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Test Drive Meme #4: Season of Ripening
TEST DRIVE MEME
Welcome to the Royal Decree Test Drive Meme!
If you're new here – hi, hello, welcome! This is your chance to give your potential character a little test run and see how they might fit into the world of Rosavelle. You can find all the relevant info over on our Navigation Page, so take a peek if you need to get caught up on the setting, rules, or just want to gnaw on the worldbuilding a bit.
This TDM is non-canon to the game overall, but feel free to treat individual threads or CR as canon between characters if everyone involved agrees. We've included some prompts and locations below to help spark ideas, but as always, feel free to go off-script and go ham!
The shift in weather Ripening brings to Rosavelle is impossible to ignore. The air grows heavy and thick with humidity that clings to basically everything and unlike the passing showers of earlier seasons, rain now arrives in frequent and stormy bursts - sudden downpours that sweep through the streets and canals with little warning, soaking everything in their path. It rarely rains without pause, but clear skies offer little relief. As the weeks pass, the rising heat turns each shower into lingering mugginess, leaving the whole island feeling stifling. Hope you enjoy being overhheated and damp all the time!!!
It's not all doom and gloom, thankfully. True to the season’s name, fruits begin to swell and sweeten on their branches, with the first harvests ready by midseason - a sure sign that Ripening is well underway.
By now you've likely found your footing in the ebb and flow of island life and you know how things go around here: when someone needs a little warmth, a little effort, or a little magic, the people of Rosavelle come together - and that includes you!
If you're new here – hi, hello, welcome! This is your chance to give your potential character a little test run and see how they might fit into the world of Rosavelle. You can find all the relevant info over on our Navigation Page, so take a peek if you need to get caught up on the setting, rules, or just want to gnaw on the worldbuilding a bit.
This TDM is non-canon to the game overall, but feel free to treat individual threads or CR as canon between characters if everyone involved agrees. We've included some prompts and locations below to help spark ideas, but as always, feel free to go off-script and go ham!
The shift in weather Ripening brings to Rosavelle is impossible to ignore. The air grows heavy and thick with humidity that clings to basically everything and unlike the passing showers of earlier seasons, rain now arrives in frequent and stormy bursts - sudden downpours that sweep through the streets and canals with little warning, soaking everything in their path. It rarely rains without pause, but clear skies offer little relief. As the weeks pass, the rising heat turns each shower into lingering mugginess, leaving the whole island feeling stifling. Hope you enjoy being overhheated and damp all the time!!!
It's not all doom and gloom, thankfully. True to the season’s name, fruits begin to swell and sweeten on their branches, with the first harvests ready by midseason - a sure sign that Ripening is well underway.
By now you've likely found your footing in the ebb and flow of island life and you know how things go around here: when someone needs a little warmth, a little effort, or a little magic, the people of Rosavelle come together - and that includes you!
PROMPTS
Honey Downpour
- The beekeepers of Primavain are in a panic: the relentless rain has driven their hives into overproduction and now thick, golden honey is starting to pour from the combs in a tremendous waste of hard work and delicious treats! The bees themselves are docile (if a bit reluctant to exit their homes), but the situation is rapidly getting out of hand. Volunteers are needed to help harvest excess honey, redirect curious crowds and maybe convince a few stubborn bees to relocate. Or, if you're less helpful, you could always sample a bit… purely for quality control purposes, of course.
The Drip-Drop Duel
- Somewhere in the Castle Grounds, an extremely niche and equally petty disagreement has escalated. Two scholars, both convinced they have perfected the superior rain-deflection Bloomcraft, have taken to demonstrating their work in increasingly dramatic fashion. And now there’s a localized "dueling" ground where rain refuses to fall normally, instead redirecting itself in arcs, spirals, or suspiciously targeted torrents. Spectators are gathering, bets are being placed, and volunteers are being roped in to test the limits of each spell. Step in to assist, sabotage, or simply survive the increasingly creative ways water is being weaponized.
Puddle Predictions
- Something odd is happening in the streets of Bellvine Hill: certain rain puddles have started reflecting things that aren't actually there. A clear sky where there should be clouds, a stranger standing just behind you when you’re quite certain you’re alone or fleeting glimpses of moments that haven’t happened yet but will do in just a few moments. Naturally, this has drawn a crowd. Some are treating it like a game, trying to find the strangest reflections, while others are attempting to interpret what they see. Pair up to compare visions, test which puddles are the most reliable (if any) or dare each other to act on what you glimpse. It’s probably harmless. Probably.
Runoff Relay
- With the heavy rains feeding into the canals, the water flow through Marelys has picked up speed, carrying with it all sorts of debris from upriver-driftwood, stray fishing gear, and the occasional very confused fish. The dockhands have organized a cooperative effort to intercept anything useful before it's swept out to sea, forming a chain of volunteers along the canal's edge to catch, grab, and pass things along. It's efficient! It's practical! It's also turned into a slightly competitive relay, with different teams trying to outdo each other in speed and quantity. The victor doesn't seem to get anything more than bragging rights, but isn't that what competition is really about at the end of the day?
