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systemdesu) wrote in idletime2018-10-28 07:43 pm
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✨ test prive #1
✨ TEST PRIVE #1 ✨
PriPara pan pon~♪ Everyooone, gather around the fountain in PriPara Town Square! This has been a notice from the system~
[ Meganee's voice rings out over the Idol Watch, not long after the first crop of idols wander into the Prieamwidth PriPara. All of them have received their Idol Watches, Idol Time Mics, Jewels, and Looky-Cute Bags from the Meganee in Prism Stone, and heard that PriPara is a Paradise where anyone can become an idol - and their ideal self. All of them have held their PriTicket to the gate in the back of the Prism Stone shop and been transported to PriPara. All of them have seen their new PriPara Style, and met their brand-new selves. They've met a manager, too.
And now, it seems they're to meet...their destiny.
The fountain in question is the only clean structure in the Prieamwidth PriPara, which on the whole would be cute and perky if it weren't overrun with grime, vines, moss, actual trees sprouting where no tree has any business being, and other such accoutrements that make the place look like the setting of a post-apocalyptic novel about a fallen pastel privilization. The fountain, by contrast, is pristine, and bears a certain noble visage.
It's also the site of a frothy bubbling, which grows into a geyser when all the idols are assembled. A splash of water washes over the idols, and a voice from within screams out in the dulcet tones of Suwabe Junichi: ]
MEGANII REBIRTH!!
[ A giant shell pops out of the fountain's pool, opening up to reveal a handsome young man in red glasses with a hairline crack on one rim. He's holding a towel with the word "MEGANE" modestly against his privates, despite being fully clothed, but tosses it away with a "Hup!" as the shell finishes opening to display him to all of the idols. Then, standing tall, he adjusts his glasses. ]
- purpose.
[ He steps out of the shell onto the fountain's rim. A cluster of Meganee slip behind him to carry the shell away, all muttering "sssh" to themselves to remind each other to be quiet while he's talking. ]
I'm sure you all must have a number of questions. I'd be happy to answer them, but I first wish to direct your attention to the list appearing on your Idol Watches.
[ On cue, everybody's Idol Watches pop open, and said list appears. ]
This is your first set of Idol Challenges. Currently, this Prieamwidth PriPara has lost its sparkle, which has caused it to fall into disrepair. At this rate, a dire calamapri shall befall it - and all the primensions connected to it.
[ "Oh, no!" calls a Meganee, being helpful, but she continues to smile a perfect customer service smile. Meganii nods, grim. ]
In order to prevent this calamapri, your priticipation is priquired. The current system of the Prieamwidth PriPara is beset by system errors, but please, fight against this tide of adversipri and deepen your friendships with each other. Yes! Friendship will save the puniverse! Friendship - and likes!
[ The word "LIKES!" flashes above his head as a hologram, then fades. ]
Please gather likes by taking on the Idol Challenges that will periodically be sent to your Idol Watches. I understand this is a sudden and mighty undertaking, but I implore you -
[ The voice rings out through every Idol Watch, and then, a gold-and-purple helicopter lowers itself down towards the fountain. A figure suspended from a ladder drops down, displacing Meganii, who stumbles and falls off the rim, landing squarely on his behind. The figure lands in the exact same pose as the fountain.
The figure looks exactly like the fountain. And when she opens her green eyes, they flash at the audience. ]
[ Any opportunity for her to explain exactly what this means is drowned out by a sudden and mighty shriek of "HIBIKI-SAMA!!!!" from a contingent of idols in the crowd who had looked rather used to this whole PriPara deal already. They swarm the fountain, ringing it in admiration, and yelling things like "STEAL ME AWAY!" and "I WANT YOU TO RAISE MY HEART!"
A Meganee takes charge while Hibiki attempts to avoid Meganii's fate. ]
[ And with that, the meeting ends. And everyone's life as a PriPara idol - begins! ]
[ ✨ Idol Challenge #1: "Clean the Prieamwidth PriPara!" ]
[ Idols wishing to combat the physical lack of sparkle in the Prieamwidth PriPara can pick up cleaning supplies from a pair of Meganee riding about PriPara Town atop robotic Proombas (which also wear glasses). The two Meganee have everything an idol could desire for a nice, deep clean job: gloves, aprons, sponges, soap, mops, brooms, dustpans....plus more Proombas and a single pressure cleaner. With such supplies, this challenge looks easy!
