TDM

[alsohumans]

Unity is opening on August 12th. Feel free to jump into our Test Drive to get a feel for how your character would interact with the others who have arrived. All potential players are welcome to jump in. The TDM does not cross over to in-game canon, so go nuts!

If your character is new to Unity, you can assume that they've woken up in an old, musty bed housed in a run down hotel that needs significant repairs. Unless they didn't - which is lined in one of the possible starters below. For a quick visual reference, you can look at the two photo galleries on the Setting page. The left is the hotel that they wake up in, and the right is the rest of town.

1. Forgot to close the door.

Although the Also Humans try their hardest to make sure that they stay on top of things, keeping an eye on a large group of people trying to build a new society takes a lot of work. Did they mention that they literally just figured out how this whole interdimensional travel thing works? So they forgot to stabilize a portal (or two), big deal. You know the saying - to err is human - and since they evolved from humans, really, it's your fault that everyone is in this mess. They can only work with the genes you gave them.

Anyway, a portal has seemed to open by itself and several nasties and baddies are pouring out, taking the town by storm. Do you fight? Do you try to lock yourself away and wait for the Also Humans to figure out how to get these rascals back to their proper universe? Feel free to use any creature you wish here, although if you're unsure we humbly suggest Gremlins. Gremlins are just awful.

2. We forgot about the water!

During the evolutionary phase of becoming a more complex and intelligent species, the Also Humans have forgotten that regular humans and humanoids usually need things like water. Sure, you're on an island and surrounded by fresh, clean water on every side, but don't you people like it when it just falls out of the sky, or something? They can do that for you! No, no, they insist - you're doing so much for them, after all. Of course, by concentrating their efforts on such a magnificent storm, they've simply forgotten to put new arrivals in their proper place. They've woken up in the middle of the road - a very wet, dangerously close to flooding road.

The torrential downpour comes with nasty winds, ice cold rain, and floods, which wouldn't be that big of a deal if you could just stay inside. The problem with that though, of course, is that the buildings in this town are far past their glory days - it's hard to find one that actually has a functional roof or sturdy walls. Have you managed to find one of the few shelters available? Is there someone else in there? Perhaps you spotted someone outside getting swept away by the rain or flood… well? Are you just going to stand there or are you going to help them?

3. Not much of a handyman.

So you've either just arrived or you've been a part of the Unity Project for a little while now, and you've decided that you're going to start help with the rebuilding project. Good for you! You haven't done this before though, have you? Maybe you have and this just isn't your day… either way, considering the severe lack of proper tools, you've managed to do some real damage to yourself. Maybe you got a bad cut from a rusty nail sticking out of a wall, or you dropped something heavy on your foot. Maybe you're just a clutz and you fell down the stairs (there are stairs.) Whatever you did, you're in a lot of pain and you should probably see if someone can help you. Especially since first aid supplies are so scarce around these parts…

4. Lost in another world.

It could be your first time, it could be your 100th time, but the Also Humans have opened a portal to another world and you've gone through. Unlike the previous locations, though, it's not very clear exactly what you can bring back to help build your society back home… in fact, there doesn't seem to be much of anything. You've been wandering through a dark, gargantuan cave for hours now, and just as you were thinking about heading back you realize… you don't know how.

The Also Humans always bring their volunteers back to the main town once a portal is about to close, but that won't happen for days. There doesn't seem to be much to eat in here (I hear moss is packed with nutritional value) and there are strange noises coming from… somewhere. It's hard to tell exactly where, with the way every small sound echos in this place, and it's not like you can see it anyway, what with the strangely bioluminescent weeds lining the cracks of the walls being your only light source. Maybe you can eat that!

No, better get walking before you starve. Perhaps you'll find another lost soul, and see if you can navigate your way back to the portal together.

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Please do not harm. Please eat and hydrate. You are appreciated. Good luck.

