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repeter2017-08-16 11:47 pm
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! |
Seren (Celine) | Magi: Adventures of Sinbad
[ Why does she have to do this? (Is she even getting paid?) Do they even know who she is? And even if they don't, do they think that she-- Celandine "Celine" Parthia, five foot four and delicate like a desert flower (or so she claims when it's convenient for her)-- can haul rocks around like some felon?!
Hardhat on her head and carring a rock that should be more difficult given her alleged frailty, she drops it in front of a newcomer. ]
Welcome to the impromptu Recollé Restoration Corp. Here's your complimentary starter rock.
II.
[ Fortunately for her, she attracted the very harmless Dragonfly Bunny Spirit during restoration lunch break. And why would she hurt this strange flying chimera? It isn't doing her any harm, it's just looking curiously at her slopilly made sandwich. ]
No, this is my sandwich. [ She tries to prod its forehead with her finger, but it cowers before she can. ] Cute.
[ The kind of cute that makes her want to bully it. ]
You know you can't rely on cute forever to get what you want, don't you?
wildcard.
[ Throws anything at me. My AU workshop comment is here, and you can hit me up at
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[ David looks at the rock at his feet, dropped there by a self-proclaimed fragile girl in hot pants. ]
Has anyone heard of a wheelbarrow?
[ But despite his whinging, David doesn't seem to have a problem picking up the rock, hefting it into his arms with practiced ease.
Not as bad as a full sandbag. ]
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Also wheelbarrows! He's smart. He's her wheelbarrow now. As soon as David gets to carrying her rock for her, she goes back to the pile to give him another one.
Get to it, human wheelbarrow. Chop chop. ]
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Easy enough! He decides in his head, hefting the rocks over his shoulders if only just to show off.
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Wait. ]
I'm not a wheelbarrow!
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[ Here, have another rock. ]
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He balances the third rock on a base created by the two he's already carrying, a pyramid of rocks growing in his arms, covering the bottom half of his face with their sheer rocky mass. ]
Stop loading me up like one, then!
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I'm not! It's just that you seem so capable.
[ She sighs ] But it seems like I was wrong about you.
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[ Your manipulations won't work on him here! Probably! ]
You're not even fluttering your eyelashes.
[ Give him some credit! ]
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Do I really have to?
[ She'll throw in a touch of his arm with the exaggerated fluttering of her eyelashes. ]
Pleeeeeeeeaaaase? [ know that she is mocking you so hard in her heart ]
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She's really doing it. She's really trying to flirt at him until he does the thing. After he suggested it himself. ]
You really went and did it.
[ iGNORE THE FACT THAT DAVID HAS NO IDEA HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS. ]
I guess if you're that desperate...
[ Still a sucker. ]
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Celine pulls back, tucks some stray hair behind her ear and smiles. ]
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He knows her game! Does that make it worse when he does what she wants anyway? ]
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And just to be polite about it, she'll even cover her mouth as she laughs. Softly. Like a lady. A lady who's laughing at a sucker. ]
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[His upper lip curls upward.]
...Can I get a refund on it?
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Still, better him than her. ]
Sorry. [ She says in the same professional tone one might use on an angry customer. ] But I don't make the rules here.
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[He scoffs, putting his foot onto the rock before he just...pushes it away. Or, at least, attempts to. He hasn't gotten much strength.]
Anyways, I say no. I'm not doing anything for you.
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It's my civic duty as an upstanding citizen of this city. [ She says proudly, not hiding how it's obviously bullshit ]
Very well. You're still keeping the rock.
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[He's being a stick in the mud and he knows it. There's just something nice about being so contrary.]
...You know I could just walk away and leave it here, right?
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So can I. [ In fact she bets that she can run away faster than he can, and leave him to get caught by the higher ups enforcing this stupid forced "voluntary" city clean up. Sure, he has longer legs. But look at him. He's so gloomy and wimpy. ]
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[Her next statement draws a shocked gasp from him.]
You wouldn't.
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Don't you?
[ She's already taking one small step back. ]
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[Who invented cities and filled them with people, like what the heck, who was behind that.]
[Now super conscious of himself, he's scraping at the back of his hand with his other hand, shoulders hunched, his mouth twisted in a nervous expression.]
P-Please don't get the wrong idea. I'm still not used to being outside so much...
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Of course you do, Mr. Writer. It's such an inspiring city.
[ Not that she, the non-artist would know. ]
You know, a lot of artists draw from real life experience. Maybe this could be that experience for you.
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But you have a point. The beach is nice. Puts me in the right mood for what I write about. Sometimes I like to imagine the Mayship sinking, it puts me in good spirits...
[WHO SAYS SOMETHING LIKE THAT]
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Also that's super weird. He's a weirdo. She'll play along in hopes of him being the weirdo who'll haul rocks for her. ]
Why so? [ Seriously, why. WHY. ] Is it because of how the water bubbled as the ship sank? [ Let's not just jump into the grotesque juuuuuuuuuust yet. ]
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