But beware. The Proombas have minds of their own, and have a tendency to steer towards the Hibiki statue with adoring hearts in their glasses eyes. As for the pressure cleaner - it's unwieldy. Sometimes it spurts water in odd directions, and coincidentally always manages to hit somebody else with the spray.
Can you manage to clean up the Prieamwidth PriPara, or will you just make a bigger mess? ]
[ ✨ Idol Challenge #2: "Snap your first Friend Ticket with someone!" ]
[ An equally simple-sounding challenge: make a new friend, then symbolize that friendship by trading PriTicket stubs. But a system error has prinfected the Prieamwidth PriPara, and anyone trying to befriend somebody else will end up saying the opposite of what they mean! "Your dress is so cute" turns into "Oh my Goddess, you're wearing that?", "What lovely weather" into "I wish it would rain...."
On the bright side, any friendship that can surmount an obstacle this high is bound to last. Do your best! ]
[ ✨ Idol Challenge #3: "Take your first lesson!" ]
[ This is as much of a challenge for everyone's managers as it is the idols themselves. Within PriPara TV are a number of lesson rooms, equipped with balance beams, sound systems, and a mysterious octopus-shaped device that can be used to practice handshakes (the tentacles move around at varying speeds, and the idol has to shake them, rapid-fire). Scattered papers indicate that the balance beams can be used to practice poise by walking atop it with a Go board balanced on one's head. The octopus also has a lever on the side that can control its tentacle speed.
With your manager providing instruction, and perhaps a new acquaintance by your side, see if you can't practice a thing or two. There's even a handy video that you can watch to learn a specific dance.
Just be aware....it's been a while since these rooms were used. So the lights flicker, and the sound system crackles. Mysterious silhouettes flash across the TV screen while watching the video, too. Those who frighten easily might have a hard time focusing.... ]
[ ✨ A Genius's Five Seconds And The Common Man's Five Seconds Are Different (NPriC Printeraction) ]
[ While all of this is going on, Meganii is hurrying about on roller skates with a flashing siren atop his head. He is flanked by a panda on either side of him, and if an idol appears to be in trouble, up he shall skate, making his own siren noises. ]
[ He then....proceeds to wink. And wink. And wink. If you don't interrupt him with your question, or your problem, he will just keep going.
On the completely opposite side of the engagement spectrum, a single patch of cropped foliage has been cleared on a balcony on the PriPara TV building, overlooking PriPara Town (how is unclear, but the butler in a goat suit off to one side is...still chewing). Upon this balcony, a table with an umbrella has been erected, and Hibiki enjoys a tranquil cup of tea. Her eyes are on a laptop in front of her, where she's watching everyone work from various camera angles. ]
[ And she sips her tea, stubbornly refusing to do a bleating thing. How lofty she is. How above everybody else. Literally and figuratively.
Surely, nothing could disturb her elegant repast! ]
[[ ✨ oopri: Pricause the Prieamwidth PriPara's prilationship to time is....compricated...all threads done in the test prive may count as game canon if you so choose! Conprider this not only your printroduction to what the game will be like, but your character's printroduction to the settpring, as well. Best of luck with the Idol Challenges! ]]
Joey Claire | Hiveswap | OTA
One of the newcomers, a young woman of indeterminate but apparently late-teen age after the magic of PriPara adjusts her appearance to that of an elegant young dancer from an earlier decade, claps politely while bearing an expression that says nothing more or less than 'what the heck'. Seeing one of the people not swarming Hibiki and figuring them for another new arrival, she sidles over and quietly asks.
"Uh...I think I get the idea they're trying to get across, but...why does everyone keep saying 'pri'?"
#1
Ugh, cleaning. Easily Joey's least favorite chore, next to dishwashing. On the other hand, it's somehow less depressing when it's community volunteering instead of your own house. Still, though, she's a lot more intrigued by these little robot doohickeys than the more mundane tools. Real life robots that clean for you? Surely, this is a truly magical fantasyland. On the other hand, she's trying to use three at once and they're getting a little out of hand.
"Hey! You guys get back here! No spacing out looking at pretty statues!" she shouts, trying to get their attention by chasing after them and tapping them with a broom. "That's management work!"
