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Test Drive - July Edition

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.]

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[ it's not going to come as a surprise to anyone that this guy is going to go through some withdrawal symptoms. truthfully, people are more than likely lined up to throw a punch at him. he doesn't like all that fluff and stuff anyway.

however, even Megatron can come to regret his actions. in this instance? his modification for mass displacement is not an advantage at all. one moment the ex-warlord is walking around at normal height - well normal for here anyway - and then he's barely gracing three feet high.

it's made him more irritable, really. wouldn't you be, constantly fluctuating sizes and the like? given the wrong comment, and he'll be sorely tempted to bite some ankles. ...hopefully that won't reflect on his bail contract. ]

Edited 2014-09-18 00:52 (UTC)

[You'd think with all the giant robots running around, Peter would have caught glimpse of one. But nope, he's surprisingly missed all of them, almost in a sitcom-level amount of amusement. That is...until he happens upon Megatron in his 3-foot-stature status.

Cue camera freeze, because he recognizes you...

Biting his lip, he tries to resist the urge to go check it out.

......Okay, resistance is futile.

He walks over, crouching down a bit to get a closer look.]

I didn't think they came this big...

[ bah. human. ...well maybe human. PROBABLY human. it's hard to tell anymore. there really are too many ugh organic races here for him to tell any of them apart if it's not obvious.

but if there is one thing Megatron does not care for, it's being talked down to. in this case? it's quite literal. ]

'They' can still manage to string you up by your entrails if 'they' so choose to.

[Okay. Of all the things he expected to run into in this place, a fully talking Megatron toy was not one.

His eyes shoot open wide.]

...Whoa.

[Play it cool, Quill. Play it cool.]

Bet you say that to Optimus a whole lot. If you guys...have entrails.

[ just narrowing his optics even more. what a disrespecting...

poor Peter in the end, though. luck is not in his favor as this moment is apparently reserved for Megatron shifting back into his 'usual' size. three feet becomes ten.

his hands are on his hips and the ex-warlord? he's looming over the selfnamed outlaw. ]

What business is it of yours?

[Oh my god. You sir, are very large. Well...he's seen you larger on TV but that was then and he was probably like four feet tall and the whole perspective thing was skewed.

Yep. That's probably it.

Either way, he gulps a moment at seeing Megatron literally looming over him.

That is, until...his feet start to move. In a sort of...dance.]

Transformers.

[Oh god he's singing.]

Robots in disguise.

Transformers

[Lame dance move go!]

More than Meets the Eye.

Autobots wage their battle to destroyyy the evil forces of the Decepticons--TAKE IT!

[And he gestures to Megatron, to join in.]

[ dancing in front of someone that could crush your skull quite easily that comes with a bad temperament usually is ill advised...

that being the case? Megatron genuinely has no idea how to react to this situation. it's never happened. the organic is strange and probably under the influence of drugs or something. so what's he to do?

just... stare. incredulously. probably slightly slack jawed disbelief too. ]

[C'mon it worked so well the last time. Then again he had an experimented raccoon creature building super awesome gun in the middle of it.]

Not the dancing type. Got it.

[He'll have to remember that warlords don't dance. It's like a rule I guess.]

But man, huge fan. Was technically more into the Autobots as a kid but--you know how it is. Always wanting to be the good guy--wait. I guess you wouldn't.

Forget I said anything.

[ and poor little Starlord doesn't even realize the big problem this his assumptions. pretty funny, considering that the lack of purple is usually the first thing anyone notices now.

...humans and their limited perspectives. ]

Unfortunately, once you say something, you cannot take it back.

[ meaning no, no he is not going to forget this conversation happened. ]

What constitutes as 'good' and 'bad' aren't as black and white as you are making them out to be.

[ Nautica had filled Knock Out in on the whole trial, on Megatron's being the captain (a captain) on the Lost Light, but he's still not totally sure he's prepared to see the former leader of the Decepticons -- a bot he'd spent most of his career in alternate awe and terror of -- wearing an Autobot badge.

He is definitely not prepared to see the former leader of the Decepticons wearing an Autobot brand and being three feet tall.

Knock Out sees him from a distance away and abruptly stops short to stare. He's never actually met Megatron up close, exactly, but that? That is definitely Megatron. Tiny Autobot Megatron. UM ]

[ good thing Knock Out is at a distance. any closer and Megatron might have been prepared to whirl around and get all defensive like. ~~being a tiny tank probably wouldn't do much damage though.~~

despite his frustrations, however, he realizes there is not much he can do but stand there and wait. well. until a gleam of red catches his gaze.

now he doesn't approach Knock Out. but he does stand there defiantly, just waiting for the comment to come out. it's inevitable, right? ]

[ Knock Out had never really known him personally but yeah that is definitely the Megatron stare. UHHHH wow this is awkward. Maybe slightly less so now that Megatron's an Autobit, but that's just plain weird.

