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JUNE TDM

TEST DRIVE

JUNE TEST DRIVE
The city of Recollé. The kids are out for the summer and the weather's just fine. The sun's shining brightly, not a cloud in the clear gray sky. Everything seems at peace and citizens are out and about, smiling to one another and enjoying each other's company.

Oh, and this thing (complete with cardboard cut-out) has currently taken the place of the founders' statues in Recollé Square. But that's probably not a big deal.

What will you do today?

I.
What is this thing? Why is this thing here? For those of you in Tribunal Terrace today you may wish to investigate the five-foot-tall spinning wheel. How did it even get here? And where did the statues of the founders go? Even if you cannot answer those questions, it's hard to ignore the urge to give it a spin.

Check out those colors go 'round and 'round. Depending on what number you land on, you will find a notification pop up on your phone with a short list of…words. Are these supposed to be qualifications? Weird. That was a waste of time.

However, the moment you walk away you will find yourself accosted by various recruiters wherever you go, congratulating you on your impressive resumé and leading you to an office in Chata. Their offices have been equipped with tabletop-sized spinning wheels much like the one in Recollé Square that will spin 'round and 'round, determining the position you qualify for. Are you ready to show how these traits make you the perfect applicant? It looks like you have time to consult with your fellow candidates before your turn comes.

Or perhaps you've managed to resist spinning that wheel. The recruiters absolutely love your willpower and determination and want you to join their team! For those who can resist, they will still find themselves whisked away by recruiters to the same office and thrown straight into training to prepare for interviewing their neighbors. Recruiters will set up pairs of interviewers and applicants, leaving them alone to ask the hard-hitting questions and pick the most qualified candidate. Do your best and beat out the rest! It's your time to shine.

II.
Just because school is out for the summer doesn't mean Apparassage is quiet. Students and faculty alike are bustling about already preparing for the next school year. Campus tours of Recollé University run every two hours, and there are open house tours of the local elementary, middle and high school. Perhaps you're a future student exploring the campus and getting to know your future classmates. Maybe you're faculty or a student guide wrangling the kids and keeping them in line. Or you just might be one of the unfortunate ones who have found yourself with six weeks of summer school.

However, no matter where you find yourself in this district things get a little tricky when you're ready to leave for the day. The sidewalks outside of the buildings have all disintegrated, revealing a large void leading to nowhere beneath your feet. Without a clear path it seems impossible to escape, but stacked at the entrances of every doorway are large tiles with the letters of the alphabet carefully printed on them. When you look across the devoid path, you may notice you have a partner in a similar position with their own stack of letters.

Get ready to expand your vocabulary. Building a bridge of connecting words may be your only chance of getting home before sunset. Strangely, as the letters are laid out they seem to suspend mid-air enough to hold your weight as you make your way carefully across this pit. Balance and precision are key in this game. The stack floats along behind you as you cross the void, letters seemingly adding to the pile to provide more materials to build.

But like all games, there can be only one winner. Those who clear their letters first will arrive outside of the district safely, free now to come and go as they please. For those who do not clear their stack in time, you might have luck jumping from word to word to cross the finish line. Try as you might, if this is the method you follow, the moment you land on the winning word to leave the district the letters will glitch out, sending you plummeting into the void and landing on a long slope down to the bottom. Upon landing, you will see a series of chutes and ladders one can use to climb back up. Some ladders lead back to Apparassage. Some lead straight into Tisse, and some even lead to unexpected places. Where will you end up? The journey is up to you now.

III.
The days are longer, the nights are shorter, the sun is shining and it's noticeably warmer. Isn't it a perfect time for a summer potluck? The citizens of Recollé seem to think so and have all gathered today in Hollingberry Field with friends and loved ones to share food and fun. Kids chase after each other in friendly games of tag and hide-and-seek while other attendants mingle with one another, piling plates of food and sharing with their neighbor.

Why, even Mayor Mayer is out today for this summer kickoff with his lovely red Chocobo, Seabiscuit.

