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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] repeter2018-05-18 12:09 am
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MAY TDM

TEST DRIVE
MAY TEST DRIVE
The city of Recollé...

...well. Good luck!

I.
You might've noticed by now that some things in this dear city of yours are a little...weird. Most of the buildings and landmarks around you are only partially visible and the world appears to be covered in all kinds of strange colors.

As you step out the door today, you can't quite shake off the feeling that you're being followed. Every time you turn your head, nothing appears to be in your line of vision but the creeping sensation won't go away. However, with one final well-timed turn you catch it out of the corner of your eye: a large paintbrush dripping in your favorite color, floating in mid-air. The brush doesn't seem to go away no matter how long you look at it, but one of two things happens here.

For those of you who grab the brush, you'll find yourself suddenly yanked forward as the brush guides you to a nearby building, bush, or busy sidewalk, the colored paint splattering everywhere but leaving behind a black finish instead of the original color. The brush has a mind of its own as it brings you right next to a friend or a stranger to get to work. They must have a brush, too.

For those of you who ignore the brush, however...well...it doesn't like being ignored. As you turn away the brush zips forward and begins to paint your face. And your arms. And your clothes? Hopefully someone will come by and try to help soon!


II.
With that exciting chain of events out of the way, it's time to get to work! It's not hard to notice what it is you're supposed to do now. Certain members of the city have paintbrushes similar to yours and only those with brushes can restore the city as it was. Individually painting the area will highlight all items in black, but pairing up with someone else's color will allow for a bit of color to attach. Blending the brushes together will generate new, bright colors that will stick! Two reds can paint an object red while a red and a blue can change an object to purple.

Of course, you're free to go at it alone. There's nothing stopping you from embarking on this journey with your own two hands. On the other hand the longer you work by yourself, the higher your risks become of unearthing something you may not want. One minute you might be painting a garden bench back into existence when suddenly a sound alerts you that something's wrong. The object seems to warp right in front of you, sprouting teeth, eyes, and even sometimes limbs. Non-stationary objects such as vehicles, animals, postal boxes and more will begin to chase painters around all five districts of the city. Stationary objects will do anything to grab you in their grasp and stop your hard work. The only way to soothe these objects is to mix up a new color and douse them with paint, but that just might be a little harder than it looks while you're on the move.

III.

The strange thing is that even with a large portion of the city invisible to the naked eye, by now everyone around you has accepted that this is just how things will go. If you talk to your family or friends or teachers or co-workers who are without a paintbrush, they'll simply tell you that even though it started a few weeks ago there are other things in the city to worry about. They'll tell tales of people with powers and weird physical changes that shouldn't be possible and they'll point out the thinning monsters that are roaming the city and cleaning up the stray paint.

Despite this, life is expected to go on as normal. Classes are still in session and your employers expect you to be at work on time. Grocery stores are up and running and if you can find them several of your favorite businesses are still open as well. Maybe today you're in class procrastinating on a school project, or perhaps you're staring out the window at your boring job waiting for the next time you can catch a break. If you're brave enough, you might be one of those who wanders the half-missing aisles of Freshens because your family still insists on their cookout this weekend. This appears to be the new norm...so what are you doing today in the lovely "city" of Recollé?

IV.
Several citizens have been using their brushes to expand their horizons and paint beyond the limits of the city, working to recreate the roads to go back to other regions. While this will require far more work and dedication, some of the paths are outlined and cleared.

Granted, with the revival of the roads comes the revival of a few other creatures including monsters of varying breeds. Have you ever fought a monster before? No? Well now's your chance! Some of these monsters are easy to take down but others will hunt and attack. While the paint brushes won't do much to deter the creatures themselves, they're useful to paint new hiding spots until you come up with a plan of attack. That counts, doesn't it? Good luck out there.

BONUS.
Perhaps the strangest thing of all is that your phone works. It's fully functional, colored and solid without having to repaint it into existence. Being able to send texts and check maps are vital tools in the restructure of the city, but at the same time it comes with something you may not want.

