penancememes | TEST DRIVE MEME #12

Entry tags:

!tdm

TEST DRIVE MEME #12

ARRIVAL

You remember a dream.

Or maybe nightmare is more accurate.

It was full of hellfire nipping at your skin and a sensation of being pulled down no matter how much you struggle or cry for help. There's a voice that feels like it's coming from all around you at once. Contrasting with the nightmare unfolding around you, it's smooth as silk. It makes you want to listen with every bit of attention you can muster in the moment.

"Judgement has come upon you, but not to worry. It can still be undone."

The voice promises you redemption for your sins. It promises you a better life and everything you could ever want, if only you just stop struggling so much.

And so you do.

Everyone wakes up in the same room initially. The room is done up in red with a cushy bed, a window, an old TV in the corner on a desk, and a few Hieronymus Bosch paintings lining the wall. There's a bathroom to clean up in and any belongings will be sat around the room to be gathered later. There's a duffel bag provided for your convenience.

After feeling a sensation of falling or dropping onto the bed, characters wake up feeling like they've just slept for a week. Their body will feel heavy and stiff, they'll have a massive headache at first.

They'll quickly notice the list of their sins written with their blood on a bedside table on an old piece of parchment. This will mean the list is tied to them and can't be changed or tampered with. They'll also receive their device to connect with others and the network. It won't be anything terribly fancy. As a matter of fact, it looks like a very old Blackberry type phone.

Once characters are ready to leave the room, they'll head down long, winding halls. They're dimly lit and ominous feeling. They may encounter fellow sinners or demonic staff that will direct the newcomer down to the lobby to get their actual room key to settle in. They may be pushy, they may border on courteous. It really just depends on the mood of the staff at the time and how they're treated in return. Eventually, everyone comes to stairs that lead downward.

Once down to the lobby, you'll notice the front desk manned by a demon who looks bored out of its mind. To the side of him is the door to the kitchen where guests may help themselves. To the right is a small duty free shop that seems to have a surprisingly normal, expected stock of items. Look around a bit further, there will be a tiny bar tucked in through a corner door. It seems pretty well-stocked and best of all, there's a demonic bartender who seems to know how to mix any drink you can imagine (and a few you can't). Of course there's some seating, bar games, and a jukebox tucked in the corner if you'd rather stay and socialize a bit. There's also a new addition of a karaoke machine.

Please note that all the songs on the jukebox are appropriately hell-themed. Hopefully Sympathy for the Devil is universally loved.

STAND YOUR GROUND

QUIET AGAIN

Good day, denizens of Hell! The weather remains crisp and hot as ever, but all voices have finally ceased! No more telepathy, no more unwanted flashes. The entire hotel seems relieved by this turn of events! The staff is in a far better mood as the bustle around handling cleaning and laundry and all those tasks they tend to despise.

There's some buzzing talk around the hotel about how it's been almost a year since this experiment began and they've heard that Lucifer will want to make a special announcement about it soon. If asked, they won't really say what he's planning to do about all of this. Some may even seem a little put off by how long this experiment has gone on and would rather just not talk about it at all.

Ah, well.

What matters is it's been a year for some of the guests in the hotel and there's a nice, lengthy list of redeemed souls. Not too shabby. They're making excellent progress.

In celebration, a new location has been unlocked just off the hotel gym! It seems there's a new indoor pool. For once, it does seem to just be a normal pool with no weird after effects. It doesn't suddenly turn into blood or anything! Though guests will be responsible for its upkeep. The staff already cleans up after every other mess they make, why should the have to deal with this one too?

Lucifer will be curiously absent and unreachable during this time. If asked, the staff will say he's a busy overlord and he's got other things to tend to. They'll direct them towards Lilith instead, who will have made a return to the hotel for the time being.

THE VEIL
Warnings: dead animals, blood, violence.

