repeter | APRIL TDM

APRIL TDM

TEST DRIVE

APRIL TEST DRIVE
The city of Recollé. A beautiful city you've called home for quite some time. While things can be a little weird, isn't that true of all homes? It's fully spring now, and there are flowers to be found everywhere. April's showers are a familiarity as well, the occasional downpour or drizzle keeping you on your toes.

What will you do today?

I.
April showers bring May flowers, right? Well, there are already plenty of flowers to be had, but that part of the old rhyme being true doesn't save you from the first part of it. While the weather forecasters do their best, their success rate for predicting the rain seems to be about fifty-fifty. Unfortunately, sometimes when they do predict the rain happening, they misjudge how bad it's going to be. Was the sky was clear when you last looked outside? It may not be quite so clear now. Hope you remembered to bring an umbrella today.

But it's not so bad, really! Maybe if you forgot to prepare, someone will share their umbrella with you. Not in the mood to talk to anyone? You can probably find some thrifty umbrella vendors on the streets of Tisse. When in doubt, there are always some loaner umbrellas scattered around in Apprassage at the Recollé Library as well. The library asks that you return any of the mismatched loaners found at the door, but it's not like the system is that strongly enforced. Well, other than the library stamp on the umbrellas, that is.

If you find yourself in Chata today, you could always buy a magazine off the street corners to hold overhead. If you look like you may buy something, vendors don't seem to mind if you idle under their awnings. Check out the latest fashions coming this spring while you wait it out. It looks like buckles are in, but some of the high fashion clothes look a little odder than usual. The hot, new dresses range from large like a billowing tarp to appearing more like an artfully arranged handkerchief than anything else. Fashion sure is weird sometimes.

II.
Recollé Square in Tribunal Terrace boasts a huge assortment of flower gardens scattered throughout the district, though they all appear to be whatever citizens felt like planting at the time. In fact, only flowers in Apprassage seem to match, especially around the University. Today, while the rain's stopped, a large group of people seem to be taking advantage of Recollé Square's mismatching for flower picking, crown and wreath weaving, and bouquet arranging. The activities seem to be loosely led by the city's PTA and some of the other socialite groups from around town. Then again, for long-standing citizens of the city this isn't unusual either. You seem to remember that this is an annual sort of thing even though there isn't actually a name for the event.

Some booths are set up around the park to swap seeds, flowers and food for cash or gossip, the guidelines a little more loose outside of the business districts. It seems as though lot of families are picnicking this weekend. There's even some kind of contest going on for the best flower crown - though usually the city tends to collectively pick a kid for the winner, so your best artistic talents might not get you the admiration you crave.

In addition, there's the most accurately judged flower-growing contest if you've been waiting for this day for a year or more, but that event tends to have the same people involved every year and the majority of Recollé isn't too heavily invested in it. They're here for the picnics and flower crowns, and it seems about the same as it always does. This year, though, there do seem to be more flowers than ever...and for that matter, they're a lot bigger than usual, too.

III.
Despite some of the fashion fiascos the magazines are displaying, maybe you should spend some time shopping this week. It may come as a surprise to you that your clothes haven't been fitting properly as of late. Those skinny jeans are just a hair too loose, and your favorite shirt seems baggier than it used to be. The problem, however, is that every shop you go to seems to stock clothes with the same issues. You're down a size or two or three, or maybe they're just marking everything down wrong. And surely you don't have the time or money to replace your entire wardrobe...will you take your chances? Complain to the store's manager? Or maybe you're an unfortunate soul who has to try and explain the unexplainable. Maybe offering a coupon will appease shoppers today.

IV.
Apparently walking around your neighborhood isn't quite as safe as it used to be - or it isn't safe if you want to trust your eyes. One second the little old lady who lives at the corner appears to be walking her pitbull just as she has every day for the last several years. The next, the pitbull is gone and she's walking a rather angry-looking caterpillar. Blink and you'll miss it, but as time goes on you'll see more and more of these larger-than-life insects wandering around. No matter how hard you try to explain it, the only other people who seem to see this as the least bit weird are people with the Retrospec app.

Oh, do you not have the Retrospec app? Think again. The sound of chirping crickets will follow you until the next time you look at your mobile device or a public computer, prompting you to accept a profile and upload a user picture. Congratulations! It seems as though you've been selected to be a new tester!

...it's going to be one of those days.

BONUS.
While the Retrospec app only infrequently has posts from the company itself - and those have thus far proven to be universally useless - this month there is an onslaught of updates. At least once per day there's a picture of a new type of flower or insect, along with a "fun fact" about whatever the company has posted.

