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

[protomensch]

It does. They aren't of much help.

[Well, at least the people here seem decent enough to stop and lend a hand.]

All it says is something about "holding hands." But if it was that easy to make power we'd all be better off. [Himself especially.]

It's wired strangely on the inside, too. I've never seen anything like it.

[simpleness]

That's all? [ No wonder this guy needed help. ]

Well ... I don't know that much about generators, but this place has weird rules when it comes to stuff like touching, right? So maybe it is that easy to make power.

[ ... Or. In the case of lanterns fueled specifically by touch, at least. ]

[protomensch]

[Well he had heard a few things about touching being more important here. Maybe he had a point.]

Right. Sorry, I'm still getting used to this place.

[He glanced at his hand before casually extending it ahead of him. Hopefully it worked the same way for robots as it did for everyone else who talked about it.]

So... handshake, then?

[simpleness]

Sure. Why not? [ He's already going for the handshake before he even finishes agreeing to it. Maybe that's a little overeager, but it's worth seeing if it really works, and all that. His grip's a little flimsy and his shake's not impressive, but at least he's trying. ]

I'm still new here, too, so it's not like I really get it, either.

[protomensch]

At least I'm not the only one. What's your name, anyway?

[Shaking hands with someone you'd never met was never an easy thing to do. Not that he'd be much firmer himself; he's not sure if it's obvious by touch that his hand isn't quite the real thing.

Thankfully, the glowing and soft humming of the lantern generator's ignition made for a good distraction.]

Okay, pretty sure that's impossible. Explains the weird wiring though.

[simpleness]

[ Tiz still has his gloves on, and he's not exactly the perceptive type, so if there is something off about the handshake he's not likely to notice. And it works for the generator, which is good enough.

That's ... definitely pretty amazing, so he pretty much drops the handshake as soon as the lantern starts working and replaces it with a few moments of astonished staring. ]

Uh — wow ... It really worked. [ That's still kind of half of a statement and half of a question. It's only a few seconds before he remembers they were (sort of) conversing and tries to pay the lantern less attention. ]

Oh, I'm Tiz Arrior. What about you?