The Retrospec app appears on your phone and even without setting up a profile you'll find yourself receiving a message from a Retrospec user named Zee Carlisle.

Bad timing, this was really bad timing! Hey newbies, sorry, we are a little swamped with the stabilization process right now but let me kick you to some people who can help out.


It's all the text says before you find yourself redirected to a private chat with another Retrospec user. Don't be shy now! Say hi and ask all of the questions you need!

Welcome to the [community profile] recolle test drive meme! All characters will be begin in-game AU'd as Recollé residents. You may use any of the above prompts for ideas or make up your own depicting your Recollé AU! Prompts do not have to be set in the districts listed above. You can review our list of locations for what's available. Please note that TDM threads can be used as samples, can be kept as game canon, and can also be used for bonus points for future item regains. Share a few minor details of your AU, tag around, and have fun!

For current players, please remember that TDM threads can only be used for bonus points, not regains.

Please note: you will need a reserve to apply, and current characters must have full AC posted at the time of their reservation.

Finally, please remember that this will be the last application month until September!

Your May TDM directory is here, and your AU workshop is here! Our mod questions thread for this TDM is over here!
clothes: pixiv id: 61801066 (9)

*sasaeng goddamnit im illiterate

[personal profile] clothes 2018-05-18 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ YEAH THAT'S WHAT HE THOUGHT. akutagawa knows smarmlords can apologize only to turn up at your driveway at 4am, so he isn't entirely convinced. besides, it's not like weirdo mcweirdoson denied the tweet was a Mood or whatever. ]

I want a loaf of cranberry-walnut bread, an entire strawberry glaze-frosting bundt cake, two of those red velvet cakepops, and...

[ a quick glance around and-- oh wow, something just called out to his soul. he picks up the sacred item and places it on the counter. ]

This tacky novelty mug.

--And make this order out to Akutagawa.
Edited 2018-05-18 19:59 (UTC)
heroofdreams: (grin)

[personal profile] heroofdreams 2018-05-18 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm on it!" Zack charges in, trying to yank the paintbrush back from Avery. It's... surprisingly powerful for a little paintbrush. It takes a moment of wrestling, but Zack manages to reign it in - not that the brush doesn't still want to paint Avery's face. It's still tugging very much back at Avery's direction. Zack smiles at Avery.

"Hey, I think it likes you." Joking? Maybe. "But hey, you need to hold onto it. Like this."

Zack holds out his own, neon green-dipped paintbrush, to show that he has a hold on his.

"If you ignore them, it'll get mad."

He holds Avery's paintbrush back out to him for him to take.

"Here, give it a try."
1620: (pic#12264970)

[personal profile] 1620 2018-05-18 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
so you do know him!! the man the one and only jfc 🙏🏻 i knew you were pullin my leg

but uhhhh
i don’t think i wanna no nothin man thanks
clothes: pixiv id: 61801066 (11)

[personal profile] clothes 2018-05-18 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate ping-pong.

[ his tone is flat when he says this while giving the fire hydrant a good stomp. ]

It seems to have a death wish if came back to me as you seem to think. Let me borrow that scythe of yours. I'll happily grant its wish.

[ looks like shuji just happened upon a total psycho... ]

Unless, of course, you plan to do the deed yourself.
clothes: pixiv id: 61801066 (9)

[personal profile] clothes 2018-05-18 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You're asking the wrong person. I have only lived here for a few months, and while little surprises me, I don't necessarily know how everything works.

What's the longest anyone has lived here? Citizens who have been here longer than the both of us might know something. We could interrogate them.
thesettingsun: smile (never compromise accept no substitute)

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2018-05-18 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you even know how to use a scythe?

[He's not handing it to somebody untrained, even if his own training was 'woke up one day knowing how to use it'.

Also it's probably his soul, so. No.]


