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APRIL TDM
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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. |
Rider | Fate/Zero
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[The weather definitely did not call for this much rain. Fortunately, Aleksandros is the kind of person willing to roll with the changing conditions, and went to buy a simple red umbrella from the nearby convenience store.
Unfortunately, they don't let you open them up indoors - bad luck, you know - and so he wasn't able to check the size of it when he was buying it. No doubt normal people fit under umbrellas this size, but Aleksandros is almost seven feet tall, and if he holds this umbrella over his head, he finds both shoulders still getting wet.
So instead he offers it to the nearest passerby who looks like they were just as surprised by the weather.] Hey, there. You want this one? It doesn't seem like it'll do me much good.
III
[He's used to having some trouble finding clothes that fit, being somewhere in the range of 'gigantic'. He's not used to having his entire closet stop fitting him right simultaneously. So now he's shopping in a baggy t-shirt and workout pants with an elastic waistband, and speaking animatedly with a clerk.]
If it were only for my own sake, I wouldn't mind, but I have classes to teach, and I don't think the university would like it if I went in to work like this. Go look in the back! I'll find something fitting if I have to try on everything here!
Wild Card:
[On one of the few clear days in the month, Aleksandros has organized an extracurricular stargazing night atop a hill on the outskirts of the city, somewhere where they can avoid light pollution as much as possible. He's busily setting up a telescope of his own as students arrive, either with their own equipment or prepared to wait in turn to use his. Passersby are also welcome to drop in: he won't turn down anyone who's interested in learning about space! Hopefully the weather holds...]
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Mr. Metrios, if hypothetically we get suddenly stormed on out of nowhere, about how much are you going to have to spend to replace that?
[He likes stars, but not enough to spend a ton of money on them.]
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[He pats the telescope gently, careful not to tilt it, and elaborates:] They make them so they can be taken apart to clean the mirrors and lenses anyway. If water gets inside, the worst-case scenario is that I have to take take all the pieces apart and set them in front of a fan to dry out when I get home. Hardly worth any concern!
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[That's what he gets for getting basically the cheapest model.]
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[He is now getting guided over to the larger telescope with a firm hand on his shoulder, because personal space is for wimps.]
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Wow... That's amazing!
[Sometimes it's worth shelling out for actually good equipment, who knew?]
I
[His leather bag is providing just as much coverage as the umbrella is for Aleksandros. He jumps under the awning of the convenience store and shakes the droplets off of his bag.]
I don't have anywhere to be. [In case he's asked again to take the umbrella. There's likely someone else who needs it more.]
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I've got a little time between classes, myself. I was hoping to check if the game store had any new titles, but it looks like that'll have to wait.
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[He tucks it back inside and hugs the bag to his chest.]
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[In defiance of this optimistic view, the rain continues to fall just as hard as before.]
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If you need to go, we could always improvise. [He turns to the store behind them.] They don't have rain ponchos, do they?
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Oh wow you're tall.
--I'm sorry, I mean, yes. I would, if you're not going to use it. Thank you. That's very kind of you.
[Yes, she's still caught up on his height.]
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Usually it's convenient, but right now I wouldn't mind being small enough to fit under an umbrella! [He holds the umbrella over her head instead, grip shifting to allow her to take it from him.] Since neither of us can change what we are, though, I don't mind donating it to a better home.
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She glances behind her at the rain, which is still coming down like it's the end of the world, and takes a moment to appreciate that she doesn't have another two feet of height to get soaking wet.] No kidding. The weather's been crazy these past few days. I'm a little worried if this is what they mean when they say 'light' rain.
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I'm pretty sure they were just wrong about the weather report. This much rain reminds me of the time I was in Okinawa during monsoon season! Although at least that was warmer...
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