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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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[Kaz doesn't really know him well. He's the acquaintance you know in passing, that's always a little startling when you catch them in another setting and they're so out of place it's hard to recognize them at all.]
[He's here to pick out some flowers for his mother, not that he'd specify that. He's enough of a hussy that he assumes people will just assume he's grabbing them to hit up another girl (or possibly the rare guy that's into that sort of thing).]
You look eager to get out of here. [As he's talking he's trying to pick out a nice assortment for a bouquet.]
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[ It's fine if Kaz doesn't know him aside from that guy who has to check him at the door with dates, Kagetsuna probably comes off like any other retail worker who's less than thrilled with their job but stuck with it. He likes the doorman gig more, and he could probably live off of it if he took more shifts during the week, worked at more than one club...
Nah. He likes having something of a life during the daytime, and he's sure he'd grow to hate it. His face would be more memorable too, and he'd rather not.
Right... Kaz was correct the first time, as funny as being a bodyguard for a home and garden celebrity would be. He doesn't say it outright because it's a personal hobby, but as Kaz is trying to pick something nice for a special someone... ]
The dahlias look nice this year. Big too, if you want something that stands out.
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[She needs colors to keep her mind active.]
[He pulls out his phone, squinting as he thumbs past a notification from that new app to image search the type of lily he's looking for. Despite the light teasing of Kagetsuna here Kaz is wielding a traffic cone orange phone case with a cute cartoon dog on the back in the middle of a diamond shape.]
[Carried by a man in an expensive waistcoat and rolled up sleeves.]
[Finally he finds what he's looking for and holds it out.] Here. Some of these and whatever Dahlias and small garnishing flowers you think would go well with them. [People say everything goes well with white but that's just not true.]
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[ He raises an eyebrow at the phone case... but hey, he's seen tackier. You know, the hot pink cases with rhinestones, filigree, and glitter. Never mind the well-dressed fellow attached to it... Kagetsuna doesn't judge until passing doorman judgement.
They have bucket and long trays willed with water to hold the cut flowers, but they also make for a nice decoration on they're own, Kaz might not while while Kagetsuna picks them out.
He comes back with flowers of similar colors, but also with the closest match to the lily he was shown among the mix, hopefully standing out. ]
You didn't tell me her age, but I'll assume older. You'd be mistaken though, girls ask for crazy bright bridal bouquets; I don't work in that department, but I've overheard. I also don't normally make arrangements, so cut me a little slack if it's boring.
[ He puts on a small smile, despite that. ]
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[He probably would remember the names later, but it's not really pertinent information. So he just chuckles off the confusing identities for the flowers and the statement that it's probably for someone older with his generic excuse.]
[And hey, as long as Kagetsuna is judging him worthy of entering clubs? That's fine with him.]
I guess I wouldn't want to give anyone the wrong idea.
[It looks good to him, so he gets out his wallet and sort of eyes the other miscellaneous cut plants.] You're actually pretty good at this. I mean, I don't know how much that means coming from an amateur eye, but not bad. I guess everyone's gotta have a talent. Just didn't expect yours to be so delicate with those hands.
[As in the ones that could easily chuck some idiot out on the street.]