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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justhugalready2013-05-14 01:12 am
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That's when you study things so you know more about them.
They became evil spirits. I'm not scared. [All right, he is. But he wouldn't admit it.]
I know how to have fun. [He hasn't had any real fun lately, but he does know how. He used to have lots of fun.] You don't need to have fun to fight evil. They're not related.
I've been exploring. It's part of my research. [Nonetheless, he has been studying for a while, and he could use a break, so he doesn't resist, letting Diarmuid take his hand.] I know a lot about this place already.
[He'd done his best to learn the lay of the land, like Natalia would have.]
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[Diarmuid's eyes light up as he makes a connection in his mind.]
So kind of like when father tells me the things I need to learn to be a proper knight and help people? We just started doing that this year. And I just started learning how to use a sword! It's so much fun! Father says if I keep learning as fast as I am, I can start working with a spear soon too!
[The boy is very glad with Kerry doesn't right out reject going out to explore. After all, while Kerry might have had the chance to map things out already, Diarmuid has not.
That may or may not have to do with him being scared of so many of the modern machines he has seen around.
However, he doesn't think about those fears right now. Instead, he looks up at the other boy with amusement in his eyes.]
Is everything research to you? How about eating? Is it research?
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[Guns: clearly superior. Not that Kerry has a problem with swords.] Swords are cool. Do you have yours here?
Eating's just eating. But if you might have to fight a battle, you should always know where everything is. You never know what you can use in a fight.
[Not that he knows a lot about fighting yet, but he wants to learn as much as he can. He wants to be ready for whatever might happen. How can they be sure this place is safe?]
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[Sorry Kerry, you asked for that one.
Diarmuid's expression saddens when the other boy asks about his sword and he shakes his head.]
I don't. When the faeries brought me here, they didn't let me bring my sword. They let you bring your gun?
[He gives Kerry a look, swinging the hand he his holding]
Well, you are older than me. That is probably why if so. I am just starting to learn.
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[He feels a little sad and hollow as he says this, but he doesn't show it, keeping hold of Diarmuid's hand as he walks with him.]
No, I don't have my gun either. I wish I did. And I told you, fairies didn't bring us here. [Kerry knows these things, okay?]
I meant nobody knows how a battle's going to go, so you've got to be open to possibilities. You've got to know as much as you can to give yourself the advantage. Knowing the terrain's part of that.
[Kerry talks like he knows what he's talking about, but he's only just starting to learn himself, even if he is older than Diarmuid.]
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[Diarmuid really doesn't understand, but there are all kinds of magical weapons out there. Why couldn't this gun of Kerry's be one of those?
He pauses, though, when Kerry again says that faeries weren't responsible for bringing them there. His hands come up to his hips, and he gives the other boy a stubborn look.]
If not faeries then what? I know the people said we were brought here to help them, but they said nothing about who did it!
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[Kerry is sure Diarmuid doesn't know a thing about science, but he says this anyway.]
These people kidnapped us, it's obvious. They said they needed us. They don't want us to know how they did it, that's all.
There aren't any fairies around, and this place doesn't have anything to do with fairies, so that makes no sense. Just because fairies are all you know about doesn't mean they did it.
[He doesn't mean to sound rude, he's just telling it like it is.]
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[He can guess that magecraft is like magic, so he doesn't ask about that, but the word 'scientific' is another completely foreign one. If Diarmuid was a little less naive, he might think that the other boy was trying to make himself look smart by using all these big words, but he is not and so the thought never even crosses his mind.
Besides, he's more interested in correcting Kerry's obviously incorrect view of the nice people who live here.]
They need our help and we are suppose to help others! They didn't kidnap us. People do that to others to hurt them, not help them. Everyone has been really nice to me even when I didn't understand.
[Like the lady who had told him about the books, for example.]
And you don't know how they did it. They might have used fairy magic! Just because you don't like that explanation doesn't mean it's not true!
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[That will have to be good enough, because the idea of actually defining what "science" is makes Kerry's head hurt.]
I don't have to help kidnappers.