Kick it over here.
notthatbutler: (sCOFF)

[personal profile] notthatbutler 2018-05-18 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
i mean
yeah
i'd like to
but i can't see where anything is
and my aunt thinks it isn't weird
and i don't want her to get hurt so i might as well paint if i'm around, right

is there a reason she doesn't think any of this is weird?
heroofdreams: (grin)

III.

[personal profile] heroofdreams 2018-05-18 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Zack is inside his customization carpentry shop. But instead of working on custom orders in wood, leather, or metal, he's avidly painting the interiour of his shop, trying to get all of it back.

The problem is... While the complicated (or are they more simplistic?) are there, the colours just aren't coming. He's only stuck with a neon green paintbrush, afterall.

Okay, even he has to admit this is a bit frustrating. His face scrunches as he looks at the cabinet set before him, trying to figure out how to make this work. But when he hears someone come into his shop, he's quick to go back to a bright smile as he turns to them.
]

Hey, welcome to The Recollection! I'm having a bit of problem with my stock, but I'll be happy to take your or... Hey! It's Miai! How you been?

[Much to his surprise.]

Didn't think I'd see you here. You come to get a custom order?
Edited (Let me just unblend my formats here.) 2018-05-18 20:08 (UTC)
heroofdreams: (boop)

Bonus

[personal profile] heroofdreams 2018-05-18 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi there! How's it going?

Yea, kind of. But I don't think it's all that bad? The things around us are pretty straightforward, right? We paint everything and it comes back.
Edited 2018-05-18 20:12 (UTC)
shiningthrough: (i know i'll never see that sunny day)

[personal profile] shiningthrough 2018-05-18 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Aside from the paint stuff, you mean?

No, it's not that bad, but it is inconvenient. I think we all have other things we need to be doing.
clothes: pixiv id: 61801066 (6)

[personal profile] clothes 2018-05-18 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems straightforward enough.

[ akutagawa would be lying if he said he wasn't interested in playing with it a bit... oh well. there will be other times to attempt coercing this guy out of his neat-o toy. for now, akutagawa does as requested and gives the crying fire hydrant a swift punt in the other man's direction. he definitely takes a few steps after it as well, weirdly interested in watching it die. why is he like this. ]
heroofdreams: (boop)

Bonus

[personal profile] heroofdreams 2018-05-18 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
30, Male, The Recollection shop. Whatup! ;) Lol.

I'm Zack, nice to meet you! I think they'll have it all fixed when we get this place painted up again.

Can't say I gamble much, but I'm down. What're we betting?
hareru: (eight;)

[personal profile] hareru 2018-05-18 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
what????

i'm talking about the fact that most of the city isn't THERE. don't you see that?!!??!
notthatbutler: (that looks a lot better)

I - #8E4585

[personal profile] notthatbutler 2018-05-18 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...It's pretty cool, alright.

[Dwyer's kind of exhausted at this point - the brush he'd found had pulled him all over the city without any regard to his own will or energy levels - but he'd found that if he at least made something of an effort to, say, outline things, it wouldn't drag him anywhere or assault him with any of the plum coloring that had, weirdly enough, only shown up on his person. He's still got some on his face when he comes across Gamzee and his mural, and manages to give him a tired, honest smile.

What is up, my dude.]
hareru: (twelve;)

[personal profile] hareru 2018-05-18 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
i...could only read a little bit of it.

so he works for the government but we're on our own? on our own with what?
hareru: (five;)

[personal profile] hareru 2018-05-18 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
you're also asking the wrong person here. i don't know. but when you say interrogate them you kinda sound like you're some cop in a movie.
hareru: (eight;)

[personal profile] hareru 2018-05-18 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
you actually like this??
cogwheels: (pic#12154881)

Ryuunosuke Akutagawa (Ryuunosuke Niihara) | Bungou to Alchemist

[personal profile] cogwheels 2018-05-18 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
(( AU workshop is here! Basically he's a 30something man who owns a candy shop!))

