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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

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ooc: John Egbert is 18, will be brand new to the city and starting his first year of college! Friendly, chatty, and probably very confused. You can find my workshop comment at the bottom of these prompts, thanks!]

II.

[The fuck is this? What the fuck is this? He was just exiting the Recollé University Housing Department building when a Ball Monokuma rolls right across his path and begins to follow him. Glancing down at the ball, he begins to run across campus with the ball in hot pursuit, picking up old wrappers from energy bars and empty coffee cups to throw at the back of John's head. It's when he feels the vague slime of someone's old yogurt hit the back of his head that he finally turns.]

Hey! [And without warning he darts forward, bringing his leg back and…kicking…the Ball Monokuma in the face to send it sailing through the air. Does it land in your path? Are you concerned about the goop in his hair? It's a mystery.]

III.

[Walking from Apprassage back to Tisse shouldn't take long, but being new to the city and still not quite sure where he's going has some impact on John Egbert being lost. The moment he crosses the boundary line between the two districts though his vision whites out and a whole string of unfamiliar names roulette in front of him. Hearing the sound of someone else on the other end of the connection, he does the most intelligent thing possible.]

What? Sorry, I missed that.

IV.

[What a tiring day. Between fighting with the housing office in a losing battle and also just generally running around in the sun, John finds himself in Hollingberry Field seated on a bench with his head tipped back and his eyes closing…

…granted, not long after that, he finds himself back home in a different park. Walking along the baselines of the baseball diamond, he finds himself saying goodbye to the last of his teammates who were practicing and winds up alone. Picking up a baseball, he tosses it into the air repeatedly with a glove he doesn't remember having, walking further down the field before turning as soon as he spots someone new from the corner of his eye.]

It's going to rain in about five minutes. Just so you know.

Wildcard

[He can also be found wandering around the RU campus giving himself a self-guided tour, perusing different coffee shops and just exploring the city. For the dream prompt, I can also customize you something else if you'd like a different AU memory! If you have other ideas please feel free to hit me up on my plurk (

alternatively or his workshop comment here!]

[why would you do that, john. He's already injured, he thought he was free from further monster fights for at least a little bit, but no. John kicks the stupid monster right in his path, and this guy!!! has had!!! enough!!! of monster fights.

Like, seriously, this is just rude.]

Watch where you're aiming!

[and then he looks down at the stupid thing, and kicks it-- straight into a tree. He's still got some of those soccer skills. That didn't even require him to have to move his injured shoulder-- win-win.]

Edited 2017-08-17 04:30 (UTC)

[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?

Yeah, I'm fine. This is one of the easier monsters I've fought this week. [even though he's tired, he's going to try not to be a pointless asshole to this kid who... Looks like he's seen better days.]

It's nothing. But, uh, looks like it got you pretty good with something.

[it smells kind of bad, and it's white. There are so many ways that could go, really.]

Just stay away from the bigger ones, got it?

John Egbert | Homestuck

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