justhugalready | Test Drive Meme!

Welcome to the Rekindle 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.

~~Then don't forget to go reserve your character in a week when they open.~~

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

Option 1

[With summer coming, the water level in the river is starting to go down, exposing some of the riverbank. The Riverside Shack is open late, and its restaurant is pulling out all the stops and offering seafood specials (even though a river is a far cry from an ocean). The rental store, meanwhile, is finally bringing out more of its swimming supplies, inner tubes and pool noodles, and a calmer stretch of the river has been roped off with buoys for swimming. They even have lifeguards chairs set up. Clearly this sort of thing used to be an annual event.

It's not quite an ocean beach (quite different actually), but there's still plenty of chance to have fun in the water. Or teach someone to swim, perhaps.]

Option 2

[With a new district available to the public, there are new places to visit. However there are also questions with each new arrival. One may find themselves headed for Saeng Seong's town hall and government buildings in search of answers. Whether it be more reasons for why they're here, or simply looking for an attorney to sue the unnamed scientists that brought you here.

(However, they may be slightly prejudiced to this one. You've been warned.)]

Option 3

[There are certainly a lot of different options for shopping in the city. Perhaps one of the more interesting and eclectic of these options, however, is the outdoor Marketplace in District 3. All sorts of fresh food stalls line the large open area, with different aisles that can be walked down. There's food of all kinds here - fruits, diary, vegetables, and so on and so forth. Some of it will likely be familiar, but other kinds may be so foreign as to be unrecognizable - a orange, seemingly hollow kind of fruit with holes like swiss cheese, for example, or salad greens with leaves the size of heads of pins. You are on a different world, after all.

So wander the marketplace! Discover something new! And perhaps meet other curious people such as yourself...]

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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[the closest thing to a sand castle he's made is sand molds for metal work. He didn't have the proper tools for that, and he knew sand castles were not designed for hot metal to be poured into them. So he started to consider castles he was familiar with. He pulled a notepad and pencil from his beach bag and started drawing. By the time Italy returns, he has full technical drawings for a model of Neuschwanstein Castle at a reasonable scale to be built with beach sand]

Is this acceptable? [he passes the drawing to Italy]

[Italy looks at Germany stunned at the drawing and wondering if he could actually build something like that! Of course Germany could do it, even if it took hours to create! He wasn't sure how long it would take. He couldn't even remember how long it took him to create the giant spaghetti dish.]

You'll be able to make a decent size sandcastle! [He points out the space around them as he hands back the piece of paper.] A castle from your Country is suitable, Germany~ [he moves the bucket of water over to him.] You use the water to mold what you want, just don't over do it.

[he looks from the paper to the water to the sand. After a moment of looking at the three objects he sits down and sets the paper aside to try forming something with the water. He scoops out some water, cupped into his hands and releases it into the sand, moving the wet sand around, and trying to build a square shape]

[ Italy watches Germany intensely, when the other was at work he tried to pay attention to. He wondered if he had forgot to mention something. His eyebrows furrow as if he seems to be in deep thought. He sits down next to Germany tilting his head while leaning a bit to the side. There had to be something else. ]

Ve! [ He scoops some dry sand pouring a little bit into the wet stuff. ] If it's too wet it won't mold. Every once in a while drop some dry sand onto it.

[Germany listened intently and quietly obeyed the instruction as if it was an order. He was very intent on doing this correctly]

It's easier right? [ Italy smiles at Germany while getting distracted by looking around them. There had to be other stuff around that the other country could use. ] Sometimes if you have the right stuff to use you can build easier.

[ Italy created his big sandcastle spaghetti plate with just his hands and quite possibly a stick. A stick! Without second thought he runs towards the water. He comes back soaking wet but holds out a stick towards Germany. ]

[Germany nods along, focusing intently on his sandcastle. He's not really going to say anything at the moment, too focused. However, Italy coming back with a stick breaks his focus]

A stick? [it was not his sticky friend]

Ve. It'll help you with detail! [ Italy sits next to him and uses the stick in the sand. He draws in the sand making a flag before handing it over towards him. ]

It'll be better then using your fingers for the smaller details!

[by now Germany has managed to shape a lopsided tower next to a squat construction that vaguely resembled a building. Needless to say, it didn't look much like the technical drawings. He takes the stick and looks from it to the castle, wondering how it was supposed to work.

Germany wasn't very artistic, mostly because he wasn't creative enough.]

[ Unlike Germany, Italy was very artistic. He smiles at Germany while watching him create the building. Even if it wasn't perfect it was still coming out decently from sand. It could be a lot worse. ] Are you making any windows? Or doors? You use the stick to make those!

[ Maybe some more advice and encouragement could work to help Germany. ] I could help you build it. If you want me too.

[he experimentally pokes his tower with the stick, to make a window, but ends up knocking the tower over. Germany hangs his head in defeat and is about to give up when Italy offers to help]

... I do not understand what I'm doing wrong.

[ Italy reaches out trying to save the falling tower, but it's too late. He looks at the toppled over sand and then back at Germany. ] The first time is always the hardest! You aren't doing anything wrong.

[ He smiles and builds the tower back up for Germany. After its finished it looks mor solid. He even moves more sand to help connect it to the building. ] See what I did! [ Italy hadn't realized he's missing some steps to say to Germany and haunches his shoulders a little. ] With the stick you need to be... gentle. Light poking.

[he watches, a bit amazed at how fast Italy rebuilt the tower and connects it to the building. Maybe this would be like learning the sword or something... at least Italy wasn't Prussia]

Ja, I need to be... gentle. [gentle and Germany seemed to be antonyms. But he's going to try. He lifts the stick. His hand shakes a bit and his arm looks very stiff as he moves]

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