Test Drive - July Edition

[rekindlemods]

The July 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. 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

[ It looks like there are preparations underway for some sort of festival or fair. There are various stands and booths being erected along sectioned-off streets and the riverbank, and decorations are slowly but surely being hanged. Fireflies seem to be appearing all along the riverbank as the sun sets, with a few stands set up with mason jars of various sizes as well as paper lanterns, possibly as further decorations. Whatever the case, it looks like those setting up could use some help! ]

Option 2

[ Though most of the stands are being set up, that doesn't mean that there aren't a few vendors looking to help those out and about beat the heat in some fashion. There are some selling shaved ice with various flavors, and others that appear to be handing out water-filled balloons or squirt guns. However, like in the market district, there's a catch – the items are free, so long as you arrive at the stall in pairs or groups larger than two. ]

Option 3

[ 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 4

[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

[heretic_hamlet]

That's the most of it, yes.

[Of course, given what he'd learned of late it was ALSO a scanter and prettier picture than what he was slowly piecing together of their circumstances. But even if they weren't somewhere private to discuss such matters, Lucas had enough to think about already.]

Most here would not think much of it if you asked for so much as a handshake, so you need not keep fear for the sickness.

[Maybe that was a bit rude...]

Ah, beg pardon, Lucas. You... seemed the timid sort.

[timidtwin]

[Was it really that obvious? Lucas shakes his head though, he was sure Ramza meant well but he honestly didn't want to show that weakness, especially not in a strange land where he felt all the more vulnerable.]

I'm not afraid. [Of getting sick anyway.] And if I make friends here then there's nothing to worry about. We can help each other... like you did.

[Suddenly that reassuring feeling he'd sensed upon taking Ramza's hand had taken on a whole new meaning.]

[heretic_hamlet]

You have the right of it. [Whether he meant Lucas' profession of courage or his comment about working together was anyone's guess. But he was content to keep pace beside Lucas as the two of them continued strolling through the marketplace.

He had found it difficult to adjust, himself, but he had to wonder...]

...Was your world anything like this?

[timidtwin]

Not exactly.

[Well, on the face of it, it wasn't much like it at all. But there were basic things he could recognise. While they stroll, the boy thinks for a moment, wondering how best to explain it. Leaving out much of the detail was probably for the best... for both of them.]

It was a lot... smaller. Greener too, at least until they took over. [A tinge of anger.] I'm not sure if I even know my own world anymore...

[heretic_hamlet]

They?

[Well, so much for being able to let go his concerns. His steps slowed, his gaze and mind both focused intensely upon Lucas. It could have been just about anything, but...

Ramza was hoping his own suspicions weren't correct. That it was nothing like the fiends he had to face.]

Pray tell more, Lucas.

[timidtwin]

...

[Feeling Ramza's eyes on him, Lucas couldn't help but feel a little bit self-conscious now. Never mind that he was asking him to explain what had transpired the last few years, the boy wasn't really sure if he wanted to bring it up right now.

He certainly wasn't smiling about it.]

...the Pigmasks. They ruined everything. Before I came here, I was going to see their leader. I... I have to stop him, before it's too late.

[heretic_hamlet]

[Pigmasks. That... was a new one.

He'd expected demons, or armies, or some such answer all too familiar to him... but knowing that the problems and threats of his homeland were not so widespread was bittersweet comfort in the face of his new friend's misery.

He crouched slightly, a hand on Lucas' shoulder.]

...Forgive me. I ask overmuch of someone who only just arrived.

[timidtwin]

No it's... it's okay.

[Ramza didn't know anything about what had happened after all, he was just curious and likely concerned. That was a good thing, that he cared enough to ask.

There was a lot to go through for him to get the full picture however, and some of it was just too painful for Lucas to go into right now, especially with someone he had just met. He tries to offer a smile, no matter how small, to reassure his new companion all the same.]

I haven't really had a chance to stop and think for a long time. It can get a bit overwhelming, but it's not your fault.