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OCTOBER TDM

TEST DRIVE

OCTOBER TEST DRIVE
The city of Recollé...

When the crypt doors creak, and the tombstones quake, spooks come out for a singing wake. Happy haunts materialize and begin to vocalize...grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize...

Every year during the Halloween season, the city of Recollé comes to life with plenty of fall activities for everyone. There's something to do in every district if one were to take a look.

What will you do today?

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Family fun seems to be the theme today over in Tribunal Terrace. Several tables are set up and in a semi-circle near Recollé Square with stacks of pumpkins, carving tools, paint and anything else you may need to create your own jack o'lantern. Other stations are set up for face-painting and games to win mini-sized candy bars including a ring toss, bowling, and bobbing for apples. Be careful with the apples though. They like to wiggle and jiggle with their happy little faces staring up out of the water.

...so maybe apple-bobbing is for the brave at heart. Are you the artsy type to carve a beautiful pumpkin? Are you helping to run the games (or even cheating to get more candy)? It's time to relax and let your creativity flow.

II.
Pumpkin-carving not your speed? Never fear, horror is here. Over in Tisse there's plenty to do for those looking for a little more adventure. Several coffee shops have harvest specials made with pumpkin, maple, and pecan flavors. Over at Flix a monster movie marathon and costume contest are taking place (with a prize of two free passes for the best monster costumes.) But the highlight of this district is the annual haunted funhouse.

Anyone daring enough will find the usual spooks and scares in a haunted house, jump scares and fog machines galore. But...the house certainly didn't look so big from the outside. How did you possibly get shuffled straight to the center? No worries. This hall of mirrors will guide you out safely...if the walls closing in don't crush you first. It's a race against time as the halls narrow, and if you're one of the lucky ones you'll escape and exit through the main doors.

For those not quite so lucky, the walls will stop just inches from crushing you completely before the floor drops open and you find yourself on a slide, falling through the dark and tumbling into an underground room filled with plastic skeletons, rubber spiders and more. There must be a way out, right? Hopefully you aren't alone and you can navigate the lair with a friend or two.

III.

Meanwhile, the rest of the city's usual hustle and bustle continues. The shopping districts are busy, students wander the sidewalks after class, and that oddly-shaped ghost appears right in the middle of the crowd.

Wait, what? You could have sworn that ghost wasn't there before. Maybe you don't even believe in ghosts. You may blink a few times to clear your vision, but the faint outline of the ghost remains as a few more of them pop up around the city. They won't speak, but they will cause some trouble for anyone who gets too close whether it's by playing pranks on passerbys, stealing items and running away, sitting on a person and applying a gravitational force so they can't move or other crafty, sneaky tactics.

Are the ghosts messing with you? Or are you going to find a way to mess with the ghosts?

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As the sun begins to set, a strange sort of fog rolls in. Several citizens of the city may not even think it's unusual and others seem to capitalize on the weather. The Churchhill Downs Stables are hosting their annual haunted hayrides through Recollé Woods as soon as the sun sets. There are plenty of carts and chocobos saddled up and ready to go.

Once passengers are seated the chocobos begin to trot forward into the woods as a pre-recorded ghost tour of the city takes place. The stories range from silly ones about two ghost children who like to play hide and seek in these woods to scarier ones about a jilted lover chasing her husband off a cliff at the edge of ocean. For the most part they're a bit cheesy and in good fun, but something about this haunted ride seems a bit...off. Peering into the fog you may see something strange that follows you, be it a monster or a shadow or an object. You may hear things whispering your name and you may see your greatest fear manifest right out of the fog and chase your cart through the woods. Even worse, it seems to follow you right out of the woods and back into the city. No matter where you run or where you hide, the fears from the fog will track you down and they change for every single person in the city.

Will you run or will you fight? You may wish to be careful since the creatures will fight back.

BONUS.
With only a few short weeks left until the end of October, Retrospec's Halloween Mode is in full swing and popping up on new users' devices. Retrospec users will find their application decked out in cheerful Halloween colors, and their userpics in a randomized (work safe) costume. However, there's always a trick to each treat and this time the seasonal mode can't be turned off for new users. Notifications chime with zombie groans, a rousing game of Candy Crush must be played and beaten before you can use your device again, and the new Trick or Treat function has a few upgrades. When a user enables this function, they will be met with the phrase "Trick or Treat?" Users who select "treat" will get one virtual candy! Yay! The catch though is that they will also find themselves in a costume representing that specific candy.

Should a user pick "trick", however, they will find all sorts of harmless but unpleasant things happening to them including but not limited to pranks, being splashed by vehicles driving through puddles of water, being unable to speak in anything but rhymes and other such things. None of these effects last over ten minutes, but the game will show up periodically over and over again and even giving you the option to play the game with others.

