Welcome to Gildenhirst, friends! It's a TEST DRIVE MEME!!
Premise, Location and more information on the Main Menu.
Our test drive meme is open to everyone, so please stop by for a little fun and see if you’d enjoy playing with us. The TDM primarily takes place in Gildenhirst, the main hub city for Bravely Borrows. The surrounding area of Caldisla is free game though! Please explore the setting as you desire.
LET'S PLAY DRESS UP
A big part of Bravely Borrows is getting your very own job class! While all characters start the game as a Freelancer and receive a random job asterisk later on, for the sake of testing you may choose from the following job classes to mess around with:
Red Mage ★ Monk ★ Knight ★ Performer ★ Ranger ★ and Freelancer of course If you desire these threads to be canon, an asterisk was simply loaned to them. Please return it at your earliest convenience.
NEED A QUEST?
If you need some direction on how to begin, why not gaze upon some sample quests? Go on a journey. Fuck around and find out. They are completely optional– write whatever prompts you want!
Eggs Aplenty
Oh no. Oh dear. There has been a horrible series of mistakes surrounding ChantiLilly’s egg delivery. For one thing, it was delivered to the Central Market on the Ground Floor! For another thing, there are far too many eggs here. Dozens upon dozens upon dozens of eggs. The bakery’s Patissiere would be grateful if you could help bring these eggs up to his bakery in Rooftop Gardens. You’ll get some gold and some fresh eggs for your troubles.
This Bunny’s Buggin Me
A farmer from Norende is going batty over the swarm of bunnies that have been getting into his fields. Help a fella out, won’t ya? They are swarming en masse and ruining the spring start ups! Don’t expect to be able to herd them out without a fight though– these rabbies really pack a punch! They’re also carnivorous so…. Watch out?
A Rock and a Hard Place
An avid collector is searching for some new specimens. They’ve heard there are some expansive cave systems in the Norende Heights that just might be the perfect spot to collect some geodes. The only problem is that they’re an eensy teensy bit full of kobolds. You’ll be compensated for your troubles if you’d go collect some rocks, and every actual geode will get an extra reward. Please don’t fall off the cliffs…! The paths are narrow and harrowing at times. Good luck!
Have an excellent time, friends!
Thanks for stopping by ♥
Find joy where you can, Kyoko. Perhaps the books they were given truly are for note-taking, how fortuitous that they'd find a use for them right away, and seeing her start on using it for this inspires Shinji to retrieve his own once more along with his funds. Maybe he can keep tabs on getting Pen Pen fed until they can get into a more reliable rhythm? The book gets tucked under his arm for the moment, the money situation is a little more pressing to figure out first.
"We haven't spent a whole lot just yet," he comments, digging out his remaining gold and placing it on top of the bed - a good enough place to pool it before they pick who gets to hold on to it.
The enthusiasm was charming as always. "Right. It'll be an easy catch up." Just two nights at the inn and some food so far. Kai took his and Kyoko's gold over to plop the coins near Shinji's. The sight of a pile of physical money seemed wild after so long, it almost seemed like they had way more than they probably did. They were rich. (No they weren't.)
Even if they weren't rich, it didn't seem like they were in a terrible way. Kai plucked up a coin to inspect it, idly turning it over in his hands. "Seems like we'll probably be alright for a few days, so as long as we find some odd jobs we'll be fine."
"Expenses~" Kyoko said as she wrote it down in swooping letters at the top of the first page, in that very convenient header space which was surely for this very purpose. "It's because we haven't spent much at all that now's the best time to start tracking! So we can quickly learn how much we need for the basics." How much was one of those fancy coins worth. They would! find out!!
Tongue between her teeth, Kyoko hummed as she jotted down each of their purchases so far, drawing cheerful little flowers in lieu of bullet points. "Right? It does seem like we'll be able to manage for a little bit at least."
They'd probably been given enough to survive easily enough for a couple of days, Shinji thinks. "Splitting the room between the three of us definitely gave us a little extra wiggle room with our money," he says, mostly an out-loud thought. "If we have to stay here longer, though..." Fish cost might catch up with them fast. That's not ideal. "Hm."
Well, with that thought in mind, he may as well make that note in his own book. His hands are otherwise free now, and as he opens it up to the first page, he takes his eyes off the pages to instead take a look around the room, for a clock of some sort. "What time is it right now...?"
Maybe he ought to join in on this journal party he thought as he watched both of them with theirs. He couldn't think of what he'd do with it at the moment though. Write down their strengths for jobs...? Huh. Hmm.
"What time...?" Kai joined Shinji's gaze around the room, but the search would soon show that what they were looking for wasn't there. "Hang on," he said as he wandered over to their door, "I think I saw a big clock in the hall."
Sure enough, there was a large pendulum clock swinging steadily down the hall. "Looks like it's after eight," he said over his shoulder.
