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JANUARY TDM - OVERFLOW
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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? I. 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! II. 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. III. 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! IV. 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. Welcome to the recolle test drive meme overflow post! You may use this post to post new top-levels if you didn't post to the original TDM (found here) or link your original top-level to continue threading.
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 if both parties agree, and can also be used for bonus points for future item regains. (Additionally: we will not be allowing TDM threads to be used for memory regains.) Write as many or few prompts as you want, tag around, and have fun! As a reminder: as per our app rules, please try not to reference other characters in your threads or in your AUs if that character isn't being applied for! Our favorite example is as follows: if an Elsa from Frozen is being TDM'd, we ask that the player not reference her sister Anna by name unless an Anna is planning to TDM and be part of the same AU. Elsa can reference her younger sister in threads as much as she'd like if she has a sister in her AU, but we ask that names are not specified without having that character TDM'd and without the player's permission. Please also remember that posting to the TDM does not equate a reserve, which open on 1/18. The January 2017 TDM directory can be found here. The January 2017 Workshop can be found here. The mod questions comment is here. |
i've heard he's a total shit and i'm ready 4 the pain
What.
She.
[ FINGERGUNS. ]
Said.
Trufact: I hated Ardyn after I beat the game. Now look at my life
And then he laughs.]
I suppose I walked right into that one.
[Ah, he shrugs.] But you know what I meant.
same deal with jack what is my life what are these choices why did i pick a character for dick jokes
[ look Ardyn is basically impossible to embarrass and Jack loves pushing people until they react. there is no worse combination of personalities in existence. ]
But you know me, sugar - there's nothin' I can't handle if I put my mind to it. Crappy, stupidly long nicknames included.
laughing so hard clearly Jack will make the entire game a riot is why
[Take it as you will. He doesn't mean it as an insult.]
Best commit that very long title to memory then. I'll be quite disappointed if you can't recite it on cue.
MAN I HOPE SO i'm having so much fun with his tdm threads oh my god
[ like JEEZ, Ardyn. how could you be so BLIND. ]
And now I'm gonna quit subtly trying to put the moves on you, which is basically a tic for me at this point, and point out that like half your students are going to end up emotionally scarred, drunken husks of human beings. That doesn't bother you?
I mean, shit. Harvard's got the top suicide rate in the country. Your job ain't for the weak.
would u like to keep this tdm game canon, i need this in my life
[Ardyn??? Saying this like it’s nothing??? He’s pretty shameless in his own way.
But, to be fair, at least it does segue into what Jack had been asking.]
But where masochism, or even sadism, is concerned, no, I don’t take any particular comfort in knowing that not all of my students will be met with success. [He pauses, and his expression takes on something only slightly less flippant than before.] However, there’s only so much that I can do, which is to prepare them to the best of my ability to face whatever lies out there in the “real world” for them.
[He purses his lips together slightly, considering.] You know those nature documentaries, about the sea turtles? How their young hatch in the sand, and some don’t even make it to the ocean before being devoured by predators? And those that do make it to the sea have merely found themselves in an even more unpredictable environment? You feel bad for them, but there’s nothing you can do — other than hope for the best. And feel a poignant sort of… relief for the ones who do manage to survive.
[Well. The metaphor makes perfect sense to him at least.] It's something like that.
ABSOLUTELY god this is the cr i didn't know i needed
Or crow, in your case. You'd definitely be a crow. There's the material for your second tat, we are on such a roll today.
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[ He says all this with total confidence, casual as ever. ]
Ya don't think that sounds a little bit like you? Intelligent and capable, but likes to party?
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And yet there's a difference between impulse- [which is what Ardyn considers himself to be; an impulsive and sometimes indifferent man, when it comes to the things in life that aren't worth stressing about] -and pulling out the proverbial feathers of my fellow colleagues. The latter sounds almost spiteful. I'm not an angry enough person for spite.
[Teasing and insincerely ingratiating, though... sure.]
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[ Which slides right into borderline taking this too far, but that's kind of Jack's forte. ]
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If I did, they're kept tightly locked within. Otherwise, they're not worth keeping at all.
[And not necessarily a yes or a no. Ardyn's good at that.]
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[ He's wheedling, way too interested in how little he actually knows about Ardyn. One sneaky shit to another, etc. ]
C'mon. It'll be fun. We'll learn about each other.
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But he'll play along; he's curious about Jack, too, and as far as he's concerned, his mundane "secrets" have him at the advantage.]
Mm. You first.
also cw mention of animal/child abuse
[ He recounts it like it's some kind of badge of honor. If he made it through that, he can obviously make it through anything, right? ]
Your turn.
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No, he doesn't have anything nearly as bad to recount as that. Yes, his family was stifling, controlling, and refused to be malleable; his siblings were vain and jealous, and sometimes unbearable. But that's a whole different level of treatment.
Badge of honor, indeed. Ardyn sudden feels as if he certainly has lost the advantage now, and he hasn't even said anything yet.]
My secrets are absolutely mundane in comparison, Jack. We needn't bring up those kind of skeletons for the sake of comparison. You win.
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[ This may or may not have been Jack's goal in the first place. mysteries!! ]
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Owe you what, exactly? I do hate being indebted.
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[ Wink. ]
Possibly.
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[It's mostly a joke. Where ridiculousness is concerned, he certainly wouldn't put it past him.]