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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 actually just want the dream-food, to be honest?

[ IT'S BEEN. A WHILE. so he will follow towards the kitchen. ]

But I can entirely be down with a pillow fort? But okay, dude, what wild antics do you want to get up to in an off-course dream?

I mean the food we have here is pretty sweet, so I can't blame you. [The kitchen is a standard modern-house kitchen, white appliances and lots of baking tools and what appears to be a clear cookie jar filled with chocolate chip cookies.] There's probably juice and other leftovers in the fridge. Help yourself? I am not sure it matters if this is a dream or a memory or--I guess this is a dream now since we are going way off-course.

[With that, he's also hopping up onto the counter to watch Dave, reaching behind him to rummage in the cabinets for something.]

Usually my dreams are bullshit and filled with weirder bullshit. Are you sure you want my answer? And anyway you're technically the guest here. Technically. I think this is the part where I say "I'm hosting you so it is up to you."

I wouldn't ask if I didn't want your answer. I mean, yeah, maybe I would if the circumstances were otherwise, but those particular exceptions do not apply right now. You have a dream world to wander around, where's your immediate first desire to hit up, go.

[ honestly dave's just looking for aj in the fridge, although he will open up the cookie jar after he raids the fridge and like, take one. for someone who claimed to want to eat something dream-real, this is still not a lot of food. it's a dream, why won't you splurge dave ]

Immediate desire is a pier downtown to see if the seals are out today, but I do not think that's something to venture out into this weather. If we're talking non-sensical then I would say maybe...I don't know. Space? Flying to another planet? That would be kind of cool.

[He finds what appears to be a box of crackers and while Dave has a cookie he's going to eat those.]

Ugh. Depends on the other planet, and also the space? If I had to pick, I'd pick this shit.

[ gestures around with his cookie as he leans against the counter. ]

You know, normalcy.

And what exactly is so great about normalcy? It sounds pretty boring to me if you are just living this day to day bullshit. Guess I've always just wanted something different.

You've never considered what a lack of normalcy might entail. [ then or now, apparently. dave manages half a cookie before stopping and just setting it aside, tearing off some paper towel to sit under it to avoid dream crumbs. ] Most people do not.

Are you saying that you've experienced such a thing? Or are you trying to be some weird dream-mentor-spirit-guide with words of wisdom?

I'm your dream-mentor-spirit guide, dude. By definition normality is not a thing I encounter as I wander the spirit realms mentoring giant doofuses with an inexplicable fondness for sports?

--did you seriously just call me a giant doofus in my own dream?

Man, your subconscious sure has opinions on your cool factor, huh? As in, you don't got one.

Yeah, I know. [Weirdly he's okay with that and he's putting away the crackers.] What else you got? I'll wait.

Are you askin' me to insult you?

Not exactly! I am interested in what you would have to say as my dream mentor guide thing. That's all.

[ REMEMBER ME, SIMBA? ]

I would tell you that you should take up carpentry.

And why exactly would I need to do that? I'm not great with arts and crafts, dude.

Because Ikea furniture basically requires a carpentry degree?

Yeah but I don't care about Ikea and my furniture is fine. [He looks out the window in the kitchen, shaking his head as he looks at the rain pouring in the backyard.] Some guide you are.

[ dave rolls his eyes, and looks at his juice box. ]

You're better at things than you think you are. [ abruptly. spirit guide, right? okay. ] You never think about it, or you estimate yourself wrong. But you're a better person than you bother to consider, because I don't think you really give a shit about that in the sense that you've ever agonized over what kind of person you are. And you're just...better. At things you do. Than you think you are.

So, don't let your subconscious be so hard on yourself, idiot.

[For a second he doesn't say anything and instead he simply stares at Dave. Whatever Dave's said, something about that seems to hit him and he doesn't respond immediately. There's a hint of a smile but he doesn't respond immediately even so.]

Yeah. I will get right on that and tell my subconscious to fuck off every now and then.

[ like. he was speaking to the john egbert he knows. but there has to be a little overlap, doesn't there? ]

Not the portion of it that is me, hopefully, because I am way too awesome to be told to fuck off.

[There's definitely overlap even if Dave doesn't know it yet, even if Dave won't see it for some time. There's overlap and there's something that speaks to the John Egbert he remembers because, at their core, they're the same, aren't they?]

If I wanted you to fuck off I would have told you to fuck off already. So...you can stay for now.

Couldn't leave you if I tried.

[ it's not like he had a whole lot of luck cutting other people out, either. ]

Other advice: talk about sports less.

Okay then. Stay however long you want. But I don't even talk about sports that much?

"Some" is way more than anyone ever needs to?

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