-Also Humans

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[zor_el]

Not something that she'd actually thought about. Kara chewed thoughtfully on her bottom lip, frowning. "Good point..." She was hoping that it would stop on its own, too, though. Hopefully, this was especially unseasonable weather.

"That doesn't mean anything," Kara pointed out. "There were some things in English on Krypton. Not much, but still, and if they chose this location after they decided who they wanted to invite to join the project, then they could have specifically chosen one that fit the demographic and the language the majority of us spoke, anyway," she added. She did like the sound of it being an Earth though. At least then she wouldn't be on another planet. Two was enough for Kara, thank you very much.

Kara shook her head, lowering herself to sit Indian-style on the floor. "No, I don't mind that they know, really, because I didn't get that vibe, either. That they meant any harm at all. I think that if they wanted to hurt us, they would've put us somewhere worse than this. It's just rain. A lot of rain, but it's not like it's raining...I don't know, lava or something. It'll be fine." She hoped.

[akatheflash]

As soon as Kara started to talk about Krypton Barry's head straightened to attention, looking at her with interest before he gave a facial shrug that conveyed vague surprise. "I didn't know that other planets did that. I mean, I've never been on another planet before, so. I forgot that you were an alien. Wait, is that bad, is that insulting to say? I can't remember if I shouldn't say that." He winced a little preemptively, as if already prepared to apologize before a hand moved to scratch the back of his head.

"I mean, yeah, that would suck," he commented with a little laugh at the mention of raining lava. "That's something to be grateful for, that it's... not that, yeah. I think that we should probably do that again in maybe an hour or so, though. Check to make sure that no one shows up out there, I mean, just to be safe. Or we can try to find somewhere safer to stay because it's really starting to sound like the roof of this place can't handle the wind."

[zor_el]

Laughing a little, Kara shook her head. "No, it's fine. It's not a bad thing. Although, technically we're both aliens, now, so..." She gave a little shrug. "You've been on my Earth which was technically another planet, so yes you have, you just haven't been to another planet that wasn't some iteration of Earth. So, it's not the same, but it's not totally different, right, and now you're here, anyway so, I don't know. But it's fine, just...maybe don't say it in front of other people until I can decide if it's, like...okay to?" she asked more than said.

The thing about being from another planet while being on Earth was that humans were especially skittish of aliens. Whether their fear was justified or not, it was just a fact of life and Kara had to be careful back home who knew and who didn't know that she wasn't really human at all. The last thing that she wanted to do was to scare off the other volunteers, assuming that eventually there would be some, when she was probably meant to be protecting them.

"No, yeah, I totally agree we should go back up every so often just to make sure. And I'm listening, but I still haven't heard anyone shouting, so that's probably a good sign for right now." Although, it could also be a bad sign that someone was unable to call for help, but Kara won't let herself think that. It would be better for the project if the Also Humans — maybe Kara should just call herself that, she thought, and an ill-timed giggle bubbled up before she could stifle it — waited until it was safer to bring in the regular humans, if there were going to be any. "Sorry. I'm sorry, I just—just something funny I thought of for a second; totally inappropriate timing. Sorry," she said quickly, trying to recover from the giggle that didn't belong. "It's up to you. If you don't think the roof is going to hold, then that probably means it won't and we should relocate."

[akatheflash]

"I am totally cool with being an alien," he responded with a grin, but it faded quickly with a furrowed brow as if he was seriously considering her words. "I mean, does that really count as a different planet? Because it's the same planet, just a different version... am I really switching solar systems or am I just going to copies? Am I an alien, or like, a doppelganger since you probably have a Barry Allen on your world that's just not the exact same as me? I don't know." He waved his hand, gesturing that she didn't have to respond. "It's our secret though, I won't tell anyone else. I get it."

He leaned back against the wall and nodded when she expressed that she was still listening, and although Barry wasn't certain, he assumed that he had some sort of heightened sense of hearing because Kara seemed to have a heightened sense of everything, with the type of abilities she had shown him. She laughed, though, and that prompted a confused look from him before a smile slowly moved the corners of his mouth. He didn't even know what she was apologizing for and yet it was still amusing, because despite the fact that she was some sort of insanely powerful superhero it was little things like that that made Kara, Kara. He really did miss her, despite the fact that he had only spent a couple of days with her when he accidentally traveled to her version of Earth.

