TEST DRIVE [SMASH RONPA]

[monoguests]

Smash Ronpa Test Drive

Smash Life of Mutual Killing

Guidelines
Welcome to Smash Ronpa's test drive! In lieu of a Mock Trial, due to this round's length, we'll be keeping this test drive open until the opening of the game on September 28th. Reserves will be happening on September 18th, and you can use 20 comments (from your character) on the game's application! Otherwise, this TDM is here to help you figure out how/who you might want to play, and can help you get to know some of the players in the upcoming round. Don't feel like you have to apply just because you play on the TDM!

This post is, however, exclusively open to characters who fit the round's character guidelines. In other words - Nintendo characters and other video game characters who have appeared on a Nintendo consoles. Please check out our FAQ for more detail on this, or hit up smashronpa if you have any questions about character choices or anything else!

1) ARRIVAL
You wake up comfortably enough in a nice-looking, despite the overabundance of pink everywhere. It's well-furnished and decently roomy - there's even a little fireplace in there! The only problem is that even despite the sense of familiarity some might feel, this clearly wasn't the room you went to sleep in the night before.

Welcome the Monobear Training Camp! It may take a few minutes to gather your bearings, but you'll eventually stumble into the wide open world of the camp. If you look hard enough, you might find an odd electronic device somewhere on your person - giving you access to 15 different "student profiles". It's time to figure out just where you've ended up, now isn't it?

2) LIFE IS QUITE ABSURD
By now, you're acquainted with everybody here and you're sloooowlllyyyy growing bored. Bored enough to kill? No. Bored enough to actually try and entertain yourselves in this place? Yes. Yes, you are. Thankfully, this place has plenty of ways to entertain! You might just try to cook something up in the kitchen, play around in the well-stocked arcade, and even a neat little library! There's even a large movie theater, but your enjoyment of that might be hampered by the fact that there's only one movie playing on repeat. At all times. Remember, we're trying to cause despair here.

What some might find creepy, however, is that all the rooms are far bigger than they should be. The layout of this place is...it doesn't make any sense. There are windows and pathways where there shouldn't be, and it seems as though the rooms are almost overlapping each other. Don't think about it for too long.

3) WHAT'S MY MOTIVATION
IT'S MOTIVE DAY! What's going to drive you to kill? Drive you to end of the chain? CONGRATULATIONS, IT'S HAPPENING TODAY. Either nab a motive from any of the previous rounds or invent your own!

4) AND DEATH'S THE FINAL WORD
It was bound to happen eventually. Either you're dying, or someone close to you is about to make it up the great big Warp Pipe in the sky. Either try to get a few last words out before you go, or go off and investigate in the wake of their death.

5) WILDCARD
Who even knows- do whatever you want, man! Unless it's pissing off the headmaster. Don't do that.

Comments

Cynthia | Fire Emblem Awakening

[thejusticewagon]

1

[you may have been walking through the hallways slowly, trying to figure things out at your own pace

and then a hero burst through the doorway with a spinning kick.]

All right, villain! You may have gotten the better of me a long time ago, but I know enough about my own room to know my sheets aren't that pink! You'll regret having kidnapped Cynthia, the Slammin' Scion of...

...

Crackers, I'm so worked up I can't even get my alliteration on right!

[...fortunately, that wasn't aimed directly at anyone, although it definitely might turn a few heads...]

2

[...even though... yeah, this movie's pretty bad by most people's standards, Cynthia is pretty enraptured because she's never seen anything like this before. Or at least, she was the first time... after she walks in to see the same movie playing again, she walks back out, looking a bit bummed.]

...man, don't the actors get tired of doing the exact same role the exact same way every hour of the day...? I don't get it...

3

[...Cynthia opens her envelope, looks through her motive, and kind of... pauses for a moment. It's... a little shocking to see it like that, but... this was something that she'd known ever since she was a kid.

It already happened, didn't it? What was Monobear even trying to pull by showing her a picture of her dead mom? She knew what happened and how, so all this was...]

...yeah, I'm not gonna fall for a cheap knockoff of something I've basically already managed! Try harder next time, you jerk!

Re: Cynthia | Fire Emblem Awakening

[princessofstars]

[in general, Rosalina should be more concerned that someone both threatened her and accused her of a crime. But it seems the star princess has other priorities]]

That is most unfortunate. Perhaps I could help you work out something that sounds more satisfactory?

[thejusticewagon]

[Cynthia now actually looks kind of thoughtful about that, no longer accusatory or angry about anything. It seems like being thrown off her game settled her down a little bit...]

Yeah... I like the S sound combo that was setting up, but I don't know something appropriate to get the triple S combo, you know?

[princessofstars]

[Rosalina seems to stop and think for a moment, before nodding decisively]

The answer appears very clear, in my mind. Would I be correct in assuming you are from a family of soldiers?

[thejusticewagon]

...ah!

[That does strike a chord!]