As the evening begins to wind down, however, there's a startled cry from the Mayor as he realizes someone has kidnapped his beloved pet from right under his nose. Was it you? How about you? Everyone has become a suspect and it's up to you to solve whodunnit. The Mayor provides everyone with a pen and a pad of paper divided into three sections for a suspect, a method, and a location. Grab a friend (or even a group of strangers) and get ready to interrogate each other to crack this case.

(With a little looking, however, it's easy to see that Seabiscuit's merely wandered down the hill away from the park. But maybe it's better not to tell the Mayor. He seems very adamant about this game.)

For anyone who manages to solve the case, the Mayor will be immensely grateful and reward you with a valuable prize! Congratulations! However, for anyone who fails to solve the puzzle, or even anyone found guilty of this heinous crime, by order of the Mayor you will be subjected to jail time for a full half an hour. (The Mayor can't stay too mad at his citizens. He loves them all.)

IV.
A nice, leisurely stroll through the entertainment district of Tisse seems to be in order. Summer sales are aplenty and now's the perfect time to shop 'til you drop. On the other hand, that doesn't seem to be the only thing dropping in Tisse. Do you hear that? Perhaps it is easy to ignore the sounds of stone crashing to the ground. Construction isn't unusual in this district. You think maybe you passed an ongoing demolition on your way inside a shop. But the crash happens again, and again, and again, a loud string of booms growing closer and closer.

Are those buildings tipping into one another? Or is it your imagination? You may not have time to answer while the string of events is put into motion. A crane swings overhead, knocking into a well-placed boulder that begins to roll down the street. Cranes, pulleys and wires move in sync as the ball rolls right toward you. Will you run? Will you collide right into the next set of traps? You may recall learning about this type of experiment once upon a time, coming to realize the elaborately planned Rube Goldberg machine spans the entirety of the city.

Maybe you're one of the lucky ones and you find a safe shop to dive into to escape. Or perhaps your sole focus is to run and get as far as you can, failing to notice that the large boulder herds you right to the end of the district and into a caged-in area. Make yourself comfortable. Someone from the outside will have to free you. But hey, maybe you aren't alone in this trap. Misery loves company, doesn't it?

BONUS.
The Retrospec app is at it again, just as useless as it's always been. After downloading to your device and allowing you to upload a profile picture, the app seems to take over your phone. Any time you open your phone to use it, a splash screen appears prompting you to pick one of the brightly colored wedges (or one of the two grayed out ones.)

It's time to exercise your brain and buff your trivia stats. Answering a question from your selected category will allow you to use your phone once again, but if you get it wrong? Retrospec will encourage you not to give up and try again.

...or, you know, you could ask someone to help figure out the answer. Hey, that person looks like they're bursting with knowledge! Perhaps it's best to see if they can help you stop this madness.

As usual, any attempt to get the company to reply are futile. Once a question has been answered correctly, phones will return to their usual functionality until the next time it settles into idle mode.

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!

Your June TDM directory is here, and your AU workshop is here!

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[ bursts out laughing oh my goooood ]

Oh man, you don't even know the half of it. Jim would totally do that, and then brag about how well he blended in the next month. That guy's a total nutcase.

Nobody said it was! Conspiracies are real, you know?

[get with the times, sena! Seabiscuit was an inside job.]

If a bird can disappear that fast, so could we!

Used car salesman. [Adam just sort of... shrugs. He doesn't even bother to hide his qualifications because they fit: beefcake, extra credit, confession, sports car.] I'm sure I'll make it work. There's bound to be some money in midlife crisis market. [This joke isn't funny to anyone except maybe him.]

What about you? What'd you get?

"Yeah, but so what? It being a crazy story just makes it more interesting, if also being more suspicious." [And it did raise the question of how. And why. But Magilou doubted people just stumbled into cages for no reason and thus, devoid of other explanations, she would just go with it. Still, wasn't she making a deal here?