I — The Paintbrush
[ Ryuunosuke tried to shake that feeling of being watched, but it's been to no avail so far. He eyes that paintbrush dripping with deep blue paint and raises his brow, not knowing what to make of it. He doesn't trust it. Granted, it makes sense that a paintbrush might appear when most of your town has disappeared, but he can be air headed and not always put two and two together right away.

No, instead, he's trying to avoid the paintbrush. And the paintbrush persists by appearing around the next corner and the next. Finally, when he's turned his back to it one last time, the brush flies up and fwaps him right in the face. ]
Guh! H-hey! What are you-- [ It's moving down his arms now, across his chest too. He looks helplessly to the first person he can see that isn't giving him completely odd looks. ] Hello! Do you think you could give me a hand? It won't stop.... painting.

[ Namely stop this paintbrush from getting too personal! ]

III — The Candyshop
[ Despite things being weird, Ryuunosuke has a business to run, and so he has no choice but to try and make things work, despite half the shop being missing. He'd been lucky in that someone had painted the doorway in an attempt to find their own business, so he found the shop at least. Then he had to paint his way around the sign so that others knew it was still there and open too.

Having reconciled with his paintbrush, he holds it now and is painstakingly painting his shop, trying to take stock of everything and piece it all together for the ease of the customers that may want to enter. It's not nearly as colorful as it should be, since he's just one man with a blue brush but it's slowly taking shape! He only pauses what he's doing when he hears the bell ring, and then he peeks out from whatever he's doing to offer a smile. ]


Hello, welcome. If there's anything you can't find, perhaps we can look for it together?

Bonus — The Network
[ well that's...unexpected. He stares at the app for a few moments before finally typing something. He assumes this is some kind of operator or something on the other line. One of those chat support techs? ]

Hello. I'm having trouble understanding any of this. You may want to start at the beginning. But don't worry, I'm a fast learner.

Wildcard — Anything goes!
[ Please feel free to write your own starter! I'm game for anything, seriously. ]
hareru: (five;)

bonus

[personal profile] hareru 2018-05-18 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
if it has to do with us having to paint everything, i doubt it's going well.

and no i cant gamble. i'm underage.
Edited 2018-05-18 21:45 (UTC)
quiet_storm: (Would you like a little sarcasm?)

[personal profile] quiet_storm 2018-05-18 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cloud gives up and hits the dial button. He's actually going to use his phone to CALL someone. Retropec's cruelty has no limits.]
beneathmoonlight: (:0)

Bonus

[personal profile] beneathmoonlight 2018-05-18 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Um

Hello

I’m Atsushi

And no I don’t
hareru: (eleven;)

i

[personal profile] hareru 2018-05-18 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ welcome to the "i got attacked by art supplies" group, its only member currently being soramaru. sure, the paintbrush and him are doing much better now but he can definitely recognize that scream as the scream of someone getting attacked by a brush.

he runs over to it, his own giant brush in hand, and decides to give some advice. ]


Hey!! Take the brush! You're not going crazy!
hareru: (ten;)

[personal profile] hareru 2018-05-18 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ WHAT A TRAVESTY. USING A PHONE TO CALL

soramaru is just as shocked by this fact (these damn millenials) and picks up. ]


もしもしーいや、sorry-- Hello?
thesettingsun: smile (I'm a good guy)

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[personal profile] thesettingsun 2018-05-18 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[The look is definitely at least a little odd for reasons that have nothing to do with the paintbrush. It's impossible for Shuji not to recognize that face, because Dazai would have recognized it blindfolded. It's impossible not to recognize the voice, because Dazai would have understood it with his ears plugged.

Shuji kind of hates this.

But it's not this man's fault that he has the same face as the writer Dazai idolized, and he can't just pretend he didn't see anything.]


Have you tried grabbing it and painting something?
thesettingsun: smile (manners? charm?)

III

[personal profile] thesettingsun 2018-05-18 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it really that hard to walk through open space?

[Shuji's here to see if he can buy anything for his boyfriend - it's always a good time to buy Mista things - but the man loudly complaining about his problem that isn't even a real problem gets his attention.]