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recollecters) wrote in repeter2017-08-16 11:47 pm
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AUGUST TDM
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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! |
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More than that, when Sakura speaks up, he looks around, behind him, up- anything to find the source of the noise. While Sakura can see him, he can't see her at all, and holds his head a little, as if that will solve the mysteries of the universe or somehow make things make sense.]
No, there's no one else in here, there's no way, and besides- well, if I could get psychic energy blades, maybe this is just another part of the psychic package? Or maybe I'm just losing it, and-
Wait a minute, if I'm not losing it, then-
[He starts darting his head back and forth again and tries to focus his thoughts, to varying degrees of success.]
Uh, hello? Are you an actual person? ...You're not some vengeful temple god, are you?
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Are you alright?
[Strikeout for that vengeful god part. She sounds timid and worried, not much older than the boy, if he can tell. Her concern is two-fold: he can't see her, for one, and she can't keep her eyes off those bandages without the corner of her mouth pulling into a frown]
I mean-- Yes, I'm a person. My name's Sakura?
[...] Please tell me this isn't normal for this city.
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[Holy shit, maybe he is losing it. You know what? This is a welcome form of losing it. Yeah.]
I'm Silver. I uh, usually live in Recolle, but a bunch of monsters poured out of Recon, and before I knew it I was in a jungle. We found some old temple, though, and I found a pretty cool crown...
[He idly holds up a golden crown, then quickly shakes his head and moves on.]
But uh, what about you? I haven't talked to anyone in the city in weeks. Come on, tell me anything. Are you new here?
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And there are monsters in the city, still, but most of the people don't seem alarmed. I saw an elephant parading down the street...!
[In hindsight, that's kinda normal. Huh.]
-- Wait, but you're in a jungle, Silver-san? Recolle doesn't have any jungles surrounding it, I thought...
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[So he's finally got some contact with the real world, and now he's talking to some new people? Doesn't that usually happen around... Man, how long has it been?]
Welcome to Recolle, I guess. Crazy stuff happens, everyone thinks it's normal, I totally bet you forgot that the sky was blue until a while ago, right?
[If only he could show her all the green. Too bad his phone is dead, and that texts probably don't translate well over telepathy.]
Here I was hoping the monsters were gone by now. Don't be afraid to pick up a crowbar and hit one good if they get nasty with you.
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[Her might hear the soft shudder in her voice. Sakura learned a hard lesson about approaching ghosts, even if they were cute]
-- But wait, if you're not in the city or around it, just where are you?
[She's gonna go out on a limb and assume he didn't win a cruise here. Those bandages are pretty damning. And stranger or not, Sakura would feel horrid shrugging off his predicament like it meant nothing to her.]
[In a whisper:] ... Did a bear maul you?
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[That's strange... A familiar and not so happy thought occurs to him, and he quickly adds-]
I'm not making this stuff up, I promise. You believe me, don't you? I know this is a lot to take in, but...
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[She starts out slowly]
I'm seeing ghosts and elephants and this pink creature who changed shape when I got too close--
After all that, I don't have any reason not to believe you.
[Which isn't the most encouraging pep-talk, and Sakura tries to soften the words with her tone of voice]
And besides, I'm brand new here. If you were on the news, I probably wouldn't have noticed yet. But I promise to check. There must've been some word...