progress city test drive #1

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TEST DRIVE MEME

Here You Leave Today And Enter The World Of Yesterday, Tomorrow And Fantasy. Welcome to Progress City's first official test drive meme! This game is a panfandom jamjar set in a flux dimension inspired by Disney Theme Parks (particularly Walt Disney World in Florida) and the original concept for EPCOT (a city that would connect to the theme parks). Whether you're looking to join us or are just here to play around for a little bit, we have a few prompts below for you - but you're also free to come up with your own!

Prompt A Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, you find a vintage-looking ticket. The next time you blink or close your eyes for any reason, you open them and find yourself somewhere else - Progress City's Ticket and Transportation Center. You have no idea how you got here, and definitely don't know how you got this weird thing on your wrist... You'll learn, eventually, that Progress City and it's world-class themeparks are a popular tourist dimension across this universe. People can get in here very easily, but for some reason, that unremovable band on your wrist isn't allowing you to use their transporters to get home. To compensate, you'll be offered a job in the parks and free housing for the duration of your stay. Is that something you're willing to take?

Prompt B While you're here, you might as well spend some time around the theme parks in your downtime. It's easy enough to get to them - the city offers free 24/7 monorail and peoplemover transportation to each park, and you also get a free annual pass for yourself with your stay (lucky you)! If you're at all familiar with Walt Disney World, these four parks will seem...remarkably familiar to you. But there's little subtle differences here and there that that make this seem different - and the ones in charge will seem confused by the concept of a "Walt Disney World". Must be a thing about different dimensions. Nevertheless, you're still going to have the occasional bit of free time here, so there's plenty to see and do here across all four areas. Go ride some rides and eat some Dole Whip, you crazy kids.

Prompt C With the housing, you also get offered a job by Progress City's mayor. Maybe you decide to take it, maybe you don't, he's not gonna kick you out of your apartment unless you deserve it. But this poses a good way to get some actual money. You'll be matched to a job around the resort - hopefully one you enjoy. You could end up working in the parks as a ride operator, serving food, managing a shop, working security, or ending up as a pool lifeguard. There are a number of possibilities here, and you can always change your job later on if you find one that may suit you more.

Prompt D Over time, the thing on your wrist changes. Namely, it'll start taking on new colors, designs and occasionally icons that reflect your character's personality and appearance. You'll find that by concentrating you'll be able to utilize your band to... cast magic spells, of all things. These also seem tailored to your character - summoning weapons, creating projectiles, putting foes to sleep? It seems that no two bands are alike when it comes to this. ...Occasionally, you'll spot one or two small ink blot-like creatures scurrying about the city or the parks, creating an inky mess and leaving a small amount of chaos in it's wake. Those don't seem advertised. Perhaps they'd be good to try out your new abilities on, or maybe you'd prefer to practice a little bit first.

Wildcard As always, feel free to come up with your own scenario if none of these inspire you!

Comments

Mirio Togata | My Hero Academia

[hyakuman]

B
[ After being assurance of where he is, he still takes guard. But it's nice to get some information and some idea where he currently is.

He hums as he explores around the park areas. When he lucked out enough that he's been to Disneyland back at home, the Tokyo resort, when his dad saved money for a fun vacation. And, there had been initial plans to go to the seapark that eventually fell through as Mirio got busier and his dad god older. The one back home is big, but nowhere big as Progress City though he can see the uncanny resemblance.

Mirio stops and recognizes a ride, he runs up near the entrance. Thankfully it's surprisingly a quiet period. He asks the nearest person. ]

Sorry, this has to be a weird question, but you know Disneyland right? That's Space Mountain from Disneyland's Tomorrowland, right?

C
[ If Mirio shows any complaint, it's definitely not showing in his face because he's giving all the enthusiasm he can get. While some signs of exhaustion cracks through whenever a kid starts to throw a tantrum at him, he doesn't break the cheery attitude as he serves them food. No matter how rowdy the guests can be, he continues to be an unbreakable force.

The moment when he gets to the break room, he lets out a sigh of relief and calls out to you. ]

Hey, you don't think the boss would mind if I lay down on break for a second right?

[ He's leaning against the wall, Mirio looks like he's about to fall any time. The kids aren't bad, he was just not prepared to handle them every single moment like this. ]

D
[ In a way, it's nothing short new to him. Sort of. The sensation of familiarizing himself with an ability makes him think back to early childhood, this time however, he has a sense of idea what kind of adjustments he needs to do. It's nostalgic in it's own way, though it's probably because he remembers the satisfaction of mastering his permeation more rather than the scares it used to give him.

It still scares him, but he moves forward nonetheless.

Despite the lack of coordination, even the untrained eye can notice the rapt and serious expression that Mirio has as he tries to experiment through the flight spell. He would gently land his feet back to the ground, then jump up again before activating; rinse and repeat, with the only changes of him switching directions or posture. Whatever works to learn more about this new ability! ]

A

[standingonmyneck]

Either that or it's "Galaxy Hill".

[Seriously...this place was everything Disney and yet...not. It made her wonder often if this was a copyright issue or a world in which Disney really truly DID rule the world? A lot of theories did come up about the set up here, all of which she wrote down.]