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Recollé Mods ([personal profile] recollecters) wrote in [community profile] repeter2017-08-16 11:47 pm
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AUGUST TDM

TEST DRIVE
AUGUST TEST DRIVE
The city of Recollé.

...yeah. Yeah, it's just sort of a mess...

What will you do today?

I.
What the hell happened here? Perhaps you're new to the city, or perhaps you've finally started to notice just how bad the damage is to the beloved city of Recollé. The convention center is still crumbled in pieces and several local shops have boarded up windows and doors to prepare for reconstruction. Vendors on the street try to urge residents to purchase monster insurance for all of their home and vehicle needs. But the moment you step outside, you'll find yourself greeted by a member of the Recollé Restoration Committee as they thrust a hardhat into your hands and eagerly chatter about your new assignment.

Whether you find yourself in Tisse and assigned to haul pieces of stone around or you're placed over in Apprassage to pour cement, you'll find you aren't alone in these tasks. It's nice to meet your coworkers, isn't it?

II.
But really, what caused all of this? This is completely insane and while some of you may be willing to help rebuild the city, others might wish to solve the mystery. Poking around the various districts, NPCs will explain that monster attacks "sometimes just happen" which seems pretty strange in and of itself. Monsters shouldn't "just happen", should they? And where are these alleged monsters anyway?

Careful what you wish for, though. Exploring too much and straying off-task will lead to finding some things you may not want. These creatures will immediately hone in on new Retrospec users and begin to chase them, though they won't outright attack. While the smaller ones may be destroyed with a bit of effort, it might be wise to either cut your losses or find someone with a bit more experience to take on the larger creatures. Don't worry; there's bound to be someone to help.

III.
By now, you may have heard the rumors from some of your fellow Retrospec users that several members of the network have disappeared. You may even hear the rumors that those members are lost in "unreality" and that the city itself is a bit...unstable. But they're just rumors, right?

Everything seems fine as you go about your day (monsters notwithstanding.) However, any time you pass from one district to another suddenly a list of names scrolls past your line of vision . As the list comes to a halt and lands on one name, you may recognize it as a friend or a stranger. If you're lucky, you may get a holographic video connecting you to someone still in the city. If you're even luckier, you may find someone speaking up inside your head due to a telepathic connection. Go ahead and say hi. You just might get some answers from those who have been lost and those you haven't met yet.

IV.
As the night begins to set upon the city, a warm sleepy feeling rolls through. Whatever you're doing, it's hard to fight off the urge to curl up under a shaded tree and take a nap. After some time it's nearly impossible to ignore any longer and no matter where you are, you'll instantly fall asleep. Strangely, even

The place that you wake up, however, may look very familiar to you. You've seen this place before. In fact, you've lived through this very scene before. Maybe it's the little league game you scored your first home run, or maybe it's your high school prom. These are your memories played back to you, and glancing back you may find that again you aren't alone. Any Retrospec user has the ability to pass through these pockets of time and can stumble right into your memories. The memory pockets can appear no matter where a person is, and they'll be able to view and interact with the memories they see. Take a walk through your childhood neighborhood. Sit through the nightmare of your college entrance exams. These memories are yours as you've lived them. However, try not to change anything about the past. Memories can be quite tricky if meddled with too much.

BONUS.
While the makers of Retrospec are a bit scattered and busy at the moment, it seems as though they have failsafes to keep their systems up and running. The latest update push operates on its own and begins to download to your device. Your profile remains the same as always (your name and your photo), but it appears you won't have access to it until you apply one of the brand new filters to your picture. Seems easy, right?

Maybe you should have given this a second thought. As soon as the filter's applied to your photo, you might find that people are stopping and staring at you as you go about your day. They may or may not comment, but what's evident is that something's going on that you're unaware of. A quick glance in your phone's camera, a storefront window or a mirror will reveal all. That fun filter's now applied itself to your face with no hope of coming off for a while. Have fun!

Welcome to the [community profile] 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!

For continuity's sake, for the first time we will be stating that the TDM is dated IC 8/17! This is all in one day. Potential applicants/characters on the TDM will revert back to NPC status on 8/18 and will not remember the events of the TDM until the mod-posted Retrospec post goes up 9/1.

Members of Group 2, since the TDM can be considered game-canon, prompts III and IV are open for you to tag around to new players while stuck in your locations outside of the city!

