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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

i;

Whoa whoa whoa-- Just hold on a second here, but what the hell happened?

[ Bolin is taking this opportunity to just… sling on his hard hat as he takes a minute to look around at all the destruction that went on. You’d think that his brother would have taken a moment or two to explain that the city was being destroyed by something? Is that really too much to ask?

He’s looking around, waiting for someone to fill him in when a member of the work crew passes him a tool to help spread some new concrete. He sighs, but he’s not done with asking questions. ]

A guy goes out of town for just a few months So like, is anyone going to explain?

[ anyone…. anyone… bueller….. ]

ii;

[ So maybe Bolin should have heeded the warnings that he shouldn’t wander around by himself. But no, he was a big boy and he can take care of himself! Besides, what’s the worse that could happen?

Apparently it’s a group of Lying Hablerie chasing him. ]

Look out! Coming through--!

[ someone should probably help him ]

iv.a;

--day to you!

[ Maybe a group of people loudly singing isn’t what you wanted when you’re tired, but that’s what you’re getting. It’s a small gathering, what looks like to be two parents and their children. There’s one child sitting behind a cake and he’s determinedly blowing out the six candles on the cake out. The parents are happily clapping and the younger brother is slowly… very slowly moving to sneak under the table.

Everyone else doesn’t notice, instead the mom is speaking to the older brother: ] “So, what did you wish for?”

[ and then a voice from next to you speaks up: ] Oh just wait, it gets good in about five minutes.

iv.b;

[ It’s… a rather stilted dinner. There’s two adults on one side of the dinner table and two children on the other. For all intents and purposes, it looks like it could be a family dinner, except the adults and the children don’t look related at all.

The younger child is trying to liven the mood a bit, talking about what he did in school during the day, but it’s pretty apparent that he’s just grasping at straws so that there’s some sort of noise happening at the table besides silverware scraping against plates and food being chewed. ]

“And then--”

“Bolin.” [ He’s interrupted by the “father”. ]

“Uh, yeah?”

“Would you tell Mako that it’s his turn to do the dishes tonight.”

“Oh. Right. Sure…” [ and he turns to speak to the older child in awkward and faltering Chinese. ]

--I remember this. [ and next to you looks like an older version of the younger child ]

wildcard

[ feel free to hit me up with something else if you want! I’m on plurk at

lycanroc also AU workshop thread as well ]

Edited 2017-08-18 03:29 (UTC)

[if he runs into one more fucking stormbird, he's going to lose it. He is so freaking tired of these damn monsters.

But then he sees them. And he sees his brother.

And brother protection syndrome comes into full force.]

Bo!

[alas, his arm is in a sling, so he's not gonna be the best help. But god damn it, he's going to try. He's got a knife and he ain't afraid to use it.]

Mako!

[ and be protected by brother syndrome rears it's head as bolin instantly changes course and makes a beeline for mako ]

We gotta get outta here!

[God damn it, he was done with monster hunting, but those fucking things are after his little bro. He looks at Bolin-- and you know what? He's got some questions that he needs answered.]

Got it-- just.

Give me a sec.

[sorry bro. He pulls out the knife that Maurice gave him, and he thinks he can make good use of it with those things.

And he's off]

Hey! Dumbasses! Over here!

[they pause-- and well. Mako looks like the easier target. They're switching targets now.]

[ THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF GETTING OUT OF HERE ]

Mako, what are you doing?!

[ Bolin takes all of five seconds to decide: escape and leave his brother alone to deal with those monsters or try and do something to help out his brother who is somehow injured and really there is going to be some questions that need to be answered here

Honestly, it's a no brainer. He looks around and finds a trash can lid. He picks it up and throws it at the closest one. ]

Hey, don't forget about me!

Bolin (Bolin Lou) | Legend of Korra

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