For all the palpable relief in the air at no longer dealing with odd voices, there's still another threat looming in the air. A cult by the name of The Veiled Order who wants to take over Hell itself. it seems they're still on the move. they're still leaving animal carcasses around the outside of the community and starting fires here and there. It seems to be some sort of ritual. Or maybe it's just a scare tactic. No one can be absolutely certain.

Either way, one day, Lilith will appear on every device in the Penance community. She will look as calm as ever, entirely professional as she meets the camera with a slight smile. "While this isn't my usual area of expertise, addressing all of you as I am, it's a necessity. I'm asking all of you to help us gather a few items around the community to help with a spell that may provide us further insight into what our friends at the Veiled Order are up to. A list will follow this broadcast... please return the items you find to the front desk. We're all deeply grateful for your continued cooperation."

The list is as follows:
5 Hell flowers
2 apples
5 strands of dark hair.
4 vials of Squonk blood.
3 fingers.
2 items touched by magic.

Worry not! If fingers are severed during this portion of the event, the staff has magic to regrow the limbs over night. Staff will be very grateful for the help.

Once all items have been acquired, Lucifer will include the findings in his announcement.

REACH UP HIGH

PLEASE EXPLAIN...
Warnings: mutilation, blood, torture.

"Welcome, my honored guests! Since some of your ilk have displayed an alarming tendency towards secrecy and outright lying, I've come up with a way for you to practice frank discussion instead," Lucifer's voice rings out as it always does, compassion and warmth clear despite his words. It lingers in guests' ears even as they're forced into a dark room by demons and shown an ominous looking device just waiting for them.

"What I ask of you won't be an easy task, but it will be a lesson that's valuable to learn. The device before you will display a sin one of you is guilty of. You will be given exactly one minute to begin explaining what happened and how. There's no need to try to excuse your behavior... do be frank about it. Fair warning, if either of you refuse... you'll likely be very unhappy about what happens as a result."

Guests won't have the option of refusing this daunting task. The demons that dragged them in will also shove their hands in the opening of the device. They'll be unable to remove them as a typing noise begins sounding out. After a moment, a sheet of paper will then pop out of the top of the device for guests to read, with one sin off their list printed neatly on it. They will have a minute to begin to explain what it means and how it happened.

Should the guest refuse or fail, they will feel the contraption start to work once again, an ominous sound of something shifting before a sharp pain shoots up their finger. Each time they fail, they will each lose a fingernail. this will keep going until they've lost all ten (or however many the guest may have) or they answer a satisfactory number of sins. It really just depends on which sort of torment the guests are content with suffering through and how much they want redemption.

[Note: How many sins characters have to explain to be released will be left up to player discretion!]

FOLLOW ME DOWN

Prompt I
Warnings: Alcohol and drug abuse, potential non-con/dub-con.

With all the sinners, new and old, the bar will be lit up with activity and absolutely bustling with guests and demons alike. Food and drinks will be readily available and provided by hotel staff (although they might not always know what humans eat. What do you mean, you don't like fried kitten?), music will be blaring, and overall, there will be an energy to the atmosphere that's absolutely contagious. Even if you aren't typically inclined to linger at these sorts of events, there will be a certain pull to stay and have a bit of fun.

You may not get much of a chance to have that in hell after all. So one drink won't hurt, right? Nor will one more after that.

There will also be every sort of party drug available that might tickle your fancy. There's no harm in experimenting, is there? You're already in hell and the staff is handing it out and so helpfully showing you how to use it, or recommending a type that would suit what you want.

You've presumably done your atonement for the day, yes? So cut back a bit, let loose. Hell might be pain and torment, but it's also a nonstop party in the bar.

There's even a brand new stage and a karaoke machine for those feeling brave!

Ask the staff demons very nicely and you may even get less scrupulous drugs as well. Things that will convince your fellow damned souls to tell only the truth for a fun prank, or perhaps even potions that will make someone so enamored with you, they won't take their eyes, or hands, off you. How dare they give you the cold shoulder earlier, right? You've got them now.

