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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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Even flower crown construction.
It would probably have been insufferable, if not for the fact that it was hard to exude tough-guy machismo effectively while weaving flowers. ]
See, gramps, you got it. You wanna make it look even better, make sure there's no gaps, you get two flowers, pinch together, and weave their stems like one strand in a braid, yeah?
Who the hell are you making all these for, anyway?
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"Gramps"? I'm only a couple years older than ya!
[he assumes? but he's like 23 and cain looks...older than a child, definitely. majima is pretty bad at guessing age.]
I'm makin' them for my staff. [he starts to weave together two flowers as instructed. nice] Thought they might appreciate the effort.
[or at least he hopes they will!! and that they wont just laugh at him]
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No way! You look goddamn fifty.
[ He says it with an ugly, sharp smile and it's clear he's just meaning it to be a dig, but the laugh he exhales afterwards softens the sting, and he gives his greasy hair a shake.
And Majima's elaboration warms him to the guy. He blows out a breath in a quiet 'tch', looking down to his own work to focus. ]
They probably love you, huh? My boss is a sick fuck, he could probably learn a thing or two. How many people you got?
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[wow he is OFFENDED and, please, all the yakuzas age backwards. look at this beautiful man at age 52, pictured with his husband. crime is good for your skin.
at least this punk is cute he's got that going for him -- the laugh does indeed soften the sting.]
I take care of them. [majima shrugs. he's humble about his work, for all he could easily take a lot of credit for it. it just seems like part of the job to him, being nice. but the reality is he cares a lot more for his employees than most bosses to.] Right now, fifteen hosts with a handful of other staff.
[this is what he gets for just hiring randos who need a job. and for a moment he tries to tell himself, goro, you don't need to get in this punk's business, you don't need to ask him about the comment about his boss but who is he kidding? he's totally gonna bite.]
If he's treatin' you like shit, why are you still there?
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Don't sweat it, man, chicks dig older guys. And... Hosts? Like.. a host cafe? Or like, hosts at a restaurant...?
[ Cain's smile hooks up, sharp and humorless, and he gives into the line of questioning like somebody used to obeying authority, even if he gives all the lip he can possibly squeeze in on the way down. ]
Military, so I've got a few years left on my contract. Hopped on it when I was 18 and old enough to sign. And... y'know, it's good goddamn money. I can send most of it home and still have a little somethin' to rub together, you know?
Plus, my mother loves that one of her kids cleaned up enough to wear a uniform and isn't hustlin' it for chump change or doin' lackey shit for the Bravda. I can take a little shit for that, I guess.
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Knew we were only a couple years apart. [grumbled, under his breath but its worth stating. but in response to his question he answers properly, even his intonation gets a little better when he talks about work.]
It's technically a cabaret club, but it's similar to those host clubs they have in Japan.
["similar" aka their spiritual predecessor from the '80s but hey maybe its retro. maybe he just really feels an affinity for things from the '80s, despite never living through them.]
I've got a good staff - girls and guys.
[people always assume it's mostly girls when he talks about it, but in the year of our Lord 2017, all people deserve to have nice things regardless of preference.
majima's a little surprised at the way cain takes to the question, but it makes sense once he starts talking. military. it was maybe better than ending up in a gang, although majima can't imagine ever handling being told to kill someone. he's all for the violence of fighting but there's a distinct line for him.
still, at the end of the day, the military option was always the respectable one. the patriotic one, even. so he tries not to say anything bad about it, that'd just be bad form.]
You stationed around here for long, or is this just a short term visit?
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Stationed here, yeah. Unless they take my application to pilot school, but I'm pretty sure I buck up against the brass too much to get the green light. And..
Cabaret, huh? That's classy.
[ By his tone it's clear that Cain... isn't joking. His mouth twisted into an unflattering slant while he mulled that over. His opinions on all things cool were probably a little skewed by early life in poverty and watching whatever the fuck was on local and public-access channels. ]
Guys, too?
... How hot are we talkin'? Like, full dimes?
[ Aaaand he's only half-joking, the question a little too earnest despite his slanted smile. Bbut given his crassly abrasive manner and shabby look, it probably wasn't surprising that he might be the kinda guy who couldn't keep anything steady and was probably genuinely a little lonely. ]
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[cain may be half joking, but majima isn't. hes humble about his role in the club, but he's proud of what it is and how it's turned out. It is classy, and expensive, too. He keeps his team safe and they usually end up having a good time.
Majima reaches into the inner pocket of his tuxedo coat and pulls out a business card holder! He hands over his card. Goro Majima, owner, Cabaret Club Sunshine]
You should stop by sometime, Flower Crown King.