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recollecters) wrote in repeter2017-10-17 08:38 pm
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OCTOBER TDM
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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! |
Kenshin Himura | some samurai show
[ He should be doing something a little more productive with his time, like sleep or catching up on the latest medical journals or maybe getting a hair cut, but no, the moment he saw the pumpkins, he had to make a couple. Ken already finished one and now he was working on another one, humming away as he sliced and thinned out unwanted pumpkin stuff to make the design. Finished, this pumpkin is handed over to a kid and he flopped back, not caring that the rind and pumpkin bits were sticking to his hair or his rather worn scrub pants he was wearing. ]
Ah, isn't this relaxing? [ There was a small hair pulling fight between two kids no more then three feet away from and his just is grinning like it's the cutest thing ever. ] So relaxing, right?
II - My House
[ Haunted houses have all sorts of stuff in them - people jumping out to scare others, moving walls, floating weird glowy things, doctors in blood-stained clothing walking casually through the house humming. No, wait, he's not one of the jump scares. No, this guy is an actual doctor just off his shift and had decided that nothing beats relaxation than wandering around with people trying to scare him. He already attempted to correct the grip of one of the jump-scares that was holding a knife and now he was tapping the mirrors and frowning. ]
Do you think they're using real glass instead of something less breakable? [ No, he isn't noticing that the walls are moving. Someone help this poor idiot before he gets squished. ]
Bonus - Who Can It Be Now?
[ He had been planning on grabbing a coffee and hang out with a few friends from work, but then the new app appeared on his phone and he couldn't stop it from sounding off. Especially since it seems to have gotten stuck on a high pitch witch's shriek. ]
Am I going to need to get a new phone? [ Another witch's scream and Ken squints at the phone's screen. ] Oro?
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And don't let anyone tell you that pumpkin carving isn't art.
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[ He may not be a surgeon but well a scalpel was a scalpel and he had spent a long time craving things up. At least pumpkins didn't scream or move around when he was working on them. ]
I never thought about it being an art form.
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II
Um--
[O-oh god, and now the wall is moving but he is not moving, does he know what happens to squishy humans when they get caught in malfunctions? It's not her policy to grab people, Japanese sensibilities and all, but Sakura yelps and pulls whatever part of his sleeve isn't stained with bl..oo..d...]
The walls, sir...
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[ He looked over at her, blinking for a moment before he actually registers the comment. He looked at the wall which was now even closer to his face. Then with a yelp, he jumps back, hits the opposite wall, got his feet steady under him and grabs at her hand even as he heads for what might be the nearest exit. ]
Walls aren't meant to squish people!
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They're not, but I assure you it's just a trick...!
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He notices a guy in scrubs with long hair doing intricate carvings on a pumpkin. He admires it for a second, then goes back to working on his own pumpkin. He really wouldn't have the patience to do something so intricate. He only looks up again when he hears the man talk to him.]
Huh? Uh, yeah. You're not going to make one for yourself?
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[ He looked over at the guy, noticed that he wasn't being messy and went back to his listening to the children
scream and fightplay. He should try another pumpkin but right now he just wanted to recharge and relax and not think about work. ]I don't know. It isn't like I remember if I have a place to put one right now.
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Depending on what kind of place you live,there's your front porch, a balcony, somewhere in your yard. I'm sure you could find a place. Mine, will be going on my front porch.
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Can I look at it?
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[ Looking up from the crazy little dancing candy corn game that is on his phone screen, he squints at her and then shrugs. No one else seemed to be bothered by the sound and if she could fix it, well, it wasn't like this was an important phone with all his stuff on it. ]
Sure, I guess you can. [ And there is a phone being handed to her. ]
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There! Much better. Here, you can keep playing the game now.