"Anyways, what do you have to offer?" [She might as well have him start, just to set the playing field.]

Maybe, but someone's gotta get behind the closed doors in the first place, right? To infiltrate!

[actually that's a good idea, excuse him while he writes that plan down on his notepad.

subtlety isn't leo's strongest suit, here.]

So who's going in, you or me?

Conspiracies do exist, but it doesn't always mean that they're true, you know.

That Chocobo could've just walked off on its own. This "investigation" is a waste of time.

[ what a stick in the mud. ]

[You get sort of used to a baseline level of weirdness with this app, Rosalind finds. It's not that she's ever prepared for whatever Retrospec is going to bring next, but nothing seems to much shock her. After spending a week six inches tall and the loss of blue and green, a bit of Scrabble in order to get home seems to fit right in.

Which isn't to say she's happy about it. Just sort of wearily used to it.

She and Ms. Sandiego had been having a very pleasant meeting, chatting about numbers and scholarships and the possibility of a donation to expand one of the labs, and they'd ended on a lovely note. She'd thought that would be the end of it, but then Ms. Sandiego had forgotten one of her folders, and so Rosalind had hurried down to return it to her, and now . . .

Now they're standing on opposite ends of a gaping void, with tiles full of letters and no way home.]

Good god.

[She just sounds annoyed.

X, Carmen had tossed. Rosalind hesitates, glaces over her letters, and finally throws out: J I N. Seems appropriate for this spot of bad luck.]

[ Ardyn. Pitou goes still in their pacing, bristling at him. The antagonism between them is fun, at times, but this does not soften its edges. ]

I'll skin you, Izunia. You're the damn lawyer, you know this is ridiculous.

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It's just a joke, why be scandalized?

And you ruined my punchline.

[The noise he makes is an undignified mix of a strangled curse word and a cat looking for a fight. The second half fits a little more, with how he automatically throws an arm to push her away from him with a good degree of force -- this dude don't care if she's a girl, she grabbed him. Once he gets some distance, he whips his head back around to what was once an escape, but is now blocked.]

Why?!

[HE WANTS TO BE FREE]

Oh, and we can't forget the classic "Disco Inferno!" Burn, baby, burn!

[ his best impression might leave something to be desired by you know what he tried. ]

Well, obviously. Or if not flames, at least some really flashy fireworks - the big ones, too. And they'll call me Flaming Valdez!

No one cries when you chop up a baby.

#rimshot

We wouldn't want that... You hate violence. [Fine, he'll take the earbuds. He doesn't want to, though. Never gonna run around and desert you!]

Doesn't the 'mayor' realize how low on the totem pole of politics he really is. He should be ousted.

[ Revolution!!!!]

[ he's about to ask how he is the suspicious one when he remembers who's in the cage. ]

Um... [ think think think. what does he have? ] I'm good at photography? If you like having pictures of stuff.

[ that sounds lame roxas try again. ]

Or... I could just do some odd jobs for you? If you need anything, that is.

[Zoro hadn't even participated in the game. He was just here, alone in a cell with a weirdo, for the completely innocent act of picking a fight with some bird.

The leaning in is uncomfortable but he resigns himself to it. Not like she's any threat.]

We're the only ones in here. You don't have to be so quiet.

Typically, yes. [ Yugi sits beside his friend. ]

I'm enjoying the trivia though. What about you?

III.
[Faolan gazes down at the pad of paper and wonders why exactly his name is listed on the name of suspects. Being newer to the area, how could Mayor Mayer even know who he is, let alone suspect him as well. A Chocobo thief. Never mind that he had been in plain sight the whole time, since he was on the job, but he supposes that is neither here nor there.

He glances up and across the way, keeping an eye on his young charge to see that he stays out of harm's way. Or rather, that he doesn't create harm for himself, instead. But he supposes he might as well aide in locating Seabiscuit. From what he had heard, there would be a valuable prize after all. And it wouldn't hurt to get into the Mayor's good graces while he was at it, as it were.

