Test Drive Meme #1

[changelinged]

TDM #1 - January/February 2025

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🦋 The Party

You wake up at a party.

You're not sure how, exactly, you got here. You may have just been walking in the woods or at a meeting for work or doing any other normal activity for you. But you know you weren't supposed to be at this party, you're fairly certain.

Anyone you ask about it will say the party is for you. You and the others also waking up and looking confused. Further questions will lead to the partygoers insisting you have something to eat. You're starving and others are eating the food without repercussion, so you figure there's no harm in a bite. You finish your portion.

It seems to be a holiday party of some sort, if the large, candle-decorated pine tree in the middle of the tables is any indication. While the party appears to be outside, the temperature is mild and pleasant within the gates and hedges sectioning the party off from the rest of the garden. Stars twinkle overhead, a full moon hanging in the sky, as fluffy flakes of oddly not-cold snow drift to the ground. Some of the hosts dance in a circle around the pine tree, moving their hands around in odd patterns as their feet move; it seems to make the tree glow. The mood seems to be festive, with everyone smiling brightly. Their chipper voices sometimes crescendo louder than the soft chamber music that's being performed in the corner; their laughter rings out like little bells now and then as people get settled.

There are candles and sprigs of pine on every table accenting the festive spread of food and drinks. There are cookies, olives and cheese and crackers, various sliced meats, cranberries and oranges, chocolate coins, fried potatoes of every shape and style, warmed cider and mulled wine, and every other type of food you might be craving.

As the party winds down and everyone's eaten, a tall, stately woman stands up and speaks. You feel her voice more than hear it.

I am the Lawspeaker of the Fae, elected by Seelie and Unseelie alike, and you are all, now, subjects of Faerie. You cannot leave this realm once you have eaten our food, and even if you could, there is no saying how much time has passed back where you're from. Your loved ones are likely dead, your problems have likely played out. We require assistance in various matters, and each of you has been chosen for your talent and skill. You will be adopted by one of the Seelie or Unseelie Courts based on your strengths and personality. Your Court will decide what to do with you from there.

As suddenly as she stood, she sits back down.

🦋 A Great Miracle Happened There

In front of you sits a spinning top with symbols you don't recognize on each of its four sides. Next to it is a pile of chocolate coins. Someone nearby helpfully explains that you'll need a second player to bet against, but they at least are willing to take a second to explain the rules.

Each round, each player puts a coin into the pot. Then they take turns spinning the top, taking an action depending on the symbol that is landed on. The wind chime means you do nothing. The coin means you take everything in the pot. The sword means you take half of everything in the pot (half plus one if there is an odd number). The hand means you put a piece of your winnings back in the pot. When one person owns every chocolate coin and the other person is left with nothing, they have won the game.

Perhaps you should try and flag someone down to play a game to figure out what's going on around here. After all, half of the party guests look about as confused as you do, and it might be a nice idea to start getting to know the other people here.

🦋 Eat Me

Tucked away in a corner sits the dessert table. Each cake, cookie, and pastry has signs next to them:

Warning: Do Not Eat

But everything else you've had tonight doesn't seem to have an effect, so what's the harm in a little sweet treat? You dig in, and then, without your knowledge, something changes about you. What those changes are, exactly, is dependent on the desserts you've eaten. Luckily the effect is only temporary; some only last a matter of minutes, some last hours, but either way as soon as you leave the party, you'll be cured.

Types of Desserts

• Cakes: You will believe you've lived in the Fae Realm your whole life and belong there
• Cookies: You will shrink down to about two inches tall
• Pies: You will forget someone important to you
• Candies: You will no longer be able to tell any lies
• Custards: You will grow a tail, antennae, wings, or any combination thereof

🦋 GEIS

You feel a vibration in your pocket sometime after the Lawspeaker addresses everyone. When you search for the source, you will pull out your Leaf, the device the Fae use to stay in touch with each other. Anyone who's used a smart phone will easily recognize how it works.

Greetings, Adopted. This is your Lawspeaker.

Tell us all of a time you received a gift. It could be one you enjoyed or one you did not. Perhaps a particularly amusing story will be rewarded.

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Comments

[interwebs]

i didn't cry

[meforsaken]

you kind of begged

[interwebs]

i didn't. i asked nicely. there's a difference

[meforsaken]

bringing up your test, referring to her in that manner, your phrasing…

if you ask her again, i suggest you keep your request short and sweet. the fae will gladly eat up your insecurities

[interwebs]

okay, you obviously have experience with them

come on, spit it out. what do you have? [ Information, he means. ]

[meforsaken]

what do i have? well, a winning personality to start!

you'll have to be more specific with your questions, peter parker.

[interwebs]

i'm not so sure you have that

but fine, you seem to know the fae. you've encountered these ones before? the ones who kidnapped us?

[meforsaken]

nope! never!

[interwebs]

you mean there's more of them? other fae realms like the multiverse?

[meforsaken]

of course. even if it's magic, you can still follow some line of logic, peter parker.

in my universe and perhaps yours too, there is a realm called the otherworld and you may think of it as asgard for british people. all their myths and ideals, which happen to contain a good amount of fairies and the like.

but this is not the otherworld i know, otherwise i would not be in this situation

[interwebs]

[ Magic's really not his expertise. ]

right, gotcha
so this is some otherworld that's not yours nor mine

you've got magic, right? and this world's full of it. why isn't yours working so you can send yourself home?

[meforsaken]

it's more like someone threw otherworld into a blender and sprinkled some asgard, olympus, etc for flavor

have you considered that i am sticking around out of the goodness of my heart?

[interwebs]

no, of course not
goodness of the heart isn't exactly your thing

anyway, let's get back to more important things like how they managed to put together all that here

[meforsaken]

peter parker, you assume an awful lot of a person you've never met. i've saved your life before! i've wielded mjolnir! perhaps consider some self-reflection!

anyhow i don't see why that matters

[interwebs]

[ Okay, maybe we'll put a pin on that fae topic for now. ]

you saved me? you actually wielded mjolnir? is this one of your tricks?

[meforsaken]

do you know how utterly exhausting it is to hear that all the time?

but yes, i've done both those things and even saved the world on occasion.

[interwebs]

well, i don't know, you're kinda a trickster. it's your whole thing. god of mischief, heard of it?

how did you save the world?

[meforsaken]

well there was the time with the void. the time with my uncle. the time with mephisto. the time with mother. the time with myself. the time with the gods of the gods. the time with the enigma. the time with the infinity stones.

forgive me, i'm missing quite a few in there but i believe you get the idea

[interwebs]

that's a pretty long list. didn't know you've really become your own superhero.

even if that time with yourself might not have been ideal

[meforsaken]

eh
i've gone where the story takes me

and that time was critical to me becoming who i am now so i don't really regret the destruction of the seventh cosmos

[interwebs]

the destruction of what???

[meforsaken]

the seventh cosmos, the old iteration of the multiverse

i was a side story in its destruction anyhow

[interwebs]

okay i don't know what that is but

why do you refer to yourself as a character in a story? that's really weird

[meforsaken]

because i am one.

i'm literally a mythological being. my life is not straightforward like a human's, but made of various stories

[interwebs]

that's true, but you're real to me. it's not like thor refers to himself in the same way

[ Is Peter trying to understand the 4th wall? Maybe. ]