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
Rialynn Kollmann | OC | Option 3 (with a little 4)
[She's also pleased to discover that the librarians here do not secretly fund a regicide-plotting cult, but that's another story altogether.]
[Rialynn sits down with a whuff of breath. She hasn't been here all that long, and she's pretty much disregarded the relatively creepy advice to go hug a bunch of strangers. The sweat on her forehead, the slowly vanishing strength, surely nothing more than a prelude to a cold. Surely.]
[Cracking open the first book, she props her cheek up on her knuckles, practically devouring the words presented to her. Oh, a book about vampires...! This will surely be scary.]
[Surely.]
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What he can't decide is where to start. So, what do you do? You find someone who looks like they know what they're doing! A librarian? Nah! A reader!
So that's how Rialynn gets a very tall, very skinny, patchwork-covered golem first examining her mighty stack of books, and then attempting to lean over her shoulder without the least bit of care for "personal space". ]
Wow, you've sure picked out a lot already! What are you reading? Can you make a recommendation?
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[She starts to lift her head, smiling, but wow that expression changes fast once she sees the very inhuman appearance of the golem. Her mouth drops open in mute shock, and in her haste to move back, she half-trips and half-falls out of her chair, scrambling to get some space between them. Her hand fumbles for the rapier at her waist, which is (fortunately) not there. And she thought cultist librarians were bad! Why are there monsters in the library?!]
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In fact, he laughs. Not at Rialynn, specifically, but more for the situation in general. Not that the difference is readily apparent. ]
Ah, sorry, sorry! I didn't mean to scare you, honestly! Are you alright?
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Wh...wha...
[She can scarcely speak. She retreats a few steps, still not comfortable with the amount of space between them just yet. Swallowing hard, she tries again.]
What are you...?
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He puts his hand over the only scrap of red cloth on his entire form: the heart on one side of his chest. ]
I'm a construct! Copper clockwork and quilted clothes! I make the clothes myself but Mommy made the clockwork and Daddy cast the spell. He's the reason my legal name is Talrovian, but someday I hope to be 'Thomas' instead! Happy to meet you, but sorry again it was by scaring you!
[ How's THAT for an answer. ]
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[Clockwork? She's familiar with the concept of gears and the like, but that such a creature could be fashioned...! To his credit, however, he doesn't seem threatening or dangerous. He's actually very polite.]
Ah...well...in such a place, you needn't use your legal name, if you wished to be called by another...
[Still not getting closer, but at least the color is starting to return to her face.]
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After a period of searching, he sighs deeply in frustration and sits back in his chair, rubbing his tired eyes beneath his spectacles. Allowing his gaze to wander, he finally sees the towering pile the next table over. He tilts his head, reading the spines as surreptitiously as possible, until a slim volume gives him pause.
He doesn't break his gaze even as he addresses the young woman.]
...I beg your pardon. Are you planning to read all of those?
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Perhaps in time, but not all today. Did you see one you'd like to read?
[She doesn't mind sharing, since she just plucked up anything that looked interesting until her arms could barely stand it anymore. She can always go back for seconds.]
[Rising to her feet, Rialynn lifts part of the stack up, so he can better reach whatever book has captured his attention.]
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If you wouldn't mind. I rather fancy a bit of recreational reading right now. Even research becomes tiresome after a while.
[Reaching into the proffered pile, he carefully extracts the book of his choice. The Shadow Over... something; he covers the title with his hand.]
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[She smiles, and sets the books down again once he's retrieved the book he wants. It seems like it might be a short read.]
If you do not mind, might I ask what you're researching?
[She's curious about the book too, but she's patient. Rialynn will find out after he's done, and the fact that he's selected the novel is indicative that she's chosen at least one good book.]
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I was hoping to uncover information on the city we're currently... sequestered in. Its history, its form of government, the reason for the wall that keeps us trapped, the so-called "illness" that threatens us. Anything of the sort.
But so far my efforts have been entirely fruitless. [A sigh of frustration escapes his lips.] Which makes me wonder what they're trying to hide.
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[Rialynn looks at the books. Er...she got a little sidetracked, admittedly. It's hard to resist that kind of temptation.]
Perhaps I can help carry some of that load, unless you've already scoured the rest of these shelves?
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[He sternly side-eyes the pile before her, and raises a questioning eyebrow.]
I doubt you'll find anything useable in a lurid vampire novel.
...However, if you're indeed willing, I suppose I wouldn't object to the assisstance. These are extenuating circumstances.
I've already checked sections purported to contain books on history, but it's certainly possible there might be something useful hiding elsewhere.