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.]

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Lelouch Lamperouge | Genderswapped AU | Code Geass

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

3
[Seeing as those engaged in research and study were to busy to answer the questions of a princess turned revolutionary leader, Lelouch, bored of dealing with people and unwilling to expose her already unstable power for the sake of a bit of information, has settled upon reading up on the area herself, leafing through every bit of materiel she could gather on the area, which now lay in a large pile beside her on a bench.]

4.
[Oops. Looks like playing the role of a distant and symbolic figurehead didn't work so well in a place where physical contact was the order of the day. Already weak physically, Lelouch's condition from a lengthy period of refusing to touch other has rendered even worse then wear then usual.

Her attempts to leave her apartment have been awkward, to say the least. As it has taken far long then it should to simply dress herself and leave home for the day. She could be found all over the city, staggered and panting, while doing her best to fight through the pain imposed upon her from above.]

3

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

[Connor himself was more than interested in learning more of this place, and what secrets it may hold. Never before in his life has he ever experienced anything such as this. The layout of the area was both confusing, and overwhelming for the poor, hooded man. So, when he noticed a girl reading, he immediately became interested. Perhaps she knew of any useful information that he could put to use.]

Excuse me young lady, but can I have a moment of your time?

Re: 3

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

[Setting aside a pamphlet she had gathered from elsewhere, Lelouch turns her attention to the stranger attempting to speak to her. Speaking more as a member of the student council, helpful and cordial, then the leader of a small army, Lelouch speaks calmly.]

Oh, of course. How can I help you?

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

Could you tell me any information that you may have on the people inhabiting this area?

[That seemed like an easy enough question, he supposed. Or at the very least a bit easier to answer than a question about city itself.]

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

Well, as a whole those I've talked to have been uninterested in assisting my efforts or have ignored me entirely.

But from what I can gather from all of this reading material, they seem harmless. Which I imagine is the most important thing in the end.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

Perhaps...however nothing is truly harmless. [Even frightened rabbits could have a very nasty bite.]

And what of the city itself? [May as well ask that as well in the end.]

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

Very true, the seeds of destruction can be sown in the smallest of vessels.

[Lelouch laughs lightly.]

But I imagine we should set aside talk of philosophy for until I answer your question. It seems as if this city is as modern as any in the first world and posses all the amenities one would expect to see in such a place.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

[The face beneath the hood did not show any emotion towards the laugh of hers.]

This is considered...modern? [Not by his standards.] I do not understand what would make it modern.

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

Perhaps I was a bit hasty in my use of the word "modern." The facilities here seem to be a strange mixture of the old and new, without adhering to heavily to either style. And while I'll admit this place is certainly not match the glory of a city of the Britannian empire, I've seen worse conditions in places more "modern" then this.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

Britannian empire? I have yet to see the English be able to create anything like this. [The closest ones who he could think of that would be able to even come close were those mysterious Masons, and maybe a few of those in Congress. Mr. Franklin in particular.]

And I cannot say much about Japan. [Because wasn't that supposed to have been a small island of backwards people?]

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

[Lelouch's eyes grow wide with surprise upon hearing Connor's words, was this man really so isolated from the world at large that he didn't know of the world's largest empire?]

The empire has existed for centuries...how is it that you've never heard of it?

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

[A slight raise of the eyebrow, not that she would be able to see it with his hood in the way.]

You are speaking of the Kingdom of England, correct? [If not, then things were a bit more bizarre than he had originally believed them to have been. And he wasnt entirely certain that he was going to enjoy that fact.]

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

Britannia's history is long and complicated, but does trace its origins to the country of England and its surroundings. In the present day however, it consists of much more. Encompassing both of the Americas, the Middle East, Japan and a number of smaller holdings.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

And yet no such place exists. [A frown this time.]

...I do not think that those who have been kidnapped come from the same era or Earth. [If they even came from Earth to begin with.]

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

That would explain the discrepancies between our histories.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

Perhaps, though I do not recall telling you anything of my history. [Nor was he going to either. The feeling of privacy was far to grat here.]

But I doubt I needed to have in order for you to figure out that there are differences.

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

Indeed, your ignorance of the Britannian empire was more then enough to glean that something differed between our respective pasts.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

Indeed, and I believe it to be so for everyone else here.

[Which raised the question of where here is.] However you seem to be rather knowledgable with the machines and tools used within this world.

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

That is likely for the best.

[the world would be better off if the Brittanian empire had never existed, she knew that much.]

I've had to work with technology everyday of my life, its only natural that I've picked up a bit of knowledge about the subject.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

Then perhaps you could teach me about them?

[Because he is embarrassingly at a loss here with absolutely no direction to follow when it comes to modern machines.]

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

I imagine I could. But first I'd like to know how much you currently know about technology.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

Thank you... [Though why did she want to know how much he knew.]

I come from the late 1700's...

[revolutionary_girl_lulu]

[Color the former princess surprised. Of all the oddities in the world, she had never thought time travel to be among them.]

Really? I didn't think something like that was even possible.

[eaglebornbyfreedomwon]

And I had not believed that being spirited away was possible until now.

[Though he has experienced stranger things before.]