For Prompt III, members of Group 2 may telepathically connect to someone even if there's a video option, but their faces and surroundings will be obscured! Other members of the game + potential applicants may use video if they wish.

For Prompt IV, please remember these are memories from your AU and not your canon! Should characters deviate from these "memories" too much, they will find themselves thrown back to the beginning of the memory to start over!

And finally, the filters provided in the bonus are just examples and you can swap in any others you want.

Your August TDM directory is here, and your AU workshop is here! Our mod questions thread for this TDM is over here!
moneymoneymoney666: (gtfo of my house)

II.

[personal profile] moneymoneymoney666 2017-08-17 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Kid, look out!"

[Without any time to react, Elliot will find himself tackled to the ground by Gallagher. And a good thing too, given that lets the two of them avoid a... rock launched by a giant oct- you know the judge won't question this, he just gets up and turns away from Elliot, before quickly looking back at him.]

"Listen, it's not safe for you to be out here. Or me either, for that matter."

[personal profile] todefydestiny 2017-08-17 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, we can hope. We're the ones that are going to decide the future, right?

[ Carlos is the kind of person that believes in everyone working to fix something that it'll get fixed. Oh, but this isn't anyone that he recognizes so he lightly rubs the back of his neck as he pauses with his consoling words. ]

So, I'm Carlos. [ Awkward pause. ] And you are?
moneymoneymoney666: (you're a complete idiot)

[personal profile] moneymoneymoney666 2017-08-17 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Judge Gallagher Brando, a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

[Another awkward silence, with him expecting Carlos to pick up the conversation. When that does not happen, he speaks again, keeping up his same formal, serious tone.]

"So, you've been dragged into this insanity against your will as well, have you?"
chaoticwhimsy: (Oh so coy.)

I

[personal profile] chaoticwhimsy 2017-08-17 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Probably won't see one if you let yourself get dragged off to play Becky the Builder.

[Luna had been following the trail of destruction and volunteers, mostly out of curiosity, after she'd escaped from the man trying to get her to actually help fix things. Ugh. But she stopped when she heard Ellie speak, looking over at the older girl with a mischievous grin.]

'Course, if there are any monsters. For real. They'd probably be hiding right? We'd have to go find them.

[personal profile] todefydestiny 2017-08-17 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
A judge? Wow.

[ So he starts out with saying before adding: ] Pleasure to make your acquaintance, too. I actually never spoken with a judge before. I suppose that's a good thing, isn't it? Unless you're judging cat shows... then I'd have to say that I'm sad we never had a chance to talk. [ Ahem. ] I don't own a cat yet but --

[ Huh? ] What do you mean dragged into this insanity? I've been living in this city for the past seven years. There's no... dragged into anything. If there's a problem, it's my problem.
fiddlestick: (ohhh noooo)

BONUS - hope this is okay!

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-08-17 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
[At some point later in the day, Carlos will be getting a call on his phone. Elliot had been intentionally vague about when he was arriving because he wanted a chance to get a handle on the city himself before going to his brother for help, to prove that Carlos didn't have to worry about his baby brother being in a new city, but......well, that was a mistake.]

H-hey Carlos....Can you talk right now?
twostringsonebow: (09 moments of calm)

[personal profile] twostringsonebow 2017-08-17 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
re: prompt 3! when replying to someone with video, i'm aware the person within the city will see the group 2 member's background as a blur; is the same in the case of the group 2 member towards the person within the city, or is it purely telepathic on their end?

... tl;dr would goro only hear the people talking to him in prompt 3 or can he too see them
evidentiary: pixiv 1442177 (STARTLED ► what was that now)

DRAGS SELF AWAY FROM NPCING

[personal profile] evidentiary 2017-08-17 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ did he know her when she was eighteen, two years ago, if so maybe he did. anyway, kyouko gives baren a sidelong glance.

this is a weird day, and a weird night, but at least there's a friend...even if she doesn't care for the place setting. ]


...Thank you. [ calm and cordial, before: ] ...This isn't how it went the first time around.
lastcomfort: (Default)

II

[personal profile] lastcomfort 2017-08-17 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ There is absolutely no explanation for her reflexes. Perhaps on a better day she might be able to catch it--you know, P.E. soft ball really prepares a girl for the trials and tribulations of catching monsters in the real world. Or maybe if she wasn't just exhausted from moving rubble and running for her life, she would have been able to dodge it. But no, not right now.

