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JUNE TDM
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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! |
Leo Tsukinaga | Ensemble Stars!
[most people would probably get out of this and move on with their day. a lot of people probably find the game annoying.
leo? leo's just fucking around, honestly. it's cool that the tiles just float in nothing, and he's barely even trying to make words with the letters, playing around with them instead.]
What's next, what's next... ah! E!
[is that too many vowels? oops. sorry for messing up your word. he's having a great time balancing on that 'E' tile and peering down into the creepy void, though.]
Hey, d'you think there's anything down there?
III. for once it's not aliens
It's definitely a secret conspiracy.
[leo nods seriously as he glances down at his pad of paper. there is no room for argument. conspiracy.]
The suspect is... all of them! But that means we're at risk for figuring it out, right? Maybe we'll be abducted too!
[don't sound excited about it, leo, jesus christ.]
III
Yawning and rubbing his neck, he looks at him with one eye open.]
...so loud.
no subject
[and he's just going to help pull Ritsu out from under the bench. you're welcome, buddy.
you're also going to get dragged along with him now.]
Come on! We've got to spring everyone out of jail, it's all rigged!
no subject
[He was still groggy and half asleep as he feels himself pulled out from under the bench...this was new for him.
Looking at the person he tilts his head then makes a very confused face.]
What, why jail? And who made you the king?
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[what a great explanation that definitely answers all of Ritsu's questions.]
They can come for me all they want, but my only crime is-
[that dramatic declaration is interrupted as he stops short, though, humming to himself.]
Well, breaking people out's a crime too, huh? Maybe we'll just have to be criminals.
no subject
So what "crime" did they not commit?
[It didn't answer as much as he believes it did...honestly. Plus this guy was talking about breaking people out, that would be a lot more time than an hour, right?
Tugging at the other a little he lets out a sigh.]
Why are you so animated? Won't they just get let out if they are innocent?
no subject
[of course not, leo, he was sleeping... but leo is just carrying on regardless, so.]
Besides, it'll take too much time to declare them innocent, so... breaking them out is way easier, right?
no subject
[He wasn't fully paying attention, the whole he was sleeping thing. He's just so tired from being up late and all.]
That is true...but what if we all get arrested, then we can't break anyone out?
no subject
[draaag drag drag. come with him, it's an adventure, it's Justice, it's
a bouncy house for ritsu to nap in, let's be perfectly real.]
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Then before he could protest he feels his half-asleep body being dragged along for the ride. Well...looks like he doesn't get much of a nap.]
Do you even have a plan to get them out?
iii
[Why did they let civilians get involved with this. Certainly, having a new pair of eyes on the scene (even if everyone's technically a new pair of eyes) is helpful, but--]
Even so, I don't know if you should sound quite so excited at being abducted. Who knows what may happen behind closed doors? You might never see the light of day again.
[He can play along, also: what if it really is a conspiracy, even if he knows where Seabiscuit is himself.]
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[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?
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I can't allow a citizen to place themselves in any danger, [even if he's technically one himself, he's not employed by the city in any form,] so I'll go in. You'll be providing support from the outside and watching my back.
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[just look at that grin. that's absolutely the face of someone you can trust with your life.]
"Citizen" though, huh? Wait, you're not... secretly on their side?!
iii. you and kuma-kun should be arrested imo
That doesn't even make sense? Abducted? This isn't a sci-fi flick, weirdo.
no subject
[get with the times, sena! Seabiscuit was an inside job.]
If a bird can disappear that fast, so could we!
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That Chocobo could've just walked off on its own. This "investigation" is a waste of time.
[ what a stick in the mud. ]
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[he would know. he's all about enjoying himself, after all. so he's just ignoring the chocobo where it roams freely, clearly not stolen, and takes sena by the arm.]
Anyway, you know what they say about numbers, right? So we'd better stick together!
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[ ah, if only he knew. ]
II!!
[ eijun's right there with leo: he doesn't have to be anywhere, and this is kinda fun!! why would he want to play this game! when leo steps on the e and messes up his word, eijun doesn't even really notice--though he does windmill a little to keep his balance. ]
Hey, what word are you trying to spell? Let's team up!
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[Leo tosses down another tile, a D this time, and bounces a bit in place, apparently testing how much these tiles will put up with without falling.]
You think it matters if we actually make words or not?
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[ he looks at leo
looks back at his pile
looks back at leo
u thinkin what i'm thinkin my guy ]
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he looks at eijun, looks at his pile, and... tosses down a 'q'. there. that'll fuck this word up good.]
How about we find out! If you put down a 'u' I'm gonna shove you down there, 'kay?
ii
Well, why don't you find out yourself?
sorry for the delay here!! feel free to ignore o/
[he gives the 'e' another kick for good measure. yep, it's still floating... leo hums, an almost disappointed little sound.]
Well, I can always jump if I get bored, too.