anima_ooc | Test Drive The First

Our first, pre-game test drive! Feel free to backtag into this to your heart’s content. You may also (with permission from other players) have this be canon to your character’s RP if you wish; you can also tag without concerns of continuity too! Related to this, your Anima companion, spells, elements, etc, can/will change around from the test drive and game-proper.

Be sure to include a starter in your response, so people have something to build off of and tag into; try and tag around different threads too, as players may want to use these threads for RP samples!

1. Monster Hunting

Worried murmurs trace through the settlement of Scholar’s Rest. And the reason is due to rumors of a Bulette spotted nearby, close enough that the land shark poses a town devouring threat. You’ve been asked to scout out, and warned repeatedly not to engage without proper backup. Maybe that’s why the Chivalrous Guild has insisted you take at least one companion along with you. The magic you both carry, and your Anima, will hopefully see you through.

2. Filling In The Blanks

A branch from the Diplomats Guild has approached you with a map. A patch work, incomplete map, but still a map. It illustrates a passage along the Salt Step Range, and several empty points are circled. The Diplomats want you to journey there, fill out the map, and return the completed document. Just watch for shifting passages, rock crumbling, and pack a good meal; you may be out for a bit.

3. Shrine Tending

Ripple is a half sunken ruin, and some of these ruins carry old carvings suggesting shrines. Many of them are covered in marine plants, obscuring images of a sea serpent and various minor gods. The Devout hope to clear some of these carvings and unearth new shrines, and thus receive the blessings of the gods depicted in them. The one complication is in the amount of swimming and potential attention of marine life to reach these shrines in the first place, or needing to crawl down through crumbing passages. But with luck, you and the others they’ve brought along don’t mind getting your feet wet.

4. Searching For Ingredients

The Discoverer’s Guild is running short on items for their alchemy, and one potion in high demand is a brew that strengthens one’s immune system. One of the key ingredients is fruit from the forest around Sun Rise, and an expedition ship has been sent out and anchored near the shore. And with a storm growling in, time is running short, and you may need to brave a blazing forest to find the ingredients.

5. Training Wheels

It’s not an easy task, finding yourself bonded to a new creature and finding your feet in a strange place; there’s any number of growing pains for the two of you. That sometimes means bursts of wild magic, and an Anima creature ready to experiment and test its limits. Maybe your creature is curious, destructive, craving attention, or ready to run off and do whatever it wants. Good thing Haven is big enough for this much chaos… but you might need some help with managing a new Anima.

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chaos was bemused. Not because he was (apparently) in another world - but because of the creature currently staring at him, head tilted to one side. Granted, he could appreciate the symbolism - but a snake? Really?

Okay, so it was a very pretty snake, with iridescent ruby scales and wings (!) of a rich, deep amber. It was, in all ways, the vain creature that its Scion was not.

And it had just set a bush on fire. Again.

The incarnation of Anima sighed, and made a casting gesture - a brief whirlwind of snow doused the flames quite handily. "How many times is this going to happen before you get that breath under control, Ruby?"

The fire, evidently, had caught the attention of another Anima. The creature approaching looked like a combination of a dragon, a phoenix and several classical angels - or, perhaps, Gnosis - with its bipedal dinosaur-like body, skin that glowed like lava or hot coals, fur and feathers that shimmered like fire and striking purple eyes staring out of her face, the wrists of her wings, and her chest...among other locations not visible from the front. Though still young, she was already as tall as a human. The sight of the snow caused her to stop in her tracks and let out a clicking noise that could have been either confusion or complaint.

The voice that called out after her would be very familiar to chaos, particularly in that irritated tone.

"Savasi, where do you think you're going? I've told you time and again to stay within sight."

As Margulis rounds a corner after his Anima, he too stops, though his expression is one of surprise rather than confusion or annoyance.

"You!"

That... is certainly a creature. A better name could not have been chosen for it. It does remind chaos of the Gnosis, but it'd be hard for him to mistake their particular waveforms. Ruby, meanwhile, has curled herself around chaos' neck, and is staring at Savasi and Margulis with equal amounts alarm and curiosity.

Though he doesn't immediately drop back into a ready stance, chaos doesn't exactly relax, either. The last time he saw you, it was when you were making a suicidal last stand against one of his closer friends, after all.

"Hello, Margulis. I hope we're not going to have a repeat of the first time we met." Just a hint of a wry smile. Without Jin here, there wasn't much chance of that.

"No...there's no longer any reason for us to fight. We both know that even the very war we fought in, was nothing but the result of that man's machinations."

Margulis walked up to stand next to Savasi and rest his hand on top of her shoulder. She looked from her Scion to the other pair and started to take a step forward, only for Margulis' hand to pull he back.

"I wish there had been another way. For what it's worth, I'm sorry things worked out as they did. What do you know about what happened after your last fight?" Because... yeah, there's a LOT of stuff chaos can fill him in on, or at least try to. And a lot that would give Margulis ample reason to hate him, too.

Ruby, meanwhile, has decided that this new person and his Anima are friends. Which means she's going to flit about and inspect them both from every angle. Don't mind the flying, fire-breathing snake. She's harmless. Unless she bites. Or breathes fire. Y'know. Standard snake things.

Test Drive The First

Anima with an Anima? Nothing can possibly go wrong here.

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Have an Anima, so you can be Anima with an Anima

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