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recollecters) wrote in repeter2017-06-16 08:40 pm
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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!
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Well you aren't instilling a lot of faith in me right now, sorry.
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it doesn't strike her as particularly off-putting, however. nor does it close her off to continue. ]
Oh? So it's one of those situations. Where I have your body, but not your heart. [ she feigns a certain level of dramaticism. emphasizing certain words, especially, as she gestures briefly to the other female's body. though, that's before: ]
What does it take to have it? Come on, tell your older sister all about it.
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So regardless of the fact they're total strangers, she reaches forward and just...puts a hand to each of Stella's cheeks, then squishes her face together. Mostly it'll make it a lot harder to keep talking.
Assuming she doesn't avoid it, that is.]
If this is actually going to lead into something other than more come ons, nod once.
[Cause she ain't letting go just yet.]
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her lips settled into a a half-pout, half look of contemplation. but, instead of nodding or giving in, she merely lifts her hands up. gently tugging at both wrists. enough to weasel out a small: ] Did I ... [ more struggle: ] touch a nerve?
[ but, still... she loved that part of meeting people. the thrill and excitement. the fact that everyone was different.
she couldn't help but think it was genuinely... a little endearing. hence, she drops a hand, if just to lightly tap at the other girl's cheek with the back of her index finger. it isn't a nod, per say. but, it was her own idea of a middle ground. sort of. ]
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Even now, she's not too happy her wrists were taken as they were.]
If you want to talk, then just talk, idiot. You don't need all this buildup bs.
[...if she's the type to notice, it's actually less harsh in tone than it is in her actual words. Almost...scolding?
Either way, she lets her go.]
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honestly, her words were surprisingly direct (and true). straightforward. far more so than stella may have been capable of. not that she wasn't upfront, but that there was always a certain quality to her words. narcissism. flirtatiousness. setting the pace was something she was accustomed to. if anything, it fit along with her own concept of achieving unadulterated "freedom." she's never once thought of this to infringe on other's...
and even now, she doesn't seem keen on accepting that.
still, she releases a small exhale. though, it's difficult to tell if it's in humor or anything else. it's here, she also... lets go. ] This is the first time I've been scolded... [ she's stunned, if anything. before, an amused huff. ] But, I'm not here to talk. I was serious, you know. About escaping. ♥
[ a small pause, her eyes studying the other female. ] And you? [ well, at least...
it was something. a start. ]
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The heat's making this thing kind of clammy, so I'd rather not wait around much longer. [aka gross] What's your plan?
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10 being... [ she looks up thoughtfully. ]
The mayor's lost pet. [ is it 2 soon... ]
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[She is small and scrawny...even if Retrospec have given her the ability to fight with all the expertise of a fifty year old sengoku warlord, it doesn't change the fact her stamina is her greatest weakness.
That and it's hyper specific. It's about all she can do in terms of athleticism.]
So I hope you weren't planning on relying on me.
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a 1??? ] Does... that exist? [ ?? ]
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Fortunately for you, I, Stella, am a jack of all trades! [ she poses triumphantly at this. even sticking her arm out in a dramatic flair. though, soon, she draws her arm back. honestly, she's just as lost about this as everything else, but she presumes she can still squeeze some fun out of it.
she closes her eyes a bit in mock consideration. ]
How do you feel about being thrown?
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The look she gives her is not the look of someone who would be okay with that.
Of course, she could just do it anyway. It's not like Aki would be able to stop her.
CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY.]
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[ is how she conveniently decides to take it, especially, as she already begins to position herself directly behind aki. she jumps a few times as if gaining some momentum. ] At least you seem light. [ she touches her side lightly, as she begins to grab onto her. i'm so sorry. ]
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[i cant believe she has to kill stella
Considering Aki had no issue grabbing her face a moment ago, it's not surprise over being touched. It's the fact she might actually be about to be thrown; all she does is shove at Stella's face uselessly in an attempt to dissuade her.
Still, her evaluation isn't wrong. She's 5ft even and 95lbs. Portable and travel friendly for your convenience.]
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exciting. Dangerous. [ precisely as planned, she begins to try and lift aki, just barely getting her feet off the floor. stella is surprisingly strong considering her frame, but at the same time, she was also vain enough where she'd like to avoid being swapped at. look, she can't execute this neat plan of hers and retain a sense of accomplishment if she doesn't look heroic doing it?
it's why, she... accidentally ends up dropping aki mid-bounce...
oh.
...
guess what else is dangerous, i guess. ]
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[Nope, it's too late. She clenches her fist (it's debatable whether or not she'd really do it) before being suddenly dropped, quite unceremoniously at that. Aki falls back right into Stella, knocking her against the wall of their bouncy prison behind her, and as she drops herself grabs a hold of the closest surface - Stella herself - to try and steady herself, only to end up just pulling her down with her.]
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and continues to be on the rise. regardless, even stella doesn't expect the way the other female's weight suddenly displaces. her grip loosens, and while she logically knows she should keep her distance and watch the aftermath unfolds. she doesn't completely.
she begins to try and steady aki, only between their tangling legs and the suddenness, she ends up losing balance.
but, at least they fall gracefully. stella falls gently to a kneel, though her hands are on both sides of aki, as she stares her in the face. ] My, you're quite selfish to pull me along with you. [ but, she doesn't seem all too upset, and her eyes seem to be scanning aki's body for any visual injury. before, she mutters a quiet: ]
You look okay, at least. [ ... ] So? [ well, if aki is hurt, she supposes...
this is where she'd express that. while stella is keen on appearing like she doesn't actually care... ]