Test Drive Meme!

[rekindlemods]

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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[madcuriosity]

[She doesn't let go, but she does ease up a little and pulls back, trying to offer a smile.] Not at all, Miss Faerie. I'm really very happy to help. Are you feeling a bit better?

[tommyknocker]

Aha, a friendly face! Lee got a wide and gap-toothed grin offered his way for responding, and Talrovian reached a garden glove hand out to catch the human by his shoulder and eagerly usher him around to see.

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?"

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

Nobody touches his collar. He saw what had happened when Jason took Roxas' collar off. The boy had died, anyone and everyone in the tower could see it when it had happened. It hadn't been locked. In response to Thranduil's tone, so unfamiliar when turned towards him, and his reach towards the collar, Legolas leans back and away from the touch.

"It keeps my soul in my body. I will die without it."

How easy it is to believe after a year there. After witnessing various terrors. What he wouldn't give to see home again, home as it should be.

[tommyknocker]

"Whoops! Did it again!"

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!"

[woodking]

He was frozen, eyes sharp and cold as broken glass in an ice bucket. Slowly, he let his hand fall. How could this be his son?

He turned without another word.

[fragileprophet]

[Depends? The Auldrant? There was more than one?]

Yes, he is. I take it...where you're from, he isn't?

[Not that Ion could quite imagine a world where Asch wasn't a God-General. If he had never taken that path...then where would that put Luke?]

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

Legolas remained sitting, eyes moving to the ground. He couldn't, wouldn't, object or ask him to stay. He was so confused, didn't understand the point of this kind of trick. He wanted to say something, anything really but words failed him.

[woodking]

And the king was frozen, ice spinning from his heart away into his blood. He felt more cold than numb. Somehow, this couldn't be real.

Legolas's bright eyes and merry laugh. The creature behind him, more akin to a feral cat than an elven prince.

It couldn't be real.

And so he left.

[madcuriosity]

"Oh, I'm sorry there's trouble going on at home, Mr. Elf. I'm sure that the other elves understand you didn't leave them willingly. Although, no one knows what is happening while we're away. I was taken right out of my home," she could only imagine how sad and worried her parents must be now.

"But ah, it's not all bad, we're helping this world too, right. And yes, I do think it's best to enjoy your time here. I'm not sure when we can leave but we may as well help and enjoy ourselves while we can, I suppose."

[blondedork]

[Now Yogi wants to put on a circus for this nice chap, but he doesn't want to say it because he doesn't want to get his hopes up and disappoint him if Yogi can't do it for some reason.]

It is a lot of fun! I'd love to take you to one.

[If this guy sticks around, he's seriously going to try to get a circus going for him

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

For some reason, that hurt more than any of his deaths had. He had tried to convince himself that this wasn't real but it still felt real. It still sounded real.

"Díheno nin, adar."

He'd tried so hard to be strong for everyone else, for Zelda and Haldir, Frodo and Sam and Taiki. It had been so much easier in the tower when he had no time to dwell on anything except what he had to do right then and there. There was nothing but time here.

[cagedrabbit]

[Li Mei looks up when she notices the shift in emotions. A warm concern. Is it for her? He's talking to her, so it must be.

She looks back down at the crane she's folding, fiddling with it.]

A wish would be nice.

[blondedork]

...I don't mean you feeling ill. I mean your nasty attitude.

[blondedork]

You see, where I come from, "Circus" is a group of elite fighters that keep the people safe from the worst bad guys! I'm the second ship's fighter! I don't like the fighting though. I prefer the performances we do in between.

[blondedork]

It's only impolite if you don't have permission. I insist you simply call me Yogi.

[He smiles as they turn on the street the apartment building is on.]

See? There's the building. We'll be there soon.

Pasca Kanonno | Radiant Mythology

[primaveral]

[Kanonno's a little (read: really) down about being suddenly taken to a new world, but she's doing her best to get out of it. After all, there's people here who need help too, and it wouldn't be right to ignore them either.

So for now, she's trying to help with what the city wants them to do: getting people to meet their hug requirements. If you're around the arrival center, you'll find her holding up a sign:]

Free hugs!
(or a not hug in exchange for a story.)

[woodking]

The words stopped him as though they'd been woven into a rope and cast around his heart. The ice chipped, but didn't shatter. He didn't know if he wanted it to. But that voice.

"Nae, henig, icheman o gi?"

Stitch (Experiment 626) | Lilo & Stitch | Option 4 + 5

[evilkoala]

[So this was a strange sight or adorable... depending on whom you ask. A little blue koala, dog-like thing tries to get your attention by tugging on your hand/pant leg or tapping your shoulder and then he holds up a sign for you to see.

It reads on the front:

HUG ME.

He then turns the sign over for you to be able to read the back:

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO. I'M FLUFFY!

What do, weary stranger? What do? :D]

[bow_of_the_galadhrim]

He stopped. He actually stopped. Whether it was a blessing or not, Legolas couldn't tell but he actually felt some relief fill him. Just enough that he felt that maybe he could admit at least this much.

"I've been tortured, killed, have watched the graves of my friends appear and multiply and I have had my free-will striped away. They cut into my head, ada... turned me into little more than an orc."

[oathwalk]

[Having no desire to intrude on her personal space, Richard doesn't yet sit beside her. Not just sick, she seems quiet, sad. There is a twinge of compassion.]

In that case, perhaps I could help you make some? You would more quickly get to a thousand with aid.

[hintcoinplz]

No one's told me anything yet...does that honestly work?

[He's skeptical, at least he is until another wave of sickness hits him, this time a lot worse.]

Okay, okay! Do whatever you think is going to help, please!

[madcuriosity]

Yogi then, if you insist, si- oh ah... Yogi.

[At the sight of the building she brightens up considerably.]

Oh splendid! You've found it!

Hello sweets~ Brings back memories man

[madcuriosity]

[Adorable. All sorts of absolutely adorable is what Alice is going with. And as soon as she feels the hem of her dress being tugged on to look down and SEE said absolutely adorable creature with a simple sign that says hug me, Stitch doesn't even have time to flip it over before Alice has scooped him up in her arms to hug him tight.]

OH! Oh of course I'll hug you!

OMG it's a FERGUS! Also, option 2

[madcuriosity]

Oh! [When the rather, well actually giant sort of a man sat next to her unexpectedly, Alice looked at him. Goodness but he was as big as a bear... not that Alice had ever met a bear. She had met a lion though. Though she wasn't sure what was bigger, a bear or a lion. I ever she got a chance to speak with a lion again, she would be sure to ask it.

But that stray thought aside, as soon as she saw the giant smile on the man's face she found it to be rather infectious and had a smile just as equally big. Really, they could give the Cheshire Cat a run for his money.]

Why hello, sir!

[cagedrabbit]

[She stares at the man blankly before answering. She has no reason to say no, but. People. How does one act around them.

Li Mei takes a few seconds to decide, looking down to her hands again, but eventually nods.]