Orihime realizes that there's a shadow looming over her. She looks up, and-- ]


...Ah!

[ Yep. it hits her right on the head. This is some anime bullshit because she literally freezes and then falls over. And now it's dancing on her head.

Good job, John. ]
windeity: (CONFUSED ♫ what the fuck)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-08-17 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Sorry, Mako!!! Everything is weird about this place and he watches the Ball Monokuma fly off into the distance and get tangled up in the low branches of the tree.]

Sorry, dude! You okay? [He's concerned about the fact that he kicked it right into Mako's path but he's busy grinning a little because this is so surreal. All the same, his expression turns curious after that.] And..what is that thing anyway?
impulsives: (Shinn | !?)

III

[personal profile] impulsives 2017-08-17 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ The first thing Lelouch hears will be a string of slight curses, before it stops to. ]

God damn it, I must be going crazy from all this water around here. Couldn't have a Kandam related journey, NO, IT'S JUST FUCKING WATER EVERYWHERE.

[ ...uh, that might be a slightly familiar voice for Lelouch. ]
chaoticwhimsy: (Staring into your soul.)

For Lucy

[personal profile] chaoticwhimsy 2017-08-17 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Luna was finally heading back towards home, stepping off the bus, when the names appeared, floating words flashing in front of her eyes, enough to make her dizzy for a second, missing a step and stumbling off the bus to catch herself on a sign post. Well, that was embarrassing..]

[But as she steadied herself, the names didn't disappear, one after the other they flew by until it froze on one.]

[Lucy Takada.]

[It floated there, and suddenly there was a face and a voice and a history in her head. Her sister. Half-sister, really. Lucy...but...]

[And then, instead of just a name, there was a voice. In her head...]


...Lucy?

[She said the word and thought the word at the same time.]
imaginex: (♦ wut)

Sakura Matou | Fate/Stay Night

[personal profile] imaginex 2017-08-17 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
II

[That... that sure is a giant elephant she sees parading down the street on her way to work in the Tisse district, trunk twisted in the sky while it toots out a battle cry. As she stares wide-eyed and dumbfounded, Sakura considers the social faux pas of calling out on her fifth day of work, if this would be considered a state of emergency or if her employer would tell her to get her lazy Japanese ass over to the shop--

She turns, mystified, a question stumbling out of her mouth and at the first random person she sees:]


Um, is this normal?

[But regardless of the answer she gets, Sakura's attention gives a subtle shift behind you, stranger, at a ghostly figure streaking through the air with its tongue hanging out like a dog's. Pay no mind to the the girl immediately gasping and reaching for her phone camera, smiling like she just saw a puppy wagging its tail. THIS CANNOT GO WRONG AT ALL. ]

III

[Okay, okay, don't lose your head, Sakura. Getting distracted by adorable but potentially life-threatening monsters is a valid reason to be late for work, but seeing a scollbar of names and then hearing voices is grounds for getting checked into the hospital.

The stress of moving to the city must be wearing on her]


H-hello? [Unwise as it is to be standing two feet away from a busy street intersection, that's exactly where Sakura stops when a hologram pops up in front of her.]

Wildcard

[Throw anything at me, I'll roll with it.]
moneymoneymoney666: (gtfo of my house)

[personal profile] moneymoneymoney666 2017-08-17 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
"I mean this, monster attack nonsense that has sprung up. Specifically, we seem to be in a small minority of people capable of recognizing it. I wonder why that is."

[He'd lived in Recolle all his life, after all, and he definitely knew that monster attacks weren't a thing that happened. Yet many people were just, dismissing it offhand as an everyday occurrence. Which simply added further to the situation's abnormality.]
windeity: (PEEK ♫ over arms)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-08-17 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[He catches the ball once more and he pauses upon hearing his own name, turning further to face Dave instead. There's a quick glance over his shoulder as if he's looking for his name on his own back, but there's nothing. So he gives Dave a very blank look before there's a hint of a smile.]

