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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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it takes some self control not to bolt up and start running immediately after falling, but he's possibly skinned his elbows a little bit and maybe hurt his friend. )
We gotta go!
( is the first thing he says, all in a rush against koushuu's shirt. then he's jerking up and grabbing at koushuu's arm to help him stand up. )
Wegottagowegottagowegottago!
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So he doesn't resist being jerked at to get to his feet, helping get them both up just as much as his friend does. If he's this upset about something, then there's just no questioning it - they need to leave, and then he'll figure out what the hell's going on. ]
Okay. Okay, let's go. [ He goes from making sure his bag hasn't spilled any of his gear out, to grabbing hold of the nearest part of Yukine, turning quickly on his heel. ]
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where else could be safer than his house?!
he's off in the direction of it as soon as koushuu looks to be able, running as fast as he can manage. )
Listen, Koushuu, there's these—
( things! monsters! he doesn't know what to call them, but before he gets a chance to say anything further, he's already skidding to a halt. they've hit the corner of the street, right where it breaks. )
Nnnnnno, no, no.
( he breathes out the words almost like he's choking on them. across the street from them is a large centipede stretched out across the top of a fence. it's huge! it's so big! why is it so big? how could it be this big? he can feel the panic rising in him. what kind of nightmare scenario was this! )
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Unfortunately, they wind up having to pull up short, and it's his reflexes that have him responding fast enough that he doesn't knock into Yukine in the process. Of course, that doesn't really change what the hell they're facing now.
Rather than freaking out, Koushuu just looks incredibly confused by what he's looking at. It's enough to break his default, even stare, resulting in his brow furrowing even as his eyes widen. That - that is a centipede. That is a centipede. ]
Yukine. [ He starts to back up, indicating that he should be moving with him even as he reaches for his bat bag. ] We'll go the long way home.
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( that is one-hundred percent definitely a big ass centipede and the entire reason that yukine is losing his cool. there are certain things that yukine is equipped to deal with, but massive insects were not on that list of things. no, massive insects smashed his panic button so hard that he could barely keep up with his body's immediate flight response.
moving back with koushuu, nearly in step with him. between the two of them, koushuu is the only one who could be considered to be armed but he's willing to punch the shit out of that bug if it comes down to it. maybe not to save himself, but definitely to protect koushuu. )
Yea, c'mon. C'mon.
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Between the two of them, though, Koushuu is fairly certain they can take care of one, massive centipede, enough that they could get the hell out of there after engaging it. But he'd like to avoid that if at all possible, because he doesn't know what's going on, or if that would cause more to show up. It's like a horrible RPG that they didn't sign up for.
But, nonetheless, he unzips the bag and wraps his hand around the handle of the bat. Because it's better safe than sorry. ]
How up to running are you?