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

[Katsa tries to spend as little time as possible in the main part of town – all of the roadways and doors are overwhelming, and remind her too much of the twisting paths and hidden corridors of her uncle’s palace. She’s ventured into the market, and the few other open districts, but she tends to stay near the beach – though it’s like no beach she’s accustomed to, saltwater or fresh.

If the other people milling around are going to try their hand at catching fish, she thinks, they’re going to do badly. Luckily she’s always had a knack for catching prey. She’s as hidden as she can be in the shallows of the river, well away from the umbrellas and merriment, with her trousers rolled up nearly to her knees and her toes stuck in the mud. One of her hands skims the surface of the water, and every once in a while she tosses a thick, silvery fish into the netted pack slung over her back.]

[Edward has the same idea, aiming to get as far away from the city's center as he can - to avoid causing a scene in the midday sun. Darting from one building's slim shadow to the next, he picks up on the steady sound of flowing water and decides to follow it. Historically, rivers lead people to civilization, but they also have to lead away from it eventually. Though on such a dry day, it's likely he won't be the only one drawn to it. Still, worst case scenario (well, second worst), he finds a secluded enough area to enter the river and swim to the bottom to stay there until nightfall.

Such plans are thwarted, however, when he sees the exposed riverbank and the small crowd making the most of it. He lets out a low, frustrated growl. As he scans the length of the river, wondering whether he'd have better luck if he backtracked and went further up or down stream, his gaze catches on Katsa. Or more accurately, the shiny fish scales peeking through the netted pack on her back. The very shine that got them caught, no doubt.

He is not going to start panicking because of a bunch of stupid fish.]

Test Drive Meme!

katsa | graceling [option 1 ... or 3!]

option 1~