Test Drive - April Edition

[rekindlemods]

Happy early April and spring! Here's a new test drive to go with it! 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. And don't forget to go reserve your character, GO GO GO.......

Here's some prompts to help you get started, if you need it:

Option 1

[Something went wrong with your arrival, or perhaps the security around the gates was lax. Either way, you find yourself outside the city and in place that's providing a steady drain on your energy and looking a lot less warm and welcoming. Particularly those insects of unusual size skittering down the sides of the buildings, just waiting for the wrong movement to be made before swarming. There's an alarm being raised on the other side of the city walls, and it sounds like help is on the way…But will it come fast enough?]

Option 2

[There's a bustle of activity in some parts of the city; people fussing over generators that look freshly installed (and also look oddly lantern like; one more oddity to add to this place) and trying to get them up and running. It looks like they could use a hand or two to help…And oddly enough, given the instructions, hand holding to help power these devices.]

Option 3

[Spring is here! Or at least close at hand, with all the flowers beginning to bud in the trees and the grassy areas. (There might even be a few small animals on hand, too!) Even a change in decoration as little charms and masks are hung up on buildings and the like. Chances are, there might be some other people out enjoying the spring weather, too.]

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

[wurstisyettocome]

[So cute! Birdy blink! Yep, Prussia is just wanting to cuddle you now]

Awesome! I want to go to your place!

[freeasabook]

[As ever, Nageki is Unimpressed.]

You might not. The Sumatera flu kills any humans who aren't immunized to it. Even people who don't show symptoms can carry it to others.

[wurstisyettocome]

[Sumatera flu?]

I don't get sick. [he never even got plague]

[freeasabook]

...it's not worth the risk. The flu and the war killed all but four point seven percent of the human population.

[He seems troubled, if in a vague, uncommunicative way. Nageki used to carry an even worse disease.]

[wurstisyettocome]

[he seems to pause, and there's a clear expression of concentration and then]

That's a lot.

[freeasabook]

...yes. Yes, it is. Ninety-five people out of every hundred died.

That is bad. [He would've said that flatly, but Nageki's practically always flat-sounding.]

[wurstisyettocome]

But people die all the time, especially in war. Over 95 percent of the people I've known are dead. [of course, that's because he was a nation close to one thousand years old]

[freeasabook]

[Nageki's just going to assume there's some lapse in understanding here.]

This was within thirty years. Seventy out of every hundred died in the first two years, just of the disease. It was like this all over the world.

[wurstisyettocome]

And your point? [he doesn't say it in a way that is mean, but in a way the denotes, he's truly not getting it]

People die, it's kind of their thing. I lived through plagues, can't be too bad.

[freeasabook]

...

[Birds don't really have facial expressions. Otherwise this one-eyed look would have been withering.

Trying to explain would have taken a lot of effort and energy. Even here, Nageki doesn't have a lot, and he doesn't know this guy.]

I care.

[With that he opens his book and turns his attention to it.]

[wurstisyettocome]

Oh... [he thinks about it] I guess it's kind of hard. I mean, I miss my old man, but there's been thousands of people since then, and other than my fellow nations, I don't get to keep them for more than fifty years.