Well he can't just stare forever -- Knock Out approaches cautiously, eyeing the tiny Megatron uncertainly. He's so tiny. ]

...Megatron?

[And this is a creature the likes of which Firsa has never seen. It looks and moves almost like M'an, but it doesn't smell like one. In fact, it doesn't smell like an animal at all. Her ears press back a little, but she's intrigued enough to follow at a distance]

Edited 2014-09-18 04:24 (UTC)

[ following at a distance still means that he's being followed. it's like a tickle at the back of his mind and instantly Megatron is overly wary. purposefully weaving around in a crowd now - pretty easy for his size now which is still unnerving.

let's see just see how well this tail can keep up. ]

[Roofshadow can dodge and weave with the best of them, but she's an ambush hunter, and knows that if this keeps up, she'll tire. If she wants a better look at this creature, she needs to act now.]

[There is a stack of crates next to a building, and her target will pass them soon enough. She breaks into a run, hugging the building, and leaps onto the stack of crates. She feels safer higher up than her target, and if it proves dangerous, she can reach the roof from here. The creature is shaped like M'an, so she banks on it being a poor leaper and climber.]

( Is that-- it is, and Nautica hands off the small squirt gun she was examining to a confused local who'd been in the middle of explaining to her that she needed a partner in order to qualify for the 'free' part of the deal. )

Captain!

( Because she knows that shape, and while she has to gently move through the organics to get to him, it's not as if there isn't an ever-increasing empty space around the former warlord. Who Nautica is completely assuming is wearing the Autobot badge and not the Decepticon one. )

Excuse me, oh! Sorry I just-- Megatron!

[ captain. the sound reaches him and he knows that voice. ]

Nautica?

[ well now he's searching for the source and he isn't going to lie to himself and say that he's not a LITTLE relieved knowing one of 'his' own is here.

at least her assumption is going to pay off, because as soon as optics spot her, the EX warlord is finding his way to her. ]

Over here.

Coming through-- sorry, sorry--

( Sometimes it's tough being eight feet tall and surrounded by breakable organics who are still considerably smaller than she is, but she finally makes it to where he is. Even if she has to look down to talk to him. )

There you are! ( This is. Uh. Different, and Nautica drops to her knees - will that help? It might help. She's doing it anyway. ) Er, are you supposed to be this short?

( Here, she means. Not in general - that much she knows. But if he's somehow been shrunk down to smaller than all of them, that's both troubling and interesting at the same time. )

[ yes. yes, good Nautica. she has to be one of his favorites for respecting him like she does without the bias and wariness of the others. so having her bend to his level does make him feel a little better about the need to explain. ]

No, I'm not. The control I have over the modification for mass displacement is nonexistent at this point.

[ don't ask him why. he doesn't know how that happened. ]

( She has to cast her mind back for a moment or two: ) Something about the modifications to the spark to allow it to happen, right? Never really goes away?

( That's his hint that she might be a bit behind the times. But she brightens up when she makes the connection - it's a power loss. That, Nautica knows how to fix. )

Oh! Well that makes solving the problem easier. ( She's reaching out a hand to grab his shoulder before she actually realizes what she's doing, and even after her hand grabs the plating she doesn't actually fully realize what she's done. ) It's a good thing you're out and about now. Apparently when you push the limits of going without physical contact you'll go into stasis lock until someone's touched you enough.

( Nope, still hasn't clicked yet. )

Edited 2014-09-20 03:00 (UTC)

[It's funny, when you've known someone for four million years and up, you learn to expect things from them. Certain aspects just do not surprise you.

This was not the case when it came to Megatron's mass displacement. No matter how many times he battles Megatron, or the even more rare casual chat. Him shrinking at will is just never something he can get over.]

Uh.

Megatron, your mass displacement...

[Because this is how you wanted to see your rival again, huh, Megs? Granted he was dealing with his own shrinking problems but this is a little overboard for you, isn't it?]

[ Prime. of course it would be Optimus flippin Prime. out of all the people to find him in this predicament... ]

Yes, I know. Thank you for pointing out the obvious, Optimus.

[ now there is a three foot former Decepticon marching up to Prime. if he's going to be stuck like this for a while, he's not going to act like this is any different than a usual day. not going to give Prime the pleasure. ]

[You're lucky Optimus has almost zero sense of humor, Megatron, because he's going to take this as seriously as he can. So...almost no change. Except he has to look down now.

That's different.

But don't you worry, Megatron, he's more awkward about this than deriving pleasure.]

I can't say this is a tragedy for the Autobot cause.

Your concern for my present predicament is oh so endearing, Prime.

[ read: he's not that amused. not amused at all. he has no control over it and being this small is balls. ]

I think this is almost as bad as being stuck as a gun.

Edited 2014-09-19 03:52 (UTC)

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Test Drive - July Edition

Megatron | Transformers IDW

im so sorry

i still want my supercop cuddles

SOON

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:')

poor Knock Out

don't feel too bad for him now

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supercop cuddles

awesome

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