Well, I'm royalty, actually, but we kind of are soldiers! Soldier royalty!

2

[koppaite]

[Alph has similarly come in to see anything different is playing, but his interest ends up getting captured by Cynthia instead. He's certainly never heard a movie talked about in such a way!]

It's a recording though, isn't it? I believe they only had to act it out once.

[thejusticewagon]

...a... recording...? Like... a book except with pictures that look really real and move...?

[...SHE'S TRYING.]

[koppaite]

Y... [He starts to confirm Cynthia's description, but has to stop to consider if that's actually right. It's such a roundabout way to go about it, but...] Yes? [Then, more firmly,] Yes.

[But there's gotta be a better way to help Cynthia understand. Alph thinks on it for a moment.]

The moving pictures are of very real events, though what the actors are playing out might be fictitious. Put simply, what you are seeing are the recorded actions of actors as they perform. To do that, a device called a camera is used.

[thejusticewagon]

Oh! So... it's like you have a way to put on a play, put it in a... thing, and then you can watch it any time you like without making all the actors remember all their lines and stuff again?

[...SHE'S CATCHING ON]

2

[cantread]

[Sissel is familiar with movies, he has seen them on tv before. But, like Cynthia, he has some big misconceptions about them.]

It's their job, they have to do it. And if they keep doing it over and over, they get better at it.

[thejusticewagon]

Oh, well, I figured they were probably getting paid! ...but... uh, I don't think I've noticed them getting any better? I guess I can't watch the same story that many times in a row to see, but I haven't really noticed anything different at all.

[cantread]

It's probably a slight difference between each show. We have nothing but time here, so if you really wanted to, you could sit through several showings and see the differences.

[Sissel won't, because that does not sound like fun at all.]

[thejusticewagon]

...ehhh... maybe if it was a better show I'd do that, but it really isn't the kinda thing I'd watch over and over just to see it get better. Not enough heroism, too many weird lizard people.

1

[badturian]

Sword Swinging might work.

[thejusticewagon]

...I don't really use swords, though... maybe I should start? I mean, that would work pretty great, yeah, but it's not really right.

[badturian]

Well, it was worth a try.

Any clue on our captor? I've been getting some mixed signals on their identity, myself...

1

[tsungeonsanddragons]

[...okaaaay. That certainly happened. Admittedly Clair is less than impressed by Cynthia's performance, but at the very least she's pleased to have encountered someone else trapped here who seems to be making an attempt to get out of here. Even if the attempt was...whatever that was.]

Am I to believe you're a hero of some kind?

[She's wearing armor, after all, and shouting something about a villain.]

[thejusticewagon]

[Cynthia turns to face whoever's talking to her and grins a bit self-assuredly.]

Heheh, I sure am! Do you want to hear the tales of my heroic exploits...!?

[tsungeonsanddragons]

[Suddenly not so pleased anymore and not just because Cynthia isn't asking to hear her great accomplishments. Still, she should let her down as gently as possible.]

Not really. [...perfect.] As long as you've got some level of experience, we should work together to escape.

2

[effectivefacekicking]

[Movies aren't really a thing where he's from either, but considering how wonky tech and magic is in Skyworld, he's seen recordings before.

So time to mess with the knight girl]

No human can do it the same every time like that. Obviously they're cursed.

[thejusticewagon]

...that's... that's really horrifying! I mean, I'm not surprised, but that's even more diabolical than I was thinking!

...How do we stop it?!

[effectivefacekicking]

[Holy shit this is too good to let go. Pittoo usually isn't the joking type but you make it SO EASY Cynthia]

Usually you have to destroy the item being used as a focus.

lance girls 5ever? 1

[shslancer]

[Well, yes, she was trying to go at her own pace and investigate the environment and be altogether kind of a wallflower...

That thoughtfulness and attention to detail goes out the window when the door right near her slams open and sudden yelling girl. Of course, the yelling is joined by Nephenee's own startled yelp and bounce backwards, battlereadiness through the roof, even without her lances or shield.]

V-villain?? Ah ain't a villain!

[Does she look like an Ashnard or Zelgius?]

Ah-Ah'm tryin' to figure out this place, is all!

HELL YES, LANCE GIRLS

[thejusticewagon]

...Oh, no, sorry, I didn't mean you!

[SHE DIDN'T EVEN SEE HER THERE, and now she feels kind of sad]

...I mean, I guess you could be really good at faking being a totally normal person, but I was thinking the villain behind all this might be waiting to gloat right outside my door!

PEPPY VS SHY, READY FIGHT! ER, FRIENDSHIP!

[shslancer]

[Oh Cynthia, you sweet cinnamon bun. Whatever gave you the idea she could ever pull off normalcy?]

[Still keyed up, Neph nonetheless tries to relax a little?]

W-why would...the bad guy do that? That's k-kinda dumb if they did...better to do...it from afar?

[That way it's harder for the good guys to attack you.]

[Yes, this IS how her mind works.]