There are also tables set up for all sorts of gambling and various bar games to entertain yourself with. Since currency as most are familiar with it doesn't quite exist down here, most of the demons seem to be accepting bits of your soul, if you're in a gambling mood. You may also get pulled into a fun game of strip poker against one of your fellow guests for a few succubi that are having a night out.

Relax and enjoy your night. Coming here and facing your sins is the hard part, so surely you deserve to have a little fun, right?

TOUCH ME
Warnings: Somnophilia, drugs, non-con, aphrodisiacs, dub-con.

The succubi and incubi have set up a fun night at the club. Sure, there's the nonstop dance party just next door, but in the main part of the club? Everything has been transformed to accommodate luxurious baths and massages, plush beds and oversize pillows that scatter the floor with the comfort of the patrons in mind. After nearly two weeks of very little sleep, it's time to be pampered a bit!

For a special treat, bringer of souls into Hell and mother of all sex demons, Lilith will be taking the stage. It seems hypnotic dances aren't her only talent! She'll be singing something inhuman, in some dead language perhaps. One won't need to know the words to be instantly soothed and coaxed into staying. It's apparently the best siren's song to draw those weary souls into the club for a fun, relaxing time.

As always, the aphrodisiacs are kicked up very high, but it seems like every touch the demonic staff gives makes one feel almost soothed and safe instead of ravenous. Every massage, every brush of a fingertip even, feels relaxing. Why not stay for the night? There will be warm drinks and all the pampering one could want! After a drink and a massage, one may be coaxed into a bath to be cleaned from head to toe (with or without a very happy end as those fingers trail everywhere).

All will seem on the up and up until after the bath when patrons may find themselves very sleepy all of a sudden. Is it just the lack of sleep catching up? Is it Lilith's calm voice ringing out everywhere?

Or was it drugs in the drink again? It was probably drugs in the drink.

It will get to the point where they absolutely won't be able to hold their eyes open. Sinners may not even remember being taken to one of the private bedrooms and laid out on the bed. They certainly won't have much awareness at all after they've settled into one of the most comfortable beds of their lives.

Or maybe they didn't even actually make it to a private room. They could have been left out on the club floor on the cushy seating, or laid presented somewhere all eager and ready for the touching.

Oh, and it will be tempting. Other patrons may find it downright irresistible with the succubi whispering into their ears, urging them to take what the want. Look at that gorgeous body, all spread out and responsive, even if they're asleep. What they don't know won't hurt them, right? Or perhaps it's absolutely the only way to wake a guest.

Think of it as a very naughty Sleeping Beauty situation and you're the knight in shining armor, come to save the day with a kiss. Or, you know, something much more.

Toys will be left out to be used at the sinner's pleasure, as well as anything else one may want.

Of course, the succubi didn't absolutely promise that one wouldn't wake up in the middle of the act! They're confident patrons will figure out how to maneuver this very awkward position.

Even if guests would normally be against indulging in a somnophilia kink, they may find their wills weakening anyway. The aphrodisiacs pulsing through the air are good at getting people to do what they normally wouldn't.

But for those who would really rather have both parties awake, patrons can arrange for private baths to enjoy together, or rooms to have a good night's rest in the feel good atmosphere. No sex required this time!

MISC.
Hey, guys! Welcome to our new TDM for the May 1st app round! As always, feel free to jump right on in, potential appers and current members alike! This TDM counts as an additional game event, as well as game canon for those coming into the game. Please have fun and don't hesitate to ask any questions you might have down below!

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, etc., go here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

arrival

At the best of times, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Saltzman is known for the dramatics. This is not the best of time. This is bad bad bad. She comes in with blood from the car crash and dressed in what used to look like a beautiful princess gown. Her fairytale had quickly turned into a nightmare -- which she probably should have seen coming in retrospect because why would that sort of thing happen for her without a hitch. And Sebastian had warned her from the beginning to stay away. But Lizzie she's never been good at being told what to do.

