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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?

I.
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?

IV.
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

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[He had originally just intended to participate in one of the games. But then someone had needed to go get lunch... and then study... and then something else...Rean couldn't really help be feel like he was being taken advantage of, and yet here he is, manning one of the booths like a chump. At least he took a pumpkin and is working on it. He's not showing anyone though. He's actually in the middle of turning away someone who just finished playing, when they asked to see it. Very secrative.]

Ah, well. Y'know, it's not done yet. Maybe when it is.

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[Rean finally escaped his..."volunteer" work later in the day, and tried to go about his business. Then he encountered a ghost.

...At least, that has to be what happened. Cause at the moment Rean is standing firmly in the middle of the side walk, and behind him said ghost. He refuses to look at it. It keeps hovering around him, and he keeps looking away. It is a completely ridiculous and almost certainly pointless battle of attrition, yet it is one he seems absolutely intent on winning.

Please help.]

[Elliot was at the terrace because it was part of his ReVA duties to help with these events. But really, even if he wasn't on the clock, he'd likely would've come to check out the festivities. It was nice that this town held events like this. Even though this was a huge city, it made it feel more like a community.

Being the intern, he was told by the higher-up volunteers that they had a "new volunteer" helping with running a booth today, and to run supplies over to him. If Elliot found it strange that a new volunteer sprung out of nowhere, he didn't question it. Instead he just grabbed the box of supplies (small candies, paint, etc) and hauled it over.

Except when he got close enough to see who the "new volunteer" was? He freezes and stares with a deer in the headlights look. Holy frick - it was a guy from the memories he's been getting. There was no mistake. How? No one told him this could--

But Elliot stands staring a bit too long, as some rather excited kids go running by and plow right into him- or rather, shoving him aside as they run passed. He yelps as he goes crashing to the ground. The box of supplies goes falling out of his hands and tumbles to the ground too, contents spilling out.

Welp.]

[Rean was in the middle of pondering how he got stuck here when Elliot showed up.

He knew supplies were coming (the same call that old him asked him to stay longer, something he got cut off on before he could say anything.) so he cranes his head over to look.]

Ah, hey, watch o-

[Crash.

Rean winces and leaves the table to come help them gather up. Of course he makes sure they're okay first, kneeling.]

Ah, man, kids get a little too excited, don't they?

[Elliot's fine, luckily. The only bruise he'll get his to his dignity. He'll try to play it cool though, even if internally he feel something closer to this. But let's face it, that's Elliot every day so that's hardly new.]

Haha, y-yeah. Why are we giving them sugar again...?

[He'll start gathering them them up, noticing that Rean's helping]

Oh, thanks.

[Rean can't talk about dignity his keeps being stolen by the people around him.]

It's no problem. These are for me anyway right? It only makes sense for me to help.

[Which raises the question of how he got into this position, but.]

Oh. Haha, right.

[He'll shove a few more candies back into the box, then smile at Rean]

Uh, you're the new guy, right? [Sounds a lot more permanent than just a single booth. What did they tell him] I'm Elliot Craig.

Iiiii mean, I'm helping? [Is he that much of a pushover they're counting on him forever? Is that really where we're at?]

Ah, Schneider. [Wait no, that's too formal.] I mean. Rean. Rean. I'm Rean. Rean. Schneider is, it's my last name.

[A+ introduction.]

[Lbr: probably.]

Ahaha...so Rean Scheneider then?

Yes, that.

[Thanks for tolerating his babbling.]

Thanks for the supplies, too. I was starting to run low.

Rean Schwarzer/Trails of Cold Steel

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