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 ♥
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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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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