"I think we have some time, we can wait for a little bit longer to see if the storm dies down. But if it doesn't, we should probably look for a different place to land next time we go out to search for other people." He thought it was a decent compromise. "What did you think about? That made you laugh, I mean?"

[zor_el]

With a little snort of amusement, Kara shrugged. "Honestly? I have no idea," she admitted. "Thank you," she added with a smile. "I just don't, you know...want to freak anybody out. People back home were a little skittish about it." About her, specifically. She was still working on earning back the trust she'd lost when she'd been under the influence of the synthetic kryptonite.

Nodding her head, Kara cleared her throat. "No, you're right. I totally agree. We should move around every time we do a search. It'll be easier that way, to cover more ground, I think."

Her face colored and Kara wrinkled her nose with embarrassment, pulling her glasses out of her suit finally to put them back on her face, pushing them up the bridge of her crinkled nose to buy herself some time. "I was just—it's stupid. It's stupid," she said, shaking her head, cheeks burning.

[akatheflash]

"No, I know. I get it." Barry gave her a nod, trying to reassure her that she didn't have to explain herself. Despite the fact that he had no doubt he was loved by his city, the reality of it was was that people were fickle. They were scared of things that they didn't understand unless those things purposefully went out of their way to show that they meant no harm, and even then the trust that they worked so hard to build with a society could be easily broken by one misstep. "It's like that back home for me, too. People are usually good but they put a lot of expectation on you, even if they don't realize that they do it." He shrugged, his smile fading a little. "They're more willing to forgive if you're like them. When you're not, you're not allowed to make mistakes. They never forget."

Barry's head tilted back to try and see if he could look at the window above him, and when he couldn't he instead glanced out at the one near the door again. "Well, it looks like it's dying down. I think. I can't really tell, but it definitely doesn't look like it's getting worse, which might be a good sign." He shifted to sit forward a little, his back getting stiff. "After it stops we should go around and see what we can clear away. Between the two of us we can probably make sure that there aren't big trees on the roads or debris blocking doorways." He gave a tired expression, as if already exhausted by the idea. "It looks like we're going to start the rebuilding project a lot sooner than we expected."

He waited patiently for her to pull out her glasses, knowing full well that she was avoiding his question, and Barry raised an eyebrow when she finally deflected once more before giving a slow and solemn nod. "Right, you were laughing at me. That's okay, I understand." He was teasing but he did so with a deadpan expression, working hard to keep the smile he felt rising off of his face. "Do you need that suit to fly? Because if not I would probably hide it away until you know whether or not the people who are going to show up here will be comfortable with what we are. The suit might raise some questions if people find out that you're always wearing it under your clothes. Just saying."

[zor_el]

It was nice to know that someone understood the feeling, as much as she hated feeling that way. It would be better if no one else ever knew how it felt to have to work extra hard to gain the trust of those around them and no one else ever had to know how it felt to have to walk on eggshells indefinitely to keep from unintentionally shattering that trust. Trust was easy to earn the first time around, but was always infinitely harder to earn back once lost. Kara knew that better than she wished she did, that was for sure, and she felt a little bit guilty for being relieved that Barry understood where she was coming from with that. "Yeah, tell me about it..." she said softly, a subtle hint to let the subject drop, because it wasn't exactly a pleasant thing to have in common, that was for sure, so there was no sense in bringing themselves down too much conversing about it.

