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JANUARY TEST DRIVE
The city of Recollé. A beautiful city with beautiful people. The place you call home. It's a wonderful home, isn't it? With everything you could possibly ever want right at your fingertips, why would you ever want to leave?

In honor of this glorious city, the residents of Recollé are preparing for its annual Founder's Day celebration…you'll help out, won't you?

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Recollé Square is bustling with activity today and several residents are working together to pitch a large tent. Others are working together to decorate the fountain of the founders with flowers and streamers. Children and dogs run through the area and there's song in the air as everyone works together.

Are you one of the people helping with the streamers? Or perhaps you're holding the ropes of the tent taunt so it doesn't blow away? Hey, maybe you're catering the whole event to feed those hard workers! The choices are endless…but you might want to catch those balloons that are starting to float away!

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Meanwhile in Chata, business is booming as everyone crowds the parking lot of Freshens trying to fight their way into the store. You really should have thought to buy your groceries much sooner. Everyone knows that Founder's Day is one of the best potluck days and, weather permitting, picnic days. Are you having any luck getting into the store? Is that the last rack of ribs? You better hurry and snag them!

On the flipside, shop owners in Chata are busy setting up food stalls and merchandise tables in preparation of the main event. The smell of sweets and spices fills the air and you can't help but follow your nose to check it out. The vendors are all friendly and happy to give away samples of their goods in the hopes that you'll be back in a few days' time. Or maybe you're one of those vendors hoping to attract customers for Founder's Day. Do you have all of your supplies? Your permits? Is that teenager trying to steal apples from your produce stand? Everything's a little chaotic in the days before Founder's Day.

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The work doesn't stop there. Over in Tisse it's party central with flashing lights, sound tests, and a festive atmosphere that says the celebration's already started for several businesses. The line for Expressive is out the door with customers eager for their Founder's Day special. Be careful, you might have to finagle your way through the crowd. Throughout the day you may hear music and mic tests coming from the Atrium as the local schools work together during their dress rehearsal for the Founder's Day Pageant. You might even have an insider's look if you're one of the students in the pageant or one of the stage hands helping with last-minute set design, costume alteration or any of the other countless things that could go wrong.

The employees at the boutiques inside the Towers are bustling as well, swapping their floor displays and handing out flyers and coupons to shoppers to encourage them to come back for their big sales. Maybe you are one of those employees and now you're dealing with some wicked papercuts, or maybe the smell of butter is seeping into your clothing as Flix opens its doors to an early marathon of historical films depicting the life and tales of the city.

Tisse is most certainly the busiest of the districts today, but there's still so much to be done!

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Most important of all, back in Tribunal Terrace residents will find Mayor Mayer out and about today which may seem unusual. The Mayor tends to stay inside City Hall keeping the city running from there, but today he's speaking with someone handling a large truck. People passing by may hear some scurrying from inside the truck, the sound of claws skittering on the metal floor, and…is that clucking? No, wait, now it's the sound of hoofs clomping and the whinny of a horse.

What's going on in there? Maybe you should investigate and ask around. Employees working for the Mayor will only give you a strange look in response, and the Mayor himself is unavailable for commentary…but it can't just be your imagination, can it?

Upon further examination and questioning residents will be told that these are horses for pony rides for the kids on Founder's Day, but that doesn't stop all of the weird noises. What on earth is going on?

BONUS.
Despite the festivities and the light-hearted mood of the city, it's still winter. Like all winters prior, it's chilly enough that you'll need a warm coat outside, but the storm season has passed. Instead, today in all districts there's a light flurry of snow falling, snowflakes gently twirling and landing on your shoulders and in your hair. It's not enough to stop the work, but it may send several people to crowd inside coffee shops for a hot drink or shops to take a break from the cold.

Bet you weren't expecting that influx of business, were you?

And later…much later, in fact, those carrying cell phones or tablets will feel a jolt from the device. A closer look will reveal that a new application has started to install itself on these devices, but you can't seem to open it right away. That's a bit odd, isn't it? It might be wise to check other devices in the city to see if the application's installed itself. Upon further investigation, though, you'll find only a handful of residents have the app installed. The app pops up on any public computer you may use but fades away the moment you log off.

Strange, strange, strange. Once it fully loads on your device, you'll find that the app, Retrospec, appears to be a social media app with the option to friend people, share statuses, pictures, videos and more. Those sections are currently blocked out, however. Take some time to fill out your profile if you'd like; that portion of the application seems to be the only one that can be accessed currently. All other social media (Facebook, Twitter, and regular texting) are accessible, but the app itself stubbornly remains on your own profile page.

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The library has a pretty large selection of books, but I guess if you've seen it, it wouldn't be really interesting looking on a tour. It's not like you can really browse it and actually sit down and read everything. They've got a good selection of books.

[Or at least, he personally finds the library interesting.]

Aerospace engineering. You're in the engineering department right now.

[Duo nodded about the thing with the library. He supposed, if someone was into reading, that would be a good place to go. And, probably research stuff, too... but that wasn't really up his alley. He was more hands-on.]

That like... planes and stuff, right?

[He glanced back at the group for a moment, making sure he wasn't getting left behind, but they were getting a pretty decent tour of a nearby area, so it might be a while. Duo was more interested in what other students had to say about it than some school personnel.]

