Test Drive Meme!

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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.]

Comments

[ocd_reaper]

"All right then, Miss Honda. I'm Death the Kid though most people just call me 'Kid'."

He smiled, amused. "I was raised in the middle of the desert in Nevada. By comparison, this place is downright cool. In any case, it takes a lot of heat to bother me."

[drank_the_milk]

Most of it, yeah. I mean, the parts outside the cities.

[agelostdoll]

...There aren't any cities on Mars.

[drank_the_milk]

Not that most people know about.

[agelostdoll]

[..Asuka just sighs.]

Who would even have the resources to build them? Earth is dead anyway.

[drank_the_milk]

You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you anyway.

[agelostdoll]

[She just kind of nods]

Probably not; try me anyway.

[drank_the_milk]

Well... at least where I'm from, magic exists, and there's this whole hidden society of wizards that live on Mars, protected by spells and things so normal people can't see them.

Re: Oh well, I wasn't sure XD

[favours_thebow]

"Nice to meet you too, mister Took." He bowed and then smiled. Kili saw the hobbit hold out his hand, as he was more than pleased to shake it. "Pippin? Would you prefer that over, mister Took? We have a hobbit in our party and we call him either Bilbo or mister Baggins." He swallowed. Was he supposed to have just blabbed that? Surely, Pippin would know of Bilbo, so there wouldn't be any questions asked there.

His quest was now far away, as his expression saddened some. "Well, I was going on a quest, that was, until I was brought here." He let his feet drape over the calm waters some.

[agelostdoll]

Sounds nice.

'Where you're from', you said?

[favours_thebow]

Are we just brought here by someone then? [Kili was just unsure and slightly worried. He liked being with Fili and this....well, it scared him some to be truthful.]

Nor do I. It's odd, isn't it?

[drank_the_milk]

Yeah. There's different worlds and things out there. If you ask around, probably everybody here will tell you something different about where they're from. Different timelines, different dimensions, different planets... it's actually one of the exciting things about getting kidnapped to a place like this.

[agelostdoll]

-Wait this has happened before?!

[EYEING THEM GUNS]

[drank_the_milk]

Yeah. This is actually the third place for me.

[agelostdoll]

[She just... she...

There just aren't any words for this; Asuka stupidly gawks like a fish for a few seconds before slapping her palm into her face. Mein Gott it even made perfect sense; the cloudy skies, the clean water, the fact everything wasn't stained annoyingly red.

It made perfect sense, once you threw away your sanity.]

Y-You... you have to be joking...

[drank_the_milk]

[Yuna just laughs sheepishly, rubbing at the back of her neck.]

I forgot how freaked out I was the first time I heard about it... it's almost second nature by this point. Sorry about that.

[agelostdoll]

...Look at us. A one-eyed 28 year old teenage Mech pilot and a half-dressed gun slinging magician from Mars.

Meeting in another dimension.

How did this happen. [how did my life get this wrong...]

[goldenflint]

Ah, no. [She gives a sheepish chuckle.] Not exactly. It's just that I've endured many things back in my world. Something like this... it wouldn't even be able to slow me down.

[beforetights]

[Cu Chulainn turns and paddles back.]

Mm, I win this time! We can have a closer race next time, can't we?

[sunshine_maiden]

Honestly... I was expecting it to be worse than it was. When we weren't fighting, it was almost like we were one big family. We all looked out for each other, and we were pretty friendly. ['Except for a few bad seeds,' she admitted mentally, 'but I try not to think about those anymore.']

But when we had to fight... I was scared. A little for myself, but mostly that I wouldn't be able to protect the people that were precious to me. I put on a brave face for my team, and for the others... but I don't think they ever realized, until the very end, how worried I got.

[She stares wistfully at a partly-exposed arm, and an odd tightening of her skin that Tohru might recognize as a large, slowly-healing burn.]

...How much I was willing to lose for them.

[ichoosefight]

Oh yeah, sure! I mean, there's not really an agency so much, but I can help you find work. I was about to go looking myself. [ No better way to investigate than to integrate into the community. ]

[drank_the_milk]

Who knows.

[sharingan]

[it's as he pulls himself up that Sasuke recognizes what he is, and knows that he wants to completely wash his hands of this. nobility was more trouble than they were worth, he'd had that experience when he was a boy.

he makes no move to follow, though his gaze doesn't leave the other.

call it morbid fascination.]

[agelostdoll]

...

[...this is ridiculous]

...Well, you're the expert. What do we do now?

[drank_the_milk]

If this place turns out to be anything like the last two places, we keep alert and try not to stand out too much, and wait to see who's in charge and how they're planning to torture or kill us. Blindly charging in is always tempting, but all it does is paint a big target on your forehead, and if whoever's in charge here is powerful enough to bring us all here in the first place, chances are they can shut down any resistance that isn't really well-planned without much effort.