TEST DRIVE / JAN '25 / BETA.

[eagan]

Test drive. Welcome to AFTER LIFE, a game based in the world of Severance! This test drive serves as a place to help you figure out what characters you'd like to bring into the game. Some details (housing, etc.) may require further out of character conversation; please refer to the OOC meet and greet! These prompts are all relatively low-stakes as a reflection of the nature of the game: slice-of-life until character and player interaction bring out the more psychological horror/thriller aspects of the setting. If none tickle your fancy, feel free to provide wildcard prompts of your own. The test drive is open to anyone. We encourage messing around here to figure out exactly how you'd like to port your character into Kier! Threads may also be considered game canon if you so wish. Got any questions? Check the FAQ or ask in the comments. outies: deals all the way down. There's a sale on at Lindt's Groceries! Discounts on pretty much anything you could imagine! The store is a middle-sized, relatively bougie, locally-owned grocery, with aisles stocked full of food and general necessities, as well as a small counter for deli meats and fish, and another two across the shop stocked with hot food (rotisserie chicken, sandwiches, sides) and a very limited selection of sushi (some sashimi, some hand rolls). And right now, there's a 20% discount on anything in the shop (supposedly to celebrate someone's birthday, though whose, you have no idea). Are you browsing the aisles? Are you working a shift? Are you checking out? outies: rain, rain, go away. It's a grey and cloudy day, and as the cherry on top of the gloomy day cake, it's started to rain. The closest place to get out of the downpour is We Love Books, the local bookstore. Like Lindt's, it's not huge — it's not so big as a Barnes & Noble — but it's big enough, and obviously well-maintained. Maybe there's a book you've been meaning to pick up? Or maybe you're really just waiting out the rain. Or you could stop at Leaves of Grass, the cafe next door, and get a coffee, tea, or hot chocolate to help warm up the cold day. Or maybe the rain doesn't bother you at all, and you're totally willing to keep on trucking. Are you brave enough to ask someone for a spare umbrella? outies: neighborly fun. You've been invited to a night of board games and conversation by a neighbor — or maybe just a friend of a friend. Either way, you're in a stranger's (nice, midcentury) house with a bunch of people you've never met before. There's wine, there's charcuterie, there's seltzer — bits and bobs for consumption until the games begin in earnest. (You've heard that some people at the party might be Severed — are you?) Why not say hi to the person standing next to you? Or remain a wallflower and see if a more enterprising guest will decide to bestow you with a conversation starter. innies: another day in paradise. The elevator doors open, and another normal day at work begins. You know the way to your office, and don't see anyone else on the way there. What's your routine to get settled when a day starts? Do you like your coworkers? Do you like the work you do? Have you been doing it for a million years, or is this your first day? Maybe you're a manager making sure everything is running smoothly? innies: waiting for wellness. For one reason or another, you've been given the opportunity to visit the Wellness Center for a session. Except someone seems to have made a scheduling mistake — as you sit in the waiting room, you hear footsteps coming from the hallway. You've never run into anyone from another department before; in fact, the idea of fraternization has been expressly discouraged. Maybe they're coming into the Wellness Center's waiting room, too, or maybe they're just passing by. Either way, this might be your only chance to see who else works on the Severed floor — or maybe it's just one of your usual coworkers. Will you get up, or let them go by?

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[imperatour]

001. rainy day

[ What sort of sad sap are you trudging somewhere on the side of the road in the rain? Car break down? Wife kick you out? Whatever the reason, there you are getting soaked down to the bones.

Cutting through the gloom is a car. A shiny, red Plymouth Valiant roars past. The car keeps speeding down the road, driver seemingly immune to the fact to the large sprays of water its wheels cast off. Furiosa squints in her rearview mirror, grimacing at the person she managed to hit only with the puddle carnage. She entertains the idea of not stopping. There's no reason to stop.

And yet, she finds herself rolling to the shoulder. She turns the car around, this time driving back towards the person (well within the speed limit).

Flicking her hazards on, she stops across from the person, rolling her window down enough to shout above the sound of the rain ]

You good?

002. neighborly fun

[ Furiosa feels like there's some part of her that's always starving. She stands at the charcuterie board, food going from board to hand to mouth not bothering with a plate. That is, until she becomes acutely aware of the snide and disgusted stares she can feel from across the room. Some rule she didn't know broken once again. Rebellion burns up through her throat, a childish impulse to lick her hands and rub them all over the food at the party. Then, her better judgement kicks in like always. Blend and disappear. Into what? She doesn't know. She doesn't know why she even came to this.

Quickly, she turns on her heels. She walks purposefully away like that was always her plan, confident even if she doesn't know where she's going. In the hallway past the kitchen, there are several closed doors to bedrooms. Without hesitation, she opens one to slip in.

If unoccupied, she taps the door to close but it doesn't quite latch. Any passersby would be able to sit the way she blows a raspberry through her lips as she collapses down the wall to sit on the floor.

If occupied, she raises her eyebrows surprised. Then moves to understanding. You too, huh? ]

003. wildcard

[ hit me up on plurk beehaw to plan something else! i'm still workshopping ideas if furiosa works for lumon or just lives in town working as a mechanic. i'm also down to handwave cr if they've met around town. i'm also playing around with the idea that she might go by the name dee for various reasons idk i'm here for the vibes we'll figure it out. ]