"Ohh, are you going to keep a log?" Kyoko looked up, already done jotting down the record of all the money they had spent since yesterday. How unfortunate that nobody was looking at anybody's journal right now; truly they would simply never realize their secrets. "That's smart!"
"Thank you, Kai," a big help for these plans! Before noting that down, he gives a quick glance over to Kyoko, "Ah, it's just going to be for keeping track - of..."
As his focus drifts down, his thoughts momentarily evaporate. He thought he had opened to a blank page. This page is not only not blank, but full of extremely relevant looking information? Flowers? Lovely swooping letters? Um.
He has left them hanging. Hold on. "- Pen Pen's meals." But that has become unimportant in an instant, and he instead hurries his way over to look at what Kyoko's writing, brows knit together in confusion. Let him see? What is happening here??
That's right he was a good and helpful boy. Yes sir. A good, helpful boy on his way to join this stationary party even if he didn't know what he was going to do with it. Doodle, probably. He'd just grab his smiley face book and-- oh, Shinji why were you in such a hurry? Let him just cruise on over, gently tapping his book on Shinji's shoulder as Kai peered down at what was so urgent.
Kyoko blinked up at the boys as they converged upon her, the journal still laid open on her lap to the page she'd been writing on. What? Was this about? Hello?
"I wrote down the price of the fish right here," she settled on after a brief moment, tapping the page. That was relevant, probably?
He can see that! Which is very helpful but also not exactly what he's so baffled about. Here, let him shed some light on the situation, and hold open his book right next to hers.
Imagine, if you will, a pair of identical looking pages breaking down their expenses so far. These three don't have to imagine, that is what is right in front of their faces.
Except not! Because wow! Check out those two identical pages. They were in fact the same. Kai blinked at the two books. "Huh." Leaning on Shinji, Kai flipped his book open and held it near theirs.
Now there were three flowery transaction records to look at. "... Magic books?"
Kyoko stared at this apparent photocopy for a moment. And she stared. She stared!
And then she raised her pen again. Carefully, as if she might scare the magic away, she drew a string of question marks in the margin, across from all those neatly written expenses.
"Oh, wow..." he murmurs out, eyes widening as those confused little question marks appear on everyone's pages. Nobody knows what's going on, not even the paper itself. Wowzers.
"That's... useful?" Maybe not for note keeping, in hindsight, unless they want to all have the same notes handy at all times. "We... we can probably communicate through them." ! An extremely analog replacement for their lost Havenwell communicators, possibly!
"Probably," Kai exclaimed softly. "That's really cool." It sort of felt like there was the distant memory of someone saying to check their journals which in hindsight made a whole lot more sense than it had at the time.
Peering a bit more, Kai nudged his book against Shinji's. "Ours have butterflies though," he pointed out. Right there next to the list!
Magic books...! "We won't even need doves to send each other notes!" Even if birds would have been charming and fun, it was hard to beat ~magic~
The butterflies were a mystery, though. Kyoko looked down at her page again as if to be sure she hadn't drawn one and forgotten, but nope, it was just her plain old header. "That's strange..." Tipping her open book up, she tapped the pages over her mouth thoughtfully. Check out that pretty design on her cover, neat huh. "That's the only thing I definitely didn't do."
Oh yeah, take a look at those butterflies! And look! Another one! Everything is starting to line up, isn't it? Briefly, he takes a peek at the cover of his own book before holding it open again.
"Let... me try something."
They should experiment, right? There's probably lots of information here that nobody managed to absorb in their initial panic. Let him pick up his own pen. And let him write... what will he write? Ah, well, he'd been trying to make his own notes, so on the opposite page, he jots down 'Breakfast - 8:00 am'. Watch it materialize on all of their other pages, this time with a couple of octagons in the margins. wao!
"There it is!" Octagons and all, which Shinji definitely didn't draw. Octagons, butterflies... The butterfly on Kyoko's book cover was getting Kai's brain churning, and he reached over to borrow someone's pen. "Lemme see..."
Turning to a whole new page seemed pretty silly for what he intended to do. Get for this majestic masterpiece, you guys. Here came the world's silliest looking approximation of a penguin and what was probably a fish under Kyoko's list. There wasn't a smiley face on his own page, but it was definitely appearing with the doodles on both of theirs. Huh! Hm! "Hohhh... Maybe it's like a profile picture?"
A small flower was appearing under the timeline on Shinji's page, with unfamiliar handwriting following it. What was for breakfast!!
What's this? A whole new variable in their testing? When the unfamiliar writing appears, Shinji momentarily freezes up. Is it the book talking back to them? Wouldn't it make more sense for there to be a little book indicator instead of a flower, in that case? It's not like it's an impossible idea, but... hm.
"Maybe?"
He frowns, just a little as he thinks it over, before carefully, almost cautiously writing in a reply of, '3 fish'.