#2
Okay, making friends is something she can do. Considering how quickly she befriends whole different species when she puts her mind to it, Joey considers herself something of a friendship specialist by now.
"Hi," she says to the first person she sees. She would normally try 'first person she sees who looks relatively normal' but she doesn't want to be at this all day. "I think this whole place is pretty dumb, so how about we fight?"
Wait, what?
#3
Okay, poise and balance, Joey can do. She's been practicing this twice a week and unofficially in most of her free time since she was about six. She probably isn't up to doing jetés on a balance beam with her new center of gravity, but she's working on it.
Byers, who had undergone his own transformation into an even more cartoon-looking pigeon than his normal fluffy self when he entered this realm with Joey, sits on top of the octopus machine looking bored. Or possibly hungry. He coos to get Joey's attention, leaving her standing sideways on the balance beam.
"Uh, not sure what that's for, Byers," she claims, banking on pigeons not having much of a memory for things that aren't where to get food. They'd both gotten an explanation when they came in. Nonetheless, she walks over to offer him her hand to fly to. "I think we should leave it alone."
Byers gives her a side-eye - which is a glare for prey animals - then hops down, landing on the control level for the machine.
"Byers, hey!"
Suddenly, Joey finds herself in a whirlwind of friendly tentacles, struggling to shake as many as possible without getting smacked. Thank god she's wearing her ballet slippers or she'd be having a lot more trouble dodging...
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Having thus established this surefire connection, she smiles at the other girl. "Could this be your first day in PriPara?"
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She turns and faces the blonde girl with a polite and much less forced smile. "So...the Palps? Are those anywhere near the Alps?"
A part of her deeply hopes not, even if that would make a reasonable question sound more like a dad joke. She can live with a dad joke more easily than someone randomly prepending p's to place names.
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Fuwari has lost the train of this conversation already. Oh dear. It must be one of those primited pexpress trains, or perhaps a pullet train...?
No, no, that isn't the point! "Wherever might those be?"
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"So, uh, other than 'here', what is a PriPara?" she asks. She can ask what the one in the Palps is like later. God. Why are there Palps?
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"PriPara is a very special place." Fuwari gestures all around them, to the idols milling about. "It exists just so people can fulfill their dreams. You can be any kind of "you" that you'd like to be, here, so please don't be shy."
She smiles a smile that even the sun above them would be hard-pressed to outdo. "Be truthful with yourself, and I'm sure you'll make many lovely friends!"
Hibiki, in the middle of receiving acclaim, sneezes when Fuwari says the word "truthful". Curses. Could this defective PriPara have a pollen problem...?
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"So...any kind of 'me' that I like, but I should be truthful about it?" she asks. "I'm not sure I totally get it, but I guess that explains why I'm randomly taller and more glam-looking." And significantly shorter of baby fat, not that she's going to mention that. "I'm not sure how that's happening, but I'm about to stop questioning this kind of thing."
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Three baby goats, who have just come up to see what all the fuss is about, lend their bleating to this proposition. They want to look around PriPara too!
Fuwari giggles. "Of course, you're all invited too. Maa, maa."
"Maaa!" the goats reply. Surely there can be no more reliable tour guide than a girl who talks to goats.
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"I'm certain fighting is exactly what we need to be doing in this situation." Akira immediately freezes after he says that. That was supposed to be 'I'm not sure fighting is what we need to be doing in this situation.'
"... Ah." Well. This was going to get really inconvenient really fast.
Persona 5 Arena confirmed
She starts shaking her head and holding up her hands, since whatever's causing her to say dumb things isn't stopping her from doing dumber things with her hands. "I know exactly what's going on, and I don't need your help."
Joey's internal monologue cannot be accurately represented through existing assets, so here's a gif of her aunt.
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... Since whatever they intend to do with their hands doesn't seem to be affected, at least, Akira digs out his PriTicket and just shakes it for emphasis. And starts hoping Joey gets the idea.
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She gets out her own ticket and waves her hands around, gesturing to it to explain that she thinks they have the same general idea.
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Emo frowns, cross at being approached this way. "Get out. Ain't nobody got time for that attitude, my foe."
....What? She'd meant to say "my friend". That is, like, seriously weird.
Besides, who even says "foe" nowadays?!