Welcome to the Rekindle Test Drive!Trying to see if a character will fit or work in the setting? Need some interaction samples? Well this meme is for you! Make a post, tag around, and most importantly, have fun! Here's the setting page for those who want to learn a little more about the city itself. Then don't forget to go reserve your character in a week when they open. Here's some prompts to help you get started, if you need it: | | Option 1 | [While the days grow longer and warmer and the older, oriental-style of the city would normally make one think that the interiors would not be much in the way of relief from the hot sun, it may surprise the guest to see that the apartments the natives have allocated for them are surprisingly comfortable. In fact, the only modern convenience they may be missing is a television set! At least, outside the media floor on the first floor of Building One - the first of four inter-connected buildings.
In fact, each apartment building seems to have at least one different amenity on the first floor. In Building Two they seemed to even spare a library in another that seems to have the basics and some information packets that are otherwise found in the Welcome Center in District 2. There are even a few restaurants and common dining areas in the Building Three that are open until late at night, and meeting areas and a ballroom on the first floor in Building Four, perfect for setting up small parties or big events.
With the locals gone save those who work in the restaurants and the one librarian, leaving you to your own devices, what will you do? What mysteries could be left to discover in this place?] | | Option 2 | [With summer coming, the water level in the river is starting to go down, exposing some of the beach. The Riverside Shack is open late, and its restaurant is pulling out all the stops and offering seafood specials (even though a river is a far cry from an ocean). The rental store, meanwhile, is finally bringing out more of its swimming supplies, inner tubes and pool noodles, and a calmer stretch of the river has been roped off with buoys for swimming. They even have lifeguards chairs set up. Clearly this sort of thing used to be an annual event.
It's not quite an ocean beach (quite different actually), but there's still plenty of chance to have fun in the water. Or teach someone to swim, perhaps.] | | Option 3 | [If you're more inclined to explore or learn, the City's Learning Center might be more to your tastes. There certainly seems to be a lot going on here - there's laboratories and libraries and workshops, and plenty of communal areas where you can meet and talk with people. The natives seem pretty absorbed with their studies and work, though they're polite in brushing you off, at least.
Perhaps you'll have more luck seeing what other Guests such as yourself have discovered?] | | Option 4 | [Whoops. Looks like you haven't taken the cautionary words of the other NPCs to heart, or maybe you just wanted to take your chances. Either way, the withdrawal symptoms have started and you need to find someone to hug quickly before you get even more sick.] | | Option 5 | [If there's something else you wanted to play with, that you didn't see here, then have fun with that. You've just arrived in a strange city, after all. There's got to be plenty to explore out and about, not to mention people to meet.] |
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justhugalready2013-05-14 01:12 am
Talrovian | OC | Option 5
Being fay-raised, he hadn't gotten a lot of close exposure to technology, barring the kinds his mother-creator tried to reinvent or otherwise work into her experiments. Something like a computer had far too many parts to remain stable and working in the magical presence of a fay, and he'd never had exposure to one.
He was curious and intelligent, however, (it was part of his purpose) and it didn't take him long to figure out how the terminals worked, though he probably spammed the network with nonsense posts of every kind in the process. Even when he found the 'delete' function, he left most of them posted, because they amused and delighted him.
The seven-foot-tall patchwork construct was still entertaining himself with the still image function, treating the terminal like some kind of photo booth, when he reached the point where this just had to be shared. That's when he leaned out of the terminal in search of friendly-looking passers-by to flag down to join him.
"Hey, hey!" he'd call, his voice resonant from his internal copper workings but otherwise identifiably young and male. "Come look at this!"
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"Look at what?" he asked. "Y'find somethin' interesting on those things?"
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Exactly like a silly child in a photo booth, Talrovian had managed to catch an entire screen full of pictures of himself, all of them making funny and theatrically exaggerated faces. But in truth that collage wasn't what he wanted to show off, specifically. He reached out a long arm, hit the appropriate touchscreen button, and blip! A picture of Lee, with Talrovian behind, joined the array.
Another laugh of delight from the construct. "Have you ever seen anything like it?"
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"Wonder if they print," Hester muttered, amused, though a little wary of the construct.
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He pointed all around said screen as he talked, indicating things with his free hand as he referenced them, and blip! Took another picture.
"Ta-da! Instant picture!"
...and look closely. Did Lee feel Talrovian's other hand leave his shoulder? That's because it's propped up behind his head and giving him 'bunny ears' above his hat, to match the hare on his shoulder.
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And for once, neither did Hester. She was just as confused as he was.
So he asked: "What're y'doin' there with yer fingers?"
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To better demonstrate, he lifted his free hand behind his head to give himself a pair as well, wiggling his fingers to make the 'ears' twitch above the scraggly mop of his wig.
"Now all three of us match, see?"
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Hester just waggled her own ears in amusement.
"Need a picture of all three of us with the ears, jest to be complete," Lee suggested. He held out a hand, himself, towards the computer screen. "That button there?"
and number two...
So when the voice came out of the terminal alcove, he jumped. The cup full of candy he had in hand jumped, too, and a little rain of colored bits of sugar and chocolate went everywhere. "Oh no!"
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Talrovian is good at scaring people. Good in the 'better at it than he would like' fashion, which is to say, it would be nice if he didn't do it at all, but it's always by accident anyway, and not scaring people would involve a lot more forethought than he's generally capable of putting into his actions. Cool Thing -> Share With Someone -> Call Out At Passing Someone. His train of forethought ended there, and thus, startled hobbit.
Not that Talrovian knew what a hobbit was. What he saw was a stout little tayatay (or a "brownie", if you preferred), and his happiness with all things considered wholly doubled.
That great height, on the other hand, halved as Talrovian dropped into a crouch and helpfully started to pick up the candies again.
"Five second rule, right? Haha!"
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He was babbling a bit. He didn't quite know what else to do, between the hilarity of talking with a giant wrapped in cloth while picking up spilled M&Ms. Well, besides sit down and laugh, and that wasn't productive.
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"Well 'five' is what most people say, anyway! I don't see why you couldn't have more if you wanted to. Your food, your rules, right? Though maybe I'd be more worried for your stomach if this was something messier like, oh, ice cream, but these look safe enough!"
The construct didn't attempt to eat any of the little candies, of course, dropping them back into the little fellow's cup as he retrieved them—except for the occasional instance where he got distracted by the pretty colors, and held one candy or another up to the various patches on his body to see how they matched.
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"Well, ice cream wouldn't have been so easy to drop, either." Lucky for both of them, he'd discovered ice cream by this point. "Since it kind of sticks to itself, and it doesn't really bounce exactly, the way these little candies do. So then I probably wouldn't be having to pick it up, to begin with. I'm Pippin, by the way."
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He plopped his last few recovered candies into the cup and then, still crouched, put his hand to his patchwork heart. "Legally I'm Talrovian, but I'm aiming to get that changed to Thomas! Happy to meet you, Pippin!"
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"Then just change it, right?" he offered. "Or don't your family like the new name? I suppose if no one will call you the new name, it would be hard to change it, come to think of it. I'm sure my family would be very confused if I wanted to change my name."