This is a test drive for The Last Resort. You can use one of the handy prompts or make up your own.
Prompts
Prompt #1
Your character is sent as part of a team to explore Subterranean Library #12. There are hostiles hiding in the dark that have to be safely bypassed without creating explosions and without getting shot. There are books that can be brought to the museum (or sold). What happens if two people with different intentions collide?
Prompt #2
So your character is out in the desert. It might be for a dig, a nice walk, doing something they shouldn't. Who knows? But unfortunately one of the worst invasive species is about to rear its head: a young sandworm.
This isn't something that happens often to people, and even this young it's going to take more than a normal gun as permitted on the planet, or the limited abilities that people currently possess. Most of what you would do would just slow it down.
This is one of these cases where it's better to run; you want to get to security or to a guide and report this, and you want to get out of the range of those teeth as fast as you can.
Prompt #3
You've been given a chance to tell the entire universe about your reasons for coming to the village and town as a part of a documentary in progress. Alternately, you have done so and are being confronted by your first fan in front of a friend. They've read all your fanfiction,, they ship you with some other import (maybe your friend, maybe someone else, maybe they actually hate your friend), and they printed out a picture of you that they want to have signed.
Prompt #4
Choose your own adventure (first network or log posts can later be used as game canon once related apps are approved).
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[Lily has heard rumors of the contents of the vast underground library, and the only has to feel a slight tug at her curiosity before she starts to obsess over an idea. By now, she knows that the only way for it to stop is to do her own exploring. One book in particular called out to her: a mysterious tome with the ability to alter an item in the reader's possession!
Not for the first time, Lily is glad to have brought her suit of stealth armor along; it makes exploring without disturbing any nearby hostiles so much easier. The library is even more impressive than she'd imagined and her bag is very quickly filling up with books. Other explorers, if they're paying attention, may notice a slight ripple in the air, the short green flash of Lily's pip-boy light, or even a book or two vanishing off a shelf or table!]
[Grainne is sure she had just set that book down when she reached for the other one that had caught her eye. When it happens again with the book that she places in the spot she had placed the other one, she is sure she isn't suffering from "oxygen necrosis" or whatever it's called people claim happens in deep underground tunnels.
Not that it would really harm her...
Still, she pauses and takes stock of the situation, looking around just in case there was another hostile near by she'd missed before.
When she sees a slight ripple in the air, she frowns and tries to use her magic sight on it, but whatever it is doesn't seem to be magic, or at least magic she knows.
Setting another book down in the same spot, she goes around the corner of the bookshelf and quietly dematerializes. Invisible, she returns to her former position, then waits to see what happens.]
[It's a few moments before anything happens. Lily knows she had been pushing her luck by staying in one place, and she makes a slow circle around the table, peering down the rows of shelves. When it seems the table is well and truly deserted, she stands and pulls off her helmet, the stealth field around her dissipating. Flicking the light of her pip-boy back on, she picks up the new book and sets it in front of her, along with the other two she'd snagged, and starts taking stock of what she's actually picked up.]
Grainne folds her arms while still in spirit form, and moves closer to this girl. Whatever she's up to, it's not to help document these books and turn them over to the museum.
When she's right behind the girl, Grainne materializes again.]
Did you think I would not notice books going missing under my nose?
[Lily starts, yipes, and whirls around, snapping a trench knife up off her belt and raising it to eye level, dropping into a defensive stance. When the woman doesn't attack, Lily lowers her guard, but not by much. She puts the knife away, at least.]
[Lily considers the question for a few moments, musing on the weight of her bag and the fact that there's still much of the library she hasn't seen. With a disappointed sigh, she nods, stacking the three books on top of one another and sliding them in the woman's direction.]
[Color Grainne even more unimpressed. Not only is what the girl proposing illegal but she could get into trouble with the black markets that she keeps hearing whispers about.]
[Lily takes a rapid step back and puts her hand over her bag.]
Nope.
[Science] And I've been cataloging the various languages I've run into and I've installed a translator widget into my Pip-Boy, so they only need to be in a language I've seen before.
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Prompt 1
Not for the first time, Lily is glad to have brought her suit of stealth armor along; it makes exploring without disturbing any nearby hostiles so much easier. The library is even more impressive than she'd imagined and her bag is very quickly filling up with books. Other explorers, if they're paying attention, may notice a slight ripple in the air, the short green flash of Lily's pip-boy light, or even a book or two vanishing off a shelf or table!]
hope this is ok!
Not that it would really harm her...
Still, she pauses and takes stock of the situation, looking around just in case there was another hostile near by she'd missed before.
When she sees a slight ripple in the air, she frowns and tries to use her magic sight on it, but whatever it is doesn't seem to be magic, or at least magic she knows.
Setting another book down in the same spot, she goes around the corner of the bookshelf and quietly dematerializes. Invisible, she returns to her former position, then waits to see what happens.]
that is totally cool
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Grainne folds her arms while still in spirit form, and moves closer to this girl. Whatever she's up to, it's not to help document these books and turn them over to the museum.
When she's right behind the girl, Grainne materializes again.]
Did you think I would not notice books going missing under my nose?
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Folks usually don't, not in my experience.
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So will you return those books now that you have been caught?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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[Don't think Grainne is that stupid. She's had a fair number of children to raise and can tell when someone's trying to get away with something.]
Theft of the artifacts is not looked kindly upon, you know.
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Nuh-uh. These are mine; I found them and I'm gonna use them. There are plenty of other books in this library.
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[Color Grainne even more unimpressed. Not only is what the girl proposing illegal but she could get into trouble with the black markets that she keeps hearing whispers about.]
Let me see one.
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Nope.
[Science] And I've been cataloging the various languages I've run into and I've installed a translator widget into my Pip-Boy, so they only need to be in a language I've seen before.
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Why aren't you working with the scientists? Something like that would greatly enhance their efforts. They would probably even reward you.