AUGUST TDM

[recollecters]

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!

Comments

I.

[selfloving]

[In complete contrast to the people taking pity on Ayano's situation, Jasmine seems completely pitiless when she comes over from her own operations, water bottle in hand.

She crouches down to get onto Ayano's bent-over level, offering the bottle with a flat expression. The gesture expresses whatever sympathy the expression and words don't, though whether they're enough compensation is debatable.

Though Jasmine would normally be willing to let Ayano complete her tantrum before intervening, time is of the essence here, so she presses the bottom of the bottle to her shoulder gently.] The longer we wait, the more work there'll be.

[kagepuro]

[Ayano looks over with a, frankly pathetic, whimper. Hesitantly, she grabs the water bottle and pulls it towards her chest, like an amorphous blob absorbing something into itself.]

But it's not my job...I didn't ask for this...[Whiiiiine.]

[selfloving]

[Ayano's response is even more pathetic than she was expecting, but Jasmine's face doesn't show any give at all. She does stay crouched down, however, and seems to be ready to deal with more whining.]

You live here, right? [It would be strange if they roped tourists into the task, she thinks, so that has to be it. And anyone who lives her would want to see it back in working order.]

[kagepuro]

I mean...yeah. I've lived here my whole life...[she wiggles her body around over the beam uncomfortably]

Can't my Dad just donate some money instead of having his daughter work for them...[and she'll kick her feet about for good measure.

[selfloving]

[Her instincts as an old sister make her almost reach out proactively, just to prevent Ayano from rolling into something dangerous or causing more damage without realizing it. Jasmine stops herself from making that kind of gesture just in time.]

Then you should be proud to make your home better. You're doing something to help everyone who lives here. [There's conviction in her voice, and she almost--barely--smiles.]

[kagepuro]

[Be the hero you always wished you could be vs be lazy because you're not cut out for manual labor

She's silent for a while as she sits at this difficult mental impasse.]

Maybe I can help in a different way....[Slowly, she flips herself around, mumbling quietly because even just getting out of the uncomfortable position she was in seems to wind her.]

Like...I can hand out lemonade...Or um...Sweep...?

This? [Points at the stubborn bolt on the steel beam.]

This is not something I am capable of....

[selfloving]

[Jasmine looks down at the bolt, completely immovable in its current position.]

A fair point. It's good that you can recognize the things you aren't able to do.

[She points to the water bottle, as long as it hasn't absorbed entirely into her person by now.] I was just distributing water for one of the foremen. Do you think that's in your skill set? [Even if it isn't quite as exciting as lemonade.]