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

[ranfromnormal]

[Cathy winces slightly at Ladon's reply, but there's no helping the way her expression warms upon seeing him. As he sits next to her, Cathy leans in immediately, right under the arm he puts around her shoulders. She doesn't mind the lack of personal space, but she knows others do so she's been a little more careful about her casual touching as a result. Everyone seems so much more aware of it here...

But no, her thoughts don't linger there long. Sighing, she shakes her head.]

Not this time, sad to say. Would be easy enough to pop a pill and down some water if that were the case.

[And while she knows it's too soon to already be feeling better, simply knowing that she will feel better after some time with Ladon helps.]

You've been clocking enough time I guess?

[justamobster]

[ He rubs her shoulder idly. Yeah. Hangovers are one thing-- they're at least familiar. But this strange, alien feeling born of something he's grown to be so comfortable with, being alone... That's something else entirely. At least having a clutch here would be to his advantage, all that closeness made necessary by sharing a cave. A decade of a human existence has worn off on him, though. He feels anxious just thinking about that much contact with others, especially people who don't know what he is.

Thus why it's easier with Cathy. And why he can joke with her. ]

Ain't gone all scaly an' four-legged yet. Don't think I'd get many people willin' to cozy up with me that way, yeah?

[ranfromnormal]

[Taking full advantage of their current proximity, Cathy nuzzles her cheek against his shoulder and closes her eyes for a bit. He might not be from home, might not be the people she's familiar with from the Nightside, but he's a piece of Sacrosanct that has become dear to her, and she feels entirely at ease.]

You know I would no matter what form you were in, Ladon.

[He might have been joking but Cathy is serious.]

Unless you hadn't taken a bath in which case we might have to get you scrubbed down first, really.

[justamobster]

[ He laughs a little at that. ] Hey, humans're the stinky ones here. [ Says he who smells of campfire and ashtray.]

I mean. We don't sweat or get grimy. Only gotta bathe hatchlings when they get into somethin' they shouldn't, but human kids get smelly after a couple days, yeah?