[So there.]
People steal other people to work for them, you know. That's not helping, that's slavery. Even if they act nice, they shouldn't have brought us here when we don't want to be here. That's not nice.
[This kid needs to wise up for his own good, or he's going to get hurt.]
Why would they use fairy magic when they're not fairies? They probably have their own magic, or they use science.
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[It takes quite a bit to make Diarmuid really sad, but all of these strange words are starting to do it. His father would never throw so many odd new things at him at once and thinking of his father reminds him that it might be a long time before he gets to see him or his friend again.
In other words, he's very definitely starting to feel homesick.
He tries to put on a brave face though, still not convinced the other boy is anywhere near right about the people who brought them here.]
Just because you like to look at things and assume they are bad doesn't make it true! The first person I talked to picked me up and asked me nicely if I would help just like the people at home do and none of them are bad. You are just grumpy!
[His face brightens for a moment.]
I should sing for you! Singing makes everyone less grumpy!
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[He's relatively patient with his definitions, because it's clear that this kid simply doesn't know much at all, but it's not his fault, if he's from the past. If he's weaker and smaller, it should be Kerry's job to protect him.]
I'm not grumpy, it's the truth. People can pretend to be nice. It doesn't change the fact that they brought us here, because they said they did. And a lot of people don't want to be here.
[It makes him mad. Nobody should take advantage of little kids like this who don't know any better.
Kerry used to be much happier. Diarmuid should have met him a few weeks ago. Now he thinks he should educate this kid, who obviously doesn't know the way things work.]
You can sing if you want.
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[Diarmuid thinks of the swords that Aengus had shown him and the stories he had told of their creation. There was so much magic around them. He could feel it just by standing near them, and he didn't know anything about magic at all. Hadn't the other boy said magic and technology were kind of opposites?
He shakes his head at Kerry's view of the people here. He just can't understand being that suspicious of everything, but he doesn't want to keep arguing it. It's boring.
Singing is better.]
You have to sing with me though! You won't be less grumpy unless you sing too!
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[He's not mentioning any more kinds of technology, because then he might have to explain them.
Sigh. He really doesn't realize they were kidnapped? He doesn't know if this kid will ever learn better. Maybe when he grows up. Kerry's not going to push the issue any farther, because he doesn't really want to upset Diarmuid.
Kerry doesn't feel like a singalong. It seems silly, and he's too old to run around singing in public for no reason. He's eleven, after all.]
We probably don't know the same songs. You sing, I'll listen.
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Is there a kind of song you like better than another then? I know all kinds. Father taught me!
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I don't care. Sing whatever you want.
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What is wrong? Why do you get upset whenever I talk about my father? Do you miss yours? Is that why you are so mad at the people who brought us here?
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I don't have a father.
[There. He's said it. Flatly and simply. It's the truth. His father's gone, and he should be gone.]
I'm mad at them because they kidnapped innocent people.
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[Granted Diarmuid's birth father is also absent, but he had Aengus to take care of him. Shouldn't Kerry have someone too?]
Don't you have anyone? Wait...didn't you mention a N-Natalia? Doesn't she take care of you?
[Because that was what fathers did. They took care of and taught their sons. If that is what Natalia did for Kerry, shouldn't that count?]
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[He doesn't say what happened to them.]
I work with Natalia. She's training me.
[Natalia gives him orders, and he follows them. She doesn't look after him like that. He respects her, but it's not the same.]
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[Diarmuid puts his hands on his hips again. What is it with this boy denying anything that could be good in his life?]
Natalia cares about you enough to be taking are of you and training you. Why don't you care enough about her to respect her as your family? It is your duty as her student!
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I respect her. She's a good person, and I follow her orders. We're going to save people together.
[And kill magi, of course. Like his father.]
But it's different.
[It's not like it was with his dad and Shirley, and she doesn't treat him that way or see him that way, either.]
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Maybe once you get to know her better.
[He nods with as much finality as such a small boy can and then changes the topic.]
Okay, what do you want to show me first? There are so many places I haven't been yet!