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Test Drive Meme!

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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"Hallo there," Miles nodded in greeting. What a curious looking creature, but she seemed friendly enough. "I don't suppose you're one of the new arrivals as well?"

"H-hello Sir." Mani smiles shyly even as she stands to attention. "I am. I'm still trying to learn the rules."

Hopefully if she had done something wrong this human won't be to upset with her. This place is so strange.

He watched her reactions with great curiosity. Perhaps the sir wasn't just her being polite, but something else.

"No reason to stand on my behalf," He said mildly. "I'm still learning about this place as well, so there's no reason to be so formal."

He casually held out his hand for her to shake if she so wished, "Just call me Miles. Don't suppose you have a name?"

"Okay sir um, Miles. I'm Mani. It's nice to meet you."

Mani took Miles offered hand, a look of confusion crossing her face as her headache started to fade.

"I guess the touching rule is important." Mani said in surprise, before she looked down at her hand as if expecting something to happen.

"It's nice to meet you as well, Mani." He gently, but firmly, shook her hand but didn't release it after the usual amount of time. Her expression was rather telling.

"So it would seem, although I can scarcely tell the difference." he arched an eyebrow. "But I'd wager you can?"

"Uh...well." Mani started to look shy, embarrassed. "I haven't been following the touching rule like I should."

Mani kept a hold of Miles' hand too. Without Art or Sunna around she's been feeling lonely, and she was glad to have the headache fading away. "And..."

Mani closed her eyes and concentrated hard, she didn't fade from view but her fur did darken to match the night around them, but only for a few seconds before Mani started panting slightly and let her fur return to normal.

"I should be able to do better than that."

"Neither have I, so I find it curious that you seem more affected than myself."

Miles watched as Mani blended into the dark of the night, if only for a brief moment. If he were shocked it would be difficult to tell, as his expression hardly changed. "Well, that's certainly a trick now isn't it?"

"Maybe humans aren't as badly effected?" Mani suggested. "Or... Um...I don't know."

Mani stands up a little straighter at Miles comment on her 'trick'.

"I'm part of the Shadowstalker project." She says almost proudly before deflating a little. "I should be able to do better, Dr Endymion would be disappointed."

"One possible theory, I suppose." He nodded curtly. "I think there's more to it, but I'm not sure what just yet. At any rate, funny sort of town we've landed in."

He certainly made no attempt to let go of her hand, figuring Mani would drop the contact once whatever was bothering her subsided enough. He did, however, look very interested at mention of this project. "Oh? And what is that, exactly? I'm afraid where I come from we've got nothing like you at all."

"It is." Mani agreed letting go of Miles hand finally, the headache was gone, she'd just have to work at the invisibility she guessed. "It's so different from the facility all the rules are different."

"You don't?" Mani asked surprised. "Art says I was made for espionage so people can get morphs like me to watch other people for them and make sure they don't do bad things."

And Mani smiles at this, because she's been taught that espionage is a good thing.

"Hmm." Miles pressed his lips together, processing what Mani was trying to explain.

"If anything is to be believed here, I guess it's that we're all from different worlds," The skepticism in his voice was plain as day. "I'd wager you don't have the International Office of Paranormal and Supernatural Affairs where you're from."

"Paranormal and Supernatural?" Mani shook her head. "But I only know what's in the facility... Sunna might have heard of it if we do, but she's not here."

"Fair enough."

He looked out over the water, considering all that he'd seen over the past few days. Really, it was sort of a mess and not all the pieces fit together. The why bothered him. Why were they here.

"What are you, exactly?" He'd been holding the question back until she seemed a little less skiddish, but now was as good a time as any to ask.

"Sorry." Mani says feeling bad for not being able to give the answer she thinks Miles wanted to hear. So when he asks his next question Mani tries to make sure to give him the right answer.

"Shadowstalker oh eight beta." Mani answers before realising Miles might mean 'what' as in her Species not the project that made her. "Or vulpes velox homoformas ...Art said the layman's term is fox morph."

Mani isn't sure if giving three answers counts as the right anwer.

Edited 2013-05-17 17:46 (UTC)

"Morph?" He inquired, tone curious. He was starting to get the impression from the way she was acting that whatever a fox morph was, was created. Somehow.

Mani nods holding her hands behind her back to stop her self talking with her hands, she'd gotten into trouble with that before in the past. "It's short for Anthropomorphic."

"I see."

He frowned slightly. There was something about the way she was acting that he didn't care for, but couldn't entirely place. Still, she kept answering his questions, he was going to keep pressing until told otherwise.

"So, a fox with human features...that's not entirely natural is it?" He peered down at her over the rim of his glasses. "You were made for this shadow project business?"

"Yes I was made." Mani was starting to feel unsure now. Miles wasn't reacting like any other human she spoke too. The more she explained the less satisfied he seemed to be.

"I was made by Dr Endymion and trained by Art Powell." Mani explained hoping this would get her out of whatever trouble she had somehow talked herself into. "Morphs have been around for several decades the first one in the UK was a present to the queen. He's a corgi named Prince."

"Oh, that's charming," His tone indicated he felt it was the opposite, however. He glanced at Mani once again, noting her discomfort. He really couldn't help but be blunt, however. "And if I could hazard a guess to say most of your lot are owned by humans?"

He couldn't change a single thing about her world, but here with that sort of naivety Mani could get herself into a real pickle. "Just remember this place isn't like that. I'd hate to see someone take advantage."

"Uh..." Mani nodded not sure if she should say anything else.

"I-it's not, all the rules are different and, and ..." Mani sighed looking down at the ground. "I wish Art was here."

Edited 2013-05-17 18:40 (UTC)

Miles sighed quietly. It was obvious to him, at least, that she would need someone to look after her. "Where are you staying, Mani?"

Now there's a glimmer of caution in Mani's eyes, but it's not enough to overpower the ingrained habit of answering any question put to her honestly.

"Middle floor of the Guest Apartments." Mani admitted, it had the fewest people which made life easier for someone not used to being around many people. Everyone else either wanted the lower floors for easy access or the upper floors for the view. "Why?"

"By yourself?"

He pushed his glasses up on his nose, "You'll have to forgive my curiosity, but my job back home entailed looking after certain individuals with unusual abilities. I could do the same here."

"Yes." Mani said. "I'm okay on my own."

"You mean supernatural abilities?" Mani asked, confused. She didn't know what to do, Sunna told her that not all humans were as nice as Art and unlike the fennec she had no way to tell if Miles was one of the nice ones or not.

"Yes. Mediums, sensitives, whatever they might go by, if they even exist in your world."

He could only shrug, however. "Just give it consideration."

He was going to keep an eye in her regardless.

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