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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.

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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.

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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

((workshop comment here! tl;dr Xiaolang is a 13 year old AP/Honor student from a rich, influential family in Hong Kong, who is much too serious, very into science, and socially awkward (also on the verge of developing a huge crush on Sakura WHOOPS) so please help this child chill a little))

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[The costume contest over at Flix doesn't start for a few hours, so Xiaolang's killing time at the pumpkin carving booth, eyebrow furrowed and attention entirely fixed to hollowing a decently sized gourd in front of him. After all, if he wants to be a better at engineering, he's got to hone his creative skills a bit, right? And it's not like he's entirely bad at handling knives or crafting things in general.

But... well...

Maybe he should have picked a costume with more hand dexterity before giving this a go. (The children occasionally running over to him to pull on his tail doesn't help either) Someone maybe give him a hand? Literally?]

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[The costume contest was a complete bust (seriously, how could they not pick his werewolf costume? It was GREAT), but the night is still young, and Xiaolang is wandering the streets of Tisse, debating on what to do. Going home was probably the best option-- he had at least two essays that needed to be finished, as well as doing more test runs on his science club project-- but there was something magical in the air tonight, something that insisted to stay, and that indecision is clear in his eyes as they fall upon the Haunted House nearby. Do you want to be the person to push him in? (Also, literally, if possible?)]

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[So either you managed to get him in there, or some impatient person outside has shoved him in, but Xiaolang is looking wholly unimpressed by layout, taking everything in with a critical eye and muttering half to himself.]

This is supposed to be spooky? What's so scary about a bunch of mirrors and some fog anyway?

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[Maybe he spoke too soon. As soon as the walls begin to grind and close in, he holds out a hand (or a paw... depends on if he's actually gotten those darn mitts off yet), eyes determined but his voice with a touch of panic.]

C'mon, we've got to get out of here!

[Whether you take his hand or not, he bolts, trying to get to the exit, except... he's just a hair too late, and he tumbles down the trap door, possibly dragging you down with him. OOPS. The dust clears and Xiaolang struggles to sit back up, prying a squishy spider off of his face.]

Ugh. I knew I should have just went home.

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[Xiaolang is in his usual haunt, the Recolle public library, and he's deep at work, writing pages of notes and checking the piles of books he has hoarded around him. He's so absorbed in his studies, he barely notices the spirit who sneaks up behind him, until they reach over and shove the huge pile of books to the floor, landing with a cacophonous thud, much to his surprise and anger.]

HEY! JUST WHAT IN THE HECK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!

[It's not until a moment later that realization dawns upon Xiaolang's face, and his face turns a shade very close to crimson. Someone please just bury him in these books now, please.]

WILDCARD

[I'm up for anything if you got an idea for it!! Ping me over at

Urameshi if you want to plot some stuff out!]

Hi!

[ The rather cheery voice that pipes out of almost scenic nowhere is none other than Mio who makes the attempt to tackle hug him. It's not a push into the house just yet, but latching onto him is close enough, right? ]

You look like you want to go into the haunted house. Maybe you can go with your big sis [ even if they're not related ] and cling onto her if you get really scared. ☆

[Tackle hug is effective! Enough so that he nearly topples over in surprise, nearly hitting one or two bystanders with his furry gloves before attempting to regain his footing.]

Gwah...! M-Mio! Be careful, I could've fell into someone!

[But living with four (overly excitable) older sisters for twelve years has given him some experience in handling situations like these, and he attempts (in possible vain) to extract himself from Mio's grip. There is, however, a withering stare in response to her last comment.]

You're being the clingy one, you know. I doubt there's anything THAT scary in a gaudy looking place like this.

[A shriek from inside fills the air, followed by a round of giggles and laughter, and his eyes travel back to it, unsure.]

I mean... what can they even put in there, anyway?

[ Thankfully for him, she easily takes a hop back after letting go as she raises her hands in the air in what seems to be a mixture of a carefree gesture. It's okay, she's got this, apparently. ]

But it's totally fine because you didn't. ☆

[ Not that she cared too much either way in the face of everything. But if he's going to go that route... ]

I'm not clingy because I'm scared, though! Scary things like these don't actually scare me.

[ Mio is the embodiment of no fear, apparently. But since he's asking what could be in the haunted house, it's time to get serious. Serious trolling, that is. ]

But if you really want to know, I heard that in there, someone found a wax corpse of their friend. They laughed at it, said it was very funny and a good joke... at least, until the thing started to move and talk. The person thought it was just their friend playing a prank on them, so they ran out of the haunted house. But then they found out something. [ A dramatic pause, for effect. ] That their friend wasn't in the haunted house at all! But if that was the case... then how did the wax figure move and talk so smoothly? People say that it's cursed, because of that, along with many other tales that I've heard.

[ Sounds ominous. ]

But that's why I want to go and prove them all wrong!

[He just crosses his arms and sighes, a slight scowl upon his face.]

Should the future head of a family really be talking like that? Your parents would be horrified.

[His words are blunt, but the tone of his voice implies this has been something he's said many times before, so it's more like a gentle chiding than a real criticism. Mio's been good to him, keeping an eye out for him ever since he arrived to Recolle, but man, did his mother ever get the wrong idea about her.

But as Mio launches into her tale about the haunted house, the serious look on his face begins to drop, slowly but surely, and the color blanches out of his skin at her dramatic pause. But the time she finishes up her tale, she has him hook, line, and sinker, and he looks both concerned and more than a touch curious.]

Yeah, it could be an animatronic or something, right? Maybe the friend was in on it, and it was all a joke? I mean... things don't really get cursed, right? That's all superstition. [BUT HE SURE LOOKS LIKE HE BELIEVES IT, THANKS MIO.]

Syaoran Li | Cardcaptor Sakura

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