wakingthedead | testdrive | welcome to the new age.

testdrive meme.

1. First Day At Falner
You have just arrived at Falner Estate, a sprawling, beautiful, 400-hectare co-located space between Britain, Germany, and the Philippines, and the main base of Netsach. The flora and fauna in the area gives both a sense of familiarity as it looks at first glance like things you’ll find on Earth, and a weird sense of otherworldliness. Given the size of the place, the Estate is less of a compound and more like a town unto itself. The older buildings within the estate are gothic in their construction, and clear throwbacks to 19th Century Europe. The newer facilities, however, sport cutting edge contemporary designs that were clearly inspired by Fourth World architecture and technology.

If you want a better idea on what can be found on the estate, you can refer to this link.

2. A Day On The Job
You are pushing papers at Methuselah, doing research at the Arcanum, or going out on patrol -- whatever it is that you're doing, it's just another day for you as a Hunter of the Vigil.

3. Let's Head Down to Haven
Find yourself itching for a night out on the town? Why not head over to Haven, the classy nightclub that looks like a large, monolithic black building with no visible windows from the outside and the name of the club emblazoned in bold, white letters on one side.

Haven is located in Makati City, and is open to the public (especially the local supernatural community), but you might want to prepare yourself to wait in line for a very, very long time – unless you’re a Hunter, of course.

Falner’s Maenad Division holds office on top of Haven, as does Ordo Daywalker. Some of Haven’s staff also live above the night club.

4. The Awakening
Want to tag out your character's origin story? Set the stage and let's see where things go.

5. Choose Your Own Adventure
If none of the suggested premises hit the mark, feel free to set things up and let's do a tag round.

Instructions for the Testdrive:
1. Specify your chosen scenario number on the subject line.
2. Should you wish to tag with a specific character already established within Waking the Dead, indicate who. The current list of available NPCs can be found over here.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Kaz shakes Mason's hand, returning with a firm grip of his own.

"Well, Mr. Turner, I'm not the Kaiser or Ti-Inquisitor Gomez, but welcome to the Falner Estate. If you like, I could show you around."

['You nearly slipped.'] Roxas pipes up in Kaz's head. His Persona's chuckling, but understands why. There's no need to draw attention.

'Shh, he seems friendly enough. Besides, you know Tita Barbie.'

Let it never be said, though, that he didn't err on the side of caution.

"I'd like that. I'd like that a lot, actually.

He can't help but kick himself inside for not bothering to learn Auspex. Instead of being able to assess a threat better, he's reduced to simply seeing everyone in terms of "yes" or "no" on the mortal-to-undead scale of supernatural beings.

"Apparently I'm gonna be here awhile."

"Well, all these places and I'd rather think we have a lot of time... Where would you like to start? I'm scheduled to teach a class in a little while, but if you'd like to tag along..."

He needs to make his daily quota of Doctor Who references, and better to use them on an unsuspecting subject, rather than his brothers, one of whom would put him in a headlock, the other would threaten to erase his game saves, and the other one was in space. Yulia would probably stab him.

"Although, uh, Mason? Isn't being up this early draining you of Vitae?"

"Nah, I'm good. We actually only have to feed every few nights."

He pauses to consider the options.

"Class might be good, actually. I think I'm scheduled to start attending one or more of those in fact. Or something."

"I doubt you'll be with me for those classes... I teach kids, mostly. But you never know."

Much like Aria, he was teaching kids that were teaming up and would eventually be ready for their initiation. But that was a long way off, still.

"Shall we, then?"

"Lead on, Mister Ayala. Lead on."

"It's a bit of a walk to Balamb, though. I hope I'm not taking you away from more important things."

He'd give the kids a free cut today, but they already had momentum on the topic of Supernaturals, so he didn't want to stop just as they'd found a groove.

"You know how we vampires are, sir. Got nothin' but time."

A pause before he adds in an afterthough.

"I think I'm waiting on my initiation anyway."

"You plan on becoming a Keeper. Cool."

Kaz motions for you to follow him, and walking is a thing, even if he could just Kid Flash his way to Balamb.

The Falner Estate's newest vampire simply follows in silence at that.

Kaz leads the way to Balamb, and his class isn't all that full. There're teenagers and young adults in his class. He does point out a seat in the back, where you can observe from, but first...

"Okay, guys, settle down." he says. "Right, before we get down to business, we have a visitor today. Class, please say hello to Mr. Mason Turner."

"Hi everyone! Don't mind me, I'm just gonna watch while I get used to stuff around here."

He leaves polite enough room for the general rush of greetings before taking the seat that the Inquisitor assigned to him.

Class is a quick affair. Kaz hasn't been doing this very long, but he engages his students on the topic at hand. He assigns reading to them at the end of class and when everyone is gone, he breathes a sigh.

"Whew. I really need to get used to this."

The vampire simply sits through the class and listens in on the entire lecture, then getting back to the Inquisitor once it's over.

"They seemed interested enough. How long've you been teaching?"

"Oh, not too long." he replies, just a little wibbly. "They're good kids."

He chuckles and shuts off the workstation, causing all the holograms of the cases they'd been discussing to vanish.

"So, now that class is done, how would you like a tour of the campus first? I don't think you'll be in my class, seeing as I teach freshmen."

"I've just been dying to be shown around. Whoops, vampire pun!"

One can almost imagine crickets sounding off after that line.

"Err, how does it work with Kindred initiates anyway?"

testdrive | welcome to the new age.

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Actually true based on the rules, it's only 1 Vitae to wake up IIRC. :3

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He's actually teaching Ethics and The Code

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