repeter | 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

Thanks. I think.

[Eleanor looked up at the weather again, then shook her head and shrugged.]

Haven't a clue. Freya made me lay down to get some sleep and then...

[She gestured.]

And then I was here. Am here. Unless this is a dream, I suppose.

It may be a dream since I haven't been to this place in a while. And if you were falling asleep before this. Who's Freya?

A friend of mine. I think. It's been a weird few weeks. [Eleanor grinned sheepishly.]

See, I'd say dream, that would make sense. But I already woke up in a mine and then wound up in a swamp and I'm pretty sure those aren't dreams so...

Who knows.

Baseball field might be next. Sounds nicer anyway. [Hm.] Do baseball locker rooms have showers?

[She probably smells like swamp.]

Things would be pretty disgusting if they did not. Locker rooms are back that way. [A wave behind her past the field.]

Back up though. How do you go from a mine to a swamp?

We found a way out? I guess the mine was in the swamp? Or...the swamp grew up around the mine. The buildings make it feel like it used to be something else, maybe?

[She looks in the direction he gestures, then sighs.]

I suppose it wouldn't make much sense to shower in a dream and just wake up dirty, would it.

Probably the former since they could build under the ground, I'm guessing. But I do not really know how mines work. Or out-of-range swamps. [Shrug.]

Even if it doesn't make sense, who knows how long you'll be here? It might be warmer inside the locker room at least for whenever the rain kicks in. I am pretty sure things stopped really "making sense" the minute you showed up somewhere you weren't supposed to anyway.

Me either. I'm guessing from like, half a semester of geography.

[She chuckled to herself.]

You're right. But I always want things to make sense. Even if they clearly can't. [She hesitated, looking towards the locker room again. Hmm...]

Oh. Well, if this is a dream and doesn't matter, I'm Eleanor, by the way. Guess it can't hurt to tell dream boys my name. [She paused, then looked just a tad flustered.] Boys from dreams. Not...never mind.

You ever think that sense is overrated though? [But he can see her glancing and he moves finally, gesturing for her to follow.] We can probably beat the rain. I assume memory rain is still cold and I'm not really excited to relive that.

[He can't help when he cracks a grin though. It's oddly endearing to hear that.] John. Stick around long enough and maybe you will meet other dream boys? I have no idea how this works.

Nope. There's an order to everything. It's supposed to make sense. Just because we don't understand it, doesn't mean it doesn't.

[Eleanor said this very matter-of-factly, but maybe there was some uncertainty there...]

I don't think I need a bunch of dream boys, thanks. Hm. [She walked closer to him suddenly, and reached out to touch his shoulder.]

Well, at least I'm not hallucinating.

You mean as long as it makes sense to someone? I think that is called a loophole since I don't care if it makes sense to other people but not me.

[He allows himself to bend back a little when she touches his shoulder, not at all surprised to find she's more real than he initially anticipated.]

Are hallucinations a thing you deal with a lot or...?

Depends on what you mean. There's this thing that makes us...see things. Memories? But they aren't ours. But they feel like ours...

[Eleanor didn't know why she was bothering to explain, it wasn't like he'd remember, unless he wound up on the network.]

I've started taking everything with a grain of salt because of that.

I think I would, too. But sorry. That definitely sounds like a pain in the ass. [Onward and walking, though as they move it appears that the dream is becoming a little fuzzier and harder to stick.] On the other hand, I try not to disbelieve too much either just in case. You never know.

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