progress city test drive #3

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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 second 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! Reserves are always open!

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.

Prompt E Every now and again, the city will host a Festival! Progress City prides itself in making festivals with great food and drink, and will happily let its citizens enjoy it for a nice discount! You can either look up examples of Disney festival treats or make up some yourself, but rest assured, everything you order will be simply amazing. If you're not too busy getting drunk to stand, there are also other events you can participate in! There are also small events your character can participate in! In this hypothetical festival, your character can take a cooking class, attend a seminar to learn basic magic tricks (with real magic!), or try out a fancy new VR game where you fight against other players as giant robots.

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

Comments

Vitani | The Lion King 2

[joyofvengeancetestify]

A-1

Whoa...

[Vitani's torn between being scared and amazed. She doesn't know how she got here- she obviously couldn't read the ticket- and she has no idea what this thing strapped to her paw is. And she can't find her siblings or her pride... or her mother.

But it's all so pretty and colorful and sure there's a lot of weird monkey things everywhere but!!! New things! New stuff to play with that's not bones! No mother to yell at her or Nuka for doing something wrong!

Vitani's gonna be dashing around the entire park until she collapses from exhaustion, trying to explore everything at once. You can find her just about anywhere- in the stores, exploring the rides and attractions, digging through garbage...]

A-2

[Once she's good and worn out, pretty late in the day, she'll come up to someone who looks fairly responsible.]

Do you know where I can find mother? She'll probably get real mad at me if I don't come home soon. Or get mad at Nuka. She does that a lot.

B-1

[... There is a lion cub in the teacup ride.

She appears to be wildly confused about what's going on and very dizzy. Send help.]

E

[Hey, you know Mayor Plankton's festival? That fucking disaster?

Yeah, Vitani's eaten her weight in chum [look, shes an Outsider lion cub, she's lived her life on a diet of carrion and little else; chum isn't the worst thing she's had and there's so much of it] and now she's chilling in the ballpit. Half of the balls are deflated, now, from puncture wounds. The ballpit itself is battle scarred from her, as well.

You may want to put duct tape on that.]