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

[bridgebunny]

She reached the wall and started her climb. For a smooth surface with no handholds, she seemed to be doing just fine scaling the thing; it was almost like she stuck to the walls, hopping her way up until she reached the top.

Someone was waving, and she presumed they were the ones responsible for the machines outside. She smiled and reached for the offered hand, accepting the lift up, and somehow those alarm bells shut off. Something in her power cells kicked back on, rejuvenating themselves as she finally made it up top.

"Strange... I was in danger of shut-down just a moment ago," she thought aloud.

[shadowsgambit]

Fortuna was about to ask about shut-down, but then, as she pulled her drones back over the wall too, she realized what had looked like strange armor to match obvious cyberware arms and legs from that distance and through the odd angles of the drones' cameras, looked more like...casing? She wasn't looking at cyberware at all, was she?

In return for that weirdness, Layer might notice a bit of weirdness herself, if she catches sight of the cord that trails from behind her ear to somewhere beneath her coat.

"Yeah, places like outside the walls drain your energy fast."

[bridgebunny]

Hailing from such a technologically-advanced civilization, the cord does catch her eye, but she made no verbal note of it. It does bring up a few questions on the level of tech this place has when, looking out at the place now, she saw nothing that matches it.

"...I did notice that my energy levels evened out once I scaled the wall. What's out there that's causing the drain?"

[shadowsgambit]

"Nobody's really sure," Fortuna said as she took a small black box from her coat - it was connected to the cord trailing up behind her hair - and pressed a couple buttons on it. She disconnected the cord from the box and from whatever it was connected to on her head and tucked both back into her coat.

"Far as I know, there was some kind of disaster a long time ago, trashed the energy levels in the place. So they're bringing people in to be living batteries."

[bridgebunny]

"L-living... living batteries?" Oh. Oh, my.

"Then you would be in thrall with those that originated here?" Not the most delicate subject, but if she had to end some reign of slavery, she darn well could!

"How exactly are you being used in such a manner?"

[shadowsgambit]

"It's not as bad as it sounds... Still a gilded cage, but it's gilded, you know?" And here she'd thought the energy drain from her drones being out there wouldn't hurt her too much. "Energy's generated when two foreigners touch each other. So me pulling you up the wall just now? That generated some energy for them, and for us too."