repeter | OCTOBER TDM

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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

i. family festival!

a. face painting.
[ as the resident kindergarten teacher in training, nazuna is an expert with arts and crafts, so he's the first one to dive in and volunteer to help. he's immediately shuffled to work with the little kids, so you can find him sitting cross legged on a colorful blanket, surrounded by paints and paintbrushes, and most of all, surrounded by children. there's a whole horde of adoring little kids around him, and it seems like he can't get a break, but nazuna is clearly loving it.

niichan!, the kids are chorusing, jumping all over him and climbing in his lap, and nazuna is wielding his paintbrush like a pro, moving from person to person decorating faces with jack o lanterns, bats, princess sparkles and just about anything the kids will ask for. he's running low on red paint from all the spidermans, and nazuna looks up at you when you pass by. ] Hey--could you help me out?

b. face paint, round two.
[ once the horde of kids have gone off with their parents, nazuna sits back on his blanket, admiring his creations as they go wandering from place to place, occasionally waving at them when they walk by. nazuna's face is painted, too--he has a tiny little rabbit nose and whiskers, pink cheeks and a heart near his eye, and if you come to approach him, he holds up his paintbrush, tongue sticking out of his mouth, one eye winked shut as if he's admiring a masterpiece. ] What, do you want a turn~? Don't worry, nii-chan's a master artist. ★

iii.

[ nazuna doesn't scare easily. he swears! he's never scared easily in his life. it's important that he's the strong one!! with so many little siblings, he's usually busy trying to hoard them together and keep them out of trouble. but, he's going through the haunted house by himself to vet it for his younger brother (make sure it's not too scary, nii-chan!) and, though things seem fine, when the walls start closing in, nazuna panics--he's going to get crushed--!!

--right up until the slide opens up. there's a loud, girly scream as he drops into the basement, and nazuna falls off the end of the slide, rubbing his butt with his eyes closed. ] Ow, ow...

[ he opens his eyes--and there's a rubber spider right there. he shrieks and tumbles backwards. ] Ahhh--!! No, nonono, t'shcary, t'shcary, no!!

[ it seems like in his fright, he's forgotten how to speak straight. ]

WILDCARD.

[ if you have any plans you'd like to make with nazuna, feel free to! or, shoot me a pm for plotting!! ]

Edited 2017-10-18 12:29 (UTC)

[ To be fair, most people would be screaming unintelligibly when deposited down an entire floor into the darkness, so the fact that Minato can pick out some words in all of that has to walking towards the source of the noise instead of away. He's been down here for some time now, having given up on looking for a way out of the haunted house, and instead has been directing people out of the one exit to this first room to get lost in the rest of the building. ]

...Hey.

[ He kneels down in front of Nazuna, and keeps his voice low so that Nazuna will have to quiet down too to hear what he's saying. ]

[ girly squeal and shriek aside, nazuna mostly just looks totally terrified in the general direction of this creepy basement, and startled when someone approaches him. he even yelps, a little, but stops when he figures out it's not a costumed actor or something equally horrible. ]

Wha jutht h'ppened?! [ yeah that stutter is not going away any time soon. ] Whereth thith plathe--who're you?!

[ His ability to understand is quickly breaking down, but the very last question is one that comes through loud and clear. He shakes his head at the rest of it all, and then offers what he hopes would be helpful:

silence, actually, at first. Because what good is knowing his name, or that he's a student, or somebody who hasn't even lived in Recollé for two whole weeks yet and therefore has no idea about anything? He thinks a little harder. ]

Your guide. We'll find the way out.

[ And what he comes up with is a lie, but whatever, maybe this will help calm Nazuna downn. ]

nazuna nito | ensemble stars!

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you know what tf is up

izumichin ;`A:

nazunyan :)

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Ib. I'M FINALLY HERE SENPAI

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