Canal Critter Convoy
- The rising waters have displaced more than just goods - small canal creatures have started turning up in all the wrong places. Tiny fish in fountains, curious crustaceans in market stalls and at least one very indignant waterbird refusing to vacate a bakery doorway. A coordinated effort is underway to gently relocate these wayward critters back to their proper habitats. You can help catch and carry them, guide them along flooded pathways, or simply keep them calm (easier said than done) until more help arrives.
Leaky Greenhouse Blues
- The Everbloom's Greenhouse is not supposed to leak. It is, in fact, famously not supposed to leak. And yet, with the relentless rains of Ripening bearing down on the glasswork overhead, a series of suspicious drips have begun appearing in the most inconvenient places possible. Now the gardeners alike scrambling to catch the leaks before delicate plants get overwatered (or worse, offended). Volunteers are welcome to help patch things up, hold buckets in increasingly awkward positions, or attempt to soothe particularly dramatic flora that have decided this is a personal slight. Just try not to track mud everywhere - some of these plants hold grudges.
The Overripe Affair
- The Season of Ripening means abundance but someone may have gotten a little too enthusiastic. A Primavain orchard has produced fruit so perfectly ripe that it's started to… burst. Not rot, not spoil - just gently (and sometimes not so gently) popping open under the pressure, releasing sticky-sweet juice and an almost intoxicating fragrance into the air. It's drawing crowds, insects, and more than a few opportunistic snackers, and the orchard keeper is at their wit's end. Help harvest the fruit before it explodes, find creative ways to contain the mess, or just brave the chaos and see how many you can catch mid-pop. Fair warning: you will get sticky. There is no avoiding it.
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[THE BEES ARE NOT LISTENING. But NiGHTS looks happy enough, so maybe that's all that matters.
They're gonna do like, an awkward, rigid shuffle walk towards the hall.]
Let's go!
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she could keep a lower profile, but instead. ]
Hey! Where can we hold a bunch'a bees 'til the rain's done?
[ wow. she's bad at the fitting in thing, but she's trying? ]
Someone's comin' with 'em right now, if there's a place outta the way that'd be alright.
[ surprisingly! there's an unused room that they can stay in for the time being until they find the beekeepers help.
success? ]
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It's probably a bit unnerving if you don't like bugs...
But they're happy and bee free.]
That's it! You'll be nice and dry here in the meantime. [They float down to Ryuunosuke, take their hands and do a little spin with them.] Isn't it great?
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what winds up getting a reaction out of her is NiGHTS taking her hands and spinning. ]
Whoa, hey--! [ little excitable there?! she tries to pull her hands back. ] H-Hands off!
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That's a little rude, isn't it?
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[They gesture to Ryuunosuke with their...sleeves? Their empty sleeves, that contain no arms and have no hands.
Because NiGHTS's hands are disembodied, you see. They float.
So now she's standing there holding a pair of hands, which doesn't seem to bother their owner. They're laughing.]
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ryuu. stares at them, and then the hands. then, them and their sleeves, and-- she's dropping the hell out of those hands. ]
Seriously?! C'mon, you tryin' to give me a heart attack?
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[Sorry, they're a menace. The hands just kinda...return, popping into the sleeves and getting a little flex as if to celebrate their return.]
Okay, okay, I'm sorry! I'll stop.
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[ ryuunosuke's being mean, but she's kinda. flustered? ]
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[That's good enough. They don't like telling people what they really are.]
I've met lots of dreamers like you but never in the waking world like this. It's exciting!
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I'm Ryuunosuke. [ uh. ] I ain't really a "dreamer", or whatever you're talkin' about.
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[ ...ryuu looks confused for a second, but. ] I mean, I have. I never really dwell on 'em for that long though.
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But that's just what we call people from the waking world! When you dream, we can see you, even for a little while.
[And when you wake up, then that's all it was. A dream.
But for them, it's their whole world.]
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So wait wait wait, I've got a buncha clowns watchin' my dreams when I sleep?! A-Ain't that a... whatchacallit... invasion of privacy?!
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[They haven't got a fucking clue who this is but.]
Dreaming about that special someone?
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[ not that it's bad, but it's stuff she doesn't wanna share with anyone just yet! ]
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[Crosses their heart with a finger.]
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[Probably joking again. Probably.]
Besides, I'm here to help the Princess out! I'm not gonna cause trouble for them.
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[ stuff that ryuunosuke doesn't particularly think about, which... makes her wonder why she got the invitation. well, not that she's complaining. ]
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Of course, I'm no cupid. But I can do my best.
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[ and yet, she's here. ]
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So why did you come along, Ryuu?
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Look, it's... dumb, so if y'make fun of me I'll sic the bees back on ya.
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