What kind of stuff do you do with it?

It's for aircrafts and spacecrafts. I'm more interested in spacecrafts and space than normal aircrafts though.

[He's always had interest in space as long as he could remember.]

We specialize more in the engineering of the craft. There's other majors that deal with other sides of it. We basically are involved in developing whatever type of craft that can withstand any hypothetical condition it may face.

[He thinks flying them would be pretty cool too.]

Sounds pretty cool, actually.

[And Duo could empathize with the flight thing.]

I might hafta check it out.

When do you graduate?

I'd recommend reading on the history behind aircrafts. It's pretty neat stuff to see how they've developed and how we're trying to advance them now.

I just started this year. I'm a freshman so it'll be a good four years if there's no hiccups.

[He leans back in his chair. Keith might as well take a break while he chats.]

You'd be starting in the upcoming year, I assume?

[Duo nodded.]

I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.

[He nodded.]

Yeah. If everything goes okay. [He shrugged a bit. He'd been slacking big time.] I honestly can't wait to do something different. I'm getting tired of where I am.

I think we'll pass on tartlets. We've seen enough baked goods and what have you for the next week, if not longer. [Not to mention having to taste batches.]

Drinks though, sound pretty good right now. Do you have anything more in line with teas? Juice probably works too though.

[He personally enjoys sweet stuff, but he thinks he's already had enough for the day.]

We have our usual, but we're trying a new matcha and cream cake.

Oh? That sounds nice... It's not too sweet, is it?

[He'll start pulling this and that from behind the counter while talking, until he's got several things lined up.]

I can make you some tea, sure, but it's not gonna be as good as the leaf stuff. We just have instant powder at our booth here, but we got some nice blends back at our store. Wanna try one of these in the meantime?

[Shaking a little tin!]

It shouldn't be. We didn't want to go too sweet with this cake. The sweet cream we frosted the cake with should be the sweetest part of the cake.

Powdered is fine. Do you have any that you might recommend in particular?

[He's never been super picky, so hearing recommendations makes it easier for him.

Getting a slice of the cake for the other won't take too much time since they went ahead and pre sliced most of them. It's rare to have full cakes bought in comparison to already sliced ones.]

Good, good. That sounds like something I'd like to try.

[Considering his not-very-sweet sweet-tooth, something like that sounds right up his alley. And as far as tea recommendations go?]

Sure! If you like sweet stuff, I'd go with this chamomile. If you need some energy or a little kick, though, we've got some good chai. Apple and vanilla! Got your classic green and black, too, but they're nothing fancy.

[Wow, excuse you. His parents raised him to be polite. Does he look like he grew up under a rock ~~or in a shack~~ or something?]

I shouldn't be surprised, but I thought it wouldn't be this busy. How long did it take you to get your order? [A pause.] Or are you still waiting?

[If it makes her feel better, he will accept the cat shaped cookie.] I can save it for later. I have to study later.

Ah... The wait was rather long - it is much busier today. But um, I do believe that everyone is working their hardest too, so hopefully it won't be... too long?

Especially if you need to study.

[looking on the bright side of things!]

[Keith's mouth quirks into a smile.]

We're introducing a matcha and cream cake at this booth. We've been working on a recipe that we were satisfied with. It's a matcha cake with cream layers and topped with matcha powder.

Kind of testing the waters and seeing how well it sells today.

[Hopefully that's enabling enough.]

[Yup, that's enabling enough.]

So you need a taste tester? I volunteer!

[She raises her hand and grins.]

Pack one up for me, Keith. I'll eat it right here.

[Keith rummages through the different boxes for a moment before carefully taking one of the slices of cakes out. The design is pretty simple and they probably haven't considered how to decorate the cakes yet for the actual storefront.

He places it carefully in a box and holds it out to her with a fork.]

Here you go. Tell me what you think of it.

You got it!

[She eagerly bites into the slice, her cheeks puffing out as she eats.]

Mmhm! Rr-hhrn-mrm-hrr!

[Guess who sometimes forgets to finish eating before speaking.]

[Keith scowls a bit as he bats Shiro's hand away from his hair. Please. He's in college now. He's too old for the hair ruffling.]

I want to help. I'm not sticking around out of obligation or anything. [Well, not completely out of obligation. He wants to help Shiro in anyway he can.] You make it sound like I don't like spending time with you.

Who's gonna make sure you don't do something stupid?

[Never too old for the hair ruffling!]

Something stupid? While selling goodies? [Shiro snorts.] Like what?

[He actually brushed it this morning! That's rare for Keith, who kind of just jumps out of bed, grabs something to eat, and leaves the place.]

Remember that time you somehow ended up in the lake walking the dog?

Besides, maybe I just want to hang out. [He folds his arms over his chest with a huff.]

[Shiro scoffs, though he clearly does remember, glancing over to his pit bull.]

Kimi wanted to play! How can you say no to that face?

[He smiles fondly though, he is looking forward to the day.] Well, in that case, I'd be happy to have my baby brother helping out.

[Hope doesn't know what a lot of these sweets are, but she does know one thing!]

Everything looks so delicious!

[But she doesn't have enough spending money for everything..]

How could anyone be expected to pick just one?

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