Uh. Yeah. [???] Should you really be here?
missingache: ([74] To admire)

Roxas (AU Shiori Pu'uwai) | Kingdom Hearts

[personal profile] missingache 2017-08-17 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
II
[Since manual labor isn't really up Shiori's alley, he is good at getting information. This thing about monsters? It's a lot more interesting than trying to be part of a construction crew! Monsters! Real monsters! He may just be a little more excited than he should be.

So he's off trying to actually find some because what teenage boy wouldn't? Approaching the first person he sees, Shiori will gently tug on their sleeve.]


Have you seen any monsters?

III
[The list of names is interesting. There's a few that pique Shiori's interest, but of course there's one that stands out that he has to poke at. Cue a hologram and the blond looking utterly fascinated.]

Whoa! It's like in the movies!

[Go ahead. Talk. Make his day!]

IV
[Sleep happens just as Shiori sits down on a bench. When he wakes up, the scene in front of him is all too familiar. The farmer's market he's been to so many times. It looks just like the first time he remembers it. The smells, the noises, and the people. He stands and looks around, trying to see if he can find his favorite stands.]

I wonder...

[There's one stand in particular he wants to find as he weaves his way through the crowd, not really paying attention to whom he might just be bumping into.]

Wildcard
[Hit me with something if nothing appeals to you @[plurk.com profile] chromatus]
crudest: (♚ his face got messed up)

[personal profile] crudest 2017-08-17 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[maybe he did actually yeah given this timeline he probably did]

Mm, yeah, I had no reason to be at your prom.

[unless she had a date he felt like stabbing? but no, he probably was elsewhere. which means that he didn't get a chance for this? he offers a hand out to her]

How about a dance then?

[it's?? prom??? why not]
fiddlestick: (uh oh)

III

[personal profile] fiddlestick 2017-08-17 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Today's been a weird day. He just got to this city and it was....well, it was nothing like he expected. He didn't expect it to have so much rubble, or that there'd be monsters all over.

Also he didn't think there'd be...video chats without the actual screens? So when Haru's holographic pops up, he looks just as surprised to her]


O-Oh! Uh- hello!
windbreakin: (Social Media Icon)

I.

[personal profile] windbreakin 2017-08-17 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
No clue... But I know they ruined my favorite comic book store AND destroyed most of ReConvention's venue!

I just can't believe these monster have to ruin everything I love!

[Trust me, being an aspiring mangaka and comic book nerd can affect him a lot when it comes to these circumstances.]
windeity: (UNSURE ♫ nervous as fuck)

[personal profile] windeity 2017-08-17 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh my god why. He winces as he watches the Monokuma nail her right in the head and knock her flat, rushing back over as soon as it starts to dance on her.]

Hey, quit it! [He's going to pick up the Monokuma again and hold it up briefly before...you know. Dropkicking it. That can be someone else's problem now. Instead, he peers over Orihime to make sure she's still alive.]

Are you okay?
dieharding: (015)

II

[personal profile] dieharding 2017-08-17 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hey!

[Wow, that's a chirpy greeting from the young man ducking into this store. The way he slams the door shut behind him and his general state of disarray suggest maaaaybe he's run into a few monsters recently, but whatever! It's cool! He's fine!]

So, uh, you're still selling paintball guns, right?
goen: ((ↀ⌓ↀ))

III

[personal profile] goen 2017-08-17 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Welcome to one Yaboku Tomioka. I assume this is while they're still in the waiting room and also Yato is not a snake anymore. ]

... Hello? Who the hell is this.
parodeity: art credit unknown, please contact (THUMBS UP 🎧 sarcasm)

[personal profile] parodeity 2017-08-17 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's his dream, he can go where he wants to go?????

(why sports) ]


Why not? I'm the new team mascot. Or I was an hour or so ago. Go wildcats.

[ he has NO IDEA what the fuck to say to john so bullshit spews forth ]
lastcomfort: (Default)

I

[personal profile] lastcomfort 2017-08-17 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ Orihime blinks, looking up from her wheelbarrow of broken pieces of cement. It's a pile that's getting fairly high...probably too high for someone like her to move, but pile it she will.

She shakes her head. ]


It's strange...I think it was a couple weeks ago, but it's a little fuzzy.
geckoman: (The fuck...?)

[personal profile] geckoman 2017-08-17 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He glances up from his magazine. That's...a cheerful person. Iwai lifts a brow then shifts his lollipop to the other side of his mouth before looking back to his magazine.]

Depends on what you're planning to use it for.