She died with vampire blood in her system. Did she die? She doesn't know. Kaleb and MG have never mentioned hell as part of transitioning but she's also like - never asked them extensively about it either. Probably too busy being self absorbed or using MG to ask, honestly.

Now she wishes she had. Which is why she's grabbing people she can find to asking them random questions like if she looks paler than usual or if they could see dark veins on her face.

Is she going to lose her magic? She knows heretics are a thing, but they're also rare, aren't they?

please explain.

Eventually Lizzie found her twin or father and was calmed down so she's much less in the hysterics but still....on edge to be sure when she gets led into the room with a stranger. She sighs dramatically -- this seems like one of Emma's weird therapy practices or something. Except....with more torture involved, obviously.

The first card comes up. Bullying

Honestly? Sure, I've been a bully, but no worse than anybody else at the school, and it beats showing that you're weak, it's either eat or be eaten in the world.

[And Lizzie has been on both sides. How many times has she been called crazy lizzie, after all? But the answer isn't specific enough and soon she begins to feel the agony of her nail being torn off.]

Motherfuck-- [she bites her lip, trying to hide just how much it hurts.] I guess it wants us to be more specific than that.

quiet again

When she's released from the torture sessions, Lizzie is determined to find a way tor relax, which is what leads her to the new pool. For now she's sitting by the side in a bikini and mostly observing other people swimming, to make sure it's not going to suddenly boil them alive or something but also because some of the swimmers are total hotties and despite her recent experiences....she is still a teenage girl with hormones who can't help herself.

Convince her to join in on the fun?

[ooc: if none of those work, pm me and we can set something else up! she'd just be avoiding the alcohol and drugs for right now considering she was just recently roofied with vampire blood.]

"Lizzie?"

Josie isn't expecting her sister to be here. Lizzie may not be the most objectively good person, but she's still Josie's favorite person and she doesn't want to see her in Hell. (It will never occur to her that Lizzie feels the same way about her, after everything she's done with dark magic as of late, but that's probably true in the inverse as well.)

She jogs towards her sister, closing the distance between the two of them in the hall, before throwing her arms around her.

"Where the hell are we?"

Lizzie would never expect Josie to be here either, but in this moment she is perversely glad she is. That she's not alone.

"Hell. That's what they keep saying -- I didn't realize I was going to detour after dying I've never heard anyone describe that as part of transitioning."

And Lizzie might be hyperventilating a little and crying and freaking out because she has had a Day and then ended up in hell and doesn't know what means for the car crash or the vampire blood in her system or anything.

"Wait, dying?"

Suddenly, Josie is Very Concerned, and she's looking over her sister like there might be some kind of clue as to what happened. Is she hurt? Is there internal bleeding? Does she need to find some kind of healer? WHAT HAPPENED LIZZIE?

"When did you die?"

"I was in this car crash? I don't know what happened I just blacked out suddenly and crashed the car -- Sebastian roofied me with vampire blood first if I'm dead -- "

Then she's going to turn. Even though she didn't want to. She hadn't been ready to make that kind of choice.

That is so many bad things in one sentence, and Josie doesn't know where to start, so instead, she defaults to what she knows best: being a caretaker.

"No, hey. It'll be okay." Josie takes another step closer, resting her hands on her sister's shoulders and pulling her in closer. "I don't think we're dead. At least, I don't remember anything like that, so maybe you're fine. We're just stuck ... here."

Because her sister being dead is not an okay scenario for her, by any means.

Lizzie clings to her sister, burying her head in her shoulder. She knows they're supposed to be working on this, not being so codependent on one another, but given the circumstances she thinks it's more than a little understandable, you know?

"Okay. Well not dead is good. I totally am not wearing the right outfit if this is supposed to be my first day as a vampire."

Actually, finding clothes that aren't her ruined princess dress might be a good distraction, if nothing else.

Lizzie Saltzman | Legacies | OTA

arrival

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

arrival part two sort of

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

arrival!

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

arrival

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject