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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

[He taps his finger to the bridge of his glasses thoughtfully.]

They're still being formed, and they won't fully develop until I can find and hear from more 'awake' people. [But he wants to throw something out there as proof that his brain is thinking.] At the very least, it's clear that something must have been affecting our minds. Could it even be a mass drugging, on a city-wide scale...?

However, the trigger...I believe it might be something even stranger?

[ she means the retrospec app. ]

[He himself hasn't paid much mind to the app just yet. So he just looks towards her with muted curiosity.]

Even stranger than that? You've piqued my interest.

[That's his indication for her to continue. However strange it may be, it must have something to it if Kyouko is backing it.]

Have you checked your phone recently? There might be a new application.

[ as in: THERE IS ]

[A beleaguered sigh.]

I did notice earlier that some rubbish had found its way into my phone's memory. It somehow survived my first attempt to delete it... I'll have to give it a few points for tenacity, at the very least.

[He had meant to look up how to delete that app later, after the day was done with. But now that she's brought it up, he takes out his phone and tries to look at the app in question.]

Don't tell me that there's some sort of a clue in this waste of an app?

The people on the application seem to be speaking of all of this in...different terms than many in the city.

[ like it's not normal. like they all know it isn't normal. ]

[He follows what she's implying, and he quickly punctuates the thought.]

They know.

And because of that, you're saying that this may be the trigger after all.

[Byakuya looks back down at his phone to try to peruse the app, but it looks like it's in the middle of an update. He quickly gives an irritated sigh.]

At the very least, it has to be connected. It'd be too strange for them to be unconnected entirely, wouldn't it?

[ kyouko crosses her arms. ]

...I think we're going to have to look into things further.

Precisely. [He nods. There's a bit more warmth in his tone as he speaks to her than there would be when addressing someone outside of the family.]

You've come up with an interesting theory, but it's still just a theory. We'll have to do what we can to gather more information in order to test it, or to form better ones.

[He may not be any kind of Actual Investigator, but he's always enjoyed mysteries. As odd and frightening as the state of the city and of people's mental states are, it also feels a bit exciting to try to piece the puzzle together.]

An investigation perhaps best started away from these efforts...

[ ...

she just doesn't want to help clean, does she... ]

[He clicks his tongue and shoots a disgruntled glance towards the would-be recruiter.]

Of course. There's far too much unnecessary noise in this area that disrupt our focus.

Let's move on.

[Always eager to lead the way, Byakuya starts moving.]

Edited 2017-08-24 23:30 (UTC)

Of course...but what direction are you leading us in, exactly?

[ she follows her younger cousin regardless, but. ]

There happens to be a good cyber cafe nearby. Having some food in one's stomach can do wonders for keeping one focuses, and we can use the resources there to start conducting some research. We should look into that app and see what other information we can find about this city's abnormalities.

I have some spare time, so I'm not opposed to this plan...still, what sort of food does the cafe serve?

[ is this fast food. ]

Splendid. This is working out in our favor...

[He taps a finger against his glasses as they move forward.]

They have a basic variety of finger foods and sandwiches. It doesn't hold a candle to any of the big chains, but the food is filling enough to do the trick.

Mm...that sounds decent enough. And perhaps by then your phone will be done updating.

[ by the time they eat something she means. ]

It had better be, for its own sake! [He says as if his phone can hear him, affixing a glare towards it.]

With the money I've put into this mobile plan, a simple update shouldn't be taking anywhere near this long...!

Do you think perhaps that is part of the strangeness...?

That's a possibility... but it could just be the irrational whims of technology. Even a phone owned by me acts up from time to time.

[He pinches at the bridge of his nose in frustration. But then, his phone pings!]

It's about time.

Now you can check it for the app.

[ POSSIBLY AS THEY ARE SEATED ]

[They are indeed seated! This seems like one way to kill time while waiting to be waited on.]

Precisely. [He smirks confidently.] Let's see what this app is made of...

[There's a few moments of silence as he presses at some buttons.]

...What?! It wants me to choose one of those insipid filters for my picture. I swore that I'd never deface my own image like that! Are you sure that this app has any value whatsoever?!

Odd...it didn't request I do anything of the sort. Perhaps just...choose the least questionable option?

It seems I have no choice...

[He sighs again as he makes a selection. Then, he gets into the app!

But now, it also looks like there's a flower crown nestled in his hair.]

There. I'll just figure out how to change it soon, before people start to see an image of me looking that ridiculous!

[ ................EYEING HIS HEAD SUDDENLY. ]

Byakuya...do you carry a pocket mirror?

[He rolls his eyes.]

I'm not nearly so vain as to carry something like that around. ...Why do you ask?

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