Did you know, for example, that wasps feeding on fermenting juice have been known to get "drunk' and pass out? Ancient civilizations burned aster leaves to ward off evil spirits. Ticks can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a marble. Roses are related to apples, raspberries, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, pears and almonds. Houseflies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than human tongues. Praying mantises prey on other insects, and perhaps you'd better watch your step.

Wait, what?

As usual, any attempt to get the company to reply about the increasingly disturbing information they're sending out is useless. The daily facts grow less and less useful and eventually seem to be nothing but fun facts about how flowers and bugs could kill you or one another. Kind of unfortunate for you, if this is your first time getting any messages whatsoever from the app. How do you unsubscribe? Good luck figuring it out.

Welcome to the

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! The April 2017 TDM directory can be found here. The April 2017 Workshop can be found here. The mod questions comment is here.

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I; the one where you're shanghaied into helping her;

[Rosalind Lutece has a dilemma.

It's raining. It's pouring, actually, the kind of rain you're guaranteed to get drenched in, no matter what preventative measures you might take. Oh, an umbrella would surely mitigate that blow, but as she doesn't even that, it's not worth considering. And yet she has a class in about half an hour, and she can't very well skip it, being the person who's supposed to teach it.

Thus: the dilemma. She's got to get across Apprassage in half an hour, preferably without looking as if she's just stepped out of the shower.

Rosalind grimaces, glancing out from the library's doorway with a little scowl on her face. This is going to require socializing, and while she's not necessarily opposed to that, she hardly likes doing it in dire circumstances.

Still. Needs must, and to that end, she tugs out her cell phone. Perhaps you're a friend (or, worse, a luckless student) she's just texted, calling for aid; perhaps you're simply walking by with a large umbrella, and about to be shouted towards. Either way, Rosalind seems determined to get to the university without getting soaked, no matter what methods she has to employ in order to do so.]

Oye! Excuse me!

III; the one where she's pissed about clothes;

[This is ridiculous.

It's ridiculous. She's not a particularly difficult woman to fit; she doesn't ask much from her clothes. All she wants is something simple and practical: a black dress, something that fits without being too clingy or too loose. One would think that would be easy to find, but this is the third store she's exiting.

Or, well. Striding from, really, in a manner that suggests it might become storming if someone gets in her way. It isn't the shopkeep's fault, which is why she'd bitten her tongue when the poor young woman had told her they didn't have her size. But for god's sake, she hasn't anything to wear: everything she'd donned this morning was either too tight or too loose, both entirely inappropriate for daily wear.]

IV; the one where she's a professor;

[For all she's a brilliant professor, Rosalind does tend to go a little fast.

It's not that she's opposed to answering questions, no, not in the least. Anytime someone raises their hand, Rosalind is perfectly willing to go over whatever concept they're having trouble with. But despite the fact she's supposedly teaching some intro courses, one probably oughtn't take a class from Dr. Lutece unless they've a solid grasp on science. Rosalind lectures as if everyone in the room already has a decent grasp of things, moving through lessons as though she's explaining familiar concepts to people who simply need a refresher. It's really not fair, but she's only been teaching for about a year, so cut her some slack.

Still. There's a reason she has extended office hours, because there's an awful lot of students who come in needing a bit of extra help. Catch her in her office, or just come up to her after class: the professor is in, y'all.]

BONUS; the one where she's texting;

I'd like to think this doesn't need to be said, but as most of the general population tends to believe the first thing they read: I hope you're all quite aware most of these facts aren't accurate. There's obviously quite a few plants and animals that can kill you, but please don't everyone start running around in terror the next time they happen to see a wasp.

idk prof wasps are pretty frickin scary
like
flying sentient hypodermic needles pissed off at the world
how is that not terrifying bc personally i think theyre assholes

also i need thermite

Yes, but will they kill you? No they will not.

What on earth do you need thermite for?

what if one stung you in the jugular tho
or i guess you were allergic

and im considering doing a demonstration for my class so they dont eff some shh up with the materials were gonna be working with
not actually thermite but i think itd be a good tactic to get em taking their safety seriously once we start bustin out the bots for the robot fighting competition this year
somebody ALWAYS thinks flames are a good idea for some possibly crappily built robot fighting in a contained area around lots of people
( theyre not )

Rosalind Lutece | Bioshock: Infinite

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iv - it's time

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what's up prof?? i guess (iv.)

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IV - a thousand years late