Glancing down at the list, he narrows his eyes, an air of vague disbelief as he reads aloud:] Black magic? Alien abduction...?

BONUS.
[Faolan stares at his phone and at the question displayed on it. What is the capital of Comoros? He stares at the question again, before deciding there obviously must have been some sort of error, and forcing a restart. Once it powers up again, however, a new question displays in the first question's place. In what century did the Dodo bird become extinct? it asks again, which prompts Faolan to question whether this new application has in fact taken over his phone and whether or not he should be worried about that fact.]

You've got to be kidding me... [He mutters to himself, typing in his best guess at a response -- 18th? how should he know -- and swearing under his breath as his phone plays him an obnoxious song and refreshes a new question instead. Only two questions in but he's wondering if he should maybe just see about replacing it before it starts asking him for a ransom or god only knows what else it's about to throw at him next.]

((here is faolan's comment on the workshop, feel free to PM me for anything else! c:))

III.

[ Like many others, Yonah's been roped in to assist in the case of the missing chocobo, Seabiscuit.

Her moments as a detective are short-lived. She found the bird fairly quickly and instantly took a liking to it, giving it all the scritches and taking selfies to send to her family. Soon enough, she's one of the suspects.

The second she hears steps approaching, she ushers the bird to hide behind some bushes and trees. Not exactly the best hiding spot when you can clearly see a large beak and red tailfeathers poking out. ]

Um... I... hello! What is it?

[ Yet Yonah does a failed attempt to seem innocent. ]

IV.

[ Sales sound like a good opportunity to go shopping together with family! What could have been a fun shopping trip with her father, one of the rare moments when she can be with him, took for a terrible turn. The rolling boulders split Yonah away from her father, chasing them both off to opposite sides of the district.

She doesn't have the strength to constantly flee from traps, so after a brief run, she steps aside within the safety of one of the shops. ]

Dad! Dad? Are you still out there?!

[ In a panic, she starts feeling her pockets and purse... ]

I dropped my phone...

WILDCARD

[ Any other prompt ideas is fine! Check here for my AU Workshop if you need more info.

Also, you'll have to forgive me since I'm going to be slowly phone tagging. PC-less for who knows how long... ]

Would you rather have been crushed?

[Hikaru tilts her head to one side, and shrugs. The force with which he'd shoved her made her stumble, but she doesn't seem to have taken it personally.

That would require caring about the feelings of others.]

I'm buddhist.

[And hold on. He's settling this debate here and now. Thank god for HIS PHONE'S dictionary app.

He stares at his phone.

He puts it away.

He pushes up his glasses.]

Well, everyone makes mistakes.

Do you think I like doing this? I already have two jobs as it is. [ one of them being not too frequent because yay he actually does like working for a friend ] Anyways, they're not letting me leave until this is all over, so I'm just as trapped here as you are. So annoying.

But really, think about it. You could've been a decent live-action roleplayer.

[ JUST CONSIDER IT, SAOTOME ]

I didn't insult your glasses.

[ To be quite honest, he's just saying they may be faulty? Here. Let him spell out "nearsightedness" in light of their conversation. ]

I'll take it, thanks. [ He didn't congratulation you, Takumi. ] We're doing pretty well despite the fuss you made earlier.

[ mary takes all of that in, and then tosses one pigtail over her shoulder, sits back in the chair, and crosses one leg over another. if she had sunglasses, she'd put them on here. ]

I won't speak about any scandal unless I'm with my agent.

[ boy if there's one thing mary's really good at, it's faking being rich... ]

[Well don't mind if she does, to be honest. Yukiko bobs her head in acceptance and picks up a cupcake, giving Ann a warm smile.]

I'm sure they are, Ann.

[Yukiko, who...can actually cook quite well in this AU and will lose the ability in time...takes a cookie off her own tray and plops it down to replace the missing cupcake.]

And there, so your tray doesn't seem empty. It's a snickerdoodle.

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