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

[drank_the_milk]

Most of it, yeah. I mean, the parts outside the cities.

[agelostdoll]

...There aren't any cities on Mars.

[drank_the_milk]

Not that most people know about.

[agelostdoll]

[..Asuka just sighs.]

Who would even have the resources to build them? Earth is dead anyway.

[drank_the_milk]

You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you anyway.

[agelostdoll]

[She just kind of nods]

Probably not; try me anyway.

[drank_the_milk]

Well... at least where I'm from, magic exists, and there's this whole hidden society of wizards that live on Mars, protected by spells and things so normal people can't see them.

[agelostdoll]

Sounds nice.

'Where you're from', you said?

[drank_the_milk]

Yeah. There's different worlds and things out there. If you ask around, probably everybody here will tell you something different about where they're from. Different timelines, different dimensions, different planets... it's actually one of the exciting things about getting kidnapped to a place like this.

[agelostdoll]

-Wait this has happened before?!

[EYEING THEM GUNS]

[drank_the_milk]

Yeah. This is actually the third place for me.

[agelostdoll]

[She just... she...

There just aren't any words for this; Asuka stupidly gawks like a fish for a few seconds before slapping her palm into her face. Mein Gott it even made perfect sense; the cloudy skies, the clean water, the fact everything wasn't stained annoyingly red.

It made perfect sense, once you threw away your sanity.]

Y-You... you have to be joking...

[drank_the_milk]

[Yuna just laughs sheepishly, rubbing at the back of her neck.]

I forgot how freaked out I was the first time I heard about it... it's almost second nature by this point. Sorry about that.

[agelostdoll]

...Look at us. A one-eyed 28 year old teenage Mech pilot and a half-dressed gun slinging magician from Mars.

Meeting in another dimension.

How did this happen. [how did my life get this wrong...]

[drank_the_milk]

Who knows.

[agelostdoll]

...

[...this is ridiculous]

...Well, you're the expert. What do we do now?

[drank_the_milk]

If this place turns out to be anything like the last two places, we keep alert and try not to stand out too much, and wait to see who's in charge and how they're planning to torture or kill us. Blindly charging in is always tempting, but all it does is paint a big target on your forehead, and if whoever's in charge here is powerful enough to bring us all here in the first place, chances are they can shut down any resistance that isn't really well-planned without much effort.

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[agelostdoll]

...Oh. Fuck. Great.

[suddenly, she is actually missing home. Sure it might be a cramped boat on a red sea but at least she had her freedom and could actually be useful.

An Eva pilot without an Eva is kind of a joke.]

[agelostdoll]

[...she sighs, and holds out a hand.]

Asuka. Asuka Langley Shikinami.

[drank_the_milk]

[Yuna nods, taking Asuka's hand and shaking.]

Yuna Akashi.

[agelostdoll]

[the plugsuit glove probably feels a little weird - it's basically a plasticy wetsuit covered in an unpleasant mix of slightly glutinous tang (LCL) and caked up red sand.

...O-On a related note, she probably kind of stinks a bit.]

You been at this long, then? How old are ya anyway?

[drank_the_milk]

The last place didn't have calendars or... well, any writing at all, so it was hard to keep track. But I was 17 when I ended up there, so... probably 18 by now, I guess? Or close to it, anyway.

[agelostdoll]

Scheisse, almost sounds worse than mine. I'm 28 myself. [she looks fourteen] Long story.

[drank_the_milk]

It's okay, I'm used to that too. I've met people that look half our age but are actually like hundreds of years old.

[agelostdoll]

[that actually gets a laugh]

Sounds like a fun life. What was their excuse?