MAY TDM

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MAY TEST DRIVE MEME: DEATH'S AN INDOOR BEACH

Welcome to the Afterlife!

Here, you'll spend some time getting relaxing and getting to know yourself.

Heckin' Game is a goofy little crack + character exploration game where you'll get to subject your characters to heavenly and hellish influences. Explore what makes your characters better or worse after sorting them into Heaven or Hell, and feel free to get silly with it. Check out our Navigation Page to explore our setting and premise. We are currently a Check-in Only game.

Content Warnings:This Test Drive may contain themes of pool/swimming/ocean/deep water related subjects, bodily transformation, beach bar typical alcohol (optional), and any number of thread-specific warnings. Please warn in your toplevels for anything in particular, and feel free to use this code if you'd like to make a collapsible prompt in your comment.

For this test drive, you may choose to have your character transform into a mer-creature! While there's no particular limit on what kind of mercreature they are, they will be limited to being under 10 feet in height when standing on the ground (extra long tail lengths not included). While on land, characters will be able to walk freely.

This Test Drive takes place within the scope of the game, and those who stay in the game or who are currently in may choose to make threads on the TDM canon.

The Garden of Good and Evil

Sorry, were you busy this summery May 1st? Too bad! You're in the Garden of Good and Evil now.

Except, it's a little different than it usually looks. For some reason, the garden is now in a huge indoor annex, with a massive skydome window up above. In the middle of the garden is a pool that seems to be a square mile in size, with a variety of areas ranging from shallow walk-up pool bars to various waterpark-like features that are just as kid-friendly as they are fun for the grown, all the way to a deep underwater obstacle course (image warning: deep water, submerged buildings). Sound scary? Don't worry; there's a ton of lifeguard cherubs equipped to help you at every turn, even underwater! There's even a walkable area that's similar to a sandy beach shore, complete with simulated waves and a few spray fountains to run through.

In the absolute center of the massive pool stands the Garden's fountain atop a pillar, overflowing with milk and honey that somehow falls into the water below without tainting it. And as always, that fountain remains pure despite the constant early summer heat. If you drink it, you'll feel content and fulfilled.

And if you need a hand floating about, there's a bunch of living pool toy animals whose natural habitat is this annex! If you can wrangle them and get them to trust you, perhaps they'll guide you through the water, or even play games with you on the 'shore'! The only catch is, you'll have to explore the Garden's indoor jungle, and not all of those pool toys are friendly!

...They're just pool toys at the end of it all, though, so the threat really isn't present.

Outside of the pool, the annex features a beach-like simulated environment with Holiday Beach cabanas available for you to stay in if you'd like, plenty of beach chairs for soaking up the rays, and volleyball courts for playing your favorite summer games.

While guests are staying here, you can stay in your own private cabanas by the simulated shore-side! Relax in style; each cabana is equipped with a hammock bed, a personal sink, and a window-side comfy chair and desk. Don't worry, if you've been here a while, you can stay at one of these cabanas for the month, too.

A Watery Welcome (HEAVENLY)

In one of the pool areas, it looks like a crowd has gathered, and if you get too close, cherubs will end up showing you into the circle, too! There seems to be a particularly fluffy cherub at the head of the discussion, who guides you all up to a cloud elevator where you and the group wait in line.

You're paired up with another newcomer, or perhaps an old soul, at the top of the park's biggest waterslide. You and your partner are given a task: If you give each other your trust and share a secret that weighs on your heart, you'll be given a floatie to coast down the waterslide together! But if you don't, you'll have to go down bare and holding hands, unable to let go because of the golden tie of fate. And both parties have to share their secret to avoid the tie!

...That tie will deeefinitely fade when you get to the bottom of the slide, right? Oh, no, oops. You're stuck together now, for about an hour. Hope you enjoy the forced bonding!

QUICK-CUT CONTRACT (HELLISH)

While you search the simulated jungle for pool toy friends, you may be encountered by a particular demon. He's got a contract for you, he says, and not to worry— it's just to practice! He'll only have your soul— er, your emotion for an hour. He just wants to give you the chance to understand how contracts work here in the afterlife.

You see, Death is a Give-and-Take kind of process. Are you tired of being burdened by unnecessary feelings, such as doubt and uncertainty? Or are you perhaps looking for a new feeling that's unfamiliar to you? Loan one of your emotions to this demon for an hour! He'll keep it safe and have it back to you as soon as the hour's over, just in case there's some kind of buyer's remorse, or something. But in return, he'll let you choose: you can either receive the opposite emotion in return or heighten the opposite emotion and subject someone else to it.

So, say, for instance, you'd like to feel confidence for once in your tiny, timid life. Congratulations, you'll feel it! But in return, you'll lose your sense of shame entirely. Hope you've got the self-discipline not to make any mistakes with that.

But say you've got your new emotional combo and you're sick and tired of it. That's alright! Ball that feeling up and throw it at someone else, and they'll be subject to a heightened version of the feeling the demon gave to you.