to play them as newcomers or as if they've been here for a while - the setting is your own choice.

•Respond to other threads with new characters or with characters who are already in the game.

• Explore different interactions, find castmates, develop possible CR - anything you want, as long as you have fun!

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[puppy_lancer]

...What's a moon cell?

[You've lost him.]

[looselips]

It's a giant chunk of photonic crystal that works like one big computer. Only a couple hundred people in the entire world can hack into it like I did. If you can get into it, you can get into anything.

[puppy_lancer]

Ugh, computers.

[He knows they're good for entertainment or information, but just thinking about hacking one makes his brain hurt.]

So what do you do in that moon cell thing?

[looselips]

That's... That's none of your business. [Mostly because that's when the story turns embarrassing. You better believe that if he had more to brag over, he would.] All that matters is that I can do it and you can't.

[puppy_lancer]

I bet I can do even more things that you can't do.

[But since he's a Servant, this is pretty much a given.]

[looselips]

You? Who'd want to do whatever lame tricks you can pull off by rubbing your two braincells together? You aren't better than me, so stop acting like you are!

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer mentally runs through his list of abilities that he can show off without outright exposing his Servant status. Spear tricks? He'd need to manifest the spear first. Spirit mode? Would out him as a Servant. Dog affinity? No dogs. Runic magic? Maybe.]

Watch this.

[He quickly sketches the ansuz rune to create a little flame that dances in the palm of his hand.]

How's that? Better than computers, right?

1/3

[looselips]

[kdsjfdk JUMPS]

[looselips]

[Okay, wait, no, that wasn't that bad. IT'S NOT TOO LATE, MAYBE HE CAN STILL PLAY IT COOL...!]

[looselips]

...Hah, whatever! That doesn't make you smarter than me. Why don't you just buzz off and crawl back to your basement already?

[puppy_lancer]

Because my legs are perfectly functional and can walk faster than yours.

[looselips]

Then why don't you go use them to walk off a bridge?

[puppy_lancer]

Because I don't wanna get wet. Your point?

[looselips]

You're an idiot. I'm telling you to go kill yourself.

[puppy_lancer]

...You're not my Master!

[looselips]

[WOAH WAIT WHAT. Normally he'd say something about it just being a friendly suggestion, but—]

Are you—a Servant?!

[Considering he's still half-convinced this is some bizarre digital simulation he's been trapped in after losing the elimination battle, the prospect of him not being the only one stuck here is exciting, somehow. He doesn't even stop to think before blurting that out, so the fact that a Servant from his own universe would know what the Moon Cell is slips his mind.]

[puppy_lancer]

[Fuck. Guess he had given himself away.]

Yeah, I am. How do you know of Servants?

[looselips]

[Oops. Shit. He suddenly isn't sure if this Servant will try to kill him if he answers honestly, even if it would be ridiculous for the War to continue here. He didn't even have a Servant to fight with, so how could it? Automatically, he tries to put his basket of junk food between the two of them, not that it'll do a lot of good for him if this guy does decide to attack.]

[Not that his knees are shaking or anything. (They are, a little. He's not stupid, and being in front of a Servant with no protection is not a place a Master wants to be. Not even a former one.)]

I— [Automatically, he steals a glance at the back of his hand, despite knowing that his Command Seals burned away when he was defeated and that they were never really on the body, anyway. Smooth.] I learned about them from the Moon Cell.

[It's not really a lie.]

[puppy_lancer]

[The faint killing intent Lancer has been giving off vanishes and his body visibly relaxes.]

Man, I didn't know human computers stored information about magi.

[Modern magi were usually a secretive bunch.]

But look, kid. you shouldn't pry too much into that stuff, okay? Could be dangerous.

[looselips]

[When Lancer relaxes, Shinji sighs in relief in relief. Not very discreet, but when has he ever been? In any case, he doesn't come out from behind his barrier of snacks.]

...The Moon Cell isn't a human computer. There's information stored inside it about everything that has ever happened on earth.

[Though it occurs to him now that a Servant not knowing about that stuff is really weird. And considering that the people here had supposedly come from different times—]

[It clicks.]

Are you...from before the mana dried up?

[Maybe the people here were just junk NPCs made from discarded simulations and faulty predictions. That would make as much sense as anything else.]

[puppy_lancer]

Last time I checked Earth' mana supply was good enough.

[It had been good enough to hold the Holy Grail War, at least.]

So yeah, before that. 21st century. You?

[Was this another case of the Fifth Magic?]

1/2

[looselips]

There hasn't been mana since the 2030s.

[That meant he didn't have anything to fear from this guy, right? There would be no reason for a Servant to kill a Master that wasn't even from the same War as him. Which meant...]

[looselips]

...And look— Don't tell me what to do, got it?! I've been cracking for data just as "dangerous" for more than a year—maybe close to two by now. I haven't gotten in trouble for it yet, so just mind your own beeswax already.

[Yep, right back to being a brat.]

[puppy_lancer]

[2030. The kid was from so far back that it was almost scary to think about.]

It's not hacking the data or finding out about the Grail War that's the problem. It's the Grail War itself. If you get caught up in it, there's a big likelihood you'll die.

[Some Masters and Servants had qualms about killing kids. Others...didn't.]

So even if it still exists in your time? Don't go seeking it out.

[looselips]

Shows what you know. The Holy Grail War is just some video game inside the Moon Cell. It's not like people can really die there. I'll admit, I was scared for a minute, but in the end it was just a big fake out. All I have to do is find away to hack out of this place and I'll be able to go home like nothing ever happened.

[He says this with the utmost confidence. It's a little sad.]