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repeter2017-04-16 09:01 pm
recollecters) wrote in repeter2017-04-16 09:01 pm
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. |
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[ Elda Marker a petite woman twice Sakura's age and has just walked into the shop she's in the midst of trying to return things. Elda herself's got a jacket she's positively swimming in over everything, which probably makes her look even smaller than she normally is. But hey, that's better than the ill-fitting top and ill-fitting pants or the pins and belts she's needed to keep it in order. She didn't dare put on any of her dresses today, for fear they would slip off.
This might be the only pants she owns.
But ugh, if a young girl that cute looking's having issues too then yes, she's going to have a bust here too. Assuming she was actively shopping for new things and not returning items: ]
Hey, where else have you tried? Let's save both of us time.
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[ replies Sakura with a heavy sigh. None could offer a real explanation and the offer of vouchers wasn't helping. She wanted clothes that fit her, not stuff that would fall off her body the moment that she put it on. ]
I haven't gone upstairs yet but I don't know how much luck we're gonna have...
[ She readjusts her skirt, hosting it up and trying to preserve her modesty as best she can. ]
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Ah well. Dismissing the though, the older woman tosses back her shoulder length brown hair (... as if you need to toss hair that length but details) and got right up in front of her new companion. ]
All the actual specialty stores down the block are a bust too, I only just arrived here.
[ :T ]
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Okay Sakura think... think... what can you do now...
[ She looks from her hands to Elda, trying keep herself composed but her voice is very much distressed and fed up. ]
I don't want the money at all. I just want clothes that fit me.
[ Elda looks like she's positively uncomfortable in her clothes. At the very least, Sakura isn't the only one who is in this predicament. ]
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[ . . . Of course, Elda's rich, so.
That said, the woman resists the urge to bite her nails, instead sighting. ... Sakura. ... That feels familiar too.
Ah well. ]
We could go to the used stores? Those will have old stock.
[ The thought appalls her, but.. ]
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[ The thought has cheered up Sakura a little, because finally. They're getting a solution somewhere! ]
I only know of the one in the shopping arcade, do you know any others?
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[ She... ]
I don't shop used terribly often, actually. So let's try yours first!
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[ Jauntily, Sakura points out of the store and starts frog marching in that direction. She's adjusting her skirt in the meanwhile and hoping that Elda's following her.
The shopkeepers in the meantime, are happy to see them go and stand there with pained smiles waving. ]
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't get your name.
[ she says after a minute, turning around with a short bow. ]
My name is Sakura Fujiwara. It's nice to meet you.
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Tossing back her hair - which given it's only shoulder length or so looks a little silly, perhaps she had longer hair in recent memory - the older woman beams.
... This girl's totally familiar somehow and she still can't place it, even with the name. Man, it'll com to her. ]
My name's Elda Marker, and worry not, I ought to have asked too.