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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.]

[personal profile] gakishinji 2013-05-26 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[her words don't really hit him. he doesn't know what she's talking about, and he's too afraid of her and stressed out by this situation to listen.]

...I said, I don't know what you're talking about. [it's a little louder now. he's daring to assert that fact a little clearer. after all, he's still wearing this awful choker, isn't he? what in the world is she saying?]
Edited 2013-05-26 03:41 (UTC)
agelostdoll: (hang our heads low)

[personal profile] agelostdoll 2013-05-26 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't ignore me on this, Shinji. If the detonator failed it could go off any second.

[personal profile] gakishinji 2013-05-26 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[honestly, that's something he's already been worrying about since they put the thing on him. but something about the way she says it makes him slow his pace, although he still doesn't stop or look back at her.]

...It hasn't. And what are you gonna do, anyway? Misato-san is the only one who can take it off, right?

[he doesn't believe she actually cares. she must be mentioning it just so it doesn't blow up in her face if she's close. it all still makes him wonder why she's bothering in the first place.]
agelostdoll: (No-one has time for that anymore)

[personal profile] agelostdoll 2013-05-26 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[actually if she was just worried about that she'd do the sensible thing and back away. He's right about her not being able to take it off damnit Kaworu and your fancy angelpants but she can check it for obvious signs of damage. So don't mind her poking around the collar on your neck giving precisely zero fucks about your personal space. And yes, she'll actually have to move in front of you to check the front half; hope the sky is interesting today.

Mostly, she's worried about the implications of the choker still being there; Akagi built it personally and stuffed it as full of safeguards as was possible to prevent it being removed in the event of capture. Perhaps his dad could fake the signal so they thought it had gone off but frankly from what she knows of the wretched old bastard she doesn't expect him to expend that much effort on you.

And then you have the other Shinji, and the implications of him being here...]


What's the last thing you remember?

[personal profile] gakishinji 2013-05-26 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[When she steps in front of him, he freezes up out of his weird mix of fear and stubbornness. Refusing to give in to her (or anyone at Wille for that matter), he diverts his eyes and ignores whatever she's trying to do as much as possible.]

...I was at NERV.

[Actually, it was that awful Shogi match with Fuyutsuki-sensei, but he's not about to open up to Asuka about any of that. After several seconds of silence has passed, he takes a few steps back from her.]

There aren't any Evas here for me to pilot. Why would it go off? If it's broken already then it's broken.

[just tell yourself that, Shinji. it's better than worrying about spontaneously dying at any moment.]
agelostdoll: (Anno's driving stick isn't he)

[personal profile] agelostdoll 2013-05-26 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[...and for the second time today... this isn't her Shinji. Quite her Shinji. Probably a few days or weeks behind... explains why the brat's so talkative, she supposes. She drops her hands anyway; there's no need to examine it any further.]

Where I'm from, you'd already set off Fourth Impact. You were in Unit 13, piloting for your father, saying you were going to save the world, exactly as we were afraid you would. That's why we detonated the collar.

Didn't kill you then either for some reason; we averted the Impact and you weren't wearing it when I dragged you out of your plug.

[personal profile] gakishinji 2013-05-27 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Finally, he looks at her. Shinji doesn't really take what she's saying seriously (she's left out the awful details unknown to her) but the confident way she's saying it makes him pause. Really, what is he supposed to even say to that? Assuming it's not a lie in the first place? Are people mad at him for something he hasn't even done yet, then?]

...if I piloted for father, then he must have taken it off for me. I wouldn't have got in if I was still wearing it. I'm not dumb.

[he attempts to walk around her, still not interested in this conversation at all. Third Impact, Fourth Impact, whatever... next they'll be blaming him for Tenth Impact, or something else he didn't remember or try to do...]
agelostdoll: (Well that's it then)

[personal profile] agelostdoll 2013-05-27 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[she stops him with a hand to his shoulder. Shinji wants to wander off and moan he can, but she wants to make sure he understands this.]

If you were smart, you wouldn't be piloting for anyone.

The other you is from some other place. I'm probably a week or two ahead of you. You see where I'm going with this?

[personal profile] gakishinji 2013-05-27 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[glares.]

No.
agelostdoll: (Default)

[personal profile] agelostdoll 2013-05-27 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ach, scheiß drauf. I don't even know why I bothered trying.

[what's the point wasting words on a child that refuses to listen.

Just like that, you're no longer worth the effort. Asuka leaves.]