"I'll take a good sign that it's not getting worse," Kara chirped. That was certainly better than nothing. She would rather it be getting better, but as long as it wasn't getting worse? She could deal with that. She nodded, peering out the window. "Yeah, I think between the two of us, you're right, we can get some the worst of it taken care of before any of the other volunteers show up, if they aren't already here." She paused and turned to look at him, eyes wide. "I hope they're not already here." Because if they were, then it would imply that either she and Barry missed someone when they were searching or that those who were already here could possibly have been unable to call for help or were buried out of sight. Kara frowned a little. She didn't want to think about that. The Also Humans had seemed friendly. It didn't make sense for them to put people in danger who couldn't handle themselves. They just mustn't be here yet, she told herself. That was the only way it made sense to her.

A soft laugh escaped her and she lowered herself to sit back on the floor again. "At this point, I feel like 'rebuilding' is sort of a stretch. We might have to just tear some of these buildings down and just start from scratch. It's not a good idea to try to rebuild a structure that isn't strong enough to withstand the work."

Kara looked back at him with surprised upset. "No I wasn't!" she exclaimed. "I promise," she added quickly and earnestly. While Barry made a good point about the suit potentially making people uncomfortable, her brow creased slightly. "I don't need the suit, but I kinda need the cape..." she admitted. "I tried flying a few times without it and...it isn't pretty. I'm not very good at keeping myself on track without the cape helping with the aerodynamics. At least, that's what Winn said it did, since I was flying a lot more controlled with it than I had been without it..."

[akatheflash]

All Barry could do was shake his head when Kara decided that she would decide that the storm not getting worse was good news, a small but endeared smile on his face as his attention moved back to the window. He hadn't been able to spend a lot of time with Kara when he had first arrived in her world, but in the process of helping her he had gotten to know her enough to know that her upbeat attitude wasn't an act. It was something that he liked about her, and he hoped that she never lost it. In the beginning, he had been upbeat too. But being The Flash had broken him down, shattered him in places that he couldn't even begin to explain, and Barry wasn't sure if he would ever be able to bounce back from that. It didn't feel like he would be able to. It just felt numb. Numb, with a lot of guilt. He never wanted her to feel like that, because people like Kara kept people like him from spiraling too far. He didn't know when he became someone who would spiral, and not someone who could help.

"Kara," he said her name softly, his attention turning to her. "You and I circled this place twice. You can hear through the storm, I can take in more information when I look around and see more than other people may be able to spot, it's going to be alright. The people who brought us here didn't bring us here to try and hurt us, right? If they did, they wouldn't bring Supergirl and The Flash, I think that would put a little dent in their plans. Particularly because I could probably get home by myself, if I really wanted to. It's alright." He gave her a warm smile. "We checked. There's no one out there. And if there is, you'll hear them when they arrive, right? It'll be okay."

His hand moved to mess the hair on the top of his head, hoping that doing so would help it dry faster when it wasn't pasted to his scalp. "Really? ...Do you think you'll still be flying around when other people show up?" He frowned in uncertainty. "I mean, I don't know if I want them to know what I can do, I don't know if I'm going to be running much until I'm sure I can do it without anyone seeing."

[zor_el]

She looked back at him with her brow still creased with concern as he turned his attention to her to respond. She wanted to believe very much that he was right, but the fact of the matter was that there was always a chance that they missed something. It might not be a big chance, but it was always going to be there and that was terrifying to Kara. And heartbreaking. But she wasn't going to point out to Barry that if someone had been buried in rubble or was knocked unconscious, they wouldn't have seen or heard them, but that didn't mean that they weren't out there.

Instead, she gave a little nod and attempted a smile that fell a little flatter than she would've liked for it to. "You're probably right," she agreed and she tried to make herself believe it by lilting her tone in the general direction of acceptance.

She shrugged. "Yeah, that's what Winn said, anyway," she confirmed. The next question though was one that Kara had thought a lot about...and still hadn't come to a conclusion. "I don't know, I haven't decided. I'm more helpful and useful if I can just be me, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it'll make people comfortable to see that. So I haven't decided yet. I don't know. Maybe I'll meet people first and try to casually feel them out, first."

Because Kara can totally do casual without sounding suspicious and cryptic. Totally.