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Rekindle Moderators ([personal profile] rekindlemods) wrote in [community profile] justhugalready2013-05-14 01:12 am
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Test Drive Meme!


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.]
guidetoblivion: (pic#6174574)

No, this is perfect! <3

[personal profile] guidetoblivion 2013-05-14 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Ironic indeed; not that Riku knows about that at this point. He is really just contenting himself with leaning back against the shop's chimney and enjoying the small moment of very likely soon fleeting peace.

And there it goes again, when he hears someone calling his name - the voice is unfamiliar, but when he looks down to see who it is...]


...Roxas.

[Well. That is unexpected.

Even more unexpected is the other knowing his name; Riku didn't exactly introduce himself during their chase through Twilight Town. Was that Sora's memories shining through?]
theotherpromise: (i'm not falling for it)

<3!

[personal profile] theotherpromise 2013-05-14 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[It may be Sora's memories, but this Roxas has experienced much more than Twilight Town; this place seems to have ripped him out of Sora once more, after Riku and Sora had battled Xemnas and returned home. Directionless, he's been looking for ways to return, and you were the last person he expected to find here.]

How are you here? [His tone is a bit more firm, hands curling into fists at his sides.] I've been here for days. What's going on? Where's Sora?

[If Riku's here as well, this must be something bad. But why is he so calm? Does he know something?]
guidetoblivion: (pic#6174576)

[personal profile] guidetoblivion 2013-05-14 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Riku probably doesn't know much more than Roxas does, and all he has heard about this place so far only served to make him more uneasy... he is just pretty good at hiding it. And given that the Corridors of Darkness fail to open to any other world but this one anyways, there really isn't any use in panicking anyways.]

I arrived in the same manner as everyone else.

[Taken from his waiting spot in the World That Never Was and dropped off in the middle of Saeng Seong instead, without any say on his part. Stuck like the rest of them, likely for just as long as Roxas has been.

The calm facade crumbles a little the moment Roxas drops his best friend's name though, due the Nobody's whole demeanor, really.]


At a safe place.

[Hopefully. Given that breach they had, given what had happened with... her, Riku can only hope so. And do his best to hurry back with Roxas in tow so that they can wake up Sora for good.]

Why are you asking?
theotherpromise: (another dream)

[personal profile] theotherpromise 2013-05-14 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hearing that Sora's safe--Roxas deflates, his fists opening and relaxing.]

Good. ...I wasn't sure how he'd be without me. Do you know what's happening?
Edited 2013-05-14 21:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] guidetoblivion 2013-05-15 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Riku, on the other hand, just gets more tense at that statement - why is Roxas acting so familiar? And-]

...What do you mean by 'without you'?
theotherpromise: (sea salt)

[personal profile] theotherpromise 2013-05-15 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Roxas blinks hard, brows furrowing as he takes a defensive step back, arms raising instinctually.]

What's with you? Do you not remember?
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[personal profile] guidetoblivion 2013-05-24 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Riku shakes himself slightly, taking a step back himself - snapping at Roxas is not going to solve anything after all, and even though he feels dread surging through his chest, he. must not. lose focus.

When he speaks up again he sounds calmer than before.]


Remember what?
theotherpromise: (how)

[personal profile] theotherpromise 2013-05-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Something's not right. At least he doesn't sound ready to bite Roxas's head off again. Roxas is still on the defense, hands still held open at his sides. Could he even summon his keyblade here? He hasn't tried. At least Riku doesn't sound as hostile as before. Unsure, he answers:]

You and DiZ brought me back into Sora. I've been in him for a while now. Why're you wearing that thing over your eyes again?
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[personal profile] guidetoblivion 2013-06-02 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Riku stares at him for a moment, face just maybe a slight shade paler - this definitely doesn't match with what he remembers. It matches what they had planned, but...]

...The last thing I remember is waiting for the right moment to intercept you in The World That Never Was.

[Meaning that either there is something seriously wrong with Roxas' memory or with his own. ...Or that something even worse is going on, possibly. Riku has no idea which option of those he prefers. ...Non of them, really.]
theotherpromise: (i'm not falling for it)

[personal profile] theotherpromise 2013-06-03 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Roxas's face drops. He studies Riku as if he were warping in front of his eyes, like he had missed something.]

You don't remember anything else? [How he'd changed form, how he'd beaten Roxas unconscious, flung him into a virtual simulation of a town on DiZ's orders, or anything that followed? But if this town had only taken those memories, he shouldn't be wearing that blindfold.

Roxas eyes turn to either side of the city, as if he were waiting for the punchline, or for something to jump out at them both.]


What's going on in this city? [Mostly for himself, but Riku is free to throw in his two cents.]