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 current players, TDM threads will not count toward your Trick or Treat freebie! Additionally, please remember that TDM threads can only be used for bonus points, not regains.

Please note: you will need a reserve to apply, and current characters must have full AC posted at the time of their reservation.

Your October 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

★ OPTION I.

[ Mio, as she's called here in Recolle is always down for a little family fun, regardless of whether or not she's actually doing things with her family — like her cute little sister, Kotone (although she'd argue that she's the cuter sister, really) because she's here to have some fun! It's a little different than what she has to do on a day to day basis as the heir of the Sonozaki family, after all.

Without a care in the world, she opts to quickly grab the the first arm that she can find and ask a rather innocent question with the biggest, most innocent grin that she can muster up: ]

[ But if you're Kotone, you'll probably get a completely different set of lines - specifically "let's go boy hunting! ♥" because that's definitely A Thing - although she's still planning on dragging her around regardless if she does find her for good family fun. She's here for this, as the good older sister she is.

Don't trust her. Especially considering that she's hyper competitive and plays to win. ]

★ OPTION III.

[ Mio's not one for ghosts, so seeing that causes her to pause, but she doesn't exactly flinch; she was never overly religious, even when there were some who believed in the occult. But the fact that they're causing a little bit of mischief is not how she wanted things to turn out for her today, but she doesn't want to deal with doing something about it herself...

So she goes for the next best option: to seek out some help.

Of course, the way she's doing that isn't exactly the most conventional, as she screams out: ]

Someoooone

[ Surely someone is bound to come and rescue her if she acts like the cute and innocent girl that she is, right? In fact, she'll even double down on it as she plays up the act with crocodile tears, a clear and evident pout, and her hand near her lips, slightly trembling. ]

★ OPTION BONUS ( TRICK ).

strange

[ Mio can't help but stare at the application that's suddenly wormed its way into her phone, wondering what she should do with the new strange application she's got, and honestly? She doesn't think that picking trick will be that bad.

What's the worst that could happen?

Of course 'the worst' is proven soon enough as she eventually gets splashed with water, causing the nice white dress to get completely wet to the point where people might be able to see through it a little bit. Rest in pieces... ]

Gross

[ She manages to say that with quite a bit of disgust, shaking her fists in the air as her brows scrunch. ]

[ Mio sighs, a little self deprecating. ]

[ And that's when she realizes that she's rhyming. Ah. ]

[ She points at a random stranger - is it you? - looking at them with frantic eyes. ]

[ Good luck having to deal with all of this. ]

★ OPTION BONUS ( TREAT ).

[ Curiosity killed the cat, or so they say. If the 'trick' was bad, then clearly the option for 'treat' should be better, right?

The answer is no, of course. But what probably doesn't help is that somehow, you're stuck with her in a costume. That's happening now. You're welcome. ]

[ Her face is so red as she struggles to get the costume off and ultimately failing. ]

★ OPTION WILDCARD

[ Anything else you'd like to play? Feel free to hit me up here or at

endlesseight! Also, you can find her AU workshop information here if you'd like to establish any sort of CR beforehand, but I'm pretty cool with whatever, really. ]

Edited 2017-10-18 04:47 (UTC)

Hm?

[ majima's a little surprised to be grabbed by this girl out of the blue, but he nods all the same. he's pretty much down for whatever when it comes to Random Things In Recolle. like when they all played bingo over retrospec, which was great. but, also, generally, he's a helpful guy.

(#videogameprotagsproblems)

still there's something about the way she phrases it and he shakes his hand over that last bit ]

Don't put it like that, sounds fuckin' creepy. How old are ya? 12?

[ im not really sure whats worse - that he's so wildly wrong about her age, or that he'd be willing to say fuck even assuming she's 12. ]

Do I look twelve to you, sir?

[ She gives him a rather scrutinizing look for a moment before she's all smiles, even though there's just something about the grin that looks like she's tempted to snap a man's arm off. Although she keeps her tone airy and polite. ]

I'm seventeen, first of all, and I'm not the one who's making it creepy. That's all on you. [ Mio laughs, however. ] Although it is almost Halloween, so if you really wanted creepy... I wouldn't mind providing that, too. ☆

[ how does he keep hearing the stars in her speech what the heck. he sighs!!! heavily!! ]

Forget it -- what didya wanna do in the first place?

[ We just don't know... but it's somehow there as she finds herself giggling a little more in amusement. ]

Hmm, that's the hard part, isn't it? There's just so much to choose from! Are you any good at bowling?

shion sonozaki ★ higurashi no naku koro ni

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