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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!

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i.

[Recollé U has some of the shittiest assignments this side of the Western Hemisphere. That's the only reason Sanji is has deigned to be here, running a bobbing for apples booth with all the interest of a library volunteer. He keeps his feet elevated and crossed on a chair he stole from the pumpkin carving tables, though if a kid approaches, he switches on a smile and straightens a little bit, gesturing to the side.]

Oi, go on. Try as many times as you want. Though, uh-- [With the hint of a smirk] -- maybe close your eyes so they don't stare at ya, eh? Don't wanna break your concentration.

[Lord help you if you're an adult, however -- at which point Sanji doesn't even move from his spot and simply stares dead-eyed at his customer.] Tch, how old are you?

[Delightful]

ii.

[Haunted houses aren't exactly Sanji's wheelhouse, but a challenge? Sure, if there's a point to be made. Some poor fool bet money he'd piss his pants within an hour, and so Sanji wanders in the artificial darkness, posture relaxed despite how his senses remain on alert. Old habits die hard and all. Plus he's not here to have fun.

Or make friends.]

Don't bother moving out of the way, those shitty walls probably have sensors on 'em. [Casually ruining the atmosphere, it's this guy, with a French accent bleeding through] You wanna know how many people would sue if their kids got caught?

[He blows out a cloud of smoke in contempt and wanders forward, casually tapping the moving wall with his foot.] A kindergarten class could do better, shit.

iii.

[Alright. What in the actual fuck was that.

Sanji doesn't spook easily - couldn't afford to as a kid, alright? - but there's a pecking order to the universe, and shit that magically appears in front of you before vanishing with a cackle doesn't inspire much confidence today. He stops where the crosswalk meets the road and gives a violent shiver, nose scrunching up]

Am I catching something...?

[Mm, maybe so. Or maybe there's now a phantom hand grabbing the cigarette jutted from his mouth. Abruptly, Sanji's fear turns to stone-cold fury]

The hell!? You shitty-ass spector, that was my last one!

Edited 2017-10-19 02:16 (UTC)

[by pure coincidence, zoro is stuck in this narrow mirrored hallway with the apparent roger egbert of haunted houses. he watches, completely unimpressed, as the horror snob narrates the tricks as if they weren't already completely obvious. the outside of the damn building looked like a middle schooler's attempt at a mural. what did he expect walking in?

it'd only been five minutes trailing after the guy and zoro was already fed up with both his unwanted guide and the building itself. he was bored, the walls were narrowing and that fucking french accent was getting on his last nerve.

that's when he sees it: the light at the end of the tunnel. or, more specifically, the trapdoor that would lead into the tunnel. no doubt mr. ~*vigilant*~ has seen it too but

well.

zoro bets he didn't expect someone to kick him into the trap from behind.]

Whoops.

[he says, not even trying to mask that his kick to the back was absolutely not a "whoops".]

[Congrats Zoro.

You win the prize.

... Which, in this case is Sanji's startled holler and what should be his sorry ass sliding through the trapdoor, but alas. This man is only half-cursed without his spiral eyebrow.

He falls.

He slides.

He-- he is crawling his way back up, what the hell, using the ribbed soles of his shoes like the world's most foul-mouthed spider monkey, slowly making progress towards the door while fury makes his visible eye practically glow in the dark.]

... Oi. [Voice calm, save for how much energy he's exerting trying not to slide back down. This is fine.]

... Monsieur Mosshead. Did you kick me?

[oh jesus. zoro just

looks.

at this fucking horror movie shit.

and decides to just kick the slide itself to shake it. super-strength kind of helps turn the whole thing into a sudden earthquake.]

Oi, what'd you call me? Treat your betters with proper respect, horror movie extra.

[Jesus wept SLOW YOUR ROLL, CYCLOPS. Did this guy forget that high schoolers probably made this shit? Sanji straight-up sees his life flash before his eyes before instinct kicks in and he

leaps

fuckin leaps

and grabs ahold of Zoro's ankle]

Eh?? Can't hear with all that shit between your ears? Then get your ass down here so I can knock it loose!

[First rule of French mafia is if you can't win, you just fuck up everyone's day.]

Edited 2017-10-19 03:45 (UTC)

Sanji | One Piece

ii makes up bullshit as to why they're there WHATEVER

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i. walks in about nine years late tbh

the promised day has come

flames in the distance... the end of days.....

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