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"We haven't spent a whole lot just yet," he comments, digging out his remaining gold and placing it on top of the bed - a good enough place to pool it before they pick who gets to hold on to it.
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Even if they weren't rich, it didn't seem like they were in a terrible way. Kai plucked up a coin to inspect it, idly turning it over in his hands. "Seems like we'll probably be alright for a few days, so as long as we find some odd jobs we'll be fine."
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Tongue between her teeth, Kyoko hummed as she jotted down each of their purchases so far, drawing cheerful little flowers in lieu of bullet points. "Right? It does seem like we'll be able to manage for a little bit at least."
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Well, with that thought in mind, he may as well make that note in his own book. His hands are otherwise free now, and as he opens it up to the first page, he takes his eyes off the pages to instead take a look around the room, for a clock of some sort. "What time is it right now...?"
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"What time...?" Kai joined Shinji's gaze around the room, but the search would soon show that what they were looking for wasn't there. "Hang on," he said as he wandered over to their door, "I think I saw a big clock in the hall."
Sure enough, there was a large pendulum clock swinging steadily down the hall. "Looks like it's after eight," he said over his shoulder.
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As his focus drifts down, his thoughts momentarily evaporate. He thought he had opened to a blank page. This page is not only not blank, but full of extremely relevant looking information? Flowers? Lovely swooping letters? Um.
He has left them hanging. Hold on. "- Pen Pen's meals." But that has become unimportant in an instant, and he instead hurries his way over to look at what Kyoko's writing, brows knit together in confusion. Let him see? What is happening here??
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"What's up?"
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Kyoko blinked up at the boys as they converged upon her, the journal still laid open on her lap to the page she'd been writing on. What? Was this about? Hello?
"I wrote down the price of the fish right here," she settled on after a brief moment, tapping the page. That was relevant, probably?
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Imagine, if you will, a pair of identical looking pages breaking down their expenses so far. These three don't have to imagine, that is what is right in front of their faces.
"They're the same..." What? Why?
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Except not! Because wow! Check out those two identical pages. They were in fact the same. Kai blinked at the two books. "Huh." Leaning on Shinji, Kai flipped his book open and held it near theirs.
Now there were three flowery transaction records to look at. "... Magic books?"
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Kyoko stared at this apparent photocopy for a moment. And she stared. She stared!
And then she raised her pen again. Carefully, as if she might scare the magic away, she drew a string of question marks in the margin, across from all those neatly written expenses.
!!!!!
"Magic... magic books!"
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"Oh, wow..." he murmurs out, eyes widening as those confused little question marks appear on everyone's pages. Nobody knows what's going on, not even the paper itself. Wowzers.
"That's... useful?" Maybe not for note keeping, in hindsight, unless they want to all have the same notes handy at all times. "We... we can probably communicate through them." ! An extremely analog replacement for their lost Havenwell communicators, possibly!
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"Probably," Kai exclaimed softly. "That's really cool." It sort of felt like there was the distant memory of someone saying to check their journals which in hindsight made a whole lot more sense than it had at the time.
Peering a bit more, Kai nudged his book against Shinji's. "Ours have butterflies though," he pointed out. Right there next to the list!
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The butterflies were a mystery, though. Kyoko looked down at her page again as if to be sure she hadn't drawn one and forgotten, but nope, it was just her plain old header. "That's strange..." Tipping her open book up, she tapped the pages over her mouth thoughtfully. Check out that pretty design on her cover, neat huh. "That's the only thing I definitely didn't do."
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"Let... me try something."
They should experiment, right? There's probably lots of information here that nobody managed to absorb in their initial panic. Let him pick up his own pen. And let him write... what will he write? Ah, well, he'd been trying to make his own notes, so on the opposite page, he jots down 'Breakfast - 8:00 am'. Watch it materialize on all of their other pages, this time with a couple of octagons in the margins. wao!
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"There it is!" Octagons and all, which Shinji definitely didn't draw. Octagons, butterflies... The butterfly on Kyoko's book cover was getting Kai's brain churning, and he reached over to borrow someone's pen. "Lemme see..."
Turning to a whole new page seemed pretty silly for what he intended to do. Get for this majestic masterpiece, you guys. Here came the world's silliest looking approximation of a penguin and what was probably a fish under Kyoko's list. There wasn't a smiley face on his own page, but it was definitely appearing with the doodles on both of theirs. Huh! Hm! "Hohhh... Maybe it's like a profile picture?"
A small flower was appearing under the timeline on Shinji's page, with unfamiliar handwriting following it. What was for breakfast!!
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She saw magic happen!!! She saw the magic happen twice, even!
She saw...the magic happen three times?
"It--" Her hands were trembling, the pages of the journal shaking. "It can even talk to us?!"
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"Maybe?"
He frowns, just a little as he thinks it over, before carefully, almost cautiously writing in a reply of, '3 fish'.
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