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.]

Comments

[tommyknocker]

Talrovian didn't even bat an eye at the babbling. He was inclined to it, himself, after all!

"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.

[pushingthreeseven]

They were definitely talking around each other a little, so Pippin gave up wondering what he meant, and finished with the candy while chattering about... whatever, really.

"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."

[tommyknocker]

"Ice cream drops all at once when it does, though," Talrovian answered easily. Talking about dropping candy and the five-second rule? Totally a fine topic of conversation! And the little taytatay answered so very easily! Talrovian liked him already. Even if he liked mostly everybody already. "Then all you've got is some sad little lump melting on the ground and nothing in your hand but an empty cone. Unless you could get a free refill! That wouldn't be so bad then."

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!"

[pushingthreeseven]

That was confusing, right there, too. Pippin cocked his head at Talrovian, finally taking in everything (or at least bits and pieces) of how he looked. He was actually kind of fascinating to look at, but that didn't entirely detract from the fact that changing one's name shouldn't be that hard.

"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."